Edguy – Age of the Joker (2011: Nuclear Blast)

Competently drab
bummer bigger ‘cause you know
these guys rocked yore

http://www.edguy.net/eng/music.php

Ocoai – The Electric Hand (2011: Missing Words)

Sit back, float away
soundscape progdoom meanders
where tunes go as feel

http://www.missingwords.com/electric_hand/index.html

http://www.myspace.com/ocoai

Battlelore – Third Age of the Sun (2005: Napalm)

Middle Earth campaign
slogs on, battles few and far,
camp humdrum more so

http://www.battlelore.net/site/?page_id=12

Plasmatics – No Hope for the Wetched (1980: Cherry Red)

Raw punkified noise
high on brash acts, low on skill
muddled mess o' bland

http://www.plasmatics.com/

http://www.allmusic.com/album/new-hope-for-the-wretched-r46769

Scott Weiland – Most Wonderful Time of the Year (2011: Atlantic)

Lump of coal humbug
Hipster wrapping hides joyless
set of lounge standards

http://www.scottweiland.com/home

http://scottweiland.fanfire.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Store.woa/wa/product?sourceCode=SWEWEB&sku=SWE53225