Boundaries have been broken and borders dissolved forever in the world of metal, but there tends to remain a stylistic East/West divide that few bands have convincingly bridged. BRIDEAR manage much better than most. Over the course of five albums, a smattering of EPs and live releases, the all-female Fukuoka collective have sharpened their shred-heavy Euro-power metal attack while retaining the flavour of the land of the rising sun. Contrary to its title, Born Again doesn’t feel like a grand reinvention. Instead, they’ve doubled-down on all those old-school sensibilities and melodic eccentricities, teaming with legendary Swedish producer Fredrik Nordström (At The Gates, Bring Me The Horizon, In Flames) for perhaps their most defiantly metallic record yet. From Still Bur...