Here's another killer new vinyl reissue from power-violence/experimental hardcore pioneers Man Is The Bastard, a 7" Ep that collects the bands sides from their long-out-of-print and highly sought-after early split 7"s with Pink Turds In Space (where the band went under their original name Charred Remains) and the later split with U.N.D. that explored their harsh electronic noise experiments. It's all presented with a killer new design that features a number of printed inserts with the original collage art and Morbid Mark's iconic cover art for the Charred Remains 7".

Re-titled 'First Music', the tracks off of the split with Pink Turds In Space are the earliest recordings from Charred Remains/Man Is The Bastard, and man do they crush. "The Arena" bulldozes over you with crushing, cast-iron riffs and crawling tempos, displaying the band at their slowest and most monstrous, the angular sludge shooting out spikes of jagged bass guitar and weird time-signature shifts; the other three tracks "Eunich", "No Concern For The Inhuman" and "Refuse To Thrive" are blasting, super-fast chunks of mutoid hardcore, all churning obtuse riffing and bestial roaring, the songs collapsing into barbarism in thirty seconds or less. An awesome blast of early power-violence.

The other side features the Man Is The Bastard: Bastard Noise tracks from the 1993 split with Unseen Noise Death (the Finnish band that would later turn into the noisecore outfit Arse); the first recorded appearance of Bastard Noise's "caveman electronics" assault, these four noise tracks are relatively short soundscapes formed from the band's unique rig of oscillators and effects processors that they use to summon up great swarms of carnivorous electronic noise, masses of chirping, squealing feedback issued out in steady streams of sound. There's a few brief detours in bass-driven heaviness that occur and deep, guttural vocals appear on some of the tracks, but this is primarily an exercise in apocalyptic electronic carnage.