With a lack of time, or indeed ideas for good, substantial articles, I've opted instead to pen a barebones listicle. Angry songs have been a large part of my life ever since 2010, and thus I have quite a bit of experience in the area. They're all really bastard heavy tunes from subgenres of metal or hardcore that pretty much exist here as a collective list because I'm a fan of all of the artists mentioned and needed to write something this week.
1: Vein: Ideation: Self Destruction
White hot noise, like a precise distillation of The Dillinger Escape Plan on Calculating Infinity and the first Burnt By The Sun EP
Daryl Palumbo's finest aggressive vocal performance bar none.
3: Love Lost But Not Forgotten: Perfectly Fucked
One of the most intense bands under the "emoviolence" banner, merging the sharp guitar lines of Raein with the grinding brutality of a Usurp Synapse.
4: Will Haven: I've Seen My Fate
Big riffs played really loudly with a scary man shouting over them.
5: Harms Way: Amongst The Rust
Groovy, bouncy, malevolent metallic hardcore from Chicago.
6: Street Sects: Featherweight Hate
Scary industrial noise.
7: Youth Code: For I Am Cursed
Scary industrial noise but with a more danceable edge.
8: American Me: Said Nothing Began Firing
An overlooked classic in the field of dirty hardcore, American Me had the street level punch of a band like Bury Your Dead but with the aggression and lairyness of a more metallic band.
9: Behemoth: Slaves Shall Serve
A death metal classic, from the Sumerian chanting at the start to the furious blastbeats and Nergal's feral growl.
A UK grindcore/powerviolence classic right here folks.
11: Brotherhood Of The Lake: The World To Me
The most horrible guitar tone ever put onto record.
12: Mastodon: March Of The Fire Ants
Big riffs are the best, get high all the time.
13: Employed To Serve: Watching Films To Forget I Exist
Lovely angry mathy chaos.
14: Nails: You Will Never Be One Of Us
Grindy, nasty, sonic hostility.
Lovely heavy breakdowns.
16: Bury Your Dead: House Of Straw
Menacing, malicious, street level hardcore.
17: From A Second Story Window: I Tried Voodoo Once
Chaotic, nasty early deathcore.
18: Ion Dissonance: You People Are Messed Up
The finest synergy of mathcore chaos and deathcore heft ever achieved.
19: Fear Before The March Of Flames: The 20th Century Was Entirely Mine
More lovely mathy noises with a theatrical edge.
20: Eighteen Visions: Motionless And White
Chain Reaction metalcore from Orange County with big hair and an even bigger bite.
So there you have it, 20 angry tunes that aren't just AMVcore or whatever kind of spiteful tune has made it into the charts from across the spectrum of heavy music.
