Atreyu’ve been combining Arch Enemy guitar wails with hardcore rumbling since ’01, recently overtaken by Shadows Fall, Killswitch Engage, and Avenged Sevenfold.
Psyopus’ debut is a hyperactive blur of aggression, technicality, and insanity thrown to the wind without a care in the world, doing as much damage as possible.
Rich with headbanging riffs, an excellent thrash frontman, gorgeous production by guitarist Adam Dutkiewitcz, Andy Sneap mixes. The clean-sung passages: Gay.
Ex-Shadows Fall singer Philip Labonte started All That Remains. Much richer and focused than the previous release, with ace production by Adam Dutkiewicz.
The ever-changing riffs, the melodic solos, the heavy-as-hell, frantic drumming. This is a true return to thrash with some of the heavier stuff thrown in.
With all sorts of hugely symphonic and choir-blessed folk/prog passages, and plainly chugging metal bits, Sirius B/Lemuria holds one’s attention throughout.
Suffocation return with their first full-length in nearly a decade, every bit as weighty and complex as ever. Subpar production can’t dampen the fury within.
Pretty much the final word in the metal opera sweepstakes, the apex of achievement and effort versus the disproportionately minimal attention this will get.