Gojira
“Born For One Thing” (single)
Roadrunner
They keep on keepin’ on! Great progressive, yet heavy and grooving with a bit of atmosphere. Can’t wait for more!
Ghost Iris
“Desert Dread” feat. Mark Hunter
Long Branch Records
Deathcore, brutal, yet melodic and groovin’ too.
Suzi Quatro
“The Devil In Me”
SPV/ Steamhammer
Pretty much some clasic rock type stuff.
Architects
For Those That Wish To Exist
Epitaph Records
A bit of a commerical hard rock/metal sound, but a cool catchy groove and a little bit of a gritty crunch
Einherjer
North Star
Napalm Records
Melodic death sounding a bit like an Amorphis meets Opeth with a tiny bit of a black metal vibe and classic metal grooves.
Epica
Omega
Nuclear Blast USA
Blending epic (hence their name) symphonic melodic death with operattic vox along with death growls… this band sets the standard for this “epic” metal. I usually think the female operattic metal stuff is ok, but with Epica, there’s just something more, the heavier darker full metal to back it up too.
Korpse
Insufferable Violence
Unique Leader Records
Full on, fuckin brutal death metal, heavy as shit, intense drumming and death growls to melt off your face. cool stuff.
Moonspell
Hermitage
Napalm Records
Wow, new Epica and Moonspell in the same week… nice. The 3 songs i have so far, seem to be a bit more low-key melodic stuff, which builds and builds into some of the heavier gothy melodic death… one of the tracks kind of just stays low-key, “The Greater Good” builds and builds into some great metal goodness.
Iotunn
Access All Worlds
Metal Blade Records
26 February 2021
Melodic death a little like the heavier Opeth stuff and Amon Amarth… great stuff
Band: VARANG NORD
Album: P?r?iu?a Uomurs
Label: Sliptrick records
Release date: February 23rd, 2021
Melodic death in the folk metal vein. The Folky sound is from an accordion and the heavier stuff is catchy and solid. Cool stuff!
Abstrakt
Uncreation
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: February 25th 2021
A bit black metal, some symphonic death metal stuff, pretty good.
The Split
Reminiscences
Slovak Metal Army
25 February 2021
Progressive and experimental, floating between light and heavy on the metal meter and some longer tracks showing off their proggy chops
Performed
Moronia
Slovak Metal Army
25 February 2021
Good ol classic meaty thrash from Slovakia! cool stuff with monster grooves
Innersphere
Omfalos
Slovak Metal Army
25 February 2021
Melodic death with a dark gloom tone, still catchy, heavy, a little heavy/thrashy in parts too. Cool stuff!
MEPHISTOFELES (arg)
A Path of Black
Helter Skelter / Regain Records
26 February 2021
A bit of a stoner fuzz garage band type sound. Production is a bit raw, but you can catch what they’re doing with some catchy riffs and all that.
Ominous Ruin
Amidst Voices That Echo In Stone
Willowtip Records
26 February 2021
Willowtip does it again, a great thing with technical death, thrash and prog stuff… fast and heavy and brutal too. great stuff.
AMON ACID (uk)
Paradigm Shift
Helter Skelter / Regain Records
26 February 2021
Old school doomy stoner metal sound… actually sounds like this could have come from the 70’s… the sound and production just have that old school sound. neat stuff !
Significant Point
Into the Storm
Dying Victims Prod
Feb 26
I like this… right off the bat, some classic thrash with big screamy over the top vox.
AGE OF WOE
Envenom
Lifeforce
Feb 26
Sludgey groovin’ stuff
Night Prowler
No Escape
Dying Victims Productions
Feb 26
Classic good ol metal, a bit of a heavier metal edge, but overall clean vox, solid heavy metal here.
Sadistic Drive
Anthropophagy LP
Blood Harvest
26 February 2021
Harsh death metal with some black metal leanings… production is a bit raw.
Sandstorm
Desert Warrior
Dying Victims Productions
Feb 26
Throwback to old school bluesy doom with a bit of an NWOBHM vibe.
Slough of Despair
Catacombs of Terror
Chaos Records / Personal Records
26 February 2021
Heavy doooom, a bit sludgey and a bit of a black metal harshness to the growls.
Landmvrks
Lost In The Waves
Arising Empire
Release date: Friday, February 26th 2021
I’m not sure I get the use of a V as a vowel… but, whatever, this is basically some hardcore with a unique scream/shouted vox, maybe similar to Agnostic Front, but then heading a bit into modern metalcore too.
Anneke Van Giersbergen
The Darkest Skies Are The Brightest
InsideOut
Release date: Friday, February 26, 2021
As suspected, this is not metal, folky acoustic stuff which she’s pretty good at. And yes, she opened for Delain/Amorphis on a tour a little while back and it was pretty damn, good, she’s very talented, has metal in her blood, but this release is not metal.
Infernalizer (ft. Claudio Ravinale of Disarmonia Mundi)
The Ugly Truth
Rockshots Records
26 February 2021
Melodic gothy metal, a little bit of a moonspell/amorphis thing happening, production is a smidge hollow sounding… it could just be the files I got
Bonfire
Roots
AFM Records
26 February 2021
Classic hard rock laid back, lots of power ballad type things
WOLVENCROWN
A SHADOW OF WHAT ONCE WAS
LABEL: CLOBBER RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 26th 2021
Old school black metal, harsh pissed off screamy vox. Cold.
COFFIN MULCH
Septic Funeral
Redefining Darkness Records
26 February 2021
Grindy death metal, with a little blackend death darkness
Sullen Guest
Chapter III
Self Released
Release date: Thursday, February 25th 2021
As the band name might suggest, it’s doomy dark and depressing overall… death metal vox… some spots speed things up a bit.
Anime Torment
Void Terror
Slovak Metal Army
25 February 2021
Brutal extreme death metal… a full on punshing freight train of riffs and face pounding drumming. Good stuff.
DAMNABLE
Inperdition
Label: Godz Ov War Productions
Release date: 25.01.2021
Brutal Death Grind from Poland. And yeah, it’s fast, heavy, brutal, all up in your business… almost pig squeal cookie monster vox.
CHAINSWORD
Blightmarch
Label: Godz Ov War Productions
Release date: 27.02.2021
Death Metal from Poland, good classic sound, brutal vox and overall, great meat and potatoes death metal grooves.
EVULSE
Pustulant Spawn
Label: Godz Ov War Productions
Release date: 27.02.2021
Classic death metal, 4 song ep, blast beats pushing more into a black metal harshness
CULT GRAVES
Strange Customs
Label: Godz Ov War Productions
Release date: 27.02.2021
Death metal, but a bit of a noise/grind thing happening.. fast and frenetic
Bloodrust
Burning of Aeons
Self-Released
Release date: Friday, November 13th 2020
The first metal band I’ve heard of from the Falkland Islands.. A pretty good mix of classic metal and heavy thrash with moreso of a death metal style of vox.
EMPTINESS
Vide
Season of Mist
12 February 2021
This is more of an electronic ambient thing, a bit of a light goth
Band: MYRHOLT
Album: …sjelebot…
Self Released
Release date: February 19th, 2021
Classic melodic old school black metal, nothing too harsh or abrasive. Pretty laid back and prog-rock ish in some parts too.
Band: Wych
Album: Agony
Self Released
Release date: February 26, 2021
They call this deathcore… i can hear a lot of that, but I’d also say it’s a bit more modern thrashy stuff, and throwing in a little bit of that “core” melody… like a deathcore’d up lamb of god… great stuff.
Black Totem
II: Shapeshifting
Svart Records
26 February 2021
A kind of punk/crust metal thing… a bit raw and a little sense of groove, but leaning a bit too much into punk for me.
Lizzard
Eroded
Pelagic
Release date: Friday, February 19th 2021
A catchy cool stoner groove metal, clean vox, a little prog/tool vibe in the heavier parts… pretty cool stuff.
Socioclast
Socioclast
Carbonized
Release date: Friday, February 19th 2021
Death/grind with a lot of really short songs. brutal!
Vandemonian
Xenophilia
Self-Released
20 February 2021
Normally when something has “post-xxx” as a genre, it’s a meh from me… in this case, this is “progressive and post-rock” which I hear a bit of the “post” sound… which I guess to me means kind of meandering music… to me it’s more of a straight up prog rock with some leanings of a Tool-like sound. not too shabby.
BlackEternal
Darkness Embrace II: The Oakenford Chronicles
Self Released
Release date: Wednesday, January 13th 2021
An eclectic and symphonic theatrical black metal type thing