

The UK metallers pulverize all before them on a politically charged seventh album. Described by vocalist Sam Carter as the result of his band “leaving everything we had in the studio,” the Brighton five-piece ratchet up the intensity without sacrificing their gift for melodic atmospherics and anthemic choruses. It’s a record lit by rare fury—“Nihilist” and “Downfall” stand out among the arsenal of blistering polemics—while the band’s potential feels realized on dazzling, colossal closer “Memento Mori.”