+1 on the new Alter Bridge, it just kills.
But what's really turning my crank these days is the new Avenged Sevenfold. It's clear they were all conceived in the bathrooms at the 92 GNR\Metallica tour, but damn do they do it right. Granted, they can't write a lyric to save their lives, but This Means War is the twenty years later of Sad But True.
Really good couple of months for new music, with AB, AV7, Halestorm, and Stryper all releasing new material.