Tuesday's Metal Releases

Baroness - Blue Record (Relapse)

Bowling For Soup - Sorry For Partyin' (Jive)
The Destro - Harmony Of Dischord (Metal Blade)

Destruction - The Curse Of The AntiChrist (AFM Records)
Dismember - Under Blood Red Skies LIVE DVD (Regain)

Edgend - A New Identity (Nightmare)
Future's End - Memoir Of A Broken Man (Nightmare)
Grave Robber - Inner Sanctum (Retroactive)
House Of Lords - Cartesian Dream (Frontier)

King Diamond - Graveyard Re-Release (Metal Blade)
King Diamond - The Spider's Lullaby Re-Release (Metal Blade)
Leaves Eyes - Njord (Napalm)
Lye By Mistake - Fea Jur (Blackmarket Activities)
Lynch Mob - Smoke And Mirrors (Frontiers)
Marduk - Wormwood (Regain)
Narnia - Course Of A Generation (Nightmare)
Otep - Live Confrontation LIVE DVD (Koch)

Skeletonwitch - Breathing The Fire (Prosthetic)
Skyfire - Esoteric (Pivotal)
Theatre Of Tragedy - Forever Is The World (AFM)
Those Who Lie Beneath - An Awakening (Rise)
Ultimatum - Lex Metalis (Retroactive)

Yngwie Malmsteen - Live In Korea LIVE DVD (Rising Force)

THOUGHTS:  Not a shabby week for metal!  There are no superstar chart toppers here, but a bunch of legitimately good bands.   Going down the list, I have to start with Baroness.  One of the most interesting and best metal bands out today.  It's really amazing that I am not a bigger fan of them than I am.  They are sludge metal if ya gotta pick a genre, but Dillinger and Mastodon fans will like 'em.   Up next - The Destro.  When I first heard them I went apeshit over what I heard and named them my Band Of The Week.  The Destro in a nutshell: young classic-thrash revival sounding band that doesn't suck.

Marduk's Wormwood hardly feels new by now- there has been a lot of hype around this album.  In general, I like the album....a lot.  It does sound a bit like Funeral Mist.

Skeletonwitch are badass, but nothing new.  Doing the thrash/death metal hybrid thing.  Nothing brilliant, but fun nonetheless.  I'd check it out if you like that sound.

It's great to see a new Lynch Mob album out.  I didnt expect that to happen, although it does make sense seeing as Lynch hasn't been with Dokken since 1997.  Damn.  The album sounds good, relativetely outdated but good.  Tommy Aldridge on drums sounds great with Lynch's guitar.

Nothing else too special to mention, but any releases by King Diamond are a must-by for newbie metal fans.  House of Lords if just interesting to see release new music.  Remember them?  They used to be that band Guiffria, fronted by Greg Guiffria.  Well, Guiffria morphed into House Of Lords when James Christian took over as frontman.  The band is still very average.  Interesting sidenote- they were on Gene Simmons record label.