Adrien Begrand
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One year after a shift in the Mormon church's policy toward its gay members, the Salt Lake City doom-metal band responds to the escalating suicide rate among Mormon LGBTQ youth with "Troubled Cells."
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Now 17 years and seven albums into its existence, Luminiferous reaffirms High On Fire's consistent mastery of heavy metal.
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The band's first album in 18 years sounds lean and to the point, and it doesn't let up. Along the way, playfulness and aggression intermingle to the point where it's hard to tell them apart.
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The metal band embraces classical music, glitchy IDM and even rap on its new album. The deeper into it you delve, the more its audacity and imagination start to bloom.
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Like it or not, Babymetal — a trio of teenage Japanese singers who fuse bubbly pop with heavy riffs — is one of the biggest stories in heavy metal in 2014.
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The mastermind behind metal's most cartoonishly grotesque band brought a sense of levity to the genre when it was in danger of being overwhelmed by negativity and self-importance.