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Denmark and this week's top 40 album chart:

10- Patina
21- Jung (peak #3) (pop rock)
32- PJ Harvey
35- Neil Young
40- Kim Larsen (peak #2) (pop rock)

Patina:

 

Will do!

 

Is Architects the biggest Epitath Records release yet?

Also impressed to see Moonspell charting on different countries, this one is a nice tune:

 

Moonspell have proved to be more melodic than I expected. Reviews I've seen suggested that they were more thrashy and death-metally, which isn't my thing. I've quite enjoyed their videos on this thread though.

 

It depends what album you pick, actually. They bounce between gothic rock and death metal quite a bit.

 

Ah, right. Makes sense.

 

From the Italian top 100 albums this week:

5- La Rappresentante di Lista (progressive pop.rock)
6- Maneskin (peak #1)
16- Pinguini Tattici Nucleari (peak #2) (pop rock)
20- Pinguini Tattici Nucleari (peak #2) (pop rock)
21- Colapesce Dimartino (pop rock)
23- Maneskin
29- Pink Floyd (peak #5)
32- Kings of Leon
40- Ligabue (peak #1)
53- Pink Floyd (peak #4)
59- Carmen Consoli (pop rock)
66- Nirvana (peak #20)
72- Foo Fighters (peak #2)
80- Arctic Monkeys (peak #4)
88- Oasis (peak #11)
99- Renato Zero (peak #2) (pop rock)


VARIOUS:

25- Pat Metheny LA Guitar Quartet



La Rappresentante di Lista:



Carmen Consoli:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m9asfw2J7g

Måneskin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN1odfjtMoo

Colapesce Dimartino:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7NjUxGMv7Y

Pat Metheny LA Guitar Quartet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev8ZQpbtaJI

 

From the Dutch top 100 albums this week:

2- Kings of Leon
21- Balthazar (pop rock)
27- AC/DC (peak #2)
37- Neil Young
41- Foo Fighters (peak #1)
46- Fleetwood Mac (peak #1)
47- Arctic Monkeys (peak #1)
57- Bløf (peak #1)
71- Dire Straits (peak #1)
79- Epica (peak #7)
80- Di-rect (peak #2)
87- Imagine Dragons (peak #2) (pop rock)
95- Beatles (peak #1)
98- Bruce Springsteen (peak #1)


VARIOUS:

22- Danny Vera (peak #4) (Americana pop)
42- Danny Vera (peak #1) (Americana pop)


Epica:



Di-rect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24gOwJb30kg


Kings of Leon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj73PJ8suPE


Balthazar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT24K2D8v0g

 

From the UK top 100 albums this week:

1- Kings of Leon
6- Queen (peak #1)
11- Fleetwood Mac (peak #5)
13- Japan
14- Arab Strap
15- Elton John (peak #5)
16- Oasis (peak #1)
19- Mason Hill
21- Architects (peak #1)
22- Fleetwood Mac (peak #1)
24- Jane Weaver
28- Foo Fighters (peak #1)
30- Oasis (peak #1)
36- A Day to Remember
47- Beatles (peak #1)
52- Alice Cooper (peak #4)
53- David Bowie (peak #5)
56- Arctic Monkeys (peak #1)
72- Elvis (peak #2)
76- Foo Fighters (peak #4)
77- Oasis (peak #1)
78- Red Hot Chili Peppers (peak #4)
84- Green Day (peak #22)
87- Killers (peak #5)
99- Dire Straits (peak #20)


VARIOUS:

37- Celeste (peak #1)
70- Amy Winehouse (peak #1)
94- Stevie Wonder (peak #11)


Mason Hill:



Jane Weaver:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty4rkqddcQY

Arab Strap:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4CN6sxDvr0

Kings of Leon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj73PJ8suPE

Architects:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm7ejB08cbQ

 

Sweden and the top 60 albums this week:


39- Fleetwood Mac (peak #18)
55- Lars Winnerbäck (peak #1)
57- Kent (peak #1)
58- Sabaton (peak #2)



VARIOUS:

6- Smith and Thell (peak #3)
34- Frida Hyvönen


Frida Hyvönen:




Kent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97wvip_QCag


Sabaton:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ubTwe9gFyU

 

Architects have to be up for in terms of Epitaph's biggest album but in recent memory, there's also Parkway Drive and especially Bring Me the Horizon which did a bit better on the charts.

 

From Portugal's top 50:

1- Moonspell
3- Foo Fighters (peak #1)
4- Bruce Springsteen (peak #1)
6- Beatles (peak #1)
7- AC/DC (peak #1)
8- Ornatos Violeta (peak #5)
11- Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
13- Tindersticks (peak #2)
14- Capitão Fausto (peak #1) (pop rock)
15- White Stripes (peak #
20- Pink Floyd (peak #7)
23- Nirvana (peak #14)
25- Tiago Bettencourt (peak #5)
28- Nick Cave (peak #2)
30- Queen (peak #3)
34- Queen (peak #6)
35- PJ Harvey
36- Paul McCartney (peak #4)
37- Arctic Monkeys (peak #2)
38- Arcade Fire (peak #1)
39- Led Zeppelin (peak #15)
40- Foo Fighters (peak #19)
41- U2 (peak #4)
43- Pink Floyd (peak #3)
47- Nick Cave (peak #1)
48- Jimi Hendrix
50- Pink Floyd (peak #25)


VARIOUS:

10- Carlos Do Carmo (peak #1)
16- Pedro Abrunhosa (peak #2)
21- Mariza (peak #1)
25- Tiago Bettencourt (peak #5)
26- Os Quatro e Meia (peak #1)
32- Carolina Deslandes (peak #1)


Moonspell:



Tiago Bettencourt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1U4Ux7dfy0

Os Quatro e Meia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLmBcbJF3-I

Carolina Deslandes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqvwOHWbHTY&t=399s

 

Germany's top 100 albums this week:

3- Mr. Hurley & die Pulveraffen
4- Kings of Leon
6- Alice Cooper (peak #1)
7- A Day to Remember
8- Neil Young
9- AC/DC (peak #1)
12- Neil Young & Crazy Horse (peak #7
16- Foo Fighters (peak #6)
19- Architects (peak #3)
20- Witherfall
27- Nie und Nimmer (pop rock)
32- Japan
40- Baest
41- Epica (peak #4)
42- Haken
45- Pink Floyd (peak #3)
46- Rammstein (peak #1)
48- Deep Purple (peak #10)
56- Haken (peak #24)
57- Paul McCartney (peak #1)
58- Bob Dylan (peak #10)
59- Die Ärzte (peak #1)
63- Linkin Park (peak #2)
64- Bruce Springsteen (peak #2)
65- Rammstein (peak #2)
67- Queen (peak #1)
71- Pink Floyd (peak #1)
75- Steve Lukather (peak #16)
78- Nirvana (peak #3)
87- AnnenMayKantereit (peak #4)
88- Mogwai (peak #3)
91- Pur (peak #3) (pop rock)
96- AnnenMayKantereit (peak #2)
99- Rea Garvey (peak #7) (pop rock)


VARIOUS:


10- Pat Metheny & LA Guitar Quartet
11- Celeste (peak #6)
15- Regener Pappik Busch



Witherfall:




Baest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMbrq9iQ0Nk


Epica:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTbk3SfUq9Q


Haken:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7pEXGCtnnk


Mr. Hurley & die Pulveraffen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GTIcRQaOJs

 

Witherfall look worth exploring. That's a highly decent song.

As cheesy as others might find it, I find piratey folk-rock a lot of fun so I really quite like Mr Hurley & his Powder Monkeys. I had no idea they were a chart act though. That's fantastic! Ye Banished Privateers are the other stars of the genre, at least ofr me.

The "Is Rock Dead?" thread is the gift that keeps on giving, isn't it? Endlessly exasperating.

 

I liked the Witherfall as well ad figured you might too as well as the tune from Mr Hurley which is partly why I made sure to post that one

That 'rock is dead' thread just goes from strength. It's pretty clear that they aren't actually interested in any data they don't already have from their own anecdotes. Sigh....

 

Switzerland and rock on the top 100 albums this week:

3- Kings of Leon
6- Krokus (peak #1)
11- AC/DC (peak #1)
12- Foo Fighters (peak #1)
13- Alice Cooper (peak #3)
22- Megawatt (peak #6)
23- Epica (peak #5)
34- Bob Dylan (peak #11)
35- Neil Young
39- Gotthard (peak #7)
42- Neil Young with Crazy Horse (peak #18)
44- Architects (peak #7)
48- Arab Strap
50- Queen (peak #2)
55- Balthazar (peak #23) (pop rock)
59- Paul McCartney (peak #2)
63- Bruce Springsteen (peak #1)
64- Steve Lukather (peak #10)
68- Julien Baker
69- Francis Cabrel (peak #1)
71- Accept (peak #4)
73- Witherfall
77- Amy Macdonald (peak #2) (pop rock)
84- Indochine (peak #9) (pop rock)
87- A Day To Remember
94- Nirvana (peak #2)
95- Queen (peak #2)
96- Queen (peak #5)
97- Joseph Williams (peak #15)
98- Michael Schenker (peak #8)
99- Steven Wilson (peak #3)

Various:

17- Pat Metheny & LA Guitar Quartet
46- Celeste (peak #6)
81- Brandão Faber Hunger (peak #2)



Epica:



Witherfall:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFbrq-n17Gs

Steve Lukather:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvbHYmh7VYY

Michael Schenker:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gy69onDzXQ

Pat Metheny & LA Guitar Quartet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev8ZQpbtaJI

 

Finland's latest weekly chart from the top 50 albums:

1- Stam1na
17- Lauri Tähkä (peak #1) (pop rock)
18- Arttu Wiskari (peak #1)
22- Hurriganes
26- Stam1na (peak #13)
27- Rammstein (peak #1)
29- Mother Mother (peak #32)
35- Haloo Helsinki! (peak #2)
36- Irina (peak #3) (pop rock)
37- Metallica (peak #4)
44- Maustetytöt (peak #2) (pop rock)


Stam1na:



Irina:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU8YSeq3HhA

Mother Mother:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAISESvit4k

 

The French top 100 albums chart this week:

34- Indochine (peak #1) (pop rock)
40- Indochine (peak #1) (pop rock)
46- Queen (peak #7)
59- Queen (peak #56)
61- Francis Cabrel (peak #1)
69- Jérémy Frérot (peak #29) (pop rock)
71- Kings of Leon
78- AC/DC (peak #1)
79- Calogero (peak #1) (pop rock)

VARIOUS:

23- Serge Gainsbourg (peak #19)
41- Melody Gardel (peak #2)
55- Pomme (peak #13)


Indochine:




Jérémy Frérot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL6QGrOmNik

Pomme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWbDZUBuCbo

 

Austria's top 75 albums this week:

1- Kings of Leon
4- Foo Fighters (peak #2)
5- AC/DC (peak #1)
8- Alice Cooper (peak #3)
12- A Day To Remember
22- Volbeat (peak #1)
29- Bruce Springsteen (peak #1)
32- Architects (peak #5)
41- Paul McCartney (peak #2)
42- Nirvana (peak #13)
56- Annenmaykantereit (peak #3)
67- Nirvana (peak #1)
69- Metallica (peak #5)
70- Rammstein (peak #1)


Kings of Leon:




Architects:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZmjG3wuUes

 

From Spain's top 100 albums this week:

13- Kings of Leon
17- Shinova (peak #2)
24- Dani Martin (peak #1) (pop rock)
32- Black Crowes
36- AC/DC (peak #1)
40- Pearl Jam (peak #39)
41- Taburete (peak #12)
42- Leiva (peak #1)
45- Louis Tomlinson (peak #4) (pop rock)
51- Bruce Springsteen (peak #2)
60- Neil Young (peak #17)
62- Foo Fighters (peak #3)
64- Angelus Apatrida (peak #1)
69- Joaquin Sabina (peak #2)
71- Beatles (peak #1)
73- Jarabe De Palo (peak #5)
75- La Oreja de Van Gogh (peak #1) (pop rock)
81- Alice Cooper (peak #21)
86- Marea (peak #1)
87- David Bowie
88- Estopa (peak #1)
89- Bunbury (peak #3)
92- Izal (peak #2)
93- Serrat (peak #54)
98- Queen (peak #2)
100- Bunbury (peak #4)


VARIOUS:

22- Rozalen (peak #1)
48- Pat Metheny
53- El Barrio (peak #1)
63- Rozalen (peak #5)
85- María Jiménez (peak #16)
97- El Arrebato (peak #3)


Marea:




Shinova:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39uYqxp8CRw

Angelus Apatrida:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3ebfRQwqOc

Taburete:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q82bubHObE

Pat Metheny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev8ZQpbtaJI

 

From Japan's weekly top 50 album list this week:

3- Radwimps
11- Lovebites
13- LiSA
14- Fuji Fabric
16- Granrodeo
18- Hiroji Miramoto (peak #1) (pop rock)
29- Sumika (peak #3) (pop rock)
50- Dish (pop rock)


Various:

5- The Gospellers
27- Yuta Orisaka


Lovebites:



Granrodeo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MffMv3XNt_0

Fugi Fabric:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzlecLbdo-s

Radwimps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjDQtUuuc5o

LiSA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riQDiPIdotM

 

Mother Mother sound quite interesting, like a slightly more sneery Glass Tiger.

 

Two great songs up here: the Shinova one, which has a nice Vertical Horizon vibe and Taburete which is a really nice pop-rock tune. I'll be checking out both bands further. Tickled to See Pat Metheney on the charts too.

 

All of the above tracks are worth a listen, I reckon. I think the two with the most likely cross over potential are Lovebites and Fugi Fabric.

The former have all the attributes, for me, apart from the songwriting, which is close but a little too derivative of European bands like Edenbridge. It's already enjoyable but when they find their own voice, they have the potential to make an even bigger splash than they've made already.