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The call to arms for southern California's Atreyu is "metal-core," a newly dubbed genre that haphazardly fuses Eighties-metal bombast with hardcore-punk breakdowns and alternating scream-sing vocals. Live, it's hella fun. On record, the results are more confused, with dual vocalists Alex Varkatzas and Brandon Saller occasionally canceling each other out. But when the band sticks to melody and brings out the big arena-rock drums on songs such as "Right Side of the Bed," it creates true headbanging nirvana. And those guitar solos? Pure awesomeness.
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