One of the most ferocious records to emerge from the Prison Tatt label, A Desired Level Of Unease is the latest from NY blackened hardcore creeps The Communion, who deliver another assault of their ugly thrashing punk, deformed black metal riffing, noise, and crushing slo-mo heaviness. These guys have been producing some the most hideous and abrasive hardcore to come out of the NYC area in the past couple of years, and these seven songs are in the same feral vein as the stuff on their excellent splits with Taste Of Fear and Winters In Osaka, blending together the band's surrealistic lyrics and hellish imagery with a crusty, filth-splattered strain of metallic punk. Like most of the 12"s on Prison Tatt, this is a one-sided record and was released in a tiny run of one hundred copies, each one packaged in a silkscreened sleeve with an insert. The record opens with the song "Marble Husk", where the band irradiates your face with a savage blast of blackened grindcore, raw hardcore riffs, scorched screams and some weird percussive patterns scattered among the speedbursts, and follow it up with the syrupy hatred of "Stirrups", which slogs through a bog of black sludge, burly Celtic Frost-esque riffs and blastbeats, a shambling mass of dissonant chords and monstrous heaviness. The rest of the songs on Desired have a lot of that blasting, filthy hardcore thrash, which often breaks up into passages of grueling doom or brief film samples or moody jangling guitar, and at the end the band even ventures into a strange chaotic sprawl of whirling guitar noise and damaged, deformed noise rock on the son "Rabid Bats". There's an experimental streak that has always run through The Communion's music, constantly incorporating elements of harsh industrial and power electronics into their recordings, and that sort of stuff is perfectly infused into the blackened hardcore on this record. Definitely recommended to hardcore necro-thugs who find themselves obsessed with the rabid likes of Gehenna (US), Rot In Hell and Full Of Hell...