SOULFLY, UNLEASH
With Throwdown’s Dave Peters barking himself stupid alongside mighty Max Cavalera, this is one hefty slab of tribal metal designed to break your face.
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GOD FORBID, END OF THE WORLD
With a title like that you can’t really expect sun-drenched pop fun, and the New Jersey boys throw their all into this intense metallic beast.
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MELVINS, KICKING MACHINE
Buzz Osborne’s crew kick their way back into view with this suitably demented collision of coiling riffs, cascading drums and histrionic vocals. Bless ‘em.
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WALLS OF JERICHO, THE AMERICAN DREAM
If this is their American dream, we’d hate to hear what their American nightmares are like! Definitively throwing down the gauntlet to all who proclaim themselves ‘heavy’.
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BRIGADE, SINK SINK SWIM
Everyone likes a stabby riff, and when it’s thrown up against the side of one big whopping bastard of a chorus it’s fist-pumping nirvana!
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EXIT TEN, WARRIORS
One of Britain’s brightest new hopes, Exit Ten unleash another one of their metalcore anthems and invite all to sing along in a similarly haunted manner.
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SLAYER, WAR ENSEMBLE
Sounding as vital today as it did the day it crawled from the pit of hell, War Ensemble is a masterclass in thrashing, hyper-speed evil!
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GO:AUDIO, SHE LEFT ME
Wrapping up their heartache in monster melodies that’d even get the Pope singing along makes the bitterness of breaking up seem not so bad after all…
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BIFFY CLYRO, MOUNTAINS
With a chorus the size of their subject matter, affecting piano-led melancholy, and gorgeous hooks, the world’s greatest Scotsmen unleash another magnificent anthem.
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DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, CATH
Ooh look, loads of melody and chorus and other stuff that you can whistle as you walk carefree down a street in the height of summer.
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