New Stuff This Week… 8/15/16

POWERWOLF
The Metal Mass – Live
Napalm Records
It’s a live album… seems like it’s good raw and live without a lot of overdubs and fakey stuff.

Black Foxxes
I’m Not Well
Spinefarm
Melodic rock, kind of a doomy feel with female vox, lots of emotion being screamed out in the vox.

The Amity Affliction
This Could Be Heartbreak
Roadrunner
As good as the heavy stuff can be here… the um, singy emo parts just wreck it for a show like ours.  I’m personally not a fan, but

Pallbearer
Fear And Fury
Profound Lore
Depressing and doomy, maybe a bit sludgey too, but a hint of a groove going on.  One of the tracks is a Type O Cover (Love You to Death)

Allegaeon
Proponent for Sentience III – The Extermination – radio single
Metal Blade
So this is the 2nd single released.  Wow.  Heavy, technical/proggy/melodic.  great stuff!

Serpentine Dominion
The Vengeance in Me – radio single
Metal Blade Records
28 October 2016
Adam Dutkiewicz, former The Black Dahlia Murder drummer Shannon Lucas, and George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher have a project now.  And this is the first single  Brutal, heavy and technical.  Nice to hear George in something a little new and fresh and being able to branch out his growls a bit.  Great brutal stuff.  Can’t wait to hear more.

Sabaton
The Last Stand
Nuclear Blast USA.
Epic folky metal, a good mix of traditional melodic kind of power metal and a little epic feel while adding a little of that fist pumping power metal with a little folky feel.

Meshiaak
Alliance Of Thieves
Mascot Label Group
Great heavy thrash from Jon Dette (fill-in drummer extrodinairre)  This has a strong Testament feel, a maybe little melodic death style too.  Good catchy riffage and great thrashy thing going on too.

Daniel Lioneye
Vol III
The End Records
Just a good solid classic metal / hard rock thing.  A bit melodic, there’s a heavy music vibe, vocally it’s more melodic.  So it’s got an accessible “solid rock” feel, but still seems heavy in parts too.

SHADOW WITCH
Sun Killer
Snake Charmer Coalition
Doomy stoner metal with a bit of a throwback 70’s type of vibe.

Death Courier
Demise LP
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Death metal with a little bit of sludge and hint black metal

Marsh Dweller
The Weight of Sunlight
Eihwaz Recordings
Melodic doomy black metal, chilled out and melodic in parts, then some blast beats black metal stuff in others… all mixing together well.

TMHM
Stage Names
Self-Release
Punky hardcore, clean-ish shouted vox, a bit of a grungy hardcore stoner groove.

The Apex
Underbelly (EP)
Self-Release
Big wall of sound death metal.  Vox are more of a shouty growl than cookie monster.  A bit grindy and in your face too.

BEWITCHER
Bewitcher
Divebomb Records/Diabolic Might Records
Abrasive vox, but a good kinda grooving almost death metal going on here.

Blood Incantation
Starspawn
Dark Descent Records
Mostly death metal, a bit technical, hints of black metal and some melodic techy stuff going on.. and full on brutal at the same time.

Stilla
Skuggflock
Nordvis Produktion
Classic old school black metal with that cold meedly black metal guitar tone, blast beats… melodic parts with some groove going on too.

SPLIT: The Great Sabatini / Godstopper
SPLIT: The Great Sabatini / Godstopper
No List Records
Great Sabatini is a bit experimental, a bit disjointed, shouty vox.  Godstopper seems a bit of a

Rattleplague
Bourbon Scenes EP
Inverse
A kinda stoner groove metal thing happening here

Asenblut
Berserker
AFM Records
It’s been a while since I’ve heard some new classic GOOD melodic death metal… These guys have it. Classic textbook melodic death, lots of great guitar work mixing and interweaving with some death metal stuff, abrasive vox. They have a bit of an Amon Amarth thing going on.

J.B.O.
11
AFM Records
Mostly german vox, kind of a classic bouncy hard rock, kind of seems like it’d be a joke type band, but I don’t really know German…. 🙂

LETZTE INSTANZ
Liebe im Krieg
AFM Records
Again with a german language vox.  This is more of a commercial hard rock/industrial type thing.  Probably not for us.

Tanzwut
Schreib Es Mit Blut
AFM Records
The AFM Records German language trifeca for the week.  This one has more of a folk metal feeling

Spire (Australia)
Entropy CD/LP
Iron Bonehead
This is predominately drony black metal with an occastional burst in to some classic actual metal without being all drony and meh.  but, really.  meh.

Warpvomit
Barbaric Triumph of Evil LP
Iron Bonehead
Grindy blackened death metal with gurgly shreiks for vocals.

Death Design
Drown With Me
Inverse
This single is just good ol meat and potatoes death metal with a pinch of melodic stuff too.

Thus Defiled
An Unhallowed Legacy
SHAOWFLAME PRODUCTIONS
Melodic Black metal but with a more modern feel.  A bit more of a melodic death/death metal thing going on musically.  BLackened thrash-death-ish.  Vox are very abrasive and it all works well.