���� This pulverizing 7" is finally back in stock; it's still (so far) the only official release to appear from this formidable math-metal outfit, a duo featuring experimental musician Brian Metz ( Amish Control Tower) and drum titan Pen Rollings, of Honor Role / Breadwinner / Loincloth infamy. Together, these guys create an experimental, extremely heavy strain of math-metal that feels like an extension of Rollings' previous work, but with a tightly edited, almost ascetic production aesthetic. Bowl Ethereal's six-song debut was the introduction to the duo's jagged metallic architecture, and it knocked me flat the first time I listened to it; as soon as this opens with "Twenty Three Exciter Dreams", I was immediately reminded of Confessor's confusional heaviness, though this stuff is totally instrumental. But there's a similar technical, convoluted feel to this stuff. Interestingly, each song is exactly one minute long, and crammed to the gills with complex instrumental structures and pummeling rhythmic dexterity, the confounding, vertigo-inducing time signatures unfolding beneath an onslaught of crushing downtuned riffs, the music stuttering and lurching violently, each song a miniature math-metal epic that could easily be pulled apart and reworked into a much longer, more expansive song. With these songs seemingly vacuum-packed into this strict, economic length, though, this has a peculiar, compact power that makes me want to listen to the EP again and again. Can't recommend it enough to fans of Rollings' other bands.