Asheville, North Carolina heavy metal quartet Sanctity somehow avoids the fickle finger of genre pigeonholing while still managing to illicit a veritable poetry-slam of artist comparisons. The group's Roadrunner debut, the brutal and mesmerizing Road to Bloodshed is a testament to the power of, well, Testament. Late-'80s thrash never sounded so good, especially when it's filtered through the jackhammer, maxed-out levels-production-style of modern alternative metal, courtesy of Trivium producer Jason Suecof.
01 Beneath the Machine 02 Brotherhood of Destruction 03 Road to Blooshed 04 Laws of Reason 05 Billy Seals 06 Zeppo 07 Beloved Killer 08 The Rift Between 09 Flatline 10 The Shape of Things 11 Seconds 12 Once Again