“Fallen Angels” by RA

RA opened the account for their second album, Duality, with "Fallen Angels" in May 2005, and the American alt-metal band found their spark in an unlikely place: Kevin Smith's film Dogma. It's a big, hook-first slab of heavy rock, built to hit hard and stick.

The rollout hit a snag. Early pressings of Duality came off the line with a manufacturing glitch, and this was the track it mangled, skipping all the way through; the album was recalled, fixed, and later copies wore a sticker on the cover announcing a remastered version. Reviewers liked what they heard anyway. At antiMusic, Paul Gunnel said it grabbed him and kept him coming back for more, and his colleague antiGUY praised a sharp commercial single and strong songwriting he could already picture tearing up KROQ and the rest of modern rock radio.

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