Saturday, 2 January 2010

Albums to look out for this year

Well we can now speculate on what is in stock for this year in terms of album releases. I'm keeping my eye out for this lot so far:

Lostprophets - The Betrayed (18 Jan)
HIM - Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice (8 Feb)
Angels and Airwaves - Love (14 Feb) (Released entirely for free!!)
Story of The Year - The Constant (15 Feb)
Alkaline Trio - This Addiction (22 Feb)
Blood Red Shoes - Fire Like This (1 Mar)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat The Devils Tattoo (8 Mar)
The Automatic - Tear Down The Signs (8 Mar)
Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Parlysis (22 Mar)
Kamelot - TBC (22 Mar)
Deftones - TBC (26 Apr)
Rolo Tomassi - Stolen Magic (Mar)
Coheed and Cambria - Year of The Black Rainbow (Apr)
Slaves To Gravity - Underwaterouterspace (Apr)
Cancer Bats - Bears, Mayors, Scraps and Bones (Apr)
Bullet For My Valentine - TBC (Apr)
Gaslight Anthem - American Slang (Jun)
Stone Sour - TBC (Aug)
Against Me - White Crosses (Spring)
Good Charlotte - Cardiology (Spring)
Funeral For A Friend - TBC (Summer)
Fighting With Wire - Bones of The Twilight (TBC)

Then hopefully these bands will be relasing something:

Jimmy Eat World (Aiming for a 2010 release)
Kings of Leon (No word yet but lets hope it's an improvement on Only By The Night)
Fair To Midland (Have just released a new demo and recording new material)
Oceansize (Just released an EP so a full length is expected to follow)
Hold Steady (Debuting new songs on tour)
Pulled Apart By Horses (Highly anticipated debut which apparently is done and dusted)
Brigade - (Aiming for a 2010 release)
Incubus - (Just released a greatest hits album and come off their hiatus)
Nine Inch Nails - (Apparently two new releases confirmed by Mr Reznor himself)
Middle Class Rut - (Released an EP last year so debut now expected)
Awesome Color - (No word yet but it would be nice to hear more new material)
Arcade Fire - (Aiming for a 2010 release)
Fucked Up - (Have some releases planned apparently)
Iron Maiden - (Playing Sonisphere so hoepfully there will be new material to be promoted)
Exit Ten - (New demos have surfaced)
Bright Eyes - (Apparently the last album to be released under the "Bright Eyes" moniker but still aiming for a 2010 release)
Zico Chain - (Several demos have surfaced)
Chapman Family - (Having already released a couple of singles a debut should seem likely)
Innerpartysystem - (Have started writing and demoing)
White Stripes - (Jack White should be entering the studio after finishing touring with his several hundred other bands)
Strokes - (Playing the Isle of Wight festival so hopefully there will be new material to promote)
Interpol - (Aiming for a 2010 release)
Foals - (Same as above)
Klaxons - (Even if it has taken them three years apparently progress is being made)
Within Temptation - (Aiming for a 2010 release)
Turisas - (Same as above)

There is also the hope of Foo Fighters and Queens of The Stone Age releasing new material but if not then another Them Crooked Vultures album would be nice. Or maybe a new Desert Sessions album but that would be greedy.

Another thing I had intended was to include Avenged Sevenfold in the list but since the untimely death of their drummer Rev, the chance of releasing a new album now look very slim.