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By staff
Sunday October 18, 2015
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As many of you will now know Daniel Davis, better known as paradox1216, tragically passed away recently after fighting a long battle with cancer. While I personally had very little interaction with Daniel, the passion that he had for music and life in general was something that was displayed so prominently through his writing and in his interactions with his fellow users.
Since this website’s formation many many moons ago, its success has always been dictated by its userbase. To the point where we have become an online community, able to express ourselves, laugh and get things off our chests with users that we have grown close with over the years. Regardless of your association with Daniel, a loss in the community is a devastating thing. Daniel had a presence that will sorely be missed, and if the comments in the wake of his passing are any indication, he was a user who touched the hearts and minds of everyone he encountered.
Rest in Peace Daniel
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of October 16th 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
!!! – As If (Warp Records)
Alex Bleeker And The Freaks – Country Agenda (Omnian Music Group)
Børns – Dopamine (Interscope)
Chad Valley – Entirely New Blue (Indie Japan)
Chris Walla – Tapes Loops (Trans Records)
Coheed & Cambria – The Color Before…
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By staff
Tuesday October 13, 2015
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Pilot Waves isn’t just Icarus the Owl’s third album- it’s also the innovative pop-punk group’s debut on Blue Swan Records, a label run by Dance Gavin Dance’s Will Swan. While the band’s singer Joey Rubenstein was generous enough to send me a copy of the release a few weeks ago, I regrettably haven’t been able to spend much time cracking the album. But Joey was able to share some thoughts and feelings with me about this release, reasons why Pilot Waves is a different kind of release for Icarus the Owl.
Pilot Waves exists as a balance of light and dark. We pulled our sound in opposite directions- meaning that we wrote the heaviest and lightest songs we’ve ever written. I was going through a tumultuous time while writing the album, and I think the ups and downs in both the music and lyrics are a reflection of that. Some days I would have a very manic headspace, and I’d write a really heavy song. Other days, I would feel serene and write something more uplifting. We talk a lot about waves on this album and it fits perfectly with how the album sounds. Pilot Waves peaks and valleys much like the oscillation of a wave.
Stream Pilot Waves in full below, and pre-order it at the following link: http://smarturl.it/Pilotwaves
Tags: Album Streams, Blue Swan, Blue Swan Records, Icarus the Owl, Joey Rubenstein, Pilot Waves, SputnikMusic
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By staff
Friday October 9, 2015
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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of October 9th 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
Alex G – Beach Music (Domino Recording Co.)
Chris Hadfield – Space Sessions: Songs From A Tin Can (Warner Music Canada)
City And Colour – If I Should Go Before You (Dine Alone Music)
Corb Lund – Things That Can’t Be Undone (New West Records)
Dirty Ghosts – Let It Pretend (Last Gang Records)
Duncan Sheik – Legerdemain (+180 Records)
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – In No Particular Order: 2009-2014 (Community Music)
The Game – The Documentary 2 (Entertainment One Music)
Glenn Mercer – Incidental Hum (Bar/None Records)
Jake Shimabukuro – Travels (Entertainment One Music)
John Grant – Grey Tickles, Black Pressure (Partisan)
Kelela – Hallucinogen (Cheery Coffee Music)
Mayday Parade – Black Lines (Fearless Records)
Nicole Dollanganger – Natural Born Losers (Eerie Orgainzation)
Personable – New Lines(Peak Oil)
Protomartyr – The Agent Intellect (Hardly Art)
Rudimental – We The Generation (Atlantic)
Saintseneca – Such Things (Anti/Epitaph)
Selena Gomez – Revival (Interscope)
St. Germain – St. Germain (Nonesuch)
Toby Keith – 35 MPH Town (Show Dog Universal Music)
W.A.S.P. – Golgotha (Napalm Records)
The Zombies – Still Got That Hunger (The End Records)
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Album Streams:
Alex G – Beach Music
Dirty Ghosts – Let It Pretend
Duncan Sheik – Legerdemain
John Grant – Grey Tickles, Black…
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By staff
Sunday October 4, 2015
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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of October 2nd 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
Avicii – Stories (Island)
Autre Ne Veut – Age Of Transparency (Downtown)
Blitzen Trapper – All Across This Land (Vagrant)
Born Ruffians – Ruff (Yep Roc Records)
Childbirth – Women’s Rights (Suicide Squeeze Records)
Children Of Bodom – I Worship Chaos (Nuclear Blast)
Collective Soul – See What You Started By Continuing (Vanguard)
Darkstar – Foam Island (Warp Records)
Des Ark – Everything Dies (Graveface)
Deafheaven – New Bermuda (Anti/Epitaph)
Eagles Of Death Metal – Zipper Down (T-Boy Records/UMe)
Editors – In Dream (Pias)
Emily Kinney – This Is War (Independent Label Services Inc.)
Fit For An Autopsy – Absolute Hope, Absolute Hell (Entertainment One Music)
Girls Names – Arms Around A Vision (Tough Love)
Great Collapse – Holy War (LOTB Inc.)
Indian Handcrafts – Creeps (Sargent Records)
Janet Jackson – Unbreakable (Rhythm Nation/BMG)
Kylesa – Exhausting Fire (Season Of Mist)
Loma Prieta – Self Portrait (Deathwish Inc.)
Malevolent Creation – Dead Man’s Path (Century Media)
Mercury Rev – The Light In You (Pias)
Nicolas Godin – Contrepoint (Because Music)
Night Birds – Mutiny At Muscle Beach (Fat Wreck Chords)
Queensrÿche – Condition Human (Century Media)
Sevendust – Kill The Flaw (7Bros. Records)
The Sheepdogs – Future Nostalgia (Dine Alone Music)
Shopping – Why Choose?…
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By Sowing
Wednesday September 30, 2015
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Hi there!
It’s a bit of a busy time this season, but I hope you’re all doing well. As a consequence of the busy season, I couldn’t corral all the staffers to contribute, so some writers and/or genres are going to be underrepresented.
This will hopefully change as we gear up for the Year-End list, and perhaps my Lions will actually decide to win a game by December. To help out you non-sports people, I won’t use specific names.
Star Receiver: “Alright, we need to score two touchdowns in two minutes. What are we going to do?”
Quarterback: “I dunno, hopefully we just march down the field and throw it deep to you twice. Let’s see what our offensive coordinator says.”
Offensive Coordinator: “How many time outs we got?”
Head Coach: “Zero. We have no timeouts.”
Offensive Coordinator: “THREE YARD SCREENS UP THE MIDDLE, I GUESS! BUT FIRST LET’S RUN THE BALL TO REALLY SURPRISE THEM.”
I need to adopt a new team.
Anyway, enjoy these last few weeks as we roll into Q4. –Jom
David Maxim Micic feat. Dan Wieten – “Satellite” (08:36)
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Listen if you like: Devin Townsend, The Omega Experiment
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While I absolutely adore ECO, as I adore most of David Maxim Micic’s unreasonably brilliant albums, “Satellite” is undoubtedly its most forward and upbeat rocker. Built around a charming little marimba piece and utilizing the very talented…
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By staff
Sunday September 27, 2015
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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of September 25th 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
Alix Perez – Recall & Reflect (Exit Records)
Apollo Brown – Grandeur (Mello Music)
Black Breath – Slaves Beyond Death (Southern Lord)
Boysetsfire – Boysetsfire (End Hits Records)
CHVRCHES – Every Open Eye (Glassnote)
The Dead Weather – Dodge & Burn (Third Man Records)
The Dears – Times Infinity Vol. 1 (Dangerbird)
De Profundis – Kingdom Of The Blind (Wickerman Recordings)
Disclosure – Caracal (Capitol)
Doe Paoro – After (Anti/Epitaph)
Don Henley – Cass County (Capitol)
Dungen – Allas Sak (Mexican Summer)
Exxasens – Back To Earth (Aloud Music) – Raul Stanciu
Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap (300 Entertainment)
Girl Band – Holding Hands With Jamie (Rough Trade)
Grace & Tony – Phantasmagoric (Self-released)
Huntress – Static (Napalm Records)
JR JR. – JR JR. (Warner Bros.)
Julia Holter – Have You In My Wilderness (Domino Recording Co.)
Kaskade – Automatic (Warner Bros.)
Kurt Vile – B’lieve I’m Goin Down (Matador Records)
Kwabs – Love + War (Atlantic)
Los Lobos – Gates Of Gold (429 Records)
Lucero – All A Man Should Do (ATO Records)
Matthew Good – Chaotic Neutral (Warner Music Canada)
Monogold – Good Heavens (Self-released)
New Order – Music Complete (Mute)
No Devotion – Permanence (Collect Records)
Parkway Drive – Ire (Epitaph)
Patty Griffin –…
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By staff
Sunday September 20, 2015
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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of September 18th 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
Alabama – Southern Drawl (BMG Recorded Music)
Angel Haze – Back To The Woods (Self released)
Annihilator – Suicide Society (UDR)
Atreyu – Long Live (Spinefarm)
Baio – The Names (Glassnote)
Battles – La Di Da Di (Warp Records)
Blackalicious – Imani, Vol. 1 (Black Mines)
The Black Dahlia Murder – Abysmal (Metal Blade)
Blessthefall – To Those Left Behind (Fearless Records)
Bob Moses – Days Gone By (Domino Recording Co.)
Chris Cornell – Higher Truth (UMe)
CocoRosie – Heartache City (Self released)
Crossfaith – Xeno (Razor & Tie)
Darlene Love – Introducing Darlene Love (Columbia)
Darwin Deez – Double Down (Lucky Number Records)
Dave & Phil Alvin – Lost Time (Yep Roc Records)
Dave Rawlings Machine – Nashville Obsolete (Acony Records)
David Gilmour – Rattle That Lock (Columbia)
Destruction Unit – Negative Feedback Resistor (Sacred Bones Records)
Diät – Positive Energy (Iron Lung Records)
Farao – Till It’s All Forgotten (Arts & Crafts)
The Front Bottoms – Back On Top (Fueled By Ramen)
Glen Hansard – Didn’t He Ramble (Anti/Epitaph)
Golden Void – Berkana (Thrill Jockey) – Raul Stanciu
Hecta – The Diet (Merge Records)
Helios – Yume (Unseen Music)
Idjut Boys – Versions (Smalltown Supersound)
Keith Richards – Crosseyed Heart (Republic)
The Kickback – Sorry…
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By staff
Sunday September 13, 2015
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There’s less than 24 hours left until God Is An Astronaut go live at my hometown Tallinn, and I couldn’t be more pumped. GIAA is one of those bands that constantly brings it, every night, every year, any time of the day (though dark is duly recommended). I remember their last year’s show like it was literally yesterday, because it was that memorable. And indeed, why shouldn’t it have been, because as GIAA guitarist Torsten Kinsella puts it, they really focus on bringing their world to the audience and immersing them in it. They’re one of those rare bands who can draw hundreds, if not thousands of people, from all walks of life, into the same room, and give them something truly uniting. No one will leave that room feeling indifferent tomorrow, I can guarantee it beforehand. Even though the timing could have been better, I was lucky enough to get Torsten (big thanks go out to Roman Demchenko from Urban Culture Entertainment here for being the mediator) to give this interview on the fly, while traveling towards Estonia, to share some of his feelings regarding the new album, the 21st century, where God Is An Astronaut is as a band, and what music means to him, among other things. Read on, and if you live in Europe, then don’t forget to catch GIAA on the road this fall, as they’re actively promoting their new album Helios | Erebus, which came out on June 21.
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By staff
Saturday September 12, 2015
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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of September 11th 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
Beirut – No No No (4AD)
Ben Folds – So There (New West Records)
Better Off – Milk (Equal Vision Records)
Brett Eldredge – Illinois (Atlantic Nashville)
Bring Me The Horizon – That’s The Spirit (Columbia)
Craig Finn – Faith In The Future (PTKF)
Duran Duran – Paper Gods (Warner Bros.)
Empress Of – Me (XL Recordings)
Gary Clark Jr. – The Story Of Sonny Boy Slim (Warner Bros.)
Grey Lands – Right Arm (Paper Bag)
Guilty Simpson – Detroit’s Son (Stone’s Throw)
Hollywood Vampires – Hollywood Vampires (UMe)
Jason Heath And The Greedy Souls – A Season Undone (Industrial Amusement)
Jess Glynne – I Cry When I Laugh (Atlantic)
Jewel – Picking Up The Pieces (Sugar Hill)
Leona Lewis – I Am (Def Jam)
The Libertines – Anthems For Doomed Youth (Harvest)
Low – Ones & Sixes (Sub Pop Records)
Michachu & The Shapes – Good Sad Happy Bad (Rough Trade)
Petite Noir – La Vie Est Belle/Life Is Beautiful (Domino Recording Company)
Shannon & The Clams – Gone By The Dawn (Hardly Art)
Slayer – Repentless (Nuclear Blast)
Stereophonics – Keep The Village Alive (Ignition Records)
The View – Ropewalk (Slimstyle)
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Album Streams:
Ben Folds – So There
Bring Me The Horizon – That’s…
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By staff
Friday September 4, 2015
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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of September 4th 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
Against Me! – 23 Live Sex Acts (Total Treble)
Amorphis – Under The Red Cloud (Nuclear Blast)
Animal Collective – Live At 9:30 (Domino Recording Company)
The Arcs – Yours, Dreamily (Nonesuch)
Cruciamentum – Charnel Passages (Profound Lore)
Dâm-Funk – Invite The Light (Stones Throw)
The Dear Hunter – Act IV: Rebirth In Reprise (Equal Vision Records)
Diane Coffee – Everybody’s A Good Dog (Western Vinyl)
FIDLAR – Too (Mom & Pop Music)
Five Finger Death Punch – Got Your Six (Prospect Park Records)
Helen – Original Faces (Kranky)
Iron Maiden – Book Of Souls (BMG Recorded Music)
Jerusalem In My Heart – If He Dies, If If If If If If (Constellation)
Joey Cape – Stitch Puppy (Fat Wreck Chords)
K-os – Can’t Fly Without Gravity (Dine Alone Music)
Lou Barlow – Brace The Wave (Joyful Noise Recordings)
Master Musicians Of Bukkake – Further West Quad Cult (Important Records) – Raul Stanciu
The Money Pit – The Money Pit (BC Music)
Motives – This World, Not Dead, Merely Sleeping (InVogue Records)
Mueller_Roedelius – Imagori (Groenland)
Painted Palms – Horizons (Polyvinyl Records)
Prince – HITNRUN (Tidal Digital Exclusive)
Public Image Ltd. – What The World Needs Now… (PiL Official)
Rob Moir – Adventure Handbook (Underground Operations)
The…
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By staff
Friday August 28, 2015
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Knowing full well that if their identities were to be revealed, a prison sentence at the very least, and maybe even death penalty at worst would be the end result, Al-Namrood, the three piece black metal band from Saudi Arabia, have made no concessions. A group of three non-believers in a country governed by religion; artists honing forbidden crafts; black metallers who in the public eye might as well be black sorcerers. The ultimate musical rebels. To find out more about this obscure and mystical band, who defy all social norms in their country of birth, read the short interview below, conducted via e-mail about a week ago. Starting from today, the 28th of August, Sputnik can also host the video premiere for Al-Namrood’s song “Hayat Al Khezea,” which is from their upcoming album Diaji Al Joor, that will be out on November 27th, 2015 via Canadian-based label Shaytan Productions. The music video is the first ever for Al-Namrood.
So is Al-Namrood literally the only band from Saudi Arabia releasing metal music, or are there other really underground groups as well, who are quietly doing similar things to you guys?
There is a lot of talk on this matter, but we don’t notice any real activity from musicians going on here. While it is mentioned on some website that we have over 20 bands in the country, I question how many of them are really active or still exist. This is worth pointing out…
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By staff
Friday August 28, 2015
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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 28th 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
Ahab – The Boats Of The Glen Carrig (Napalm Records)
Beach House – Depression Cherry (Sub Pop Records) – Rudy K.
Cold Showers – Matter Of Choice (Dais Records)
Defeater – Abandoned (Epitaph)
Destroyer – Poison Season (Merge Records)
Drinks – Hermits On Holiday (Birth Records)
Foals – What Went Down (Warner Bros.)
The Fratellis – Eyes Wide, Tongue Tied (Cooking Vinyl/MRI Entertainment)
Frog Eyes – Pickpocket’s Locket (Paper Bag)
Grandchildren – Zuni (Ernest Jenning)
I See Stars – Phases (Sumerian Records)
The Jet Age – Destroy.Rebuild (Sonic Boomerang Records)
Kahn, Commodo & Gantz – Vol. 1 (Deep Medi Musik)
Liam Corcoran – ROM-DROM (Fontana North)
Mike Krol – Turkey (Merge Records)
Monk Parker – How The Spark Loves The Tinder (Bronzerat Records)
Motörhead – Bad Magic (UDR)
Nile – What Should Not Be Unearthed (Nuclear Blast)
Pentagram – Curious Volume (Peaceville Records)
Silicon – Personal Computer (Weird World)
Soilwork – The Ride Majestic (Nuclear Blast)
Stolen Jars – Kept (Self-released) [Digital Only]
Tad Morose – St. Demonius (Despotz Records)
Tamaryn – Cranekiss (Mexican Summer)
Tijuana Panthers – Poster (Innovative Leisure)
The Weeknd – Beauty Behind The Madness (Republic)
Willis Earl Beal – Nocturnes (Tender Loving Empire)
Yo La Tengo – Stuff Like That…
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By staff
Tuesday August 25, 2015
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There has been quite a pleasant number of interesting Estonian releases this year, for myself at least. White Sparks released an excellent space-themed album called Dark Matter Halo, Paean have refined their prog/death metal sound with Scorn of Eternity and are quickly reaching new heights, Okym Riim just dropped a collection of some real fine hip hop songs on us, Süngehel have finally managed to release their debut album Necromantic Blood, which is full of blasphemous black metal, Epp Kõiv has a nice, varied electronica album out in Heas Mõttes, and Avoid Dave have got the neo-soul corner on lockdown in Estonia with Insert Title. One artist who I didn’t mention in that line, but definitely belongs there as well, is Mauno Meesit, the man behind the synthpop project Sinine, who decided to close his laptop and strum on his guitar instead during the last few years. His new album, and acoustic debut by the name of Closer, is definitely one of the finest Estonian releases of 2015, and probably one of the hardest to categorize as well. By saying it’s an acoustic album, I’m actually saying very little about it. Hence why I got in touch with Mauno some time ago to let him properly introduce us to Closer, and what it’s all about. Take a look.
Hey Mauno! How is the summer so far?
Hi there! I just moved back to Estonia after living in Berlin for the last…
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By staff
Friday August 21, 2015
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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 21st, 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
Adrien Reju – Strange Love And The Secret Language (Zip Records)
Battlecross – Rise To Power (Metal Blade)
Bon Jovi – Burning Bridges (Mercury Records)
Briana Marela – All Around Us (Jagjaguwar)
Carly Rae Jepsen – E·MO·TION (Silent Records/Giant Little Man)
Cocksure – Corporate Sting (Metropolis Records)
Disturbed – Immortalized (Reprise) – Irving Tan
Gardens & Villa – Music For Dogs (Secretly Canadian Records)
Ghost – Meliora (Loma Vista) – Jom
Hate Eternal – Infernus (Season Of Mist)
Jordin Sparks – Right Here, Right Now (RAL)
Kadavar – Berlin (Nuclear Blast)
Kip Moore – Wild Ones (MCA Nashville)
Method Man – The Meth Lab (Tommy Boy Entertainment/LLC)
The Murder Of My Sweet – Beth Out Of Hell (Belle Antique)
Myrkur – M (Relapse)
Noah Gundersen – Carry The Ghost (Dualtone Music)
P.O.D. – The Awakening (T-Boy Records/UMe)
Paul Smith & The Intimations – Contradictions (PIAS)
Publicist UK – Forgive Yourself (Relapse)
Racoon Bandit – Close Your Eyes (Self-Released)
Radkey – Dark Black Makeup (+180 Records)
Rivers Of Nihil – Monarchy (Metal Blade)
The Road Chief – All My Love (Cascine)
Rob Thomas – The Great Unknown (Atlantic)
Royal Headache – High (What’s Your Rupture)
Salvador Santana – Fantasy Reality (Various Music)
Sarah McQuaid – Walking…
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By staff
Saturday August 15, 2015
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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 14th, 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
Bullet For My Valentine – Venom (RCA)
Don Broco – Automatic (Search & Destroy Records)
Gangrene – You Disgust Me (Mass Appeal Records)
The Good Life – Everybody’s Coming Down (Saddle Creek Records)
Grace Potter – Midnight (Hollywood Records)
Melanie Martinez – Cry Baby (Atlantic)
New Politics – Vikings (Warner Bros.)
Pat Green – Home (Greenhorse Music)
Pete Nolan – Easy (Arbitrary Signs)
Stray From The Path – Subliminal Criminals (Sumerian Records)
Soulfly – Archangel (Nuclear Blast)
Teen Daze – Morning World (Paper Bag)
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Album Streams:
Bullet For My Valentine – Venom
Grace Potter – Midnight
Soulfly – Archangel
Teen Daze – Morning World
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