���� Another one of my latest obsessions is the hillbilly noisecore outfit Erectile Dementia, who exploded into a frenzy of activity this past year, cranking out nearly a half-dozen releases in short order. And they all pulverize. It's the current one-man band from Kentucky maniac Doug Long, who has a ridiculous amount of projects and bands on his C.V., though he's probably most recognizable by extreme music enthusiasts as a member of the thrashcore bands Hellnation and Brody's Militia. The guy is clearly a speedfreak (musically speaking, of course), and his Erectile Dementia stuff takes that to another level, unleashing a ferocious and eccentric brand of noisecore that incorporates hard rock and punk elements, and actually writes songs around his ultra-violent eruptions of chaotic blurrcore. Might be some of the "catchiest" noisecore-type stuff I've heard, as well as some of the heaviest. We've picked up a bunch of his 7" titles, all of which are pretty ripping.

���� One of the more exciting splits that Erectile Dementia showed up on was their 7" with CSMD, who rank as one of my other top-rated noisecore outfits. Unsurprisingly, unsavory body fluids, severe physical mutation and lysergically induced ultra-violence abounds when you put these two bands together.

���� For their part, CSMD deliver exactly the sort of acid-blast madness you'd expect, and which they've thoroughly perfected. Once again, these freaks glom together eleven blasts of effects-damaged chaos like "Tuning In To Another Star Cluster" and "Attack Of The Monster Vulva From Mars", ejected in a violent puke-haze of berserk electronic noise, putrid noisecore, and demented, echoing screams. Psychedelic noisecore alternates with weird electronic noise experiments, with some serious infatuation with old school Creature Feature-style theremin fuckery getting rubbed out all over these tunes. Imagine a radiation-soaked offspring of early Anal Cunt, Hawkwind, 80's era Japanese hardcore, and Delia Derbyshire's BBC music, give it a frontal lobotomy, and you'll get the drift. Fuckin' love this band.

���� On their side, Kentucky barbarian Erectile Dementia gives us twelve tracks of pulverizing noisegrind, with titles like "Venereal Hysteria", "Self Inflicted Gamma Morser Headwound", and "Another Excremental Contribution To The Social Toilet". This one is a little more eclectic than other recent offerings, a mutant mishmash of hyperspeed bestial death metal, monstrous death n' roll grooves, and blur-blasts of churning hyperpseed noise. AS always, though, it's a BLAST, waaaaaay heavier than your typical noisecore unit; there's a hefty old school death metal vibe coursing through most of this, but it's all chewed up into chaotic micro-blasts, splattered across a field of obnoxious samples, weird psych-guitar leads, obliterating caveman Entombed riffs, bursts of PCP-drenched hardcore, and strafed by the singer's guttural, reverb-soaked growls. I really need a full album of this stuff.