Lie in Ruins - Floating in Timeless Streams (2020)

Six years since Finland's Lie In Ruin's last full-length, 2014's Towards Divine Death, Floating In Timeless Streams sees a more streamlined approach for the band. While their previous album clocked in at seventy-one minutes of brutality (!), this latest trims some of that excess at just over forty-two minutes-without losing any of the impact. Floating... continues to hone and highlight the band's tremendous guitar work by Roni Ärling and Tuomas Kulmala, but the band has also added the extremely talented Jussi-Pekka Manner (Corpsessed) on drums. Roni Sahari's (Desolate Shrine) vocals add the icing on the cake, making this the band's magnum opus and a top highlight of 2020. Finnish death metal's finest!