Track Of The Day - The Gateway Edition

Fabulous Tool-inspired alternative metal from Illinois, USA.

Anyone looking for a female-led symphonic-gothic-sounding Linkin Park without any rapping, here you go:

The ultimate Evanescence anthem featuring vocalists of Within Temptation, The Pretty Reckless, and Halestorm, recommended for fans of those bands:

The Open Door is, in my opinion, the better sequel, compared to Fallen. This single, while still successful, should have as much fame as a certain similar hit from their debut:

Unusual instrumental alternative metal from this one-man Australian artist.

A lengthy progressive metal epic from this Norwegian alternative metal outfit.

This wonderful alternative metal anthem from Arkansas outfit Evanescence has snuck up on me over the last couple of days & I now can't get it out of my head.

A building, punky alternative rock journey with fantastic hooks from California's massively popular System Of A Down.

Embodyment dumped all their early deathcore roots for this album, but the heaviness still remains there in alt-rock/metal songs like this one:

The best and most popular part of the Call of Duty Black Ops Zombies soundtrack, and arguably my first (melodic) metalcore encounter:

This closing instrumental progressive rock shredder was my pick from the album Andi:

This closing instrumental progressive rock shredder was my pick from the album Andi:

Probably the best non-vocal track for me in this soundtrack.

New Orleans alternative/stoner metal featuring Exhorder/Alabama Thunderpussy/Trouble front man Kyle Thomas.

Shoegazy, djenty alternative metal from Melbourne, Australia. Aussie Aussie Aussie.... Oi Oi Oi....

Djent-ish industrial/alternative metal, from NSW, Australia:

Shoegazy, djenty alternative metal from Melbourne, Australia. Aussie Aussie Aussie.... Oi Oi Oi....

Cinematic alt-metal that can easily fit in a Hollywood film soundtrack!

Coldrain are back, and they are back strong with this perfect anthem:

This band mixes alternative/nu metal with bits of electro-industrial in a way that I think would surely surpass Slipknot and Static-X by many miles:

A sublime djenty nu metal tune from this alternative trancecore outfit from Sydney, Australia.

An epic heavy/alt-metal tune by this ex-metalcore band from Byron Bay, NSW:

For those wondering what Skillet would sound like if adding in the heaviness of Disturbed and Five Finger Death Punch, here's your answer:

For fans of Three Days Grace, Staind, and Shinedown who wanna hear heavier melancholic groove from the ex-frontman of the former band:

Back with a vengeance is one of my brother's favorite bands, and a good band for me too, Disturbed:

There are a couple highlights worth mentioning from Demon Hunter's new album, including a beautiful 7-minute epic featuring Tom S. Englund of Evergrey:

And this one having incredible radio single potential: