10 songs you should hear now!
Twin Atlantic, Audience and Audio
Twin Atlantic are currently creating quite a stir up in Scotland, and it’s not difficult to see why. Through their infectious bounce and hum-friendly songwriting, if they play their cards right, things could go right for them in 2008.
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Bullet For My Valentine, Scream Aim Fire
Firmly on target for a cracking return, Brigend’s finest weigh in here with a heavyweight cut from their forthcoming second album. And it thrashes like a bloody maniac.
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Avenged Sevenfold, Afterlife
That riff is so chunky you could run it over in a Challenger tank and not do it any damage. Another example of the California lads’ shocking adeptness with throwing huge slabs of guitar around like Olympic hammers.
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The Gates Of Slumber, Dawn of Man
You can’t go wrong with a bunch of fat-arsed doom riffs and the sort of metal prowess that makes Manowar look like Boyzone. Conan Crushing Doom says their MySpace, and after this flattening riff onslaught, you’d be a buffoon to disagree.
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The Donnas Don’t Wait Up For Me
Quite when California ladies The Donnas turned into Judas Priest is unclear, although it’s hardly a bad thing. Don’t Wait Up For Me cruises past like Rob Halford on a Harley Davidson. Superb.
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Stone Gods Burn The Witch
‘Ex-Darkness members’ reads the tin, and as you’d expect, this is rock, cocked and loaded, and swaggering like Mick Jagger on a Viagra binge. Business as usual, then.
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Paramore Misery Business
The lyrics may have a slight downer slant, but there’s absolutely nothing miserable about the honey-glazed pop-punk Paramore are serving up. Frown? You’ll smile like a lottery winner with this on.
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Children of Bodom Tie My Rope
When it’s Children of Bodom, you know you’re in for a stonking metal time. Because metal is CoB’s business, and as proved with this neck-snapper of a tune, business is very, very good.
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Nebula Loose Cannon
Straight outta the garage, Loose Cannon is a low-slung rock and roll drawl coated in grease and cranked beyond acceptable noise levels to achieve fuzz-loving heaven.
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The Hives We Rule The World (T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S.)
Clearly, the only way sharp-dressed Swedish men The Hives could get any more cool is to get some hip-hop credentials. Thus, they roped in bling-bloke Pharrell Williams to add an extra sheen to this braggy single. Cool.
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