Punch Inc. is the industrial noise project of mister Glockner and Brinkert from Bielefeld in Germany , where every second industrial band seems to originate from. Glockner is a.o. also known from the industrial techno outfit Moctan, work with Ars Moriendi and Asche while Brinkert recently released an industrial record as Bipol. Punch Inc. however is tapping from a different vein since what these gentlemen treat the innocent listener on are heavily distorted industrial influences and deformed sounds driven by tight 4/4 beats. This is surely suitable stuff for the industrial dancefloor. After two album with the Hands label the band is now back with one hell of a new album, which gets a release on Ant-Zen. After two still quite experimental tracks the machine breaks loose with ‘Roughneck’, whereafter harsh industrial tracks such as ‘Arm Against’, ‘Fightclub’ and ‘Barrage’ make it very clear that there is no place here for subtle sounds. In the industrial of Punch Inc. layer on layer is added which results in a heavy industrial sound that starts to get a hypnotising effect due to the tribal and techno beats. The only point of criticism could be that it all gets a bit too much and becomes fatiguing after having listened for some time. In ‘Fight Your Enemy’ the beats are extremely heavy and lean towards a massive wall of bass sounds. Of ‘Barrage’ a fantastic grooving remix by Asche is added as final track on this third Punch Inc. recording. This is recommended to fans of the more heavy by techno influenced industrial noise, such as Converter, Asche and Mono No Aware.