Meshuggah

In the weeks prior to – and even during — the assemblage of this Top 20 list, I went back and listened to every album I'd selected as a candidate, sometimes more than once. Read More

First out of Pittsburgh's tech-metalcore gate were Hero Destroyed and Complete Failure. Read More

Around this time every month, The A.V. Club forgets to lock its back door, and Texas-dwelling scumbag Leonard Pierce lets all of his disreputable longhair friends in to spike the water cooler with SoCo and listen to thrash until someone calls security. Read More