28. Zulu – "A New Tomorrow"

This is a magnificent album that manages to be crunchingly corrosive but also completely different to anything else you ever heard. It’s death metal that eloquently understands the heritage of its Afro-American creators. Influences from the worlds of soul, funk, and jazz many interesting bedfellows with deliciously brutal metal. 

Rather than intermingle, they exist in two diametric worlds that exist together in cacophonous harmony on the record. We switch from one dimension to another with incessant frequency. It is the use of musical forms of black origin (to be honest as a direct offshoot of the blues, rock music is as much of black origin as hip hop) that gives this album its unique identity. Bewilderingly brilliant.