Favorite Track: ‘Monster.'” “This album is packed with great songs,” Degraw says. “I’ve had the opportunity to be in the writing room with Charles and Dave and it was one of the most ...

SHANBOMB’S TOP FIFTEEN METAL ALBUMS OF 2011 December 1st, 2011 at 11:00am MetalSucks 310 No doubt about it; 2011 has been a pretty swingin’ year for music —the year I had kind of expected 2010 to be ...

Congrats. You may keep your heads. 7. Emmure, Speaker of the Dead — I find myself adding this band to the top of 2011 only because this is a different kind of metal, more along the lines of hip-hop ...

The Foos went back to the garage on their seventh studio album, and lucky for us they took some killer hooks with them. Local instro-rock maestro Mike Beddoes leads his crack band in a collection ...

There are strict regulations for these best-ofs that prevent me from detailing anything beyond the 10 finest slabs that rocked my 2011. That said, 2011 was pretty killer. Alex Zhang Hungtai’s ...