Album Sweep: June 29, 2013 - Part Two...

Hey gang, it's time for round two of this week's "Album Sweep" sampling the records spending their first week on Billboard magazine's Top 200 Albums chart. You can check out part one by clicking here, and as before I've included links to buy anything you like if possible.

As the first part started of heavy with Black Sabbath, so does part two, as "melodic death metal" outfit Children Of Bodom come in at #54 with Halo Of Blood. They are one of the biggest rock acts in their native Finland, where they have topped the album chart four times; in America, they have one top-40 record so far with 2008's Blooddrunk...(NSFW)

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New Yorker "Action Bronson", an Albanian-American chef who has hosted his on online cooking show before turning to music, pops in at #63 with the EP SAAAB Stories Produced By Harry Fraud. It's his first set to make the chart...Yeah, this happened (NSFW)..

Jazz saxophonist (and 'out' musician) Dave Koz is back at #84 with Dave Koz & Friends: Summer Horns, featuring  fellow sax-players Gerald Albright, Mindi Abair, and Richard Elliot. It's his highest-charting album yet, and second to make the top-half of the chart - in 2007 his At The Movies went to #86...

West Palm Beach-based alt-rock band Surfer Blood debut at #127 with their second album Pythons. Their first, Astro Coast, went just a little higher (#124) in 2010...

"Post-metal" act Deafheaven from San Fransisco arrive at #130 with their sophomore studio set Sunbather...

Progressive metal band Scale the Summit are from Houston, and their fourth album The Migration makes the chart at #131...

Christian rock group The Almost are back at #142 with their third album Fear Inside Our Bones. Their debut, Southern Weather, reached the top-40 in 2007...

Rapper Jarren Benton debuts at #152 with My Grandma's Basement, his first album...(NSFW)

Boston indie-folk singer/songwriter Aoife O'Donovan comes in at #159 with her first full-length solo album Fossils...

Alt-rock group Citizen are in at #171 with Youth....

A month ago, the Christian music compilation To Mom With Love came on the chart. This week, it's companion To Dad With Love arrives at #174...

Rapper Prodigy from Mobb Deep teams up with producer the Alchemist at #175 for Albert Einstein....(NSFW)

New Zealand newcomer Lorde enters at #191 with her EP The Love Club which went to #2 in her home country...

The final debut of the week at #195 is Texan singer-songwriter Bob Schneider with Burden Of Proof.

That's it for the second helping of this week's new crop. Out of these fourteen the three I'd recommend first are the Lorde, Dave Koz, and Aoife O'Donovan sets....