Bleed The Future - Archspire (2021)

I don’t have anything in this space yet that I’ve labelled tech-death, which is kinda weird. I really dig it as a micro-subgenre.

I might have added “blackened” on here too, since these songs all zoom along with a master class in double kick drums at about 160 to 180 bpm. But nobody else seems to think so, so I’ll leave it alone.

Anyway, this is as in-your-face as metal gets. Everything adds to the momentum, and the lyrics still manage to be decipherable.

Tracks I Liked

Golden Mouth of Ruin - take a deep breath, put this song on, listen all the way through. If it doesn’t grab you, just skip everything else here. It’s not for you.

Abandon The Linear - great harmonics on a wicked bassline