A cunning bargain bin grab by a friend at Amoeba produced TOSHIRO MIFUNE, a 45 that has proven to be surprisingly listenable despite its POWER VIOLENCE categorization. Or perhaps rather than “despite”, in addition to.

As the first review I found on Google puts it:

TOSHIRO MIFUNE is power violence for the new millennium. While many bands have used pv as merely a lunching pad to explore screamo or math metal TOSHIRO MIFUNE have, by contrast, taken their nod from the best pv has to offer and run with it. Instead of using extreme hardcore as a flavor in something else, they use other sounds as a way to enhance their pure raging/grinding/thrashing/screaming/noise mayhem. Also in contrast to many of their peers they aren’t looking backwards towards more classic hardcore either, instead they are looking forward – creating something new and exceedingly violent. This is definitely tomorrow’s sound, not yesterday’s. Try this experiment. Slap this record on the turntable. Now put a sack of wheat in front of your speakers. Turn the volume to 11. I bet you have flour by song six.

Download the 96khz, 32bit vinyl-to-wavpack rip here.

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