Weird, noisy, and impossibly complex, Mastodon’s 2006 major-label debut, Blood Mountain, quelled fears that the…
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After years of running on the major-label treadmill, New Found Glory seems to have found a fitting home at Epitaph.…
Lamb Of God’s second major-label album, 2006’s Sacrament, marked the first time the Virginia thrash unit sounded…
People on both sides of My Chemical Romance's fan base have to admit it's been interesting to watch guitarist Frank…
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Sure, AC/DC has been writing the same album since 1975. (In other news, the sky is blue.) Still, even within such…
Quick: Name one hardcore punk album from the past 10 years—hell, make that ever—that opens with a lilting flute solo…
How odd it must be, playing in Mogwai: You record a scrappy-yet-seminal debut (1997's post-rock standard-bearer Young…
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Chicago's Plain White T's were happily cruising along as an indie pop-punk footnote until a stroke of dumb luck…
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The 2004 documentary Some Kind Of Monster got credit for exposing the private side of Metallica's transformation…
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Power metal—that cheese-encrusted province of swords, sorcerers, and curiously falsetto male singers—has never…
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Black Sabbath put out so many monumental albums before Ozzy Osbourne's 1979 sacking that the band could've folded…
On its first two albums, 1994's My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment Of What My Love Could Be and 1995's Courtesy A…
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While Def Leppard had modest success before John "Mutt" Lange entered its
world, the legendarily hands-on…
Louisville, Kentucky boasts a notable indie-rock legacy, but the city has a deep history in hardcore and metal, too,…
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In the two and a half years since its multi-platinum debut, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, threatened to eclipse…
The Matches' guerilla-style self-promotion for 2003's E. Von Dahl Killed The Locals ignited a bidding war that found…
Meshuggah's dense, polyrhythmic roar elevates math-metal artisanship to such insane heights, the Swedish group often…