Back on Top!!!

Papa Roach

I typically hate getting my new issue of Rolling Stone simply for the fact that it is usually filled with drudge, more politics than music these days; probably why I will be ditching my subscription when it comes to end in another 5 years. At the end of every issue it lists the top 40 albums for the 2 weeks, and for the end of Sept 30th's issue I was super duper happy fun time to discover that a metal record was on top. Disturbed: Asylum. David Draimen, possibly the angriest man in the world has done it again, and frankly I own the album and it deserves to be there. Pop princesses beware, there are 3 others on the list as well! Avenged Sevenfold, Papa Roach, and Iron Maiden all have places in the top 40.

Begging the question will hard rock and metal regain it's once famed late 80's reign?  I'm thinking no. That is really not the point. There has been such a resurgence of quality hard rock and metal music that I have never been flooded with such joy on what to listen too. It is wonderful feeling to know that most of the new music coming out is by vetran artists. In fact here are the top 10 recently released albums you should go out and snatch up right now:

• Avenged Sevenfold : Nightmare
• Papa Roach : Time For Annihiliation
• Iron Maiden : Final Frontier
• Disturbed : Asylum
• Sevendust : Cold Day Memory
• Stone Sour : Audio Secrecy
• Hellyeah : Stampede 
• Buckcherry : All Night Long
• Digital Summer : Counting The Hours
• (And just for good measure) Pantera : 20th ann Cowboys From Hell

And please buy the whole album, not some single. That is what makes metal heads different from the poppers.

One final note on all this; billboard announced today that Linkin Park's new album debuted at #1.