I won't be surprised if they've got an even better album in them, but for now, Nightmare Logic is already going down as a classic. They're tastemakers, signifiers of cool, and they don't seem like they're going anywhere any time soon. At this point, they've been in the game for over ten years and they have their own festival. They take obvious influences from 30+ year old albums, but while lots of modern thrash bands simply pay homage to those albums, Power Trip breathe new life into the genre.
Nightmare Logic gives you all the thrills that you got from the best of 1980s thrash and crossover thrash, but it continues to feel like a new album. It's important to celebrate originality and the act of breaking ground, but to quote Drake, "It ain't about who did it first, it's about who did it right," and Power Trip did it very, very right. They regularly play shows with the bands who defined this genre in the 1980s, and they hold their own next to all of them. Power Trip are one of the best thrash bands, period. Way back in 2017 when Nightmare Logic came out, I used to say it solidified them as my favorite modern thrash band. In some cases, it was a no-brainer which album was going to make it, but some of these bands might've had three albums on my list if we went to 50. Because we had to narrow this down to 20 picks and there were way more than 20 bands who released future classics this decade, I kept my list to one album per band to allow for the most amount of variety possible. The records on my list tend to be the ones that flirt with punk, psychedelia, post-rock, and straight-up rock - with a few exceptions - and some of these records came from long-running legends while others came from newer bands whose careers didn't really take off until this decade. We all lived through the same decade, but lived it so differently and formed connections with such vastly different records. Here at Invisible Oranges, individual writers are making their own lists, and though there is some crossover between the lists, it's not surprising how different they all are. Metal had some prevalent trends in the 2010s ("blackgaze" being the first one that comes to mind), but right now, I think what I'll remember most about this decade of metal is how it wasn't defined by a few key subgenres or a few key bands.