NEW ALBUMS
BLEACHERS – TAKE THE SADNESS OUT OF SATURDAY NIGHT
Jack Antonoff; singer, songwriter, and Lana Del Rey & Taylor Swift‘s frequent producer/collaborator, has returned with his third album as Bleachers.
Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night contains the Adult Album Alternative hit, “Chinatown” featuring Bruce Springsteen.
Stream • RCA • 2021
GEEZER BUTLER – MANIPULATIONS OF THE MIND BOX SET
Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler has compiled all three of his solo albums (1995’s Plastic Planet, 1997’s Black Science and 2005’s Ohmwork) into the four disc box set, Manipulations of the Mind, which includes a disc of rarities, demos, outtakes and live tracks.
Stream • BMG • 2021
PRINCE – WELCOME 2 AMERICA
Welcome 2 America is the latest in, what will very likely be, a very long line of posthumous albums from Prince.
Recorded in 2010, and containing a cover of Soul Asylum‘s “Stand Up and Be Strong”, Welcome 2 America is the first studio album to be released by Prince’s estate after the live set, Piano and a Microphone 1983 in 2018, and the demo collection Originals in 2019.
Stream • Legacy • 2021
DEE SNIDER – LEAVE A SCAR
Former Twisted Sister leader, Dee Snider has returned with Leave a Scar, which Blabbermouth.net describes as “simply relentless, delivering giant chorus after giant chorus, and massive riff after massive riff” with “no weak spots or drops in quality”.
Stream • Napalm • 2021
SINGLES / EPs
SEETHER – THE PURGATORY EP
Seether‘s The Purgatory EP contains two versions of “Wasteland” (an alternate version and the original Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum album version) as well as three new, never before heard tracks.
Stream • Fantasy Records • 2021
VOLBEAT – DON’T TREAD ON ME (METALLICA COVER)
Another track from the upcoming The Metallica Blacklist cover album, this time from Volbeat.
Volbeat released their cover of the 1990 song “Don’t Tread on Me,” one of the three versions featured on the tribute album. The Metallica Blacklist covers album arrives September 10th.
Stream • Blackened Recordings • 2021