I listened to some newer albums recently, as well, thought, I can share my thoughts here :D Mostly Rock and Metal stuff...
Ghost Brigade - Until Fear No Longer Defines Us was a brilliant listen from the start to the ending, loved it all the way through. One of the best albums this year imo! I really like the opening track
In The Woods which is an acoustic song and it sets the atmosphere for the entire record - simply awesome. Fav song is probably
Divine Act of Lunacy, because of the drumloop :3
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAqzNZQHtDE
Mute - Thunderblast was great, too. If you like early Rise Against, you'll love this (and their previous album
The Raven). Fast and melodic punk rock with some very epic solos. They're touring in Europe atm but there's no date for Germany >.<
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uhce_G9Iaw
Anthrax - Worship Music was a huge surprise for me. I just recently got into the Big 4 and gave this one a chance and ... was blown. Nearly every song has at least one awesome moment and, yeah just listen for yourself: ->
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6glLYRKy6o (that's not the album version though, still awesome, you won't notice the differences) Can't wait for the new Megadeth now!!
Oh, and on a side note: Because of Anthrax, I also got to know The Damned Things - pretty cool band, check out their newest song
Trophy Widow, which will appear on the soundtrack of the new Batman game...but who cares about Batman, really?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGmorRmrT9o (starts at 0:17)
Dream Theater's new record
A Dramatic Turn of Events was a nice listen, as well. I love those melodic, symphonic and epic styles of metal, gj on this one, never thought, that this could be possible without Mike Portnoy!
Lost Not Forgotten is a masterpiece imo!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usPqh66pQaA
New
Opeth -
Heritage was kinda disappointing for me, there was like...nothing metal-y or heavy, as far as I can remember. Only heard it once though, might give it another chance, because I just noticed there was no metal and erased it from my mind :S
Polar bear Club released a new album, as well, called
Clash Battle Guilt Pride. It's overall relatively slow for a punk record, but that doesn't matter that much in this case because the whole album is like that and so this creates the feeling that it's closed in itself, I hope you know what I mean xD A good listen, 3-4 Tango is my favorite track here
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbE6piKDcY8
Another epic fats and melodic punk release was
Three Chord Society's
Sanguinity - thos guys are actually from Germany, which I found pretty cool :3 Like Mute, they managed to create a record full of cool melodies and as stated above, if you like the older Rise Against stuff, you'll definetely like this band, too But they're pretty damn hard to find online <.<
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cAqU993M6c
besides that, I just listened to
Machine Head - Unto The Locust and I'm just going to say, that this is a must-have for every metal fan, it's simply amazing. I have to listen to it a few more times to get everything it has to offer, but the first listen was very pleasant :)
Still need to hear through
Mastodon - The Hunter. And I read somewhere, that there'll be a new
Tool album this year, can't wait for it, Tool is epic, love the melodies and especially the lyrics, they're such good musicians! xD
That's it for now :X