Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 5, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Alestorm – Sunset On The Golden Age (Napalm Records)
Andreas Varady – Andreas Varady (Verve)
Bear In Heaven – Time Is Over One Day Old (Dead Oceans)
Belphegor – Conjuring The Dead (Nuclear Blast US)
Ben Miller Band – Any Way, Shape Or Form (New West Records)
Chrome – Feel It Like A Scientist (King Of Spades)
Darkest Hour – Darkest Hour (Sumerian Records)
David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights – End Times Undone (Merge Records)
EDJ – EDJ (Easy Sound Recording Company)
Eluveitie – Origins (Nuclear Blast US)
Entombed A.D. – Back To The Front (Century Media)
Godsmack – 1000hp (Universal Republic)
The Interrupters – The Interrupters (Hellcat Records)
KIX – Rock Your Face Off (Loud & Proud Records)
Land Observations – The Grand Tour (Mute)
Mozart’s Sister – Being (Asthmatic Kitty)
The Murder City Devils – The White Ghost Has Blood On Its Hands Again (The Murder City Devils)
Nachtmystium – World We Left Behind (Century Media)
Naomi Punk – Television Man (Captured Tracks)
Rosebuds – Sand + Silence (Western Vinyl) – SowingSeason
Skid Row – Rise Of The Damnation Army (MRI)
Spider Bags – Frozen Letter (Merge Records)
Spoon – They Want My Soul (Loma Vista/Republic) – Rudy K
Sunny Sweeney – Provoked (Thirty Tigers)
Tuatara – Underworld (Sunyata Records)
Twin Peaks – Wild Onion (10 Spot)
Untold – Echo In The Valley (Hemlock Recordings)
Willis Earl Beal – Experiments In Time (CD Baby)
Wovenwar – Wovenwar (Metal Blade)

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Album Streams:

Bear In Heaven – Time Is Over One Day Old

Chrome – Feel It Like A Scientist

Godsmack – 1000hp

Land Observations – The Grand Tour

Mozart’s Sister – Being

Naomi Punk – Television Man

The Rosebuds – Sand + Silence

Spider Bags – Frozen Letter

Spoon – The Want My Soul

Twin Peaks – Wild Onion

Willis Earl Beal – Experiments In Time

Wovenwar – Wovenwar

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Staff :

1. La Roux
2. Modest Mouse
3. Radiohead
4. Strand Of Oaks
5. Shabazz Palaces
6. Real Estate
7. Mastodon
8. Sharon Van Etten
9. A Wilhelm Scream
10. Red House Painters

Contributors:

1. Trophy Scars
2. Brand New
3. As I Lay Dying
4. Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate)
5. Mastodon
6. mewithoutYou
7. Avenged Sevenfold
8. Weakling
9. Marilyn Manson
10. Slipknot

Community:

1. Mastodon
2. The National
3. Radiohead
4. Converge
5. Opeth
6. Brand New
7. Kanye West
8. Queens Of The Stone Age
9. Joyce Manor
10. Every Time I Die