Arc Of Ascent
Circle Of The Sun
Not since Shihad's Killjoy has a New Zealand album - or many other albums for that matter - lurched with the power, brutality and beauty that Arc Of Ascent's Circle of the Sun does. The sitar, acoustic percussion and galactic sprays beneath the unbridled hammering of "The Inner Sign" is inspired; but it's "Godhead" that will have you air-guitaring your fingernails off and shrieking "this is the best band I've heard in ages".