GODSTICKS

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CHRIS WHEATLEY

Welsh prog metal band show their class on sixth album. Five albums and one EP into their career, Godsticks have successfully carved out a space for themselves that sits somewhere between the energetic swagger of Faith No More, the questing drama of mid-period King Crimson and the dizzying mathcore pyrotechnics of The Dillinger Escape Plan. Yet over the course of 17 years, the Welsh band have transcended their influences, fusing them into a sound that’s their own. “Hits the sweet spot between adventure and melody.” Having settled into the expanded, four-piece line-up that’s been in place since 2017’s Faced With Rage album, their sixth full-length builds on what they were doing with that record and its follow-up, 2020’s Inescapable. Opener If I Don’t Take It All thumps and crawls from…

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