The eponymous debut from the all-star punk unit featuring (ex- / ), ( ), and delivers a lethal blast of hypnic jerk-inducing hardcore that's as wildly unpredictable as it is loyal to the genre's predilection for compact sonic vivisection -- the entire affair clocks in at just under 28 minutes. Opening with the familiar and uneasy sound of the United States' Emergency Alert System, "Seizure and Desist" unleashes a Gatling-gun barrage of staccato riffage and breakneck drumming that provides the perfect vehicle for 's unhinged, multi-octave croon/scream. Frenetic lead single "Obedience School," which was first delivered to the public via a viscera-stained video that explored the seedy world of cockfighting, offers little in the way of relief, nor does the manic "Shillelagh" or a propulsive -meets- -inspired rendering of ' "Bela Lugosi's Dead." In fact, discomfort is ' m.o., but the results are so ghoulishly compelling that it's akin to shamefully leering out your car window at a grisly accident scene on your way to pick up a pizza. Hardcore done right is a terrible and beautiful thing. ~ James Christopher Monger