ALARUM Natural Causes CD (2011)

Australia has quietly produced some of the most technically ferocious metal on the planet, and Melbourne's Alarum are proof that the local scene has always punched well above its weight. Natural Causes (2011) is their third full-length, and it remains one of the most criminally overlooked progressive thrash records to come out of this country.

If you like your metal to actually make you feel something other than a headache, this is it. Alarum operate in that rare space where jazz-inflected technicality meets genuine aggression, drawing comparisons to the most brain-melting corners of progressive and technical death metal without ever losing the thread. This is Australian made, and it deserves a place in any serious metal collection.

Format: CD. Full length album. Released 2011. Australian progressive thrash metal.

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