Steelhammer is the 14th studio album by German heavy metal band U.D.O., released on May 21st, 2013, through AFM Records. It is the first album to feature guitarists Kasperi Heikkinen and Andrew Smirnov. It is also the first album to not feature former Accept drummer Stefan Kaufmann as guitarist since 1997's Solid, as well as the first to not feature Igor Gianola since 1998's No Limits.

The 2-disc compilation NWOBHM - '79 Revisited was put together by Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich to collect tracks from some of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement that so influenced him when he was growing up. With this set, you get a good overview of the various sounds within the NWOBHM as well as a look at some of its best and least well-known bands…

Far from any and all African folklore cliché, Kala Jula is a hymn to interbreeding. Purely instrumental, thirteen rooms are all stories of travel and meetings and offer certainly one of the most exciting developments and the most successful in the art of guitar Mandingo's all there, the roots of the blues tradition Sahel.

The music on this album is brilliant but overall it sounds too saccharine and long-winded. Bonus tracks rarely represent the best material but this time we have an exception - "The Song of Fand" is a live performance of symphonic epic and clearly the best track…

It's a reissue of one of Double Crown Records' most popular CDs - the Apemen's 7 Inches Of Love, remastered with four bonus tracks! All of your favorites from their 7" singles and compilations are here, along with a few unreleased studio recordings and live tracks. Spectacular new artwork as well, from band member Jeroen Van De Sande. The Apemen were one of the forerunners of the mid-90's surf movement, with classics such as "Toronado", "Percolator Stomp" and "Pogo A Gogo". The continue to wow audiences today, at surf festivals all over Europe, as well as club shows in their native Holland.

According to all the press and hype and hoopla for a time during the 1990s, Tommy Castro was pegged as the next big star of the blues. Long a favorite among Bay Area music fans, Castro in the space of two album releases took his music around the world and back again with a sheaf of praise from critics and old-time blues musicians alike. His music was a combination of soul-inflected rockers with the occasional slow blues or shuffle thrown into the mix to keep it honest. His vocals were laid-back and always a hair behind the beat, while his scorching guitar tone was Stevie Ray Stratocaster-approved. Crossover success did not seem out of the question.

Neo-soul singer and pianist John Legend combined the raw fervor of contemporaries Cody ChesnuTT and the burning precision of D'Angelo. Born John Stephens, Legend was a child prodigy who grew up in Ohio, where he began singing gospel and playing piano at the tender age of five. Legend left Ohio at 16 to attend college in Philadelphia, and it was there that he first found a larger audience. Not yet out of his teens, Legend was tapped to play piano on Lauryn Hill's "Everything Is Everything" in 1998. After completing college, he moved to New York, where he began to build a loyal following playing in nightclubs and releasing CDs that he would sell at shows.

Although she had made a name for herself as a solo artist in Sweden, Agnetha Fältskog will always be best known as one-fourth of ABBA, one of the most commercially successful and internationally beloved pop acts of all time. Born on April 5, 1950, Fältskog was encouraged to pursue her love of music from an early age and was already performing with two school friends as the Cambers by the time she was a teen…