Album Sweep: July 7, 2012 - Part Two...

Hey everyone, it's time for part two of this week's "Album Sweep" of the new sets making their appearance on this week's top-200 chart in Billboard magazine.

at #47 is Tennessee-based deathcore-metal band Whitechapel, with their self-titled fourth album. This is definitely not for delicate ears....

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It must be deathcore week, because under that at #62 is Salt Lake City's Chelsea Grin with Evolve, a 5 song EP. Again, NOT FOR DELICATE EARS! (wow, I'm glad I'm here alone) And considering the band's named for a Scottish mode of torture, really really creepy...

Now on a (thankfully) different note, this years Grammy winner for best new artist, Bon Iver, are back at #87 with an exclusive live set on iTunes that features six songs from their last self-titled album, along with a cover of Bjork's "Who Is It"...

One notch down at #88 and we're back to hardcore rock, with LA band The Ghost Inside and Get What You Give...(again, LOUD stuff)

...while Minnesota hardcore group For All Those Sleeping (ironic, no?) debut at #95 with Outspoken... (it must be the week for this music) at least this is somewhat more coherent than the others...not much, though...

And NOW, to calm things down, his first album in eight years, And So It Goes, puts Don Williams back on the chart at #100 with guest stints from Alison Krauss and Keith Urban...

And for some rock I can handle, Welsh group Lostprophets see their UK top-10 album Weapons debut at #145, and it's quite hard and edgy enough for me, thank you...

Amazon is good with having extreme-budget classical titles, and now that exclusive titles can hit the Billboard chart, there's been a few that made it, like this week's 100 Must-Have Movie Classics, which has renditions of classical pieces from movies like 2001, All About Eve, Minority Report, and more, 100 tracks at 2.99 ain't bad, and the collection is in at #152...

Michigan-based gospel artist Byron Cage has his latest, Memoirs Of A Worshipper, enter at #155 to battle all that deathcore above...

..and the final debut this week is, yes, another hardcore set, with a band named Dying Fetus, from Maryland, with Reign Supreme at #186 (and NO, this is NOT another gospel set...)

Oh my.

After this set of ten, I feel both really old and creeped the fuck out at the same time. But hey, there's a LOT of guys into that, so go right for it. As for me, I recommend the Bon Iver and Lostprophets sets, and you can't beat the 2.99 Movie Classics sets for some background music, eh?

Peace Out.