���� Killer No Wave-influenced thrashjazz that really scratches the itch left by Last Exit. Seemed like Power Trips flew under everyone's radar, as the debut album from this pummeling new power trio only garnered a handful of reviews online. But it's a goddamn shredder, combining a highly aggressive strain of avant-garde jazz-rock with violent riffage and frenetic, speed-fueled tempos that feel like they're more informed by speed metal than what's going on within the out-jazz idiom. Of course it should be no surprise that Weasel Walter (Encenathrakh, The Flying Luttenbachers, Burmese, etc.) is involved with this project, his ultra-violent drumming backing the dual guitar assault from Alex Ward and Guapo/Chrome Hoof's James Sedwards, the band pummeling you with six tracks of severe dissonant skronk and crazed thrash that continually brought to mind a nutzoid cross between Last Exit's muscular jazz-rock and Voivodian metallic crunch.

���� Walter's vicious drumming is all over the place, a constant barrage of tumbling fills, blastbeats, rampaging thrash and freeform rhythmic chaos, while the guitars get completely entangled in one another, unleashing dissonant riffs and atonal shredding that collides with a Sharrock-style penchant for convoluted melody and chordal abrasion. Aside from his role on guitar, Ward also handles alto saxophone for the band, most prominently on "Oversized Cupid", offering up some savage blowing over the group's thunderous churn; there are a few moments of calm scattered throughout the album, passages of eerie scattershot improvisation and clustered guitar noise, but those moments always end up growing into something monstrous and out of control, erupting into another one of the group's wildly careening shred-assaults, often reaching fearsome levels of frantic heaviness. And it's damn heavy - there's a point where everything builds to am ominous crescendo on "Commission The Cutthroat", the dissonant shredding propelling the band into heights of almost Slayer-esque ferocity, before it explodes into a supernova of discordant chaos. Awesome stuff, compositionally complex and riddled with passages of intense, intuitive improvisation that elevate this to the upper echelons of extreme jazzcore.

���� Comes in digipack packaging.