���The latest in a steady stream of vinyl reissues of early Man Is The Bastard recordings that have been pouring out of the vaults over at Deep Six; this 7" resurrects Charred Remains/Man Is The Bastard's 1992 EP Backwards Species, which had originally come out on the German label Ecocentric Records, the hallowed hardcore/noise imprint run by Matthias Weigand of Seven Minutes Of Nausea. The EP was eventually included on the CD collection D.I.Y.C.D. that Deep Six did, but it hasn't been available on vinyl in years. At last back in print in its original form, this reissue retains the same sleeve and insert design as the original release.
��� It's one of the earliest recordings from Man Is The Bastard, seven songs of brutal powerviolence featuring the band's signature mix of technical riffs played by two bass guitars, oddball, prog-damaged arrangements, guttural beast-shrieks and blasting percussion that still doesn't sound like any other band. The EP kicks off with the mathy, angular hardcore of instrumental "Ether Rag (Permanent Smile)", then proceeds to blast through another six songs of complex bass-heavy hardcore and lurching weirdness, short eruptions of convoluted bass crush and odd time signatures, the songs careening between stretches of bludgeoning slow-motion power and surges of hyperspeed blast, while vocalist/bassist Eric Wood belts out his hateful anti-human screeds in that barbaric guttural roar of his, the songs slathered in abrasive noise, the tone utterly belligerent. Tracks like "Justice Is Swift (Jack)" more resembling some maniacal version of Nomeansno's progpunk, and it closes with a horrific industrial deathscape "Poacher" that hints at their later noise experiments under the Bastard Noise name. As with the rest of the band's output, this is some of most deranged and crushing avant-hardcore ever. Classic Skull-violence.