���Released for this year's Record Store Day, Hang Ten is the latest from this horror-movie obsessed thrash metal band, a gang of goons in blood-splattered hoods with names like Cremator, Digestor, Dissector, and Fermentor, who all hail from the wilds of "Creepsylvania". While mostly known for their ferocious, thrashing death metal flecked with bits of gruesome grindcore, these creeps have also long flirted with surf rock and garage rock influences in their music, manifesting on manic surf instrumentals like �Psychoplasm� off of Splatterthrash. For those of us who have been craving even more of Ghoul's beach-blanket barbarism, Hang Ten delivers the goods, a short six-song EP that features mostly instrumental material, evoking visions of Technicolor 70's era biker sleaze through a blistering assault of surf-infected thrash metal and weirdo metallic rockabilly. The blazing instrumental "The Midnight Ride of the Cannibals MC" opens the EP, followed by the weird rockabilly-tinged thrash of "Kreeg" that features guest vocals from Tony Foresta (Municipal Waste) and R.A. MacLean (Deadbolt). From there, Ghoul blend raucous garage rock grooviness with their manic speed metal on "Sidehackers", followed by the killer surf rock-tinged metal on the title track which sounds like some crazed cross between old school Metallica and the Ventures; "Blood On The Street" almost sounds like it could have been a Cramps song in another life, all street-cheetah swagger and blazing ironclad boogie, a murderous bluesy groove slithering through plumes of reverb and twangy rockabilly riffs before shifting back into the metallic crunch at the end. That groovy, gore-n'-booze soaked beach party vibe on some of these tracks is a total blast, and the record closes with a wild cover of Ervin Drake's crooner classic "It Was a Very Good Year", which weirdly enough lends itself well to a full metal makeover. This one goes down great played back to back with the latest from Satans Satyrs; here's hoping that we'll keep getting more of Ghoul's garish surf/psych-influenced side of their sleazoid speedbeast metal. On baby blue vinyl, limited to five hundred copies, accompanied by a digital download card.