Martin Popoff returns, ranking hot slabs of molten steel by votes taken amongst the genre’s participants (bands, journalists, label heads, PR staff, etc.).
Despite its tiresome themes of mutilation and zombification, this lives up to the band’s legacy by combining vicious technicality with bang-worthy stomps.
In under three minutes, “Rather be Dead” took metalcore to its zenith, and rendered it obsolete. Seriously, where do you go after such a revelatory statement?
Amid ’80s synths, hip hop beats, French pop sensibilities, and British folktronica aesthetics, there breathed a tender Motown soul that would make Stevie proud.
Wallpaper For the Soul took nice detours into a spectra of moods, A Piece of Sunshine succeeds by glazing us with as much classy and smart pop as possible.