Arsis Unwelcome

We’ve been privileged enough to hear a little bit of Arsis’ Unwelcome — their first new full-length studio album in three years! — but a little bit was really all we needed to hear to know that this album is gonna rock some balls right the fuck out of scrotal sacks. If, like me, you found Starve for the Devil a little underwhelming (and it’s worth noting that “underwhelming” in Arsis-speak means “Still better than 99% of all other metal albums”), then Unwelcome should be particularly, uh, welcome: this feels like James Malone n’ the boys firing on all cylinders with a vim and vigor reminiscent of A Diamond for Disease.

From metalsucks.net

1. Unwelcome
2. Carve My Cross
3. Handbook for the Recently Deceased
4. Choking on Sand
5. Let Me Be the One
6. Sunglasses at Night
7. Martyred or Mourning
8. No One Lies to the Dead
9. I Share in Shame
10. Scornstar