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PRESIDENT in a black suit and mask in a dark roomNews

PRESIDENT’s Biggest Problem Is That Everyone Decided What They Were Before the Album Arrived

PRESIDENT arrived with masks, mythology, and a ready-made argument. Blood Of Your Empire finally gives everyone enough music to argue about the same band.

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PRESIDENT in a black suit and mask in a dark roomNews

PRESIDENT’s Biggest Problem Is That Everyone Decided What They Were Before the Album Arrived

PRESIDENT arrived with masks, mythology, and a ready-made argument. Blood Of Your Empire finally gives everyone enough music to argue about the same band.

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Vespera performing under blue stage lights in front of a crowdNews

Vespera Disappeared. Now They’re Back.

The record was written as 14 songs. It took nearly a decade for the pieces to find each other again.

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Avenged Sevenfold members performing in TampaLive Coverage

Pyro, Pokémon Cards, and Men in Cages: Avenged Sevenfold & Good Charlotte Take Tampa

Avenged Sevenfold and Good Charlotte brought nostalgia, chaos, a strange experiment, and a whole lot of fire to Tampa. The night getting there was a little more complicated.

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Five Finger Death Punch Legacy artwork with a skull emblem on a black and yellow industrial backgroundNews

Five Finger Death Punch Have Spent 20 Years Outlasting the Argument

Five Finger Death Punch called their tenth album Legacy. After 20 years of packed arenas, devoted fans and metalheads complaining about them, the title is difficult to argue with.

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Electric Callboy TANZNEID artwork with a glowing multicolor brainNews

Electric Callboy Built a Boy-Band Ballad Just to Break It

Electric Callboy spend the opening of The Way You Are building a perfectly respectable late-'90s love ballad. Then somebody remembers the deathcore.

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Tom Morello holding a guitar in a portrait photoNews

Tom Morello Is Not Making Guitar Music for Both Sides

Everyone Gets Everything They Want turns anti-fascist resistance into a full-volume argument, and Morello has no interest in making it comfortable for everyone.

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Hatebreed Fatal Paradox album artworkNews

Hatebreed Announce Fatal Paradox, Their First Album in Six Years

Six years later, Hatebreed return with no melody, no patience, and a record built to wreck the room.

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In This Moment WITCH album artworkNews

In This Moment Announce WITCH, and the Witch Was Never the Villain

Maria Brink turns persecution into an 11-track declaration of control on In This Moment’s first album for Better Noise Music.

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Taylor Momsen of The Pretty Reckless performing in RaleighLive Coverage

The Pretty Reckless Didn’t Use Raleigh as a Warm-Up

One night before returning to a stadium with AC/DC, The Pretty Reckless reclaimed the smaller room and made Raleigh the beginning of something new.

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