10 songs you should hear now!
SHADOWS FALL, FOREVERMORE
It thrashes! It screeches! It rocks like a 3-legged donkey! It can only be the boys of Shadows Fall unleashing another titanic metal anthem!
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TRIPTYKON, CRUCIFIXUS
Tom G Warrior – he of Celtic Frost, Hellhammer etc – has metamorphosed once again, and Crucifixus is the sound of a slow motion eerier than hell nightmare…
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WITHIN TEMPTATION, ALL I NEED
Sharon Den Adel gives that mighty larynx of hers a good work out on this stonking great power ballad of epic proportions! Take that Evanescence!!
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FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND, WATERFRONT DANCE CLUB
The first fruit of the Welsh-wonders' decision to strike out on their own, Waterfront Danceclub is a huge wash of melody with a chorus the size of Wales.
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THE AC4, ARE YOU GONNA BOW DOWN
Featuring former members of Refused, this snarly racket is punk peeled back to its bare bones and allowed to rampage up and down your spine.
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LINKIN PARK, LEAVE OUT ALL THE REST
Abandoning the chunky riffs and the dodgy raps for three and a half minutes, Linkin Park get all introspective on us with this slow burning number
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WORKING CLASS HEROES, DO YOU KNOW
God bless the proletariat! Especially when they deliver hunks of spiky pop punk glory like this cracking track. Soon to be your new favourite band…
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VIOLATOR, ATOMIC NIGHTMARE
Now this is how to do that thrash thing! Breakneck rhythms, riffs that could peel your face off at a hundred metres and attitude-drenched vocals! Get in!
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MUNICIPAL WASTE, SADISTIC MAGICIAN
Conjuring images of David Copperfield slowly sawing some unsuspecting dupe in half, the Canadian thrashers charge in, wreck everything, and charge back out again.
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KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES, A TOWN CALLED MALICE
Dusting off a classic from the days of the Mod (ask yer parents), those Welsh boys hurl everything they have into this bouncy cover.
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