Code Orange - Underneath

The Guardian 100

(Roadrunner Records)
The Pittsburgh quintet marry technical mastery with genre-fusing risk in a record of poetry and spectacular potency

Despite its reputation as the satanic scourge of curtain-twitching suburbia, metal can be prone to the kind of squabbling you might see at a parish council meeting, with endless taxonomic arguments about whether something is death or thrash or black metal. Such petty bloviating is silenced by Grammy-nominated Pittsburgh quintet Code Orange, whose fourth album throws thrash, hardcore punk, math rock, sludge, metalcore, industrial, screamo, grunge, nu-metal and classic rock into a centrifuge, and produces something brand new and radioactively powerful.

Pitchfork 45

At the edge of crossover success, the hardcore stalwarts sputter out with an overstuffed album of weak modern-rock imitations.