Ghost Iris
Blind World
Long Branch
Djenty metalcore type stuff, a little bit of a melodic clean vox modern metalcore style.

Ember Falls
Welcome To Ember Falls
Spinefarm
More commercial type hard rock… catchy, a little extreme vox and proggy stuff going on too… but mostly a keyboardy electronic thing happening too

Demon Hunter
“Died In My Sleep” [Single]
Solid State
We’ve always been a fan of this band.  Good catchy melodic metalcore / metal stuff.

Wolfheart
“Boneyard/”The Flood” [Single]
Spinefarm
Kind of a viking metal melodic death thing.  Decent stuff

All That Remains
Safe House (Single)
Razor And Tie
One of the better american metalcore things.  This song starts off heavy and catchy… it stays heavy and good… I’d like to hear more!

Battle Beast
Bringer Of Pain
Nuclear Blast USA
female fronted hard rockin’ metal type stuff.  Good accessible standard classic metal

Black Sites
In Monochrome
Mascot Label Group
Catchy grooving stoner metal feel with prog metal stuff happening.  Clean vox, crunchy guitars, melodic stuff… great stuff out of Chicago!  A little bit like the heavier/catchier Down or CoC too.

My Sleeping Karma
Mela Ananda
Napalm Records
Sounds like a live album of post metal-doom type stuff.  Sound is good, music is laid back and chill… not my favorite genre…

Armored Saint
Carpe Noctum (Live)
Metal Blade Records
Since I missed these guys on their last tour, this is a nice little treat.  Sounds good, and just shows that I really shouldn’t miss this band when they come around.

King Woman
Created in the Image of Suffering
Relapse Records
Atmospheric doom, sludgey and depressing

Insanity Cult
Of Despair and Self-Destruction
Label:  Ogmios Underground
Classic black metal, evil, cold guitars, and a good classic black metal groove.

Band: Tethra
Album: Like Crows For The Earth
Country: Italy
Label: Sliptrick records
A bit doomy, some death/black metal… but kind of that melancholic doomy stuff.  Decent melodies, but just kind of depressing.

Naddred
Sluagh
Invictus Productions
Classic black metal,  A bit on the old school side, not quite lo-fi, but a bit sludgey in the mix, some good dark melodic and evil parts.

Miserist
Miserist (EP)
Label: Krucyator Productions
A little black metal, a little death metal, definitely a big sludgey doom feeling throughout… but also a little djenty deathcore thing too

RHINO
The Law of Purity
Argonauta Records
Stoner metal.  They say “Desert rock” and yeah I can hear that, just this kind of dry distorted doomy “hot” feeling.

Gloson
Grimen
Art of Propaganda
Dark and doomy black metal.

Pestifer
Execration Diatribes
Lavadome Productions
Good classic meaty death metal.  Big grooves, brutal vox and a freight train sound.  Good stuff

CANDLE
Demo 2016
Fighter Records
It’s a demo, so it sounds like a demo… (not great production)  but a classic doom (solitude aerternus type thing) with big singy clean vox.

Band: Sons Of Revolution
Album: Sons Of Revolution
Label: Sliptrick records
Kind of a bluesy hard rock/stoner rock thing

Rites of Thy Degringolade
The Universe in Three Parts TAPE
Nuclear War Now! Productions
One track of doomy melodic black metal.  Gets into classic black metal blast beats, but not full on cold and tinny, it’s got a little meat to it.

Invasion
Destroyer of Mankind
Abyss Records
This is some great grooving blackened death metal.  Heavy, brutal and yeah, chugga chugga groove groove..

CULTES DES GHOULES
Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of Love (2CD, 3LP)
Hells Headbangers
Pretty much black metal, with some good grooves, a little gritty heavy doom feeling

HAXXAN
Loch Ness Rising (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
Kind of a blackened melodic death metal… a little doomy, a little proggy (keyboards) Good stuff!

Sunlight’s Bane
The Blackest Volume: Like All The Earth Was Buried
Innerstrength Records
Pretty much death metal here, with a grindy feel.   Brutal!

WHITE DEATH
White Death (CD, LP, TAPE)
Werewolf Records
BLackened death metal.  A blast beat black metal attitude going on, but not quite full on old school tinny cold guitars… Screamy vox  and brutal. A bit of a groove in parts too.

Crystal Viper
Queen Of The Witches
AFM Records
Female fronted classic metal… Decent catchy grooves, nice vocal tones, not too singy, not growly, just a good clean sound

Tim Bowness
Lost in the Ghost Light
InsideOut
This is kind of atmospheric and experimental prog rock.  A little like an out there Porcupine Tree.

Hymn
Perish
Svart Records
Sounds like extreme doom to me.  Kind of a down tempo doom with extreme vox… Kind of a wall of noisy doom with a bit of maybe blackened doom?

Vomit Angel
Sadomatic Evil 12″ MLP
Iron Bonehead
Sludgey brutal death metal

All Else Fails
The Forever Lie
Suicidal Bride Records
This is kind of a metalcore thing.  A bit melodic, a bit brutal, some clean vox, nothing emo… decent stuff

Hate Unbound
Plague
Inverse Records
Format: CD/Digital
Release Date: February 17th 2017
Genre: Death/Thrash Metal
Country: USA

Kaos Krew
End My Pride
Inverse
Big groovin’ almost “nu-metal/industrial” sounding stuff.  (one single)

Adrian Pain & The Dead Sexy
Mixed Messages
All-Core Records
Kind of a metalcore thing

Meraine
Meraine
Moment of Collapse Records
Kind of hardcore, it’s what they call “posthardcore”  So noisy and wall of guitars, a bit sludge.

CRANIAL
Dark Towers / Bright Lights
Moment of Collapse Records
Sludgey post-metal doom.  4 long songs.  Not my thing

PIL & BUE
“Forget The Past, Let’s Worry About The Future”
Indie Recordings
Kind of an alternative hard rock thing with a little punk feel.