Bolts - Hagop Tchaparian (2022)

This recently showed up in the new releases and I’ve been listening to it a lot.

It slips effortlessly from calm atmospherics to intense beat workouts. Samples of exotic instruments complement the modern dance drum programming very well. There’s so much texture here, you could listen 20 times and still hear something new.

Tracks I Liked

GL - great stuff

Escape - a trippy little respite from the faster tempos

Right To Riot - tense, paranoid build-and-release energy

Crack the Skye
Mastodon
a classic slab of groovy, grimy prog metal

Dusk
JR Bohannon
gorgeous solo guitar