After ten years and four albums released under the mouthful of a name that was the Lord Weird Slough Feg, this San Francisco heavy metal band shortened its moniker to simply Slough Feg before the release of Atavism (2005). The band's next LP was the typically idiosyncratic, science fiction-inspired Hardworlder (2007). Ape Uprising! (2009) thematically meshed the prehistoric/futuristic themes of the prior two albums, and arguably bettered them both in terms of quality songwriting. Animal Spirits (2010) arrived a year later and was followed by Digital Resistance (2014). ~ Eduardo Rivadavia