SOUNDSCAN WEEK: DEATH, TAXES AND TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA
Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 1:00pm by Vince NeilsteinSays Metal Insider’s Bram Teitelman in his weekly Soundscan roundup, “There are only a few things that are certain: death, taxes, and a TSO album every other Christmas or so.” And so, as the holiday season fast approaches, last week saw strong sales from TSO’s latest amongst a bunch of greatest hits collections, boxsets and various other re-packagings… de rigeur for this time of year.
Not a lot of metal made this week’s charts, but the latest releases from Alice in Chains, Slayer, Dethklok and others continued to sell well. Don’t expect much in the way of big metal releases between now and the end of year (except, of course, for The Binary Code’s Suspension of Disbelief which is going to obliterate every sales record in the history of EVER), so this column may go dormant for a little while.
Check out last week’s complete sales run-down at Metal Insider.
-VN
I was hoping to see Katatonia’s new one in the top 200, but oh well. Still had their first charting album at #35 on the independent chart
this is last weeks sales katatonias will be out next week
New Annotations of an Autopsy is coming out Dec 1st. With all the scene kid backing that band gets, I could see it making some sort of splash. AND I DIDN’T KNOW BINARY CODE IS PUTTING OUT A NEW LP TOO STOKED.
Shrinebuilder’s debut is fuckin’ massive.
TSO may be fantastic at recycling the same formula over and over again (metal + christmas music = fun), but their live show is fucking SICK. If you can get past the cheesiness of it all, it really is an amazing show. Highly suggest it for people who enjoy music.