I’m waiting for a record to arrive before I start my next series, so in the meantime I’m going to hit a couple one-offs that fall under the general category of “impulse buys” – those albums that, whether drunk or excited or something else caused me to hit the buy button before really thinking. Sometimes it pays off, as is the case with Air Not Meant For Us, the second album from Connecticut’s Fires in the Distance. Taking cues from melodic, progressive death metal and injecting a healthy dose of gloom and doom make for a dynamic and exciting album, one that crept back into my ears on a playlist as I was drifting off the sleep, forcing me to take attention and buy a copy before the inevitable slide back into the black.

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