Cannibal Corpse
Chaos Horrific
Metal Blade
Release date: Friday, September 22nd 2023
Brutal, technical death metal, they just never let up do they!? great stuff

Profanatica
Crux Simplex
Season of Mist
22 September 2023
Doomy-ish black metal, raw and dark

Nervosa
Jailbreak
(Napalm)
All female extreme thrash… heavy and just good stuff… a little melodic deathy

The Hirsch Effekt
Urian
(Long Branch)
Kind of a progressive metalcore thing… lots going on, heavy, soft, brutal, light.

Wishbone Ash
Live Dates Live
(SPV/Steamhammer)
Live album from these (usually instrumental) veterans… decent stuff and a probably good release to get an idea of what they’re about if you haven’t already

ALKALOID
Numen
Season of Mist
15 September 2023
Technical and progressive death metal, great stuff

Sacred Dawn
“The Lake of the Dismal Swamp”
Dismal Swamp
Qumran
Friday Sept 29th.
Nice groovin’ classic metal with a bit of a prog metal edge. this single is a bit longer and wanders more into some middle eastern prog stuff. Looking forward to the full album

Tomb Mold
The Enduring Spirit
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, September 15th 2023
Brutal death metal, nice grooves

KK’s Priest
The Sinner Rides Again
Napalm Records
KK and Ripper? Classic old priest sounding stuff… you can’t go wrong!

Gross Reality
Return To Ruin
Divebomb
Mike was telling me about this band a few weeks ago… I reached out to the band and they sent us the album… great stuff, kind of a technical thrash, maybe taking a little Nevermore with some Wrathchild America and Slayer. Great stuff!

Triskelyon
Artificial Insanity
Moribund Records
This is kind of an extreme thrashy sound, a cool heavy gritty sound

Graveyard
6
Nuclear Blast
29 September 2023
a laid back doomy stoner thing… pretty cool and chill.

Haunt the Woods
Ubiquity
Spinefarm
29 September 2023
Progressive rock/hard rock type stuff, a bit low key and chill

Solipnosis
Síntesis Silenciosa
විරෑපී (VIRŪPI)
23 September 2023
Punky thrash and a bit hardcore, also a bit of a post metal/experimental thing happening

PANSSARITUHO
Album: Sanansaattaja
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: September 26th, 2023
A pretty raw thrashy death metal with a nice basic groove too

DESECRESY
Album Title: Deserted Realms
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: September 26, 2023
Brutal death metal, guttural vox, a little bit of a gritty death groove

CROMLECH
Album: Cold and Stiff
Label: Archaic Sound
Release date: September 30th, 2023
Classic black metal with some good deathy grooves too

FALLING GIANTS
Album: Whirlwind Hymns
Self Released
Release date: September 30th, 2023
Doomy and stoned out post metal-ish.

SUPERLYNX
Album: 4 10
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: September 29th, 2023
“Psychedelic Doom” a real chill vibe, but some really cool guitar tone/riffs to fill out the slow grooves

Columbarium
Album: The Morbidious One
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: September 29th, 2023
Deathy doom. Big meaty full sound with death vox, enormous riffs and groooovin’

Infernal Throne
Release Title: CAELUM ET INFERNUM
Label: Theogonia Records
Release Date: September 29, 2023
A technical-ish blackened/death witha melodic death thing too.

Dark The Suns
Raven And The Nightsky
Inverse
Release Date: September 29th 2023
This is kind of a melodic death with a little doom sound and groove

Omnivortex
Circulate
Inverse Records
Release Date: September 29th 2023
Technical Death Metal with a little blackened death slant. And a bit of atmosphere/melodies too. cool stuff.

Thus
Release Title: Pacify the Parasite
Label: Self-Released
Release Date (dd/mm/yyyy): 08-09-2023
They say it’s “Progressive Melodic Death Metal ” which ticks all my boxes! haha just a single, but some good catchy techy death stuff. Nothing new or groundbreaking, but good solid stuff.

Atena
Subway Anthem
Indie Recordings
29 September 2023
A kind of modern groovin’ death/metalcore catchy and some good breakdowns and melodic breaks.

Fraise
Release Title: The Fifth Sun (Part II)
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 29-09-2023
Good ol hard rockin’ classic metal… catchy and groovin’

Haurun
Wilting Within
Small Stone Recordings
Release date: Friday, September 22nd 2023
Female fronted, kind of old chilled doom.. melodic clean ethereal-ish vox

Slaamaskin
Release Title: Trollveggen
Label: A Production
Release Date: September 14, 2023
They call it “Metal/Hardcore/Metalcore/Alt-metal crossover” and yeah, of course it’s accurate and am I lazy at these reviews? sure. It’s neat and catchy, and the songs are short. Has a nice head bobbin’ groove.

Diamond Dogs
About the Toughest Nut to Crack
Wild Kingdom/Sound Pollution
29 September 2023
This is kind of an alt-rock, bluesy classic rock thing, almost oldies sounding!

Mothman and The Thunderbirds
Song: The Simpsons = Real Footage (2023 Redux)
Release Date: September 22, 2023
Single of some melodic thrashy-ish classic metal

Equivocator
Equivocator
Nefarious Industries
Release date: Friday, September 22nd 2023
Overall I’d call this melodic death. A pinch of a blackened death, some thrashy, and just melodic prog metal too.

The Moth
Frost
Exile On Mainstream
Release date: Friday, September 22nd 2023
sludgey doomy stoner metal

SUFFER YOURSELF
Axis of Tortures
Aesthetic Death
Sept 22
Doom/black/post death metal with some really long songs

FREYA
“FIGHT AS ONE (FT. FREDDY CRICIEN OF MADBALL)”
UPSTATE RECORDS
Nice catchy hardcore/metalcore type stuff.

Dååth
The Silent Foray
Metal Blade Records
12 September 2023
Melodic, brutal, and epic catchy stuff… another single… excited for more

TesseracT
War of Being
(Kscope)
A bit djenty, light progressive metal stuff, flourishes of heaviness

PAIN
”Revolution”
(Nuclear Blast/Believe)
Industrial meets some modern metal, solid grooves and catchy

Baroness
Stone
(Abraxan Hymns)
Catchy and melodic stoner metal, they know what they’re doing

DEREK SMALLS
“MUST CRUSH BARBIE”
BOTTOMLAND PRODUCTIONS/IMMORTAL RECORDS
Groovin’ fun stuff, with a lot of bass of course, and a quick fun track, mostly jokey

DragonForce
“Doomsday Party”
(Napalm)
New track from them! Has an 80’s sound with some synth drum parts, a little bit of a Styx vibe too… not really the typical Dragonforce here… a bit synthy.

Deadly Vices
”Good Life”
(Self-Released)
Kind of a modern metal, a little bluesy groove, but just straight up modern hard rocky stuff

Rahway
Sounds Of Spanktown
Arc Angel Entertainment
Classic metal, straightforward ass kick hard rock

High Spirits
In The Moonlight [New Single]
High Roller Records
15 September 2023
Fresh off their Mad with Power Fest appearance… a new single, high energy positive vibe hard rock, classic metal sound

Psygnosis
Mercury
Season of Mist
15 September 2023
Progressive post-metal type stuff. long songs

Dio
The Studio Albums 1996 – 2004
BMG
More Dio reissues.. I always say it’s a good excuse to play ’em again! Remastered more recent studio albums

Dayshell
Pegasus
Dayshell
This has a kind of modern metalcore sound

3 TEETH
Endex
Century Media Records
here’s some stuff with an industrial sound with a bit of a modern metalcore sound

Death Dealer Union
Initiation
Napalm Records
Melodic death with more of a power metal sound, clean female vox and a kind of classic metal but with some heavier death growly parts too. Cool stuff.

HOLYCIDE
Release Title: Bazookiller
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: 12.09.2023
oooh… we have some fairly straightforward Thrash Metal! good stuff

Shade Empire
Sunholy
Candlelight
15 September 2023
Melodic death metal with a kind of epic blackened death flavor. Great stuff!

Mercenary
Album Title: Soundtrack To The End of Times
Label: NoiseArt Records
Release Date: September 22nd, 2023
they say it’s “Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal” One track has Matt Heafy guesting on it, so that kind of gives you a feel… it’s a bit like Trivium… melodic and good ol metal but with some death growls and prog elements. Great stuff!

Fabricant
Drudge To The Thicket
Profound Lore
Release date: Friday, September 15th 2023
Blackened death metal… heavy and fast oh and some melodic stuff too

Hammerfilosofi
The Desolate One
ATMF
22 September 2023
This is some kind of raw blackened death… not full on old school black metal, but it does short of have that feel.

GRYMHEART
Hellish Hunt
Scarlet Records
22 September 2023
Melodic death, fast and catchy, as a bit of a children of bodom style… good stuff!!

Anima Hereticae
Descended From The Mountains
Release Date: September 22nd 2023
Record label: Self Pubished
Blackened Death Metal…. there’s an epic type sound (keyboard) and some dynamics in heaviness and stuff. Good stuff

DESTABILIZER
Violence Is The Answer!
Horror Pain Gore Death
September 22nd 2023
Raw kind of thrashy with a punky attitude old school stuff

Farscape
Purged and Forgotten
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 22/09/2023
Thrashy classic black metal – decent stuff

CRUEL FORCE
Dawn of the Axe
Shadow Kingdom
22 September 2023
Old school sounding german thrash metal. A pinch of blackened

Dungeon
Into The Ruins
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 22/09/2023
Kind of a raw blackened death sound

IMPERIUM
WHEN KINGS MEET EP
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 23rd 2023
Thrashy classic metal and easy handbanging stuff

OF VIRTUE
Album “Omen”
Arising Empire (Edel / Kontor Media)
29 September 2023
Modern metal/deathcore with electronic hits and some emo-ish vox mixed in with the harsh stuff. catchy

Sinnery
Below the Summit – Out Sept 29th
Exitus Stratagem Records
29 August 2023
Heavy and catchy more extreme thrashy stuff… found myself listening to this one longer than most reviews.. good stuff

Vengeance
Sewer Surge
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 22/09/2023
Old school metal, a bit of a blackened motorhead style, but a little lo-fi on the production

NEVER OBEY AGAIN
The End Of An Era
Scarlet Records
22 September 2023
female fronted metal, a bit melodic and standard metal stuff, but then a heavier gritty thing kicks in too

Kerrigan
Bloodmoon
High Roller Records
22 September 2023
A heavier classic metal, female vox, groovin’ and catchy

ÔROS KAÙ
Thanatos
I, Voidhanger Records
22 September 2023
Full on black metal, evil wall of sound in your face… more of a deathy growl vocally, but cold and dark sounding musically

ACAUSAL INTRUSION
Panpsychism
I, Voidhanger Records
22 September 2023
A kind of crazy and all over the place experimental-ish blackened metal. Progressive? sure!

BEKOR QILISH
The Flesh Of A New God
I, Voidhanger Records
22 September 2023
Black /death metal with a big of a progressive crazy thing going on.

Solus Grief
What If This Was Everything
Purity Through Fire
22 September 2023
Doomy black metal

CRAZY MAD RIDE
Album (EP): Life, Liberty, Death
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: September 19th, 2023
Cool thrashy metal, nice grooves, a heavier edge… catchy good stuff

Bad As
Fight The Demons
Wormholedeath
September 22nd, 2023.
A bit classic metal with some good chugga chugga riffs.

Exorcizphobia
Album Title: Spiritual Exodus
Label: Doomentia Records, Carnal Beast
Release Date: September 22, 2023
Thrash metal from Czech republic, a bit of a sacred reich vocal sound on the surface, good overall just good thrash!

APOSTOLICA
Animae Haeretica
Scarlet Records
22 September 2023
Epic power metal with a proggy thing going on and a little groovin’ metal edge.

ORBITER
Album: Hollow World
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: September 22, 2023
Psychedelic doom, groovin’ laid back stoner grooves

Bonfire
Don’t Touch The Light (MMXXIII Version)
AFM Records
22 September 2023
Classic metal, big soaring vocals, a kind of 80’s/90’s metal sound… a bit on the power metal spectrum with some sing-a-longs

Mythologik
Mythologik
Self-Release
20 September 2023
A little thrash, death, black, prog metal, epic (keyboard stuff)… cool mix of stuff happening here, probably planting it in melodic death metal. great stuff!

Conspiracy of Blackness
Pain Therapy
Wormholedeath
September 22nd, 2023
Modern metal, clean female vox, electronic sounds, an epic sort of groove S

Paula Teles
Release Title: Jogo do Silêncio
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: September 13, 2023
Bjorn Strid guest vox in portuguese and they say it’s “Symphonic Metal, Prog Metal, World Music” has a big major epic sound

Deth Kaktus
Prick
Self Released
September 9th, 2023
Nice thrashy death metal sound. a cool groove

Will The Thrill
Album Title: Take It Sleazy
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 28-07-2023
Classic 80’s hair metal sound. all sexy and sleazy good stuff

Uhritulet
Uhritulet
Purity Through Fire
22 September 2023
Old school raw black n roll with a fuzzy evil groove

Vrajitor’s Tenebrarium
E.N.L.D.
Label: Avantgarde Music
Release date: September 15th, 2023
Old 70’s doomy prog sound, heavy on some distorty keyboard/guitars and saxophone noodling.

Sam Mooradian
Bad Brain
Self-Release
28 July 2023
Definite experimental prog metal type stuff. Guitar noodling, a little djent, some melodic stuff..

Godthrymm
Distortions
Profound Lore
Friday, August 18th 2023
A doomy epic groovin’ thing with longer songs

Imperial Tide
Existence in Crisis
(Mascot)
Kind of a deathy metalcore with screamy vox and growls too.

Outergods
A Kingdom Built Upon the Wreckage of Heaven
Prosthetic Records
1 September 2023
Fast and heavy blackened death metal, intense! cool stuff

MOLYBARON
SOMETHING OMINOUS
Inside Out Music
Sept 15
Kind of a prog metal thing, a nice catchy edge, while being nice and melodic too… cool stuff.

Terminalist
The Crisis As Condition
Indisciplinarian
Release date: Friday, September 8th 2023
Kind of a thrashy death metal… cool stuff

ELS FOCS NEGRES
Release Title: Martiris Carnivors: Hymns Per A Um Nou Apocalipsi
Label: Firecum Records and RagingPlanet
Release Date: September 1st, 2023
Kind of a just classic metal a little thrashy

Capra
Errors – radio singles
Blacklight Media
6 October 2023
Kind of a hardcore/metalcore thing, female fronted, pissed off attitude yet catchy too

Dying Fetus
Make Them Beg For Death
Relapse
8 September 2023
These vets know what’s going on. Brutal, technical and groovin’ Great stuff!

Shining
Shining
Napalm
A fairly standard black metal, a bit laid back and doomish

Cryptopsy
As Gomorrah Burns
Nuclear Blast Records
8 September 2023
Fast heavy brutal death metal as they’re good at. new stuff is always good

Otep
The God Slayer
Cleopatra Records
Starting off with a BIllie Eilish cover son, the single is dymanic and emotive going into full on brutality… kind of Otep’s norm. Looking forward to hearing more

Wolfheart
IKU-Turso (Single)
Distortion Music Group
A symphonic brutal blackened death, cool epicness and brutality too!

Art Of Anarchy
Vilified (Single)
Pavement Entertainment
a sort of supergroup… Bumblefoot and John Moyer and FOrmerly fronted by Scott Weiland and Scott Stapp… can’t find anything at the time of this writing about the new stuff here, but the vocals are unmistakably Jeff Scott Soto. Pretty standard modern hard rock going on

Brujeria
Esto Es Brujeria
Nuclear Blast USA
First album I’ve heard in a while… catchy spanish brutality

Death Shroud
Parhelion
Wormholedeath
September 8th, 2023
A bit of a lo-fi production-wise, but sounds like it could be some cool technical and brutal black/death metal

Fallen Choir
Release Title: The Malevolent Waltz
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: August 7, 2023
They say the genre is “Symphonic Metal with Black Metal Vocals” I couldn’t have said it better myself. hah

LARK
Album: Antarctica
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: September 12th, 2023
Kind of a prog-ish hard rock with a little stoner feel and some big grooves

Violent Life Violent Death
Break.Burn.End.
Innerstrength Records
15 September 2023
A sort of death/grind/core something. Heavy and harsh… quick songs and chugga chugga breakdowns

GridLink
Coronet Juniper
Willowtip
15 September 2023
Shorter tracks, screamo-ish brutal deathcore. a bit techy too Good stuff

FLESHER
Tales of Grotesque Demise
Redefining Darkness Records
15 September 2023
First track is called “Wisconsin” how can you go wrong? Brutal death metal

Tideless
Eye of Water
Chaos Records
15 September 2023
Kind of a doomy post black metal thing long tracks… depressing

BLOOD OATH (Chile)
Lost in an Eternal Silence
Caligari Records / Raise the Dead Records
15 September 2023
Kind of a grindy thrash/death metal

Carathis
The Haunting of Sablewood
Personal Records
15 September 2023
here’s a melodic creepy haunting lighter black metal. Creepy meaning it has that kind of halloween-ish sound

Damnation’s Hammer
Into The Silent Nebula
Massacre Records
15 September 2023
Thrashy and heavy, vox are kind of thrash/shouted… nice grooves and catchy thrashy stuff. yeah

Dark Reflection
Everlasting Night
Grind To Death Records
Sept 8
Melodic death metal with a little gritty death metal sound and melodies coming from a dual guitar attack. cool stuff!!

Contorsion
Album Title: The Children Of The Snake
Label: Self-Released
Release Date (dd/mm/yyyy): 15-09-2023
Straight up “metal” with a thrashy feel and nice meaty grooves

Danko Jones
Electric Sounds
AFM Records
15 September 2023
Bluesy catchy straight up hard rockin’ grooves

TAR POND
PETROL
Prophecy Productions
15 September 2023
Sludgey doom, dark and groooovin’

Fâché
Fâché
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
September 15th
very short tracks of gore/grind brutal death… raw and in your face

FEVER DOG
Alpha Waves
Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records
14 September 2023
HEre’s a cool stonery doomy throwback… a bit proggy, organ, a bit of a deep purple/led zep / queen vibe. Cool stuff!

HURONIAN
Beyond Frozen Heights
Gruesome Records
Release Date: September 15, 2023
Blackened Death Metal leaning on a lot of thrash. Cool stuff!

Satsuriku Robot
NO THRASH METAL, NO LIFE!
Wormholedeath
Sept 8
Classic meaty thrash. Catchy good stuff

Patriarch
Demonic Heart
Wormholedeath
Sept 15
Basic classic metal/thrash type stuff with the good grooves and yeah

Zubzero
Album Title: Frostbite
Label: BigBadWolfRecords / Headbangers Records
Release Date: September 2nd, 2023
Kind of a brutal thrashy metal. a bit raw but decent

Apocrypth
Release Title: Down to the Crypt
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 01-09-2023
Thrash with a deathy groove, yet still a good old school thrash sound. Good stuff

UADA
Crepuscule Natura
Eisenwald
8 September 2023
Epic old school black metal with a full and melodic sound too.

RADIO: Gama Bomb
BATS
Prosthetic Records
10 November 2023
Classic thrash but with a modern sound… great stuff on this single

IN THEORY
STAIN ON MY SOUL
FRETBAR RECORDS
Classic hard rock with a throwback bluesy AOR groove

Job For A Cowboy
The Agony Seeping Storm – radio single
Metal Blade Records
Technica, brutal and awesome

PRIMAL FEAR
Code Red
Atomic Fire
1 September 2023
Classic metal, melodic and just what you’d expect from them

OOMPH!
Richter und Henker
(Napalm)
That Germal rammstein like sound is happening… decent stuff

Empire State Bastard
Rivers of Heresy
(Roadrunner)
Kind of an extreme hardcore type thing with a lil punky rawness

Narcotic Wasteland
Victims of The Algorithm (single)
Megaforce Records
Brutal, technical heavy death metal. Eric Shultek on drums and in the studio again… Great stuff

Nefariant
Beg (Single)
Nefariant Inc.
A kind of modern metal with a pinch of hardcore/metalcore

Art of Shock
Shine Black Light
Another Century Records
Also some bit of a modern metal, and a catchy groove

sylosis
A Sign Things To Come
Nuclear Blast USA
Melodic death, grooving, heavy good stuff

DOMKRAFT
Sonic Moons
Magnetic Eye Records
8 September 2023
Sludgey doom stonery metal stuff but some cool grooves… longer songs.

SODOMISERY
Mazzaroth
Testimony Records
8 September 2023
Kind of a melodic death… great catchy cool sound, a little blackened death, technical stuff too

Ice Giant
Ghost of Humanity
Self Released
8 September 2023
Proggy power metal, cool heavy edge too

LORD OF SHADOWS
ECHOES OF YORE
LABEL: MEUSE MUSIC RECORDS / TRAGEDY PRODUCTIONS
RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 1st 2023
Kind of a doomy goth. Melodic, harsh and clean vox, with a smidge of a black metal depression

GLISTA
Album: Never Apologise for Defending Yourself From Being Violated
Label: On Parole Productions
Release date: September 1st, 2023
Thrashy grind/death metal

OVERMAN
Album: It Is All Overman
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: September 5th, 2023
Kind of a stoner post rock

MUSTANG
Album Title: Beyond Raging Thunder
Label: Fighter Records
Release Date: September 7, 2023
From India… an old school thrashy speed metal/classic metal sound with BIG screamy voice, a little like old Flotsam and Jetsam

We Do Not Belong Here
Strange to Cope in Today’s World
Self-Release
8 September 2023
dark doomy experimental black metal type stuff

Excarnated Entity
Mass Grave Horizon
Nuclear Winter
8 September 2023
Doomy and brutal death metal

Sielunvihollinen
Helvetinkone
Hammer of Hate
8 September 2023
Melodic blackened death metal, a little gloomy

Valravn (Finland)
The Awakening
Primitive Reaction
8 September 2023
An old school blackened death metal, brutal black metal stuff, but with a deathy groove

Finsterforst
Jenseits
AOP Records
8 September 2023
A 4 song EP with some decent melodic death sounding metal, but with a folky angle, longer songs

DANTALION
Fatum
Non Serviam Records
8 September 2023
Melodic blackened death, a bit of an old school black metal sound with some modern melodic stuff

TRISKELYON
Artificial Insanity
Moribund Records
8 September 2023
This is kind of an extreme thrashy sound, a cool heavy gritty sound

Black Pestilence
Chaotic Wisdom
Self-Release
8 September 2023
Blackended thrashy stuff with a little groove

The Flower Kings
Look At You Now
InsideOut
Sept 8
I’m a fan of regular old prog type stuff, and yeah thhs falls in that category good stuff for that!

Fixation
More Subtle Than Death
Indie Recordings
8 September 2023
This has a little bit of a modern metalcore type sound, but a nice melodic just good “metal” sound with a bit of progressive metal thing

The Watcher (Finland)
Kaosaura
Spread Evil
8 September 2023
This has a cool melodic blackened death sound and a catchy groove Cool stuff!!

Luring
Triumphant Fall of the Malignant Christ LP/CD
Iron Bonehead
1 September 2023
Raw old school black metal

SKULL & CROSSBONES (feat. former members of STORMWITCH)
Sungazer
Massacre Records
8 September 2023
Straight up classic metal, clean vox, catchy straightforward stuff

Damnation Plan
The New Horizon
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: September 8th 2023
Prog metal with techy music stuff, clean vox keyboards all that cool stuff. Nice!

Historian
Release Title: Total Resistance
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: April 27, 2023
Melodic Death Metal, harsh vox, good grooves, solid meedly and edgy guitar work. cool stuff.

Antipod
Eveil
Wormholedeath
September 8th, 2023.
Kind of a prog metal with clean (operattic) female and harsh vox, keyboards, groovin’ stuff too.

Tegmentum
Album: Evolvement
Label: M-Theory Audio
Release date: August 25, 2023
Technical and progressive melodic death type stuff… clean and harsh vox, great stuff!!

Masheena
West Coast Hard Rock
Majestic Mountain Records (Vinyl) | Electric Talon Records (CD)
25 August 2023
Kind of a nice catchy groovin’ stoner metal

ONI
“Aura” ft. Howard Jones & Josh Gilbert
The Silver Line
(Ironshore)
Wall of sound modern metal with some guests..

Incantation
Unholy Deification
Relapse
Release date: Friday, August 25th 2023
Old school brutal death metal.

Gypsy Pistoleros
Come On Eileen (single – cover)
Criminal Records
Kind of a poppy hard rock version of this 80s classic

Harms Way
Devour – radio single
Metal Blade Records
29 September 2023
Gritty groovin’ thrashy death metal…

Lizzy Borden
Death of Me (single)
Metal Blade Records
23 August 2023
Classic metal!

Nixil
From the Wound Spilled Forth Fire
Prosthetic Records
25 August 2023
Kind of raw black metal with a bit of an experimental tint to it

Doomsday
Doomsday
Creator-Destructor
Release date: Friday, August 18th 2023
Trash metal, catchy cool stuff

Velvet Viper
Nothing Compares To Metal
Massacre Records
25 August 2023
Classic metal, female vocals, borderline power metal or a little thrashy in either direction… so it falls in classic metal!

Velvet Insane
High Heeled Monster
Sound Pollution / Wild Kingdom
25 August 2023
kind of some old school sounding party rock.

Asinhell
Island of Dead Men & Fall of the Loyal Warrior – radio singles
Metal Blade Records
29 September 2023
This is that death metal band with the frontman from Volbeat… another single, good solid meaty death metal!

GWAR
Battle Maximus 10th Anniversary Edition
Pit Records
1 September 2023
Yeah, anniversary album! good to hear oderus again

Warmen
Here For None
Reaper Entertainment
Release date: Friday, August 18th 2023
First Warmen album since Children of Bodom sort of disbanded… And the first with Vocals! This is the keyboardists side project, which probably is now a main thing.. but has a similar to CoB sound, catchy keyboard heavy melodic death. Great stuff!

ANGELUS APATRIDA
“Cold” (Radio Single)
Century Media Records
20 October 2023
YES! Great thrash band, and new stuff… a bit of a melody going on, but then going back to some full on thrash

OBLIVION PROTOCOL
The Fall Of The Shires
Atomic Fire Records
18 August 2023
Kind of a laid back prog… maybe a light porcupine tree sound

Within Temptation
Bleed Out (Single)
Force Music
power metally type stuff, with a bit of a nu-metal feel this time around (on this single) and of course powerful female vox.

Stitched Up Heart
To The Wolves
Another Century Records
Modern metal/core type stuff… harsh, clean vox, a nu-metal electronic thing going on

Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons
Kings Of The Asylum
Nuclear Blast USA
Classic metal from the ol Motorhead alum.

Marduk
Memento Mori
Century Media Records
Classic old school black metal with a gritty edge

FIERCE ATMOSPHERES
Album: The Speed Of Dreams
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: August 29th, 2023
Prog metal with a bit of a ripper owens meets Iron Maiden thing… decent stuff

Reverence to Paroxysm
Lux Morte
Me Saco Un Ojo / Dark Descent
31 August 2023
Brutal gore metal sound

MIND/KNOT
Esigenza
Time To Kill Records
September 1st, 2023
Kind of a punked up hardcore… short quick in your face tracks

Demoniac (Chile)
Nube Negra
Edged Circle
1 September 2023
A kind of basic classic metal, but then it just kicks it into a thrashy old school black metal gear. cool stuff.

Belial’s Throne
Forgotten Land of the Lost Souls
Spread Evil
1 September 2023
A bit of a doomy old school black metal

Luring
Triumphant Fall of the Malignant Christ LP/CD
Iron Bonehead
1 September 2023
Old school lo-fi black metal

Dikasterion
Chaos as a New World
Amor Fati
1 September 2023
Classic black metal with a kind of deathy groove

Undergang
De syv stadier af fordærv
Dark Descent Records / Me Saco Un Ojo Records
1 September 2023
Brutal death metal with a bit of a laid back groove

Firewind
Still Raging
AFM Records
1 September 2023
20th anniversary live concert recording from 2022 in Greerce

VAK
The Islands
Indie Recordings
1 September 2023
A kind of stoner metal meets some progressive stuff and noise, interesting

Refuser
Refuser
Sleaszy Rider
This is a bit of a classic metal thing, solid grooves

Cunabula
The Weight Of Sleep
Sleaszy Rider
Laid back stoner doomy grooves

Dripping Decay
Festering Grotesqueries
Satanik Royalty
Release date: Friday, August 18th 2023
Brutal grindy/gore-ish death metal, neat stuff.

OXX
The Primordial Blues
Nefarious Industries
Release date: Friday, August 18th 2023
Kind of a wall of sound sludge/noise groove thing with some prog elements

RAVEN BANNER
Album: Rise Up Clan
Self Released
Release date: September 1st
Classic swedish death metal with a little bit of a melodic air and some big grooves. Cool stuff

Colony Drop
Brace For Impact
Nameless Grave
Release date: Friday, August 25th 2023
This is a little thrashy, a bit melodic and classic metal too.

REDSPHERE
IMMORTALIZED
Malmorta Records (Malpermesita Records)
18 June 2023
Meaty and groovin’ death metal… great stuff

FlowerLeaf
EP Title: “Dreamerie: The Prelude”
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: August 23, 2024
Melodic symphonic power metal stuff… big epic sound

Galundo Tenvulance
Album Title: Lunar Eclipture
Label: Spiritual Beast
Release Date: 23-08-2023
Symphonic epic melodic death metal, nice big full sound, harsh, catchy and

Werewolves
My Enemies Look and Sound Like Me
Prosthetic Records
11 August 2023
Brutal edgy death metal, thrashy and awesome!

Knife
Heaven Into Dust
(Napalm)
A bit of an extreme blackened thrash.

Filth Is Eternal
”Pressure Me”
(MNRK Heavy)
Kind of a hardcore punky Slayer sound

Baroness
”Shine”
Stone
(Abraxan Hymns)
Another single, solid grooves and chilled vibe.

Marc Hudson
Starboard Stories
(Napalm)
Big time symphonic power metal sounds

TesseracT
”The Grey”
War of Being
(Kscope)
technical, a bit of a modern metal sound too

The Unity
The Hellish Joyride
(SPV/Steamhammer)
Classic metal, a bit of a power metal thing too, nice mix

Vandenberg
Sin
Mascot Label Group
Classic stuff here.

Sekond Skyn
Letting Go
Independent
Kind of a classic metal, yet a bit of a modern solid rock type sound

U.D.O.
Touchdown
Atomic Fire Records
UDO never lets up! Classic sound… and with football season coming up

After Earth
The Rarity of Reason
Self-Released
18 August 2023
Kind of a melodic death with a nice deathy chug

Nonpoint
A Million Watts (Single)
361 Records
Been a while since Nonpoint sent something this way… nice and catchy groove on this single

DETHKLOK
Dethalbum IV
WaterTower Music
Release: 22 August 2023
Whoa! New movie, new soundtrack/album! Amazing! you know it’s great!

Unblessed Divine
Portal To Darkness
Massacre Records
18 August 2023
Meaty cool heavy death metal Great stuff !

Exmortus
Necrophony
Nuclear Blast
Release: 25 August 2023
Extreme and catchy/technical thrash… Great stuff again!

Till The Dirt
Outside The Spiral
Nuclear Blast Records
25 August 2023
Thrashy and heavy but with a melodic element too… cool stuff!

VERITAS
Album: Silent Script
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: August 22nd, 2023
Kind of a proggy classic metal with a little bit of a heavier thrash thing too

Meurtrières
Ronde De Nuit
Gates of Hell Records
25 August 2023
Kind of a classic metal, a bit prog-ish and doomy stoner groovin’ too

Vision Master
Sceptre
Gates of Hell Records
25 August 2023
A bit classic metal, a little prog-ish

OPENSIGHT
MONDO FICTION: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 25th 2023
This one has a prog/experimental almost like a mr bungle / faith no more -ish sound. neat stuff.

NECRONY
Corrupted Crescendos
Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records
25 August 2023
Gore with a bit of a doomy down tempo sound

SINHERESY
Event Horizon
Scarlet Records
25 August 2023
Prog metal type stuff… female clean vox, dude harsh vox, nice catchy and heavy grooves

Bottomless
The Banishing
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 25/08/2023
Doomy fuzzed stoner metal.

NOVERIA
The Gates of the Underworld
Scarlet Records
25 August 2023
Epic power/prog metal, some longer songs, but all good.

Transgressor (Japan)
Beyond Oblivion
Me Saco Un Ojo / Sewer Rot / Unholy Domain
24 August 2023
Kind of a raw death metal, a little brutal and some big riffin’ grooves

Critical Defiance
Misconception
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 25/08/2023
This has kind of a technical thrash thing going on, pretty cool stuff.

Josh Keech
Album: Warrior In The Clouds Pt.2
Self Released
Release date: August 25th, 2023
Instrumental metal, just kind of straightforward stuff, no real super meedly shredding… just kind of thrashy overall. neat stuff.

Wooden Throne
Eternal Wanderer of the Night Sky
Purity Through Fire
25 August 2023
Epic black metal, a bit of a doom sound

Anon
Album: The End of Innocence
Self Released
Release date: July 28th, 2023
Black metal going in with a melodic sound, decent stuff.

Aganthros
Syntiset Saatanat Kurjat
Purity Through Fire
25 August 2023
Black metal, a bit experimental, but unmistakedly black metal

Skálmöld
Ýdalir
Napalm
A bit folk metal, some melodic death/viking vibes

Desolation’s Edge
Release Title: Utopia (Exile the Virus)
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: July 21, 2023
it’s a bit of a basic progressive death, kind of raw

Anomaly
On the Cursed Wings of Stolas
Self Released
Tech Death from Milwaukee, heavy and catchy and yeah, great stuff!

Cannibal Corpse
Summoned for Sacrifice
Metal Blade Records
9 August 2023
Groovin’ and meaty to start, then kicking in faster and a bit more technical… great stuff!

Spirit Adrift
Ghost At The Gallows
Century Media Records
Kind of a classic metal/stoner metal type thing, decent grooves

BLACKBRAID
Blackbraid II
Independent
7 July 2023
Solo black metal project, just good classic black metal on this independent sophomore effort

Urne
A Fest On Sorrow
Spinefarm Records
Kind of a melodic blackened death type thing… good stuff

Leatherwolf
Thunder MMXXII Vinyl Edition Bonus Track
N.I.L.8
straight up classic metal! \m/

Seraina Telli
Addicted To Colour
Metalville Records
Female fronted classic hard rock/metal, great powerful and soulful vox.

blacktoothed
‘Novocaine’
ARISING EMPIRE is distributed by Edel/Kontor New Media
4 August 2023
Modern metal with an emotive vox/metalcore thing

CYHRA
The Vertigo Trigger
Nuclear Blast Records
18 August 2023
Third album from this swedish supergroup of sorts. Mostly a modern accessible active rock type metal. catchy melodic stuff.

Ringworm
Seeing Through Fire
Nuclear Blast
18 August 2023
Kind of a death metal/metal/deathcore type thing, a smidge of a blackened death sound too all while having some hardcore groove

Cales
Chants of Steel
Edged Circle
18 August 2023
A bit of a classic black metal, with more of a progressive/melodic sound.

Atria
Ground Zero
Self-Release
18 August 2023
This has a “solid rock” vibe… good clean vox, nice groove and some basic cool catchy stuff.

FLO
Long Way Down
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
August 18th
Cool catchy stoner metal, reminds me of COC

GRANADA
Album Title: Like Wars
Label: Tommy Gun Records / 01Records
Release Date: 30-06-2023
They call the genre “Cyclothymic Metal” LOL I had to look it up… basically it means bipolar. So yeah, bipolar metal, ups and downs, it’s got some melodic grooves and a bit of a stoner metal sound. I wouldn’t go as far to call it bi-polar! hah

The Advent Equation
Single Title: A Sudden Perception
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 28-07-2023
Progressive metal, clean vox, melodic, and building throughout this single. With a nice anthemic type epic dream theater-like keyboard wank. Cool stuff, want more.

Colosso
Album Title: Zero
Label: Prophetical Productions
Release Date: June 11, 2023
Brutal death metal!

SORROW
Release: Death of Sorrow
Release Date: 8th August 2023
Label: Xtreem Music
Kind of a deathy/doomy pinch of thrash thing. Cool stuff.

Flor de Loto
Album Title: Lines of Nasca
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 26-07-2023
This has some prog metal, folk stuff, and maybe a smidge into trashy stuff

Silverburn
Self Induced Transcendental Annihilation
MSH Music Group
11 August 2023
Kind of a tech/metalcore type thing, decent stuff.

Amon Amarth
Heidrun
Metal Blade Records
4 August 2023
Single from their last album with a remix and an EP with a life grack and other remixes… cool to have this drop right before theyr’e in the area later this week.

Megaherz
In Teufels Namen
(Napalm)
German metal, kind of just a classic metal with a pinch of an industrial alt-metal sound

Kataklysm
goliath
Nuclear Blast USA
Fast heavy brutal like always, and that’s a great thing!

The Ghost Inside
Earn It (Stand Alone Single)
Epitaph Records
Kind of a hard core modern metalcore type thing.

Astralborne
Across the Aeons
Prosthetic Records
28 July 2023
Gritty and still melodic type of blackened death metal

Code Orange
Take Shape feat Billy Corgan (single)
SONY/THE ORCHARD
A sort of modern-ish metalcore with some hard edge.

IPCC
Release Title: Impact Adaptation Vulnerability
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 27-07-2023
Grindy and catchy short tracks of death metal

INDUCTION
The Power Of Power [EP]
Atomic Fire Records
4 August 2023
Classic metal, a cool melodic power metal sound and a little edge too

Denial of Death
Single Title: Warriors of Steel
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: July 31, 2023
Orchestral and epic black metal (single)

Calligram
Position | Momentum
Prosthetic Records
14 July 2023
This sounds like a kind of technical and fast blackened death

Necronomicon Ex Mortis
Silver Bullet – Out Aug 11th
Self-Release
11 August 2023
Thrashy death metal with catchy groove

The Shredderz
The Shredderz
Self Released
4 August 2023
classic metal with nice shreddy guitars and

Skindred
Smile
Earache Records
4 August 2023
Cool funky nu-metal reggae-ish and yeah, progressive metal type stuff. They are their own genre and this new album keeps it up… cool stuff

DANICIDE
Album: Broken
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: August 8th, 2023
Classic metal with a little bit of a goth slant

Devin Townsend
Devolution Series #3 – Empath Live In America
Inside Out Music
Aug 4
IT’s a live album, and after just seeing him live last month… it’s great, he’s great, a good variety of songs from his career.

BESTA
Terra Em Desapego
Lifeforce
August 4th, 2023
Thrashy death metal all while being fast and technical too. Cool stuff!!

HALLUCINATE (Germany)
From the Bowels of the Earth
Caligari Records
4 August 2023
Groovin’ death metal with a kind of dark evil sound, but technical and even melodic in some parts too. cool stuff

Runespell
Shores of Nastrond LP/CD
Iron Bonehead
11 August 2023
Sort of a classic black metal, melodic, cold, but not full on pulsing blast beat stuff.

Cystic
Palace of Shadows
Chaos Records
11 August 2023
Brutal groovin’ death metal but with a doom and black metal thing happening too

The Rite
The Astral Gloom LP/CD
Iron Bonehead
11 August 2023
Kind of a doomy black metal, a dark gritty groove.

TO KILL ACHILLES
Album “Recovery”
Arising Empire (Edel / Kontor Media)
11 August 2023
Melodic metalcore, with a bit of the modern thing going on (more slower emo-ish parts)

LANCER
Tempest
Fireflash Records
11 August 2023
A bit of a progressive and classic metal, clean powerful vox, and a good mix of faster and melodic grooves

TEMPLE OF DREAD
Beyond Acheron
Testimony Records
11 August 2023
Blackened death, a groovin meaty death metal thing too. cool stuff

The Mystical Hot Chocolate Endeavors
A Clock Without A Craftsman
Massacre Records
11 August 2023
Mostly progressive hard rock/metal, melodic, a bit doomy, then getting into some heavier parts over the longer length songs

Excrement (Finland)
Flesh & Blood
Chaos Records
28 July 2023
Brutal death metal with a little gore/grind element

DYMNA LOTVA
The Land under the Black Wings: Blood (Зямля Пад Чорнымі Крыламі: Кроў)
Prophecy Productions
4 August 2023
Progressive blackened death, a bit of some atmosphere, symphonic stuff, down tempo flowing into full on black metal too. neat stuff.

Crypta
Shades of Sorrow
Napalm
Blackened death/thrash… cool stuff!

Empire State Bastard
“The Looming”
Rivers of Heresy
Roadrunner
Kind of a noise metal, something-core.

Sevendust
Truth Killer
Napalm
Haven’t received much Sevendust material over the last lots of years. They haven’t been too much in the way of mosh pit material. I’ve always been a fan and this album sounds just like Sevendust. I’m sure there are some heavier tracks we can play!

SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL
“Viking”
Sumerian
Over the top insane heaviness while still being brutal, catchy, groovin’ and fun!

There Is No Us
Fame Whore (Radio Edit) (Single)
Cleopatra Records
Kind of a groovin’ industrial nu-metal type thing

From Hell
Come To The Sabbath (Mercyful Fate Cover) (Single)
Scourge Records
A cool groovin’ classic metal thrashy sound with a cool M.F. cover. (steve Smyth’s band)

The Gorge
Mechanical Fiction
Pelagic
Release date: Friday, July 28th 2023
This is kind of a progressive metal/death/thrash metal thing sounds good!

Repentance
Buried By Fear (single)
Noble Demon
Chicago’s own… They opened Milwaukee metalfest one of the days, good solid groovin’ death/thrash metal.

Nuclear Power Trio
Wet Ass Plutonium
Metal Blade Records
28 July 2023
A kind of joke-theme band, but it’s got serious chops. Allegaeon and Havoc members team up to be “Putin, Trump and Kim Jong Un” We have some cool technical instrumental prog metal. great stuff !

James Rivera’s Metal Wave
New Wave Gone Metal
Massacre Records
28 July 2023
You know you will get great vox with James Rivera, and musically it’s cool too, some good classic metal

TAILGUNNER
Guns For Hire
Fireflash Records
14 July 2023
Classic metal/power metal

Dead Heat
Endless Torment EP
Tankcrimes
Release date: Friday, July 28th 2023
Kind of a thrashy thing, cool grooves and vibe

Nuclear Remains
Dawn Of Eternal Suffering
Maggot Stomp
Release date: Friday, July 14th 2023
Brutal death/gore metal

Cinema Cinema
Mjölnir
Nefarious Industries
Release date: Friday, July 14th 2023
A bit of a progressive/avant garde rock type thing

Radiant Knife
Pressure
Self released
Release date: Friday, July 14th 2023
Kind of a progressive thrashy metal, pretty cool stuff

Eleine
We Shall Remain
Atomic Fire
Release date: Friday, July 14th 2023
A nice catchy and epic power metal / melodic death with female vox and growly vox too.

Sludge Keeper
Slough Of Despair
Selfmadegod
Release date: Friday, July 14th 2023
Kind of a grindy death metal, brutal and a bit technical too

Gory Blister
Reborn from Hatred
Eclipse Records
8 September 2023
Brutal and techn-ish death metal. Good stuff!!

VARGR (Sweden)
FTW
Blooddawn Productions / Regain Records
31 July 2023
Wall of noise. wtf

OLD GHOUL
Old Ghoul
Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records
31 July 2023
Old school doom

KONVOLTED
Album: Human Reification
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: August 1st, 2023
Here’s some kind of classic metal with a modern groove

Inpathos
Album (EP): Ascension
self Released
Release date: August 1, 2023
Melodic Death Metal, heavier parts, nice catchy melodic stuff too

Chupacabra
Fortified with Ashes
Self-Release
4 August 2023
Thrash, a nice heavy edgy vocal, solid groovin’ music to back it up

THE CRAWLING
ALL OF THIS FOR NOTHING
LABEL: GRINDSCENE RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 4th 2023
Melodic black/doom metal. decent stuff.

Moose Cult
Release Title: Moose Cult
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: August 4, 2023
This is kind of a death metal with a doomy darkness… a little bit of a progressive element and some big grooves.

Carbon Black
We Remain Special Edition
Wormholedeath
A modern groove metal thing, mixed up with a bit of a thrashy death metal. Neat stuff.

PURTENANCE
Release: The Rot Within Us
Release Date: July 11, 2023
Label: Xtreem Music
Death metal with more a dark doomy sound

Countess Erzsebet
Countess Erzsebet
Self-released
28 July 2023
Atmospheric doomy black / post-metal

The Spectre Beneath
Release Title: The Ashen Child
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 14th July 2023
Classic metal, a little groovin’ power metal-ish sound. clean female vox… and overall a bit into prog metal too

Ancestral Blood
Forgotten Myths And Legends, Ch.1
Wormholedeath
Melodic black metal, some atmosphere.

DETERIOROT
Album: The Rebirth
Release Date: 18th July 2023
Label: Xtreem Music
Dark groovin’ death metal

KÖRGULL THE EXTERMINATOR
Release Title: Built to Kill
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: August 1, 2023
Extreme thrash… nice catchy fast stuff

Caivano
Caivano
Self-Release
21 July 2023
Kind of a classic metal with a stoner/grungy sound

MAYHEM
“Malum (Live 2022)” [Radio Single]
Century Media
21 July 2023
single from their latest live album, has a good sound/production and classic black metal!

L. A. PROJECT
Release Title: Electric Life
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 24-07-2023
Classic melodic hard rock

Nattsjäl
Album: I marors djup
Self-Released
Release date: 17-07-2023
They call it “Black Viking Folk Thrash Heavy Metal” and yeah, a bit of all of that, clean female vox out front and some other male epic folky viking vox too.

Cadaver
The Age Of The Offended
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 21 July 2023
Brutal death metal, straight to the point with a dark cold groove

Signs Of The Swarm
Amongst The Low Empty
Century Media Records
Blackened deathcore… good n brutal!

Girlschool
WTFourtyFive
Silver Lining Music
Classic metal, obviously female fronted, cool stuff.

The Zenith Passage
Datalysium
Metal Blade
Release date: Friday, July 21st 2023
Technical death metal, way cool!

Somnuri
Desiderium
MNRK Heavy
Release date: Friday, July 21st 2023
Kind of an extreme stoner metal… cool groovin’ stuff

Cognitive
Rot Eternal
Metal Blade Records
12 July 2023
A single from their forthcoming album. Technical brutal death metal!

Vendetta
Black As Coal
Massacre Records
14 July 2023
Cool classic metal with a thrashy sound.

Akercocke
Decades Of Devil Worship
Peaceville Records
21 July 2023
Live album with a brutal death metal thing going on

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats
Slaughter on First Avenue
Rise Above
28 July 2023
Stoner metal

Harms Way
Silent Wolf – radio single
Metal Blade Records
Gritty death metal, cool

Dying Fetus
”Feast of Ashes”
Make Them Beg for Death
(Relapse)
Technical and brutal and to the point, great new single!

Baroness
“Beneath The Rose”
Stone
(Abraxan Hymns)
Another single… stoner metal, a bit of a groove and that stoner sound

Dååth
Where the Slime Live
Metal Blade Records
14 July 2023
Cool new single – cover of the Morbid Angel classic… kind staying true to the original

Deitus
Irreversible
Candlelight
14 July 2023
Death metal with a bit of a melodic /progressive angle. Cool

Eternal Rot
Moribound
Memento Mori / Godz Ov War
24 July 2023
Doomy death metal, with a gore sound

Formless Oedon
Streams of Rot
Memento Mori
24 July 2023
Death metal with a bit of a black metal feel

DEV CRAWFORD
Album: Punishment Essay Volume III (Memento Mori)
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: July 25th, 2023
Just some straight up hard rock/classic metal

Porta Nigra
Weltende
Soulseller
28 July 2023
Gritty death metal. neat stuff.

Black Sorcery
Deciphering Torment Through Malediction
Eternal Death
28 July 2023
Classic old school black metal

Atonement
Sadistic Invaders
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 28/07/2023
More old school black metal… this one is fast and furious.. Cool.

BLACK SPELL (Italy)
Walpurgis Night
Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records
28 July 2023
Dark, and I think satantic doom. just straight up groovin’ doom.

Machinations of Fate
Celestial Prophecies
Redefining Darkness Records
28 July 2023
Blackened death/thrash. A heavy extreme thrashy sound, pushing into black metal…some good melodic technicality too!

Organ Dealer
The Weight Of Being
Everlasting Spew Records
28 July 2023
Brutal punishing death metal, no songs over a minute 30… cool fun!

Hooker Spit
“Krötch Splitter” Out July 28th
Self-Release
28 July 2023
Brutal groovin’ thrashy death metal. Cool stuff!

FLESHVESSEL
Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed
I, Voidhanger Records
28 July 2023
Epic (long songs) Symphonic with black metal moments, progressive death stuff, regular progressive metal stuff…

WYRGHER
Panspermic Warlords
I, Voidhanger Records
28 July 2023
Blackened death with a bit of a symphonic (keyboardy) thing going on too

TONGUES
Formløse Stjerner
I, Voidhanger Records
28 July 2023
Classic black metal type stuff.

Contrarian
Demos & Oddities 1995-1999
Self-Release
28 July 2023
I don’t normally like demo and outtake stuff, I guess I’m a little snobby for decent production, well this does have a decent sound and quite a proggy death

ACIDBRAIN
THE LUST MURDERS
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: JULY 28th 2023
Brutal gore-grind type stuff, and the song titles are not quite PC. hah

Sadistic Vision
Destroyer of All Worlds
Boris Records
28 July 2023
Death metal with a little gritty groove going on.

Astralborne
Across the Aeons
Prosthetic Records
28 July 2023
Technical death, melodic and catchy… this is just a sampler… more soon!

Countess Erzsebet
Countess Erzsebet
Self-released
28 July 2023
Kind of a lo-fi doomish post-black metal

Obscure Form
The Infinite Unknown
Self Released
Progressive Death Metal brutal and melodic too.

Y&T
Yesterday and Today Live (Expanded Edition)
Metal Blade Records
9 June 2023
Classic metal band with a live album newly released from the original from 1991