Plagues of Babylon

- straight up heavy metal.

Drive

- need something simple to cleanse psyche.

Colored Sands

- I'm ready for brutality.

I Never Wear White (www.youtube.com)

Veto

- re-rate.

Lúnasa

- for a while... (alaskapac.centertix.net)

The Last Kind Words

Moonlight Sonata

- I transcribed a good portion of this for 7-string guitar once upon a time.

I want to buy a better desk.

First Strike Still Deadly

- a batch of re-recordings... likely to fulfill some sort of record contract.

Carving Desert Canyons

- time for some instrumetal.

Dance of Death

- re-rate, I believe. Also, the worst cover art (upload.wikimedia.org)of all time.

"I crashed my car into the bridge. I watched, I let it burn."

Valley of Smoke

- sluuuuuuuuuuuuddddddddgggggggge

Relentless Reckless Forever

- I believe this is a re-rate.

Alive at Red Rocks

- just the bonus disc

Watched Walk the Line over the weekend, now I have Johnny Cash songs stuck in my head, and his albums on repeat on my music player.

Retribution

- it's been a long time since I listened to these guys... their lead singer has the most ridiculous dreads ever.

Killadelphia

- American metal.

Kezia

- Canadian metal.

Lazarus

- French metal.

Messe I.X-VI.X

- Ulver makes music of many genres. This one is almost purely orchestral.

In the Shadow of Swords (trials.bandcamp.com)

- another unsigned metal band. This time, thrashy metalcore.

Topping:

Friday

The Human Equation

- so many big names in prog on this release, it's mindblowing. And it's a rock opera, no less.