The most important pop label in the history of pop music thus far, likely the one with the greatest number of songs that are memorable, excellent, accessible and totally fun - I'd like to think that bHotel/b California is still on the radio just because ... Instead, the standard of heaviness has been bumped up enough that this record makes for a blueprint of what a real metal record should sound like today - the blistering speed of bNasum/b, the technical proficiency of Nile, ...
