67. Dawn of Ourborous - "Velvet Incandescence"

This is an album that just accelerates in its velocity. It is a beautiful meld of precision perfect technical death metal and deliciously bombastic progressive rock. There are echoes of early Opeth but played at double speed. It just brims with creative energy, like the band had so many ideas when they were recording this record that they had to play so fast just to fit them all in. 

It is very much one of those albums that I’m finding new things in every time I listen to it. Simultaneously inventive and incendiary it is brimming with an innate desire to create and to challenge. A vibrant kaleidoscope of a thousand ideas crashing together on the shores of invention.