Ever since Sir Richard Bishop, Ben Chasny and Chris Corsano banded together, the supergroup moniker has stuck in Rangda's collective craw. We only meant: gee, what a super group! It's boss stuff, kids! But whatever, and what's done is done-The Heretic's Bargain takes a nail gun to that idea's coffin and buries it ALIVE, firmly reinforcing Rangda as a band with a shared intuition, instead of the sum of three separate (though insanely great) parts.