Metal playlists from the underground
Two holiday seasons ago gave life to A Twisted Christmas, last year a Monster Ballad Xmas, and this year our favorite rock artists offer us another hard rocking Christmas on We Wish You a Metal Xmas and a Headbanging New Year. This totally rad compilation features 12 holiday favorites by rock legends such as Alice […]
AC/DC doesn’t want this record downloaded for a very simple reason — they don’t make singles, they make full albums. As singles, none of these tracks will make much, if any, sense to the listener. However, as an album this record destroys. Here is the Gears of Rock Track-By-Track rundown. If you already own the album, […]
“Forever More” opens the seventh studio record by Tesla and features a creepy, yet catchy, acoustic guitar intro. The heavy guitars enter with Jeff Keith’s vocals, while a clean guitar remains in the background. This tune is a classic example of how the triple guitar attack can still work well together. There is a beautiful […]
With Halloween and Christmas around the corner, now is the perfect time for another soundtrack release to Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. Nightmare Revisited features new versions of the classic Danny Elfman songs performed by some of rock’s most popular artists. “DeVotchKa Overture” opens the soundtrack with a haunting instrumental cover by Denver indie-rock […]
“Hiroshima (B B B Benny Hits His Head)” opens up the latest effort, Way To Normal, of piano rock legend, Ben Folds. The album begins with a stomp rock tune in the style of “Benny and the Jets,” with artificial crowd cheers in the background. Like everything else that Ben Folds has done, this track […]
“That Was Just Your Life” opens up Death Magnetic with a heartbeat and clean guitars. When the heavy guitars come in, the listener is entranced with a slow groove similar to a Type-O-Negative riff…but that is only very temporary. The song suddenly thrashes out with James Hetfield barking. You can definitely hear the …And Justice […]
“That Lucky Old Sun” is the opener and title track of That Lucky Old Sun. This tune contains a short and pretty Beach Boys’ style vocal harmony which serves as an introduction to the following song. 6/10 “Morning Beat” continues the vocal harmony of the opening track, then kicks in with a funky drum beat. […]
“Heroes Of Our Time” is the speedy opening track to Ultra Beatdown which could have easily fit on any DragonForce record to date. In fact, it sounds exactly like anything from Inhuman Rampage. If you loved the last record or the ending of Guitar Hero III, then you’ll love this tune as well. DragonForce still […]
“.execute” is a short intro track to All Hope Is Gone that consists of mostly obnoxious noise that Slipknot probably uses as their stage entrance music. In my opinion, it is pointless to put these kinds of tracks on records. I prefer getting hit in the teeth with a solid opener. 3/10 “Gematria (The Killing […]
“This Is It” opens The Illusion Of Progress and it does not rock nearly as hard as the classic opener “Suffocate” from Dysfunction (1999). This tune is great at keeping the eighth notes steady throughout the intro and refrain. So far Staind sounds more like 3 Doors Down than the band I once knew. 5/10 […]