Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of September 14 , 2010. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

The Absence – Enemy Unbound (Metal Blade)
Accept – Blood of the Nations (Nuclear Blast)
Al’ Tariq (The Beatnuts) – God Connections (Traffic Ent. Group)
Amorphis – Magic & Mayhem – Tales From The Early Years {EU} (Nuclear Blast)
Azure Ray – Drawing Down The Moon (Saddle Creek)
Banner Pilot – Resignation Day [Remastered] (Fat Wreck Chords)
Beneath The Massacre – Maree Noir [EP] (Prosthetic Records)
Bilal – Airtight’s Revenge (PLUG RESEARCH)
The Birthday Massacre – Pins And Needles (Metropolis Records) — Trey Spencer
Black Milk – Album of the Year (100% WOMON) — Jared W. Dillon
Blonde Redhead – Penny Sparkle (4AD Records) — Cam
Buckethead – Spinal Clock (TDRS Music)
Caligula – Divine Madness (Krycek Entertainment)
The Charlatans – Who We Touch (The End Records)
Chromeo – Business Casual (Atlantic)
Dawn of Ashes – Genocide Chapters (Metal Blade Records)
DragonForce – Twilight Dementia [Live] (Roadrunner Records)
The Drums – The Drums (Downtown)
El Guincho – Pop Negro (XL Recordings) — Kiran Soderqvist
Electric Sunset – Electric Sunset (K Records)
Emmett And Mary – Emmett And Mary (My Idea of Fun)
Sully Erna – Avalon (Republic)
ESQ & Chikaramanga – The Succession (Tres Records)
Flotsam and Jetsam – The Cold (Driven Music Group) — Trey Spencer
Brandon Flowers [The Killers] – Flamingo (Island) — Davey Boy
Funker Vogt – Arising Hero (Metropolis Records)
Chilly Gonzales – Ivory Tower (Arts & Crafts)
The Gracious Few – The Gracious Few (EMI)
Grinderman – Grinderman 2 (Anti)
Immortal – The Seventh Date Of Blashyrkh [Live DVD/CD] (Nuclear Blast)
James – The Morning After The Night Before (Mercury)
Justin Townes Earle – Harlem River Blues (Bloodshot Records) — Tyler Munro
Kamelot – Poetry for the Poisoned (Kamelot Media Group)
Liv Kristine – Skintight (Napalm Records)
Les Savy Fav – Root For Ruin (French Kiss) — Cam
Linkin Park – A Thousand Suns (Warner Bros.) — Dave de Sylvia
Mar De Grises – Streams Inwards (Season of Mist) — Trey Spencer
Megafaun – Heretofore (HOMETAPES)
MF Doom – Expektoration Live (Gold Dust Media)
The New Czars – Doomsday Revolution (Samson Records)
Oceansize – Self Preserved while the Bodies Float Up (Superball Music) –Sobhi Abdul-Rakhman
Of Montreal – False Priest (Polyvinyl Records) — Rudy Klapper
Olof Arnalds – Innundir Skinni (One Little Indian Us)
Orgone – Killion Vaults (Ubiquity Records)
Pantera – Cowboys From Hell [3-CD Deluxe Edition] (Rhino)
Robert Plant – Band Of Joy (Rounder)
Prince Rama – Shadow Temple (Paw Tracks)
Qwel & Maker – Owl (Galapagos4)
Ruste Juxx – Adamantine (Royal Family Records)
Royksopp – Senior (Wall of Sound)
Screaming Females – Castle Talk (Don Giovanni Records)
The Script – Science & Faith {UK} (RCA) — Davey Boy
Skunk Anansie – Wonderlustre (V2 Records) — Davey Boy
Soulive – Rubber Soulive (Royal Family Records)
Mavis Staples – You Are Not Alone (Anti)
System Divide – The Conscious Sedation (Metal Blade)
Superchunk – Majesty Shredding (Merge Records) — Kiran Soderqvist
Terror – Keepers Of The Faith (Century Media)
Therion – Sitra Ahra {EU} (Nuclear Blast)
Tides of Man – Dreamhouse (Rise Records)
Trey Songz – Passion, Pain And Pleasure (Atlantic)
Tarja Turunen – What Lies Beneath (Universal Music)
UNKLE – The Answer EP (Surrender All)
The Vaselines – Sex With An X (Sub Pop)
The Walkmen – Lisbon (Fat Possum) — Rudy Klapper
Weezer – Hurley (Epitaph) — Adam Thomas
World’s End Girlfriend – Seven Idiots (Virgin Babylon Records)

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Album Streams (please inform us of any broken links/removed streams):

The Absence – Enemy Unbound

Dawn of Ashes – Genocide Chapters

Linkin Park – A Thousand Suns

Robert Plant – Band Of Joy

Royksopp – Senior

System Divide – The Conscious Sedation

Weezer – Hurley

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

Staff:

01) Sufjan Stevens
02) The National
03) Pavement
04) Frank Turner
05) The Gaslight Anthem
06) Weezer
07) Big Boi
08) Black Milk
09) Arcade Fire
10) Lady Gaga

General Users:

01) Radiohead
02) Brand New
03) Thrice
04) Deftones
05) Arcade Fire
06) The National
07) Converge
08) The Beatles
09) Elliott Smith
10) Opeth

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