As a Brit, I know very little about the state of Pennsylvania. However, the image in my head is a place where a progressive metal band adorns every street corner, given the number of the genre’s top acts that emanate from the state. Rivers of Nihil lead the pack, with Black Crown Initiate another notable artist from the region along with Alustrium helped by this year’s superb A Monument To Silence. A relatively new discovery to me is Burial In The Sky, who launch their third full-length, The Consumed Self, on August 13 – and have been wisely snapped up by Rising Nemesis Records. Much like their 2018 sophomore, Creatio et Hominus, (and the other artists mentioned above), The Consumed Self straddles that beautiful grey area between progressive metal and technical death metal, cherry-picking ...