ALCHEMIST Tripsis Red Vinyl (2007)

Australian progressive death metal has always operated on its own frequency, and nobody bent that signal further than Alchemist. Tripsis, their 2007 album, is where psychedelia and brutality stopped arguing and started slow-dancing in the dark.

This is the record that proved Melbourne's underground could think sideways while still hitting like a freight train. Avant-garde structures, riffs that dissolve into ambient fog and then come roaring back, drumming that shouldn't work but absolutely does. Limited to 375 copies on red marbled vinyl, this isn't a repress you stumble into, it's the kind of thing you spend three years hunting before giving up and then find at a record fair in Brunswick. Australian made, genuinely rare, genuinely weird in the best possible way.

Format: LP, Limited Edition Red Marbled Vinyl. Limited to 375 copies. Country of origin: Australia. Genre: Progressive / Avant-garde Death Metal.

Fans of: Cynic, Atheist, Gojira, Dillinger Escape Plan, Meshuggah.