Pop-punk is well-known for its vicariously thick melodies, but A Day to Remember showed the world that it could be so much more. The entwining of hooky choruses and metalcore breakbeats and screaming produced a sound the world wasn’t ready for, but onHomesick, the A Day to Remember be...
That opened the door for "Sound of Madness," "If You Only Knew" and the other major hit "The Crow & The Butterfly" to follow, and a deluxe edition release of the disc also yielded "Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom)." By the time all was said and done, Shinedown went from ...
Limp Bizkit are one of the most mocked bands of today, but let’s give credit where credit is due: they changed the game. The weirdos of the genre, Fred Durst and Co. provided a breath of fresh air for a genre that was beginning to sound homogenized. Their creativity and shamelessness...
The moody single “With Or Without You” kicked things off, but The Edge’s guitar work on “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” and “Where the Streets Have No Name” created a sound not yet heard that would become his signature guitar sound. “In God’s Country” would...
There was a five-year gap between 1991‘s ‘Metallica’ (The Black Album) and ‘Load.’ It saw a lot of changes, both musically and stylistically. The band moved even farther away from their original thrash sound, the band logo was changed and they even cut their hair. ...
Though it would be really hard to pick a quintessential Alice in Chains song, if we had to, it would be “Would?” from their brooding 1992 albumDirt. First released on the soundtrack for the Cameron Crowe filmSingles, “Would?” perfectly encapsulated the sound of the Pacific Northwest in...
(along with Keith Moon, credited as You Know Who). It was the sound and feel of this record, which took the blues to what was then the heaviest of places.Truthalso introduced Rod Stewart and Ron Wood to the world and to each other. So, seeds for Faces were officially planted. Not ...
Record labels continued to churn out new bands oversaturating the popular sound of the day. Among the most initially successful of these acts were Nelson, featuring the sons of Rick Nelson; Slaughter, who hit with “Up All Night” and “Fly to the Angels”; Firehouse and their breakout “...
“next big thing” label thrust upon them, and for a while it seemed fitting. “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong” was a catchy dig right out of the gate, and then came “Two Princes,” the inescapable song with an undeniable percolating percussive sound that told the tale of two men ...
“Hive Mind” truly is one of the best songs they’ve put out in years. From the sound effects to the hammering drum beat and vicious vocals, it’s classic Slipknot. It’s about as close as it gets to early Slipknot as they’ve gotten in years, so Grammy or not, it’ll go down...