Avatar – Black Waltz (2012: Gain)

Swedes scattershot up

melodeathcore’n’roll mash;

hard to latch onto

http://avatar.net/

Slave Raider – Take the World By Storm (1986: Jive)

Silly pirates play

some plank-worthy schlock and roll -

mentioned silly, right?

http://www.heavyharmonies.com/cgi-bin/glamcd.cgi?BandNum=926&CDName=Take+the+World+By+Storm

Cutty Sark – Heroes (1985: Mausoleum)

Cover says it all

low rent, early brass ring swing

quaintly hamfisted  

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Cutty_Sark/Heroes/6559

Van Halen – A Different Kind of Truth (2012: Inetrscope)

Can’t ignore weak link

Dave being so damn Rothful

let down dirty shame

http://www.van-halen.com/index.html

Orange Goblin – Eulogy for the Damned (2012: Candlelight)

Fuzzed up southern meets

post-bong Cronos in Sturgis

no complaints at all

http://www.orange-goblin.com/framenew.htm

Ghost – Opus Eponymous (2010: Rise Above/Metal Blade)

Seventies throwback

as clean a hippie black mass comes

Satan goes light doom

http://ghost-official.com/

Megaherz – Götterdämmerung (2012: Goldencore/ZYX)

Factory line churns

form-fit, packaged, all parts there

same as all before

http://megaherz.de/eng/