At least one blind spot in our recent wrap-up of the best music from the Bay in 2024? Not enough metal. Well, let’s tip the scales ever so slightly with this thrashing hell of a time released this month: the self-titled debut album by Ancient Rage. With riffs and rhythms as merry as Motörhead but guts as dark and hellish as your favorite black metal monolith, Ancient Rage never relents, driving forward its constant firey aggression. Maximum volume but mostly restrained to punkish song lengths (2-3 minute), it’s a devouring listen.
Ancient Rage was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer.
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