Track Of The Day - The Gateway Edition
The new video game Metal Hellsinger has a soundtrack of original metal songs featuring several well-known metal vocalists, and those songs play an important role in the game where you can shoot and reload to the beat for extra points. This one, featuring Serj Tankian, sounds like a more epic take on his band System of a Down while keeping some of the band's humor:
This is one of my brother's current favorite songs, and throughout the different times he played it during one of my car rides with him driving, it has grown on me to the point that I like it too. Although it's closer to the alt-rock/metal that he likes while having a bit of melodic metalcore elements, it's good enough for me to request the song to be added to the January Gateway playlist that will appear this Sunday.
A strong motivational hard rock/alt-metal anthem:
Katatonia has made a thrilling return to higher form in their new album Sky Void of Stars, proven by tracks such as this progressive opener:
An alternative/progressive metal/rock highlight of fuzzy guitar magic, from the members of Mastodon, Queens of the Stone Age, and At the Drive-In:
A semi-radio-friendly yet well-written alternative/industrial metal highlight:
The glorious title closer of the new Motionless in White album, featuring the legendary Mick Gordon:
Mid-paced stoner-ish alt-metal riffing from one of the earlier bands of the grunge/alternative rock/metal scene:
A fast pounding highlight in the alternative/avant-garde metal realms:
Another one of the best songs from earlier Breaking Benjamin despite being a soft ballad-ish track:
The Swedish experimental groove-ish alt-metal masters are back with perhaps their best song since the title track of Hail the Apocalypse:
Two amazing highlights to open this Disturbed album, the first of which being what kickstarted the rock/metal music path for my brother and eventually me:
The first ever rap metal track!? Likely so! Although I'm not really a fan of that hybrid, this one is filled with hilarious fun:
A dark complex progressive alt-rock/metal epic in which all you can expect is the unexpected:
A standout from another one of my brother's favorite alt-metal bands. My review for this album coming soon...
On second thought, this cover of a pop song my brother and I have known since before we started our rock/metal interests is a total standout that has blown my mind with how a rock cover is meant to be done:
The first single and track of the new Sleep Token album is an incredible ethereal atmospheric highlight:
Whether or not you wanna avoid this band like a plague because of the vocalist's horrid actions, it's songs like this that should remain immortal in the nu metal community:
An anthemic standout from another alternative rock band starting off as nu metal:
A brand-new emotional single from Beartooth as we wait for their upcoming album The Surface to surface:
Ambient alt-metalcore with perhaps the most f***ing brutal breakdown by the band:
Another ambient alt-metalcore highlight, starting soft before the heavier side with screamed vocals and djenty riffing:
A prog-ish alt-rock/metal epic of experimental glory:
Sail through the seas of Alien Weaponry's Maori-styled groove/alt-metal with this excellent boat-rower: