New Album Thread

[Tsukekun]

Well, i've been thinking about doing this for awhile.
It's sort of like DaCheat's thread about unheard of bands, except, instead you post new albums from bands using one of the following template(s).

Right now this is just a test to see if we can get the thread started, but remember there a few rules.

#1 This isn't a Warez advertising thread
#2 You must provide a link to the bands, website, myspace, etc.
#3 Please use one of the posted templates to display the info.
#4 New albums only please
#5 NO DOUBLE POSTS (Use the search function to check)
#6 Sufficent information to give the reader an idea of what they're looking at.
#7 Try keep the albumart below 600x600, just to keep the thread tidy, and be sure to spellcheck over a few times.

I'll start off with an example which you can use as a template.
If there are any mistakes, please send me a message.

Band Name: Plain White T's
Release Date: 9/12/2006
Album Name: Every Second Counts
Personal Rating: ****
Website: PLAIN WHITE T'S/2006
Myspace: www.myspace.com/plainwhitets

Track Listing:

01. Our Time Now
02. Come Back To Me
03. Hate (I Really Don't Like You) (Preview)
04. You And Me
05. Friends Don't Let Friends Dial Drunk
06. Making A Memory
07. So Damn Clever
08. Tearin' Us Apart
09. Write You A Song
10. Gimme A Chance
11. Figure It Out
12. Let Me Take You There

Additional Information:

“Tonight I’ll get up on the stage and all my problems seem to go away/Tonight I’ll get up in those lights and I will sing my best for you tonight,” proclaims Plain White T’s frontman Tom Higgenson on “Sing My Best,” from the album All That We Needed.

It’s not uncommon for musicians to experience a cathartic release onstage. But for singer Higgenson, the rush of performance is particularly acute. “Being up there, connecting with the fans – there’s nothing like it,” he insists.

This intense feeling may explain why the Plain White T’s are on the road nine months out of the year, plying their hook-laden alt pop to a devout, ever-expanding fan base.

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[MentaL]

[Tsukekun]

Band Name: New Found Glory
Release Date: 9/19/2006
Album Name: Coming Home
Personal Rating: *****
Website: NEW FOUND GLORY
Myspace: MySpace.com

Track Listing:

01. Oxygen
02. Hold My Hand
03. It's Not Your Fault
04. On My Mind
05. Coming Home
06. Make Your Move
07. Taken by You
08. Too Good to Be
09. Love and Pain
10. Familiar Landscapes
11. When I Die
12. Connected
13. Boulders
14. Make It Right
15. Golden
16. It's All Around You

Additional Information:

“New Found Glory have always been a musical-staple of my summers. Since the release of Nothing Gold Can Stay, so many years ago, it seems that when the weather gets warm the pop-punk goodness of NFG is always close in tow. However, the band's latest album hits us as the summer months fade and the air bends to the onslaught of fall. Incidentally, the band's musical thermometer is still intact. Instead of an album full of summer-fist-pumping-anthems they've released the perfect music by which to watch the leaves fall from the trees."

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Personal Thoughts:

Well, i'd never heard New Found Glory until a couple of days ago.. Was wondering around SOUNDZ for a good album to buy and saw Coming Home by New Found Glory. Now usually I wouldn't randomly buy an album, but it was under the punk section so I thought i'd go for it.

After listening to this I was pretty much happy for the rest of the day, the album blew me away personally.
Wasn't really punk to me, but it gave me that soft feeling listening to it. It's on my playlist for good now!

[Tsukekun]

Band Name: It Dies Today
Release Date: 10/17/2006
Album Name: Sirens
Personal Rating: ***
Website: It Dies Today
Myspace: MySpace.com

Track Listing:

01. A Constant Reminder
02. A Port In Any Storm
03. The Baccanal Affair
04. Sacre Coeur
05. Damsel Of Death
06. Reignite The Fires
07. Black Bile, White Lies
08. Sirens
09. Through Leaves, Over Bridges
10. On The Road (To Damnation)
11. Turn Loose The Doves

Additional Information:
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[MuRdOc]

Band Name: New Winds
Release Date: 2004
Album Name: A Spirit Filled Revolution
Personal Rating: *****
Website: No longer have one...
Myspace: www.myspace.com/newinds

Track Listing:

01 - Slow Motion Holocaust
02 - Manufacturing Consent as the Essence of Democracy
03 - Half-Mast Flag
04 - The Real Judas Syndrome
05 - The Other Player (ya basta!)
06 - Deny Amerikkka Deny
07 - Blood on the Sand
08 - Silence Still Means Death
09 - Stolen Generations
10 - Within Twenty Years
11 - Cain vs Able
12 - For the Sake of the Voiceless
13 - Prayer of the Winds
14 - Who shot Carlo Giuliani?
15 - Dar Al-harb

Additional Information:

New Winds began in Lisbon 7 years ago as a positive hardcore band. With time and as the line-up changed, the band committed itself to these goals: Human, Animal, and Earth Liberation.

Our first release (Around 97) was the 7" "Seeds Of Hope", completely sold-out. We released 2 Cds: The first one, "All Things Are Possible For Those Who Believe", was released around 98 and it is also completely sold out. Back then, the sound was a bit more melodic although the lyrics dealt with the same topics we still speak about at the present date. Around 99-2000 we released the tape "Refusing To Live By Your Lies" which was re-released by Still Holding On from Belgium and then released in South America by the Brazilian Label "78 Life Sudamerica Recordings". In between, we released some live tapes as benefits for Animal Sanctuaries and as benefits for Political Organizations that we deal with. We also included songs in the Commitment Worldwide SxE Compilation and in the Catalyst Animal Rights Benefit CD "The Path of Compassion" . Right now we just have some copies left of the Brazilian version of the "Refusing To Live By Your Lies" that contains 2 Extra Tracks. Right now it has just been released "A Spirit Filled Revolution" by Refuse Records from Poland, our latest CD that comes out with a 168 pages book with tons of infomation about Political Prisoners, explanation of the CD's lyrics, Links and Recommended Reading, texts from the prisoners themselves, interviews, photos, etc...

For the "The Path of Compassion" please contact Catalyst Records at: x :: catalyst records :: x

New Winds isn't just a number of people who usually step on a stage to play music or to incite thoughts regarding issues we care about.

New Winds isn't just 4 people who play instruments. New Winds is a collective of people, a feeling, a way of dedicating your self-being into awareness, into action.

New Winds isn't just us who scream words of revolution. There are too many names to mention when we think about who New Winds is.

Personal Thoughts

This band is one of the best I've heard. They present their thoughts without eufemisms, they just say it. I reckon it will be VERY difficult to get this CD (even on eMule, yes, just did a search an there's no full CD avaliable), though by downloading you would almost be commiting a crime. This CD costs almost no money and the booklet that comes with it is just priceless. Here's a website where you can buy the CD from. It's a Portuguese band but they sing in english and the booklet is in both languages too.

[Iron Maiden]

Band Name: Iron Maiden
Release Date: August 28, 2006 (Spetember 5, 2006 for USA)
Album Name: A Matter of Life and Death
Personal Rating: *****
Website: www.ironmaiden.com

Track Listing:
1. Different Worlds
2. These Colours Don't Run
3. Brighter Than A Thousand Suns
4. The Pilgrim
5. The Longest Day
6. Out Of The Shadows
7. The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg
8. For The Greater Good Of God
9. Lord Of Light
10. The Legacy


Additional Information:
This 72 minute album is most likely the most progressive approach they have taken since the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son album. It is the band's longest studio album (exceeding 1995's The X Factor by approximately one minute) and its average song length (7:12 per track) makes it the longest Iron Maiden album by song average. It exceeds Brave New World's average song length of 6:41.7, and Somewhere in Time's 6:20.6. It's also one of the longest heavy metal albums with global release.


Personal Thoughts
Great fuckin album. Every Iron Maiden fan needs to buy this CD. This is very different from the old Iron Maiden and I must say, it fuckin rocks! UP THE IRONS!!

[DaCheat]

Band Name: Audioslave
Release Date: 9/5/2006
Album Name: Revelations
Personal Rating ***
Website: AUDIOSLAVE
MySpace: www.myspace.com/audioslave

Track Listing:
[quote]
1. Revelations
2. One And The Same
3. Sound Of A Gun
4. Until We Fall
5. Original Fire
6. Broken City
7. Somedays
8. Shape Of Things To Come
9. Jewel Of The Summertime
10. Wide Awake
11. Nothing Left To Say But Goodbye
12. Moth
13. Set it Off (Live)
14. Doesn

[DarkestHour]

Band Name: Disarmonia Mundi
Release Date: 8/22/2006
Album Name: Mind Tricks
Personal Rating: *****
Website: Disarmonia Mundi
Myspace: www.myspace.com/disarmoniamundi

Track Listing:

01. Resurrection Code
02. Mindtricks
03. Celestial Furnace
04. Nihilistic Overdrive
05. Parting Ways
06. Venom Leech And The Hands Of Rain
07. Liquid Wings
08. Process Of Annihilation
09. Last Breed
10. A Taste Of Collapse
11. Mouth For War

Additional Info:
[QUOTE]Disarmonia Mundi is a strange case. Despite possessing a devastating sound that closely resembles that of Soilwork meets In Flames, a severely unstable lineup has rendered the band unknown to many, notwithstanding the fact that without help they can

[Tsukekun]

Band Name: Slayer
Release Date: August 8, 2006
Album Name: Christ Illusion
Personal Rating: ****
Website: Slayer

Track Listing:

01. Flesh Storm
02. Catalyst
03. Eyes of the Insane
04. Jihad
05. Skeleton Christ
06. Consfearacy
07. Catatonic
08. Black Serenade
09. Cult
10. Supremist

Additional Information:
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[Unleashed Hell]

Band Name: Falconer
Release Date: 2005
Album Name: Grime vs. Grandeur
Personal Rating: *****
Website: Falconer - Official Homepage
Myspace: www.myspace.com/falconermusic


Track Listing:
01. Emotional Skyes
02. Purgetory Time
03. I Refuse
04. Humanity Overdose
05. The Assailant
06. Power
07. No Tears for Strangers
08. The Return
09. Jack the Knife
10. Child of The Wild

Additional Information:
Punctual to their almost yearly appointment with musical history, FALCONER come back with their fourth in a row album “Grime vs Grandeur” confirming the continuous writing evolution. In spite of the fact that personally I have remained stuck to the “Falconer”, and “Chapters of deception” albums with the sensational performance of Matthias Blad. Of course, if we want to be rigorously fair, his replacement, Kristoffer Gobel, is doing just fine, and he seems by now totally in harmony with the band (he was enrolled with concise procedures in “Sceptre of deception” and he went almost straight to the studio), while a large proportion of the new compositions are owed to him (at the same time he took care of the verse part). The chronic disease of the member change that has been deploring FALCONER has stiked again and the result is that Magnus Linhardt (bass) and Jimmy Hedlund (guitars) are newly arrived members in the coressponding places of Andres Johansson and Peter Johansson, which have been demilitarized by the mastermind of the band, Steffan Weinerhall (leader of the always popular and unforgettable MITHOTYN). At least, let us wish to the present line-up of the band to prove ideal and be spared of any further blows.
And now to the point: the ten tracks of “Grime vs Grandeur” keep devoutedly to the conditions set by themselves: sparkling riffs full of substantial themes, proverbial rhythm section, fantastic production rivalling of the best that the genre has to show, imaginative changes of rhythm, a few acoustic passages in comparison to the first days of the band, distinct obsession to the roots of Euro power and imagination that overflows every time that a new riff swallows the previous one. Let me note that their course leads to the summit of the most important new representatives of heavy metal, that is in the strategic point around the holy monsters of our music. But, the fact that they are getting nearer to the pantheon doesn’t mean that there is no more room for maturity and improvement. In any case, the album is full of remarkable compositions with the least worthless motives, enlisting in the most precious ones the “Emotional Skies” (ideal introductory track with a catchy refrain), the “Purgatory time” (technique a la RUNNING WILD), “No tears for strangers” (the best performance from Kristoffer, sometimes he touches perfection), “The return” (definite reference to the double solos of JUDAS PRIEST), “Jack the knife” (straight in your face metal hymn), “Child of the wild” (the new hit for the metal clubs all over the world).
Now, it is logical of you to think how the aforementioned can be combined with a downright 4,5 which may disorientate those who have been accustomed to judge and decide having just a look at the grade. It’s very simple, I have great expectations from FALCONER (they were the ones that have set such high standards) so I keep my distances from higher grades awaiting their next steps.
Reviewer: Andreas Stasinopoulos

[jello]

Band Name:Into Eternity
Release Date:October 3rd,2006
Album Name:The Scattering of Ashes
Personal Rating:****
Website:Into Eternity official websiteMySpace:www.myspace.com/officialintoeternity

Track Listing:

1. Novus Inceptum (intro)
2. Severe Emotional Distress
3. Nothing
4. Timeless Winter
5. Out
6. A Past Beyond Memory
7. Surrounded By Night
8. Eternal
9. Pain Through Breathing
10. Suspension Of Disbelief
11. Paralyzed

Additional Info:

The new (fourth) album 'A Scattering Of Ashes', their second for Century Media, is another killer album. Just like the 'Buried In Oblivion', the band managed to make another groundbreaking piece of work. An ultra tight cacophony of sound (every here and then we may compare Into Eternity with the legendary Death) will cut you by the throat, but just as you think it is all too much, a catchy chorus, a groovy riff, or a nice acoustic part is filled in, taking care keeping your attention until the end of the album. Another important part if IE's music are the unique background vocals. They are very high and very catchy, and they make Into Eternity's music very recognisable. However, the most entertaining parts of the album are the instrumental parts. Prog metal in its purest form and I really do not think you will be hearing any better prog music this year! Each song, when listening to the unearthly guitar solos and blasting drums, makes you dazzle on your feet.

The combination of catchy, melodic metal and raging thrash completed with excellent song writing and a perfect sound will certainly gain them a lot of worldwide respect. A tremendous album that deserves to be picked up by a larger public.

Personal Thoughts:

I just bought it after my job and made it spin 2 times.It's an awesome album.Anyone into melodeath, prog metal or even power metal should give'em a try.

[Tsukekun]

Band Name: Darkest Hour
Release Date: 7/10/2007
Album Name: Deliver Us
Personal Rating: *****
Website: DARKEST HOUR
Myspace: darkesthour

Track Listing:

01. Doomsayer (The Beginning of the End)
02. Sanctuary
03. Demon(s)
04. An Etheral Drain
05. A Paradox With Flies
06. The Light at the Edge of the World
07. Stand and Receive Your Judgement
08. Tunguska
09. Fire in the Sky
10. Full Imperial Collapse
11. Deliver Us
12. Closing On The Day

Additional Information:

Having built a reputation as one of the most explosive acts in American extreme music, Darkest Hour returns with yet another good showing in “Deliver Us.” Each of the elements of the band’s sound is emphasized over the course of eleven massive tracks – whether you enjoy the band for the band’s strong sense of dynamics, its focus on melody or the penchant of the group to create insurmountable walls of metallic might, you’ll find this record to be exactly what you expect from Darkest Hour.

Devin Townsend is back behind the boards for “Deliver Us,” his years of studio experience bringing an overpowering feel to the album. Featuring production qualities that put the rhythmic aspects of Darkest Hour front and center, tracks such as “Demon(s)” and “An Ethereal Drain” kick you in the chest with a dose of overwhelming power. Townsend is fast becoming one of the go-to producers in metal – when you hear “Deliver Us,” you’ll know exactly why. Townsend has an acute sense of sonic light and shade that makes the vibrant, driving tones of “An Ethereal Drain” stand out so prominently. As a result of Townsend’s sharp production, Darkest Hour shift gears seamlessly between, colorful melodic breaks to fully-fueled double-kick thumping without a hitch.

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It had been awhile since I'd posted here at RaGEZONE, what better way than to submit Darkest Hour's new album.
If anyone has missed the following major releases, here they are.

Darkest Hour - Deliver Us
Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris

Releases to come that are worth checking out:

Thrice - (Yet to be titled, element album)
Protest the Hero - (Yet to be titled)