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Those of you who are die hard TAPROOT fans are going to love their latest Victory Records release, Plead The Fifth!  Those of you who are keener on TAPROOT's earlier material from Gift, and the Welcome-era are still going to love Plead The Fifth, just maybe not from start to finish.  While many say TAPROOT's debut Gift was the band's prime, my favorite is their follow up to that, Welcome, because of its mysterious atmosphere and pretty damn heavy riffs, and hearing something like that in 2002 was different than what a lot of other nu metal bands were doing – closest comparison at the time would be The Deftones.  I've always been a fan of vocalist Stephan Rich... (read more)