The Wager was brilliant - about the ship that wrecked off the coast of South America in the 1740s - that's led me back to listening to Mastodon and Ahab more! - and I'm now on to Ishiguro's The Remains Of The Day. About 30 pages in and I'm finding it quietly devastating/moving.
Black Dahlia's tone terrifies me as a guitarist because what they play is so complicated but how it's recorded is so clear. So this is not going to be the pickup for me.
Reading quite a lot of Jeff Vandermeer right now and enjoying, but looking forward to The Wager, and then the second in the Zoey Ashe series from David Wong/Jason Pargin, who is one of my fave writers.
I nominate Job For A Cowboy. I've only just got into them, the name made me think southern grunge buttrock and the image was pure deathcore from what I recalled back in the day. And they're completely brilliant.