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Led by wunderkind multi-instrumentalist Gustav Ejstes, Dungen keep a fierce distance from the fleeting indie-pop trends of their fellow Scandinavians. Here, with Swedish lyrics, lysergic swatches, and breezy flute passages, they display the same studied appreciation for Hendrix jams and Nordic folk that marked their 2004 U.S. breakthrough, Ta Det Lugnt.

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Though they're superstars at home, this Welsh screamo quintet have yet to conquer the U.S., despite arriving here in 2003 with a thunderously melodic sound and a barge full of press clippings. For their third album, FFAF blatantly move beyond the aggressive scene that spawned them and focus on slicker ballads that hint at '80s heartland-rock melodrama.

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"I'm sick of being treated like I have before," Mike Shinoda announces in "Hands Held High," one of the few tracks on the new Linkin Park album that features the rapper/producer's rhymes. Laden with somber references to "bombs on the buses" and Mao's "Little Red Book," "Hands" is the multiplatinum outfit's big antiwar anthem.

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If the Horrors had crafted an album's worth of creepy goth-garage tracks that matched the vampish ferocity of single "Gloves" and riotous crowd-pleaser "Sheena Is a Parasite," these young Brits really could've blown the cobwebs off the Cramps' handbook.

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Satellite Party is built around the unlikely pairing of ex-Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell with former Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt.