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remember exactly where they first heard astonishing (Southern Lord) , because that’s where the paramedics pieced their skulls back together. Unleashed anew to celebrate the album’s 10th anniversary, it now boasts three tracks from the seven-inch and two previously unreleased bursts of undiluted hostility. Expanded to a pummelling 23 minutes, it’s still guaranteed to smash your face in. Only more so. More user-friendly but equally pissed-off, ’s (Nuclear Blast) deserved more props first time around, but this bonus-boosted reissue should belatedly do the job. Gleefully inventive but still crushing in a Knocked Loose kind of way, it’s a blistering debut.

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