Rocktober '10s Songs #10-#11: "Teeth" by Cage the Elephant (2013) and "Mz. Hyde" by Halestorm (2012)

Many apologies for failing to post a Rocktober song on Friday.  I had to go see a man about The Darkness at a local music venue.  But I shall make it up to you, fair readers, with a double dose of rock today.

First, we're going with a song from one of the great rock bands to emerge last decade, Cage the Elephant.  Technically, they released their debut album in 2008, but they broke through with their 2011 sophomore album, Thank You, Happy Birthday, which reached #2 on the Billboard album chart.  I'm going with a song from their follow-up, 2013's Melophobia, which means a fear of music.  The album has a bunch of great songs, but I'm going with "Teeth," which is a fuzzy, weird alt garage rocky song.

Second, we're going with a song by Halestorm, another band that emerged at the tail end of the aughts, but then made headway over the last decade as one of the most successful metal bands of the teens.  "Mz. Hyde" is from the band's platinum-selling second album, 2012's The Strange Case Of . . . .  The song is a pounding metal song, with a nod to the album title, which is itself a nod to the beginning of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.  But this time, you see, the monster that is Hyde is no man, but a woman.