You can bet yer ass that this little 3" disc is going to become part of our holiday tradition here at Crucial Blast. Bathtub Shitter are already one of my

favorite Japanese grindcore bands, and for them to release a 3" CD that combines their shit-obsessed lyrics and pummeling, rocking grind with...Christmas ?

Come on. There's only three songs here, but the weirdness is fucking overflowing: "Brown Santa (A Cappella Version)" is a bizarre yuletide nursery rhyme

"sung" by BT's psychotic vocalist Masato, and you can hear the tumors blossoming on his throat as the dude alternates between his ridiculously deep death

growls and those insane high pitched shrieks that make Bathtub Shitter sound like absolutely nobody else. Then comes "Holy Shit", which opens with sleigh

bells and more a cappella pig grunts before the band breaks into a beastly pop punk/grind jam, then shifts gears into a goofy casio keyboard bridge before

getting fuckin' annihilated again by brutal metallic grindcore. The Shitter wrap things up with a festive rendition of the holiday standard "Little Drummer

Boy" that turns the cherished song into a punishing deathdoom dirge. What can I say? As a proud member of the Bathtub Shitter cult, this disc is a must-have

for me, and it's a recommended disc for fellow BT freaks. Really, anyone into weirdo Japanese blastery like C.S.S.O., Melt Banana, Unholy Grave, and Gore

Beyond Necropsy needs to check these guys out if you havent already, and this 3" is as good a place to start as any!