Allele may not be the best-known rock/hardcore rock group from the United States, where there are bands around every corner. But, in my book, they do deserve mention. Their music is catchy, lyrically good and has enough variety to keep you hooked. The band first caught my attention when I heard them on a video game soundtrack – you never know where you discover cool bands. Allele consists of Wally Wood – vocals; Mason Romaine – guitar; Tim Tobin – bass guitar and back-up vocals; Brandon Powell – guitar and Dusty Winterrowd – drums.
Honourable mentions: “Lost In Your Words”, “Closure”, “Chains of Alice” and “Something Cured”.
5. What I Get
We open up the playlist with a superb track from the boys of Allele. Wood’s vocals and mix between clean vocals and screams work perfectly in this track. The chorus, with its stop-start rhythm, is one of the best parts as Winterrowd’s drums take control. The guitar adds interesting effects with unusual, yet satisfying licks that permeate this track.
“I wanna get what I wanna get. Only what I am waiting for. I wanna get, what I wanna get. All my strength to carry forth”.
This is quite a melancholy track but it gives a good indication of what it takes to drag you out of despair.

4. Drone
The chorus takes this song to the next level. It looks at how the world can sometimes be overwhelming and the need to find the time to find yourself. “Can I lay down, won’t make a sound, everyone needs a place to hide. Don’t play dead, just wake up,” sings Wood. He has a unique voice in the genre and, once again, steps up his game here. Allele has the knack of creating a chorus that both metalheads and casual listeners can enjoy.

3. Closer to Habit
This is one of Allele’s older tracks, which was released as a single in 2005, during their most popular stage as a band. The crunching guitars and fantastic lead guitar playing are highlights on this driving track. It looks at finding the will to live a better life and leave the past behind.
The lyrics: “I have the world to walk on my own
How can I face the truth alone?
And I’ve found the will to bury it all
And I’m closer, now I’m closer to habit.

2. Let It Go
This is probably one of my favourite guitar riffs from this band. It will get your head and body moving to its infectious rhythm. The song focuses on the need to let go of the destructive things or people in your life. The chorus is golden and uplifting: “Let it go and try to find
A way to cope, you can leave it all behind
The last face you’d want to know
Is looking back at you with a loaded gun, let it go.”

1.Stitches
This song looks at the damage that a broken relationship can leave behind. The stitches can sometimes be ripped open again when the same person keeps deriding it through insult, bad behaviour and so forth. The track has a superb opening bass riff from Tobin, which brilliantly sets the song on track. The guitar solo in the bridge is a pleasure to the ear. “I don’t want to be afraid of letting go of someone like you, of someone like you. I don’t want to be afraid of letting go,” sings Wood.