Ever wanted to hear what Kurt Cobain throwing the Butthole Surfers and Melvins in a wood chipper sounds like? On the debut LP release from Portland's one and only fuck-you-all-wave group, DRUNK DAD breaks down the stifling genre walls of yore and rewires the wreckage into a megaheavy alloy of scuzz, filth, and noise; a caustic cocktail of influential Pacific Northwestern alumni spiked with ipecac and bits of glass and bone, dredging out noise-infused chaos like a plane crashing into your face during the worst hangover ever, in part courtesy of local harsh noise cohort and labelmate, REDNECK, who helps soil the majority of Ripper Killer and even has a track of his own. The band’s all-out assaults on rock and convention through art-fucked sludgy hardcore free-jazz noise rock is as unclassifiable as it is enthralling, the splendid result of a rare new band that not only knows what it wants but how to get it.

In just over a half-hour of destructive loathing and bloodclot-fueled tirades amidst an avalanche of gnarled, backbending riffs, indiscriminately devastating drumrolls and punishing noise outbursts, Ripper Killer takes DRUNK DAD’s jacked-up homicidal grunge metal to new lows. Portland outsider label, Eolian Empire, release Ripper Killer in July 2014 on a fat 180-gram LP in a run of 475 copies, each including a 12” x 24” poster/insert and digital download code. [Eolian Empire]