11 tracks that kinda blend, but there are breakdowns to anticipate, roars to marvel at, and guitarwork to learn. Little clean singing and keyboard flourishes.
Skindred is like no other. Groovecore with a Rasta singer. He can scat, rap, and harmonize like the emo metal pussies without crying his eyeliner into streaks.
Best Helloween album in years. Not really that much of an accomplishment, seeing as many recent albums have fallen between passable and freakin’ embarrassing.
From Buffalo, NY, home of many a decent hardcore band, ETID incorporates a bit of Southern drawl, which is funny, seeing as upstate NY is far from the South.
A couple members from NY’s Vision of Disorder and a brother of a guy in Mastodon. Their second full-length, if I can read passed all the hype in the bio.
One of the most over-hyped metal bands. Ever wondered what a Metallica/Loverboy/Night Ranger/In Flames cover band might sound like if they wrote “originals”?
Four unreleased studio tracks, with 20 live cuts. Sub-standard S.O.D. (two originals, two covers) with crap production, like ProTooled Pro-Pain out-takes.