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Sepultura – Roots

So Sepultura. These Brazilian metal guys been around forever, started off playing this crazy thrash stuff back in the day, and by the time we get to 1996…

Korn – Issues

So yeah, Korn from Bakersfield. These guys have been around since ’93 and pretty much invented nu-metal, which is both a blessing and a curse depending on who…

The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

So here’s the deal with this beast of an album, everybody and their grandma knows it’s a masterpiece, but damn if it doesn’t feel like Billy Corgan couldn’t…

Rage Against the Machine – Evil Empire

So Rage Against the Machine needed to follow up their explosive debut, and honestly, that’s gotta be one of the scariest positions a band can find themselves in….

Tool – Lateralus

So these Los Angeles prog-metal heads have been doing their thing since 1990, and by the time Lateralus came around in 2001, they’d already carved out their weird…

System of a Down – Toxicity

So these Armenian-American maniacs from Glendale hit it big in the late 90s with their self-titled debut, and man, nobody was ready for what came next. Serj Tankian’s…

Sepultura – Beneath the Remains

Alright, so we’re talking about Sepultura here, these Brazilian maniacs from Belo Horizonte who basically showed up in the mid-80s and said “hey world, check out how we…

In Flames – Reroute to Remain

These Swedish guys have always been kinda the poster child for that Gothenberg melodic death metal thing, but by 2002 they were already getting a bit restless with…

Fear Factory – Obsolete

For a band that’s been crushing skulls since 1989 in the LA metal scene, Fear Factory proved with Obsolete that they weren’t just another death metal outfit with…