This new EP from the Australian duo Dead Boomers is one of the heaviest, nastiest sounding records I've heard this week, and I'm already dying to hear an actual album from these maniacs. Blending together abrasive industrial noise, skull-crushing slow-mo rhythms and extreme low-end punishment, members Mark Groves (a former member of extreme Aussie doom outfit Whitehorse) and Leith Thomas (both also members of noise rockers True Radical Miracle) cave your skull in using their crude arsenal of extreme electronic noise and grotesque home-made instruments to create something akin to a cross between Bastard Noise's apocalyptic analogue electronics and the pulverizing machine metal of early Godflesh. It's that goddamn heavy.

Brutal screams and menacing guttural growls echo across the a-side "All Daddy No Sugar", a deep throbbing bass note beating at the center of everything, surrounded by squealing feedback and grating metallic scrape, the sound shifting from a kind of malformed power electronics into passages of much heavier, much more crushing industrial sludge that sounds a lot like the slowest stuff off of Godflesh's first two albums, or even the glacial industrial drone-doom of Human Quena Orchestra, an immense tectonic noise-drenched crush, the sound drenched in a massive amount of low-end rumble, the sheer heaviness of their music pushing your speakers to the breaking point as this crushing industrial dirge creeps across the side. The other side "Arak" has more of an eerie classic 80's industrial sound, echoing percussion and skittering drum machines and haunting synthesizer melodies layered over deep bass pulsations, the vocals a deep sinister croon; it's still extremely heavy and threatening, though, almost like a more skeletonized of that previous mecha-sludge sound. I seriously can't wait to hear more from these guys.

Comes in matte-finish full color sleeve, and includes a digital download code. Limited to three hundred copies.