50 Best Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Albums Of 2017
10. SikTh – The Future In Whose Eyes?
By the time it saw the light of day in June, The Future in Whose Eyes? was the first SikTh album in eleven years. However, with its sheer, frenetic energy and avant-garde song-writing, the band’s third disc feels just as dangerous and mind-bending as their lauded prior efforts.
Everything that long-time fans love about the progressive metal pioneers returns in full force on The Future in Whose Eyes?, primarily an exchange of pitched wails from frontman Mikee W. Goodman and newcomer to the group, Joe Rosser. Tracks like the more straight-forward “Golden Cufflinks” especially punctuate the dynamic between the two, with Rosser’s more clean, archetypal rock delivery forming a firm hook, while Goodman yells and shouts frantically till his heart’s content.
The instrumentation is similarly mad, especially from the polyrhythmic master Dan Weller on guitars. Impossibly unpredictable riffs punctuate equally off-the-wall rhythms and singing to craft a sometimes psychedelic ride, yet The Future in Whose Eyes? also excels on the melody front, the singles “Vivid” and “No Wishbones” especially successfully in crafting insane yet also infectious choruses.
Toss in a guest turn by Periphery frontman Spencer Sotelo on the diverse “Cracks of Light” and the end result is a modern tech metal fanatic’s dream come true, undeniably deserving of beginning 2017’s top ten.
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