Bands/albums that've blown you away recently

I'm sure everyone here has heard them 20 million times, but since I'm a noob to the underground scene, I've just recently heard Skinless since joining this forum.

I can't stop listening to them, I just keep replaying their songs on myspace because I can't download in my dorm. If I knew how to do the faces, there would be a sad one here to demonstrate my distaste at that.
If you just do the regular colon open parenthesis you get the :( face.

There are better bands playing the same style as Skinless.
 
Last album to really blow me away.....probably Devin Townsend's album; Ziltoid The Omniscient. Also Rush's Moving Pictures, an old album but I just started listening to Rush some-what recently.
 
dark.h1.jpg
 
Although I've heard it multiple times and enjoyed it then Lykathea Aflame - Elvenfris has started to grip me and sink in more.
 
Ayreon "01100101"
Jordan Rudess "The Road Home"
Dave Martone "Demon's Dream"
Emerson, Lake & Palmer "Tarkus"
Johansson "The Last Viking"
Judas Priest "Painkiller"
Marty Friedman "Scenes"


I have come into a lot of cool stuff over the last few weeks. Just started listening to Xentrix too & they're alright as well. Not mind blowing, however.
 
as far as something that was recently released:
-sebastian bach-angel down (because i was expecting nothing from it)
-willie nelson-moment of forver(can't believe he releases something so good at age 75)