You may not immediately recognize the name Ben McLeod but if you’re the type that pays attention to Nashville music you’re likely familiar with his main gig… guitarist in All Them Witches. This solo undertaking is billed as an instrumental metal album but that’s selling it entirely too short. While there’s plenty of massive guitar riffs and head splitting double bass drums there’s also a cross pollination with alto sax solos and mellotron interludes. It’s a melding of unexpected styles to say the very least but McLeod manages to make it work, even when the transition is at break neck speed.
