REVIEW: DEATH DEALERS 'FILES OF ATROCITY' (MCR)

Not exactly a pressing new release tugging on your sleeve and demanding your attention, the debut album from Death Dealers, released late last year, marks the last recorded output of the absolutely incredible Phil Vane, and for that reason alone it's worth visiting. With both Phil and Dean Jones on their trademarked dual vocal assault, and a line-up made up of assorted current and former members of Extreme Noise Terror, and Dean's straight-up crust mob, the resurrected pre-ENT rabble rousers Raw Noise, plus a former member of Swedish incendiaries Anti-Cimex and Driller Killer, the output is neither a surprise in style, nor in quality.

Buzzsaw crust riffs with an underlying glimmer of melody – that hummable, super-slick Swedish sound that Anti-Cimex nailed and the likes of Disfear, Skitsystem, Wolfbrigade and Victims offer up to the world, backed by the most instantly recognisable pipes in grindcore. While Raw Noise 2.0 was fixated on crust circa whatever 198-dot squat party originally spawned Raw Noise 1.0, Death Dealers are very much a product of more contemporary influences, represented by a cover of 'As the Machine Gun Rivers Flow' by the late Mieszko Talarczyk's swaggering Genocide SS – a brilliant move full circle as Nasum were shameless, open pilferers of Raw Noise riffs in their infancy.