Bleep

Thou’s first full-length in four years drops via Sacred Bones. The Baton Rouge group are not known for taking things easy, but even by their standards, Magus is a brutal listen. Sludge metal, doom and grunge are combined to highly potent effect here. The band conjure huge waves of sound from their guitars and drums, and atop this vocalist Bryan Funck (what a name) summons a scream from the bowels of hell. There are eleven tracks here and Funck shreds his larynx on every single one of them. There is nowhere to hide on Magus - it’s a bracing, provocative and brilliant metal album.