Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 28, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

A Hero’s Fate – Terms and Conditions (SoundFire Entertainment)
Asphyx – Deathhammer (Century Media)
Autopsy – All Tomorrow’s Funerals [2 CDs] (Peaceville)
Lee Bannon – Fantastic Plastic (Plug Research)
Black Country Communion – Live Over Europe (J&R Adventures)
Caliban – I Am Nemesis (Century Media Records)
Carolina Chocolate Drops – Leaving Eden (Nonesuch)
Chiddy Bang – Breakfast (Virgin/EMI)
Christian Mistress – Possession (Relapse)
Copywrite – God Save the King (Man Bites Dog Records)
Corrosion of Conformity – Corrosion of Conformity (Candlelight Records) — Joseph Viney
The Cranberries – Roses (Downtown)
Dark New Day – New Tradition (Goomba Music)
Dead Fingers – Dead Fingers (Big Legal Mess)
Gensu Dean – Lo-Fi Fingahz (Mello Music Group)
Degradead – Live At Wacken And Beyond [DVD] (Metalville)
Demdike Stare – Elemental (Modern Love) — Deviant
Ecid – Werewolf Hologram (Fill in the breaks)
Eluveitie – Helvetios (Nuclear Blast)
Estelle – All Of Me (Atlantic)
Everything Goes Cold – The Tyrant Sun (Metropolis Records)
For King and Country – Crave (Fervent Records)
Robert Glasper – Black Radio (Blue Note Records)
The Intersphere – Hold on Liberty (Long Branch)
Inure – The Offering (Metropolis Records)
I, The Breather – Truth and Purpose (Sumerian Records)
Ja Rule – Pil 2 (Fontana)
Kutless – Believer (Bec Recordings)
Little Barrie – King Of The Waves (101 DISTRIBUTION)
Lyle Lovett – Release Me (Lost Highway)
Madlib – Medicine Show No. 13: Black Tape (Madlib Medicine Show)
Maino – Day After Tomorrow (Entertainment One)
Loreena McKennitt – Troubadours On The Rhine (Quinlan Road)
Medius – Burns Going Down (Medius)
Memoryhouse – The Slideshow Effect (Sub Pop)
Monarch – Omens (At A Loss Recordings)
Moonlight Bride – Twin Lakes (Self Released) — SowingSeason
Mouse On Mars – Parastrophics (Monkeytown)
Napalm Death – Utilitarian (Century Media)
Narrows – Painted (Deathwish Inc.)
New Multitudes – New Multitudes (Rounder)
Nneka – Soul Is Heavy (Decon Inc)
Noisia – Split The Atom [Special Edition] (Mau5trap Records)
Opera Diabolicus – +1614 (Metalville)
Planet Asia – Black Belt Theatre (Green Streets Ent)
Plants and Animals – The End Of That (Secret City Records)
Amy Ray – Lung of Love (Daemon Records)
The Safety Fire – Grind The Ocean (Inside Out)
School of Seven Bells – Ghostory (Vagrant Records) — Rudy Klapper
Scuba – Personality (Hotflush Recordings) — Deviant
Sent By Ravens – Mean What You Say (Tooth & Nail Records)
Slaves on Dope – Over the Influence (Rocket Science)
Too Short – No Trespassing (Dangerous Music)
T.R.A.M. – Lingua Franca (Sumerian Records)
Veil of Maya – Eclipse (Sumerian Records)
Vengeance – Crystal Eye (Steamhammer)
We Have Band – Ternion (Naive)

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Album Streams:

A Hero’s Fate – Terms and Conditions

Asphyx – Deathhammer

Lee Bannon – Fantastic Plastic

Christian Mistress – Possession

Copywrite – God Save the King

Dark New Day – New Tradition

Demdike Stare – Elemental

Gensu Dean – Lo-Fi Fingahz

For King and Country – Crave

The Intersphere – Hold on Liberty

Maino – Day After Tomorrow

Medius – Burns Going Down

Napalm Death – Utilitarian

Noisia – Split The Atom [Special Edition]

Planet Asia – Black Belt Theatre

Amy Ray – Lung of Love

School of Seven Bells – Ghostory

Scuba – Personality

Slaves on Dope – Over the Influence

Vengeance – Crystal Eye

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SputnikMusic’s Most Played Artists of the Week (according to Last.FM):

Staff:

01) Burial
02) Jimmy Eat World
03) The National
04) Sleigh Bells
05) Built to Spill
06) fun.
07) The Strokes
08) Dark Tranquillity
09) Bon Iver
10) Muse

Contributors:

01) Burial
02) Frederic Chopin
03) Ceremony
04) Bon Iver
05) Lana Del Rey
06) Tim Hecker
07) Stars of the Lid
08) Coheed and Cambria
09) M83
10) Radiohead

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