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Seether Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray (2011) Top Seller
Shaun Morgan seems angry again. On Seether's 2011 opus, Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray, disillusionment, anger, and pain are central themes. Morgan's writing has always felt real, offering up some of the genres better moments with 2005's Karma ...
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Evanescence Evanescence (2011) Top Seller
The eponymous third studio album from the Little Rock, Arkansas-based goth rock outfit, was produced by Nick Raskulinecz (Rush, Foo Fighters, Marilyn Manson) and preceded by the soaring first single "What You Want." The 12-track Evanescence is set to drop ...
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Adelitas Way Home School Valedictorian (2011) Top Seller
Home School Valedictorian, the Las Vegas-based modern rock outfit Adelitas Way's sophomore effort, polishes the already slick foundation on which the band built their 2009 debut. Bolstered by a radio-ready, appropriately bitter first single, "Sick," a movie trailer-ready, Killers-esque anthem ...
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Young The Giant Young the Giant (2011) Top Seller
The West Coast jazz-evoking album jacket of Young the Giant's self-titled debut doesn't exactly paint an accurate picture of the California quintet's breezy modern rock sound, but it does complement it quite nicely. Here's a band signed to a heavy ...
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Pop Evil War of Angels (2011) Top Seller
Based out of the industrial, lakeside town of Muskegon, Michigan's Pop Evil specialize in the kind of hard-hitting, relatively simplistic, AOR rock that dominates radio stations with names like "The Hammer" and "The Grind." Cut from the same pair of ...
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Kiss Destroyer (1976) Top Seller
Digitally remastered by Joseph M. Palmaccio at Sterling Sound, New York, New York.
Before DESTROYER, Kiss' studio albums were only moderate sellers. But the band's concerts were selling out regularly, and 1975's ALIVE! album had gone gold, putting Kiss on the ...
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Dokken Broken Bones (2012) Top Seller
Dokken have been touring and recording since there arrival on the rock scene in the early '80s and are now delivering their 11th studio album. "Broken Bones" is a true return to their classic sound, following the path that Dokken ...
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Lacuna Coil Dark Adrenaline (2012) Top Seller
Six albums in, Lacuna Coil have proven themselves more than worthy of both the attention of commercial rock radio and the adoration of the progressive metal community.
Italy's greatest musical export, LACUNA COIL, has returned with the massively anticipated, new full-length ...
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Steve Harris British Lion (2012) Top Seller
As one of the most influential bass players in heavy metal, it should come as no surprise that Iron Maiden's Steve Harris' instantly recognizable galloping eighth notes ride high in the mix on his first ever solo outing. British Lion, ...
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Bon Jovi Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection (2010) Top Seller
New Jersey rockers Bon Jovi have had their fair share of budget-priced compilations and greatest-hits collections, but this is their first "Ultimate" collection. Comprised of 28 hits and fan favorites as well as four brand-new tracks, Greatest Hits: The Ultimate ...
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Flower Kings Banks of Eden (2012) Top Seller
The Flower Kings enjoyed a rather long break following 2007's The Sum of No Evil album and the tour that ensued, with individual members undertaking solo projects or simply laying low, recharging their creative batteries after years of grueling, non-stop ...
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Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage (2012) Top Seller
Now signed to the Roadrunner Records label that introduced the world to the brutal sounds of Sepultura, Machine Head, and Fear Factory, French metal quartet Gojira's fifth studio album, L'Enfant Sauvage, is as ferocious, frenetic, and fearless as anything their ...
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Circus Maximus Nine (2012) Top Seller
For a band whose first album -- 2005's rather unimaginatively named The 1st Chapter -- was modeled so closely on Dream Theater's melodic progressive metal blueprint, Norway's Circus Maximus experienced very little resistance from the brutally judgmental prog metal intelligentsia. ...
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Steve Vai Story of Light (2012) Top Seller
Guitar virtuoso Steve Vai's music has its roots in some unknown interstellar worlds. From his earliest mid-'80s solo output, Vai's largely instrumental tricked-out guitar compositions found some strange middle ground between heavy metal bliss and space-traveling experimentalism. Released in 2005, ...
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Whitechapel Whitechapel (2012) Top Seller
A deathcore band that often feels more "death" than "core," Whitechapel channel a sonic maelstrom of destruction on their eponymous fourth album, Whitechapel. Whitechapel is one of the few bands in the genre willing to break away from the tired ...
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Nile At the Gate of Sethu (2012) Top Seller
Recording information: Serpent Headed Studio, OTB; Sound Lab, Columbia SC.
Personnel: Karl Sanders (vocals, guitar, baglama, saz, keyboards); Dallas Toler-Wade (vocals, guitar); Jon Vesano, Mike Breazeale, Jason Hagan (vocals); George Kollias (drums).
Audio Mixer: Neil Kernon.
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Great White Elation (2012) Top Seller
Recording information: Vividtone Studios.
Photographer: Shelley Wilson.
Personnel: Terry Ilous (vocals); Michael Lardie (guitar, keyboards); Mark Kendall (guitar); Audie Desbrow (drums).
Audio Mixers: Mark Kendall; Michael Lardie.
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Kreator Phantom Antichrist (2012) Top Seller
The 13th studio album of Kreator's enviable 30-year career, 2012's Phantom Antichrist is also the fourth long-player released since the group's triumphant rebirth to thrash in 2001 -- a move that coincided almost perfectly with a worldwide genre revival driven ...
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Shadows Fall Fire from the Sky (2012) Top Seller
Shadows Fall alienated some fans with 2007's Threads of Life. They'd signed to Atlantic and brought the hooks and melodies -- always part of their inherent approach -- to the fore with a production style that was very close to ...
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Threshold March of Progress (2012) Top Seller
No strangers to adversity over the course of their respected, but often turbulent 20-year career, British progressive metal outfit Threshold endured a truly traumatic blow upon the untimely passing of longtime vocalist Andrew McDermott from liver failure in 2011. But, ...
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Deuce Nine Lives (2012) Top Seller
Rebelling against mom and dad must be hard when they're dressed in Pixies and MC5 shirts, but if there's one reason that generation doesn't understand this one's taste in rebellion, it's that the sex, drugs, and rock & roll are ...
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Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity (2012) Top Seller
California death-grinders Cattle Decapitation will never be accused of subtlety, but there are moments on the typically grotesque Monolith of Inhumanity, their seventh long-player, that are unabashedly melodic. The band's penchant for setting off relentless explosions of BPM shrapnel, while ...
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Dethklok Metalocalypse: Dethalbum III (2012) Top Seller
Though Metalocalypse might focus on their ridiculous bombast of heavy metal, it's clear that it comes from a place of love, poking fun at the genre and its tropes in a way that only a true metal fan can. And ...
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Devin Townsend / Devin Project Townsend Epicloud (2012) Top Seller
About the only thing that one can count on from Devin Townsend is not to count on anything at all. His career has continually subverted all previous expectations. Epicloud is the fifth release by the Devin Townsend Project. The previous ...
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Insane Clown Posse Mighty Death Pop (2012) Top Seller
Being a "love 'em or hate 'em" group, it was about time the prolific and conceptual Insane Clown Posse got around to a "love 'em or hate 'em" album, and while this rap-rock battle cry called The Mighty Death Pop ...
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