Now available on both CD and LP. Apparently in the works for years, this vicious split has longtime friends Lack Of Interest and Bastard Noise finally teaming up for this monstrous two-way beating, with the Skull's crushing prog-violence getting all fusiony on their side before coming up against the ultra-violent blastcore of LOI's assault.

With guest drummer Rich Hoak (Brutal Truth / Total Fucking Destruction) sitting behind the kit for their four tracks, Bastard Noise once again deliver a new twist on their electronically-mutated power-prog-violence, bringing some strangely haunting melody to the songs that adds to their twisted apocalyptic power. The first song "Denial Mastered" has a spaced-out, jazzy feel with mysterious trumpet-like synth drones that drift in the background; it's still pretty goddamn brutal, the trio spazzing out in grand fashion as they wrap their sludgy bass riffs and complex rhythms around the song's seven minute surge, the male and female vocals trading off on that terrifying mix of Aimee Artz's high-pitched shriek and the monstrous guttural bellowing. Wood delivers plenty of his freaked-out angular bass guitar shred all over this song, but the most powerful moments are when they suddenly shift into that majestic, jazzy doom that resurfaces later on, making it one of the more eerie sounding Bastard Noise jams in recent memory. "Rogue Blue Blood Spill" follows, assaulting the listener with squalls of brutal oscillator chaos and spiky angular hardcore, furious and ferociously proggy, while "Putrid Hog Men" douses it's pummeling heaviness with ample amounts of kosmische synthesizer, sending their mathy sludge into the stratosphere amid soaring space rock FX and waves of dense SETI signal static. The last song "The Time Shifter" features additional vocals from guest growler Mitchell Luna from the grindcore band Maruta, and serves up another, shorter assault of spazzoid brutality loaded with crazed bass runs and jagged off-kilter riffage, and utterly demented drumming from Hoak.

Lack Of Interest follow with a killer twelve-song blast of their stop-n'-go powerviolence, a perfect combination of violent Infest-influence thug-blast and crazed old-school crossover thrash. Believe me, I've heard a bazillion Infest clones in my time, but Lack of Interest are one of the only outfits to be heavily influenced by that seminal powerviolence band that managed to come up with something original. The speed is almost always blazing fast and they've got some of the most sickeningly precise drumming out of any contempo powerviolence band I've heard, but they also work in some vicious circle-pit breakdowns on songs like "Grown To Sicken", "All That's Lost In Your Life, I'll Help You Find" and "Hands Up" while dousing their hardcore riffs in ugly dissonance, and you can really hear some heavy early L.A. hardcore elements glaring out from behind their light-speed beatings and punishing gutter crawls. Between the two of these bands, this record is a terrific blast of bludgeoning power.