��The latest (and possibly the last?) from these Sunshine State necro-punks. Following up their vicious Psychedelic Nightmare LP from last year, Church Whip strike back with another blast of their ultra noisy black metal-influenced hardcore punk, which has some of the gnarliest vocals I've heard on a record of this ilk, a frothing rabid guttural insanity that makes their stuff sound even crazier than it already is. The two songs on the a-side are ferocious, feedback-flecked death visions, opener "Introduce Madness" kicking this off with a slow build of reverb-drenched guitars and sepulchral ambience as the band gradually revs things up into the pummeling blackened punk assault. Those guttural, terrifying vocals become lost in the band's vast cavernous reverb, and the whole recording has this dank vibe as if they recorded it deep in the bowels of some cobwebbed tomb. The music shifts from faster D-beat driven thrash to passages of slower, churning metallic power, as guitar solos scream through the murk. As that crashes right into the howling abandon of "Go No Further", discordant lead guitars soar off into the background, the band slipping into a primal pounding breakdown, a droning slower churn that slides the song into a weird trance state for a moment at the end, before finishing off with one final blast of feral speed and distortion. Over on the b-side, they rip through a similarly ravaging blast of drooling D-beat darkness titled "Ruin The Vision", filthy feedback soaked riffs adrift in clouds of that omnipresent reverb dankness, the song moving from rampaging thrash into something more akin to a Motorhead-style locomotive charge, with the second half of the song turning into something pretty goddamn anthemic. It all reminds me of much of the latter-day Darkthrone stuff, but even murkier and more wretched...

�� Limited to three hundred hand-numbered copies.