Every Tuesday–the day that new music comes out–we will be listing the hard-rock and metal releases that hit stores, and every Wednesday we will be offering you, the fans, the chance to pick the Album of the Week. Below, check out the albums, EPs, singles, and DVDs that came out this week; pick your favorite, and feel free to vote as many times as you want. Voting ends on Monday, September 17, at noon, when the results will be announced.
UPDATE: The poll is closed. Thanks for your vote. To view the results, click here.
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It’s Tuesday–the day that music comes out–and this one sees shit from Blaqk Audio, Gallows, Quicksand, and more hitting stores. Check out the list of releases below and let us know which ones you have already or are planning to pick up.
- Alastor – Destiny
- Alastor – Syndroms of the Cities reissue
- Altar of Oblivion – Grand Gesture of Defiance
- Beastwars – Beastwars
- Blaqk Audio – Bright Black Heaven
- Castle – Blacklands
- Circle II Circle – Full Circle: The Best Of
- Cloudscape – New Era
- Cryptopsy – Cryptopsy
- Culture – From The Vault: Demos & Outtakes 1993-1998
- Deserters – The Slow Rhythms Of A Dead-Beat
- Evocation – Dead Calm Chaos reissue
- Evocation – Tales From The Tomb reissue
- Ex Deo – Caligvla
- Flotsam & Jetsam – Doomsday For The Deceiver reissue
- Funeral Mist – Devilry/Havoc reissue
- Funeral Mist – Salvation reissue
- Gallows – Gallows
- Grave Digger – Clash of The Gods
- The Graviators – Evil Deeds
- Harm – The Nine
- Hoobastank – Fight or Flight
- Hooded Menace – Effigies of Evil
- Kittie – Not So…Safe
- Legacy of Disorder – Last Man Standing
- Lifeforms – Multidimensional
- NOFX – Self Entitled
- Orchid – Heretic
- Pagan Altar – The Time Lord EP
- Pantera – Original Album Series 5-CD collection
- Quicksand – Slip vinyl reissue
- Riot – Fire Down Under reissue
- Serpentine Path – Serpentine Path
- Set Free – Set Free
- Svolk – Nights Under The Round Table
- Texas In July – “Bed of Nails” single
- Therapy? – A Brief Crack Of Light
- Threshold – March Of Progress
- Wodensthrone – Curse
- ZZ Top – La Futura
With their new album, I’ve Failed You (eOne), out today, Kittie have released a new video for the track “We Are the Lamb.” The song is the second single to be taken from what is the all-female metallers sixth full-length. Don’t forget to tell us what you make of the video in our comments section.
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Kittie have released a new trailer for the upcoming video “We Are the Lamb.” The track is taken from the band’s latest album, I’ve Failed You, due for release on August 30. Check out the clip and let us know your thoughts in the comments section.]]>
REVOLVER MAGAZINE’S TRIBUTE TO THE TROOPS
BRAND NEW ISSUE FEATURES SUCH BANDS AS
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, DISTURBED, AND GODSMACK SALUTING THE ARMED FORCES
NEW INTERVIEWS WITH AMERICAN IDOL’S JAMES DURBIN AND LEGENDARY VOCALIST SEBASTIAN BACH
PACKAGED EXCLUSIVELY WITH 18 FREE “BIG 4” COLLECTIBLE TRADING CARDS
Hard-rock and heavy-metal musicians “Salute the Troops” in the new issue of Revolver magazine, available everywhere on August 16 in anticipation of the 10-year anniversary of the 9-11 tragedy. Inside, cover stars Five Finger Death Punch talk about how their 2010 trip to the Middle East to play for U.S. troops helped closer together. 5FDP’s third album is set for release this October 11. Also, artists including Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed, Godsmack, Staind, and Shinedown recount their experiences on U.S.O. tours abroad, and members of Tool, All That Remains, and others share stories of their times serving in the military.
The issue also includes a feature on American Idol contestant James Durbin, who urged the United States to “give metal a chance.” He discusses how he discovered metal by hearing singer Ronnie James Dio on the radio, what performing on Idol alongside artists like Zakk Wylde and Judas Priest was like, and what the future holds for him.
The jam-packed issue also features articles on Megadeth and former Skid Row singer and reality TV star Sebastian Bach, as well as Metallica, the movie Fright Night, Theory of a Deadman, Kittie, Chimaira, Eyes Set to Kill, and others.
As a special exclusive bonus, the newsstand edition of the new issue of Revolver contains limited-edition baseball cards of the “Big 4” bands of thrash metal—Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax—who are set to play the historic first metal show ever at Yankee Stadium on September 14. The cards are modeled after the classic Topps baseball cards from 1986, the same year these four bands released their metal masterpieces. View the cards here.
For all this and more, check out the September/October issue of Revolver magazine, which is available on newsstands everywhere from August 16 to October 10, and online right here.
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Kittie are releasing their sixth album, I Failed You (eOne), on August 30. But you can hear their song, “Empires (Part 2),” for the first time right here. Frontwoman Morgan Lander fills us in on the song below. Also, look for a feature on Lander’s “Favorite Shit” in the Revolver coming out August 16. Let us know what you think of the song in the comments.
REVOLVER What’s this song about?
MORGAN LANDER “Empires (Part 2)” is about the fall of something that at one time was considered great and indestructible. It likens a union, or relationship to the idea of a great empire, and as history has taught us, even the most mighty and powerful of empires crumble and fall eventually. Nothing is forever.
What is its relationship to the album’s “Empires (Part 1)”?
Well, musically, “Empires (Part 1)” and “(Part 2)” are based around the same guitar chords and structure, and “(Part 1)” is more like a soft, acoustic introduction to the fury of the second part, much like a time of peace before unrest.
Which part of it did you come up with first?
“Empires (Part 1)” was the original concept, as written by Tara on her acoustic guitar. From there we built it into a two-part song, and one that fit with the intensity of the album, which made sense for Kittie to do, musically.
Was this an easy song to write or record?
It was really a very easy song to both write and record. Most of the main ideas were already in place, as Tara had demoed a few sections of it previous to our collaboration as a band. We all just work so well together when it comes to writing, that once we get going, ideas just flow out of us. It was relatively pain free, and the end resulted in one of my favorite songs on the album!
What sort of feedback have you gotten on this song so far?
So far, so good. People that have heard it, really dig the vibe of the song, and the chorus is so catchy! I can’t wait for the masses to hear it.
To celebrate the careers of Nikki Sixx and Mötley Crüe, Revolver put the badass bassist on the cover of the March/April issue, out now. We also got some musicians to weigh in on their favorite songs by Sixx and the Crüe. Today, Kittie drummer Mercedes Lander (second from left) fills us in on her favorite Crüe tune.
“Kickstart My Heart”
“One of my fondest memories of my best friend, Yasmina, occurred during a night of debauchery and, on my part, sober designated driving. To make a long story short, ‘Kickstart My Heart’ was blasting as Yasmina barfed out of my car door as horrified pedestrians and motorists caught a glimpse of Jäger barf coming out of her nose and mouth! Later that week we went to see Crüe in Toronto and high-fived through the whole song! Best night ever!”
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