Album Review: Iron Mind - Iron Mind

Earlier this year, Melbourne's Iron Mind moved into a cabin somewhere in the Dandenong ranges to record this self-titled follow up to 2011's superlative Hell Split Wide Open. God knows what happened to them there, because this is very angry music. Each of the album's ten tracks seethes with an unrelenting rage channeled into an epic avalanche of molten mid-tempo riffage. These songs – whether it be the anthemic Victim, the pummeling Blood Brother or the unreconstructed groove of Forgive Me – are instantly memorable. It's only January, but Iron Mind have probably dropped the hardcore album of 2014.