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Released by the Macedonian label Fuck Yoga. Entropy / Life Shatters Into Pieces Of Anguish is the latest release from these renowned Bay Area sludgebeasts, still one of the heaviest and most sonically gruesome outfits to come out of the whole West Coast extreme hardcore / powerviolence underground of the 1990s. I'm a fan of everything these guys did, even the wonky space rock-influenced sound of their first album (which I think was a bit underrated), but there's no denying that when Noothgrush are pushing this sort of slow-motion deathcrust, they're totally lethal.

This lengthy two-song EP pairs up the never before released "Entropy" with an older track, "Life"; the former is a bulldozing blast of tar-encrusted heaviness with the band's signature sickly, soul-soured guitar leads wailing over skull-caving riffage, once again emitting a paranoid, misanthropic vibe, while the latter is a new version of a song that originally appeared on their self-titled debut. This new version is transformed into something more triumphant and regal, as singer Dino belts out a soaring, reverb-drenched vocal melody over the song's droning, elephantine riff amid the eerie ringing of clean guitars. I do have to admit, as much as I dig that original album, this new version of "Life" is pretty goddamn great. Bleak and blackly beautiful stuff from these lava-metal vets. Limited to five hundred copies.