Legion of the Damned
The Poison Chalice
Napalm
Ever since I first heard these guys I’ve been a fan, fast extreme thrashy stuff with maybe a blackened edge, just great stuff, and this one fits the bill too.

Sirenia
1977
Napalm
Good ol symphonic femaled fronted power metal stuff… this one takes a bit more of a synthy direction

Vomitory
All Heads Are Gonna Roll
Metal Blade Records
26 May 2023
Brutal death metal! Great stuff

Craving
Call Of The Sirens
Massacre Records
19 May 2023
Blackened death metal, a kind of a thrashy feel, but all cold and evil.

NITA STRAUSS ft. ANDERS FRIDEN
The Golden Trail
Sumerian
This song has an In Flames vibe (obviously because of the vocals, but musically as well) Cool stuff.

Elegant Weapons
Horns For A Halo
Nuclear Blast USA
Pretty cool classic metal, catchy upbeat!

Arrival Of Autumn
Kingdom Undone
Nuclear Blast USA
A little metalcore, but mostly just good heavy stuff. Technical and melodic too

Kings Never Die
All The Rats
Metalville Records
Hardcore grooves

The Halo Effect
Path Of Fierce Resistance (Single)
Nuclear Blast
One of my favorite albums last year, and here’s a bonus track that was just on the Japan release, same catchy melodic death stuff like old In Flames/Dark Tranquillity

Under Attack
Release title: Fury of the Thunder God
Label: Lake of Fire Productions
Release Date: 22-05-2023
Clasic metal, straight forward stuff.

BLOODY NIGHTMARE
Release Title: Pillars of Chaos
Label: Fighter Records
Release Date: 23rd of May
Kind of an old school thrashy classic metal, big soaring vox with a little doom feel

Black Spiders
Can’t Die, Won’t Die
Spinefarm
12 May 2023
A classic metal sound, but also a kind of a bluesy groove

Eradikated
Faced
Indie Recordings
24 May 2023
Just a single, but it’s good classic thrash

Speedwhore
Visions of a Parallel World
Dying Victims Productions
5/25
A kind of lo-fi blackened thrash

Armagh
Serpent Storm
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 26/05/2023
Another kind of classic metal with a thrashy catchy groove.

Violent Sin
Serpent’s Call
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 26/05/2023
Thrashy old school sound with a bit of a blackened thrash going on too. Cool stuff!

CHURCH OF THE DEAD
Beyond Death
Redefining Darkness Records
26 May 2023
Just some good ol meaty death metal with some melodic grooves too

Vexing
Grand Reproach
Ordovician Records
26 May 2023
Technical melodic death with a little black metal peppered in.

Nattverd
I Helvetes Forakt
Soulseller
26 May 2023
kind of a classic melodic black metal.

REASONS BEHIND
Architecture of an Ego
Scarlet Records
26 May 2023
Female fronted modern groove with a gothy slant metal

THE SILENT RAGE
Nuances of Life
Scarlet Records
26 May 2023
Classic metal, leaning thrashy, but kind of Judas Priest-ish.. nice heavy balls n chunk to it. Good stuff!!

HATE MANIFESTO
ΑΠΟΣΤΑΤΗΣ
Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records
26 May 2023
Brutal and meaty death metal!

dEMOTIONAL
Scandinavian Aftermath
AFM Records
26 May 2023
Melodic death, catchy groovin’ prog metal leaning stuff !

PANDRADOR
Seiðr
Pagan Records
26 May 2023
Groovin and gritty brutal death metal, cool stuff!!

CONTAMINAZIONE
Pericolo Di Morte
Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records
26 May 2023
Lots of atmosphere and classic progressive 70’s keyboard stuff going on

A PRETEXT TO HUMAN SUFFERING
ENDLESS CYCLE OF SUFFERING
LABEL: REALITY FADE RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: MAY 26th 2023
Brutal and technical death metal with a little deathcore thing too. Good stuff

Whythre
Impregnate My Hate
High Point Records
26 May 2023
Heavier thrash, but with a proggy technical thing going on in parts too. Cool stuff!

RESOLUTION 13
Album: Derelict
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: May 23rd, 2023
Industrial metal, melodic in parts, metallic and electronic too

Sigir
Rainmaker
Gramophone
26 May 2023
Blackened thrashy melodic death type stuff, a progressive catchy thing going on too. Good stuff!

OCEANLORD
Kingdom Cold
Magnetic Eye Records
26 May 2023
Down tempo chilled out doom

Ethereal Void
Gods of a Dead World – Out May 26th
Abstrakted Records
26 May 2023
Death metal with a little progressive brutality

MOURNFUL CONGREGATION
The Exuviae of Gods – Part II
Osmose Productions / 20 Buck Spin
26 May 2023
Depressive doom, long drawn out depression… feels like i’m listening to a rainy day.

Deimhal
Release Title: The Grand Gathering
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 19th May 2023
Classic Black Metal with a melodic groove

BOSPARANS FALL
Götterspiel: Dunkle Zeiten
Black Sunset / MDD
Release Date: May 26, 2023
Melodic Death Metal with some solid deathy grooves, vox are a bit Amon Amarth-like

Pronostic
Title: Chaotic Upheaval
Format: Digital CD
Label: Independent Release
Prog metal, a little leaning into melodic death. great stuff!

Deviser
Thy Blackest Love
Sleaszy Rider
Melodic blackened metal

Blut
Traum
Sleaszy Rider
Groovin’ modern metal with a german attitude (a pinch like Rammstein)

SKADE
Album: Gudinnen
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: May 16th, 2023
Old school black metal

Phase Transition
Release Title: Your Guide
Record Label: Self-Released
Release Date: May 12, 2023
Progressive Metal, female fronted with a little djent sound

BLACKBRAID
“Moss Covered Bones on the Altar of the Moon” (Single)
Independent
5 May 2023
Kind of melodic death, a bit doom, proggy and 14 minutes

Dan Lorenzo
“I’m One Again”
Independent
12 May 2023
Hard rock that has a bluesty heavy shuffle groove.

Battle Born
Blood, Fire, Magic and Steel
Prosthetic Records
12 May 2023
Epic power metal, but a heavier edge to it.

ROADWOLF
Midnight Lightning
(Napalm)
Classic metal and pretty straightforward stuff with some heavier flourishes

Thulcandra
Hail The Abyss
(Napalm)
Nice and heavy blackened thrash, great stuff

Mystic Prophecy
Hellriot
ROAR! Rock Of Angels Records
19 May 2023
Heavier thrashed up power metal, always been a fan, and more great stuff

CURSE OF CAIN
Curse Of Cain
Atomic Fire Records
12 May 2023
Kind of a modern metalcore type thing… clean and harsh vox.

Gozu
Remedy
Metal Blade Records / Blacklight Media Records
19 May 2023
This is a doomy stoner groove

Frozen Soul
Glacial Domination
Century Media Records
Classic meaty death metal

Lee Small
The Last Man On Earth
Metalville Records
Classic metal, or more of an AOR hard rock thing

REVOLTONS
Celestial Violence
Sleazy Rider Records
12 May 2023
Classic metal, straightforward stuff, clean vox

Ashes of Moments Perished
Womb in Black Flame
Self Released
12 May 2023
From Milwaukee! blackened death… three song EP, groovin’ cool brutal stuff.

Horn
Release Title: 20 Jahre
Label: Northern Silence Productions
Release Date: May 5, 2023
Melodic Black Metal, with a bit of a doomy groove.

Rusty Bonez
Brainworm
Vinyl Store
12 May 2023
Stoner grooves!

Worth
Worth
Wormholedeath
May 12
Melodic death with an Amon Amarth sound. cool stuff!

Sacrilegious Impalement
IV – Infinite Victor
Inverse
Release date 12.5.2023
Blackened death, some good groove and grit and thrashy moments

Tardigrade Inferno
Arrival Of A Train
Self Released
17 May 2023
A big of an avant garde/horror alt metal, a bit of a theatrical Otep type sound

Vansidian
Reflecting The Shadows
Inverse
Release Date: May 19th 2023
They call it Hybrid metal, couldnt just about anything be that these days? This has some power metal, prog, thrash, melodic death… so yeah, lots going on… cool stuff.

Sporae Autem Yuggoth
However It Still Moves
Personal Records
19 May 2023
Sludgey death doom

Drott
Troll
By Norse Music
Release date: Friday, May 19th 2023
Doomy post metal

Magick Touch
Cakes & Coffins
Edged Circle
19 May 2023
Classic metal

NEXORUM
Tongue Of Thorns
Non Serviam Records
19 May 2023
Brutal and heavy blackened death

INFERION
Inequity
Horror Pain Gore Death
Release Date: May 19th 2023
A bit thrashy, mostly melodic death with a pinch of a blackened death sound cool stuff.

Ring of Gyges
Metamorphosis
Sound Pollution/ViciSolum Productions
19 May 2023
Classic metal/prog metal, clean vox

Heretic Cult Redeemer
Flagellum Universalis
Ill Damnation
21 April 2023
Black metal with a bit of atmosphere and some brutality

HYL
WHERE EMPTINESS IS ALL
LABEL: ODIUM RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: MAY 2023
Straight up classic black metal

IMPERIUM
IRON THUNDER Single
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: MAY 20th 2023
Classic metal with an upbeat catchy melodic edge

Heretoir
Wastelands
AOP Records
19 May 2023
Post metal shoe gaze?

BOTANIST
VIII: Selenotrope
Prophecy Productions
19 May 2023
A bit doomy, some hints of black metal with a piano/keyboard and symphonic atmosphere, staying more in a post metal vein

Legacy of Brutality
Release Title: Travelers to nowhere
Label: Abstract Emotion
Release Date: 19th May 2023
Thrash and groovin Death Metal. Good stuff.

THE MODERN AGE SLAVERY
1901 I The First Mother
Fireflash Records
5 May 2023
blackened death metal with some meaty grooves and metalcore and industrial things too. Cool stuff!!

Dreamslain
Burn The Boats
Self-Release
26 April 2023
9 min single of melodic blackened progressive death

Heathen Hearts
Release Title: No Light Left to Chase
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: May 17, 2023
Straight up modern groovin’ metal with a little metalcore vibe

Intöxicated
Release Title: Sadistic Nightmares
Label: MDD Records
Release Date: May 5, 2023
They say it’s Thrash’n Roll and yup, pretty spot on.

Veriluola
Cascades Of Crimson Cruor
Nameless Grave Records
Release date: Friday, May 12th 2023
Groovin’ death metal

Cronos Compulsion
Malicious Regression
Caligari
Release date: Friday, May 12th 2023
Classic brutal death metal.

Ascended Dead
Evenfall Of The Apocalypse
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, May 12th 2023
Heavy fast and brutal death/blackened death. Cool stuff.

SUPERBEAST
Release Title: Cold Blooded Killing
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: March 31, 2023
Thrashy brutal death metal

Rhapsody Of Fire
Kreel’s Magic Staff [New Single & Video]
AFM Records
12 May 2023
A new single, not quite as over the top as they used to be, but still a bit full epic sound

Death Goals
A Garden of Dead Flowers
Prosthetic Records
5 May 2023
Kind of a metalcore something core

The Dark Side of The Moon
Metamorphosis
(Napalm)
Power metal with primarily female vox, decent stuff with some guests too

Cattle Decapitation
Terrasite
Metal Blade Records
12 May 2023
Great stuff, technical, melodic, brutal and with proggy shit too

DevilDriver
Dealing With Demons II
Napalm Records
While I wasn’t a super fan of their “country” album or whatever, and a big fan of the first few albums, they still have a good sound and keep it heavy and catchy

SF Incorporated
First Penetration
Satryn Studios
Kind of an extreme and groove metal reminds me a little of Strapping Young Lad

Savage Existence
Savage Existence
Rivet Records
A little classic metal, some thrashy grooves too.

Vintersea
Woven Into Ashes
M-Theory Audio
5 May 2023
Black metal, prog metal, doomy post metal, lots going on and it all works well (clean and harsh vox)

Mactätus
Release Title: Provenance of Cruelty
Label: Northern Silence Productions
Release Date: May 5, 2023
Symphonic Black Metal, a bit of a downtempo thing, while still having black metal and blast beats and all, but symphonic stuff is prominent and sets the over all mood (a little doomy)

POPPY
Spit
Sumerian
Kittie cover. single a bit metalcore, industrial and modern metal too… doing a classic Kittie song!

Old Dirty Buzzard
What A Weird Hill To Die On
Rotten Records
28 April 2023
Catchy cool stoner metal

CRÈME FLESH
CASABLUMPKIN
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: MAY 5th 2023
Brutal death metal with pig squeal style vox

BOOBY TRAP
Release title: The End of Time
Label: Firecum Records
Release Date: May 8, 2023
This has a crossover thrashy type sound, a little harcore, some thrash, cool stuff

ARTIFICIAL SUN
Album: The Giants Collapse
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: May 9th, 2023
A bit of a metalcore and groove metal thing going on

Sunbeam Overdrive
Diama – Out May 12th
Tentacles Industries / Season of Mist
12 May 2023
This one is interesting, a bit prog, some groove metal, thrash stuff. clean and harsh vox. Cool!

ESOCTRILIHUM
Astraal Constellations Of The Majickal Zodiac
I, Voidhanger Records
12 May 2023
Black metal with some keyboard/symphonic stuff setting the tone.

Parity Boot
Release Title: Fast Forward
Label: Black Sunset
Release Date: 12 May 2023
Industrial Metal with some guitar driving the stuff and a little thrash

Thanatomass
Hades
Living Temple
12 May 2023
Kind of a black metal… doomy lo-fi and a bit progressive, with some diff stuff, but hard to get over the tinny production

Blood Ceremony
The Old Ways Remain
Rise Above
5 May 2023
A kind of classic hard rock/bluesy sound with a doom feel and female vox

Vantablack Warship
Release Title: Last of Hardmouthed Poets
Label: Bam & Co – Heavy
Release Date: April 28, 2023
A little hardcore, groove metal, straightforward type stuff.

Terminal Khaos Builders
Release Title: T.K.B
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: May 4, 2023
Instrumental Progressive Metal, Darksynth… it all has a dark feel but with the boopy boopy keyboards it says Prog!

Unborn Prophecies
Waking Our Ancient Memories
Wormholedeath
4/28
Prog. Death Metal, some extreme vox, death growls, black metal screaaams. cool stuff!

AxMinister
vir fortis – Out May 11th
Self-Release
11 May 2023
Kind of progressive, three tracks, one is over 17 min, and just straight “metal”

FRENZY
Release title: Of Hoods and Masks
Label: Fighter Records
Release Date (dd/mm/yy): 20-04-2023
This is some straight up classic metal, with a pinch of a heavier sound

Darker Days
The Burying Point
Massacre Records
28 April 2023
A little modern metal, “horror punk” i think they called it, clean vox, a bit “emo” ish to me

Teeth
A Biblical Worship Of Violence
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 5 May 2023
Kind of extreme metal, catchy, a bit metalcore, quick and short to the point songs.

Grandiosa Muerte
Egregor
Wormholedeath
May 5th, 2023.
Kind of a blackened death, with a kind of gore metal sound too i guess

Nightmarer
Deformity Adrift
Vendetta Records
Release date: Friday, May 5th 2023
Blackened death, more of a brutal dark doomy death metal

ZØRORMR
Release Title: The Monolith
Label: Via Nocturna
Release date: March 24th, 2023
This has a black metal sound, but with some death and roll type grooves

Die Entweihung
Album Title: Strict Regime Country
Label: Witches Brew (German Label)
Kind of a classic metal sound, but with a bit of a blackened death sound, kind of a 70’s vibe but with black metal vox and attitude

Heimland
Forfedrenes Taarer
Edged Circle
5 May 2023
Classic black metal with some deathy groovin’

ASTROPHYTE
2192
Self Released
Female fronted classic metal, but what? Death growls? Yeahhhh brutal stuff too! cool

Severed Angel
Album: Severed Angel
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: May 2nd, 2023
Melodic metal, a bit of a power metal, maybe a little prog and a bit of a symphonic AOR thing too

Spinebreaker
Cavern Of Inoculated Cognition
Creator Destructor
Release date: Friday, May 5th 2023
Nice groovin’ heavy death metal

Godslut
Procreation Of God
Selfmadegod
Release date: Friday, May 5th 2023
Kind of a deathy thrash… cool stuff

Death Ray Vision
Behead the King – radio single
Metal Blade Records
30 June 2023
A kind of groove metal, and a little thrashy… decent stuff

All Hell
All Hail The Night EP
Terminus Hate City Records
Release date: Friday, April 14th 2023
A bit of a melodic death with a smidge of black metal sound, reminds me a little of At The Gates.

Dies Ater
Release Title: Reign of Tempests + Rabenflug
Label: Northern Silence Productions
Release Date: May 5, 2023
Melodic Black Metal, you know that kind of epic sound, but still being heavy and interestting too.. cool stuff and mainly hitting decent black metal

Burning Witches
The Dark Tower
(Napalm)
All female classic metal, leaning a little thrashy… catchy cool stuff

Spotlights
Alchemy For The Dead
(Ipecac)
Laid back post metal and doomy progressive stuff

Whitesnake
Still Good To Be Bad
(Rhino)
Remixed version of their 2008 Good to be Bad album for its 15th anniversary

200 Stab Wounds
Masters of Morbidity
Metal Blade Records
28 April 2023
Groovin’, thrashing and brutal death metal, great stuff! (only 2 songs)

CHROME WAVES
EARTH WILL SHED ITS SKIN
M-THEORY AUDIO
Kind of a doomy post-black metal

Fires in the Distance
Air Not Meant For Us
Prosthetic Records
28 April 2023
Doomy yet melodic and prog-ish death metal, fairly down tempo

Unearth
The Wretched The Ruinous
Century Media Records
Catchy, heavy, and intense too. Great to have something new from these guys

DieHumane
The Grotesque
WURMgroup
This has a doom sound, with a bit of a goth thing going on, with a modern doom core-ish feel

Drain
Loving Proof
Epitaph Records
Groovin’ metalcore with a kind of punky sound

Chris Caffery
May Day (Single)
Metalville Records
Classic metal and a first new single from Chris in a while… fun that it I get to play this ON May Day.

Cradle Of Fllth
Trouble And Their Double Lives
Napalm Records
Lie album recorded over the last 10 years with two new tracks which are unmistakedly CoF, catchy heavy and Dani’s trademark vox. Cool stuff!

Lunar Chamber
Shambhallic Vibrations
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, April 28th 2023
Some nice brutal death metal with cool grooves

Phaeton
Between Two Worlds
INB Music
21 April 2023
Technical and progressive instrumental metal

Elvenking
Reader Of The Runes- Rapture
AFM Records
28 April 2023
Epic power metal

Dorthia Cottrell
Death Folk Country
Relapse
Release date: Friday, April 21st 2023
Name of the album says it all… but not so much “death” (at least from a brutal metal stand point)

Kaal Akuma
Turiya
Nuclear Winter
28 April 2023
Brutal death metal with a little sludge, and when there’s not sludge, it’s a bit of a blackened tech death.

Countless Skies
Resonance
Willowtip Records
5 May 2023
Kind of a melodic death, with a black metal slant, and some “epic” progressive stuff. Including a 20 minute track which is more straight up prog metal

LUMBERGHAST
FIRST PERSON SHOOTER
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: MAY 1st 2023
A bit of an industrial noise thing

UNDEAD
Putrefactio
Redefining Darkness Records
5 May 2023
Blackened death metal

DUSK
Album: RETHRENODY
Self Released
Release date: May 5th, 2023
They say it’s industrial metal, but it’s leaning more towards some noise and post metal.

Savage Grace
Sign Of The Cross
Massacre Records
5 May 2023
Classic metal leaning towards thrashy stuff, big voice, fast and catchy

Drama Noir
Release Title: Nightfall Upon The Asylum
Label: Floga Records
Release Date: 03-05-2023
Symphonic Black Metal, nice heavy edge, with a full orchestral thing that isn’t too prominent, just right. Cool stuff!

Smokey Mirror
Smokey Mirror
Rise Above
5 May 2023
Nice heavy-ish stoner metal with cool grooves.

MUSKEG CHARNEL
“Decomposition Part 3: Rigor Mortis”
Horror Pain Gore Death
Release Date: May 5th 2023
Old school lo-fi cold black metal

Neolia
Self-Titled – Out May 5th
Self-Release
5 May 2023
A big classic metal, a bit metalcore, clean and harsh vox, a little progressive musically also.

Sovereign Council
World On Fire – Out May 5th
Self-Release
5 May 2023
Female fronted metal, a little goth, a bit of a Lacuna Coil vibe

SUTON
Release Title: Sacrilegious
Label: insArt Records / Satanath Records
Release Date: April 18th, 2023
A kind of progressive blackened doom

Paralelum
Release Title: Bad Thoughts
Label: Lady Stone Records
I’d say this is a groovin’ kind of stoner groove metal with a little bit of an extreme blackened sound here and there, but it’s subtle and works.

Mélancolia
HissThroughRottenTeeth
Genre: Metal
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 21 April 2023
Brutal and blackened death metal, fast and technical… good stuff!

Deathstars
Everything Destroys You
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 5 May 2023
Kind of a horror industrial thing. Nice grooves, catchy modern sound.

Phrenesy
Fears Apocalypse
Wormholedeath
May 5
Primarily some good ol thrash, vocals are a bit more extreme than just regular thrashy stuff, but it’s good stuff.

Midjungards
Album: From Scandza
Release: March 17th, 2023
Label: Dark Rails Records
Classic metal, with a little groovin’ thrash going on

Violet Blend
Album: My Head Is Broken (feat. Tired Violence)
Eclipse Records
Female fronted hard rockin’ melodic stuff. a nice groove, cool atmosphere and emotion flowing..

When Plagues Collide
Title: An Unbiblical Paradigm
Label: Necktwister
Epic symphonic blackened death metal, wall of brutality with a full symphonic sound backing up, similar to Cradle of Filth

Ignea
Dreams of Land Unseen
Napalm
Kind of an epic melodic death with harsh and clean vox.

Dawn of Ouroboros
Velvet Incandescence
Prosthetic Records
21 April 2023
Black metal with a little melodic doom.

Enforced
War Remains
Century Media Records
Thrash, just how it outta be… fast, raw, in your face, catchy and groovin’.

Gunshine
Checkmate
Groove Records/The Fuel Music
Classic metal/hard rock… has a little bit of a Jackyl sound

Poison Ruïn
Härvest
Relapse
Release date: Friday, April 14th 2023
Raw kinda punked up stuff

Void King
The Hidden Hymnal
Self-Release
7 April 2023
Sludgy doom, a pinch of a volbeat catchiness/vocal-ish style.

THE 69 EYES
Death Of Darkness
Atomic Fire Records
21 April 2023
Goth hard rock type stuff.

HOLY MOSES
Invisible Queen
Fireflash Records
14 April 2023
Extreme thrash, with a tiny tech/metalcore, or blackened thrashy sound. Cool stuff

Intrepid (feat. Steve Di Giorgio)
Release title: Mesmerism
Label: Knife Fight Media
Release Date: 07-04-2023
Brutal/technical death metal (single) but more!

Tir
Awaiting The Dawn
Brilliant Emperor Records (LP), Orko Productions (CD/tape)
7 April 2023
Not even metal, really, some melancholic doomish acoustic type stuff.

Saint Deamon
Leage of The Serpent
AFM Records
21 April 2023
Melodic classic/power metal

Hämärä
Ivory Tower
Wormholedeath
We got this last May as an independent release… it’s now re-released on their label… Kind of a progressive metal/melodic death, with a little thrashy sound, harsh vox, keyboards, lots of cool guitar work. Cool stuff!!

Infecting the Swarm
Pulsing Coalescence
Lacerated Enemy Records
14 April 2023
Full on brutal death metal…

The Graveyard Ensemble
Release Title: Death n’ Blues vol.1
Release Date: April 1st, 2023
They say the genre is all of this: “Death n’ Blues, Death Metal, Death n’ Roll, Melodic Death Metal, Death Black Metal” And yeah, there’s a little bit of all of that going on, hard to really pin it down, but it’s decent !

Lockjaw
Press Sampler (First 4 Singles)
Independent
Metalcore with a nice heavier edge and decent clean vox type stuff.

MMXX
The New Wave
Candlelight
21 April 2023
A kind of doom “super group” started by Andrea Chiodetti (ex-The Foreshadowing), Jesse Haff (Daylight Dies), and Egan O’Rourke (Daylight Dies)… and an ensemble of many others. A nice melodic and complex deathy/doom thing going on.

Barditus
Dein Schwert
Purity Through Fire
22 April 2023
Music is mostly acoustic and releated waaay in the background with prominent German language vocals, kind of shout/growled…

Nightside (Finland)
Lions (Demo 2023)
Purity Through Fire
22 April 2023
Full on old school black metal with some good production and nice cold yet melodic punch

Sentinel Sirens
Orbithon Wave
Chaos Records
28 April 2023
Kind of a classic metal, pushing towards more of a Death Angel type of technical Thrash..

UNDERXTED
Album: Carnage
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: April 25th, 2023
Kind of an industrial blackened thrashy/death metal.

Ross The Boss
Legacy of Blood, Fire & Steel
AFM Records
28 April 2023
Best of compilation, 4 songs from each album, and it’s a vinyl only release.

NECRONOMICON
Constant To Death
El Puerto Records
4/28
Thrash Metal, classic with some catchy grooves and just how it should be.

Bodysnatcher
Bleed-Abide
MNRK Heavy
Release date: Friday, April 22nd 2022
Brutal deathcore

Exploding Corpse Action
Inter-Dimensional Annihilation: Complete Transmissions 1995-1997
Armageddon Label
22 April 2023
raw brutal death metal

Pustilence
Beliefs of Dead Stargazers and Soothsayers
Memento Mori / Rotted Life
24 April 2023
Full on brutality of death metal. and what’s this pulling it back a little for some melodic guitar solos and a big meaty groove.

Valgrind (Italy)
Millennium of Night Bliss
Memento Mori
24 April 2023
Technical and brutal death metal.

Lucifuge
Monoliths of Wrath
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS
April 28th 2023
This is kind of an extreme blackened thrashy thing. Vox follow more of the black metal sound, musically just sounds some good catchy classic thrash

King Potenaz
Album: Goat Rider
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: April 28th, 2023
down tempo with big meaty stoner doom metal riffs

VADIAT
Spear of Creation
Redefining Darkness Records
28 April 2023
Thrashy, and melodic death metal, leaning mostly on the brutal death metal part, where musically it has some melodic breaks.

Sentinel Sirens
Orbithon Wave
Chaos Records
28 April 2023

FATUOUS RUMP
I AM AT YOUR DISPOSAL
LABEL: BRUTAL MIND / FAT TUB OF LARD
RELEASE DATE: APRIL 28th 2023
From the pig squeal vocal department of brutal death metal.

Flitcraft
House at the Centre of the Universe
Pitch Black
Release date: Friday, April 28th 2023
Classic metal, which gets into a little prog metal too

IBLISS
(((Unholy)))
Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records
28 April 2023
two tracks of sludgy doom

LORD MORTVM
Dead Christ Baptism
Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records
28 April 2023
Doom with a fair amount of sludge and depression

VAULTWRAITH
Decomposing Spells (CD)
Hells Headbangers
28 April 2023
Melodic doomy yet classic metal, harsh vox, music is a little just classic metal with a bit of doom.

Terranoct
Icon of Ruin
Self Released
28 April 2023
Technical death metal… cool stuff!

AUSTERE
Corrosion of Hearts
Prophecy Productions / Lupus Lounge
28 April 2023
Classic black metal, long songs, melodic, yet cold, harsh and evil.

72 Legions
‘The 72-EP’
Self Released
Feat. Former Nevermore/Annihilator Guitarist, no, not that one, or that one either, or that one. Curran Murphy! This has some meaty and catchy death metal, and some kind of melodc parts too. Good stuff!

Deimos’ Dawn
Release title: Anthem Of The Lost
Release Date: 14-04-2023
Label: MDD Records
German thrash metal, a solid punishing low end with solid riffs and while not growled, or shrieked, the vox aren’t clean… more of an angry shout. good stuff

VARGRAV (Finland)
Encircle the Spectral Dimension (MCD)
Werewolf
16 April 2023
Classic old school black metal

Anthem
Crimson & Jet Black
Reaper Ent.
Release date: Friday, April 21st 2023
Japanese thrash band, catchy and great stuff!

CRACK UP
Blood Is Life
MDD Records
Release Date: April 28, 2023
Classic groovin’ death metal… has a little bit of an Obituary vibe

MEZZROW
Summon Thy Demons
Fireflash Records
21 April 2023
Modern thrashy stuff, solid grooves and overall cool stuff.

Vorzug
Release Title: The Prophet
Label: Apollyon Entertainment
Release Date: April 14, 2023
Blckened death, but with a kind of a thrashy groove.

As Everything Unfolds
Ultraviolet
(Napalm)
Modern metal with female vox, almost has a little Lacuna Coil vibe musically.

Angus McSix
Angus McSix And The Sword Of Power
(Napalm)
Classic, epic and bouncy power metal.

Metallica
72 Seasons
(Blackened)
I went to the premiere movie thing on Thursday, so I got to hear all of the album then… no I didn’t get some special radio nerd prerelease… and I really liked allof the tracks, they all have a good solid groove, 100% metallica, a bit of a familiar sound with some tracks calling back to older songs too… overall pretty good stuff.

Netherlands
Severance
(Self-Released)
A kind of sludge fuzz/stoner rock thing… melodic… and post-metal ish.

Axel Rudi Pell
The Ballads VI
(SPV/Steamhammer)
As the album name says… they’re all ballads, and there’s quite a variety of covers on here, Dust in the Wind, Diamonds and Rust, She’s a Lady

Sevendust
“Fence”
(Napalm)
Sevendust back to a heavier sound from the earlier days… I have to admit I haven’t heard much of their recent stuff, but this is cool catchy stuff.

Vomitory
All Heads Are Gonna Roll – radio single
Metal Blade Records
26 May 2023
Nice meaty classic death metal.

Kardinal Sin
S.A.L.I.G.I.A.
Massacre Records
7 April 2023
Epic sounding power metal.

Ten56
Downer
Out of Line Music
Djent-core type stuff, a bit of a rap-ish style, but heavy maybe industrial sound.

Engineered Society Project
My TV
Mindsnap
A straightforward classic metal. clean vox, nice groovin’ stuff.

Liv Kristine
River of Diamonds
Metalville Records
kind of a laid back female fronted power metal

Tanith
Voyage
Metal Blade Records
21 April 2023
Laid back kinda doomy stoner chill rock. With some nice harder jams

In Utero Cannibalism
Back To The Basics
Sleaszy Rider
Some basic death metal, well, it’s just good ol metal music for the most part, with harsh vox. It does get to some blast beats and heavy stuff, but not a brutal punishing wall of death. Death metal with a little room to breathe

Drakon
Hight Tales
Sleaszy Rider
Technical/proggy blackened thrashy death type stuff.

CROWNSHARD
Awareness
Self Released
4/14
Italian death metal.

Never Reborn
Ashes of Our Past
Self Released
A bit classic metal, some nice meaty grooves and harsh vox.

SARMAT
Dubious Disk
I, Voidhanger Records
19 April 2023
18 minutes of a lot of stuff going on, some jazzy prog, all kind of going on at once… some black metal, just the kitchen sink.

Bonginator
The Intergalactic Gorebong of Deathpot
Barbaric Brutality
20 April 2023
Nice meaty brutal death metal

EDKH
Conspirashit
April 21st
Horror Pain Gore Death
this is kind of an extreme blackened death/punk.

Birdflesh
Sickness In The North
Everlasting Spew Records
21 April 2023
Short songs, brutal deathy hardcore with a smidge punk. cool stuff.

Astral Sleep
We Are Already Living In The End of Times
Record label: Saarni Records
Release Date: April 21st 2023
Doom Metal with a post metal and death metal growl… a bit depressing

BLOOD STAR
First Sighting
Shadow Kingdom
21 April 2023
Classic metal/hard rock

VORNA
Aamunkoi (Finnish Metal)
Lifeforce
April 21st, 2023
A bit folk metal, melodic death and prog-ish too

Smoulder
Violent Creed of Vengeance
Cruz Del Sur Music
21 April 2023
powerful classic metal, soaring female vox. cool stuff

EVERMORE
In Memoriam
Scarlet Records
21 April 2023
Epic female fronted power/prog metal.

Jon of Mars
Songs from Nowhere – Out April 20th
Self-Release
20 April 2023
Just a good solid groovin’ metal. Some clean and harsh vox, but i like to just say it’s “Metal metal” good

Caedeous
Release title: Malum Supplicium
Release Date: April 21, 2023
Label: Black Sunset
Symphonic Black Metal, shrieky vox and guttural growls of some well produced black metal with a symphonic (keyboard) thing to fill it out

Fall of Earth
From The Ashes
Self-Release
21 April 2023
Progressive metal, with a bit of a tech death thing going on. clean and harsh vox. cool stuff

Wasteland Clan
The End Of Time
Massacre Records
21 April 2023
Straight forward metal metal with some grooves and clean female vox

Mavorim
Ab Amitia Pulsae
Purity Through Fire
22 April 2023
Classic black metal

THESE BEASTS
Cares. Wills, Wants
Magnetic Eye Records
21 April 2023
Sludge/Noise from Chicago

Magnus Rosen Band
It’s Time to Rock The World Again
Sound Pollution
21 April 2023
Former bass player from Hammerfall with a band, classic hard rock/metal

Deathgrave
It’s Only Midnight
Tankcrimes
Release date: Friday, April 14th 2023
Brutal Death metal with a little grind going on

Nattsjäl
Release Title: Of Chaos Supreme
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 24-02-2023
They say the genre of this is “Black Viking Folk Thrash Heavy Metal” And that’s pretty spot on. cool stuff.

Trollgrad
Release Title: Tales of Gold Fever
Label: Mors Lucerna Records
Release Date: January 13, 2023
THIS one… they call “Troll Metal” which, well can just be folk metal with the boopy keyboard and it’s got a nice catchy heavy groove going on.

SETTLER
SETTLER
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 29th 2023
Straightforward just good metal, a nice crunchy heaviness… cool guitar solos..

ROSSLYN
Album: Totentanz
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: April 11th, 2023
Classic metal, with maybe a little power metal thing

Metasphaera
Album: Metasphaera
Self Released
Release: March 24th, 2023
German meaty progressive death metal, attack with a catchy and gritty heavy sound with vocals in german!

VoidCeremony
Threads Of Unknowing
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, April 14th 2023
Brutal death metal with a technicality going on. cool stuff

Sermon
Of Golden Verse
Prosthetic Records
31 March 2023
A little metalcore, some progressive, some modern metal, a little stoner… a good atmosphere and maybe a little mastodon/tool vibe going on

Boundaries
“Bedlam”
(3DOT)
Deathcore with a straightforward hardcore 1 2 punch

The Hellfreaks
Pitch Black Sunset
(Napalm)
Punked up hard rock with attitude, a modern metal thing going on

Infected Rain
The Devil’s Dozen
(Napalm)
This one has a mostly metalcore type sound with a little moderm metal sound, but some cool big grooves and aggressive female vox… cool stuff.

Overkill
Scorched
Nuclear Blast
You’ve got that classic Overkill Blitz vocal, and a nice thrashy groove to bring it all together. Still doin’ great stuff!

Speedfreak
Fast Lane Living
Pavement Entertainment
Solid modern groovin metal

Jesus Piece
So Unknown
Century Media Records
Kind of a deathcore with a dark slant

Ashrain
Requiem Reloaded
Metalville Records
Good ol classic power metal

Fit For An Autopsy / Thy Art Is Murder / Malevolence
The Aggression Sessions
Genre: Metal
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 7 April 2023
Split ep, each band does a new song and a cover… The FFaA cover is “Under A Serpent Sun” (At The Gates) sweeet.

SAVIORSKIN
“Invicta Mori”
Horror Pain Gore Death
April 7th 2023
A bit of a melodic death/deathcore. Some Lamb of God style vox mixed up with some classic metal melodic stuff.

Arched Fire
“Trust Betrayal”
Wormholedeath
4/7
Classic metal with a little proggy thrash sound

Outlaw
Reaching Beyond Assiah
AOP Records
31 March 2023
Melodic/proggy and a bit epic sounding Black metal, fast and intense, but a nice melodic groove too

Vesuvian
Album: Emergence
self released
Release date: April 9th, 2023
Symphonic Melodic Death Metal, sounds good! Crunchy and groovin’

Magnets For Maniacs
872
Independent
11 April 2023
I’d say classic metal, but it’s got a just good “metal” sound, but that kind of just more modern metal sound with mixed vocal styles… just a single so far… decent stuff.

ATTRACTIVE CHAOS
THE FIRE BETWEEN US
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: APRIL 12th 2023
Classic female fronted (great powerful voice!) groovin’ power metal type stuff.

The Harvest Trail
Release Title: Spree
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 14-04-2023
Melodic Death Metal along the lines of At the Gates/Arch Enemy, fast catchy, Good!!

Blazon Rite
Wild Rites and Ancient Songs
Gates of Hell Records
14 April 2023
Classic metal

Kaal Nagini
Refracted Lights of a Blind God 12″ MLP/CD
Iron Bonehead
14 April 2023
Brutal death grind/gore… almost just a wall of noise

Sever (USA)
At Midnight, By Torch Light LP/CD
Iron Bonehead
14 April 2023
Raw, ice cold classic black metal

MOON ORACLE
Ophidian Glare
Signal Rex / Bestial Burst
14 April 2023
An old school black/death metal throwback sound, raw, dark… i can just see it playing in a dark damp basement show.

Dimentianon
Album: Chapter VI Burning Rebirth
Label: Paragon Records, Symbol Of Domination, Pest Records
Release date: April 14th, 2023
Black/death/doom all going on… downtempo grooves tho

Dødheimsgard
Black Medium Current
Peaceville Records
14 April 2023
Classic black metal with a doom depressive thing going on

Night Fishing
Live Bait EP
Brutal Panda Records
14 April 2023
Kind of a stoner metal sound with a little surf feel on these three instrumental tracks

CARCARIASS
Album: Afterworld
Self Released
Release date: April 14th, 2023
Melodic progressive metal pushing a little into the death metal range

Despite The Reverence
Stress of Evolution – Out April 14th
Self-Release
14 April 2023
Kind of a standard “metal” but maybe with just a smidge of a darker, doom feel.

Dark Side Bright Side
Release Title: Dark Side Bright Side (self-titled)
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: March 10th, 2023.
Progressive melodic sound, a little dark and doom, a pinch industrial

Samuli Federley
Release Title: Stormylized
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: March 20th, 2023
Progressive Metal, instrumental, good catchy heaviness and really cool stuff!

Teramaze
Dalla Volta
Screaming Crow Records
Melodic proggy power-ish metal with female vox.

Celestial Burial
Mind Defect
Grindhead Records
23 February 2023
Brutal death metal… a bit of a raw production.

Lightchapter
Release Title: Dance With The Insane
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: March 3, 2023
Melodic death with that kind of modern groove metal-core ish sound

GENGIS KHAN
“Possessed By The Wolf​”
Self Released
Classic metal with a power metal thing going on

Black Rabbit
Hypnosomnia
Independent Release.
March 24, 2023
Basic groovin’ death metal with a thrashy thing too.

Catharsis
I
Independent
March 11, 2023
Death metal with a a little punky and thrashy attitude.

Metallica
72 Seasons (single)
Blackened
Fourth song dropped now… this one has a catchy classic thrash sound, and a bit longer (over 7 minutes) with some cool solos and stuff. It’s metallica!

Yotuma
Otherworldly Incarnate
Self Released
3/31
Madison’s own just dropped a new album, and it’s technical, brutal, catchy and pretty damn great, and being from around here is the icing on the cake! Definitely on our radar now!

Tribulation
Hamarita (EP)
Century Media Records
Kind of a progressive melodic death… cool stuff.

Paul Gilbert
The Dio Album
Mascot Label Group
Well you can’t go wrong most of the time when people do DIO songs… well, Paul Gilbert (of Mr. Big) fame does them up in guitar instrumental virtuosity style. Fun

Voyager
Promise (Single)
Season Of Mist
Only a single at this time, some cool prog metal with a little power metal thing too, simlar to the new Haken a little. Cool stuff.

Discreation
Iron Times
Massacre Records
7 April 2023
some cool and groovin’ catchy death metal. Good stuff.

AFTER THE BURIAL – “Death Keeps Us From Living”
AFTER THE BURIAL – “Nothing Gold”
Sumerian
A couple new singles from AtB… Technical deathcore… decent stuff

Cattle Decapitation
Scourge of the Offspring – radio single
Metal Blade Records
Dang… Technical and more progressive while still brutal and death metal!!

LORDI
Screem Writers Guild
Atomic Fire Records
31 March 2023
I always compared them to Gwar, like a euroGwar… but this time, it’s a bit more pop/synthy sounding… still hard rock/metal-ish… Just seems very polished

Pyramaze
Fortress [New Single & Video]
AFM Records
23 June 2023 (single now)
Always solid proggy power metal, and nice to have something new. Melodic with a little crunch

Kommand
Death Age
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, March 31st 2023
Brutal and gritty death metal.

Spirit Possession
Of The Sign…
Profound Lore
Release date: Friday, March 31st 2023
Raw blackened death/thrash.

Kilmore
From The Inside
Self-Release
31 March 2023
Melodic classic metal, with a bit of a doomy thing going on (female vox)

Powerwolf
Interludium
Napalm Records
Single of new stuff… an epic anthemic power metal thing… catchy cool!

HALIPHRON
Prey
Listenable Records
31 March 2023
Epic and symphonic blackened melodic death. great stuff!

Stillbirth
Homo Deus
Distortion Music Group
Release: 7 April 2023
Brutal death metal with a catchy groove… good stuff!

Smallpox Aroma
Festering Embryos of Logical Corruption
Inhuman Assault
31 March 2023
Raw grindy fast brutal death metal. and yeah some technicality and grooves squeezed in these short tracks.

WEISSRAVANA
Album: Awakening Of The Ancient Blood
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: April 4th, 2023
Kind of a melodic death, and some deathcore too. and some epic feel (keyboards), there is some female narration type stuff that’s going on that is a little distracting…i had to make sure nothing else was playing at the same time

YSKELGROTH
Release title: Bleeding of the Hideous
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: 04-04-2023
Classic black metal, full, well-produced sound

Heathen Foray
Oathbreaker
Massacre Records
7 April 2023
I’d have to say this is melodic death, harsh vox, but a solid groovin’ metal base, cool stuff!!

UTILITARIAN
GASLIGHTS
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: APRIL 7th 2023
Blackened thrash, a bit raw and a bit of a groove too

Devangelic
Xul
Willowtip Records
7 April 2023
Brutal death metal with technicality and meaty grooves. great stuff!

CULTURA TRES
Camino De Brujos
AJM / Bloodblast
7 April 2023
SEPULTURA’s bass player Paulo Xisto Pinto Jr. recently joined. This has a thrashy sound, and yeah a little sepultura vibe.

OMNICIDAL
The Omnicidalist
Non Serviam Records
7 April 2023
Blackened melodic death. A more gritty death groove happening … pretty cool stuff.

Ossaert
Offerdier
Argento
7 April 2023
Basic old school melodic doomy black metal.

Paraphilia
Release title: The Memory of Death Given Form
Label: Self-Released
Release Date (dd/mm/yy): 07-04-2023
Wall of brutal death metal! It’s got some good grooves and a prog/tech death element too!

Children Of The Reptile
Heavy is the Head
Self-Release
7 April 2023
Classic melodic metal with a little thrash element

The Grifted
Doomsday & Salvation
Personal Records
7 April 2023
Death metal with some grit and groove and a little bit of a black metal coldness

Thysia
Islands in Cosmic Darkness
Chaos Records
7 April 2023
Classic old school black metal

Medevil
Mirror in the Darkness – Out April 7th
Self-Release
7 April 2023
Classic metal, melodic with a heavier edge to it… nice grooves n stuff too

ASYSTOLE
Siren To Blight
I, Voidhanger Records
7 April 2023
Brutal death metal, a dark feel with some flashes of black metal and melodies

ATEMPORAL
Thorn Genesis
I, Voidhanger Records
7 April 2023
Raw production, a kind of basic black/death metal thing going on

THECODONTION and CEREMENTED
S/T
I, Voidhanger Records
7 April 2023
Both bands have no guitars, Thecodontion has some bass action, keyboards, a melodic blackened groove going on. The Ceremented is a bit more of a raw black metal sound

HERETIC PLAGUE
CONTEXT IS A STUMBLING CORPSE
LABEL: SELFMADEGOD RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: APRIL 7th 2023
Brutal death metal

Maudiir
Soliloque – Out April 8th
Self-Release
7 April 2023
Groovin’ metal with a melodic death thing… there’s a overall vibe of black metal, but not all cold and harsh… has some good ol groovin’ death stuff too. Cool stuff!

(UN)WORTHY
Where Light Divides
Rottweiler Records
7 April 2023
Deathcore, some good technicality and brutal!!

Dystersol
Release title: Anaemic
Release Date: 07-04-2023
Label: Black Sunset
Catchy death metal, big grooves and a little hint of a melodic death… god stuff!

Valensorow
Shorestank
Self-Released
7 April 2023
Melodic death with a folky extreme thing… pretty neat stuff

Godsleep
Lies To Survive
Ouga Booga and the Mighty Oug Records
7 April 2023
female fronted kind of hardcore, kind of just “metal”

Grin
Release Title: Black Nothingness
Label: The Lasting Dose Records
Release Date: April 7th, 2023
Doom with some sludge

VAK
Panorama / The Map
Indie Recordings
23 March 2023
A but of a fuzzy dark metal, harsh vox, a post hardcore type thing

DIABLATION
Par Le Feu
Osmose Productions
31 March 2023
Black metal with modern production, a bit of an atmospheric tint and some classic cold grooves.

Ad Infinitum
Chapter III – Downfall
(Napalm)
Female fronted power metal type stuff, but throw in some harsh vox and you get a little melodeath sound too.

BABYMETAL
THE OTHER ONE
(Cooking Vinyl)
Another new album from Babymetal… I think this one is a little more melodic and not quite as hugely deathcore… more of a metalcore thing… still fun

Visions Of Atlantis
Pirates Over Wacken
(Napalm)
Live album, and it sounds great… epic!

Marianas Rest
Auer
(Napalm)
This has a doom thing going on, but a little bit of a harshness in the vocals, and a tiny black metal coldness. Overall a lot of sullen melodies but pretty decent.

Bury Tomorrow
The Seventh Sun
Music For Nations
Metalcore with a heavy groovin’ edge. Cool stuff

Blud Red Roses
Fall To The Hate
Independent
Groove metal with a little bit of a metalcore edge, Catchy

Saxon
More Inspirations
Silver Lining Music

VINTERSEA
AT THE GLOAMING VOID
M-THEORY AUDIO
A bit metalcore, a little just classic metal with a little doom darkness… harsh and clean vox. cool stuf.f

DREAMS OF VENUS
Wanderlust
Dyamond Roxx & Hellven Records
24 March 2023
A kind of bluesy metal, great chillin groove, and guitar solo is amazing… cool stuff (just a single)

Sunsleep
“Hello Goodbye”
SBG
Modern pop “metal”

Sense of Noise
“War Within”
Self Released
Melodic death metal, guest vox with Stu Block, a bit of a Dark Tranquillity vibe. Cool stuff.

Gorod
The Orb
Self Released
Release date: Friday, March 10th 2023
Technical death metal, reminds me a bit of Arsis, heavy, catchy and brutal all while being proggy too.

Woe Unto Me
Along the Meandering Ordeals, Reshape the Pivot of Harmony
M-Theory Audio
24 March 2023
Blackened melodic doom… a mix of all sorts of stuff (Opeth and Katatonia moments), and some long tracks, all clocking in over 13 minutes.

Thron
Dust
Listenable Records
31 March 2023
Blackened death metal with a bit of an epic underpinning, a lean more towards just black metal, some catchy good stuff.

GRIEVE (Finland)
Wolves of the Northern Moon (CD, LP)
Werewolf
31 March 2023
classic old school black metal… not too bad, songs are fairly short..

Crown Lands
Fearless
Spinefarm
Do you like old Rush? Yeah, this is the closest I’ve heard a band sound like old rush and it’s just two guys! Go watch the live video of their song Starlifter and you’ll see.

Ihsahn
Fasciniation Street Sessions
Fasciniation Street Sessions
Candlelight
24 March 2023
Three song EP, pretty proggy and melodic with heavier parts and slower passages… cool stuff !

Milanku
À l’aube – Out March 31st
FOLIVORA (Canada), D7i (Canada/USA), Moment of Collapse (EU)
31 March 2023
Melodic / doomy black metal

THE EVIL (Brazil)
Seven Acts To Apocalypse
Osmose Productions
31 March 2023
Female fronted epic doom, the biggest monster riffs… with a powerful

Unpure (Sweden)
Prophecies Ablaze
Invictus Productions / The Ajna Offensive
31 March 2023
Classic swedish death metal, a heavy dark sound with a catchy punchy brutality while just having that pinch of melody

HEEZER
Album: Sungrinder
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: March 31, 2023
Straight up melodic rockin’ stoner rock… just shy of being “metal”… still catchy good music.

BLOODY APOSTLES
Bloody Apostles (7″ EP)
Hells Headbangers
31 March 2023
Kind of a raw just fun kind of thrashy punky metal, reminds me a bit of GWAR

Heart Attack Genocide
Release title: Primal
Label: Self-Released
Release Date (dd/mm/yy): 16-12-2022
Raw kind of death metal grooves

Narcotic Wasteland
Victims of The Algorithm (single)
Megaforce Records
Catchy and brutal and yeah, thrashy, death metal, great drumming by local Erik Schultek.

Necronomicon Ex Mortis
Self-Titled – Out March 31
Self-Release
31 March 2023
Epic/symphonic black metal, good technical and proggy stuff too. The production is a little bit raw.

DYOXIDON
The Decaying Multiverse​
Independent
Release Date: March 5, 2023
Industrial Black Death Metal being more of just a wall of noise!

SHAKMA
On Tenebrous Wings
Duplicate Records
3/24/23
A kind of extreme thrash thing… fast and catchy with maybe, yeah blackened thrash thing happening. cool stuff!

Lucifer Jones
Release title: Doom Generation
Release Date: 17-02-2023
Label: Rotten Xore Records
Doomy black metal

Blood of the Wolf
‘IV: The Declaration of War Eternal’
Self Released
nov 2022
Blackened death metal from Chicago, nice brutal and heavy stuff, catchy and technical… good stuff!!

WinterheartH
Rape Of Eden
Self Released
March 21st, 2023
Melodic black metal, a bit of a symphonic/melodic type groove going on, cool stuff!!

Voidscape
Odyssey Of Spite
Nefarious Industries
Release date: Friday, March 31st 2023

Ne Obliviscaris
Exul
Season Of Mist
Progressive, technical melodic death/black metal. It’s got it all and it’s great!

Category VI
Firecry
Moribund Records
Classic metal with a bit of a thrashy edge, female vocals with a nice sharp edge, has a throwback sound that still sounds cool.

Kings Of Thrash
The Mega Years Live At The Whiskey A Go Go
Cleopatra Records
A couple of former Megadeth members doing a show of old Megadeth songs! They get a lot of crap from online folks, but the tour came through Madison and it was great! So this album is one of their early shows.

Ov Sulfur
Stained In Rot
Century Media Records
Epic blackened death metal with a bit of melody in there too. Great stuff.

SÖNAMBULA
Release title: Estasis Interrumpida
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: March 9th, 2023
Brutal death metal with a little bit of a doomy groove. Cool stuff!

Temtris
Khaos Divine
Wormholedeath
17 March 2023
Classic thrash/classic metal with BIG SOARING Vocals! YEAHHH!!! (catchy too)

MYSTIC CIRCLE
Erzdämon
Fireflash Records
17 March 2023
Epic black metal, a bit of a symphonic thing, but just barely. Nice big and catchy sound too. Me like!

Elysion
Bring Out Your Dead
Massacre Records
17 March 2023
CLassic metal, modern metal, groove metal, pinch of goth with female vocals

Wishing Well
Sin and Shame
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: March 17th 2023
Straight up just classic metal. Alright stuff.

Eisenkult
Vulgäre, deutsche Hassmusik
Purity Through Fire
21 March 2023
Classic black metal, but with a meaty heavy yet gold beat… with some synth/epic melodic death stuff too. Pretty cool stuff.

YEVABOG
Album (maxi-EP): Between Two Fires
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: March 21st, 2023
Black metal with a progressive element, some harsh brutal stuff, some atmospheric parts, doomy stuff

HATESPHERE
Hatred Reborn
Scarlet Records
24 March 2023
This band has been around a while and always has good stuff as I recall. Thrashy grooves, a bit on the deathy side of thrash with harsher vox… Great stuff!

Animalize
Tapes From The Crypt
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 24/03/2023
Classic metal with maybe a pinch leaning towards thrash, catchy and just good ol solid metal.

ANGEROT
The Profound Recreant
Redefining Darkness Records
24 March 2023
Just a single here so far, but a nice gritty death metal with a tiny bit of black metal evilness going on

Gatekeeper
From Western Shores
Cruz Del Sur Music
24 March 2023
Classic metal, clean vox, nice meaty groove too

Atomic Trip
Strike #3 (Vinyl release – March 24, 2023, Digital – October 27, 2022)
Tentacles Industries
24 March 2023
Oh my. a couple of 20+ minute sludgey doomy post metal

WHORE OF BETHLEHEM
RITUAL OF HOMICIDE
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 24th 2023
As with most things on this label, it’s brutal death metal, nice meaty headbangin’ grooves all fast and a bit technical. Great stuff.

Maze Of Sothoth
Extirpated Light
Everlasting Spew Records
24 March 2023
Full on brutal death metal and yeah, just a nice thrashy groove, and yeah technical too. Just a wall of brutality in your face Good stuff!

Hellcrash
Demonic Assassinatiön
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS
March 24
Take a bit of just straight up classic metal and mix in some black metal intensity and it’s Hellcrash here. Neat stuff.

EXCALION
Once Upon a Time
Scarlet Records
24 March 2023
Epic power metal, soaring vocals, boop boopy keyboards and solid grooves.

Shores of Null
The Loss of Beauty – Out March 24th
Spikerot Records
24 March 2023
Doomy blackened death metal with bits of melodic death and maybe a smidge of folk metal with an atmospheric chilled out element too

ASYLUM PYRE
Album: Call Me Inhuman
Self Released
Release date: March 24th, 2023
A bit power metal some mixes of clean and harsh vox, but overall proggy power metal with some pretty catchy unique elements that yeah, still stay metal! Cool

Lankester Merrin
Release title: Dark Mother Rises
Label: Black Sunset
Release Date: 24-03-2023
Melodic death with a kind of viking metal groove, with mixed vox (male and female, harsh and clean) Cool stuff!

Mork
Dypet
Peaceville
24 March 2023
Melodic blackened death metal, decent stuff.

Endlevel
Weekend War
Violent Creek Records
Overall, I’d throw this as extreme thrash, it’s got black/death/groove/thrash stuff all going on. Cool stuff!

Ars Manifestia
Release title: Il Mattino della Follia
Release Date: 03-02-2023
Label: Fog Foundation
Avantgarde Black Metal, mostly laid back atmospheric type stuff, but a kind of creepy dark and cold sound

Abaddonia
Dawn of The Serpent – Out March 3rd
Self-Release
3 March 2023
Symphonic blackened death. Nice heavy and brutal sound. Cool stuff!

Chasm of Discord
Admonishing the Dawn of Reverence (released Nov 4th, 2022)
(Blood Blast Distribution)
4 November 2022
Brutal death metal, a bit of a tech/prog thing going on there too

Band: Metuzalem
Album: Infra
Self Released
Release: March 6th, 2023
Old-School Death/Doom Metal, dark yet with some groove too

Rotting Demise
Release title: My Whole Wrath
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 03-02-2023
Brutal death metal, dark heavy and headbangin’ grooves too.