Album Sweep: July 27, 2013 - Part Two...

It's time for part 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 the first part by clicking here, and as always I've included links to buy anything when I can.

Entering the chart at #103 is the collective Preservation Hall Jazz Band, named for the temporarily shuttered concert venue where they played. The revolving lineup of musicians have been releasing albums since 1964, and they're back with That's It...

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The hard rock band the Used arrives at #108 with their five-song EP The Ocean Of The Sky. They have placed three records in the top-10 with both In Love And Death and Lies For The Liars reaching #5...(NSFW for disturbing images)...

The Butcher Babies debut at #112 with Goliath...

The thrash metal onslaught continues as Battlecross from Michigan is in at #140 with War Of Will...

New Yorker Tony Touch, one of the first big mixtape masters, lands at #175 with The PieceMaker3: Return of the 50 MCs. Among the guest rappers are Erick Sermon, Eminem, KRS-One, Xzibit, and Busta Rhymes...

Christian hip-hop artist Dre Murray enters at #189 with Gold Rush: Maybe One Day...

Country singer Travis Tritt turned 50 this year, and his eleventh studio album The Calm After... comes in at #190. Six of his sets reached the top-40 on the big chart, with Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof going to #20 in 1994...

The final entry at #199 is the soundtrack to the sci-fi monster movie Pacific Rim. It contains score music from composer Ramin Djawadi, who has scored movies like Iron Man and television like Games Of Thrones, and guitar work from Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello...

That's it for the second half of this week's crop. Out of these eight the three I'd go for are the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Travis Tritt, and the Used...