(DISCLAIMER: you can argue Radiohead's In Rainbows is a better record. And I'd concede I can't logically refute you. I'm a Radiohead guy & I like that album a lot.)
I tend to talk a lot of fecal matter about today's "heavy" bands. And as long as groups in the Disturbed--Avenged Sevenfold--System of a Down mold continue to serve as paradigms of said music, I will continue to verbally defecate on them. With "diarrhea-ic" gusto.
Unless someone can point out anyone else worth mentioning (and listening to), I'll keep arguing Queens of the Stone Age is the lone exception to the rule.
Seriously, Era Vulgaris is fucking brilliant. Josh Homme's lyrics on nearly every song are absurdly incisive. So sharp, in fact, that they could sever that Disturbed lead singer's vocal chords.* Josh H. and Jack White are my super-subjective picks for best Rock songwriters out there today.
(*The world would be a more pleasant, tolerable place if that happened.)
They're not necessarily my favorite songs on the whole record. But on lyrics alone, these two EV album tracks are stand-outs. Enjoy:
"Turnin' on the Screw" (track 1):
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/queensofthestoneage/turninonthescrew.html
"I'm Designer" (track 3):
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/queensofthestoneage/imdesigner.html
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