Considering you guys like thrash metal, might as well preach about one of my fav albums and bands of all time.ヽ(´ー｀)ノ

All hail... Vektor!!

These guys from Arizona, with their guitars tuned half a step up (UP!! Not down! F, not E or Eb), have found the perfect balance between technical riffs (think of Coroner), proggy song structures and blend of genres, and pure, unfiltered, mad as fuck thrash. They are labelled as Technical Thrash Metal (and rightfully so! their skill is insane!) and New Wave of Thrash Metal. I guess you could describe them as "Megadeth but on steroid and with heavy influence from Voivod and Black Metal". They do take a lot of inspiration from Voivod.

Their discography is just amazing. Black Future is a great album, but Outer Isolation and Terminal Redux are out of this world, in all senses.

Although Outer Isolation might be a better introduction to Vektor, I wanted to share my fav album, Terminal Redux. A one hour and 15 minutes long behemoth of a concept album. They truly pushed themselves and went beyond their limits with this one. Charging The Void, Cygnus Terminal, Pillars Of Sand, Collapse, Recharging The Void... I could basically list the entire album, cuz they are all fantastic songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FADd5rAznOc - Black Future - 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZeltyIhaw0 - Outer Isolation - 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMCsv-zj56s - Terminal Redux - 2016