That tunnel/cloud/portal on the cover says it all - Trap Them latest is mysterious, disorienting, furiously propulsive, out of control, turned around. There's surges and start-stops and unexpected moves, but the energy's more about hardcore immediacy than prog wankery. There's not so much weird time signatures as a twitchy willingness to stab timing in the neck for a bar or two -- no showy guitar histrionics, just relentless waves of frantic motion.
You get a slow burn to open, and after that you're down the eldritch drain, barely a pause from the ever-changing nightmare thrill-ride, never boring for one second, full of mayfly riffs and punishing changups (those drum bursts on Speak Nigh. motherfucker). A knotty, mysterious, headlong metal album, packed with subtle labyrinths to spend a century or two hurtling through 4/5
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