The Bronx certainly aren't afraid of repetition: The SoCal group's third album, due Nov. 11, is also their third self-titled effort. And luckily for fans, the same mentality applies to their music. Since 2003 the quintet have concocted a boggling fusion of metal, '70s rock, and hardcore intensity. And fresh cut "Enemy Mind" is the band at its fastest, rawest, and most anthemic.

The crashing drums, snarling vocals, and thrash-heavy guitars of the Bronx's "Past Lives" are so naturally fun that the entire track sounds effortless. But as the band's lead singer, Matt Caughthran, tells SPIN.com, the word effortless isn't in his vocabulary: "My favorite thing about being in the Bronx is challenging yourself to do things you never thought you could do.