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• Mike Lopez
• Josh Purdy
• Fort Collins

Fort Collins outfit GasHead began as a solo project by guitarist Mike Lopez, then branched into a full, albeit instrumental, band — which then blossomed into a full-on, five-headed metal juggernaut with the addition of vocalist Josh Purdy on 2007's The Isolationist. With the group's new EP, though, things have contracted: Tightly focused and unshakably controlled, the four-song Seething Apparatus is a blinding, concentrated burst of GasHead's potent riffage and outrage. Combining vintage thrash with subtle progressive tendencies, Lopez and crew gloriously wreck their own architecture on the searing "EVP" and the thoroughly pissed-off "Got Your Back." But the players manage to do more than just hold shit together; they wield bleak melody like demolition experts and sheer virtuosity with all the science of chaos theoreticians.