Metal playlists from the underground
For the first time in their 8 year major label career modern rockers Drowning Pool offer an intense live recording in Loudest Common Denominator. Featuring all of the band’s radio friendly hits “Bodies,” “Enemy,” and “Sinner” Loudest will surely please the loyal fans and mainstream radio audience. In addition to the 11 live tracks recorded […]
Norwegian black metal merchants Khold reappear with another scathing release sung in their native tongue in the form of the 11-track HUNDRE AR GAMMAL. Laden with nefarious grooves (“Trolos”) and bolstered by a demonically-charged vocal rasp, tracks such as the slow-crawling to mid-paced maul of “Sann Ditt Svik” resonates with a true sense of dread […]
The soundtrack to the highly anticipated superhero film Watchmen features classic cuts from Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, and KC and the Sunshine Band while My Chemical Romance offers a new track in the fast and catchy Dylan cover “Desolation Row.” “Desolation Row” opens the soundtrack with a brief and softly played organ […]
All the way from Indonesia comes long-running outfit Slank with ANTHEM FOR THE BROKEN HEARTED, the band’s first venture into recording an English-language album. This 10-track effort yields a gravel-throated but light-hearted hard rock affair that borrows as much from punchy pop-punk as it does from hair metal’s excess on cuts like “I Miss U […]