���� 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.

���� Another split featuring Erectile Dementia teaming up with a likeminded blastbeast, this 7" pairs him up with Japanese noisecore weirdos Final Exit for another emission of cyclonic insanity.

���� The first side delivers more of Erectile Dementia's gonzo noisecore, continuing to glom all sorts of other sounds to his short blasts of chaotic violence. Seven songs that all erupt into quick, eardrum-shredding maelstroms of hyperspeed grinding chaos, and interjected with an assortment of infectious riffs and rocking tempos, combining power-pop hooks, bits of surfy mayhem, whacked-out New Wave synth, and wailing metal guitar with that berserk noisecore. When these songs suddenly snap into one of their fist-raising hard rock riffs or furious punk outbursts, it just makes the blasts of pummeling caveman noisegrind sound that much more unhinged. Another killer side from this madman.

���� You probably couldn't come up with a better band to share a 7" with E.D.'s hard rock/noisecore abominations than the equally bonkers Japanese outfit Final Exit. Been a fan of these guys ever since I had them on an old Crucial Blast compilation years ago, and they've continued to be one of my favorite contemporary noisecore outfits. Here, the group rip through four new songs of their own brand of rock-damaged noisecore (or is it the other way around?), opener "Teen's Spring Blues" starting off with languid garage rock guitar before the floor falls out and the whole side gets swept up in a hyperspeed shitfit. Nothin' but total carnage from there out, the rest of this stuff turning into an inchoate stew of ultra-distorted crossover thrash, Merzbowian skree, flesh-chewing blurrcore insanity, and chunks of Beefheartian sonic fuckery. Pretty mind-melting stuff.

���� Limited to three hundred copies on "stygian midnight onyx" vinyl.