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Ignition is the second studio album by the American punk rock band The Offspring. It was the second Offspring album produced…
The Offspring’s second album for Epitaph did the impossible: it landed in the Top Five, unheard of for independent records. The Offspring crossed over due…
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Contrary to the popular belief of music critics, listeners and artists alike, a band that doesn’t deviate from its genre on its albums isn’t musically…
It’s not that the Offspring sound behind the times on their eighth album, Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace — it’s that they sound disconnected…
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Green Day couldn’t have had a blockbuster without Nirvana, but Dookie wound up being nearly as revolutionary as Nevermind, sending a wave…
Dookie gave Green Day success, but it was never really clear whether they wanted it in the first place. However, given the incessantly catchy songwriting
Following the cool reception to Insomniac, Green Day retreated from the spotlight for a year to rest and spend time with their families. During that extended…
By 2000, Green Day had long been spurned as unhip by the fourth-generation punks they popularized, and they didn’t seem likely to replicate…
It’s a bit tempting to peg Green Day’s sprawling, ambitious, brilliant seventh album, American Idiot, as their version of a Who album…
Bullet in a Bible is a CD/DVD package (also available as a UMD, for those who want to carry it around on a Sony PSP) documenting Green Day’s show at the…
American Idiot was a rarity of the 21st century, a bona fide four-quadrant hit, and it turned Green Day into something it had never been before…
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Arguably Megadeth’s strongest effort and a classic of early thrash, Peace Sells combines a punkish political awareness with a dark, threatening…
A largely uninspired effort recorded with a new guitarist and drummer, So Far, So Good…So What! lacks the conceptual unity and musical…
A sobered-up Mustaine returns with yet another lineup, this one featuring ex-Cacophony guitar virtuoso Marty Friedman and drummer Nick Menza…
Countdown to Extinction is the fifth studio album by the American heavy metal band Megadeth. It was released on July 14, 1992 through…
Youthanasia is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Megadeth, released on November 1, 1994 through Capitol…
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