ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Five Finger Death Punch � The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Vol. 2 (Prospect Park): The only album this week that delivers what it promises�Five Finger Death Punch sound like a five-finger death punch. That is, an uncreative but reliable blunt force, with the occasional guitar harmony, impressive Chinese Democracy guitar solos, melody and lyrics that vary things up without distracting from the skull-cracking, Meshuggah-learned motor-propellor of the dual kick drum. And if Ivan Moody's melisma on the piano and strings-heavy tear-vehicle "Cold" has far too many James Hetfield-isms in it, Jeremy Spencer's hypnotizing stutter-rolls on "Matter of Time" make up for it by earning the "groove metal" tag more accurately than Pantera ever did.

Daughtry � Baptized (RCA): Chris Daughtry could win big in the long run � over Boston or even Back in Black. This is a guy who turned down an offer to join his favorite band Fuel after they lost a singer because he could make more on his own, and he was right: his debut album is the biggest-selling rock debut since Soundscan began. But we all know that's because it wasn't really his debut, and like Rick Springfield, he was a TV heartthrob with rock dreams. This includes joining his fellow D-heads Dokken, Dio and Danzig in a surname brand, er band, whose name has its own section on Wikipedia: "We could've come out with a really obscure name, but coming from the TV show and having name recognition, it was easier just to go with my last name."