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After a 12-year stretch that saw The Lord Weird Slough Feg consistently release a new album every couple of years, their production has tapered to only two albums in the 15 years since The Animal Spirits in 2010. Founder Mike Scalzi has gathered the band back together for a 2025 EP, Traveller Supplement 1: The Ephemeral Glades. As someone who missed the band's run of praised releases like Down Among the Deadmen and Hardworlder and have only reviewed the bland New Organon, this is the kind of EP that makes me want to go back and check out those earlier releases. Slough Feg's traditional metal, driven by Scalzi's unique vocals and eclectic guitar work, has that underground, slightly occult vibe of bands like Manilla Road, Brocas Helm and Cirith Ungol but a sound that is their own. The songs on the EP cover direct, in your face rockers like "Knife World" and "Ephemeral Glades" as well as weirder and more epic stuff like the proggy, marching "Magnetic Fluctuations" and the atmospheric instrumental "The Black Circle." I can't compare this to Slough Feg's earlier stuff, because I haven't heard it (a situation I fully intend to rectify), but I do like Traveller Supplement 1: The Ephemeral Glades a lot, as I find it both accessible and challenging at the same time. Good stuff which shows Scalzi and crew can still get it done.