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KERRANG! BEST 50 ALBUMS OF 2011 Source: Acclaimed Music / Kerrang! 50. Heights – Dead Ends 49. Bury Your Dead – Mosh N’ Roll 48. Deaf Havana – Fools and Worthless Liars 47. Blood Ceremony – Living With The Ancients 46. The Swellers – Good For Me 45. Social Distortion – Hard Times And Nursery …

What’s your pick for Album of the Year? Hyro Da Hero. That was really fucking good. So I’ll pick that one–Hyro Da Hero . That was really fucking good. It’s just so real and I love the way Hyro raps. It kind of reminds me of Rage Against the Machine, but different, with a band …

The general stereotype for rap music is that it is a genre of little substance, serving as merely a celebration of sex, drugs and the degradation of women. If artists such as Eminem and Drake have not already convinced you otherwise, Hyro Da Hero may just be your one-way ticket to rap-rock love. The Houston-born …

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Having already proved to UK crowds at Hit The Deck and Slam Dunk festivals that he’s a one-man party machine, we’ve already got our money on Hyro Da Hero’s set being one of the rowdiest of the Download Festival weekend. And he’s excited. Very excited: read more >>            

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A criticism often applied to rap-rock records is that the rock accompanying the rap is regularly a dull bludgeon compared to that normally associated with a cutting-edge fusion of genres. The implication being that the rap-rock in question is far from innovative; that the music is, in fact, cheap and dull. But that’s not something …

If anyone in this crazy, post-Bizkit world has a handle on the right ratio between rap and rock, it might just be Texas-based rapper Hyro Da Hero. Hyro has sampled everyone from Circa Survive to Refused, and his new album, Birth School Work Death (produced by no less than Ross Robinson), merited a four-star review …

Rap rock is easily one of the most maligned forms of heavy music ever. And deservedly so: For every Rage Against the Machine, there seems to be a thousand shitty Limp Bizkit-wigger-wannabes or crunkcore Biebers-gone-bad. Part of the reason why most rap rock sucks so much is probably because it always seems to be the …

The knock on rap-rock has traditionally been that its main strength is also its primary weakness: a lumbering, brontosaurean power that seems to naturally lend itself to the lunkheaded gesture. But music has evolved several lifetimes beyond the ’90s/’00s renaissance of hard-rocking hip-hop, and there’s no better example of this new sophistication than Hyro Da …