Lord Dying - Summon the Faithless (2013)

Lord Dying, another good band from Portland, had been noticed with their first good demo and are now confirming their quality with their first album called Summon the Faithless, and released by Relapse. What they play is some doomy heavy metal with also some thrash metal aggression. They sound at bit like a mix of early Mastodon and Slayer, which is cool actually. The vocals are screamed but not extreme like in death or black metal, the guitar goes from trashy riffing to melodies, with cool leads. They play most of the time at mid tempo. The songs are well written and catchy. What I like in their music is that they found a good combination of heaviness and melodic thrashy riffing.

Check it on their BC page.