Forever Beast by Filthy Huns

Engine room viking Nick Koenigs has been laying rusted highway riffs over ragged diesel chug since before transplanting from Minneapolis to L.A. in 2011, but Forever Beast marks Filthy Huns first foray into collaboration. Aaron Steinberg inflects the songs with nuanced burner synth, drawing them deeper into shadowy terrain.

From badlands raga (“Magick Tea”) to psychedelic ritual (“Class War”), this is Huns at its headiest and heaviest, ghost rider guitar and vortex keys blasting from busted amps stacked on bleached bones. The Beast rises.