Sepultura: A-Lex

Brazilian metal pioneers Sepultura give us yet another reason to thrash with their eleventh album since 1986’s Morbid Visions. This new LP follows the band’s recent trend of concept albums. 2006’s Dante XXI was based on Dante’s Divine Comedy, and this year’s edition tells a story inspired by a much more recent classic. The same grinding, distorted guitar and tribal drums in A-Lex tell the story of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange, taking its title from the book’s main character. The tracks follow the story closely enough that you can see it playing out in your head in a far more twisted rendition than the film.