Unbelievable new album from this massively wasted psycho-delic Houston rock group. Rusted Shut play wretched, junk-addled monochord rock that would condense the most sociopathic refusenik/scum style of all of the most pluke-addled brain-donors – No Fucker, Motorhead, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, The Butthole Surfers – and run it through a fuzzed-to-the-fucking-max sludge of Stooge-rock logic. Not sure of the history of the sonics included here, but it’s subtitled 1997-2009 so I’m guessing it’s compiled from material across the decade and it kinda sounds that way, with a variety of attack strategies that range from the hallucinatory production logic that defined their amazing Hot Sex EP through grimy, three chord jams torn to shreds by hysterical, throat-shredding vocals. With titles like “Heart Of Hell”, “Chemical World”, “Shot In The Head”, “Addiction” and “Slaughter Slaughter”, this is pretty much the ultimate in low-life psychedelic sewage. Phenomenal.