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Total blastathon of contempo power violence-meets-death metal extremism from Toronto and Austin that came out back in 2008 but has just recently become available again. This is one of the last releases from The Endless Blockade before their breakup, teaming up with the brutal Hatred Surge for a crushing slab of extreme hardcore violence.

The Endless Blockade side serves up a variety of abuses that include grim creeping doom-dirge soaked in electronic effects and quoting Hermann Hesse, insanely brutal Infest-influenced blasts of 1000 mph hardcore, violent swinging sludge, a heavy dose of righteous infuriation and misanthropic scorn, and a ferocious dual-vocal attack where super high-pitched screeching trades off against pissed off guttural roars. By the end of the side, the band collapses into a grueling improvised noise/feedback piece titled "091006" littered with fragments of field recordings and trumpet sounds.

Hatred Surge's side delivers an equally punishing assault of extreme hardcore, racing through nine songs of lightspeed thrash, snotty female vocals trading off with almost death metal-esque screams, and a MASSIVE low end that makes my limb joints feel like they're coming loose. These guys perform with stop-on-a-dime precision, shifting seamlessly between ultra fast blasting grind and barbaric hardcore into weirdly angular thrash, long bouts of diseased feedback-drone a la Eyehategod, sludgy bone-rattling sludge riffs, and those crazed cheerleader chants. Throw in a fucking venomous blitzkrieg cover of Agnostic Front's "Society Sucker" for a quick dose of street-level hate and then cap it all off with the pulverizing doom of "Casket". Killer stuff.