Record Label: Century Media
Genre: Metal
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Continuing their direction away from death and into more progressive metal territory, the new Shadows Fall is downright brilliant. It IS a balancing act between death, Maiden-esque metal, and thrashy hardcore, with all sorts of cool progressive songwriting, and all that comes with progressive songwriting, such as soft background keys, occasional acoustic guitar, and a killer version of Floyd’s “Welcome To The Machine.”

This is REAL modern metal. Not nu-metal. Not metal-rap. Not scary guttural death metal screeching passing itself off as hardcore. Just straight-up excellent metal, like Maiden or old Metallica, but modernized without the nostalgia. If I were Kerrang, I’d give these guys a shitload of K’s.

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