Ultra Pulverize

***Limited edition 20th anniversary first-time-vinyl pressing of Ultra Pulverize's debut Gorillas In The Fist full-length. Edition of 200 on black vinyl.

"“It’s just three guys; they have a bodybuilder guy rapping over a drum machine and a synthesizer.” A friend at the time had done his best to describe the opening bands for the evening, one of them named Ultra Pulverize. This unusual description would only be the FIRST time that Chris Vititoe, Andrew Vititoe, and Jared Busch would defy my expectations...

I absolutely could not believe what I was seeing and hearing. Andrew’s vocal style and sound struck me more within the traditional punk sphere of John Lydon or the likes as far as how it was meant to cut through with a sinister, snotty, biting humor. He was “rapping” but it sort of upset my musical equilibrium in how original it and he was; he had effectively bypassed the “culture vulture” charge in being a white guy within the vicinity of rap in how he had shaped his performance. Nobody but nobody could have or would have ever expected the drum machine to be played manually and fed through a series of outboard effects. All the while, a synthesizer was carrying so much sonic, melodic, colorful, and occasionally abrasive heft that would ordinarily be accomplished by multiple instruments..."—William Benton, 2025