Coming straight out of Melbourne, this week it’s In Malice’s Wake thrashing faces with Beyond Death. These guys play a pretty heavy thrash, though you think with a name like In Malice’s Wake they’d be proggy math rock with tons of time changes and polymeters. It’s math! Like in Guts Punch Balls Throw Up. However, they play songs about the downfall of humanity, armageddon, and self-awareness. That third one is really a thing. It’s not me saying two serious things and then a joke. I hope the self-awareness songs are like “you got something in your nose” or “hey quit calling that guy a chump while you yourself act the chump.”

The song wastes no time to get into the kind of shreddy wall of sound that pervades the song. There’s a couple interesting rhythm changes with a quick noodly phrase to bring it in. The lead vocals are growly and tough, with the bassist adding the more gutteral backing on the chorus. They work well together. There’s a quick solo early in the song, but for the most part it’s a big aggro thrash epic.

The video is primarily them playing at a bonfire near some woods. I hope there are a bunch of people in camp chairs behind the camera, drinking beer and grilling hot dogs. Those are two great things to do at a bonfire. Especially if there’s some badass metal getting performed. Their lead guitarist looks like a wizard, and I think he aced the Advanced Fast Hand Finger Wizard Master Class the way he shred the solo early on.