Finally in stock! The massive Total Funeral double LP collects the entire discography from this Swedish one-man band, and it's some of the most vicious, rampaging punk extremism blasting out of our stereo system right now. Headed by a guy named Jocke D-Takt who's also known for his crust band Warvictims as well as operating D-Takt & R�punk Records, Electric Funeral deals in that Confuse-influenced "noise-punk" aesthetic that I've been getting more and more addicted to lately. While a lot of the stuff in this vein tends to draw almost exclusively from the influence of noisy Japanese punk, Jocke additionally grounds his blisteringly distorted hardcore punk in a classic Swedish attack informed by the likes of Mob 47 and Anti-Cimex, which results in a much heavier brand of noise-punk than we usually get. If you dug the other forays into this style that have shown up on Southern Lord in the past (Kromosom, etc.), you should definitely give this a listen. Almost every song is a rampaging blast of Discharge-style metallic riffs and D-beat drumming, his vocals a fearsome scream buried in gales of echo and static. But that static is at the heart of the recording, the distortion cranked so hard that it feels as if the whole record is thrumming with dangerous levels of high-voltage electricity, a thick layer of white noise covering all of the instruments. It's not as insanely blown out and anti-musical as some of the stuff I've been listening to in this vein, but Electric Funeral's stuff is definitely pretty goddamn harsh. Some of this even starts to sound like actual power electronics, like the opening to "Make Noise Not War" that almost sounds like something from a Grey Wolves cassette before it suddenly erupts into a static-blasted Dis-crust assault.

     It's like hearing Scandinavian Jawbreaker run through a hellstorm of Broken Flag-style skullscrape, but it's not the noisiness alone that makes this such a ripper. The songs themselves are fucking ferocious, every one of these tracks a ripping blast of aggressive, rabid punk being played at breakneck speeds, a roar of shrill white noise and thunderous D-beat drumming whipped into a furious anti-war declaration; the lyrics are pretty much exactly what you'd expect from this sort of stuff, fericely anti-authoritarian, anti-war, anti-system, but more of a misanthropic, reclusive vibe than usual. A couple of Darkthrone and Warcry covers round this out, and even they are almost devoured by the blistering static annihilation of Electric Funeral's sound. Fans of stuff like Disclose, Zyanose, D-Clone, older Kromosom, Zatsuon, etc. as well as fans of just straight-up unbridled raw/crust punk will find this to be a dose of high-caliber skullshred. Everything is in here, collecting the Harvester Of Death and Make Noise Not War 7"s, the tracks from the split with Go Filth Go, the D-Beat Noise Attack, In League With Darkness, Order From Disorder, Gr�ndalen and Make A Change cassettes, the The Face Of War lathe cut, and a handful of unreleased recordings.