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Texas' savage punk-rockers Rusted Shut, fronted by singer and guitarist Don Walsh, belonged to the generation of the Butthole Surfers but surfaced only two decades later with Rehab (Emperor Jones, 2004), recorded over an extended period of time.
It's all wrapped in manic guitar distortion:
the industrial war dance and deranged bacchanal
Jesus Christ Inca,
halfway between the
Thirteenth Floor Elevators and
Jesus Lizard;
the infernal garage rave-up Hatchet;
the gothic chant Satans Witch;
the relentless noisefest Disease Of The Spirit I, a cross between AC/DC and Crash Worship;
the swirling rock'n'roll fever of Disease Of The Spirit II, which weds Cramps' voodoobilly with Ministry's Jesus Built My Hotrod;
the more or less melodic Dead In The Water, almost a demonic nursery rhyme;
etc.
Haunting closer Borin Fuckin Town is simply an abstract soundscape of free-form jamming.
The seven-minute Death Spear is instead a little monotonous.
The EP Hot Sex (2008) contains four songs, notably
Woman, an extreme demonstration of their frenzied punk-rock,
and
A Night In Hell, a volcanic eruption of distortion.
Dead (Load, 2009) had not lost any of the original fury, as proven by
opener Home and by the 15-minute cacophonous jam Intellect.
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