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Dodsferd-Suicide and the Rest of Your Kind Will Follow（2009）

Greece's favorite hate-spewing machine is at it again.  Dodsferd is Wrath, and he lets you know it on every album, and the newest album Suicide and the Rest of Your Kind Will Follow continues that tradition.  However, it isn't what I expected, it's even better than that. Suicide and the Rest of Your Kind Will Follow takes a decided dark turn into the world of epic blackened doom metal, with only two songs making up the 36 minutes that the album has on there.  Taking a break from the...

Biohazard-[Urban Discipline]-1992

Biohazard's Urban Discipline introduced the band's one-of-a-kind, Brooklyn thrash-rap sound to hardcore fans outside the five boroughs. It's an authentic mix of inner-city vocal rhythms with metal's take-no-prisoners attitude, one that granted them international credibility. Urban Discipline is an original hardcore metal-rap album, debuting a half-decade prior to the rap-rock explosion of the late '90s. It is defiant and distinctive -- in some senses a precursor of bands such as Korn, Limp...

Brutal Truth-[Need to Control]-1994

While grindcore fanatics might downgrade this album a bit for its polished aesthetic, one cannot argue the ingenuity and true creative spirit of Need to Control. Brutal Truth, being a very unique band, incorporate elements from several different genres, including death metal, hardcore, punk, and noise; the music on this album is not so easily and debatably classified as grindcore/metal with somewhat of a hardcore-ish feel. Brutal Truth are one of the few bands that can lash out from a...

black flag-[Damaged]-1981

It is said that the period from 1980 to 1986 is considered to peak of ?hardcore" punk. Among some highly successful hardcore punk bands of the decade include the politically-enraged Dead Kennedys, as well as Bad Brains, and The Germs. A big part of this movement was carried upon the arms of the front-men that made themselves fairly notorious by showing off their share of controversial lyrics and disputable political metaphors and puns that led fans to a state where governments where questioned...

Baroness -Blue Record

In an era of short attention spans, 3 minute singles and shuffle mode, making an actual album is quickly becoming a lost art. Baroness has only been around for a few years, but embrace the old school notion of striving to create a cohesive album that flows, not just a random collection of songs. Baroness' sophomore full-length Blue Record definitely does that. Soundwise, their sludgy guitars are intact, but explore a bit more of their progressive and experimental side. It's also the first CD...