There was never any doubt that this was going to be a punisher. With The Thing and Fire!, and through collaborations with noise and rock warriors such as Merzbow and Thurston Moore, Mats Gustafsson has gouged out a reputation as one of the most brutal saxophonists on the planet. He's also previously worked, alongside Moore and others, in skronk-rock behemoth Original Silence with bass guitarist Massimo Pupillo of Italian free-rock trio Zu. The wild card here – and a name less familiar to jazz audiences – is drummer Brian Chippendale, one half of hardcore-influenced noise-rock duo Lightning Bolt. Ironically, it's Chippendale who provides the jazziest feel, with a snare drum tuned way up high and a rapid, buzzing technique like the ghost of Gene Krupa in ripped leather. Both of the long sets – one clocking in at 32 minutes, the other at 46 – follow the trajectory of a noise gig, starting with raw electronic puke, and building to a grinding roar, with the sax unleashing great gouts of anti-melodic energy. You could almost suggest it's a caricature of macho noise posturing, overblown in every sense of the word. But I, for one, am not going to mention it to these hard nuts.