���The debut cassette from Idaho noise-punk trio Deep Creeps, Crown Gall delivers a frenzy of discordant hardcore, spewing up short but punishing chunks of bass-heavy pigfuck and deformed thrash across both sides of this tape. Pretty cool stuff - instead of merely mining the testosterone-drenched aggression of the Amphetamine Reptile set (which is definitely one of the influences on this tape), the guys in Deep Creeps also draw much of their sound from the angular, hideous din of some of the noisier ends of hardcore punk from the past decade or two, injecting these songs with a big dose of frantic speed and dissonant abrasion, informed at least in part by the spazzcore sounds that used to waft off of the Three One G label and from bands like Arab On radar and The Locust. Barely any of these fifteen songs break the two minute mark, almost all of them super-short and super-intense, brief blasts of jittery off-kilter hardcore that reek with desperation. The songs sometimes slip into slower, offbeat passages of sludgy heaviness where the singer will shift into a foul, guttural roar that's virtually death metal, and on songs like the title track, the band gets pretty crushing, whipping out some bludgeoning sludgy riffage. Other songs see the Creeps collapsing into feedback-drenched noise and blastbeat-riddled chaos, as riffs contort into spiky, skronky abrasiveness, and on songs like "Larva Tunnel" and the evil angular thrashpunk of "Skeletonized", the band's hideous malformed skronk starts to resemble some weird combination of violent Midwestern hardcore and Skin Graft-style stuff. Frantically overdriven, a frenzy of frayed nerves, filled with hideous blasts of guitar noise and strangulated feedback, this is a killer debut from these amp-shredding thugs.

���Comes on a pro-manufactured tape with digital download.