"Orbit Culture is a stellar band, so 2023's Descent should have been an AOTY contender. An all-killer, no-filler blend of melodeath and thrash with a dark industrial edge sounds like a hodge-podge in the worst ways, but the Swedes have made it their brand with a fluidity that has defined them from the beginning. In this way, the quartet showed their songwriting prowess, with tracks like "Black Mountain" and "The Aisle of Fire" leading the charge in the death/thrash riffage that we've all come...
