Fuel - Something Like Human [Bonus Tracks]

Primary Artist
Fuel
Album Title
Something Like Human [Bonus Tracks]
Release Date
September 23, 2003 
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Review by William Ruhlmann
Like several other successful rock bands of the post-grunge era, Fuel teeters between hard rock and heavy metal, as often as not within the same song. The group is perfectly capable of adopting the lockstep thrash of Metallica-style metal, but it tends to vary it with comparatively melodic elements in a way that makes the group acceptable to both headbangers and fans of less extreme rock. It certainly doesn't hurt that, every few songs, Fuel throws in a ballad that begins with either an acoustic guitar or a lightly strummed electric (or both) and builds to a mid-tempo rocker. Read More