Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 13, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.  As our staff post reviews of these albums, links will appear below the art work so that you can read about the release, see how we scored it, and more.

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3OH!3: Night Sports

Label: Fueled By Ramen

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Adia Victoria: Beyond the Bloodhounds

Label: Atlantic Recording Corporation

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A. Sinclair: Get out of the City

Label: Dangerbird Records

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Astronautalis: Cut The Body Loose

Label: SideOneDummy Records

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Avatar: Feathers and Flesh

Label: Entertainment One U.S.

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Black Absinthe: Early Signs of Denial

Label: Independent

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Brodka: Clashes

Label: Kayak

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Chance The Rapper: Chance 3

Label: Independent

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Corine Bailey Rae: The Heart Speaks In Whispers

Label: Virgin Records Ltd

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David Banner: The God Box

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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 6, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Alaric – End Of Mirrors (Neurot Recordings)
Aloha – Little Windows Cut Right Through (Polyvinyl Record Co)
ANOHNI – Hopelessness (Secretly Canadian)
Astronauts – End Codes (Lo Recordings)
Belvedere – The Revenge of The Fifth (Belvedere Music)
Beverly – The Blue Swell (Kanine Records)
CardiaC – Sangrar Hasta Lograrlo (Tenacity Music)
Chevalrex – Futurisme (Vietnam)
Chris Cohen – As If Apart (Captured Tracks)
Cole Swindell – You Should Be Here (Warner Music Nashville LLC)
Cyndi Lauper – Detour (Mutzarella Inc)
Death Grips – Bottomless Pit (Harvest Records)
Dead Register – Fiber (AVR Records)
Degtras – Hominidae Resonance (Wood and Stone Productions)
Electronic Frequency – Human Abyss (Electronic Frequency)
Fear Like Us – Succour (Poison City Records)
Ghold – PYR (Ritual Productions)
Glorior Belli – Sundown (The Flock That Welcomes) (Agonia Records)
The Goo Goo Dolls – Boxes (Warner Bros. Records Inc)
Homeboy Sandman – Kindness for Weakness (Stones Throw Records)
The Hypothesis – Origin (Inverse Records)
Imperium – Titanomachy (Ultimate Massacre Productions)
James Blake – The Colour In Anything (Polydor Ltd)
JMSN – It Is. (White Room Records)
Joana Serrat – Cross the Verge (Loose Music)
Julianna Barwick – Will (Dead Oceans)  — Atari
Kaytranada – 99.9% (XL Recordings)  — Will Robinson
Keith Urban – Ripcord (Hit Red Records)
Little Scream – Cult Following…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 29, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Abhomine – Larvae Offal Swine (Hells Headbangers)
A Dead Forest Index – In All That Drifts from Summit Down (Sargent House)
Angarthal – Uranus And Gaia (Steve Angarthal)
Brian Eno – The Ship (Warp)
Britta Phillips – Luck or Magic (Double Feature Records)
The Boxer Rebellion – Ocean by Ocean (Amplify Music)
Darkestrah – Turan (Osmose Productions)
Doomsquad – Total Time (Bella Union)
Drake – Views (Young Money)
dvsn – Sept 5th (Elektra)
Fallujah – Dreamless (Nuclear Blast)
Germ – Escape (Prophecy Productions)
Gersey – What You Kill (Gersey)
Haken – Affinity (Century Media Records Ltd) –Thompson D. Gerhart
Imarhan – Imarhan (City Slang)
The Jayhawks – Paging Mr. Proust (Sham)
John Doe – The Westerner (Cool Rock Records)
Kawir – Father Sun Mother Moon (Iron Bonehead Productions)
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity (Heavenly)
Konono No. 1 – Konono No.1 Meets Batida (Crammed Discs)
Kyle Craft – Dolls Of Highland (Sub Pop)
Long Distance Calling – Trips (InsideOut Music)
Luca Brasi – If This Is All We’re Going to Be (Poison City Records)
Man Made – TV Broke My Brain (Man Made)
Melt Yourself Down – Last Evenings on Earth (The Leaf Label)
Mindshift – Horizon (Eclipse Records)
Pity Sex – White Hot Moon (Run for Cover Records)
Plants and Animals – Waltzed in…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 22, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Aborted – Retrogore (Century Media Records Ltd)
Andy Stott – Too Many Voices (Modern Love)
A$AP Ferg – Always Strive And Prosper (RCA Records)
Beast Wars – The Death Of All Things (Destroy)
Blue October – Home (Up/Down-Brando Records)
BoneHawk – Albino Rhino (Ripple Music)
Carlos Niño – Flutes, Echoes, It’s All Happening! (Leaving Records)
Doomsday Ceremony – Black Heart (Cogumelo Records)
Dust Bowl Jokies – Dust Bowl Jokies (Rodeostar Records)
Elephant Tree – Elephant Tree (Magnetic Eye Records)
Elessar – Reflections (Elessar UK)
False Gods – Wasteland (Independent)
Te Fall of Troy – OK (Independent)
Ferium – Behind the Black Eyes (Independent)
Framix – Lucky Monkeys (Frakamix Production)
Fruition – Labor Of Love (Randm Records)
Good Tiger – A Head Full of Moonlight (Metal Blade Records)
Greys – Outer Heaven (Carpark)
Guided by Voices – Please Be Honest (GBV Inc)
Ill Wicker – Untamed (The Sign Records)
Knifeworld – Bottled Out of Eden (Century Media Records Ltd)
Legendary Pink Dots – Pages of Aquarius (Metropolis Records)
The Loom – Here In the Deadlights (Crossbill Records)
Matthew and the Atlas – Temple (Communion Group Ltd)
Mean Jeans – Tight New Dimension (Fat Wreck Chords)
Media Solution – The Prelude (Pavement Entertainment Inc)
Messenger – Threnodies (InsideOut Music)
Mortichnia – Heir To Scoria And Ash (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)
Nicolas Godin –…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 15, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Alkerdeel – Lede (Consouling Sounds)
Ashley Shadow –Ashley Shadow (felte)
Amber Rubarth – Scribbled Folk Symphonies (Chesky Records)
Ash Meteors – Fragment I (Ash Meteors)
Bear Hands – You’ll Pay For This (Spensive Sounds)
Blaqk Audio – Material (Blaqk Audio)
Cate Le Bon – Crab Day (Drag City)
The Coathangers – Nosebleed Weekend (Suicide Squeeze Records)
Crematory – Monument (Steamhammer)
The Decoys – In Our Blood (Unsigned)
Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros – PersonA (Community Music Group LLC)
Game Over – Crimes Against Reality (Scarlet Records)
Goatess – Purgatory Under New Management (Svart Records)
Graham Nash – This Path Tonight (Blue Castle Records)
Gypsy Chief Goliath – Citizens Of Nowhere (Pitch Black Records)
Hemotoxin – Biological Enslavement (Unspeakable Axe Records)
Hestina – Blossom Talk (Autumn Tone Records)
Holy Dragons – Civilizator (Pitch Black Records)
Howls of Ebb – Cursus Impasse (Voidhanger Records)
Izegrim – The Ferryman’s End (Listenable Records)
J Dilla – The Diary (Pay Jay Productions, Inc)
John Carpenter – Lost Themes II (Sacred Bones Records)
Kevin Morby – Singing Saw (Dead Oceans)
Lita Ford – Time Capsule (Steamhammer)
Murder Made God – Enslaved (Comatose Music)
Nightmen – Fifteen Minutes Of Pain (Lovely Records)
Nucleus – Sentient (Unspeakable Axe Records)
Omophagia – In The Name Of Chaos (Season of Mist)
Otep – Generation Doom (Napalm Records)
Pathways –…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of Apil 8, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

April Towers – Silent Fever (LAB Records Ltd)
The Dandy Warhols – Distortland (The Dandy Warhols)  –Raul Stanciu
Ben Watt – Fever Dream (Unmade Road)
Black Peaks – Statues (Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited)
Camp Claude – Swimming Lessons (Believe Recordings)
Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas – Mariner (Cult of Luna)
Deftones – Gore (Reprise Records)
Drose – boy man machine (Orange Milk)
Ed Prosek – Truth EP (Ed Prosek Music)
Filter – Crazy Eyes (Wind-up Records)
The Frances Desire – Persona (Out of Step)
Frightened Rabbit – Painting of a Panic Attack (Atlantic Records UK)
The Glorious Rebellion – Euphoric (Magnetic Eye Records)
Gracepoint – Echoes (Independent)
Heidemann – Detectives (Fabrique Records)
HIGHS – Dazzle Camouflage (Indica Records)
Holy Pinto – Congratulations (Soft Speak Records)
Ihsahn – Arktis (Tanglade Ltd)
Inherit Disease – Ephemeral (Unique Leader Records)
The Lumineers – Cleopatra (Dualtone Music Group)
M83 – Junk (M83 Recording Inc)  –Rudy K.
Moving Units – Damage With Care (Metropolis Records)
Ommadon – Ommadon (Burning World Recordings)
Palace of Worms – The Ladder (Broken Limbs Recordings)
Parquet Courts – Human Performance (Rough Trade)
Shy Shape – Out at Night (Noisy Poet Records)
Tax The Heat – Fed to the Lions (Nuclear Blast Entertainment)
Viot – Astana (Langage Records)
Woods – City Sun Eater…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of Apil 1, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

#N/A – Nisennenmondai (Beat Records)
Alexander Durefelt – In the Grace of the Woods (Daughters and Son Records)
Andrew Bird – Are You Serious (Wegawarm Music Co)
Autolux – PUSSY’S DEAD (Columbia Records)
Babymetal – Metal Resistance (Amuse Inc)
The Bendal Interlude – Reign of the Unblinking Eye (Black Bow Records)
Black Stone Cherry – Kentucky (Mascot Music Productions)
Coves – Peel (1965 Records Ltd)
Doro – Love’s Gone To Hell (Nuclear Blast)
Ensiferum – Two Decades of Greatest Sword Hits (Universal Music Oy)
Entheos – The Infinite Nothing (Artery Recordings)
Explosions In The Sky – The Wilderness (Temporary Residence Ltd)
Faintest Idea – Increasing The Minimum Rage (Faintest Idea)
Goetic Equivalent – Goetic Equivalent (Ordo MCM)
Hammock – Everything and Nothing (Hammock Music)
Haxen – Haxen (Eternal Death)
Hein Cooper – The Art of Escape (Indica Records)
Hot Coffin – Hot Coffin (Triple Eye Industries)
Ill Omen – Æ.Thy.Rift (Abyssic Commune)
It Lives, It Breathes – Silver Knights (Stay Sick Recordings)
Japanese Breakfast – Psychopomp (Yellow K Records)
Lake Of Violet – The Startling Testimony of Plumb Lines (Gilead Media)
Lukas Graham – Lukas Graham (Warner Bros. Records Inc)
The Last Shadow Puppets – Everything You’ve Come To Expect (Domino Recording Co Ltd)
Lower Automation – Maps (Independent)
Mogwai – Atomic (Temporary Residence Ltd)
Moonsorrow – Jumalten Aika (Century Media…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of March 25, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

American Head Charge – Tango Umbrella (Napalm Records)
Amon Amarth – Jomsviking (Mwtal Blade Records)
Asking Alexandria – The Black (Sumerian Records)
Beastmaker – Lusus Naturae (Rise Above Records)
Birdy – Beautiful Lies (Jasmine Van Den Bogaerde)
Bloodsweat – Plague Vendor (Epitaph)
Caliban – Gravity (Century Media Records Ltd)
Cameron AG – Way Back Home (Independent)
Cobalt – Slow Forever (Profound Lore)
Demonstealer – This Burden is Mine (Demonstealer Records)
The Joy Formidable – Hitch (C’mon Let’s Drift)
Hammerfight – Profound and Profane. (Napalm Records)
Irkallian Oracle – Apollyon (Nuclear War Now Productions)
Lelkem – All Four Seasons in One Day (Panta R&E)
Like Rats – II (Southern Lord Records)
Lontalius – I’ll Forget 17 (Partisan Records)
Marathonmann – Mein Leben gehort Dir (Century Media Records Ltd)
Metalchurch – XI (Rat Pak Records)
Museyroom – Pearly Whites (Grind Select)
Necronomicon – Advent of The Human God (Season of Mist)
Night Moves – Pennied Days (Domino Recording Co Ltd)
NilExistence – Existence in Revelation (Independent)
O’Brother – Endless Light (Triple Crown Records)
Phazm – Scornful of Icons (Osmose Productions)
Plague Vendor – BLOODSWEAT (Epitaph)
Radical Face – The Family Tree: The Leaves (Radical Face)
Ragnarok –…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of March 18, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Alice on the roof – Higher (Label & Labet)
Boris and Merzbow – Gensho (Relapse Records Inc.)
Brett – Mode (Cascine)
Causa Sui – Return To Sky (El Paraiso)
Cilver – Not the End of the World (Entertainment One U.S.)
Circus Maximus – Havoc (Frontiers Records)
Daddy – Let Me Get What I Want (We Are Daddy, LLC)
Deathkings – All that is Beautiful (Independent)
Defecto – Excluded (Elevation)
The Drones – Feelin Kinda Free (Tropical Fuck Storm Records)
Éohum – Ealdfaeder (Mycelium Networks)
Forks – II (Forks)
Glitterbust – Glitterbust (Burger Records)
Gloria Morti – Kuebiko (Willowtip Records)
Gwen Stefani – This Is What the Truth Feels Like (Interscope Records)
Heiress – Made Wrong (The Mylene Sheath)
Highrider – Armageddon Rock (The Sign)
Iggy Pop/Josh Homme – Post Pop Depression (Loma Vista Recordings)
The Last Vegas – Eat Me (AFM Recordings)
Light Up The Sky – Nightlife (Rise Records)
Killerpilze – High (Nordpolrecords)
K-X-P – III Part 2 (Svart Records)
Liima – II (2016 4AD)
Lords of Black – II (Frontiers Records)
Primal Scream – Chaosmosis (SCRM Ltd)
North – Light The Way (Prosthetic Records)
Rapheumetas Well – The Exile (Test Your Metal)
Red Eleven – Collect Your Scars (Lifeforce Records)
Rexy – Running Out of Time (Lucky Number Music Limited)
Sacrilegium – Anima Lucifera (Pagan Records)
Sam…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of March 11, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

3 Doors Down – Us and the Night (Republic Records)
Accuser – The Forlorn Divide (Metal Blade Records)
Anger as Art – Ad Mortem Festinates (Old School Metal Records)
Aniqatia – Luminous (Nefarious Industries)
Arcana 13 – Danza Macabra (Aural Music)
Aurora – All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend (Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC)
Bent Shapes – Wolves of Want (Slumberland Records)
Blood Youth – Closure [EP] (Rude Records)
Brian Fallon – Painkillers (Island Records) — Jom
Cabal – Purge (Prime Collective)
Cardiknox – Portrait (Warner Bros. Records Inc.)
Criminal – Fear Itself (Metal Blade Records)
Desert Mountain Tribe – Either That or the Moon (Metropolis Records)
Drawing Circles – Sinister Shores (Eat The Beat Music)
Emmy the Great – Second Love (Bella Union)
Ephemera – Little Green Cars (Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC)
Gadget – The Great Destroyer (Relapse Records Inc.)
Glint – Inverter (Votiv Publishing LLC)
Heck – Instructions (NPAG Industries Ltd)
Holy Wave – Freaks of Nurture (Reverberation Appreciation)
The Humble – Act Accordingly [EP] (The Humble) — Irving Tan
Jeff Buckley – You and I (Columbia Records)
Jukebox The Ghost – Thump Sessions [EP] (Yep Roc Records)
Killswitch Engage – Incarnate (Roadrunner Records)
KVB – … Of Desire (Metropolis Records)
Laura J Martin – On…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 26, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Anthrax – For All Kings (Megaforce Records) — Trey Spencer
Anvil – Anvil Is Anvil (Steamhammer)
Black Cobra – Imperium Simulacra (Season of Mist)
Bombus – Repeat Until Death (Century Media Records Ltd)
Bonnie Raitt – Dig In Deep (Redwing Records)
Centerfold – MOTHXR (Washington Square Music)
Colours – Ivory (Victory Records)
Conny Ochs – Future Fables (Exile On Mainstream Records)
Death Index – Death Index (Deathwish Inc)
Deathless Legacy – The Gathering (Scarlet Records)
Devotion – Words and Crystals (Pavement Entertainment)
Divine Realm – Tectum Argenti (Divine Realm)
DMA’s – Hill’s End (Mom + Pop)
Droids Attack – Sci-Fi or Die (Riff Reaper Records)
Entombed A.D. – Dead Dawn (Versity Rights)
Folteraar – Vertellingen van een donkere eeuw (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Frokedal – Hold on Dreamer (Propeller Recordings)
From Ashes to New – Day One (Better Noise Records)
Fuzzy Vox – No Landing Plan (Self-Released) — Raul Stanciu
Ghost Horizon – Astral Possession (Ghost Horizon)
Greenleaf – Rise Above The Meadow (Napalm Records Handels GmbH)
Headspace – All That You Fear is Gone (Inside Out Music)
High Priest of Saturn – Son of Earth and Sky (Svart Records)
Holy Esque – At Hope’s Ravine (Beyond The Frequency)
Hopelezz – Sent to Destroy (Sonicscars Records)
IDestroy – Vanity Loves Me (IDestroy)
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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 19, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.  Speaking of which, we would like to welcome our newest staff members and contributors on board! If you have not already heard, JohnnyOnTheSpot, Atari, and Jacquibim have joined our staff writing team, while TalonsOfFire, TheSpirit, GameOfMetal, DoofusWainwright, and Beachdude are settling into their new found roles as contributing reviewers. Congratulations on a job well done and we’re looking forward to what you will bring to the site in the future!

We also encourage all of our readers to check out last week’s interview between We Lost The Sea’s Matt Harvey and our very own Magnus Altkula.  It’s a superbly executed piece, both by Magnus and by Matt.  Without further ado, though, here is this week’s lineup:

Adept – Sleepless (Napalm Records)
After the Burial – Dig Deep (Sumerian Records)
Animal Collective – Painting With (Domino Recording Co)
Antigone and Francois X – We Move As One (Dement3d) — Tristan Jones
Bentcousin – Bentcousin (Team Love Records)
Choir of Young Believers – Grasque (Ghostly International)
Deep Sea Diver – Secrets (High Beam) — Irving Tan
Delain – Lunar Prelude (Napalm Records) — Trey Spencer
Dinamo Azari – Estranged…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 12, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Adam Strangler – Ideas of Order (No Label/Independent)
AntropomorphiA – Necromantic Love Songs (Metal Blade Records)
Basia Bulat – Good Advice (Secret City Records Inc.)
Betty Black – Valley Low (KID Recordings LLC)
Black Wizard – New Waste (Listenable Records)
Daniel Ash – Stripped (Main Man Records)
The Erkonauts – I Did Something Bad (Kaotoxin)
Exec – The Limber Real (Tambourhinoceros)
Flummox – Selcouth (Tridroid Records)
For Sore Eyes – Nexus (Sliptrick Records)
The Frights – You Are Going To Hate This (Dangerbird Records)
Gehennah – Too Loud to Live, Too Drunk to Die (Metal Blade Records)
Holy Grail – Times of Pride and Peril (Prosthetic Records)
The Jezabels – Synthia (No Label/Independent) – SowingSeason
Kanye West – The Life of Pablo (Def Jam Recordings) – Will Robinson
James Supercave – Better Strange (Fairfax Entertainment Group)
Lady Low – And They Say Romance Is Dead (No Label/Independent)
Lissie – My Wild West (Lionboy Records)
Lobo – Alma (Signal Rex)
Lost Society – Braindead (Nuclear Blast Records)
Low Flying Hawks – Kofuku (Magnetic Eye Records)
Magrudergrind – II (Relapse Records Inc.)
Manipulate – Becoming Madness EP (Flatspot Records)
Me and My Drummer – Love Is a Fridge (Sinnbus)
Michel Anoia – Plethora (Allende Records)
Motorpsycho – Here Be Monsters (Stickman Records) – Raul…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 5, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Amoral – In Sequence (Imperial Cassette)
Beacon – Escapements (Ghostly International)
Breakbot – Still Waters (Ed Banger Records)
Burnt Palms – Back On My Wall (We Were Never Being Boring)
The Cult – Hidden City (Cooking Vinyl Limited)
Degradead – Degradead (Flying Dolphin Entertainment)
DIIV – Is The Is Are (Captured Tracks)
Divinity – The Immortalist Part 2. Momentum (No Label/Independent)
Dr. Dog – The Psychedelic Swamp (ANTI-)
Drowning Pool – Hellelujuah (Entertainment One Music)
Elton John – Wonderful Crazy Night (Island Records)
EVOL – Future (Epic Records)
Field Music – Commontime (Memphis Industries)
Fleshgod Apocalypse – King (Nuclear Blast)
Foxes – All I Need (Epic Records)
Francis – Marathon (Popup Records)
Frostbite – Etching Obscurity (Tmina Records)
Hey Marseilles – Hey Marseilles (Shanachie Ent. Corp.)
Jagged Leaves – Nightmare Afternoon (CTD)
Junior Boys – Big Black Coat (City Slang)
KING – We Are KING (KING Creative)
Lucinda Williams – The Ghosts Of Highway 20 (Highway 20 Records)
Majid Jordan – Majid Jordan (Warner Bros./OVO Sound)
Moomin – A Minor Thought (Smallville)
Nonkeen – The Gamble (R&S Records)
Obscura – Akróasis (Relapse Records)
Ocerco – A Desolação (Signal Rex)
Odyssey – Voids (Bandcamp)
Orchid – Sign Of The Witch (Nuclear Blast)
Porches – Pool (Domino)
Product of Hate – Buried In Violence (Napalm Records)
Prong – X – No Absolutes…