Rating: 2/5

The phrase ‘kinda sounds like bands I sometimes enjoy’ is not enough to keep Concept Insomnia on my map, never mind their forgettably esoteric name and ostensible lack of badassery. Sorry guys, but I fail to see your purpose.

Rating: 4/5

I don’t not recall Imagika’s 2008 effort “Feast for the Hated”; it must have just been a rough reviewing day, and fell by the wayside without much of a chance. Scouring the interwebs, they seem minimally covered by everyone from Allmusic to Encyclopaedia Metallum, so I am not the only one overlooking these seventeen-year vets of the Bay Area thrash circle. This, their seventh album, has reopened my ears.