New Stuff This Week…1/19/15

MARILYN MANSON
The Pale Emperor
Loma Vista
No doubt about it, MM has made his place in the music world, with his albums and especially his live shows… he has a sound that’s all his own too.  This album is right up there with the MM sound, maybe a bit more laid back and melodic…

VOICES
London
Candlelight
Featuring former members of Akerkocke, it’s quite varied, in some parts, its like a Volbeat, others it’s Opeth (death metal and melodic) and just kind of all over the place, but yet brutal and fresh too.

Night Demon
Curse of The Damned
Century Media Records
Just classic metal with big screamy vocals a bit of a thrashy sound, but still full on metal

Raised Fist
From The North
Epitaph Records
Catchy raw punked up hardcore metal, vocals almost seem rapped… sounds a lot like Snot actually.

Bullet
Storm Of Blades
Metalville Records
Classic metal (a la Judas Priest) with a big screamy voice, catchy riffs and stuff, actually maybe sounds a bit like Steel Panther too…

Panzer
Send Um All To Hell
Nuclear Blast USA
Catchy German thrashy metal

Sylosis
Dormant Heart
Nuclear Blast
Thrashy death metal, almost a bit like Strapping Young Lad with how fast and in your face it can be.

Misery Kills
My Ugly Insides
Misery Royalties
Some classic metal with Kreator-like vocals and musical tendencies… pretty good stuff

Visigoth
The Revenant King
Metal Blade
Catchy power metal with a pinch of folk

Lord Dying
Poisoned Altars
Relapse Records
Sludgey metal, reminds me a bit of Crowbar, but with a bit more of a groove and catchiness… maybe Down meets Crowbar

Revolution Saints
“Turn Back Time” Single
Frontiers Music srl
Great catchy stuff with that late 80’s/90’s AOR thing going on:  Copy/paste from the bio info says it all… “Deen Castronovo (Journey, Ozzy Osbourne, Bad English), Jack Blades (Night Ranger, Damn Yankees, Shaw/Blades) and Doug Aldrich (Whitesnake, Dio) . Put these three rock titans together in a band and you have the exciting new hard rock/melodic rock supergroup REVOLUTION SAINTS.”

SIMUS
Vox Vult
Bakerteam Records
Heavy melodic metal, clean vox, a bit proggy, melodic guitars and some good chugga guitar too.

KERKER (from Germany)
A Dime For The Bleak Faces
Label: Nihilistische KlangKunst (Against PR)
Classic Black metal.  Cold drony guitars, abrasive growly creepy vocals.

EARTH AND PILLARS (from Italy)
Earth I
Label: AVANTGARDE MUSIC (Against PR)
Long drony go nowhere black metal sounding stuff.  I think I hear vocals, but they’re so low in the mix, you can’t really tell.

OBSESSÖR
Assassins of the Pentagram
Deathstrike Records
Fast quick classic thrash, with some death metal tendencies (vocals)… but then vocals also go up to some big time screams too.  Pretty cool stuff.

Cauldron of Hate
Emperor
Inverse
Great thrashy death metal.  Brutal stuff yet a bit catchy and definitely headbangy!  hah.

Thurisaz
Live & Acoustic
Lucky Bastardz
Laid back and acoustic… melodic doomy stuff… a cool cover of Amorphis’ “My Kantele”

Satan’s Host
Pre-dating god Parts 1 & 2
Moribund
A bit of a melodic thrashy metal.  Clean creepy vocals, also shouty screams too. Music is proggy, yet thrashy and death metal-like in parts too.

Crack House
The Hits Just Keep On Coming
Horror Pain Gore Death
Brutal thrash

MELLOWTOY
Lies
Scarlet Records
Melodic Metal, feels like decent commercial “solid rock” type stuff.  Catchy, metalcore, almost nu-metal sounding.

SWEET & LYNCH
Only to Rise
Frontiers Music srl
Had a sampler last year and it was pretty decent.  You know, straightforward hard rock type stuff from Matthew Sweet and George Lynch.