In Ruin

Toronto’s Cauldron deliver their fourth album of ’80s-style metal to drive fast with the top down to. Not hair metal or thrash—just the pure, catchy, beer-soaked-jean-jacket stuff, like Anvil, Raven, or Dokken before the genre got super-serious. High-registered Jason Decay sings like Joe Elliott when Def Leppard were kids, and tunes like “No Return / In Ruin,” “Burning at Both Ends,” and “Santa Mira” are downright celebratory, packing speedy, stick-to-the-ribs riffs. For early Metallica fans, there’s even an epic, cloudy-day instrumental called “Delusive Serenade.”