"Pin a single label, style, adjective on Isis and it slips right off. They seem immune. For more than a decade, the Los Angeles five-piece has maneuvered between cries and whispers, dirt and polish, bruising noise and narcotic subtlety, repeatedly redrawing the borders of the one genre that accommodates them, metal, as they annex more sonic territory beyond it."

[8.5 / Best New Music]

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Today you can pick up the long-awaited debut from Brooklyn's Harlem Shakes, the solo debut from Deerhunter guitarist Lockett Pundt (Lotus Plaza), a raw covers album by Condo Fucks (aka Yo La Tengo), new releases from prog-metal keyboardist Derek Sherinian and Celtic rockers Enter The Haggis, and more!

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These United States are definitely the hardest working young band we know, releasing Crimes just a few months after their fantastic debut. Get it now for $5, and find the new albums from Mogwai, Thievery Corporation, and Brightblack Morning Light in this week's featured six!

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Iced Earth is back with original singer Matt Barlow for The Crucible Of Man: Something Wicked Part 2! Whether it's sci-fi thrash-metal or children's songs about farts, get your fix with today's featured albums after the break!

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NYC band Sam Champion describe their music as "a call back to shirtless festival crowds and the grunge workouts of yesteryear" -- get the new album on Amie Street a week before its official release!

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Yep, we're pretty psyched to bring you the debut album from British soul phenomenon Adele, and not least because Mick Jagger's a fan too! If Sir Jagstone digs it, then you know she's got a bright future. Find 19 in this week's featured albums!

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The Snake is back! One listen to the latest album from these immortal bringers of the metal and you'll think "Is this love?" Find Good To Be Bad and the rest of this week's featured albums after the break!

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A Band Called Pain wants you to run through their wicked garden.

An "old-fashioned, all-black grunge outfit" from the Bay Area, ABCP have been featured on the Saw II soundtrack and Dane Cook's HBO special, and most recently opened for Buckcherry and The Smashing Pumpkins in Indianapolis.

While it's certainly unexpected to see four African-American men behind this kind of music -- "it's like we're the Eminem of the rock world!" says the bassist -- the members of A Band Called pain share a passion for hard rock, and it shows in their debut album,

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