New Stuff This Week… 3/2/15

The Darkness
“Barbarian” (single)
Kobalt
Catchy driving hard rock song with those trademark vocals!

Ovid’s Withering
Scryers of the Ibis
Unique Leader
Thrashy melodic death metal.

Randy Rhoads Tribute
Immortal Randy Rhoads: The Ultimate Tribute
UDR
Great tribute album featuring a variety of guitarists (Tom Morello, Gus G, Jon Donais, George Lynch, Alexei Laiho and more) with Chuck Billy and mostly Ripper Owens on vocals. Mostly striaghtforward and decent stuff.

Gideon
Calloused
Facedown
Technical, melodic metalcore type stuff.  This is mostly some generic metalcore type stuff, but lately, there really isn’t much else like this, so it’s pretty cool.

Saint Ridley
Fool Or A King
Music Gallery International
A southern leaning groovy stoner metal type thing.

I.N.C.
Single
Ferocious Records
Great thrashy stuff.  Just a re-release of a single from last year’s album for charity.

THE MIDNIGHT GHOST TRAIN
Cold Was The Ground
Napalm Records
Catchy stoner metal with a great groove

Dunderbeist
Hyklere
Indie Recordings
Melodic death with a bit of a folk vibe.  A little bit of a Volbeat thing but a bit more “heavy” but also more melodic in parts too.

SHITKILL
The New Breed EP
self-released
Thrashy groove stuff which reminded me of Prong on the surface.  Nothing like a band with a name you can’t say on the air.  But it’s got a little bit of a punk vibe and decent basic thrashy stuff.

APOSTATE
Time of Terror
Label: Ferrrum (Against PR)
Doomy post metal, long down tempo songs.

THE PASSION OF OUR SOULS
SOULMATES
SELF RELEASED (Metal Detector)
Melodic death with clean and harsh female vocals.  Great thrashy deathy music.  Growls and guttural… like some good Arch Enemy stuff, clean vox make it be more like the Agonist or Luna Mortis. (more femetal-like)

Motor Sister
Ride
Metal Blade Records
Throwback to some classic hard rock featuring quite the lineup… Scott Ian (and his wife Pearl Aday), Joey Vera, John Tempesta and vocalist Jim Wilson.  Great hard rocking stuff which is heavy and cool enough to be “metal” but yet, this should be on some big rock radio stations too.

Valor
The Crown and the King (7″ Single)
Pitch Black Records
Melodic metal at its base, but vocally it’s power metal… so I guess you put those two together, you get something a bit proggy/power metal?  Decent stuff.

Goatblood / Nuclear Perversions
Rex Judaeorum / Wolves Of Apocalypse – split 7″ EP
Iron Bonehead
I’m almost starting to think whenever I get one of these “Split EPs” that it’s automatically going to sound like shit.  Like two bands that record through a wall on a cassette deck get together and say, “YEAH MAN, LET’S DO A SPLIT EP!”   Fuuuuuck.  Sorry to both of these bands for ranting on your mini-review, but seriously, the crap production isn’t for me or our radio show.

Morbid Evils
In Hate With The Burning World
Svart Records
Doomy post-black metal.  Down tempo sludgey sound.

Garden of Worm
Idle Stones
Svart Records
Laid back doomy stuff, long songs, gets a little experimental in parts, but mostly doomy stoner downtempo stuff.

Terveet Kädet
Lapin helvetti
Svart Records
A bit thrashy, a bit groovin’, a bit punky… actually nice to see something that isn’t doom metal on this label! hah.

Heavydeath
Eternal Sleepwalker
Svart Records
Back to the doom! Decent doomy stuff, with a heavy edge to it, maybe a little bit of a grind too… actually picks up the tempo in some parts to make it more interesting.

SYMBOLON
Rise of the Antelopes
Self-Released
Metalcore from Austria. Screamed and clean sung vocals.

ACERO LETAL
VELOZ INVENCIBLE / DURO METAL
WITCHES BREW
Thrashy power metal with more emphasis on the thrashy part.  There’s enough in here with solos and vocal style to throw in that power metal description, but yeah, pretty cool stuff… just 2 songs.

BLACKENED
UNDERGROUND ATTACK
WITCHES BREW
Classic thrash sounding stuff.

Every Hour Kills
Almost Human (single)
Self-Release  (Asher)
Melodic death metal… but maybe a bit more metalcore, and more melodic… but still catchy and cool.

KRUOR
Nightmares
Self-Released
Release Date: 27 November 2014
Just some quality death metal… Heavy as fuck, a hint of some melody and black metal, but at its core, it’s death metal dammit.