Isolate and Medicate (Deluxe Edition)

Editors’ Notes The South African alt-metal standard bearers’ 2014 album puts its own enraged, dispirited, anthemic twist on classic Seattle-style grunge. “Suffer It All” rides a steamrolling forward chug, and the groove of “Words As Weapons” is superbly fluid. And if you wonder where guitar-shredding growler Shaun Morgan’s head is at, “Save Today” (“I never learn from my mistakes”) and the almost jangly “Nobody Praying For Me” (“I’m the bullet in a loaded gun”) get the point across quite directly.