Song of the Week #23

I know 2021 isn’t technically over, but trust me when I say that Ekulu’s “Unscrew My Head” album is without a doubt the best album released this year, and who knows, by the end of the decade it could still be up there with the cream of the crop for rock in general.

Ekulu are rapidly building themselves a cult following, and its easy to see why. Everything about this album hits so sweetly. So many of the guitar lines throughout the album (particularly Who’s in Control?) wouldn’t have been out of place on a 1980s gem such as Out of the Cellar by Ratt. The entire album intertwines thrash and hardcore so readily, and really just demonstrates where there was such a hype over these East Coast boys in the first place.

Do not sleep on this, or I’ll make it my duty to haunt you in the afterlife!