Album Sweep: June 28, 2014 - Part Two

It's time for the second half of this week's "album sweep", sampling the records making their debut on the Top 200 Albums sales chart in Billboard magazine. You can check out part one by clicking here, and as before I've included highlighted links to buy anything you see, as well as some of the artists' other major work.

Swedish melodic death metal act Arch Enemy ascends to #44 with their ninth studio album War Eternal. It's the highest any of their four charting sets have gone. This set marks their first with new lead singer Alissa White-Gluz...

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Miami hip-hop group ¡Mayday! team up with rapper Murs for Mursday! at #45. It's the best showing for the former, and ties Murs' best with 2008's Murs For President...

Columbus, Ohio-based hardcore punk act Beartooth debut at #48 with their first album Disgusting...

Umphrey's McGee, a progressive rock band from Indiana, comes in at #49 with their eighth album Similar Skin. It's their best showing as yet..

The Vans Warped 2014 compilation album makes it on to your chart at #58...

The hottest ticket on Broadway this year is the redo of Hedwig And The Angry Inch starring Neil Patrick Harris, and the cast album makes the sales chart this week at #61...

The soundtrack to How To Train Your Dragon 2 flies on to the list at #79. It has score music from John Powell and features a track with vocals from Sigur Ros singer Jonsi...

Rapper Ice-T's heavy metal side-project Body Count are back at #102 with their fifth album Manslaughter.   The act's self-titled first album went to #26 back in 1992. Oh, and by the way, Ice-T is 56.

Veteran "hair-rock" band Night Ranger returns at #105 with High Road. In 1985 they peaked at #10 with their third album 7 Wishes...

The Who come back to the chart at #118 with Quadrophenia: Live In London. It's their sixth concert album to make the Top 200; in 1970 the band climbed to #4 with their classic Live At Leeds album. The original Quadrophenia album went to #2 in 1973...

Blues-rock band Rival Sons put their first album on the "big" chart as Great Western Valkyrie enters at #125...

Christian hardcore metal band Wolves At The Gate ascend to #134 with VxV.

The Tony winner for Best Musical (among four others) at this past months' awards show, A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder, enters the chart at #178....

The final new entry of the week at #189 is the soundtrack to 22 Jump Street starring Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill...

That's it for the second half of the new crop...out of these fourteen the three I would go for first are the Hedwig, Rival Sons, and Gentleman's Guide sets....