‘Drudgery on the daily, Empty heads at work, No sun to shine, No moon to shadow, Hours of excruciation, Clock points to death’ (Drudgery)

Hailing from Halifax, Nova Scotia and Sewn Into Confusion is their second 7-inch EP, following 2023’s Overthrow.  Featuring Ben Radford of fellow Nova Scotians, Mutated Void, they share the same frenzied raw punk energies but refashion them through a more avowedly Japanese crasher crust lens.

The guitars are blown out, cavernously distorted, but not to the point that the riffs entirely lose their shape.  There can be barely a second where a drum is not being battered and a cymbal being crashed – the fills are utterly unhinged throughout.

Each of the five tracks is almost overwhelming in its intensity, before slamming to a brick wall finish.  Savagely raw vocals desolately evoke a world of manipulation and extraction amid the unrelenting barrage, with the bludgeoning closer Laughing Torture, perhaps, the highlight.