One of my favorite Baltimore area bands to see live, The New Flesh have been kicking out the ultra-distorted noise/punk jams for more than seven years, kinda acting as B-more's answer to Rusted Shut as they ply a similar form of extreme blown-out three-chord thuggery at absolutely skull-melting levels of overdrive and in-the-red amp abuse. Live, The New Flesh are chaos incarnate, their bass/drums/guitar lineup grinding out noise rock jams played at stupidly loud levels and creating an effect similar to that of having two slabs of concrete being rubbed on each side of your skull, but even on tape, these guys fucking kill. Fan Death recently reissued the band's self-titled demo from 2003, with six songs / twenty minutes of serious heaviness that's somewhere in between the blown out crush-rock of Geisha/Part Chimp and the balls-out free-rock skuzz of Harry Pussy. Simple three chord hardcore punk riffs are run through a concrete mixer and poured out with grinding ear-shredding levels of distortion, the sound jacked all the way into the red, incredibly harsh and aggro, fucking feedback splattered EVERYWHERE, shrieking vocals over bludgeoning brain-damaged riffs and out-of-tune guitar noise and grungy distorted basslines. The recording on this demo is pretty low-fi, but what the hell; this thing should have clarity? The tape features the songs "Knock Down Drag Out", "Price To Pay", "Future", "Plan B", and the brutal, near-grindcore blast feast of "Letter", negative blasts if vicious noise-punk brutality with insane noise guitar "solos" and a noticeable No Wave influence, although it's buried under a monstrous stumbling heaviness. Limited to 200 pro-pressed cassettes.