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<title>Korn</title>
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<category>Alt Metal</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:28:08 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Between the mid-'90s and the early '00s, Korn was the de facto nu metal band, spawning the nu metal movement and even the term itself; armies of disenfranchised 13-year-old fans flocked to stadiums to see them and innumerable copycat bands sprang up on MTV and the radio looking to get in on the action. Today the band is still cited as a major influence on most radio metal, with Taproot and Breaking Benjamin being prime examples. Before them it was Alien Ant Farm and, to a degree, even System of a Down. Since their self-titled first album came out in 1994, Korn has had nine consecutive records debut in the Top Ten, one of which was just a greatest-hits collection. Musically, the band has messed with prodigious amounts of funk and hip-hop from the beginning, folding sheets of abrasive noise into the mix and ultimately being identified by Jonathan Davis' soul-baring mania delivered in a stricken yelp-and-growl freakout and James "Munky" Shaffer's banking, spiky guitarwork.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>System of a Down</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Along with Slipknot, Los Angeles-based System of a Down are far and away the most impressive mainstream metal band today. Despite the fact that they appeared amid a maelstrom of crappy Korn-inspired rap metal that was controlling the airwaves, their hyperactive song structures and truly warped vocal stylings put them way beyond the pap being served up by many of their Ozzfest colleagues at the time. When music this extreme makes it onto the radio it's always a good thing. They broke nationally with their second record, <I>Toxicity,</I> which shot to No. 1. Through the next several albums, System of a Down took lessons learned from Tool and other bands from the "alt metal era" of the early 1990s and transmuted them, adding eastern European folk elements, a wide array of traditionally non-metal instruments, and strong political content in the lyrics department. By the time they released <I>Mesmerize</I> and <I>Hypnotize,</I> an epic album released in two parts -- and seven months apart -- in 2005, the band had ramped up their vision, incorporating a wider range of influences than ever before, with the vituperous madman vocals of singer Serj Tankian as potent as ever.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Rage Against the Machine</title>
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<category>Rapcore</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Rage Against the Machine's militant political stance straddles an equally militant sound. Furious riffs churn out of Tom Morello's guitar and dive into grinding psychedelics -- the American music of opposition. But these are the sounds of a culture that is too angry for '60s passive resistance. The wah-wah pedal is a call to action. The urgency of Zack de la Rocha's frantic podium rants are taken out of the riot directing bullhorn and put into percussive rap poetics. Key to RATM's appeal is their fusion of some of America's most political musical movements: the liberation sounds of funk, the anarchistic resistance of punk, the angry alienation of metal, and the urban exasperation of hip-hop creating a revolutionary synergy on all four studio albums. De La Rocha left the band in 2000 to pursue a solo career while his bandmates went on to form Audioslave with Chris Cornell of Soundgarden on vocals. In 2007, Rage were received with open arms as they re-grouped and returned to performing and politicking.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>Sugar Ray</title>
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<category>Contemporary Hard Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:13:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sugar Ray owe a great debt to the powers that make their fusion of styles so darn catchy. Somehow, the union of hardcore Speed Metal with growling vocals, the sunny, feel-good songs with shimmering acoustic guitar, grungy guitar-driven rock and DJ Homicide's groovy beats make a unified sound all their own. Fueled by the popularity of their ubiquitous first single "Fly" and singer Mark McGrath's pin-up looks -- the five-piece SoCal band seem likely to beat Warhol's "fifteen minutes of fame" prediction.
- Kali Holloway]]></description>
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<title>Limp Bizkit</title>
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<category>Rapcore</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:28:09 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the new leaders of the rapcore movement, Florida's Limp Bizkit had a solid underground following long before they were signed to Interscope in 1997. They have a singular approach to psychedelic guitars overdriven past the point of corrosive distortion into the realm of aural punishment, flanked by harsh funk basslines and hip-hop beats. Aggressive rap vocals occasionally venture into whiteboy soul-isms.]]></description>
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<title>Red Hot Chili Peppers</title>
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<category>Funk Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:50:56 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Toiling in LA's club circuit for years, the Red Hot Chili Peppers finally pounded their funk/rap/rock into the mainstream with 1989's <I>Mother's Milk</I>. Making strange bedfellows of their native LA punk rock roots and love for Parliament/Funkadelic, the Chili Peppers earned respect from people of all walks of life when they crossed over into virtually every late-1980s subgenre: rap, funk, rock and punk. They covered Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground" and Jimi Hendrix's "Fire," making them the songs their own with Anthony Kiedis' revved-up, attitude-fueled song-raps, Flea's rapid-fire slapped bass and John Frusciante's whirling funk fretwork. RHCP were poised to break out of the twee pop-for-tough-guys era forever, immortalized by such offerings as "Under the Bridge," a drug addiction-themed song which may have been about the heroin overdose that killed original guitar player Hillel Slovak in 1998 or Kiedis' own drug addiction. In fact, various members of RHCP have always seemed to endure battles with the hard stuff. Following the success of 1991's <I>Blood Sugar Sex Magic,</I> John Frusciante left the band to fight his addictions mid-tour. Jane's Addiction's Dave Navarro eventually took his place, joining after the Peppers auditioned dozens of other six-string hopefuls. Despite being a good musical fit, Navarro left the band in 1998 following the lackluster album sales from <I>One Hot Minute</I>. In 1999, the band reunited with a rehabilitated Frusciante and released the aesthetically superior <I>Californication.</I> As far as sales and tour receipts were concerned, the album was a success, much more than the lukewarm and comparatively uninspired <I>By The Way</I>, which came out three years later. <i>Stadium Arcadium,</i> the surprisingly durable band's much ballyhooed ninth full-length, is a double-disc rekindling of all things red and hot. When the album was leaked onto the Internet prior to its May 2006 release, Flea made an impassioned plea to fans to boycot the illegal version.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Bloodhound Gang</title>
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<category>Novelty Rap/Hip-Hop</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:42:40 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Pennsylvania quintet combine the adolescent humor of early Beasties with the Funk Rock tone of mid-1990s Rapcore. Crunchy guitars and furious drums back Jimmy Pop Ali's shout-raps about weed, beer and assorted sexploits. Their proudly obnoxious style won them major airplay for a minute, though once Kid Rock and Eminem blew up, all but the most loyal fans pretty much forgot about the Bloodhound Gang. They released their third LP <i>Hooray For Boobies</i> in 2000, and returned five years later with <i>Hefty Fine</i>, but failed to match the commercial impact of their earlier work.
- Brolin Winning]]></description>
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<title>Faith No More</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:54:30 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[From the looks of it, San Francisco's Faith No More lived to mix it up -- their 1985 contribution to the nascent Alternative Nation, a tangle of metal and white-boy rap called "We Care a Lot," satirized the hunger relief compilations that filled record store bins like a case of dysentery. By 1990, they introduced mainstream to <i>The Real Thing</i> and new singer Mike Patton. Patton's strident singing and in-your-face persona won the band wider acceptance. Subsequent records thwarted fairweather fans as FNM's sound morphed and gravitated away from the rapidly popular sound of commercial alternative radio. Though best known for "Epic," and other hit singles off <i>The Real Thing</i>, FNM also had a significant mad scientist streak. How else to explain their dry remake of the Commodores' "Easy" on their 1993 EP <i>Songs to Make Love To</i>? Their experimentation isn't so much Dr. Demento as it is Dr. Frankenstein. That said, FNM recast the Dead Kennedys' "Let's Lynch the Landlord" in the image of Klezmer-meets-Rockabilly.]]></description>
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<title>Primus</title>
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<category>Funk Metal</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:09:53 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In the late '80s, there was an explosion of California bands that fused the rhythms and slap bass of Funk, the guitar bombast and virtuosity of Metal, the raw sound of Punk, and even the elaborate song structures of Prog. The movement was led by bands that had been at it for years like Fishbone and the Red Hot Chili Peppers -- excellent musicians with shamelessly wild stage performances. Up in Northern California, Primus took these SoCal influences and expanded them with an unequaled talent and weirdness -- their proud battlecry "Primus Sucks!" Les Claypool's bass snaps like a rubber band in uncountable rhythms. His voice, a near emulation of his bass technique, is percussive and rhythmic, pelting narratives as cartoonish as their performances and videos. Herb (who was recently replaced by Brain from Praxis and Limbomaniacs) somehow managed to keep up with Claypool's chaos with arena rock fills. Under Primus' rhythms, Larry LaLonde's guitars leave a texture of psychedelic squealing that perpetually spins out of control. For better or worse, Primus has been instrumental in pushing Funk Metal into territory as self-indulgent as Prog, though their fan base grew greater as their music became more complex, awkward and tumultuous.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:13:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Clutch play thick, greasy Metal with one foot in the '70s Hard Rock of Led Zeppelin and the other in the '90s crunch of Pantera and Helmet. Their trademark sound revolves around bloozy guitar/bass riffs and funky, stop-start drumbeats, all topped off by frontman Neil Fallon's eccentric vocals. He barks, talks, raps and emits other assorted noises in a cigarette-damaged tone. Song titles such as "The House That Peterbilt, "Elephant Riders" and "Texan Book of the Dead" offer a sense of what to expect from their lyrics -- a mix of surreal storytelling, sci-fi obsessions and self-aware redneck humor. Since their 1993 debut <I>Transnational Speedway League</I>, they've let go of some of their aggro tendencies, instead going in a more southern Funk Rock direction that has led some to call them a "hillbilly Primus."
- Will York]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[SoCal pioneers eschew the traditional method of throwing a few rhymes over a Metal band, creating their own blend of rap and Punk in the process. A heavy Funk influence, strong hip-hop beats and a DJ comprise the sound they have dubbed "G Punk."
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:03:44 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Nonpoint</title>
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<category>Rapcore</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:20 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hoarse-throated rapcore from Florida. High-volume anger and intensity belted out with rolling funk lines and wailing guitar.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>Fishbone</title>
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<category>Funk Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:50:55 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the original bands to effortlessly cross genres, Fishbone trailblazed a blend of Funk, Punk, Ska and Metal that was neither forced nor unnatural. A crazy horn and guitar filled amalgamation backed up by a virtuoso rhythm section makes up the backbone of their live show, while frontman Angelo Moore leaves behind most traces of sanity when he goes onstage. Though it has never been reflected by their record sales, Fishbone have garnered enough respect over the years to establish a cult following, and many newer bands such as No Doubt and Sublime owe a good deal of their success to the pioneering efforts of Fishbone.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Project 86</title>
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<category>Rapcore</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:01:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Project 86 play dark, aggressive nu-metal with hints of alt rock and occasionally complex progressions. The band first came together in Orange County, California in 1996 as a four-piece and quickly rose to the top of the (surprisingly fertile) Christian metal niche. The band caught the ear of Marilyn Manson, who helped boost Project's visibility at Atlantic Records and angled their music into a few key soundtrack spots. After getting dropped during Atlantic's 2003 reshuffling, Project 86 signed to their original label, Christian-leaning Tooth & Nail. They released their fourth album <i>...And the Rest Shall Follow</i> in 2005.
- Jonathan Zwickel]]></description>
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<title>One Day As A Lion</title>
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<category>Rapcore</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:03:57 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[After Rage Against the Machine broke up in 2000, Zack de la Rocha began to turn his solo ambitions into reality, but the result was a bunch of unreleased recordings. While the rest of the band went on to form Audioslave with Chris Cornell, Rage fans wondered what became of the feisty frontman. After a few collaborations and a reunion with RATM in 2007, de la Rocha finally set out on a new project, One Day as a Lion, with former Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore. The name is taken from a 1970 photograph by George Rodriguez that shows the graffiti declaration "It's better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand years as a lamb." With that in mind, clearly de la Rocha is not attempting to calm his angst under a new name. Mixing a few echo effects with bombastic beats by Theodore and blowhorn raps about war and social injustice by de la Rocha, One Day as a Lion is like a minimalist RATM without Tom Morello's signature guitar gymnastics. As their 2008 debut proves, even with a new band, there's still plenty of raging against the machine.
- Stephanie Benson]]></description>
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<title>Zebrahead</title>
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<category>Funk Metal</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:59:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Mr. Bungle</title>
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<category>Experimental</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 6 Jun 2009 08:29:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Impossible to pigeonhole for more than a minute at a time, Mr. Bungle have marched an inspired path of lunacy for the past 15 years. They've evolved from mask-wearing Death Metal-ers to the genre-jumping, largely studio-based band they are now, their music growing increasingly more elaborate in the process. Yet certain characteristics have remained consistent, chief among them a dark sense of humor and a knack for skillfully borrowing/rearranging elements from diverse sources (Ennio Morricone, the Beach Boys, Slayer, Perrey-Kingsley). Their 1991 debut, often tagged as "Funk Metal," reaches a level of circus-esque pipe organ-drenched sickness quite different from the genre's currently popular strains. The subsequent <I>Disco Volante</I>, however, defies categorization, moving even further from traditional songwriting territory as it shifts violently between sections of Bop-ish jazz, Melvins-esque sludge, Lounge, Metal, and flat-out Noise. 1999's <I>California</I> again surprised listeners with its sunny pop approach, meanwhile retaining the expected levels of warped inventiveness and leaving fans asking, "What's next?"
- Will York]]></description>
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<title>Jimmie's Chicken Shack</title>
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<category>Funk Metal</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 12:39:52 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Both a throwback to the days when Red Hot Chili Peppers cover bands first haunted high school talent shows, as well as a signpost of the recent Alt Metal/Funk Metal craze, this Md. outfit have carved out a substantial fan base on the high school/frat/X-Games circuit. Listeners cite diversity as a key selling-point -- said diversity essentially involves combining standard Funk Metal moves with the occasional Blues Rock solo, rapped vocal, or tinge of Reggae. Contrary to the good-time, down-home imagery suggested by their name, Jimmie's Chicken Shack often project a serious lyrical image, adding in a few borderline-Hootie acoustic ballads along the way.
- Will York]]></description>
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<title>Chronic Future</title>
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<category>Funk Metal</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:06:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Like a tattoo parlor and a piercing studio situated in the same storefront, Chronic Future know how to bring their favorite elements together. Funk, metal, scratching, rhyming and more form their hard-hitting grooves.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Orange 9mm</title>
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<category>Funk Metal</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 12:39:52 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Revved-up Rap-Metal act assaults with high energy waves of distorted guitars, overdriven, screaming vocals, distort-o-bass, and linear, funky rhythms to rawk you. Angry music for an angry world.]]></description>
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<title>Infectious Grooves</title>
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<category>Funk Metal</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:42:22 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Snot</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Perry Farrell</title>
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<category>Alt Metal</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:36:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Perry Farrell is surely one of rock's savviest exponents. His billion dollar Lollapalooza baby was instrumental in exposing alternative music formats to the masses and establishing a sense of commonality across an otherwise hopelessly fragmented demographic. Hell, he's the Dave Clark of the nineties. Musically speaking, Farrell is something of a gadabout. From Goth Metal in his first band, Psi Com, to Glam/Punk Metal in Jane's Addiction, to heavy rotation alterna-pop in Porno for Pyros, Farrell has covered a lot of stylistic bases. Continuing to expand the reach of his creative empire, Farrell branches out into dance mix territory on his latest solo outing. Apparently his experiences as a regularly gigging DJ around Los Angeles have piqued his appetite for super-mixed danceteria rhythms and turntablist high jinks. The metal edges have been smoothed down from his earlier work and his penchant for shimmering pop textures and lush ethereality brought to the fore.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Body Count</title>
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<category>Rapcore</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:42:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the first acts to fuse the musical ferocity of Metal with the lyrical intensity of rap, Body Count burst onto the scene in 1991. Their controversial track "Cop Killer" ignited furious protests and led to them getting dropped from their label. Despite their bad role-model image, or perhaps because of it, Ice-T and the rest of the crew became quite popular with their unique sound. Thunderous drums and blistering guitar riffs backed the OG's confrontational lyricism, addressing issues like racism, drug addiction, murder and censorship. The group continued to record and tour throughout the nineties; their third album <i>Violent Demise: Last Days</i> was released in 1997.
- Brolin Winning]]></description>
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<title>Stuck Mojo</title>
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<category>Funk Metal</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:13:48 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Aggressive rap metal topped with fuzzy, funky bass, rap vocal exchanges, hard as nails rhythms, and samples. Stuck Mojo helped to establish the new school of metal by loosening the old stritctures and incorporating elements from hip-hop, Industrial and Hardcore Punk. Y2K's <I>Declaration of a Headhunter</I> is a belliegerent, politically outspoken record that never loses sight of catchiness and confident songcraft.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Sprung Monkey</title>
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<category>Funk Metal</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 4 Aug 2009 09:36:33 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[San Diego Funk Metal maestros who pick and choose elements of fellow SoCal acts Sublime, Jane's Addiction, and the Offspring, then combine their best moments in a potent new brew. Excelling at both the stress-fracturing stomps of heavy Rapcore acts and laid-back, sun-bleached riddums, the band keeps listeners guessing whether in the next song they'll be kicking back or kicking ass.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Vernon Reid</title>
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<category>Funk Metal</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:34:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Puya</title>
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<category>Latin Rock</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:35:17 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Imagine the illegitimate lovechild of Santana and Rage Against the Machine. Fierce riffs, bright horns and Salsa-fied percussion meet up with funky drumming and rapped Spanish choruses.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Shootyz Groove</title>
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<category>Rapcore</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:36:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Yet another '90s band fusing the genres of rap and Metal. However, Shootyz Groove tend to take a less aggressive approach than, say, Limp Bizkit, focusing more on grooves and rhymes than volume.
- Doug Russell]]></description>
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<title>Urban Dance Squad</title>
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<category>Funk Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:16:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hi, kids! Want to take a brief walk through history? Urban Dance Squad (UDS) smashed together funk, rap, metal and loopy turntablism to create a distinctive sound. All this was achieved during the prehistory of Rapcore with the release of <I>Mental Floss for the Globe</I> (1990). It proved to be a genre-blurring album that was many things: fun, goofy, and occasionally preachy, with great ear-candy arrangements, bluesy slide guitars and expert scratching. The wonderfully groovy, slinky single "Deeper Shade of Soul" made a dent in Billboard's Hot 100, charting in at No. 21. But this auspicious beginning marked the end of their affair with stateside success. That single along with the insanely catchy "No Kid," (also from <I/>Mental Floss</I>) proved UDS were in step with Beck's yet-to-be-released Post-Modern Pop anthems -- just as <I>Persona Non Grata</I> (1994) revealed their penchant for bracing Funk Metal. So close your books, grab your headphones and show appropriate appreciation for Urban Dance Squad's superb musicianship and wild imagination. Who says show-and-tell is boring.
- Will Lerner]]></description>
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<title>24-7 Spyz</title>
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<category>Funk Metal</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:54 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This group came out of the South Bronx in the early '90s, playing a hard-hitting hybrid of New York-style Hardcore Punk, slamming Funk Rock and corrosive Metal. The immediate point of reference was the then-popular band Living Colour; but the Spyz did not possess the same penchant for Prog Metal, and they displayed a sense of apocalyptic fun and self referential sarcasm akin to Funkadelic. The band's guitar player Jimi Hazel (get it -- Jimi Hendrix plus Parliament/Funkadelic guitar hero Eddie Hazel?) developed into a genre-scrambling stylist more than worthy of his namesakes.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Victim's Family</title>
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<category>Thrash/Speed Metal</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Royal Crescent Mob</title>
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<category>Funk Rock</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 13:52:20 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Tribe After Tribe</title>
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<category>Alt Metal</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:40:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A South African Metal group from the early '90s, Tribe After Tribe built its uniquely groove-oriented sound around ethnic hand percussion grooves and dark, feedback-drenched guitar riffs. Political lyrics and angst-ridden vocals position them as a sort of more studied and introspesctive precursor to Rage Against the Machine.
- Will York]]></description>
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<title>Stem</title>
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<category>Alt Metal</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:51:37 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Thuggish Rapcore fueled by boisterous bass lines, chomping drums and big-biceped vocals. Chunky guitars roll around Stem's jumping, moshing mayhem, lending their songs a healthy infusion of Metal.
- Mark Murrmann]]></description>
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<title>Marz</title>
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<category>Funk Metal</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:57:03 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Together with ex-Ministry cronies drummer Rey Washam and guitarist Louis Svitek, former Ministry guitarist Zlato Hukic takes an industrial razor to rap rock. Tracks pair steely beats and distorted guitars with nasal musings on female body parts.
- Jennifer Maerz]]></description>
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<title>Darwin's Waiting Room</title>
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<category>Rapcore</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Miami-based combo combine the paranoid squawk 'n' crunch of Korn-esque nu-metal with the popcorn party rhythms of Funk Metal. Rage Against the Machine (minus the politics) meets the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
- Doug Russell]]></description>
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<title>Sausage</title>
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<category>Funk Metal</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:24:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Phunk Junkeez</title>
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<category>Funk Metal</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:16:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Funky hip-hard-rock-hop primed for mainstream success. Phunk Junkees have had succes with distorted guitar-laden, DJ-scratching, knock-you-on-your-back grooves on soundtracks like <i>Tommy Boy</i>.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Full Scale</title>
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<category>Funk Metal</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:16:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Brougham</title>
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<category>Rapcore</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:11:46 -0700</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">Brougham</rhap:artist>
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<description><![CDATA[Tricky hip-hop rhymes and down-tuned, metallicized guitars meet over jacked-up rhythms. Brougham stick to the basics -- wine, women and weed, keeping the energy level high and the beats funky.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Ars Moriendi</title>
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<category>Doom Metal</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 11:39:07 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Baleful and gloom obsessed metal that restlessly permutates tempos like one of the mythical shapeshifters in Ovid's <I>Metamorphoses<I/>. Possesses genuine innovation when the sound does not hone in too closely to funk-metal formulas.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Backstreet Law</title>
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<category>Thrash/Speed Metal</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Radio-ready Scream/Rap Metal band offers the best of both worlds: Rage Against the Machine's quick, agitated delivery <i>and</i> Phil Anselmo's unearthly, red-faced growling. Punishing.
- Kelly Bauman]]></description>
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<title>Defunkt</title>
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<category>Soul/R&amp;B</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:41:36 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Defunkt are one of those never-quite-caught-on, tragically flawed bands who have nonetheless garnered a group of loyal followers. Led by Joseph Bowie -- brother of famed trumpeter Lester -- the group explored a pioneering combination of Funk rhythms, punchy horns, rock guitars and a penchant for jazzy improvisation way before others decided to do this. The problem, as with many bands from the 1980s, came from the high potential for cheese -- half of the songs they put on album were stinkers. The level of musicianship was always excellent, with slap/pop bass from Melvin Gibbs holding the bottom end for the horn and guitar solos. A range of excellent musicians played on the albums, including guitarists Sonny Sharrock, Bill Bickford and Vernon Reid (later of Living Colour). Surprisingly, after a recent reunion Defunkt have kept their quality level high, showing their immense potential on live recordings.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Neck</title>
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<category>Thrash/Speed Metal</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Rage explodes into screaming, growling vocals, chugging guitars, and double bass drums. Their overall sound shifts its footing when the vocals go for a soaring, Craig Wedren-esque (of Shudder To Think) mood.
- Mark Murrmann]]></description>
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<title>Boiler</title>
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<category>Funk Metal</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A force to be reckoned with. Boiler urge you to groove to their funky -- and slightly frightening -- hardcore Metal attack. Maybe it's best that you listen to them.
- Michael Ansaldo]]></description>
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<title>Regurgitator</title>
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<category>Funk Metal</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:16 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>One Minute Silence</title>
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<category>Funk Metal</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:53:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Unlike most Rapcore bands, One Minute Silence possess a vibrato-happy vocalist that actually uses his pipes to sing before diving into frenzied chanting/shouting/rapping. Lyrically, the band traverses the same serious, politically/socially conscious terrain as Rage.
- Will Lerner]]></description>
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<title>Maelstrom</title>
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<category>Funk Metal</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:49:12 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Funky Hardcore from Boston alternates between dead serious ("Step One") and irreverently goofy ("For Whom the Bell Tolls"). But no matter what the mood, you can always expect fancy guitar work and active basslines.
- Doug Russell]]></description>
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