The Birthday Massacre, "Down"

One of the most striking cuts from the Canadian outfit's brand new album Hide and Seek, "Down" 's potency rests on the band's radical shifts between rage and beauty. With razor-wire industrial riffs slicing through shimmering synthesizers, vocalist Chibi morphs from siren to Shiva the Destroyer while ruminating on failed love and the fatalism haunting all of mankind. Translation? Be sure to bring your black mascara to the party. – Justin Farrar, Google Play

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