Sumac’s 2016 album What One Becomes blew the metal community’s collective face right the fuck off. Their debut record The Deal was solid, sure, but it was their sophomore effort that saw their sound coalesce into something truly unique and special beyond the sum of its parts (Aaron Turner of Isis/Old Man Gloom, Brian Cook of Russian Circles, Nick Yacyshyn of Baptists).
With that in mind, I’m fully expecting their recently announced third album — Love in Shadow, due September 21st via Thrill Jockey — to continue where What One Becomes left off and hopefully push the envelope even further into the messy, doom-laden, sonic wall of proggy sludge that this band has built up for themselves.