Album Sweep: November 1, 2014 - Part Three...

Hey gang, I'm ready to wrap up this week's expanded "album sweep", sampling the records making the Top 200 Albums sales chart in Billboard magazine this week. You can check out the other two parts by clicking here and here, and as before I've included links to buy anything if available along with some of the artists' other major work.

Pop/punk band Set it Off are in at #86 with their second full-length album Duality. It's their first to get to the top half of the chart...

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Heavy metal titan Ozzy Osbourne enters at #90 with CD/2 DVD compilation Memoirs Of A Madman. The first DVD has his music videos, while the other contains various live performances. This is his fifth greatest hits collection to make the chart; in 1997 he went to #13 with The Ozzman Cometh...

The Gaither Vocal Band are in at #95 with Sometimes It Takes A Mountain. Back in 2003 the gospel vets went to #53 with Greatly Blessed...

Canadian indie-pop outfit Stars return at #117 with their seventh effort No One Is Lost. Their last release, The North, went to #48 in 2012...

Death metal act Revocation land their second charting album and highest peak yet with Deathless at #124...

Another thrash metal band, Sanctuary, see their third album The Year The Sun Died become their first charting album at #125..

...while the third death/thrash metal set in a row is at #126 as Rings Of Saturn come in with Lugal Ki En...

Singer/dance Mila J who appeared way back in 1991 in Prince's "Diamonds and Pearls" video as a dancer, arrives at #132 with her EP Made In L.A....

Christian southern rock act the Rhett Walker Band have their first hit on the big chart as Here's To The Ones moves in at #183...

Alternative rock veterans the Melvins are back at #187 with Hold It In. This is only their second record since 1987 to make the chart; back in 2008 they went to #148 with Nude With Boots...

The Red Rocker himself, Sammy Hagar, teams up with guitarist Vic Johnson for the acoustic set Lite Roast at #188. It's a rehash of his earlier solo and work with Van Halen. He's placed six albums in the top-40, with 1987's I Never Said Goodbye reaching #14...

The final new entry of the week at #191 is Christian alt-rock band Sanctus Real with The Dream. In 2010 they reached #76 with Pieces Of A Real Heart....

That's all for the final third of the sweep...out of these eleven the three to check out first are the Ozzy Osbourne, Stars, and the Melvins records...