Released on the insanely influential (well, at least to me) blurr / grind / noise / black metal label Fudgeworthy Records outta Woburn, MA and distributed by the equally impactful Ax/Ction Records, this here is a classic EP from the Allin / Bulge spree. Amidst all of the ancient n' new GG Allin-related stuff that I've been dragging in here to sate my growing obsession (hunger?) for the filth-legend's corpus, this remastered reissue of one of the more obscure Allin platters has risen to the higher ranks of the ugliest, most extreme end of the shitbag spectrum. This, this "Bulge" era with some notable names in the N ew England grind / punk scene serving as the man/s backing band, this stuff is brutal. Ugh. First emerging in 1990, this four-track EP drops you in the middle of Allin backed by bludgeoning noise-rock, a filthier and frothier mess of clanging guitar chords and power-slug drumming compared to the alternating Hardcore Punk and Scumbag New Wave of his output throughout the 1980s. Me, I love this stuff.

Backed by early 90s Massachusetts scum-core punks Bulge (which was basically a slightly different version of the somewhat seminal thrashcore band Psycho), this 7" is pure grime. It's a different version of the title track that lands here, this take of "Legalize Murder" kicking off with samples of criminal mayhem (1967's Bonnie And Clyde) before the band launches into a buzzsaw hardcore blast, GG gargling anti-human bile backed by big gang vocals; it's a grimier, filthier version of the tune that would later reappear on Brutality And Bloodshed For All, and man it sounds vicious. The infamous scat-anthem "Suck My Ass (It Smells)" gets warped here into a super-short clanging hardcore eruption of stop/start skuzz, borderline noisecore, really, and then rounds out the A-side from a clip from an appearance on the Revolution radio show.

The whole B-side though is one of my favorite Allin-fronted nightmares from this era, delivering his wretched spoken word prose over the sound of Bulge bangin' out a gruesome slow-motion sludgepunk assault that falls well within Kilslug / Groinoids / Upsidedown Cross territory, a shifting heap of atonal guitar skree and swampy downtuned dirge, wailing whammy-bar abuse drooling over everything, trippy and crushing and bass-heavy; apparently a lot of GG Allin fans aren't a fan of this one, but holy crap does it scratch my itch, full-on raw-as-fuck noise rock sewage spooling out across the entire side. Man, I really wish we had gotten more of this sort of thing from Allin and crew while he was around, because it's some terrific abject anti-musical grotesquerie. Definitely falls within the realm of outsider 80s/90s hardcore. Eeugh. Features sleeve art from the renowned underground artist Jeff Gaither.