���� Great cover on this, with its fucked-up sleeve art depicting some gruesome mutant gangbang, rendered in Boiled Angel style. It goes perfectly with the sludgy, twitchy ugliness that The Coltranes belt out on their four-song The Cat Of Nine Tails EP, one of the heaviest slabs of wax I've picked up from SPHC. This stuff rips, starting off with a crawling, brain-damaged Flipperized dirge before the band hurtles into a mess of catchy, discordant punk; the singer delivers the cryptic, nihilistic lyrics with a wild mix of demented crooning and hysteric howling over their distorted, crushing three-chord riffs and pounding caveman rhythms, giving this a frantic, rather crazed feel as the music swerves between lurching ugliness and speedy chaos. Catchy, hard-as-nails rock riffs and blues-damaged chord progressions are ground out over furious fast-paced tempos, the songs becoming frayed, and when the Coltranes drop into one of the slower mid-tempo circle pit assaults on songs like "Parallels", the shift is punishing. Each one of these mutant hardcore tunes is a short, compact blast of energy, smashing together feral noise rock and their anxiety-riddled hardcore into a furiously unhinged sonic assault that's strengthened by a clear, punchy recording. If you've dug the sort of noisy, Am Rep-influenced hardcore that's popped up on Iron Lung in recent years, this'll be right up your alley.