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Super low budget cliffs notes mini-reviews – written as I listen to the new stuff….

Corrosion of Conformity
The Doom (Single)
Candlelight Records
http://www.coc.com/
Wow, they’re back!  Cool, right?  Sludgey, fast metal… catchy and still cool.   It’s just one song, changes moods… goes from all out fast, to toned down more moody parts… all in one song!  A great start to a comeback!

Nightwish
Imaginarium
Roadrunner Records
http://www.nightwish.com/en/
The inventors of big epic “Fe-metal” are back… they aren’t breaking any new ground here, but it’s a great addition to their catalog.  Big epic symphonic stuff, a mix of female and metal male vocals… metal stuff, symphony stuff… you know the drill.

Abigail Williams
Becoming
Candlelight Records
http://www.myspace.com/abigailwilliams
We had a single for this… it seemed a bit darker and more old school black metal sounding… same goes for the rest of the album.  Can’t say it’s a bad thing.  to get more evil and more dark… right?   Although… the songs are kind of long and seem to lose there way here and there.

Lillian Axe
Lava On My Tongue (Single)
CME Records
http://www.lillianaxe.com/
Just a single, but it’s got that classic metal sound.  This band has always been pretty solid… just not all that balls out heavy.

Buck Satan and the 666 Shooters
Bikers Welcome, Ladies Drink Free
AFM Records
http://bucksatan.com/
Normally… I’d say… WTF is this?!  acdtually I am going “WTF?” anyways.  The only reason this is on this list, as it’s the country alter-ego of Al Jourgenson from Ministry fame.  So, yeah, not sure if will get real airplay… but here I am talking about it.

Hate Squad
Katharsis
Massacre Records
http://www.hatesquad.com/
Mostly a death metal thing… vocally, almost seems a bit thrashy and maybe a bit hardcore and grindy musically.  Obviously with a bunch genres that I just spewed out there, there is a lot of different stuff going on.  They’ve been around for quite some time (1993) and while I don’t remember what the other stuff sounded like, I like this.

Almah
Motion
AFM Records
http://www.almah.com.br/
A good hard rock/metal thing.  Almost power metal, but with some more balls and not quite as technical… vocals echo Bruce Dickinson… songs are kinda catchy too.

The Devil’s Blood
The Thousandfold Empire
Metal Blade
http://thedevilsblood.com/
An interesting sort of occult metal thing,   taking some dark, doomy old school metal and adding almost Jefferson Airplane sounding vocals on top

Beaten to Death
Xes and Strokes
Mas-Kina Recordings
http://www.myspace.com/beatentodeathmetal#
Kind of a hardcore, blackened grind sort of thing.  In your face, brutal, and evil sounding… yet it doesn’t feel like they take themselves too seriously.  (This is me not reading up on them or anything… I just get that feeling)

El Caco
Hatred, Love & Diagrams
Indie Recordings
http://www.elcaco.com/
More or less a rock sort of thing from Norway.  A little bit of a Tool vibe… nothing leaning too “metal” on here.  Good catchy hard rock though.

God Seed
Live At Wacken
Indie Recordings
http://www.myspace.com/godseedband
This is Gaahl’s new incarnation of Gorgoroth (after the whole splitup/name dispute thing)  This is a live show from Wacken 2008 while they still performed as Gorgoroth.  Quality black metal of course… and it even comes across well live.

Everything Went Black
Cycles of Light
Prosthetic
http://everythingwentblack.us/

Their facebook page says that they are “Blackened Hardcore”  And I can hear that… it’s really that on a base level.  You can hear hardcore basics, but there’s a dark black metal feel to the guitar tone… and there is a lil bit of melody there too.  Prosthetic rarely signs duds.

Adrenaline Mob
Undaunted (Single)
Elm City
http://adrenalinemob.com/
With all of the drama surrounding Mike Portnoy and his Dream Theater departure, he still is out there making music with many different people…and this is one of the results.  He teamed up with a relatively unknown guitar player named Mike Orlando and a couple more well known dudes.  Rich Ward and Russell Allen to make this more accessible hard rock/near metal album.  They set out to not make it a clone of the bands they are already in or were in, but just a fun ass-kickin’ hard rock band.  I think they hit the mark with what they were trying to do.  While I know what most of these guys are capable of, I have to respect that they set out to do something different and did it very well.  This is only a single so far… the full album Omerta, comes out on March 12.

Orange Goblin
Red Tide Rising (Single)
Candlelight
http://www.orange-goblin.com/
One of those stoner metal bands you know is always there, but not often talked about… Orangle Goblin has always been pretty solid.  They have a little bit of a Cathedral vibe with some Sabbath-y riffs.  Just good quality stoner metal.

Aborted
Global Flatline
Century Media
http://www.goremageddon.be/
One of the best gore bands still out there… Aborted are back with a new album!  Great riffs, brutal drumming and solid crisp production allows you to hear all the little brutal gory nuances.  Great Stuff

Nephelium
Coils of Entropy
Asher Media (Unsigned)
http://www.facebook.com/nephelium
This band originally hails from Dubai, but has since relocated to Toronto.  Brutal, sick, classic pounding death metal.  Great cookie monster vocals, driving meaty heavy riffs and just overall a gory brutal feel.

Scorpions
Comeblack (Radio Sampler)
Legacy
http://www.the-scorpions.com/english/
Half of this album are re-recorded versions of classic Scorps songs, and the other half are covers of some 60′s and 70′s classics.  It’s pretty much an album to have out to have an excuse to tour.  The album sounds great and breathes some fresh sound into some of their classics as well as hearing a new take on some cool covers like “Tainted Love” or “Ruby Tuesday”