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Reise, Reise
Rammstein
Reise, Reise gives Rammstein more room without losing their familiar impact. The guitars remain heavy and the choruses large, but the band more often find a different setting …
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The Dark Delight
Dynazty
The Dark Delight begins with a guitar sound that carries immediate weight. Dynazty make melodic metal with large choruses, but keep the backing firm enough to offer more than …
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All Roads Lead Here
Chimp Spanner
All Roads Lead Here puts more care into its arrangements than a simple guitar showcase needs. Chimp Spanner is the project of Paul Antonio Ortiz, whose music brings bright lea…
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Heavy Soul
Joanne Shaw Taylor
Heavy Soul brings Joanne Shaw Taylor's stronger guitar sound into close contact with the soul and pop side of her writing. The ten-song set is clear and focused, with enough r…
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Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic
The Ocean
Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic gives The Ocean's heavy music a wider range of sounds. Electronic textures, orchestral detail and different vocal approaches become central…
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Years Past Matter
Krallice
Years Past Matter takes its time explaining what is happening. Krallice creates so much simultaneous movement that the first impression can easily become a continuous stream o…
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Laughing Stock
Talk Talk
Laughing Stock often sounds as though the musicians carefully choose what to leave out. A guitar note, some organ or a small movement from the drums can consequently carry rea…
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Midas
Wunderhorse
Midas gives Wunderhorse's guitar songs a rougher, more immediate sound. The playing often feels close to the edge, with distorted guitars, heavy drums and Jacob Slater's voice…
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Radiance
The Dead Daisies
Radiance gives The Dead Daisies a substantial hard-rock sound, with thick guitar riffs, a firm rhythm section and Glenn Hughes' expressive voice at its centre. The performance…
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Walk Through Fire
Yola
Walk Through Fire makes Yola's voice the centre of an inviting country-soul record. The arrangements look back to an earlier meeting of soul, pop and country, with strings, or…
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Death Spells
Holy Fawn
Death Spells gives its heavy guitars a wider purpose than simply making the quiet parts seem smaller. Holy Fawn combine soft voices, electronic details and blurred melodies wi…
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DEATH MAGIC
HEALTH
DEATH MAGIC makes HEALTH's pop side much easier to hear. Hard drums and distorted sounds remain, but melodies no longer need to hide as much. Jake Duzsik often sings softly an…
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Revolution Revolución
Ill Niño
Revolution Revolución gives Ill Niño's heavy sound a clear point of difference through percussion, acoustic guitar and melodic singing. Those elements are part of the songs ra…
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Blackbraid II
Blackbraid
Blackbraid II gives the debut's recognisable approach much more space. Fierce black metal, clear guitar melodies and quieter instrumental pieces remain central. The songs now …
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Animosity
Sevendust
Animosity gives Sevendust's heavy sound a wider emotional range. The guitars still deliver plenty of weight, but Lajon Witherspoon's singing allows the music to become more op…
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Inflamed Rides
O.R.k.
Inflamed Rides introduces O.R.k. with short, changing songs rather than a long demonstration of progressive-rock technique. Heavy guitars, acoustic passages and psychedelic de…
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Aquarius
Haken
Aquarius gives Haken an ambitious starting point. The London band's debut moves through long progressive rock and metal arrangements, using melodic singing, busy keyboards and…
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Tempel
Colour Haze
Tempel puts the movement between bass, guitar and drums at the centre of Colour Haze's sound. The Munich trio use blues and psychedelic rock as a foundation, leaving room for …
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Lightning Bolt
Pearl Jam
Lightning Bolt finds Pearl Jam working confidently within an established rock sound. The guitars have room to develop, the rhythm section is assured and Eddie Vedder remains a…
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Streetcleaner
Godflesh
Streetcleaner makes heaviness independent of speed. Godflesh set a drum machine to a hard, stubborn pattern while distorted bass and scraping guitar fill the remaining space. …
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Short Bus
Filter
Short Bus keeps Filter's early sound focused on rough guitars, heavy bass and Richard Patrick's sharp, strained voice. The electronic side is present, but the riffs do most of…
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Country Squire
Tyler Childers
Country Squire makes a full album out of nine tightly connected songs. Tyler Childers keeps the sound firmly within country music, using its twang and rhythmic lift around sto…
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Hell Finds You Everywhere
Thousand Below
Hell Finds You Everywhere brings Thousand Below closer to pop without removing their heavier side. The songs rely on large choruses, polished production and James DeBerg's fle…
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Share The Wealth
Nels Cline
Share The Wealth has little interest in tidy boundaries. Nels Cline gathers his Singers as a six-piece ensemble that mixes funk, jazz, electronics and forceful guitar outburst…
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