Chris Ulsh had a busy year, both as the drummer of the newly-back-in-action Power Trip (with Seth Gilmore of Fugitive/Skourge filling in for the late Riley Gale on vocals) and as the leader of Mammoth Grinder, who returned with their first new music in six years, the Undying Spectral Resonance EP, and also went on their first tour in six years in support of another back-in-action band, Nails.
With the year coming to a close, Chris has now made us a list of his 10 favorite albums of the year, including Denver death-doomers Spectral Voice (whose lineup includes 3/4 of Blood Incantation), Swedish black metallers Necrosorcery, North Carolina hardcore punks Public Acid, Japanese blackened thrash vets Sabbat, Finnish black metallers Starcave, Norwegian death metallers Abhorration, German death metallers Drowned, Philly crust punks Alement, Compton metalpunks The Dark (members of Tozcos, Personal Damage, etc), and the demo from Cerebral Rot offshoot Corpus Offal. Here it is in list form:
Corpus Offal demo
Abhorration – Demonolatry
Starcave – Sukta
Drowned – Procul His
Public Acid – Deadly Weapons
Spectral Voice – Sparagmos
Alement – Banished Sphere
The Dark – Sinking Into Madness
Necrosorcery – Necrosorcery
Sabbat – Sabbaticult
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Power Trip have tour dates coming up next year. No word yet on more from Mammoth Grinder but let’s hope their comeback continues too.