Grief expresses itself in many forms. Sorrow. Outrage. Fear. A lingering confusion at what, if anything, this all means. All of these conditions haunt the grooves of Devil Sold His Soul’s fourth record – their first in nearly decade. Writing sessions for Loss were marked by the death of friends and family, yet also a sense of new possibilities with the return of vocalist Ed Gibbs. These conflicting states and residual feelings of guilt are most pronounced on Burdened. ‘At what cost will we survive?’ Ed asks amid blastbeats and iron-plated riffs. No answer is forthcoming in the atmospheric breaks between onslaughts, waves of regret crashing and receding in the line, ‘Drown it all and start this all again.’ That line, shared between Ed and co-vocalist Paul Green, also highl...