"Sword Heaven is a Columbus duo using sheet metal, electronics, horn, drum and treated vocals to bring a supercluster of black clouds into your zone. While there is an undeniable black tone of metallic grime hanging over the proceedings, this music will appeal to those wanting something absolute in their lives. Yes, name check pre-industrial dive bombers like the Swans or Godflesh, but realize that will not prepare for the all out bombast this duo spreads on your toast. The band has 7 inchers and LP sides on undy mainstays record labels like Not Not Fun, Deathbomb Arc and Cephia's Threat, as well as a split LP with fellow Ohio cyanide spritzers, Lambsbread. This is their full-length debut. Make no mistake, this release will be noticed and fans of exxxtreme soundz and bold smells will bow down and spill proper restitutions of pig blood stained dollars at their local record shack or illegal download center." - Load.

Unbelievable new album from this massively wasted psycho-delic Houston rock group. Rusted Shut play wretched, junk-addled monochord rock that would condense the most sociopathic refusenik/scum style of all of the most pluke-addled brain-donors – No Fucker, Motorhead, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, The Butthole Surfers – and run it through a fuzzed-to-the-fucking-max sludge of Stooge-rock logic. Not sure of the history of the sonics included here, but it’s subtitled 1997-2009 so I’m guessing it’s compiled from material across the decade and it kinda sounds that way, with a variety of attack strategies that range from the hallucinatory production logic that defined their amazing Hot Sex EP through grimy, three chord jams torn to shreds by hysterical, throat-shredding vocals. With titles like “Heart Of Hell”, “Chemical World”, “Shot In The Head”, “Addiction” and “Slaughter Slaughter”, this is pretty much the ultimate in low-life psychedelic sewage. Phenomenal.