Lords of the Trident
V.G.E.P.
Independent
1 October 2024
Favorite local band with some new tracks and a cover! They’ve been playing these songs live for a while and also released it to their patreon folks months ago. But now it’s out for real and melodic, catchy, heavy and fun too!

TRISKELYON
Shattered Elysium
Moribund Records
27 September 2024
Melodic and thrashy with some classic metal too… and a cover of Duran Duran’s “Hungry Like the Wolf!”

ALLT
From The New World
Century Media Records
Deathcore type stuff… decent

Human Impact
Gone Dark
(Ipecac)
Kind of a metalcore-ish modern metal, just groovin’

Wind Rose
Trollslayer
(Napalm)
Folky melodic death- fun and catchy

Uncured
Manifesto (Single)
Conclave Studios
Groovin’ metalcore

The New Roses
Attracted to Danger
(Napalm)
Kind of bluesy classic rock/power ballady type stuff

Spite
The Third Temple
Invictus Productions
27 September 2024
This has a deathy doomy blackened groove, cool stuff

Ripped to Shreds
Sanshi
Relapse
27 September 2024
Formerly a one man band, it’s now a full band, groovin’ meaty death metal

Mammoth Caravan
Frostbitten Galaxy
Blade Setter Records
4 October 2024
Kind of a deathy doom

Blighted Eye
Agony’s Bespoke
Beyond The Top Records
20 September 2024
SOme progressive melodic death with some cool grooves too, and a bit of an “epic” feel and a pinch of blackened death too

Ancient Malignity
Dehumanization Dawn
Inhuman Assault
1 October 2024
Death metal, brutal and a bit of a tech death sound too

MARCHE FUNÈBRE
AFTER THE STORM
LABEL: ARDUA MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 27th 2024
A doomy death thing

Magnetar
Release Title: There Will Be No Peace In My Valley
Label: Vendetta Records
Release Date: September 27, 2024
a nice blend of black metal, Death Metal and Blackened Thrash

Valletta
Summer
Forcefield Records
4 October 2024
A straightforward doomy groove.

Life Abuse
Systemization
Armageddon Label
4 October 2024
A hardcore, borderline punky thing.

Pythonic
EP 1
Self-Release
27 September 2024
A kind of groovin’ doomy death thing, a bit of melodic stuff too

Dreadmask
Album: Thy Prime Dread
self released
Release date: October 1, 2024
Melodic Death Metal, with a darker type sound, a bit of a doom style

Fache
Violent Au Volant
Horror Pain Gore Death
September 27th
Many sub one-minute punky grindy tracks

TEMPLE OF DECAY
Anti Deus
GODZ OV WAR PRODUCTIONS
This is a kind of blackened death, some underlying groove and catchiness too. Cool stuff.

ANNOUNCE THE APOCALYPSE
Album: Experience Machine
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: October 1st, 2024
A mashup of Prog, thrash and melodic death

Forsaken Rite
The Forgotten West (EP)
Self-Release
27 September 2024
Melodic death/folk metal, clean female vox and some growls too

Coffin Rot
Dreams Of The Disturbed
Maggot Stomp
Release date: Friday, September 20th 2024
Brutal gore death metal

Dreamless Veil
Every Limb Of The Flood
Relapse
Release date: Friday, September 20th 2024
Classic old school black metal – decent melodic stuff yet cold.

Gates Open
Black Clouds Over The World (EP)
Inverse
Release Date: October 4th 2024
Death Metal with a little groove and a pinch of a melodeath

Haggus
No End In Suffering EP
Tankcrimes
Release date: Monday, September 16th 2024

Haggus
Three Cadavers, Two Corpses And A Carcass EP
Tankcrimes
Release date: Monday, September 16th 2024
Pig squeally vocal grindy gore death metal, a little groove in here surprisingly, but brutal!!

The Wring
Nemesis
Wormholedeath
Sept 27
Progressive Metal with a bit of a Voivod style

Bye Bye Tsunami
Eating
Nefarious Industries
Release date: Friday, October 4th 2024
Experimental, which I guess is also “prog” these days too? If I had to compare to something, a bit like old Mr Bungle. Some horns, jazzy stuff, noise metal,

DEAMONOLITH
The Monolithic Cult of Death
GODZ OV WAR PRODUCTIONS
35 minute track, Blackened death, pretty decent stuff with some good deathy grooves, but LONG

ONSLAUGHT KOMMAND
Malignancy
GODZ OV WAR PRODUCTIONS
Grind Death Metal with a black metal coldness

PERSECUTORY
The Glorious Persecution
GODZ OV WAR PRODUCTIONS
Blackened Death Metal, pushing more to classic black metal

Wings Denied
Just the Basics
Independent
20 September 2024
A kind of modern metal, melodic hard rock-ish stuff.

Distant Dominion
Ripping Through Time
Fetzner Death Records
Release date: Friday, September 27th 2024
Catchy groovin’ death metal

Lizzard
Mesh
Pelagic
Release date: Friday, September 27th 2024
A little post-rock almost alt-rock type stuff.

High Parasite
Forever We Burn
Candlelight
27 September 2024
Aaron Stainthorpe of My Dying Bride does vox… this is a melodic doomish death with more of an upbeat type feel

Swarm Effect
Album: Cotard’s Syndrome
Self Released
Release date: September 27th, 2024
Good ol meaty brutal death metal.

The Black Dahlia Murder
Servitude
Metal Blade Records
27 September 2024
Turns out losing your revered frontman won’t kill the band. With some creative member shuffling, they are a unit again, and musically, probably their most prog/technical yet while staying brutal and heavy and catchy too.

SATHANAS
Into the Nocturne
Moribund Records
27 September 2024
Kind of a classic black metal, but a nice groove too

Richie Kotzen
Nomad
BMG
Pretty chill with some funky vibes, great guitar work and soulful vox.

Heriot
Devoured By the Mouth Of Hell
Century Media Records
Groovin’ death-ish metal, meaty riffs with some atmosphere and black metal style vox cool stuff.

Mastodon & Lamb Of God
Floods Of Triton (Single)
Loma Vista/Concord
Collab between the two bands recorded before they set out on their tour together. A pretty good mix of both bands into one song.

BornBroken
Am I Invisible
Self-Release
20 September 2024
Groovin’ heavy deathy thrashy – maybe like a Devildriver style. great stuff!

The Bones
Circle
Lovedozer LLC
A little punky/alt rock

Turbokill
Champion
SPV/Steamhammer
Classic power metal with some grooves and catchiness

Unto Others
Never, Neverland
Butterfly
Century Media
Goth ish, some stuff is a bit more upbeat metal, overall though, some more chill stuff.

Vola (single)
“Cannibal”
(Mascot)
Prog metal band, a little of a melodeath vibe, but with a symphonic-ish thing happening – this single has Anders of In Flames providing harsh vox. cooool

Dungeon Crawl
Maze Controller
Carbonized
Release date: Friday, September 20th 2024
Thrashy, epic, progressive, with a blackended thrash thing too. great stuff!

Avernus
Album: Grievances
M-Theory Audio
Release date: September 20th, 2024
Atmospheric Doom/Death Metal

Battle Born (single)
Magic and Steel (single)
Prosthetic Records
20 September 2024
Big fast over the top power metal type stuff.

Ingurgitating Oblivion
Ontology of Nought
Willowtip Records
27 September 2024
Progressive all over the place metal, jazzy parts, black metal stuff, tech death, and no song under 10 min!

Midnight Force
Severan
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 27/09/2024
fairly straightforward classic metal

DIABLATION
Irrévérence
Osmose Productions
27 September 2024
A bit of a classic black metal but with some kind of epic flourishes and groovin’

Warlust
Sol Invictvs In Vmbrae Satanae
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 27/09/2024
Classic black metal

CRYPT OF REASON
Album: Stargazer
Self Released
Release date: September 24, 2024
This is kind of a deathy doom thing, a little prog-ish but mostly dark and depressing

Adorior
Bleed on my Teeth
Dark Descent Records (North America) / Sepulchral Voice (EU)
27 September 2024
Black metal with some fast intense stuff, but also some room left for some groovin’ melodies

Emasculator
The Disfigured and the Divine
New Standard Elite
25 September 2024
Brutal death metal, quick short no fuckin’ around tracks

WITCHTRAP
Hungry as the Beast (CD, LP, TAPE)
Hells Headbangers
27 September 2024
A little mix between classic metal and a light thrash. decent stuff.

Torrefy
Necronomisongs
Self-Release
27 September 2024
I’d have to say this is blackened thrash… catchy and heavy with a cold edge.

Invernoir
Aimin’ for Oblivion
code666
27 September 2024
This has a kind of melodic doomy death metal thing going on. Deathy vox, but classic doom musically.

Mork
Syv
Peaceville Records
20 September 2024
Melodic and a little proggy black metal, lots of atmosphere and not quite as COLD

Kingdom Of Giants
Bleeding Star
SharpTone Records
20 September 2024
That kinda modern metal core that is all heavy then gets all emo with some djenty stuff

Groza
Nadir
AOP Records
20 September 2024
Classic black metal, good melodic atmosphere

Battlesword
Release Title: (XX)V – Of Tales And Tragedies
Label: MDD Records
Release Date: September 26, 2024
Melodic Death Metal, a bit meaty and groovin’. Amon Amarth-ish

Endonomos
Album: Endonomos II – Enlightenment
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: September 27, 2024
Epic Death Doom Metal

PSYCHLONA
Warped Vision
Magnetic Eye Records
27 September 2024
Kind of classic metal, more on the stoner groove side of things, a bit alt-rock

EPIC DOWN
Album: Days of Oblivion
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: September 27, 2024
Sludgey doom metal.

Hagalas
Mentes Reae
Label: Inverse Records
Release date: Septembeer 25th 2024
Melodic Death Metal, straight up… decent stuff.

Where’s My Bible
KAVE
Record label: Self-released
Release Date: September 11th 2024
Melodic death with shades of black metal and grooooves

Herakleion
Necroverse EP
Self-Released
Release date: Friday, September 13th 2024
This is a kind of thrashy groove, deathy vox, technical and catchy too

ÇÖKÜŞ
An Hour Of Lies
Qumran
Release date: Friday, September 13th 2024
ÇÖKÜŞ (pronounced cho-koosh; Turkish for “decline” or “collapse”). This a cool doomy/stoner groove.

Unjoyful Play
Unjoyful Play (EP)
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: September 19th 2024
This is a sort of melodic Death Metal, prog stuff going on, a little smidge of meedly black /blackened death. some good grovoes too.

Helevorn
Espectres
Meuse Music Records
13 September 2024
This is doomy death metal, but then clean vox and kind of a doomy melodeath

Killing Spree
Camouflage
Klonosphere Records
13 September 2024
Definitely on the progressive side of things here, some classic metal with a horn section! Otherwise there’s a deathy doomish groove.

Eternal Crypt
Stages of Grief
Self Released
Epic proggy black/blackend death metal, symphonic stuff, catchy and melodic too, clean and harsh vox. cool stuff!!

Eradicator
The Paradox
Metalville Records
Kind of a modern metal, thrashy, catchy, and a little bit heavier (growly-ish vox)

Kanonenfieber
Die Urkatastrophe
Century Media Records
Kind of a melodic death with a smidge of black metal, and some doomy grooves too

CLAUSTROFOBIA
UNLEECHED
M-THEORY AUDIO
This has an extreme thrashy/death metal thing happening, some brutality, whilst still having that catchy thrash edge with a pinch of melodeath in there too

Legions Of Doom
The Skull 3
Tee Pee Records
Release date: Friday, September 13th 2024
This is the band up from the ashes of The Skull and featuring members of St Vitus too. Just what you’d want.. meaty groovin’ classic doom from dudes that helped pioneer the genre

Thy Will Be Done
Pillar of Fire
Eye.On Lion Recordings
Brutal, catchy deathcore type stuff, first album in 15 years, tech-ish, cool stuff!!

Homerik
The Circle Of Dead Children
Metal Mastermind
Cinematic metal, some varieties of stuff going on, progressive, power, melodeath, operattic, full on movie sounding type stuff. And an epic cover of Lamb of God’s Laid to Rest!

OBEYER
“Second Sun” b/w ”Radiant”
(3DOT)
Here is some death metal/metalcore with a bit of an atmosphere

Sweet
Full Circle
Metalville Records
Only one member of the original Sweet is alive, Andy Scott… he’s had this version of the band for a few albums… this first single is a straight up kind of classic rock type thing.

Charlotte Wessels
The Obsession
(Napalm)
Former front woman from Delain with another solo effort. Clean vox, kind of a classic metal/power metal thing

Wolfbrigade
Life Knife Death
Metal Blade Records
13 September 2024
A bit hardcoreish stuff and melodic death, quick to the point songs with some attitude

Satan
Songs in Crimson
Metal Blade Records
13 September 2024
Classic metal doomy… and to have the same lineup of 5 guys from their 1983 debut should say something too.

Winterfylleth
The Imperious Horizon
Candlelight
13 September 2024
Kind of an epic black metal, traditional cold old school stuff, but then throwing in some melodic symphonic sounding stuff too.

QARINAH
TRANSCENDENT
BUIO OMEGA MUSIC
Waldemar Sorychta known best for Grip Inc. is behind this band… has a kind of similar groove to Grip Inc (but without Lombardo….) it has a bit of a modern solid rock sound

Defeated Sanity
Temporal Disintegration
Season of Mist
10 September 2024
Kind of a raw brutal death metal (just a single so far)

Invocation
The Archaic Sanctuary (Ritual Body Postures) LP/CD
Iron Bonehead
20 September 2024
Blackened death metal, decent stuff

Servant
Death Devil Magick
AOP Records
20 September 2024
Blackened death, progressive metal in some spots, cool stuff!

Deathless Void
The Voluptuous Fire of Sin LP/CD
Iron Bonehead
20 September 2024
Classic wall of sound sounding black metal

Hyver
Fonds de Terroir
Antiq
17 September 2024
Kind of a classic black metal with a melodic almost folky element

VISION DIVINE
Blood And Angels’ Tears
Scarlet Records
20 September 2024
Mostly power metal, but a good crunchy prog thing going on too… Cool stuff

Big Big Train
A Flare On The Lens (Live)
InsideOut
Sept 13
classic Prog band with a new live album.

DEAD FLESH STIGMA
Necrocosmic Death Ritual (CD)
Werewolf
13 September 2024
Classic black metal

ISOLERT
Wounds Of Desolation
Non Serviam Records
13 September 2024
Black metal with an epic-ish groove element

TRELLDOM
…by the Shadows…
Prophecy Productions
13 September 2024
This has a blackened doom sound

Sully
Sully
Horror Pain Gore Death
September 13th
Grind thing happening here, a bit like Brutal Truth

Nightwraith
Divergence
Self-Release
13 September 2024
Melodic death, a little blackened sounds, a little opeth deathy vibe. Cool stuff!

ANTIMOZDEBEAST
Album: Vision
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: September 17th, 2024
Genre: Industrial Metal | Electronic Metal | Avant – Garde Metal
Yup, it kind of fits the above listed genres… might be better for a different show on WORT

Vended
Vended
Self-Release
20 September 2024
Band from Des Moines… hmmmm, oh yeah a couple kids from Corey and Clown of Slipknot in the band. Pretty good heavy grooves, and similar to Slipknot

KRILLOAN
Return Of The Heralds
Scarlet Records
20 September 2024
Classic power metal, with a smidge of a folk metal thing

UNTERVOID
Parasite
Pagan Records
20 September 2024
Groovin’ black metal, cool stuff

Mass Disorder
Release Title: Hupokrisis
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: September 13, 2024
Nice and heavy thrashy stuff from Portugal

Serious Black
Rise Of Akhenaton
AFM Records
Radio Impact: 13 September 2024
Release: 27 September 2024
Classic metal, clean vox, bordering on power metal.

Cypher
Cypher
Wormholedeath
Modern Progressive Metal, A bit of a modern metal with some prog elements. Clean and harsh vox

Fabulae Dramatis
Release Title: Violenta
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: September 5, 2024
This is kind of a melodic death with clean (female) vox and some harsh stuff too

Entering Polaris
Release Title: Myths In Motion / Songs Of Ivory And Obsidian
Label: Freya Records
Release Date: September 5, 2024
Genre: Progressive Metal, Acoustic, one album is more traditional progressive metal, with some good heavy metal stuff, Dream Theater-ish… the second is just piano/acoustic versions of songs. Myths in Motion has different vocalists, like Ripper Owens, John Yelland, and more! Ivory has more singers like Roy Khan and Tom Englund

Pyrrhon
Exhaust
Willowtip Records
6 September 2024
Kind of a technical screamo death. Vox screamy, music fast and techy thrash groove.

CRUSH THE MONSTER
Death
(self-released)
A little proggy and doomy, melodic and longer songs on this 4 song EP

MANY EYES
The Light Age
Perseverance Media Group
6 September 2024
Band from Keith Buckley, formerly of Everytime I Die and Damned things. This is a melodic-ish modern metalcore type thing

Edouarth
Stray Beat
Sleaszy Rider
A kind of straight forward classic metal

Ventirat
Victorian
Sleaszy Rider
here we have some melodic kind of doom/alternative rock thing

The Blacktones
The Longest Year
Sleaszy Rider
Sludgey doom with a little goth thing happening

Oceans Of Slumber
Where Gods Fear To Speak
Season of Mist
Epic progressive ish melodic death… harsh and clean vox, a bit of a female american opeth type thing

Incognito Theory
Days Of Reckoning
Curtain Call Records
Hard rockin’ groove metal type stuff.

Ramener
5 Long Years
Independent
Fairly straightforward groovish classic melodic metal/hard rock.

The Distinguished Order of Disobedience
Dissonance
SelfMade Records
Kind of a hardcore mixed with classic metal, prog metal and thrash… lots of cool stuff going on!

CAFFEINE
Release Title: The Threshold
Label: The Lasting Dose Records
Release Date: September 13, 2024
Nice big meaty progressive doom/stoner metal. A bit like Gojira/Mastodon… cool stuff!

Stryper
When We Were Kings (single)
Frontiers Records
Classic song that can only sound like Stryper, but it’s new!

GLARE OF THE SUN
TAL
Lifeforce
September 13th, 2024
Progressive Doom Metal, death growls, down tempo stuff.

Firtan
Ethos
AOP Records
13 September 2024
A bit of a classic black metal, with a bit more tech/prog melodic things happening

Hammerfilosofi
SOLUS (Igne Natura Renovator Integra)
ATMF
13 September 2024
Kind of a post-black metal, progressiveish longer tracks with some classic black metal stuff too

Father Befouled
Immaculate Pain
Everlasting Spew Records
13 September 2024
Raw, brutal and doomy blackened death

FÖRGJORD
Perkeleen Weri (CD, LP)
Werewolf
13 September 2024
Black metal, cold, melodic meedly

Solus Rex
Release Title: The Duellist’s Monologue
Label: Obelisk Polaris Productions
Release Date: September 9, 2024
Kind of a down tempo doomy death metal

IMMORTAL DEATH (Japan)
Immortal Death (CD, TAPE)
Werewolf
13 September 2024
Very raw old school death metal, maybe recorded live with a microcassette recorder?

Insurrection
Obsolescence
Bam Co. & Heavy
13 September 2024
Nice and meaty death/melodic death. Catchy groovin stuff!

Manuel Barbara
Whisper in a Storm
Self-Release
13 September 2024
Prog metal, with a pinch of metal/deathcore musically

Trip to the Morgue
Toe Tagged And Body Bagged
Wormholedeath
Sept 13
Grindcore, but with some groovin’ too.

Those Left Standing
Almere City Hardcore
Independent
7 September 2024
Hardcore, catchy and to the point

SKULL RIOT
TOO LITTLE… TOO LATE
SKULL RIOT
Kind of a groovin’ hardcore

WES ANDERSON (single)
GOODBYE (FT. STEPHEN RICHARDS)
THC MUSIC
Featuring Taproot frontman, a bit of a modern metal/nu metal ish sound

Flotsam And Jetsam
I Am The Weapon
AFM Records
Radio Impact: 2 September 2024
Release: 13 September 2024
Great catchy thrash with crisp production and sounds like their last few albums… good stuff!

Wolfheart
Draconian Darkness
Reigning Phoenix Music
Melodic death with a little bit of an epic sound, gritty and punchy too.

Future Palace
Dreamstate (Single)
Arising Empire
Kind of a modern metal- female fronted, some grooves and solid-rockish

Amiensus
Album: Reclamation Pt. II
Label: M-Theory Audio
Release date: August 30th, 2024
Prog Black Metal, epic in parts, full on balck metal in others… the part 1 of this from earlier this year was pretty great and so is this

The Crown (single)
Crown of Thorns – radio singles
Metal Blade Records
11 October 2024
I don’t think this band has ever done anything bad… solid extreme thrashy stuff, a bit melodeath. can’t wait for more!

SOLITARY
EMBRACE THE DARKNESS
LABEL: TWISTED INTO FORM
RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 6th 2024
Kind of a classic thrash, a bit catchy and technical too. Col stuff!

FREYA
BLOOD THIRST
UPSTATE RECORDS
Single of kinda groovin’ thrashy metalcore type stuff. Cool .

Misanthropia
Envy The Dead
Wormholedeath
September 6th, 2024
A little bit of a death metal and black metal attitude with some groovin’ catchy stuff too

God Is An Astronaut
Embers
Napalm
Laid back instrumental post-metal/rock type stuff. Some parts get a little more upbeat and prog-ish. overall fairly chill tho

Victory
Circle Of Life
AFM Records
Radio Impact: 2 September 2024
Kind of a classic metal/hard rock, solid grooves, AOR type vibe.

Sanctuarium
Melted and Decomposed
Me Saco Un Ojo / BlackSeed
3 September 2024
Sludgey black metal

Moose Cult
Book of the Machines
Eat Lead and Die Music
6 September 2024
Kind of an atmospheric yet classic black metal too with some meaty grooves and melodies too while mixing in some classic doom as well.

Grendel’s Sÿster
Katabasis Into The Abaton
Cruz Del Sur Music
6 September 2024
Classic metal, female fronted, a bit doomy and melodic with a pinch of folk

Phaëthon
Wielder of the Steel
Gates of Hell Records
6 September 2024
Kind of a classic metal with a little power metal element

Bloody Valkyria
Release Title: Kingdom in Fire
Label: Northern Silence Productions
Release Date: September 6, 2024
Epic / Melodic Black Metal basically three 12+minute tracks, decent stuff, tho, lots to digest

Drunkelweizen
Release Title: Pioneers of Alcohol
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: September 6, 2024
Folky drinky metal.

Jordan Rudess
Permission To Fly
Inside Out
I kind of have to automatically like this being a prog fan and Dream Theater super-fan. This obviously will have a keyboard-centric sound. Vocal parts are a bit more laid back, and come to think of it, most of it is more prog and less metal.

Pure Reason Revolution
Coming Up To Consciousness
Inside Out
Some more laid back prog from the same label as above…

MALLEVS
Release Title: The Hammer
Label: Floga Records
Release Date: September 6, 2024
Classic metal… and some big screamy vox in parts… decent stuff.

ELEPHANT TREE
Handful of Ten
Magnetic Eye Records
6 September 2024
Atmospheric kind of doom stuff

SEROTONIN
MOTIV
LABEL: NARCOLEPTICA PRODUCTIONS
RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 2nd 2024
Kind of a blackend doom/death type thing

Dragsholm
Sorrow Hexen
Horror Pain Gore Death
September 6th
Kind of classic blackened death/black metal

SIDEWALK MAFIA
Album: Soulcrushers
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: September 3rd, 2024
Sometimes in these little reviews, its tough to really pigeonhole a subgenre, but sometimes they just tell you and it fits perfectly. Blackened Gothic/Doom Metal

VØLUS
Merciful the Dying Light
Vargheist Records
7 September 2024
Raw kind of sludgey black/death metal.

Gigantum
Self-Titled
Self-Release
6 September 2024
Groovin’ stoner/doom

Heinous Exsanguination
The Stench of Decaying Flesh
Gore House Productions
6 September 2024
Gore metal with groovin’ death and pig squeally vox

INFRARED
Manifestation
Self-Release
6 September 2024
Here’s some kind of basic-ish thrashy stuff… catchy and to the point with a little punky hardcore thing happening

Dan Dark
Release Title: Dark Avenger
Label: METALWORLD
Release Date: September 6, 2024
classic Hard Rock type stuff

HELVETETS PORT
Warlords
High Roller Records
6 September 2024
A little classic metal, a little doom, and a bit of a Ghost vibe too.

Aluk Todolo
LUX
NoEvDia / The Ajna Offensive
6 September 2024
Mostly a kind of sludgy post metal

The Lucidia Project
Requiem EP
Wormholedeath
September 6th, 2024
Melodic Metal with a little prog / modern alternative thing too

Grave Sermon
Release Title: Liturgical Perversions
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: September 1, 2024
Death Metal, fast and heavy, maybe a little of a thrash gallop to it too.

Mister Misery
Mister Misery
AFM Records
Kind of a modern groove metal but kind of more of a melodic death. Good stuff!

Palehørse
Wounded Animals
Indie Recordings
29 August 2024
Title track has a little mastodon vibe and pushing melodic death.

Vonavibe
Locked Up
Eclipse Records
23 August 2024
Modern metalcore EP of A Tears for Fears, The Weeknd, Linkin Park covers.

Satan (single)
Songs in Crimson – radio singes
Metal Blade Records
13 September 2024
Old school doomy classic metal

Kings of Mercia (single)
Battle Scars – radio singles
Metal Blade Records
25 October 2024
Jim Matheos and others with a supergroup of sorts… mostly AOR hard rockin’ type stuff.

Iotunn (single)
Kinship – radio singles
Metal Blade Records
25 October 2024
This single starts off a bit laid back and Post metal-ish before kicking in to some progressive melodic death type stuff.

Leprous
Melodies Of Atonement
Inside Out Music
Electronicified prog metal, a lot of layers and some really laid back parts too

Hatriot
Forest Of Illusion (Single)
FM Music Management
Cool to have a new single when they’re in town the same week. great solid thrash!

ANCIIENTS
Beyond the Reach of the Sun
Season of Mist
30 August 2024
Kind of a proggy doom and melodic death with an opeth vibe too

Thy Will Be Done (single)
Echoes & Narcissists
Self-Released
Kind of a brutal thrash/death metal thing. meaty grooves, harsh vox, just a single here.

Lamb Of God
Ashes Of The Wake (20th Anniversary Edition)
Epic Records
Always a good reason to revisit a classic – a couple remixes and collabs on classic bonus tracks too

Hatchend
Summer Of ’69
Selfmadegod
Release date: Friday, August 23rd 2024
Kind of a thrash, with a little deathy blackened thing going on. fast and cool

DECEASED
Children of the Morgue
Hells Headbangers
30 August 2024
Classic band is back… some good heavy deathy thrash

QARINAH (single)
NOT FOR SALE
BUIO OMEGA MUSIC
Female fronted hard rock, groovin’ melodic track

HATCHET (single)
HELLION
M-THEORY AUDIO
WASP Cover, pretty straightforward \m/

Nails
Every Bridge Burning
Nuclear Blast Records
30 August 2024
Fast and heavy brutalish thrashy hardcore stuff… cool!

Within The Ruins
Phenomena II
MNRK Heavy
Release date: Friday, August 23rd 2024
Kind of a tech deathcore type thing, catchy, brutal, great stuff!

Simone Simons
Vermillion
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 23 August 2024
Epica front-woman with her first solo album! all instruments are by Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon) and some other guests too. Kind of a power metal, with a bunch of prog/epic stuff going on too.

EXECUTIONER’S MASK
Almost There
Seeing Red Records
30 August 2024
Kind of a doomy post metal

Pneuma Hagion
From Beyond
Everlasting Spew Records
30 August 2024
Brutal death metal, quick short songs, some goovin’ too.

Phenocryst
Cremation Pyre CD/LP/TAPE
Blood Harvest
30 August 2024
Pretty good meaty death metal with a solid groove

Gutvoid
Breathing Obelisk CD/12″MLP/TAPE
Blood Harvest
30 August 2024
Kind of a raw black/death metal, more on the death metal side with a bit of black metal coldness.

Wolfhorde
Bloodmoon Symphonies
Release Date: August 30th 2024
Record label: Inverse Records
This is melodic death with a little folk vibe, vox are clean and harsh with some heavier prog stuff too

Temple Witch
Ocean Thousand, Mountain Thousand
Wormholedeath
August 30, 2024.
Doom Metal, longer tracks down tempo

Ellende
Todbringerin
AOP Records
30 August 2024
classic black metal, a little doomy darkness

Avmakt
Satanic Inversion Of….
Peaceville Records
30 August 2024
Raw old school black metal

VAST PYRE
Album: Vast Pyre
Label: Octopus Rising
Release date: August 30, 2024
Doomy stoner metal, longer songs

DIONIZE
Album: Lighthouse
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: August 30, 2024
This one has a strong doom thing going on, but some prog elements are cool too.

Incessant
Release Title: Entropic Aeons
Label: Repose Records
Release Date: July 26, 2024
At its base it’s blackened death metal, a little more down tempo than a typical band of this genre, but it has that cold/harsh doomy part of black metal mixed in with some death metal growls and grooves…. also some parts fit the bill of blackened death straight on.

Fleshgod Apocalypse
Opera
Nuclear Blast Records
23 August 2024
Epic blackened death, full atmospheric sound and heavy and intense too… great stuff as usual

DAMPF
No Angels Alive
Silver Lining Music
Kind of a modern metal, leaning towards upbeat power metal with pinches of melodeath too.

Nile
The Underworld Awaits Us All
(Napalm)
Brutal, technical, crisp, always great stuff from these guys

GRAVERY
EVERYTHING THAT IS BORN MUST DIE
UPSTATE RECORDS
meaty brutal death metal. cool stuff!

Earth Lux
Earth Lux
Metalville Records
Classic metal, melodic with a little crunch and a 90’s aor feel

Demiser
Slave to the Scythe
Metal Blade Records / Blacklight Media Records
23 August 2024
Crazy fast thrashy and catchy groovin’ death metal stuff. \m/

Knife
Live Leather Hounds
(Napalm)
Live album/EP, it’s kind of a punky speed metal thing

Rising Insane
Wildfires
Long Branch
Modern metalcore… catchy, melodic

Unto Others
“Momma Likes The Door Closed”
Never, Neverland
(Century Media)
Modern metal ish… this track has a gothy vibe but with some crunchy metal too.

Furnace
Release Title: Trojan Hearse
Label: Obelisk Polaris Productions
Release Date: August 23, 2024
Solid groovin’ death metal, great riffs and catchy goo. great stuff!

Nebülith
Feel Good Music for the End of the World Vol. 1
Self-released
23 August 2024
Fuzzy stoner metal with some good grooves and a throwback vibe

Buryfication
Album: Gallows Rise
Label: Kvlt und Kaos Productions
Release date: August 23rd, 2024
Wall of blackened death goodness. Quick shorter tracks with a little thrashy sound, but brutal guttural vox. Cool stuff.

Siege of Perilous
Creation’s Call – EP
Self-Release
23 August 2024
Classic metal with some decent grooves

Vomitrot
Emetic Imprecations
Personal Records
24 August 2024
Brutal meaty death metal. cool stuff.

HELLWRATH
SIN EATER EP
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 19th 2024
Punishing death metal with quick short to the point tracks. \m/

Bred For Slaughter
Kill For Satan
Horror Pain Gore Death
August 23rd
Brutal death metal with a pinch of a blackened sound too.

GRAVENOIRE
Devant La Porte Des Étoiles
Season of Mist: Underground Activists
23 August 2024
raw old school black metal

KINGCROW
Hopium
Season of Mist
23 August 2024
Prog metal, a bit chilled out, reminds me a little of Pain of Salvation, more melodic than heavy

Morgue Terror
Violent and Murderous Thoughts
Self-released
23 August 2024
Brutal death metal but with a little bit of a melodic groove creeping in with ChrisBarnes-like brutal growls.

HAR
Cursed Creation
Dark Descent Records
23 August 2024
Fast and intense blackended death, brutal, cold and no fuckin’ around

Robse
Harlekin & Krieger
Reaper Entertainment
Release date: Friday, August 16th 2024
Melodic death with a meaty heavy sound. new band of the former Equilibrium frontman Cool stuff!!

Consumed by Vultures
Album: Pseudobiblion
Label: L’Arte Produce
Release date: August 20th, 2024
Fast and heavy brutal death metal, groovin’ stuff too. cool!

HEILUNG
Lifa Iotungard (Live At Red Rocks 2021)
Season of Mist
9 August 2024
I haven’t really heard this band a lot… apparently the live shows are where its at… so here’s a live album! while it’s just audio, you can almost feel like you’re at what is almost a ritual!

CONQUEST
CELTIC MIST
DARKSTAR RECORDS
New single/video from the band… we charted this full album back in April/May. this track is a bit more chill with a good classic metal vibe

Hail Darkness
Death Divine
Vatican Records
15 August 2024
Old school doom, female fronted, sounds like it came right out of the 70’s

Dark Tranquillity
Endtime Signals
Century Media Records
THis band has been pretty consistent over the years and this one is pretty solid and good ol classic melodic death.

MALAMORTE
Abisso
Moribund Records
9 August 2024
Kind of a classic doom metal, a little king diamond meets black sabbath vibe?

Salem’s Childe
Unbound
Pavement Entertainment
Kind of a just good ol classic metal with a nice groove

Bear McCreary
“The Last Ballad of Damrod” (feat. Jens Kidman)
(Roadrunner)
A kind of epic movie song with Jens from Meshuggah on vox. neat.

AMIENSUS (single)
DECAYING GOD CHILD
M-THEORY AUDIO
Blackened melodic death, looking forward to the full album

Death League
Release Title: Inferno
Label: Theogonia Records
Release Date: August 16, 2024
Melodic Death Metal with a little In Flames / Dark Tranquillity vibe.

The Black Dahlia Murder
Mammoth’s Hand (single)
Metal Blade Records
Album on Sept 27
This one is the second single from thew “new TBDM” and a bit more of a groove and not as crazy intense… great stuff

Ulvehunger
Retaliation
Darkness Shall Rise
15 August 2024
Here’s some classic black metal,

Chronicler of Ardul
Sword of Virné
Self-Released
16 August 2024
A kind of melodic black metal, a little symphonic which gives it a touch of a cradle of filth type vibe.

ATTRACTIVE CHAOS
TAME & CONQUER
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 14th 2024
This has a kind of power metal thing going on, a little heavier, and pushing a little melodic death with some clean and harsh vox.

Ron Keel
KEELWORLD
RFK Media
2 August 2024
Classic hard rock type stuff, maybe even some southern vibe

Horns & Hooves
Spectral Voyeurism
Stygian Black Hand / Invictus
16 August 2024
Just a short-ish EP… it’s kind of technical black metal

Blind Monarch
The Dead Replenish The Earth
Dry Cough Records, Heavenly Vault, minoRobscuR
16 August 2024
Doomy post black metal

Bless the Dead
We Create This
Wormholedeath
Aug 9
Southern Groove Metal with a little bit of a pantera sound

Defacement
Duality
Avant Garde
Out July 26th, 2024.
Blackened death metal, fast and brutal too

Ostoraton
Release Title: Somood
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: August 8, 2024
Melodic Death Metal from Saudi Arabia… music definitely has a bit of an ethnic vibe… while yeah, middle eastern sounding… has a bit of an Amorphis vibe too

Gaijin
Release Title: Children of Dust
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: August 1, 2024
Instrumental Progressive/Technical Death Metal… it has an Opeth style

Houkago Grind Time
Koncertos Of Kawaiiness: Stealing Jon Chang’s Ideas, A Book By Andrew Lee
Outrageous Weeb Power Productions
Release date: Friday, August 16th 2024
As the band name indicates… it’s Grind! quick short fast intense songs

Vile Rites
Senescence
Carbonized
Release date: Friday, August 16th 2024
Death metal, a bit technical/prog whilst being BRUTAL too

Fulci
Duck Face Killings
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, August 9th 2024
Brutal death metal, quick short tracks and some grooooves

Âscent
Gamma
Wormholedeath
Aug 16
Progressive Metal, melodic, clean vox, diverse… decent stuff.

1349
“The God Devourer” (Radio Single)
Season of Mist
6 August 2024
Cool groovin’ melodic death

Shun
Dismantle
Small Stone Recordings
Release date: Friday, July 19th 2024
Melodic just rock type stuff.

A RISING FORCE
TRUTH
DARK STAR RECORDS
Kind of just a straight up hard rock/classic metal thing, melodic… reminds me a little of dokken

HEAVENBLACK
Blindfolded
Sleaszy Rider
Classic metal, clean vox, some decent grooves

KAISAS
Ieria
Sleaszy Rider
Another classic metal hard rock type thing.

ORRA
Glimmer Of Hope
Sleaszy Rider
And here’s another classic metal thing. This one has more of a prog metal, fates warning type vibe

In Aphelion
Reaperdawn
Century Media Records
Kind of a melodic blackened death thing. Good Stuff

Mushroomhead
Call The Devil
Napalm
Groovin’ catchy and lots goin’ on. And pulls back and gets lighter and melodic in parts too

Fit For A King
Technium (feat Landon Tewers from The Plot In You)
Solid State Records
Kind of a modern industrial deathcore type thing.

HammerFall
Avenge The Fallen
Nuclear Blast Records
9 August 2024
The most classic of power metal that power metalled.

WINGS OF STEEL
GATES OF TWILIGHT
WINGS OF STEEL
Classic metal/power metal with a bigggg vocal sound with a bit of a Dio vibe cool stuff.

Opeth (single)
Section 1 (single)
Reigning Phoenix
At first listen, it’s like, oh cool new Opeth, proggy, kind of heavy… the new Opeth sound… then… GROWLS! They’re Back!! The best of oldpeth and newpeth come together! Can’t wait to hear more (the non radio edit and the whole album!)

Arch Enemy (single)
Dream Stealer (single)
Century Media
Another big surprise this week from another of my favorite swedish bands… this has all of the usual Arch Enemy stuff, shredding guitars, some epic-ness and great stuff all around. Not breaking any new ground, but new heavy stuff is always great

Molder (single)
Catastrophic Reconfiguration
Prosthetic Records
8 November 2024
Single from a death metal band just south of the Border in Joliet, IL. good heavy brutal classic death metal.

Siamese
Elements
Long Branch
a solid rock type thing, modern metal, with some grooves and a bit of electronic element. clean vox, catchy-ish

LURKING TERROR
THIS IS WAR
M-THEORY AUDIO
Death metal with a little black metal darkness.

Marilyn Manson
As Sick As The Secrets Within (single)
Nuclear Blast
A new single… this guy/band has always been just a distant fringe thing to this radio show… a bit commercial but some moments to make it worthy… this is kind of power-ballad-y as far as heaviness goes…

Pøltergeist
Nachtmusik – radio singles
Bad Omen
25 October 2024
A little doom. but also some kind of alt-classic rock sound happening

OXYGEN DESTROYER
Guardian of the Universe
Redefining Darkness Records
9 August 2024
Fast and furious thrashy death metal

CARNIVORE DIPROSOPUS
RISE OF THE INSURRECTION
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 9th 2024
Brutal punishing death metal

ADON
Adon
Neuropa
2 August 2024
Good ol classic black metal

BLACKLIST
WITH MURDEROUS INTENT
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 2nd 2024
Classic heavier thrash cool stuff

PUNKS OF THE EMPIRE
Album: Gehenna
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: August 6th, 2024
Straightforward classic metal with some groove

The Aphelion
Nascene
Self-Release
9 August 2024
Prog rock / hard rock type stuff. mostly a bit slower, then picks up and gets into some metal type stuff. big male vox a little pushes into some heavier melodic death too. interesting

Lethal Technology
Mechanical Era
Wormholedeath
August 2nd, 2024
death metal with a tech/Industrial and melodic element

Dark Deeds
Death Keeps
Self-released
10 August 2024
Milwaukee band, kind of a sludgey groove metal

Infernal Realm
Chamber of Desolation
Self Released
26 July 2024
Kind of a technical death/extreme thrashy thing. COol.

TSATTHOGGUA
We Are God
Osmose Productions
31 May 2024
Blackened death metal – fast

Aberratio
Release Title: Thánatos
Label: Old Shadows Records
Release Date: August 1, 2023
Here’s some thrashy death metal with some groovin’

JUGULATOR
Release Title: Imperator Insector
Label: Witches Brew
Release Date: July 24, 2024
Thrash Metal, Speed Metal, classic metal, catchy cool stuff

Mass of Amara
Through The Ether
Self-Release
14 June 2024
Deathcore… pretty straight up

Scald
Ancient Doom Metal
High Roller Records
26 July 2024
Album title says it all… doomy… clean vox, dark, melodic and, well, doomy

Manic Abraxas
Skinformation
Self Released
Release date: Friday, August 2nd 2024
Kind of a doomy stoner thing musically, but with deathy vox.

Inverted Ascension
Album: Descension
Self Released
Release date: July 12th, 2024
Melodic Black/Death Metal… full on black metal in parts, other parts are more calm with room to breathe.

Oceans of Slumber
Wicked Game (Chris Isaak Cover)
Season of Mist
29 July 2024
I was hoping for a metalled up version but I know this band and know better… fairly true to the original with good emotion and just vocal and piano.

Mausoleum
Defiling The Decayed
Moribund Records
A kind of classic death metal with a little black metal sneaking in

Powerwolf
Wake Up the Wicked
(Napalm)
They put the power in power metal. Full sound, epic soaring guitars and sound… cool stuff!

SOULBOUND
OBSYDIAN
METALVILLE
Electronicish industrialish nu-metal sounding stuff… a StaticX/rammstein rob zombie sounding thing

Summoning The Lich
Under the Reviled Throne
Prosthetic Records
26 July 2024
Technical, brutal, and to the point… great stuff.

Laceration
I Erode
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, July 26th 2024
Brutal and meaty death metal.

King Zog
Release Title: Second Dawn
Label: Rue Morgue Records
Release Date: July 31, 2024
Kind of a doomy stoner thing

Death Racer
From Gravel to Grave
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 26/07/2024
Kind of a punky black metal

Mourners Lament
A Grey Farewell
Personal Records
2 August 2024
Doomy death metal, long songs.

True Black Dawn
Of Thick-circling Shadows
W.T.C.Productions
30 July 2024
Classic black metal

Fourth Dominion
Diana’s Day
Fiadh Productions
1 August 2024
A kind of grunge/alt rock

SulfuriS
CORPUS//ANIMUS
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: August 2nd 2024
Death/Heavy/Groove Metal- solid stuff.

ELDERMOON
Album: Egregora
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: July 30th, 2024
They call it melodic death metal, it’s a bit more on the melodic side, but it does get into some heavier growly vox too… pretty good mix of more of a power metal and some deathy stuff.

Nattsjäl
Release Title: Chaosweaver
Label: Self-Released
I guess i’d just call this melodic death, it’s technical, has harsh vox, but a thrashy melodic thing too

Gods & Punks
Release Title: Death
Label: Electric Valley Records
Release Date: July 26, 2024
Kind of a stoner doomy thing with some distincitive vocals.

WURM FLESH
TERATOGENIC MALFORMATION EP
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: JULY 26th 2024
Super brutal and tech/grindy death metal with pig squealish vox

Numento
The Antimatter Fantasy
Label: Inverse Records
Release date: June 7th 2024
Groovin’ modern death metal.

Spread Thin
World of Snakes
Self-Release
26 July 2024
This is kind of a scream core/hardcore thing from right here in Wisconsin (LaCrosse)!

Sirius
A Quest for Life
Wormholedeath
July 26
Classic metal with a bit of a Judas Priest vibe… cool stuff.

Vented
Cruelty And Corruption
Wormholedeath
Groovin’ thrashy metal, cool stuff

Vulgaris
Seat Of The Fire
Wormholedeath
Technical melodic black metal.

Øresund Space Collective
Orgone Unicorn
Laser’s Edge
Release date: Friday, July 26th 2024
Super long tracks 17-30 mins, instrumental ambient type stuff… progressive and not a whole lot of metal moments

Scorched Earth
The Day of the Damned
M.U.S.I.C. Records
June 7th, 2024
Death Metal from France, brutal with some meat.

Ironflame
Kingdom Torn Asunder
High Roller Records
26 July 2024
Power metal with a little bit of a heavier edge… cool stuff.

Absorb
Smog EP
Hypaethral
Release date: Friday, July 26th 2024
Kind of a sludgey doomy death metal

THE CHRIS SLADE TIMELINE
Timescape
BraveWords Records
Straigthforward classic hard rock type stuff. good ol melodic rockin’ stuff with a second CD of covers and ACDC tracks

Paul Di’Anno’s Warhorse
Warhorse
BraveWords Records
Good ol classic metal, nice grooves and stuff.

Fit For An Autopsy
Hostage (single)
Nuclear Blast
July 26th, 2024
Technical deathcore, barked out pissed off vocals