

New Jersey’s Palisades may as well hail from the 1999 Ozzfest, when every heavy band was required to have a turntablist and ambient interludes. They venture further into dance music on their third album, merging club-ready beats with anvil-heavy riffs. While Louis Miceli vents operatically about his pain, his band focuses on your hips—incorporating cutting-edge breakbeats and rave-ready keyboard squelches into their mammoth riffage ("Let Down") and creating rapid-fire electro-metal hybrids with eyes on both the dance floor and the mosh pit ("Better Chemicals").