Here are the albums I'm aware of being released tonight at 9:00 PDT that personally interest me and why.
The Hu-The Gereg: This is a Mongolian Rock group who will open for BabyMetal at the show I'm seeing next month and this is their debut album. Their four singles are worth listening to at least for a trial, the group specializes in making bass scale music, the sounds low and deep, but they don't use loud guitars or drums to punctuate it, so it's low, but not aggressively loud.
The Defiants-Zokusho: Frontiers Records SRL, an Italian music company, has contracts for quite a few 80s hard rock and heavy metal groups, such as Stryper, Whitesnake, The Graham Bonnet Band and Geoff Tate's projects. They'll also make supergroups from these bands, such as Spirits of Fire, Sweet and Lynch and Dream Child. The Defiants are made of members of Danger Danger and the music from this album thus far is good 80s-style hard rock.
Blacktop Mojo-Under the Sun: Blacktop Mojo is a Southern Rock band I tried backing on PledgeMusic once, though I ran too low on funds before they reached 100% and had to cancel. I've since been able to track down some of their music on Spotify. The band sounds good, the music is fierce and aggressive, and may be Southern Metal in some cases, like Molly Hatchet or Blackfoot. They've made a good cover of Aerosmith's "Dream On" as well, so this album sounds interesting.
Kris Barras Band-Light it Up: This is a British Blues Rock band. Their guitar work is reminiscent of ZZ Top, and Amazon.com actually says Billy Gibbons is in the band, though the music video clips don't show him. Regardless, this is good Blues Rock and the best new Blues for this year I've heard on Spotify.
Alice Cooper-Breadcrumbs: This is actually Alice Cooper's second release this year, he released a Hollywood Vampires album back in June. I always enjoy his music, especially the wide variety of guest stars, but this EP seems to just feature his own band. That's still good, though, because Alice Cooper has an ear for talent and his recording band is great at hard rock and heavy metal.
KXM-Circle of Dolls: A supergroup made of Ray Luzier, the drummer for Korn, Doug Pinnick, the bassist and singer for King's X, and George Lynch, the guitarist for Lynch Mob. You can see they got their name by combining letters from the bands they're in. Doug Pinnick is a great singer, I first heard him do a hard rock cover of "Taxman" with Steve Lukather on guitar, though most retail sources credit it to Geoff Tate, Michael Wilton, Craig Goldy, Rudy Sarzo and Simon Wright. That group instead did the great metal version of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" on the same album, which is up with Elton John and The Flaming Lips with Miley Cyrus for my favorite covers of that song. Anyway, KXM is a good hard rock band, and has produced some really great rock and roll on their first two albums. The singles for this one are pretty good, too and I'm hoping to find even more great rock on album as a whole.
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