One of the original metallic deathcore bands, Germany's Maroon (if you came here looking for soft rock pretty boys Maroon 5, you better run the other way) were overshadowed by countrymen Caliban and Heaven Shall Burn at the start of their career, but their third album, When Worlds Collide, may just serve as their coming-out party. Whereas those bands' concurrent efforts found them either treading creative waters or softening their sound in search of commercial rewards, When Worlds Collide never loses sight of the more brutal thrash and death metal aspects of this suddenly overcrowded genre, delivering an impressive string of cracking good songs, if not a huge amount of entirely fresh ideas.