Bathory, "Song To Hall Up High" Black metal pioneer Bathory (which was pretty much just Quorthon) pivoted away from the pure black metal of their earlier albums towards Viking metal, more or less establishing that genre too. Hammerheart is one of the key albums of...
The Gotobeds, "Calquer the Hound" Indie rock out of Pittsburgh, the Gotobeds' third album, Debt Begins At 30, sounds fanastic. There's a real kind of Discord-y/post-hardcore thing going on here, which as you all know goes over well here at Five Songs HQ. This...
Nine Inch Nails, "The Beginning Of The End" Year Zero marked the fastest followup that Trent Reznor had produced to date, with the album appearing a mere two years after With Teeth. At least five years had separated studio albums up to this point. Perhaps...
Flying Lotus, "Eyes Above" You're Dead!, the incredible 2014 album by Flying Lotus, is a shimmering mass of fantastic ideas, with constant shifting across tracks, well-chosen guest artists, and lots of surprises across the length of the album. However, it's one of those records that...
Hooray, Five Songs! Uncle Tupelo, "Graveyard Shift" If you type the words "Uncle Tupelo" into a blog twice within an hour of midnight, it summons the band. Or so I'm led to believe by the worst horror story in the world, "Attack Of The Alt-Country...
