The Austerity Program - Terra Nova EP

I must admit: I am confused by this band. The Austerity Program, apparently, is a guitar/bass duo that slices slabs of molten noise-metal behind a drum machine that vomits arrhythmia. A few oddities plague their young career, however:

1. The two members, Thad Calabrese and Justin Foley, are, seemingly, millionaires based on their Marginetrics investment program.
2. The duo has been faced with a flood of legal red tape involving their label, Hydra Head Records, and their inability to gain protection of their music.
3. All the tracks off of Terra Nova are mismatched with titles that misleadingly read "Song 8" or "Song 11," for example.

Regardless, the Austerity Program’s Terra Nova EP is a mangles mess of audio violence that carves four 7-minute-plus songs from guitars that rev like chainsaws of feedback and rhythms that clank and clatter between a car crash of live bass and artificial drum machine. Like the calm before a maelstrom of scathing chords, sneered vocals and pounding drum beats, Terra Nova also includes quiet segues that fills an ambient void between the blasts of off kilter noise-rock. I can’t say I exactly understand it, but my ears are hungry for more. [www.hydrahead.com]