Listen Up to Lazarus A.D.

This thrashing four-piece from Kenosha, Wisc., are not your average resurgence band. Sure, they've got the skate-punk-meets-metalhead swagger in spades, plus a rep for total liver destruction like their hard-partying predecessors and contemporaries, but Lazarus A.D. -- Dan Gapen (guitars/vocals), Jeff Paulick (bass/lead vocals), Alex Lackner (guitars) and Ryan Shutler (drums) -- are leaving the thrash-by-numbers sound for other new schoolers.

Instead, these guys boast a modern inflection on a classic style, leaving pummeling thrashers like "Last Breath" to demonstrate their fealty, slow burners like "Absolute Power" to show their forward thinking, and juggernauts like "Forged in Blood" to see where they meet in the middle.

If you're a die-hard thrash fan, you might remember Lazarus as the only unsigned band on Earache's kick-ass 2008 compilation Thrashing Like a Maniac. After being signed by Metal Blade Records, Lazarus A.D's debut The Onslaught is available exclusively here for streaming. You're welcome.