10 songs you should hear now!
Black Mountain, Stormy High
British Colombian rockers Black Mountain have a whole lot of psychadelia going on, able to turn the simplist rock and roll repetition into a full on space-rock freakout. Mmmm, groovy.
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Terror, Push It Away
No matter where you go in the world, hardcore brutality is bigger than any language barrier. Thus, you’d be an idiot to bet against this Terror show in Korea being a sitting-down affair.
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Emperor, Thus Spake The Nightspirit
In it’s purest, rawest form, black metal is a dirty, Satan-baiting rush. But when Emperor expand it beyond such horizons, it becomes a mystifying treat of almost limitless scope. Hear this live recording and wish they’d get it back together to make another record.
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Nightwish, Seven Days To The Wolves
Like Terror, Nightwish’s music crosses language barriers wherever they play, in this case China. Unlike Terror, this is elegant, bombastic and layered with more instrumentation than an opera.
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Job For A Cowboy, Altered From Catechization
Get JFAC with their big words. Not that you can hear what they’re roaring about under the sound of enormous, hammer-blunt death metal riffs.
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Primordial, Empire Falls
Irish doom metallers Primordial return for a rare, one-off London show this week. If this cut from their stonking new album To The Nameless Dead is owt to go by, it’ll be a night of epic metal darkness.
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Avenged Sevenfold, Almost Easy
A7X’s self-titled 2007 album boasted more swagger than a drunk army regiment, but that’s nothing next to this balls to the wall live version.
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Bloodsimple, Dead Man Walking
How heavy do you want it? If your answer is ‘earthquake’ or higher, then you’ve come to the right place. Turn it up and prepare for some serious metal devastation.
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Linkin Park, No More Sorrow
Linkin Park don’t half have the knack of writing songs that sound <> at festival volume, and this live version of No More Sorrow is the sort of stuff stadiums were built for.
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Genghis Tron, Board Up The House
Dillinger Escape Plan’s crazed take on metal sounds like a picnic next to Genghis Tron. Metal? Jazz? Electronica? Absolutely no consideration for ‘the rules’? Computer says yes.
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