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Pentagrams adorn a great deal of Legion's imagery and its lyrics could best be described as misanthropic. But for the Columbus metal quintet, fire and brimstone do not define who they are.

The majority of the lyrics on the album were rewritten to address the death of drummer Jimmy Sullivan. The result is a highly personal work. Orange County's Avenged Sevenfold has long been known by heavy-metal fans for its riffs and its death-obsessed imagery. "Sometimes I don't know why we'd rather live than die," sang frontman M. Shadows in the band's 2005 hit "Bat Country," which topped the ...

If you enjoy melodic death-tinged power metal – and really, who doesn’t? – then it’s hard to imagine that you won’t enjoy Luna Mortis’ Century debut, The Absence. This shit is heavy, infectious, and epic as all get-out.A big part of the reason why the album works is vocalist Mary Zimmer. A classically trained singer who once had aspirations of doing opera, Zimmer put to shame all the over-processed, auto-tuned vocalists that will inevitably let their fans down in a live setting. Her voice isn’t

Every so often we bring you the Forensics of a Popular Song. In this feature, we take a song that was played to death and figure out why it died that death. MGMT Time To Pretend Tempo: 101 Key: D Length: 4:21 Lyrics Last year MGMT burst on to the indie rock radar, with their stunning debut Oracular Spectacular . The thing that made this record turn heads compared to most indie releases was the ability for the record to sound old, while still sounding fresh. The melding of Dav

Insightful lyrics, powerful singing, and clean, strong music make this a compelling band. There was a joke that made the rounds in the late 1970s early 1980s that asked what was the difference between punk and new wave music. Punks, the answer went, wore pins stabbed through their skin, while new wavers wore pins emblazoned with the names of their favourite bands. Not a very good joke perhaps, ...