91. Exhorder – “Mourn the Southern Skies”

First album in X years is a phrase I am going to use a lot this year. There has been a twenty seven year gap between this and Exhorder’s previous release “The Law” (though not the longest lay off on this list). So if you ever wandered what a Pantera record released in 2019 would sound like, this is your answer. It’s a treasure trove of unashamed groovy thrash. Raw and raucous but also exhibiting a real swing and swagger. And yes! it sounds like Pantera because back in the early nineties Pantera “borrowed” their sound from Exhorder. Nearly thirty years later, Exhorder are back to set the record straight.