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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 22, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

12 Stones – Beneath The Scars (Executive Music Group) — Davey Boy
16Volt – Skin [Re-Issue] (Metropolis Records)
Kris Allen – Thank You Camellia (RCA)
Blue Foundation – In My Mind I Am Free (Dead People’s Choice)
The Bunny The Bear – The Stomach For It (Victory Records)
Burzum – Umskiptar (Byelobog Productions) — Kyle Ward
Children Of Bodom – Holiday At Lake Bodom (15 Years Of Wasted Youth) (Fontana Universal)
The Cult – Choice Of Weapon (Cooking Vinyl)
Delta Moon – Black Cat Oil (Red Parlor)
Diablo Swing Orchestra – Pandora’s Pinata (Sensory Records)
Electric Wizard – Witchcult Today (Candlelight)
El-P – Cancer for Cure (Fat Possum Records) –– Sobhi Yousseff
Tolga Fidan – Rogue (Vakant)
Freak Kitchen – Land of the Freaks (The Laser’s Edge)
Garbage – Not Your Kind of People (Stunvolume)
Gossip – A Joyful Noise (Columbia)
Grand Magus – The Hunt {EU} (Nuclear Blast)
Great White – Elation (Frontier Records)
Hardline – Danger Zone (Frontier Records)
Hidden Shoal – Medicine Show (Hidden Shoal Recordings)
Kill Devil Hill – Kill Devil Hill (SPV/Steamhammer)
Kimbra – Vows (Warner Bros.)
KMFDM – Amnesia [EP] (Metropolis Records)
Lettie – Good Fortune, Bad Weather (Outerworld Records)
Andre Lodemann – Fragments (Best Works Records)
John Mayer – Born and Raised (Columbia)
Jon Mclaughlin – Promising Promises (Razor & Tie)
Marduk – Serpent Sermon {EU} (Century Media) — Kyle Ward
MercyMe – Hurt & The Healer (Fair Trade Services)
Mount Eerie – Clear Moon (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
Order of Nine – Seventh Year of the Broken Mirror (RED GENERAL CATALOG)
Pariso – Nothing Beyond Everything After (Tangled Talk Records)
Joey Ramone – …Ya Know? (BMG) — Joseph Viney
Haley Reinhart – Listen Up (Interscope)
Royal Thunder – CVI (Relapse)
Sabaton – Carolus Rex (Nuclear Blast)
Saint Vitus – Lillie: F-65 (Season of Mist)
Six Feet Under – Undead (Metal Blade)
Slash – Apocalyptic Love (EMI) — Joseph Viney
Smile Empty Soul – 3’s (Entertainment One Music)
Sons Of Noel And Adrian – Knots (Broken Sound)
Soulsavers – The Light of the Dead See (Mute)
Regina Spektor – What We Saw from the Cheap Seats (Sire) — SowingSeason
Teen Daze – All of Us, Together (Lefse)
Tesseract – Perspective [EP] (Century Media)
THYX – The Way Home (Metropolis Records)
To Speak of Wolves – Find Your Worth, Come Home (Solid State Records)
Unisonic – Unisonic (Armoury Records)
Vithr – Hedensk Skikk Og Tro (Demonhood Productions)
Vorkreist – Sigil Whore Christ (Agonia Records)
Wizards of Kaos – Wizards of Kaos (Diminished Fifth Records)

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Album Streams:

Kris Allen – Thank You Camellia

Delta Moon – Black Cat Oil

Kimbra – Vows

John Mayer – Born and Raised

Jon Mclaughlin – Promising Promises

Six Feet Under – Undead

Smile Empty Soul – 3’s

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

Staff (Unique to this Group):

01) Dustin Wong
02) Maps & Atlases
03) Racing Heart
04) Dan Deacon
05) Brendan Benson
06) The-Dream
07) Cave In
08) Silversun Pickups
09) Big Boi
10) Be’lakor

General Users:

01) mewithoutYou
02) Thrice
03) Radiohead
04) Brand New
05) Beastie Boys
06) Deftones
07) Converge
08) Silversun Pickups
09) Elliott Smith
10) Death Grips

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