...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

Since joining forces in the mid-’90s, the Trail of Dead has presided over nine albums, numerous lineup changes, several stylistic left turns across the prog-psych-noise-rock continuum, and enough bar brawls and smashed guitars to fill a weekend police blotter. The apocalyptically-named returns with a rejigged lineup and a relatively new, decidedly grungey melodicism added to their former tumultuous, percussion-heavy mix. Get ready for one gear-trashingly mental performance of recent tunes IX.