����� Back in stock. Scrawled with more great Moyen artwork, this recent split EP between bestial black metallers Revenge and Black Witchery sure won't win over any new fans amongst those who detest this sort of stuff for being tuneless, formless noise; you'll frequently see Black Witchery compared to the sound of a malfunctioning garbage disposal, for instance. But then, I do like listening to malfunctioning garbage disposals. Make of that what you will. Of course, neither Revenge or Black Witchery are at that level of racket, but this savage blackgrind blast sure hit the spot for me.

����� The first new stuff to feature new guitarist Alal'Xhaasztur (Nyogthaeblisz, Hellvetron), Black Witchery's half erupts into a blitzkrieg of barbaric heaviness, opening with a noxious blackened ambient intro, a din of monstrous growls and gasps awash in subterranean rumblings and distant metallic reverberations; once "Black Death Conjuration" kicks in though, it's a ferocious, blasting mayhem of primitive riffage, incessant blastbeats and those ghastly, murderous screams. The rest follows suit, a violent blast of blackened grindcore-style extremism, so violent that it has a similar chaotic kick as early Earache stuff, but drenched in utter satanic misanthropy, surging into one last surge of filthy blackened industrial ambience that washes over the final moments of "Profanation Triumph".

����� A medley of sorts, Revenge's "Humanity Noosed / Equimanthorn" starts off as an original blast of hateful noise metal before morphing into a cover of the classic Bathory song. Sprawling out for nearly ten minutes, Revenge unleash their signature horror-show of atonal string scrapes and utterly chaotic soloing, layered bestial screams and guttural nauseating grunts, all fused to simple, violent punk-style riffs and J. Read's psychotic drumming. And in their mitts, that Bathory cover turns into a ravenous monstrosity, the central riffs now swallowed by a snarling, snapping chaos of barbed-wire blackgrind and batshit guitar shred. Awesome.