Mammoth Grinder has just dropped their first new music in five years and, real talk, it fucking slaps, as the kids would say. The first thing that comes to mind when listening to the band's new EP, Undying Spectral Resonance, is that they have only gotten better at their unique brand of gritty-death-thrash. The album opener, "Corpse of Divinant," is a chugging beast of a track that powers into its successor, the title track, "Undying Spectral Resonance." Both have well-placed solos that add a thrashy vibe to the pummeling rhythm.

The album also has a very haunting, organ-fueled interlude track, "Call From The Frozen Styx," that will have you looking over your shoulder for fucking Dracula.

Undying Spectral Resonance closes out with two final tunes, Decrease The Peace - a head-nodding throwback to late 80s death and thrash - and Obsessed With Death, which sound like what I imagine a skeleton buffalo stampede would look like.

So how does the album compare to Mammoth Grinder's past projects? For me, it's a really exciting new direction. What they trade in less grind they make up for in riffs and being a little less polished. It's like... blackened garage death metal at its finest.

Give it a listen and let me know what you think!