Make a beeline for the merch! Eagle Claw’s new EP Ageless | Godmake refuses to stream until its limited run of 250 color vinyls sells out. Revisiting pandemic precipice Vallis, third full-length since 2010, one might be tempted to slap them with the tagline Austin’s Metallica, our longest-crushing thrash institution. The instrumental quartet cranks broader than that – stonier, doomier, infinitely more lithe – thanks to their local longevity and dedication to a homegrown metal horde. Ditto that y más where the Bridge Farmers are concerned. If you dig dope-smoking Sleep, take a hit off the townies’ Cosmic Trigger, a freefall into the intergalactic void. ATX thrashers Fuck Work make three. – Raoul Hernandez
