Few things are more reliably thrilling than gothic metal floor-fillers. Everyone sensible has banged their head to She Sells Sanctuary, White Wedding and This Corrosion, and so everyone sensible will love Forever We Burn. That’s science. Led by chief songwriter Tombs, and fronted by My Dying Bride’s Aaron Stainthorpe, High Parasite are heavier and darker than most, with an obvious debt to Paradise Lost that is compounded by production from Gregor Mackintosh. Everything from sublime singles Grave Intentions and Let It Fail to the industrial stuttering of We Break We Die is catchy and heavy as hell, and a snarling Stainthorpe sounds revitalised. ■■■■■■■■
FOR FANS OF: Paradise Lost, The Sisters Of Mercy, Sentenced