Nudie-suited SpiritWorld mainman Stu Folsom has always revelled in his band’s basis in a demonic version of the mythical Wild West. Populated by undead ranchers, wildly outgunned men of God and every dark spirit stirring beneath the prairie sands, it is a world fleshed out at length between Stu’s novels (the epic GODLESSNESS due to be followed by an imminent second volume tying together the events of this third album) and blood-drenched music videos that owe as much to The Evil Dead as Hang ’Em High. Musically, however, they’ve struggled to really noose their hardcore-meets-evil-thrash sound to the skeletons-on-horseback high concept. Until now. That’s not to suggest Helldorado slacks on the mix of high-speed Slayer worship and pit-battering Hatebreed-styled hardcore that f...