Track Of The Day - The Gateway Edition

A 6-minute closing epic revisiting music and lyrics revisiting many of the earlier tracks in the album:

A true majestic alt-metal epic that has taken what they had in their early 2000s material and made it way better:

Truly my favorite song in this new era of Cave In, having some muscular sludgy groove:

While many of the other songs in this Slipknot album are heavy classics in the overhated genre of nu metal, the 15-minute closing title epic is an incredible journey for those who are patient and never restless:

Epic crushing sorrow to end the new Born of Osiris album:

My favorite track in the more alternative side, shining with Jess Allanic's vocals:

Of all the songs from the band my brother likes, this isn't one of them. Despite that, it's still one of my favorite Disturbed songs today:

Probably the best Demon Hunter track since the highlights from their 3rd, 4th, and 5th albums (the grand album triptych):

The outside-world friend of mine who showed me that song from the Sonic Frontiers soundtrack, featuring Kellin Quinn of Sleeping with Sirens, showed me two more songs from that soundtrack, and I really dig both of them. This one includes some rapping by Tyler Smyth (not to be confused with The Word Alive vocalist Tyler Smith):

Still in the Sonic video game metal songs zone, here's another heavy epic alt-/rap metal track featuring Tyler Smyth and his Dangerkids bandmate Andy Bane:

A Skillet song from my pre-metal past that I still love today, perhaps their own Linkin Park "Krwlng":

Despite the departure of Butcher Babies co-lead vocalist Carla Harvey, Heidi Shepherd and co. can still carry on with perhaps the ultimate modern alt-metal collab:

Same song, more guests:

The best alt-metal highlight here, somehow ending up in a few sports video games and I didn't know:

Starting off as a post-hardcore band leaning into metalcore, Dayseeker has since headed towards alt-rock/metal, the metal part shining the most in their new album:

The opening title highlight of Coldrain's new EP has made me optimistic for what may come next in Japanese modern metal: