Release date: 5/10/2019
Origin: Phoenix, AZ
Personnel: Nate Garret-vox/guitar/bass and Marcus Bryant-drums
“We’re Spirit Adrift. And we play heavy metal.”
This is how Nate Garrett introduced Spirit Adrift when I saw this play earlier this year. It was just so cool and unapologetic. I just fucking loved him for it. Spirit Adrift play a sort of throwback kind of metal that harkens back to Randy Rhodes-era Ozzy albums, early Dio solo stuff and maybe a little bit of old Trouble. This is just a straight up metal-up-your-ass kind of album. And it fucking rules. It easily could have ended up in the top spot.
5 flip flops out of 5
2. Spirit Adrift-Divided By Darkness
3. Tool-Fear Inoculum
4. Alcest-Spiritual Instinct
5. Monolord-No Comfort
6. The Moth Gatherer-Esoteric Oppression
7. The Claypool Lennon Delirium-South of Reality
8. Warforged-I: Voice
9. Russian Circles-Blood Year
10. Ray Alder-What the Water Wants
11. Imperium Dekadenz-When We Are Forgotten
12. Memoriam-Requiem For Mankind
13. Horseburner-The Thief
14. Cult of Luna-A Dawn To Fear
15. Bask-III
16. Cave In-Final Transmission
17. The Neal Morse Band-The Great Adventure
18. Borknagar-True North
19. Herod-Sombre Dessein
20. Vintersea-Illuminated
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