It's so nice of Death Angel to think of me on my birthday. This San Francisco thrash band gave a fitting name to their third album, 1990's Act III (one of my all-time favorites, by the way), and promptly exited stage left when a tour-bus accident took them off the road long enough to splinter the band. Just as they were on top of their game, garnering praise for a fantastic piece of metal, they broke up and disappeared. Act III, lucky for us, was so solid and mature that it has stood the test of time. Maybe that's why, after nearly 14 years, the band responded to the unending praise for that long-ago career and returned for what many, including me, thought might be only a curtain call - 2004's killer The Art Of Dying.
Killing Season, like The Art Of Dying, sounds like the majority of the 90s barely happened at all, and comes packaged with a DVD of a 2003 concert in Strasbourg. You can't really go too far wrong here - if you somehow don't like the new music, the DVD will have much to offer, since the concert will feature a good amount of older material. They even thought of you on my birthday.
Here are all of this week's new album releases courtesy of All Music Guide:
Erykah Badu
New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War
Universal Motown
Neo-Soul, Urban, Contemporary R&B
Carl Craig
Sessions
!K7
Detroit Techno, Club/Dance, Techno, House
Goldfrapp
Seventh Tree
Mute
Alternative Pop/Rock, Electronica
Janet Jackson
Discipline
Island
Urban, Contemporary R&B
Dolly Parton
Backwoods Barbie
Dolly
Traditional Country, Progressive Country, Honky Tonk, Country-Folk, Country-Pop
The Cardigans
The Best Of [Limited Edition]
Polydor
Indie Pop, Alternative Pop/Rock, Swedish Pop/Rock, Twee Pop, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock
Carl St. Clair
Villa-Lobost: Symphony No 10 Amerindia
CPO
Modern Orchestral Music
Cowboy Junkies
Trinity Revisited [Bonus DVD]
Zoe
College Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Country-Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
The Dirtbombs
We Have You Surrounded
In The Red
Garage Punk, Garage Rock Revival
![Trinity Revisited [CD/DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HRei9yw9L._SL120_.jpg)
Article comments
1 - Tom Johnson
Argh! Another brutal page break, and this time I'm the victim!
This is quite a funky lineup of releases to spotlight . . . "One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong."
2 - Glen Boyd
At least the page curcuimcisionists didn't snip you completely Tom, like they did Saleski last week.
Seriously though, the good news is I think were getting closer here. This week I tried to write less, hoping to hit it better. Next week, I may try writing more again (assuming there's anything worth writing about of course). The magic total is apparently 700 words, but I've just never written that way (counting as I write).
As for the lineup, hey I don't make the news...I just report it. ;.p
-Glen
3 - shannon
cool article
4 - Donald Gibson
I believe -- as the rule is written -- that you can only refer to Janet as Miss Jackson "if you're nasty"...
Thems the rules.
- Donald