A streamlined combination of early-’90s thrash and late-’90s nu-metal

Taking a thematic cue from David Cronenberg’s 1983 sci-fi/body-horror nightmare Videodrome, UK metal squad Sylosis deliver a streamlined combination of early-’90s thrash and late-’90s nu-metal. Aggro opener “Beneath the Surface” splits the difference between Machine Head’s Burn My Eyes and Pantera’s The Great Southern Trendkill, while singles “Erased” and “Lacerations” lean into Chester Bennington choruses with extreme grooves and bruising guitar pyrotechnics. The sole ballad, “Everywhere at Once”, is the album’s musical outlier: Somewhere between Staind and a Zakk Wylde solo tune, it still resides firmly in the ’90s.