Crustcake Picks - New Music 4/15

Hey, did you hear that one about the string ensemble that recorded a tribute to Bullet For My Valentine? Seriously, we can't make this shit up people. It's very real and it's really being released tomorrow by Koch. Scream, aim, fail.

Fortunately, there are a few new albums this week that won't make you cringe at the merest thought of hearing them.

As we mentioned on Friday, Soilent Green will be releasing their fifth full-length tomorrow, Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction via new home Metal Blade. Inevitable Collapse (see below) joins In Flames' A Sense of Purpose for worst album cover of the year eligibility.

Download: Soilent Green - "Antioxidant" [MP3]

Technical death metallers (but not in the Hate Eternal way) Arsis are releasing their third studio album tomorrow, We Are The Nightmare. Check out a few tracks at their MySpace and an interview discussing the album at MetalSucks.

And lastly, Children of Bodom's sixth LP, Blooddrunk is out tomorrow, and it sounds pretty much like, uh, Children of Bodom. Though Alexi Laiho and Co. certainly aren't pushing the envelope with this one, we do give them credit for being the only band ever to make General MIDI (specifically 'Orchestra Hit') sound cool. If you don't know what any of that means, you're probably better off.

Children of Bodom - "Blooddrunk":



Our picks:


Arsis - We Are the Nightmare [Amazon]


Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk [Amazon]


Soilent Green - Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction [Amazon]