Staind

On their fifth outing, Staind have yet to find the silver lining. The message is still dark, feelings of hopelessness still run rampant, and therapy still comes in the form of an anthemic, lighters-aloft ballad. "Right Here" stands out as the obvious anthem for those with the bleakest worldview.

On their fifth album, Staind are still getting angsty like it was 1999, dropping adenoidal
harmonies and peddling a unique combo of AA-meeting ballads and fetal-position metal.
Chapter V's "Paper Jesus" works up a thrashing groove, and on "Cross to Bear" singer Aaron
Lewis digs deep for a lung-stretching battle with his guitarist. But it's when Staind crank
down the sludge and slacken the tempos that things get heavy in a bad way. "Ta... More >