the new flesh    "2009 cdr"    split vinyl and cassette coming soon

(released 2-18-2010 - "safe skin" split w/ mlu)

quick-fire shimmering staccato electric guitar riffs burn through the haze before catapulting drums and bass lock into hard core rips and snarls and punishing chords hurtling into terrifying quiet screams from the underbelly. is this the shape of jazz-punk to come, as ornette coleman, and the refused, foreshadowed, or as jimi hendrix asked "is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?" it is fucking today and it may not be what john entwistle heard when he named his solo album "smash your head against the wall", but this is the pulverising smashback.

it is among the fiercest suites of music- for nineteen minutes with half second breaks every couple minutes or so until the end of the aggro-blissed out six minute outtro- i've heard.  it's the new flesh from baltimore - live -no overdubs. their third proper, an ep achieving the rare feat of capturing their ferocious live sound on a new and vital set on vinyl (human conduct records). 

jaw dropping drums (rick weaver) swing from hard core to hard bop, breaking into rhythms with nimble muscular bass (jason donnells/vocalist), somehow holding down shelter from the billowing sonny sharrock "shards of glass" clouds of chaos and noise mushrooms from the pair of guitars (gregory dembeck/vocals and brian dubin). psychedelia urban guerrilla style - industrial, throbbing gristle and dark magus, the colours of the rainbow in multi-shades of grey and in memorium of red. redemption of the blood loss.  

it may leave a bunch of field hippies with black sclera zombie wakes, for lucky others it will thrust them to unexplored intergalactic realms.  as thomas pynchon writes " flip rode the freak waves he'd found not so much out of insanity or desire for martyrdom as in a true stone indifference, the deep focus of a religious ecstatic who's been tapped by god to be wiped out in atonement for the rest of us." if you enter the inferno, the dance will heal, at least for the night as the new flesh are listening to each other, responding to our fears, traveling at warp speeds in the red.