Stigma and New York… doesn’t take a genius to figure out that this is Vinny Stigma’s solo album. And when one of the godfathers of hardcore drops a solo album, expectations are high.

Jenny Lewis, or half of Rilo Kiley as she is also known, released a first solo album in 2006, cut an album with The Watson Twins and is now back with “Acid Tongue”.

Blitzen Trapper is already back with a new album after last year’s debut “Wild Mountain Nation”.

Here's what I wrote about this album when it first came out on Outlook Music in 2005:

 

When Joey Cape released an acoustic split with No Use For A Name’s Tony Sly a couple of years ago, I was pleasantly surprised.

The new Metallica album. For metalheads this is actually bigger news than who will win the presidential elections in the US.

For over 15 years Pro-Pain has been cranking out their mix of hardcore and metal and they have been doing a really good job of it even though every album sounded exactly the same.

War Of Ages play that typical metalcore with Gothenburg leanings which is not exactly something that makes you stand out these days.

After The Burial are the latest entry in the whole tech-metal/death metal scene and on “Rareform” they prove they’ve got the technical skills to blend right in.