��� Being a total sucker for bands that twist the more violent aspects of hardcore punk and black metal together, this split from local label Unholy Anarchy caught my ear with two bands who each deliver their own noisy take on this kind of aural carnage.

��� El Paso's Communion of Thieves liberally spread all kinds of long, ominous samples and warfare sounds over their half of the split, leading into the snarling, screeching blackened blast-crust of "Taxes for the M.I.C.", "Contaminated Demolition" and "Manos ansiosas", a chaotic assault of rabid reverb-drenched screams, crazed blackened grind, and blazingly fast metallic crust, with D-beat tempos that continually teeter on the edge of tumbling into total pandemonium, all swept into a cyclone of violent blown-out heaviness. Pretty bitchin'.

��� It was the Philly band Dendritic Arbor that drew me to this 7", though. The two tracks featured here is the only stuff this Philly band has put out so far, a rather strange blend of murky black metal atmosphere, ramshackle grind and awkward noisy thrash that hints at some of the spazzier, more frenzied bands that came out of the 90's "emo"-hardcore scene like Three Studies For A Crucifixion, Ivich and Ottawa. The songs twitch through passages of grueling discordant sludge and malformed punk, their low-fi noise shot through with bits of filthy blackened industrial rumble, slimy flange effects, and utterly hideous dissonance to produce something uniquely distressing.

���Limited to three hundred copies, comes with download.