Nightmare Logic

Nightmare Logic feels like a baseball bat aimed at the heads of all the politicians, oligarchs, and religious hypocrites that make life in 21st-century America so shitty, each song a different nail hammered through the wood. Despite influences from ’80s Bay Area thrash and ’90s Swedish death metal to Boston hard-core, this Texas wrecking crew makes the sounds their own on their second decimating manifesto. The sheer passion put into steel spikes like “Soul Sacrifice” and “Executioner’s Tax (Swing of the Axe)” show why late, great front man Riley Gale’s premature death came as such a blow to the metal world.