Leave it to Relapse to come up with good bands. This five song mini album is yet another surprisingly good debut on a quality label. Great riffs, weird twists, breaks and tempo changes, grooves, blast beats; it’s all there. Sulaco features Erik Burke on guitar and vocals. Some of you might have seen him playing live as a touring member of Nuclear Assault. Sulaco is somewhat different than the legendary NA though.

This trio with ex members from Lethargy plays metal in the vein of Mastodon and other Relapse bands. It’s not just hard or fast. There’s an intensity to the music that lifts it to a higher level than most other modern day metal. The sound is a bit muffled and flat, hopefully they’ll get a decent budget to record a full length soon.