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Friday New Releases – March 13, 2026

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It is Friday the 13th, but it isn’t all bad luck. We have a bunch of New Releases for you to celebrate. Nothing I’m going to run out and buy, but some I’ll listen to such as The Black Crowes, Asia and Rush. What do you find lucky to hear this week? Let us know and what we may have missed. Thanks for stopping by and I hope your Friday the 13th is a lucky day!!

  • The Black Crowes – A Pound of Feathers – (Silver Arrow Records)
  • Asia – Live in England (Live) – (Frontiers Records)
  • Rush – Grace Under Pressure (Super Deluxe) – (Mercury Records / Anthem Records / UMG)
  • The Fray – A Light That Waits – (The Fray LLC)
  • Foy Vance – The Wake – (An Eala Flain Ltd / Concord)
  • Lamb of God – Into Oblivion (Behind The Scenes Edition) – (Epic Records / Sony Music)
  • Dream Theater – Lost Not Forgotten Archives: Live in Tokyo 2010 – (Ytse Jams / InsideOutMusic)
  • Angus McSix – Angus McSix And The All-Seeing Astral Eye – (Napalm Records)
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Scorpions – ‘Return To Forever’ (2015) – Album Review (The Scorpions Collection Series)

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The band’s 18th Studio album was a long time in the making. The work started back in 2011 as they were throwing around ideas for new projects to do. One of those ideas was to go through their old catalog and find unreleased songs. Songs that dated back their heyday. The found enough songs to fit 3 CDs and then those CDs were sent to the producers, Mikael Nord Andersson and Martin Hansen. From their the band kept narrowing down and I believe in 2012, the recorded demos of around 12 of those songs and had intentions of recordings 6 more to give them 18 to choose from. The goal was to end up with 12-15 tracks from the unreleased tracks to use for an album.

Well, one thing led to another and they also worked on new songs as well. All in all, by the time the album came out, between new tracks and old tracks, they actually ended up with 19 tracks that have been released for the album. The standard edition only had 12, which is what we have here with the Vinyl. However, the US Deluxe Edition actually has all 19 songs so no need getting the Japanese Edition for this one. That is a ton of songs to sit through which is why I am focusing on the vinyl edition and keeping it simple.

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