Good as Conjurer ’s last album was, 2022’s Páthos , it was also in some way lacking. Their Mire debut in 2018 had announced them, with no small amount of excitement, as one of the finest heavy bands this country had produced for quite some time. With expert flair with big riffs, technical twists, bottom-end doom-outs, atmosphere and sheer energy, it found supporters in everyone from Trivium to Biffy Clyro . As we say, the second crack was good, but that connection wasn’t quite there.

Unself suffers not this problem. As the delicate acoustic intro strums and fragile, cracked vocals of the opening title-track are engulfed by a wall of ultra-heavy guitar and a pained scream, it’s an announcement that you’re about to meet a bigger, better, emotionally deeper Conjurer. When a blastbe

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