SCALPING

Roaring guitars yoked by metronomically meaty beats make this the most danceable ear-smasher in recent memory! And we danced to it aplenty.

We finally got the full-length we’d been baying for & good lord, did it deliver! Scalping are masters of combining industrial techno with heavy noise rock. The resulting debut album is almost too good to be true: a swaggering surge of barely bridled power. This is a dark yet exhilarating listen that finds human musicians emulating the coldest, heaviest machinery you could possibly have the misfortune to fall into. It’s not cheerful, but we get big, cheese-eating grins every time we blast it out.