Minenfeld - The Great Adventure (2019)^{Release ID: 36671}

Yet another metal album themed around the global conflicts of the first half of the previous century. I really like how this one has been put together, it's nine tracks of gnarly, old-school, death metal are interspersed by archive recordings of popular WWI songs and clips of US recruitment speeches and propaganda announcements, to give the album's lyrical theme a feeling of time and place. I've been critical of modern death metal on many occasions, but this Morbid Angel-style with the emphasis on aggressive, rather than overtly technical, riffing and desperate-sounding, barked vocals is right up my street. Couple this with a period of history in which I am particularly interested and, for me at least, this is a winner.