French pop cult heroes Tahiti 80 follow-up their excellent EP A Piece of Sunshine with an album full of mainstream R&B shit like Justin Timberlake and Beyonce.
This is progressive in that it experiments with sounds, fucks with rhythms, and features odd tempo constructions to cause a big bang of brutal cacophony.
Soilent Green vocalist Ben Falgoust, ex-Acid Bath/Crowbar guitarist Sammy Duet, bassist Nathan Bergeron, and drummer Zack Simmons play blackened death metal.
The melodies are here, as are the frequent exchanges between clean and aggressive growl (totally laughable, by the way), and rocking yet totally safe guitars.
Debut from Richmond VA’s noisemakers. Not my specialty, so I’ll just rattle off some toured-withs: A Life Once Lost, The Acacia Strain, Misery Signals.
10 albums deep, these Greek black metallers just keep slogging along. This one’s a bit faster. Never considered them top tier, but never fully dismissed them.