��More noisy hardcore lunacy from Maryland noise-punk label SPHC, this split LP features the absolutely bizarro Japanese thrash/noise/grind band Exit Hippies going up against Baltimore-area noise punks Lotus Fucker; like pretty much everything else I've picked up so far from this label, this shit is fantastic...

�� Up first are Exit Hippies, whose side features eleven tracks of their fucking AWESOME psychedelic hardcore. Why do I not own more records from this band? It opens with the sludgy dirge "Sixth Sense Dub", but then launches into an insane cacophony of brutal guttural hardcore, hyperfast noisy grind, bizarre electronic space-rock effects and squealing synthesizers, a blast of brutal chaotic violence that nonetheless has some killer riffs going on within all of the madness and chaos, riffs and hooks that make this a heluva lot catchier than you'd expect, almost like a much heavier, more "produced" version of UK noisecore gods Sore Throat layered with a non-stop barrage of Hawkwindian electronics and powered by a seriously muscular bass guitar attack. These guys sure aren't shy about their Sore Throat influence (just take a look at their side of the cover, a total riff on the album art for Disgrace To The Corpse Of Sid), and they litter their songs with all kinds of harsh noise interludes, bizarre vocal samples, screeching feedback, and eruptions of ultra-violent, speaker-destroying noisecore blur. It's total pandemonium that enters a truly warped realm when the later techno tracks kick in, the band laying down some distorted, noise-infested electronic loops and pounding, trance-inducing beats underneath all of that shrieking amp noise and the massively distorted concrete-mixer guitars and shrieking tandem vocals. That primitive, low-fi acid techno sound completely takes over on "Check Register (Mega BPM Dub)", before becoming suddenly consumed by the heaving industrialized noisecore of the closer "Fuck Here". Incredible.

�� Lotus Fucker follow that with their own ferocious brand of noise-drenched punk, delivering seven new songs in their signature style of frenzied static-soaked thrash, taking the classic blown-out Confuse sound and making it even more frantic and anthemic, the whole band coming apart at the seams, threatening to fly apart into total chaos at any moment. The guitars spew shrill feedback-soaked leads, the singer puking up his guts with his hoarse, frenzied screaming, the songs all held together by the precision of the rhythm section, the bass guitar leading each one of these maniacal charges. The side closes w3ith the super catchy "My Eyes Bleed", one of the catchiest songs I've heard from these guys, but which ultimately ends up transforming into a final blast of harsh noise and layered industrial skree, an almost power-electronics style outro that ends the album with a vague, lingering sense of disquiet.

�� Highly recommended for fans of noisy, acid-laced hardcore punk like Chaoschannel, Nuklear Blast Suntan, Inservibles, Total Abuse. Awesome!