Tuesday's Metal Releases

Ancestors - Of Sound Mind (Tee Pee)
Arch Enemy - Root Of All Evil (Century Media)
The Atlas Moth - A Glorified Piece Of Blue Sky (Candlelight)
Axxis - Utopia (AFM)
Blessthefall - Witness (Fearless)
Fear Factory - Hatefiles Re-Release (Metal Mind)
Horse The Band - Desperate Living (Vagrant)
Immortal - All Shall Fall (Nuclear Blast)

Joe Perry - Have Guitar, Will Travel (Roman Records)

KISS - Sonic Boom (Zoom)

Lita Ford - Wicked Wonderland 
Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us (Century Media)
Raunchy - Confusion Bay Re-Release (Metal Mind)
Raunchy - Velvet Noise Re-Release (Metal Mind)
Redemption - Snowfall On Judgment Day (Inside Out)
Secrets Of The Moon - Privilegivm (Lupus Lounge)

The Sign Of The Southern Cross - Of Mountains And Moonshine (Season Of Mist)
Steel Panther - Feel The Steel (Republic)
U.D.O. - Dominator (AFM)
Ventana - American Survival Guide Vol. 1 (Trustkill)

Bonus Country Release (None More Country than this!) Toby Keith - American Ride (Show Dog Nashville)

THOUGHTS:  Seems like this week's theme of metal releases is that you must be a equally parts obscure and shitty to put an album out today.  Is it really necessary for Raunchy to re-release 2 cds??  Ummm, no.   Trust me, I am all for the underdogs, but their are plenty of great bands that have drifter into the unknown that I would rather have re-releases.  Remember Icon, Angel and BADLANDS?!  Blue Murder should reform and put an album out, not U.D.O.   Oy!    I must say, it's nice to see Immortal put an album out after all this time.  It's been 7 years,and yea- this album doesn't exactly sound super 'Immortal-ish', but it is good and it is heavy.  Definitely not as thrashy as their past material.  Lita Ford's new album doesn't sound AT ALL like Lita Ford and features her useless yet charming husband, Jim Gillette (remember him from Nitro?).  The best song on that album is SOB which actually holds up pretty well as a new metal song.

And then of course there is KISS.  I don't want to admit it- but the KISS album aint bad at all.  We've all heard 'Modern Day Delilah' a millions times already, but the rest of the album is as good.  Damn it!  It's obviously not groundbreaking, but its fun and sounds like Dynasty era KISS, and some of the 80s stuff.  I am pretty sure Gene was blabbering away about how it is going to sound like 70's era KISS, but no.  It sounds like 80s.

Last thing- Steel Panther is just a good funny spoof band.  Enjoy a video of theirs (the kissing at the beginning is so spitty sounding and gross):