11 Great Things In Metal This Week (20th Nov)
4. Ion Dissonance - Cast The First Stone
Thrashing us harder than Slayer with a cat o' nine tails this week is the untameable Ion Dissonance. This Friday heralded the release of their fifth album Cast the First Stone, the first record the metalcore/death metal fusion has pumped out in over six years.
But after such a long time, the band has definitely not missed a beat. Quite simply, Cast the First Stone is Hell on Earth in the best possible sense, with every drop of it purveying pure brutality and ungodly punishing grooves.
Much akin to a punch in the face, the album is quick, frenetic, brilliantly painful and over before you even know what happened. And that's exactly the way extreme metal should be.