Benny Doyle, Journalist

"A lot of people have in their heads, especially from the hardcore scene, that, ‘Oh, the metal scene’s fucked; it’s just a bunch of long-haired losers’."

Four is a master class in muscular, sharp rock that stands tall as their defining body of work.

“There’s been a bit of a turn against these large scale festivals I think with lots of people... now I prefer to go to one gig a week rather than hoard all my money and go to one event a year."

There’s plenty of panicked vocal brilliance here and a few curious musical turns, but overall, for fans of SOAD and indeed Tankian as an artist, there’s nothing here that’s going to change your life.

"...we’ve got a lot of PMA going on as well as a lot of negativity", Lawrence Taylor of While She Sleeps explains to Benny Doyle.

“If we start playing the new songs too long before the next album comes out then we will really want to kill ourselves about nine months into our second album tour."

“Honestly, I’d rather have them [the crowd] heckling us than just weirdly observing us. I want people to react based on how they are feeling."

"I’ve had a dream about what the cover will look like so I’m interested to know if that will actually happen or if it’s just a bad idea that came to me in a dream... if it doesn’t come true then it’s like, ‘Dammit, I’m not psychic’.”