Less than a year since its release, Bullet For My Valentine return with a deluxe edition of their self-titled seventh album (Spinefarm Records), adding further value with five additional tracks.

With its dream-pop dance flavors, hip-hop rhythm, and rippling vocal washes, Walshy’s “Long Time” (Sleepover Club Records) delivers an imaginative audio-visual experience.

‘No Longer Human,’ Seattle-based noise-driven hardcore outfit Turian’s fourth album offering, is a kaleidoscope of heavy musical influences.

Soulfly return with the twelfth album of an incredible twenty-five year career. Read our thoughts on ‘Totem’ here.

Draven’s self-released ‘Abyssal Arcana’ is a really strong introduction to horrorsynth. Strap on your chainsaws, pack your Ouija boards and dive right in.

Lathe’s ‘Tongue of Silver’ (Grimoire Records) is a welcome soundtrack to the increasingly sweltering summer and will keep the afterglow of its scorching sonic burn in your mind even while the winds of winter begin to creep into your room at night.

An album written to fuck with every notion you have about heavy music, Ithaca’s ‘They Fear Us’ (Hassle Records) is going to twist and stab at every nerve and sense you have.

Simply, ‘Freedom’ (BMG) isn’t old Journey, and it’s not new Journey, and you can’t compare the two. It’s a new band with an old attitude that still kicks ass!

Wow! Kimberly Morgan York has it going on. ‘Keep on Goin’’ (Team Clermont) offers slow, meandering, melancholic songs, as well as buoyant, compelling songs.

Read our (positive) thoughts on WAKE’s latest cinematic slab of gut-wrenching black metal/grindcore, ‘Thought Form Descent.’

Bananarama’s ‘Masquerade’ is a fun record, brimming with energy and vitality. It’s a welcome album for the top-down road trips and beach parties in which we’ve got mere weeks left to indulge.

At once profoundly personal and intimate, Late July’s new single “Sober” shivers with pathos, hints of nostalgia, keen hope, and unbridled desire.