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CHARRED REMAINS AKA MAN IS THE BASTARD  Abundance Of Guns  10" VINYL   (Deep Six)   9.98
Abundance Of Guns IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR ORDER

More electro-shock sludgeblast resurrection as another one of Man Is The Bastard's earliest releases gets the vinyl reissue treatment from Deep Six. This new edition of Abundance Of Guns transplants the ten tracks off of the original 1992 7" EP onto a ten-incher for enhanced sound quality, and it sounds massive. This stuff is some of the most brutal stuff that Man Is The Bastard ever produced, in my book.

Beginning with the sound of unearthly female singing drifting above a squall of horrific death metal-style bellowing, the first side quickly lurches into a miasma of hypnotic drumming, dual bass guitar heaviness and sputtering analogue electronics that infest the opening track "Regression Of Birth". This stuff still blows my mind hearing it twenty years later, a monstrous take on electronics-damaged hardcore that is still totally unique and unmatched in power, in spite of the hoards of bands who have attempted to synthesize this band's sound. The songs that follow like "Mocha Rebirth", "Slave To The Bean " and "Semen In The Eyesocket Of Thomas Lenz" (the latter an invocation of violence to a known bootlegger who ended up on the wrong side of MITB's ire) have lost none of their vicious blasting power, compacting bone-crushing bass chords and angular riffs twisting around the spastic sludgy tempos and sudden surges of blastbeats, blurted into forty-five second eruptions of undiluted, misanthropic disgust.

The band's penchant for jazzy rhythmic weirdness makes an appearance on "Volatile Cocktail", and while the electronic noise is used more sparsely here than on some of their other records, there's still plenty of that signature chirping/howling pedal abuse and oscillator chaos that streaks through their tangles of deformed bass-heavy hardcore. The flipside of Guns features some longer material, with the monstrous winding dirges "Tumult Being" and "Suttee" both delivering an agonizing crawl through discordant angular bass-riffs and bludgeoning low-end heaviness, while the title track erupts into squirming, gibbering chaos that flares out in less than a minute. A classic slab of mutant hardcore brutality that kicks in my bloodlust almost immediately. Comes on colored vinyl.


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