20 Best Metal Albums Of Summer 2017
3. SikTh - The Future In Whose Eyes?
The Future in Whose Eyes? is the first full-length SikTh record in eleven years. Yet, not only does it make the wait for it feel worth it, it is an album that is even on-par with the band's earliest, lauded works.
It achieves such a feat by filling a criterion that seems practically impossible: it remains loyal to the classic SikTh blueprint of proto-djent, dual-vocalised insanity, yet it is also able to feel unique from anything else the British six-piece has ever pumped out before.
It does this through a much cleaner production, superb mixing (helmed by Adam "Nolly" Getgood of Periphery fame) and, at times, even trying to be much more straight-forward and direct than the juggernauts have ever been before, such as on the single "Golden Cufflinks".
However, SikTh is still very much SikTh. Lead singer Mikee W. Goodman and his new co-vocalist Joe Rosser continue the band's frenetic, attacking-from-all-angles ferocity, while both the riffs and rhythms are as unforeseeable as ever. The lyrical content is similarly diverse, ranging from the topics of recurring dreams on "Vivid" to the closures of music venues on "Golden Cufflinks" to poverty and corruption on "No Wishbones".
Truly, The Future in Whose Eyes? is the definition of versatility, and is more than deserving of a number three spot on this list.