Forever Abomination

With a little help from Grammy-winning producer Matt Hyde, this Ohio blackened thrash group's latest album is the rare example of a big-name producer actually helping a metal band progress.

Whether you want to call it black metal, thrash, blackened thrash, or anything else on the ever growing list of metal subgenres, what’s really important here is that Skeletonwitch know how to write some serious metal songs.

Continuing to make metal that is the product of its collective influences in a way that is somehow unique and vibrant, Ohio's proud heavy metal flag-wavers SKELETONWITCH have sharpened its songwriting to a fine point on "Forever Abomination". Still resolutely thrash-fueled, traditionally rooted, and...