alternative metal
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Poppy and her collaborators have gotten a lot better at working her persona into her music and crafting creative pop songs since last year’s Poppy.Computer.
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Zeal & Ardor’s unique blend of black metal and slave spirituals comes together in an exciting and blasphemous display on Stranger Fruit.
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Vein’s debut album offers a diverting blend of metalcore and alternative metal styles as well as its share of growing pains.
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Godsmack sounds a whole lot like a born-again Metallica cover band on When Legends Rise.
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Shock rock legend Marilyn Manson returns with his 10th album, Heaven Upside Down.
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For the most part, this self-titled debut from hardcore supergroup Dead Cross offers a good balance between the genre’s original blueprint and some experimentation of their own.
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On Emperor of Sand, Mastodon pads out rehashed ideas from their last several albums with alt-rock choruses that went out of style with the 90s.
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Code Orange successfully pushes the metalcore envelope on their first album for Roadrunner Records.
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Korn returns with one of their best albums since 1999’s Issues. Still can’t say I care for it, tho…
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The Dillinger Escape Plan goes down swinging on their final album.
