Afternoon Baseball

Never really paid much attention to them until their last album came out in October, and even then, only the first single, "We're All To Blame." Good quality song, mixing pop-single choruses with metal riffs.
So I downloaded the album off the ever-cheap/sketchy Russian site, and it's not bad. It's either the same exact stuff they've been doing, or blatantly copying other bands (Linkin Park on a couple, Papa Roach, ugh, on "Angels With Dirty Faces"), except for two other songs -- "The Bitter End" and "88."
"88" starts off with a riff similar to a couple of the old Sum singles, but then turns into a downtrodden acoustic-piano verse, which jumps back up into their trademark pop-punk. The crazy part is halfway through, when there are two solos, along with machine-gun riffing and drums straight out of Megadeth. After that, the song sort of just fades off in some pop-Korn-esque fashion.
"The Bitter End" has some similarities in the stop-starts, riffing, structure, placement and sound of the solos and interludes, and ending of the song to "Battery" by Metallica. Actually, it's basically a 2004 version but without the acoustic opening. But still, copy the masters if you must copy.