41. Sadist - "Firescorched"

Let’s have a slice of progressive Italian Death Metal. This is a deliciously disconcerting album, reminiscent of an Opeth pre-prog phase , in the way that it uses rapidly changing time signatures. Musically it is off-kilter and disconnected in its approach and by doing so it offers up a refreshingly different take on this rather conservative genre. 

Every track has multiple movements which jump all over the place and seem specifically designed to stop the listener from getting bored. Inventive and exhilarating, I found myself pleasantly confounded on numerous occasions by this record. Not what I was expecting at all, in a very very good way.