X-Box Music Mop Up: Hard Rock and Metal Releases for February 17, 2015

February 17, 2015

Available through X-Box Music Marketplace:

At The Hollow - What I Hold Most Dear
Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth - Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth
CDC – End
Colossus - Drunk On Blood... (reissue)
Concrete – Solipsist
The Fall of Ghostface – The Secret Ingredient, Part 1
Flamorn – Akashic Fields / Our Souls Are Born Again
Forstora – For All That Will Save or Destroy Us
Frankenstein Rooster - The Nerdvrotic Sounds Escape
Furor Gallico - Songs From The Earth
King Woman – Doubt
Lo! - The Tongueless
Mennen – Above the Line (reissue)
Mennen – Freakalive (reissue)
Mennen – Planet Black (reissue)
Missing Avery – Radioactive Zombie Squirrel from the Future vs Giant Cyborg Octopus from Outer Space
Mourning Mist – Mourning Mist
Outloud – Let's Get Serious
Primitive Man - Home Is Where The Hatred Is
Risk Ray – Thanks for Trying
Salythia - Death D'Core
Sandrider / Kinski - Sandrider + Kinski
Saxon - The Chronicles- Rock 'N' Roll Gypsies Live
Scanner - The Judgement
Sick n' Beautiful – Hell Over Hell
Stormwitch - Season Of The Witch
Sumac - The Deal
Unhold - Towering
Vardan - The Night, The Loneliness
Vulcain – Rock 'n' Roll secours
Wende - The Third And The Noble
Whyzdom - Symphony For A Hopeless God
Wind Rose - Wardens of the West Wind

other new releases:

36 Crazyfists – Time & Trauma
Game Over – For Humanity (reissue)
Sarpantium – Blessed Be My Brothers

Release dates are based on US release dates for physical, digital music, or import release information and subject to change. All titles listed as being on X-Box Music  Marketplace were available on the X-Box Music Marketplace at the time of this post. These releases can be added or removed from the X-Box Music service at any time.

2014 Albums of the Year: 50 - 41

50.
Artist: Andi Deris & The Bad Bankers
Album: Million Dollar Haircuts on 10 Cent Heads
Suggested Tracks: 1. Cock, 5. Don't Listen to the Radio, and 13. Little Lies
Comments: Have to be in the right mood for Helloween but can be in any mood to appreciate this album.

49.
Artist: Black Explosion
Album: Elements of Doom
Suggested Tracks:  3. Blow it Away, 5. D-471, and 8. The Void
Comments: Comes of more of a hard rock album then a doom record but you got elements of Blue Cheer and Sabbath that come across nicely.

48.
Artist: Goatwhore
Album: Constricting Rage of the Merciless
Suggested Tracks: 4. Reanimated Sacrifice, 7. FBS, and 8. Nocturnal Conjuration of the Accursed
Comments: Cajun spiced up blackened death and thrash. A good jambalaya mix of extreme noise.

47.
Artist: Orange Goblin
Album: Back From the Abyss
Suggested Tracks: 1. Sabbath Hex, 4. Demon Blues, and 9. The Abyss
Comments: Didn't know they had gone off to the abyss since been a fan for a good number of years. They continue to wave the flag for the British doom stoner sound for a new generation.

46.
Artist: Carcass
Album: Surgical Remission / Surplus Steel
Suggested Tracks: 2. Intensive Battery Brooding, 3. Zochrot, and 4. Livestock Marketplace
Comments: It actually was a good year for EP's. More bands should do them and cut out the filler. Unfortunately most were made up of tracks that made the full length which made them not as worthy unlike these unused tracks from their return album.

45.
Artist: Exodus
Album: Blood In, Blood Out
Suggested Tracks: 5. Body Harvest, 7. Wrapped in Arms of Rage, and 10. Honor Killings
Comments: Welcome back Zetro. The band continues to bring friendly violent thrashing fun and still no ballads.

44.
Artist: Rentals
Album: Lost in Alphaville
Suggested Tracks: 2. Traces of our Tears, 4. 1,000 Seasons, and 7. Thought of Sound
Comments: I have been ignorant of this band since 20 years ago seeing a video on late night MTV but this was a pleasant journey of alternative rock.

43.
Artist: The Last Vegas
Album: Sweet Salvation
Suggested Tracks: 1. Touch the Sky, 4. Lucky 13, and 8. Death Style
Comments: Gotta love the sleaze rock sound. It is Gouda like a good chunk of cheese.

42.
Artist: Septicflesh
Album: Titan
Suggested Tracks: 2. Burn, 5. Dogma, and 10. The First Immortal
Comments: Symphonic death metal with child choirs through out. So much stuff musically happening there is  always something to find with each listen.

41.
Artist: Rigor Mortis
Album: Slaves to the Grave
Suggested Tracks: 1. Poltergeist, 5. Blood Bath, and 10. Ludus Magnus
Comments: Must have been hard losing two brothers so close together but these guys paid tribute to Mike Scaccia and David Brockie well.

X-Box Music Mop Up: Hard Rock and Metal Releases for February 10, 2015

February 10, 2015

Available through X-Box Music Marketplace:

Abstracter - Wound Empire
Adrenaline Mob - Dearly Departed
Amber Sea - Infantile Vision
Beyond the Styx - Leviathanima
Black Tooth Grin - Psycle
Blacklisted - When People Grow, People Go
Bonz - Broken Silence
Call Of The Void – Ageless
Callisto – Secret Youth
Chapel of Disease – The Mysterious Ways of Repetitive Art
David T. Chastain - The 7th of Never (reissue)
David T. Chastain - The Voice of the Cult (reissue)
The Cowards - Rise To Infamy
Dan Deagh Wealcan - Two Straight Horizontal Lines and the Organized Chaos In Between
The Dreaming - Rise Again
Ekavohs - Wicked and Bloodless
En Esch - Spank!
Exhumed - Gore Metal - A Necrospective
Finsterforst - Mach Dich Frei
Gehennah - Metal Police
Generichrist - Taste of Death
Hate - Crusade Zero
Heaving Earth - Denouncing The Holy Throne
Obscure Infinity – Perpetual Descending Into Nothingness
The Ogre - Idol Icon Black
Outer Heaven - Diabolus Vobiscum
Putrid Offal - Mature Necropsy
Retox - Beneath California
Rwake - Xenoglossalgia: The Last Stage of Awareness
Shredhead – Death is Righteous
Speak Up - Lini Waktu
Thulcandra – Ascension Lost
Zoax - Is Everybody Listening?

other new releases:

Dodsfall - Kaosmakt
Gorelust - We Are The Undead
Monolith - Against The Wall of Forever

Release dates are based on physical CD US or Import release information and subject to change. All titles listed as being on X-Box Music  Marketplace were available on the X-Box Music Marketplace at the time of this post. These releases can be added or removed from the X-Box Music service at any time.

X-Box Music Mop Up: Hard Rock and Metal Releases for February 3, 2015

February 3, 2015

Available through X-Box Music Marketplace:

Alpha Tiger - Identity
Armageddon – Captivity & Devourment
Blind Guardian - Beyond the Red Mirror
Blodspor – A Healthy Doze of Hatred
Chip Z'Nuff - Strange Time
The Clan Destined - In The Big Ending (reissue)
Dead In The Manger – Cessation
Evendim – Old Boozer's Tales
Grimoire – L'aorasie des Spectres Reveurs
Hellish Outcast - Stay of Execution
The Inverted - The Age of Harvest
Kayleth - Space Muffin
Leah - Kings & Queens
Mellowtoy – Lies
Must Not Kill – Unleash Hell
No Stayer - Rogue
Ontogeny - Hymns of Ahriman
Orden Ogan – Ravenhead
Periphery – Juggernaut: Alpha
Periphery – Juggernaut: Omega
Shadowspawn - Ashes Of Sorrow
Slogan – Forgotten Tapes: Anthology 1988 - 1994
A Swarm of the Sun - The Rifts
U.D.O. - Decadent
Winds of Genocide – Usurping the Throne of Disease
Winterage - The Harmonic Passage
Wolfheart - Winterborn (reissue)
Yesterday's Saints - Generation of Viper

other new releases:

Gnaw Their Tongues - Collected Atrocities 2005-2008
Saor – Roots (reissue)

Release dates are based on physical CD US or Import release information and subject to change. All titles listed as being on X-Box Music  Marketplace were available on the X-Box Music Marketplace at the time of this post. These releases can be added or removed from the X-Box Music service at any time.

X-Box Music Mop Up: Hard Rock and Metal Releases for January 27, 2015

January 27, 2015

Available through X-Box Music Marketplace:

Agony Lords / Unions - Split
All the Dead Pilots - Sinister
Angelus Apatrida - Hidden Evolution
Arroganz - Tod & Teufel
Ascension - The Dead Of The World
Battle Beast - Unholy Savior
Beardfish – 4626-Comfortzone
Before Eden - A Realm Reborn
Black Sheep Wall - I'm Going To Kill Myself
By The Patient – Gehenna
Crack House – The Hits Just Keep On Coming
Crematory - Infinity (reissue)
The Cyon Project - Tales of Pain
Dead Kelly - Bushfire
Deathbreed - New World Order
Delta Enigma - Gone by the Dusk
Discourse - Sanity Decays
Dragonhammer – Time for Expiation (reissue)
Engel – Raven Kings
Falloch - This Island, Our Funeral
Falls of Silence - Necromancia
Forced In - Let the Wardance Begin
Funeral For A Friend - Chapter and Verse
Ghoulgotha – The Deathmass Cloak
Grog - L'esercito del male
If These Trees Could Talk - Above The Earth, Below The Sky (reissue)
If These Trees Could Talk - Red Forest (reissue)
Implode – Terra Pericolosa – I of Everything, Chapter II
In Light of us - On Trial EP
Iron Lamb - Fool's Gold
Jorn Lande and Trond Holter - Dracula: Swing of Death
Legion - Animal Within
Level 10 - Chapter 1
Lord Dying - Poison Altars
Lost In Pain - Plague Inc.
Napalm Death - Apex Predator: Easy Meat
Nervecell - Psychogenocide (reissue)
Night Demon - Curse of the Damned
Obscurity - Vintar
On The Ropes - Suppression EP
One-Way Mirror - Capture
Orghanon - Figures in Slow Motion
Pat Travers Band - Live At The Iridium NYC
RVNT - Vulnerable
Sodom - Sacred Warpath EP
Solanum & Epi-Demic - Passages To Lunacy
Venom - From The Very Depths
Virtue Concept - Blaze
Visigoth - The Revenant King
Vivus Humare- Einkehr
Xi-balba - Tierra Y Libertad
Youth Funeral - See You When I See You

other new releases:

Archgoat -The Apocalyptic Triumphator
Avoral - War Is Not Over
The Body and Thou - You, Whom I Have Always Hated / Released From Love
Dragonhammer – Blood of the Dragon (reissue)
Sweet & Lynch - Only To Rise
Voices - London

Release dates are based on physical CD US or Import release information and subject to change. All titles listed as being on X-Box Music  Marketplace were available on the X-Box Music Marketplace at the time of this post. These releases can be added or removed from the X-Box Music service at any time.

2014 Albums of the Year: 60 - 51

60.
Artist: Skindred
Album: Kill the Power
Suggested Tracks: 1. Kill the Power, 7. We Live, and 10. Saturday
Comments: Finally Skindred won me over. Was a big fan of Dub War back in the day and for whatever reason found the offshoot lacking until this record.

59.
Artist: Devin Townsend Project
Album: Z2
Suggested Tracks:  1. Rejoice, 5. Universal Flame, and 8. Silent Militia
Comments: Unfortunately the clearly Ziltoid material dragged the album for me and being a double album hurt it in the end. Props though for giving us loads of material between this and the Casualties of Cool.

58.
Artist: Eyehategod
Album: Eyehategid
Suggested Tracks: 1. Agitation! Propaganda!, 4. Quitter's Offensive, and 9. Flags and Cities Bound
Comments: If you told me these guys would still be kicking it 20 years after I first heard them I would have thought you were nuts.

57.
Artist: Battleme
Album: Future Runs Magnetic
Suggested Tracks: 1. Just Weight, 6. We Get Out, and 10. I am an Lightning Bolt
Comments: Reminded me of the alternative rock I first started getting into my senior year of high school when glam rock wasn't enough.

56.
Artist: Avatar
Album: Hail the Apocalypse
Suggested Tracks: 3. Death of Sound, 6. Murderer, and 10. Something in the Way
Comments: Such a crossover of sounds it can appeal to many if given a chance.

55.
Artist: In This Moment
Album: Black Widow
Suggested Tracks: 3. Big Bad Wolf, 5. Black Widow, and 11. Natural Born Sinner
Comments: Glad a move to the majors hasn't seemed to hurt was expecting more of a melodic record but for now we see they are allowed to do what do and that is a good thing.

54.
Artist: The Muffs
Album: Whoop Dee Doo
Suggested Tracks: 1. Weird Boy Next Door, 9. I Get It, and 11. Lay Down
Comments: It was a really big whoop dee doo to see this band back and in fine form. I know they had done stuff here and there the last 10 years but foolish me took that long to find out what they were doing and 20 years since they were one of the first live shows I saw when I moved to Atlanta.

53.
Artist: These Are They
Album: At the Feast of Seven Funerals
Suggested Tracks: 1. Hell Rides at Dawn, 4. Gospel of a Bullet, and 6. Steeple of Blood
Comments: Far from the first record from this supergroup of sorts with guys who play/ed with November's Doom, Hurtlocker, and others glad to find this slab of death metal goodness.

52.
Artist: Cavalera Conspiracy
Album: Pandemonium
Suggested Tracks: 4. I, Barbarian, 8. Not Losing the Edge, and 11. Deus Ex Machina
Comments: Like I said before it was a good year for the members of the Cavalera family and more to come later.

51.
Artist: Rival Sons
Album: Great Western Valkyrie
Suggested Tracks: 1. Electric Man, 2. Good Luck, and 4. Play the Fool
Comments: Just because they are on a label strongly associated with death metal they should be just as big as the bands doing stuff in a similar vein. If you like Jack White and company raising the banner for rock give these guys a try.

X-Box Music Mop Up: Hard Rock and Metal Releases for January 20, 2015

January 20, 2015

Available through X-Box Music Marketplace:

Banisher - Scarcity
Battleaxe - Power From the Universe
Crucify the Flesh - Bear Fruit
Dead City Ruins – Dead City Ruins
Deserted Fear - Kingdom of Worms
Festation - Perceptions
Georgie Boy - Endless EP
Knuckle Junction - For the Wrong Reason

Kruger – Adam and Steve

Lonewolf – Cult of Steel
Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor

Messiah's Kiss – Get Your Bulls Out!

Midnight Bullet – Lose my Face
My Darkest Fury - Hectic Existence
Once We Killed - If Nature Could Speak

Satan's Host – Pre-dating God: Part 1

Satan's Host – Pre-dating God: Part 2
Santera - Emosi Jiwa
Scargod - Schmerz

Serious Black – As Daylight Breaks

Simus – Vox Vult

Vardan – Verses From Ancient Times

Voices of Destiny – Crisis Cult

other new releases:

Angra – Secret Garden

Arcane – Known / Learned

Biotoxic Warfare – Lobotomized

Breathless – Return to Pangea

Caina – Setter of Unseen Snares

Garroting Deep / For – Void Asceticism

Gnosis – The Third-Eye Gate

Nachtreich / Spectral Lore – The Quivering Lights

Raunchy – Vises Virtues Visions

Release dates are based on physical CD US or Import release information and subject to change. All titles listed as being on X-Box Music  Marketplace were available on the X-Box Music Marketplace at the time of this post. These releases can be added or removed from the X-Box Music service at any time.