�� 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...

���The third installment matches Greek grindcore outfit Dephosphorus with Seattle crushers Great Falls (featuring Demian Johnston of BLSPHM) for one of the more diverse splits in the series. Dephosphorus detonate another "astro-grind" blastbomb with "Stargazing And Violence", angular staccato crunch and blackened tremolo riffing swarming around the tightened precision of the rhythm section, bringing atmospheric almost black metal-like guitar textures to their cold, rigid blast-attack; as with their albums, the band delivers compelling, progressive grindcore that's not too far removed from the dissonant brutality of bands like Antigama and Nyia.

��� On the other side, Great Falls counters with the surprisingly blasting "Everything But Lightning", an Am Rep-tinged blast of chaotic metallic heaviness with sickening discordant riffage, constantly shifting rhythmic violence and some superbly demented singing thar brings an almost David Yow-esque vibe to this vicious hybrid of discordant noise rock and grinding metallic crush. I was left scrambling for their latest full length album that just came out on Hell Comes Home within seconds of the needle leaving the wax. Powerful stuff that evokes much of the chaotic fury found in the previous bands these guys have been in (Playing Enemy, Kiss It Goodbye, 3D House Of Beef).