Yet another project of drummer Bryan Fajardo (Kill the Client/Phobia), Noisear’s debut album for Relapse Subvert the Dominant Paradigm is 29 tracks of balls-to-the-wall grind mayhem.  Squealy dissonant noise, alternating with warp speed blasting and shredding, makes for an album that grind fans everywhere will be immediately stoked on.

Tracks range in length from the 20-second rager “Translucent,” to the minute-and-a-half “Blackout” on the album proper.  There is so much going on in almost every song that it feels like a sonic attack on the eardrums to try and parse out all the things that are happening in each track, of which you’ll enjoy every second.

There is more going on in some of these individual songs musically than many bands accomplish in entire albums.  The vocals alternate between death metal-esque growls and piercing screeches, and mesh perfectly with the sweet cacophony of the music.  Based on the song titles, the lyrical themes throughout the album are typical:  darkly political, bordering on nihilistic at points, as in tracks “Deformed By Society,” “Inevitable Extinction,” and “The Perpetual Downfall of Man.”

After shredding through more two dozen songs, the album concludes with “Noisearuption,” a sprawling 20-minute spoken word/noise track.  I gave up on this track about 15 minutes in.  It’s not what grind fans will come to this album for anyways.  They’ll come for the 29 tracks before this.  A must have for grind fans everywhere.

(Relapse Records, PO Box 2060, Upper Darby, PA 19082)