DJ SKULL VOMIT / LADYSCRAPER split 7" VINYL (Omega Warfare) 9.99���We've picked up all three of the initial releases from UK breakcore label Omega Warfare; much like fellow Brits Legs Akimbo, the Omega Warfare aesthetic is entrenched in the most violent and extreme fringes of breakcore / speedcore, and their offerings from the likes of Company Fuck, Yudlugar, are Dj Skull Vomit all deliver insane levels of electronic chaos. If there's a dancefloor clamoring for this stuff, it's probably somewhere within the seventh circle of Hell.
��� I'd like to think that in some alternate universe, this is the sort of stuff that Earache Records is putting out, rather than the bluesy hard rock that seems to be the label's focus as of late. Remember when the esteemed grindcore label suddenly became obsessed with hardcore techno? This is where that should have led. Describing the music on the DJ Skull Vomit / Ladyscraper split as "breakcore" just scratches the surface of this vicious little platter. Both artists are alumni of Agoraphobic Nosebleed frontman Jay Randall's Grindcore Karaoke net-label, which should give you an inkling of how abrasive this shit is. First is Belgium's Dj Skull Vomit, one of the guys from grindcore/breakcore fusionists Eustachian; his "Bell Tower Massacre" combines monstrous breakcore with punishing death metal riffage to create a violently pounding sonic assault that soon drops into a sickening bass-heavy rhythmic battery. It's definitely reminiscent of his work in Eustachian as well as the death metal-obsessed breakcore of Bong-Ra, while breaking out into even more destructive spasms of grinding blastbeats and staccato techno violence; this shit is intensely heavy and frenetic and complex, at once informed by classic Gothenburg-stlye death and the jackhammer battery of Bloody Fist, layered in swirling electronics and fractured glitchery. I fucking love this stuff. After that, UK breakcore artist Ladyscraper belts out his own signature brand of violent breakcore with "Knob Snot", combining Shitmat-influenced break-chaos and metallic synth-riffs with a relentlessly pounding percussive assault for an ample match with Skull Vomit's metallic savagery on the previous side. Recommended.