To be blunt, the world needs more bands as talented and groundbreaking as post-metal icons Isis. It’s honestly a shame they aren’t around any more to grace us with their presence, but who can complain about a band who helped bring and evolve post-metal to a wider audience – much like bands like Godflesh and…
Ahhhh, Breaking Benjamin. It’s somewhat debatable, but the general consensus is that the band’s 2006 album Phobia, which eventually went Platinum, is the band’s best work. It’s also hard to argue with the fact that it contains so many anthemic songs. Even the non-singles are brilliant slices of mid-2000s hard rock/alternative metal, if we’re being…
Despite taking long periods in between albums, Tool’s influence on modern progressive rock and metal can not be overstated. Released in 1993, Tool’s debut full-length, Undertow, changed things for alternative metal – and metal in general.
Talk about an album that’s aged extraordinarily well. One of the more interesting genre shifts happened when Facedown Records band A Hope For Home released their 2010 masterwork, Realis. Almost completely gone was the heavy Underoath-influenced post-hardcore of their first two records, and in its place was Realis, a criminally underrated masterpiece that quite honestly…
