Every Eminem album ranked from worst to best | Louder
Aug 19, 2024 · (Image credit: Shady Records) All but abandoning the edgier side he’d revisited on The Marshall Mathers LP 2, Eminem went full hip-pop for album number nine, pulling in guest appearances from Beyoncé and Ed Sheeran and 'levelling up' his production with a stadium rock sheen that made the likes of Recovery look like basement recordings. The result is a bloated …
Everything you need to know about Sleep Token | Louder
Oct 23, 2023 · Melding R&B, pop and downtuned djent guitars, Sleep Token aren’t your “typical” heavy band. Where ballads like Bloodsport or Drag Me Under employ soft piano, others like Gods or Vore lean far more into extremity, with screamed vocals and heaving breakdowns.The Summoning, one of the first singles released from this year’s Take Me Back To Eden album, …
Radiohead - Creep: The meaning behind the song | Louder
Mar 29, 2023 · Artists having a fractious relationship with their most popular song is not an unusual phenomenon. Nirvana famously grew to loathe Smells Like Teen Spirit.Robert Plant once remarked that he’d “break out in hives” if he had to perform Led Zeppelin’s Stairway To Heaven every night. In the case of Radiohead and Creep, however, it almost ended the band entirely.
Best earplugs for concerts 2024: gig-ready protection, tested
Dec 2, 2024 · With their subtle, stylish design and suitability for loud music, the Vibes Hi-Fidelity earplugs are a great choice for live music lovers. They offer up to 22db of hearing protection and are streets ahead of the cheaper one-and-done foam models.
The Beatles' Abbey Road: A track-by-track guide | Louder
Jan 26, 2024 · Recorded across nine days in July, all four Beatles featured, with Lennon on double-tracked guitar solo, Paul McCartney on bass and piano, and Ringo shuffling beautifully on juju drums. Outwardly good-natured, there was tension in the air; “Shoot me” Lennon whispered over the opening bars.
The 20 greatest Korn songs ever - as voted by you - Louder
Feb 20, 2024 · In 1994, Korn released an album that'd change music forever. Their raw, emotional, self-titled debut took the influences of boundary-pushing luminaries like Faith No More, Helmet and Prong, layered in some extra, bass-heavy bottom-end and officially put nu metal on the map. The genre they spearheaded would go on to become the biggest movement in 21st …
Every Metallica album ranked from worst to best | Louder
Mar 15, 2024 · With most recent LP 72 Seasons now firmly bedded into their considerable back catalogue, we decided to rank every single Metallica studio album from worst to best. In the interest of keeping things straightforward and fair, we didn't include the S&M live albums or their classic covers album Garage Inc, nor their bold but divisive Lulu experiment with Lou Reed.
Johnny Cash's Hurt: the story and meaning behind the classic song …
Apr 11, 2022 · Fast forward to 2002, when Rubin and Cash, recording in the producer’s living room, had settled on a bare-bones arrangement for their Hurt cover – an arpeggiated acoustic guitar, flecked with tasteful touches of organ and piano by the Heartbreakers’ Benmont Tench.. Tench, who played on four of the five Cash/Rubin albums, told JamBands, “It was just …
The 30 best Nirvana songs ever - and the stories behind them
Aug 24, 2022 · Flanked by Krist Novoselic on bass and Dave Grohl on drums (original drummer Chad Channing left after recording their debut album), Nirvana released three studio albums in their seven years together (1989’s Bleach, 1991’s Nevermind, 1993’s In Utero).Along with their MTV Unplugged live album and ‘92 B-sides compilation Incesticide, Nirvana created some of …
Every Lana Del Rey album ranked from worst to best | Louder
May 12, 2023 · A debut single is always intended to make an impact, but few artists manage to do so quite like Lana Del Rey did with 2011's Video Games.The lead single from the singer-songwriter’s major label debut Born to Die, it was a breakthrough hit like no other, merging a romanticised melancholia with a distinctive elegance to form what would become dubbed as …