��� Recorded directly in the wake of Toronto band The Endless Blockade's dissolution in 2011, Ecstatically Embracing All That We Habitually Suppress was the first demo from Column Of Heaven, the new band formed by Blockade members Andrew Nolan and Eric King. Originally released through their own Survivalist imprint, this lethal demo was subsequently reissued by German grindcore label Regurgitated Semen as a limited-edition one-sided 12", and it smashes straight through your skull with six tracks of the band's brutal, noise-damaged occult blastcore.

��� From the bizarre, disorienting intro track "Altars" that combines what sounds like female voices rising in liturgical chant with a power electronics-style vocal assault and a wall of churning, abrasive heaviness, to the five songs of gnarled, barbaric blastcore that follow, this short EP delivers another highly potent dose of Column Of Heaven's unique strain of hateful heaviness, blending together elements of violent death/grind, misanthropic power electronics and industrial noise into a flesh-blistering, bass-heavy powerviolence attack a la Infest and Man Is The Bastard. Many bands fail to capture the "violence" in that last part of the equation, but as with everything else I've heard from these guys, Column's music sounds genuinely threatening. The tracks careen through roughly ten minutes of jagged hyper-speed hardcore that skids to abrupt stops, blasting walls of guttural grind, pounding war-drums thundering beneath gales of horrific electronic chaos, with some of the angriest yet most thought-provoking lyrics you'll find in the extreme hardcore/grind underground. The closing track "The Future Of War" is a powerful finale to this brief blast of nihilistic power, eschewing the blasting violence of the previous tracks for a garbled noisescape that combines fragments of a speech from author Howard Bloom with putrid drones and bursts of terrifying electronics. Just as some of the members did in their previous band Endless Blockade, Column Of Heaven reconstruct extreme hardcore into something vicious and provocative. Limited to five hundred copies.