My Picks: Best Albums of 2017

Merry Christmas my hardcore readers!! He.. he.. After all these years, we’re still around rockin’ and kickin’ everyday. Though I find myself hardly keeping this blog alive, doesn’t even mean I will deny our spirit in rock world. This time I will share my top 15 picks of rock albums released this year. Please note that there are thousands of worth listening album around the world, but I choose to compile all the best new albums from bigger bands we knew. Then, I also want to hear yours….

Thank you & Happy New Year!!

Some Notable Albums.

• AFI – “AFI (The Blood Album)”. Released: January/Concord. Notable track: “Snow Cats”
• Linkin Park – “One More Light”. Released: May/Warner. Notable track: “Heavy”, “Battle Symphony”
• Papa Roach – “Crooked Teeth”. Released: May/Eleven Seven. Notable tracks: “Help”, “American Dreams”

Top 15 Albums.
15. Nickelback – “Feed the Machine”. Released: June/BMG. Notable tracks: “Feed the Machine”, “Song on Fire”
14. The Killers – “Wonderful Wonderful”. Released: September/Island. Notable tracks: “The Man”
13. Weezer – “Pacific Daydream”. Released: October/Atlantic. Notable tracks: “Mexican Fender”
12. Roger Waters – “Is This the Life We Really Want?”. Released: June/Columbia. Notable tracks: “Smell the Roses”
11.  Rise Against – “Wolves”. Released: June/Virgin. Notable tracks: “The Violence”
10.  Deep Purple – “Infinite”. Released: April/earMUSIC. Notable tracks: “Time for Bedlam”
9.  Hollywood Undead – “Five”. Released: October/BMG. Notable tracks: “California Dreaming”, “Whatever It Takes”
8. Liam Gallagher – “As You Were”. Released: October/Warner Bros. Notable tracks: “Wall of Glass”, “For What It’s Worth”, “Chinatown”
7.  Foo Fighters – “Concrete and Gold”. Released: September/RCA. Notable tracks: “Run”, “The Sky Is a Neighborhood”
6.  Paramore – “After Laughter”. Released: May/Fueled by Ramen. Notable tracks: “Hard Times”, “Told You So”
5. U2 – “Songs of Experience”. Released: December/Island. Notable tracks: “You’re the Best Thing About Me”, “Get Out of Your Own Way”, “The Blackout”
4.  Queens of the Stone Age – “Villains”. Released: August/Matador. Notable tracks: “Feet Don’t Fail Me”, “The Way You Used to Do”, “The Evil Has Landed”
3.  Stone Sour- “Hydrograd”. Released: June/Roadrunner. Notable tracks: “Fabuless”, “Song #3”
2.  Trivium – “The Sin and the Sentence”. Released: October/Roadrunner. Notable tracks: “The Sin and the Sentence”, “The Heart from Your Hate”
1.  Mastodon – “Emperor of Sand”. Released: March/Reprise. Notable tracks: “Sultan’s Curse”, “Show Yourself”

Albums of the Year 2016

Hello again, ah… what a busy year this was. But here we are back again as promised to bring you our year-end charts. So many good albums out this year but here are some of the best. Please notice that we don’t have a song/single chart like last year, because the list would span to over tens so we focused now on albums.

Keep rockin’ and Happy New Year!!

Some Notable Albums.

• Gojira – “Magma”. Released: June 17th/Roadrunner. Notable track: “Silvera”
• Alter Bridge – “The Last Hero”. Released: October 7th/Caroline. Notable track: “The Last Hero”
• Deftones – “Gore”. Released: April 8th/Reprise. Notable tracks: “Prayers/Triangles”, “Phantom Bride”
• Blink-182 – “California”. Released: July 1st/BMG. Notable tracks: “Bored to Death”, “Los Angeles”, “California”
• Dream Theater – “The Astonishing”. Released: January 29th/Roadrunner. Notable tracks: “The Gift of Music”, “Moment of Betrayal”

Top 10 Albums.
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers – “The Getaway”. Released: June 17th/Warner Bros. Notable tracks: “Dark Necessities”, “Goodbye Angels”
9.  Weezer – “Weezer” (White Album). Released: April 1st/Atlantic. Notable tracks: “Do You Wanna Get High?”, “King of the World”, “L.A. Girlz”
8.  Panic! at the Disco – “Death of a Bachelor”. Released: January 15th/Fueled by Ramen. Notable tracks: “Hallelujah”, “Emperor’s New Clothes”
7.  Megadeth – “Dystopia”. Released: January 22nd/Universal. Notable tracks: “Fatal Illusion”, “Dystopia”, “The Threat Is Real”
6.  Korn – “The Serenity of Suffering”. Released: October 21st/Roadrunner. Notable tracks: “Insane”, “Rotting In Vain”, “A Different World”
5.  Green Day – “Revolution Radio”. Released: October 7th/Reprise. Notable tracks: “Bang Bang”, “Revolution Radio”, “Still Breathing”, “Forever Now”
4.  Avenged Sevenfold – “The Stage”. Released: October 28th/Capitol. Notable tracks: “The Stage”, “God Damn”, “Creating God”, “Exist”
3.  Radiohead – “A Moon Shaped Pool”. Released: May 8th/XL. Notable tracks: “Burn the Witch”, “Daydreaming”, “True Love Waits”
2.  David Bowie – “Blackstar”. Released: January 8th/Columbia. Notable tracks: “Blackstar”, “Lazarus”
1.  Metallica – “Hardwired… to Self-Destruct”. Released: November 18th/Blackened. Notable tracks: “Moth Into Flame”, “Atlas, Rise!”, “Confusion”, “Spit Out the Bone”.

 

No Joke! Weezer Return with White Album on April 1st

Watch the video for brand new track ‘King of the World’, taken off the new album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGyBIQjU2Lk

Yes, no joke! On April 1st, 2016 a brand new album from Weezer will be released. It was called ‘The White album’, a new self-titled album to follow the high-acclaimed Everything Will Be Alright in the End (2014). The band had previously releasing three self-titled album:

• The Blue album (1994)
• The Green album (2001)
• The Red album (2008)

‘The White album’ standard edition will feature ten songs, including the single ‘Thank God for Girls’, available now along with ‘Do You Wanna Get High?’ and a new track ‘King of the World’. Below is the full tracklisting and the cover art for the album:

Weezer – White album.

1. California Kids
2. Wind in Our Sail
3. Thank God for Girls
4. (Girl We Got A) Good Thing
5. Do You Wanna Get High?
6. King of the World
7. Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori
8. L.A. Girlz
9. Jacked Up
10. Endless Bummer

Catch Weezer on tour this summer with Panic! at the Disco…

Pre-order ‘White album’ on iTunes >> smarturl.it/WeezerIT