New arrivals.
Satan's 2013 comeback album Life Sentence and it's 2015 follow up Atom By Atom.
I've had these albums as digital files for a few years, but finally got around to buying them.
The music and playing are so spot on in matching what they did on their 2013 debut album Court In The Act that you'd think they'd been cryogenically frozen for 30 years, then revived and given a crash course on the state of the world, and then sent straight to the recording studio. They do it all without sounding dated or nostalgic, rather the music sounds fresh and 21st century viable. Guitarists Russ Tippens and Steve Ramsey play with so much speed and precission that they have to be sharing the same brain. Brian Ross's voice has lost none of it's range and still threatens to break all the glass in your room if you give it too much volume. Graeme English and Sean Taylor provide a steady, reliable but innovative rhythm section on bass and drums respectively. The raw and brutal production values are spot on for these homages to early '80's NWOBHM.