���Beginning in 2012, Irish label Hell Comes Home began to unleash a subscription club series of 7"s that featured pairings of some of the best bands in the noise-rock/sludge/doom underground (and beyond); featuring the likes of Thou, Fistula, Burning Love, Dead Elephants, and Coffinworm, this series delivered all-new material from the artists involved, each 7" featuring one song from each band along with a digital download code for the music. In addition, each 7" is presented in a cream-colored jacket with striking original artwork from Polish designer Kuba Sok�lski, who illustrated each of these singles with a different mutant insect-like monstrosity, rendered in the sort of detail that you would expect from an entomological text. The look and feel of these records got my collector's vein pulsating in a big way, and we've managed to snag a selection of these 7"s for the C-Blast shop; numbers are limited, of course, and several of the entries in the Hell Comes Home series are already out of print...

��� This sixth entry in Hell Comes Home's 7" series features alternate versions of album tracks from Canadian punk outfit Burning Love, the current band from Chris Colohan of Cursed / Left For Dead / Ruination, teamed up with one of the best neo-noise rock outfits out there, Philly's Fight Amp. Those guys are on of my favorite current bands in this field, bringing an added level of ferocity and metallic crunch to their Am Rep-influenced sound; you can tell these guys have spent an inordinate amount of time blasting out the Dope-Guns-'N-Fucking In The Streets series on whatever rundown stereo they've got sparking away in the bowels of some inner city gutter fortress, but they've filtered those influences into something much heavier.

��� But Burning Love are up first, with a really impressive performance of their own. The gorgeous weeping of a lap steel guitar starts "The Body", that dreamy opening washing over you just as the band suddenly launches into their burly blazing rock, sounding like a more aggressive, punkier Kyuss to my ears, all crushing desert rock groove and sludgy powerchord crunch fused to Colohan's gruff singing and the ringing melodic guitars; dunno why I've been snoozing on this band up until now, but this song is pretty rippin', rocking and furious but with a stoned heaviness that fans of the aforementioned Kyuss, Fu Manchu and even Goatsnake would probably find fairly irresistible.

��� It gets substantially more aggro over on the Fight Amp side, their "Shallow Grave" a downtuned noise rock crusher in the band's trademark sludgy style, channeling the massive mean-spirited churn of bands like Unsane and Melvins into a more crazed, fast-paced assault, sinister dissonant guitars and gluey riffs grinding out over the off-kilter angular grooves that the rhythm section hammers out. Ugly, ugly stuff that's not without a certain level of catchiness.