Korn - UnPlugged I was kinda disappointed... some songs are terrific (e.g. the duets, Hollow Life), others are boring at best. Not up to the quality of Sevendust's South Side Double-Wide, let alone something like Clapton's UnPlugged performance. Ah well, I bought it used, cheap, so it's worth about what I paid for it.
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction 'nuff said
Halford - Crucible Haven't heard Halford's solo stuff yet... but it IS Halford!
I'm not normally one for buying CDs, but i've found myself with quite a few new ones this week.
Black Sabbath - Paranoid Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Celtic Frost - Monotheist PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love Turisas - Battle Metal Turisas - The Varangian Way Kyuss - Wretch Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun Kyuss - Welcome To Sky Valley Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R Eagles of Death Metal - Death By Sexy and Andrew WK - I Get Wet
and I'm seriously impressed with the Celtic Frost album.
this cd is a cool cd. lots of easy to like meshuggah style riffs but also some of o that nice clean vox that I like. actually the cleanest vocals he does on this cd isn't that cool, but the "semi-clean" vocals is awsome.
I also bought mastodons: blood mountain
its also a cool cd, but I would recommend their first album to a new listener. since I paid about 5 pounds for it, it was totally worth it.
Veil of Maya - The Common Man's Collapse Kurt Rosenwinkel - Deep Song Boris - Smile Boris ft. Michio Kurihara - Rainbow Portishead - Third Bill McHenry - Roses
The Portishead album is absolutely killing and completely different than what I was expecting from them; definately worth the 11 year wait.
Veil of Maya's debut was my favorite metal album last year, and I like what I've heard off the sophmore so far, but I'm not sure if it is better - feels like it is lacking some of the passion and writing chops of the first - but I'll give it a few more listens.