VITRIOL
“Flowers of Sadism” (Radio Single)
Century Media
26 January 2024
Brutal fast technical death metal, great stuff!

Derek Smalls
Smalls Change (Meditations Upon Ageing) (Deluxe)
(Immortal)
Kind of a classic rock thing, with of course a sense of humor.

JUDICATOR
I AM THE VOID (EP) – OUT DEC 8th
Self-Release
8 December 2023
A 9 minute epic and a Blind Guardian cover… always good to have new Judicator material

THE HALO EFFECT
The Defiant One (single)
Nuclear Blast
Already new material! Picks up where they left off… great melodic death metal!

Disorientation
Survival Mode – Out Dec 1st
Self-Release
1 December 2023
Technical and prog/melodic blackened symphonic-ish death metal, a little similar to Cradle of Filth

SCUMFUCKS
Album: Scumfucks
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: December 5th, 2023
Classic metal type stuff.. .sounds a little motorhead-ish

Ektomorf
Vivid Black
AFM Records
8 December 2023
Kind of melodic death, and groove metal… cool stuff

Oberst
Mules on a Mountain
Indie Recordings
30 November 2023.
Classic black metal

Siiickbrain
My Masochistic Mind
Lowly Records
1 December 2023
A little industrial, some modern metal a lot of electronics

KRYPTOXIK MORTALITY
INTERDIMENSIONAL CALAMITOUS EXTIRPATION
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 8th 2023
Brutal gurgly death metal

Phobocosm
Foreordained
Dark Descent Records
8 December 2023
Brutal death metal with some blackened metal going on

TRICK OR TREAT
A Creepy Night Live
Scarlet Records
8 December 2023
First Live album, over the top power metal stuff

Moon Safari
Himlabacken Vol. 2
Blomljud Records
Dec 8
Power metal, kind of an almost Styx like classic rock sound

Progeny of Sun
Throne of Desolation
Inverse
Release Date: December 8th 2023
Blackened Death Metal straight up!

LIES!
Mind Pollution
Self-released, Coretex Records, Diorama Records
8 December 2023
Kind of a hardcore, with some groovin’ death sounds

Unprocessed
…and everything in between
Self Released
1 December 2023
Deathcore with some kind of in your face/raw production. Has a bit of a blackened death thing too.

Sublation
On the Advancement of Decay
Self Released
8 December 2023
Classic death metal with a bit of a blackened thrash thing

MORNING DEAD
Desde El Otro Lado
Self Released
Release date 08.12.2023
Doomy death metal

Blomst
Schtøgg
Indie Recordings
Poppy stoner metal stuff. (single)

Polar Son
Wax / Wane
Self Released
8 December 2023
Prog metal along the lines of a Porcupine Tree, a bit more emotive maybe Tool-Light

Dimmu Borgir
Inspiratio Profanus
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 8 December 2023
All covers album! I’m a sucker for metal covers, while I’d rather have new original Dimmu material, i’ll take this in the meantime.

SIX FOOT SIX
Beggar’s Hill
Scarlet Records
8 December 2023
Classic metal with a power metal epic sing-along-ness factor

High Spirits
Safe On The Other Side
High Roller Records
24 November 2023
Classic metal, uplighting positive thing and upbeat with a throwback groove

Heaven’s Guardian
Chronos
Sleaszy Rider
Symphonic and epic power metal!

Cemetery Of Scream
Oceans
Sleaszy Rider
Classic metal, a little power metal stuff happening

Beyond God
The Great Divide
Wormholedeath
Female fronted symphonic metal, some heavier elements, a little blackened, some prog, power metal all happening

Bullet Trauma
Release Title: Hunting Season
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: November 24, 2023
Crossover Thrash, some nice grit and catchy, heavy and almost pushing into some death

SWARF DAMAGE
SWARF DAMAGE
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 08TH 2023
A bit of a classic thrash sound, catchy

Nekromantas
Release Title: Hades of the Unseen
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: February 5, 2023
Black Symphonic Metal, a little raw

In Demoni
Release Title: Stupid Jokes for Brutal Folks
Label: Morbid Generation (Jewelcase), In Demoni (Digipack)
Release Date: October 1, 2023
Brutal and raw death metal all tongue in cheek with “funny” titles like “tales from the clit” or “stalker texas danger” heh

Eternal Returns
Hunchback Hatred
Wormholedeath
Mostly death metal with a little blackened death, nice grooves

Knim
When A Star Falls
Wormholedeath
Kind of a prog metal/rock with a groove, maybe a bit of a stoner metal sound

Gilded Form
Gilded Form
Burning World Records
1 December 2023
One 40 minute track of post metal sounds

ARMORED DAWN
Brand New Way
Self Released
Maybe melodic death? clean vox, harsh vox, melodic, almost metalcore type stuff.

Firewind
Come Undone [New Single + US Tour Announcement]
AFM Records
1 March 2024
Good solid classic metal with a little power/prog going on

Stengah
Downward Mechanic
Mascot Label Group
Metal/deathcore… nice and heavy

Cruciamentum
Obsidian Refractions
Profound Lore Records
Release date: Friday, November 24th 2023
Brutal dark death metal. good stuff.

Daedalean Complex
Release Title: XIII
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: October 27, 2023
Just a single, but promising Melodic Death Metal, nice heavy low end, catchy and brutal too.

STORM
After a Lie
Indie Recordings
24 November 2023
Kind of a modern emo/metal core single.

Devin Townsend
Infinity (25th Anniversary Release)
Inside Out Music
11/24
remastered and all that… and a bonus disk with demos. Groundbreaking Devin release !

Savage Blood
Release Title: Wheel Of Time
Label: MDD Records
German Power Metal with a nice edge… cool stuff !

KONG
Album: Traders Of Truth
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: November 28th, 2023
It’s got some industrial, Prog Metal and ambient stuff going on.

Beyondition
Abysmal Night
Chaos Records
1 December 2023
Brutal! Death metal!!

Aphelium Aeternum
Dark Interstellar Mysteries
Dominance of Darkness
1 December 2023
Black/death metal with some atmoshpere and groovin’ stuff.

Embrace Your Punishment
Made of Stone
Lacerated Enemy
1 December 2023
Heavy and brutal death metal

Dethroned (Germany)
A Bridge to Eternal Darkness
Dominance of Darkness
1 December 2023
Kind of a classic black metal, a bit more full sounding than the old school super cold harsh black metal. Decent stuff

Malicious (Finland)
Merciless Storm
Invictus Productions
1 December 2023
Now this is more of an old school black metal sound

Demoncy
Black Star Gnosis
Dark Descent Records
1 December 2023
Blackened death leaning more towards the black metal side of things

Into Darkness (Italy)
Cassini – Huygens
Invictus Productions
1 December 2023
Blackened death with seemingly space theme, solid stuff

Hatred Reigns
Awaken The Ancients – Out Dec 1st
Self-Release
1 December 2023
Brutal and punishing death metal with some tech stuff going on. Cool!

Aggression
Frozen Aggressors
Massacre Records
1 December 2023
Kind of an extreme thrash thing happening here, catchy heavy

Axenstar
Release Title: Chapter VIII
Label: Inner Wound Recordings
Release Date: December 1st, 2023
Straightforward classic metal/power metal.

DUNE PILOT
Album: Magnetic
Label: ARGONAUTA Records
Release date: December 1, 2023
Solid groovin’ melodic stoner metal

Necronemesis
Warfield Forever EP
Horror Pain Gore Death
December 1st
Brutal blackened death, production is a bit raw.

Gridfailure
Shards In The Wire
Self Released
Release date: Friday, November 17th 2023
Post metal noise type stuff.

Psychework
Release Title: Spark of Hope
Label: RANKA KUSTANNUS
Release Date: September 29, 2023
Melodic Progressive Metal, a nice epic vocal, and solid stuff

REAP
BORN FROM PLAGUE
LABEL: SELFMADEGOD RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 1st 2023
Heavy groovin’ thrashy death metal. short tracks cool stuff.

Cash Bribe
Escape From New York
Fanxdangxo Records
1 December 2023
Screamo deathcore type stuff. not too shabby

Macabre Demise
Release Title: Grave(y)art Gallery
Label: RTM-Productions
Release Date: November 18, 2023
Brutal death metal! Wall of catchy brutality all up in your business… with some strings too!

Infected Chaos
Conjuration Overture, Vanity is Dawning
Wormholedeath
Nov 24
Blackened melodic death

Hyde
Ardwena
Malpermesita Records
24 November 2023
A kind of ambient and progressive doomish and blackened/melodic death all going on.

OLATHIA
The Forest Witch
Self Released
November 17th
They played the blades of steel fest here in Sept. and had sent me a single from this album, it’s all here now and solid female fronted thrashy and melodic deathish… cool!!

Mêlée des Aurores
Aube Cannibale
Sepulchral Productions
23 November 2023
Black metal, kind of par for the course

Bury My Demons
Release Title: Empire
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: November 17, 2023
Deathcore/metalcore single not too bad

Burn The Evidence
Night Terror (released October 31st)
Self-Release
31 October 2023
extreme thrashy type thing, nice grooves

Judicator
Mandy (Barry Manilow Power Metal Cover) Single/Music Video
Self-Release
10 November 2023
I’m a sucker for non metal songs covered by metal bands in a more metal style…. Now this one… starts off not quite metal. And kind of stays fairly straight up… yeah with electric guitars and some double bass, but still a normal pace… we might have to save this one for a covers show.

Sombre Héritage
Inter Duo Mundi
Sepulchral Productions
23 November 2023
Old school classic black metal

TEMIC
Terror Management Theory
Season of Mist
17 November 2023
a sort of prog super group-ish… Eric Gillette teams up with Diego formerly of Haken. Catchy, groovin’ prog metal.

Dust Bolt
Burning Pieces [New Single & Video]
AFM Records
23 February 2024
Thrashy modern metal.

Imminence
Death By A Thousand Cuts (Radio Edit)
Imminence
Modern metal, metalcore-ish, with that “metalcore power ballad” type thing happening.

Trapeze
Lost Tapes Vol. 1
Metalville Records
Classic hard rock AOR-ish sound

Trans Siberian Orchestra
The Christmas Attic
Rhino Records
It’s that time of year to dust off the xmas metal – nothin’ new but a reminder

Bardo Thodol
Release Title: Demon Unleashed
Label: Obelisk Polaris Productions
Release Date: November 10, 2023
Kind of a doomy old school horror metal.

Thorium
Release Title: Extraordinary Journeys, pt.I
Label: Freya Records
Release Date: November 16, 2023
classic metal with a little proggy power metal sound similar to queensryche

Gingerbass
Release Title: Lake City Kid
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 20th October 2023
Instrumental Progressive/Fusion Rock a bit jazzy too

Hostilia
Release Title: Let Off Some Steam (Remixed)
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: November 10, 2023
Thrash Metal single… pretty straightforward

Dungeon Wolf
The White Elf
Self-released
20 November 2023
Just straight up metal, production is a bit raw… but they really stand out on “eat my ass” haha

DEMOGORGON
Album: A Hate For All That Grows
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: November 21st, 2023
Classic black metal

DESTRUCTOR (USA)
Blood, Bone, and Fire
Shadow Kingdom
24 November 2023
A bit classic metal, but some heavier parts, pushing a little into thrashy stuff. Cool stuff!

One Master
The Names of Power
Eternal Death
24 November 2023
Blackened groovin’ meal.

Aeolian
Echoes of the Future
Black Lion Records
24 November 2023
Classic blackened deathy thrash, melodic stuff too. Cool!

DEATHCODE SOCIETY
Unlightenment
Osmose Productions
24 November 2023
Kind of a classic black metal

Convocation
No Dawn For The Caliginous Night
Everlasting Spew Records
24 November 2023
Dooomy black metal

Hitten
While Passion Lasts
High Roller Records
24 November 2023
Classic metal, nice catchy sound

Maladie
For We Are The Plague
Apostasy Records
24 November 2023
Melodic death metal, a little blackened sound and some proggy tech stuff too

A HILL TO DIE UPON
THE BLACK NATIVITY
LABEL: ROTTWEILER RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 24th 2023
Doomy death metal

MIDNIGHT ODYSSEY
Biolume Part 3: A Fullmoon Madness
I, Voidhanger Records
24 November 2023
Classic black metal, a bit atmospheric

SWORDS OF DIS
Melencolia
I, Voidhanger Records
24 November 2023
A bit doom, avant-garde, black metal.

SOL
Promethean Sessions
I, Voidhanger Records
24 November 2023
Atmospheric doom

Herzog (Belgium)
Furnace
Amor Fati
24 November 2023
BLackened doomy death metal

Valdrin
Throne of the Lunar Soul CD/LP/TAPE
Blood Harvest
24 November 2023
Classic black metal, a bit of a deathy and atmospheric groove

Burden Of Grief
Destination Dystopia
Massacre Records
24 November 2023
Thrashy groovin’ death metal. cool stuff.

i Helvete
Yksi Yhteinen Yhteiskunta
Inverse
Release Date: November 24th 2023
Black metal, a bit meedly a little melodic

Weeping Silence
Isles of Lore
ViciSolum Productions / Sound Pollution
24 November 2023
Melodic death with a little doomy sound

ALMOST HONEST
Album: The Hex of Penn’s Woods
Label: ARGONAUTA Records
Release date: November 24, 2023
Heavy Fuzz Rock with some good catchy grooves

The Crotals
Album: Conjure
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: November 24, 2023
A bit sludge, some stoner sound

Degenerator
The Abyssal Throne
Self-Release
24 November 2023
A kind of stoner, doomy yet progressive sounding thing

Chained To The Dead
Discography Of Debauchery
From Horror Pain Gore Death
November 17th
Fast heavy, kind of grind death /black metal

From North
Release Title: Raven Banner
Label: At Dawn Records
Release Date: November 24, 2023
Melodic death metal, folk metal with an epic thing going on

Bathory Legion
Latomie
Septenary Arts
10 November 2023
Post metal noise metal, a little industrial

VOID BELOW
WORLD UNDONE EP
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 24th 2023
Death metal, with a little black metal attitude, and some growin’ grooves

Pessimystic
Burnt Offering – Out Nov 24th
Self-Release
24 November 2023
Melodic doomy blackened death, a bit techy/prog too

Elitist
A Mirage Of Grandeur
Indisciplinarian
Release date: Friday, November 17th 2023
Blackened death metal, some cool grooves… great stuff!

Robots Of The Ancient World
3737
Small Stone Recordings
Release date: Friday, November 17th 2023
Catchy stoner metal, and also a bit like some Danzig in parts too

Rank And Vile
Worship
Modern Grievance Records
Release date: Friday, November 17th 2023
Gritty groovin’ death metal, a little raw sounding, but good stuff.

Gama Bomb
BATS
Prosthetic Records
10 November 2023
Classic thrash, solid catchy stuff, with a bit of a hardcore crossover thing going on too.

Cobra Spell
666
Napalm
Classic metal, with a bit of a hair metal/aor type sound

Pink Elefants
”The Shadow”
(Chirp)
Modern metalcore with a little industrial going on too

Harvesting The Dead
Demo EP
Self Released
new Madison Death metal band, it does have a “demo” sound, but some promise here with some sludgey doomy grooves

Morne
Engraved with Pain
Metal Blade Records
3 November 2023
a few long tracks, some kind of doomy post-prog death metal.

Wicked Maraya
Chapters
Massacre Records
A bit of a classic metal, just a single. A little groovin’ too. Maybe a little Godsmack-like

Earthside
Let The Truth Speak
Mascot Label Group
This is some kind of modern prog-metal-ish type stuff

Sadus
The Shadow Inside
Nuclear Blast Records
17 November 2023
Classic old school sounding thrashy stuff, a bit more techy than typical…. Great stuff.

THE CROWN REMNANT
Album: Rise Of The Wicked King
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: November 14th, 2023
Classic metal, melodic with a little edge, and some prog elemenets too

DIABOLIC NIGHT
BENEATH THE CRIMSON PROPHECY
High Roller Records
17 November 2023
Kind of lo-fi blackened death

Carcinoid
Encomium to Extinction
Me Saco Un Ojo / Headsplit
16 November 2023
Doomy death metal

Nail Within
Sound Of Demise
Massacre Records
17 November 2023
Catchy classic thrash with a little melodic death flair

INFECTION CODE
Sulphur
Time To Kill Records
November 17th 2023
Doomy groovin’ melodic-death type stuff.

ELDRITCH
Innervoid
Scarlet Records
17 November 2023
Power metal with a bit of an epic sound and some heavier stuff too.

Foetal Juice
Grotesque – Out Nov 17th
Gore House Productions
17 November 2023
While gore in name and song titles, it’s some good groovin’ death metal.

Neurectomy
Overwrought
Self-Released
17 November 2023
Brutal and technical death metal.

Cruel Fate
Destin Cruel
Personal Records
17 November 2023
Death metal with a little grindy groove.

Alchemy of Flesh
By Will Alone
Redefining Darkness Records
17 November 2023
Brutal yet technical death metal, a bit thrashy too

Bull Elephant
The Long War
Eat Lead and Die Music
17 November 2023
Doomy and sludgey blackened death.

Cabrakaän
Aztlán
Self-Release
17 November 2023
Symphonic almost folky power-ish prog metal.

Hyperia
The Serpent’s Cycle
Self-Release
17 November 2023
Catchy and heavy classic thrashy stuff… cool!!

BLOODPHEMY
Dawn Of Malevolence
Non Serviam Records
17 November 2023
Classic brutal groovin’ death metal.

Ritual Clearing
Penitence
Eternal Death
17 November 2023
Old school cold black metal. ice cold.

Draconicon
Release Title: Pestilence
Label: Inner Wound Recordings
Release Date: November 17th, 2023
Power metal with a nice heavy edge, a symphonic thing too… cool stuff!

Miara
Hungering Inside
Inverse
Release Date: November 17th 2023
Melodic Death Metal, a lot like classic In Flames… great stuff!

Death’s-Head And The Space Allusion
LUC-II-FARUL
Label: Inverse Records
Release date: November 17th 2023
Modern Melodic Heavy Metal… a bit prog, a little heavier too… comparable to Avenged Sevenfold-ish

Black Daggers
Phantasmagoria (2023) – Out Oct 31st
Papercuts on Purpose
31 October 2023
Groovin’ stoner metal type stuff. Cool rockin’ music

Harmagedon
Dystopian Dreams
Svart Records
17 November 2023
A bit doomish, some kind of melodic death-ish, decent grooves.

Mister Misery
Root Of All Evil [New Single & Video]
AFM Records
31 October 2023
Thrashy grooves on this single. a little modern metal thing too

Kill the Con Man
Release Title: Militant Minority
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: October 27, 2023
They say it’s “Grindcore, Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Hardcore” and as I am listening before looking at their genre list wondering how I’m going to describe this… that sums it up really well. Short ad to the point energetic tracks. Great stuff!

Left Cross
Upon Desecrated Altars
Profound Lore
Release date: Friday, November 10th 2023
AS kind of doomy death metal with a bit of a black metal coldness.

Warship
The Third Wave
Sleaszy Rider
Classic metal with a little doom and maybe a smidge of a folk

Vastum
Inward To Gethsemane
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, November 10th 2023
Dark blackend death, a bit of a doomy groove too.

Silva
Forgotten Sanctuary
Black Lion Records
20 October 2023
We have some technical blackened melodic death sounding stuff.

Theosophy
Release Title: Bleeding Wounds of the First and the Last
Label: Epictural Production
Release Date: 27th October 2023
“Black Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal, Melodic Black Metal” kind of sums this one up… some catchy cool stuff and yeah a bit of room to breathe too

ILL REASONING
Release Title: IMMOLATION
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 23rd June 2023
Single of grindy tech groovin’ death metal

ABSQUE COR
Na zawsze cieniem…
GODZ OV WAR PRODUCTIONS
Classic black metal

MORBID SACRIFICE
Ceremonial Blood Worship
GODZ OV WAR PRODUCTIONS
Old school deathy black metal

CULTUM INTERITUM
Sacrum Funeral
GODZ OV WAR PRODUCTIONS
Brutal blackened death

Hinayana
Shatter And Fall
(Napalm)
Kind of a doomy melodic death.

Plaguemace
Reptilian Warlords
(Napalm)
Groovin’ good ol death metal.

Shylmagoghnar
Convergence
(Napalm)
Kind of an epic melodic death, comparable to Wilderun/Opeth.

ANGRA
Cycles Of Pain
Atomic Fire Records
3 November 2023
Some of the best prog/power metal… a nice heavier edge, still an epic sound too. Cool stuff

Job for a Cowboy
The Forever Rot – radio single
Metal Blade Records
23 February 2024.
First new stuff in quite a while (10 years!) This has a proggy tech death thing going on. cool stuff!

SKELETAL REMAINS
Fragments Of The Ageless
Century Media Records
8 March 2024
Whoa! There’s no fuckin’ around here, brutal, groovin’ catchy death metal Awesome!

Witherfall
Insidious (Single)
Deathwave Records
Technical metal, and some harsh vox too… past comparisons were to Nevermore and they still hold fairly true. Can’t wait for more!

Ancestral Curse
In Dreams Of Endless Darkness
Jumpscare Records
Technical blackened death… cool stuff!

Helmet
Left
Earmusic
I was never a huge fan and never know what genre they fall in… just kind of a grungy alt metal. First singles so far are a bit laid back.

Concrete Caveman
Feral
Strange Mono Records
A kind of hardcore/punk-ish attitude.

Mesuggah
Chaosphere 25th Anniversary Edition
Atomic Fire Records
25 years since this came out… dang… still relevant and this is the album that really turned the corner for them. and they’re coming to down next month!

Sky Empire
The Shifting Tectonic Plates of Power – Part One
ViciSolum Productions / Sound Pollution
27 October 2023
Kind of a classic metal/prog metal thing… Jeff Scott Soto is handling vocals this time around, cool stuff!

CARNAL TOMB
Embalmed in Decay
Testimony Records
3 November 2022

BEWITCHER
“Speed ‘Til You Bleed (Midnight Hunters demo, 2015)”
Century Media Records
Another single from their forthcoming album of old stuff and whatnot.

Fuming Mouth
Last Day of Sun
Nuclear Blast Records
3 November 2023
Good death metal with a thrashy/technical groove

Watain
Die In Fire – Live In Hell
Nuclear Blast Records
3 November 2023
Live album… I’ve never seen Watain… this sounds good, and it does sound live too, not super polished, but damn cool.

HELMS DEEP
Album: Treacherous Ways
Label: Nameless Grave Records
Release date: November 3rd, 2023
Some straightforward classic metal

The Mosaic Window
Plight of Acceptance
Willowtip Records
10 November 2023
a technical/melodic black metal type thing, a nice catchy sound with that yeah, melodic twist that tones down what could be all harsh black metalness. Cool stuff.

Receiver
Whispers of Lore
Gates of Hell Records
10 November 2023
Good ol classic metal

Melancholia
Book of Ruination
Brutal Panda Records
3 November 2023
Fast and furious technical death with a brutal and a smidge of melodic. Cool stuff

METAL LIFE CRISIS
Album: Theatre Of Fire
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: November 7th, 2023
Big powerful halford-esque vocals and a kind of proggy classic metal sound

EMPIRE OF DISEASE
Release Title: Shadows in the Abyss
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: November 7th, 2023
Melodic Death Metal with a nice meaty gritty sound. Great stuff

D’Virgilio, Morse & Jennings
Sophomore
Inside Out Music
Nov 10
I’m a fan of all of these guy’s bands (spock’s beard, Neal Morse Band, Haken), but it’s not so metal… more of a laid back prog rock with LOTS of vocal harmonies

Dissona
Dreadfully Distinct – Out Nov 10th
Self-Release / Distro – Earache
10 November 2023
Epic prog metal with a little power metal lean. Cool stuff

MEPHORASH
Krystl-AH
Shadow Records / Regain Records
10 November 2023
Atmospheric and a bit epic black metal

Lower 13
Deception
Self Released
10 November 2023
A bit industrial, melodic death, thrash, clean and harsh vox. Cool stuff.

DEMONIO (Italy)
Reaching for the Light
Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records
20 November 2023
Classic bluesy doom-ish instrumental, cool laid back grooves

Bazooka Troopaz
Release Title: Bombs, Babes and Bazookas
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 10-11-2023
A bit of a thrashy crossover with some hardcore… cool catchy stuff.

Deorbit
Retrogradient (2023) – Out Nov 10th
Self-Release
10 November 2023
Milwaukee instrumental band with a kind of proggy post metal grungy/stonerish doom sound.

FALLEN UTOPIA
Release Title: RUIN
Label: Self-Release
Release Date: November 11, 2023
meaty brutal groovin’ death metal from Austria. great stuff

Lenax
Purity
Self Released
Melodic black metal from Tennessee, cool

White Tundra
White Tundra
All Good Clean Records
27 October 2023
Doomy stoner metal, nice laid back grooves

Thanamagus
Lie In Wait EP
Carbonized Records/Seed Of Doom Records
Release date: Friday, October 27th 2023
Technical brutal blackened death. cool stuff

Mouth For War
Bleed Yourself
MNRK Heavy
Release date: Friday, October 27th 2023
Deathy / metal core thrashy grooves

Gravesend
Gowanus Death Stomp
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, October 27th 2023
Blackened death, groovin’ but fast furious and brutal

Vokonis
Exist Within Light
Majestic Mountain Records
27 October 2023
Faster doomy stoner metal stuff.

KILLSORROW
Album: Wasteland Chronicles
Self Released
Release date: November 3rd, 2023
Here’s some just “metal” a bit melodic, a little progressive, classic metal stuff, clean vox.

Scythe Of Sorrow
Release Title: Raven’s Cry Of Despair
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 11th August 2023
Melodic Death Metal – a little similar to Children of Bodom

ESCALPO
Release Title: Unnus
Label: Thrash Out Records
Release Date: 06-11-2023
A kind of death metal meets punky thrash

EVIL INCARNATE
LUCIFERS CROWN
Self Released
Chicago area death metal… production on this isn’t that great… espeicall in this day and age… but otherwise good meaty death metal.

Mugshot
Cold Will (EP)
Pure Noise Records
3 November 2023
Deathcore-ish sound, catchy heavy brutality.

Dawnwalker
Human Ruins
Room 312
3 November 2023
melodic classic hard rock/metal ish

Infinity Ritual
II
Self-Released
3 November 2023
Kind of a groove metal

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Alta Reign
“Defy”
Rat Pak Records
Jeff Plate of Savatage’s project, a kind of melodic classic metal thing… 2nd album

Deadly Vices
Deadly Vices EP
(Self-Released)
Kind of a straightforward hard rock thing

Kontrust
madworld
(Napalm)
Kind of a modern electronicified rock/pop metal type thing

Serenity
Nemesis AD
(Napalm)
singalong happy power metal… decenet stuff

The Convalescence
Harvesters Of Flesh And Bone
Cleopatra Records
Technical deathcore… brutal and catchy cool stuff.

Suffocaton
Hymns from the Apocrypha
Nuclear Blast USA
Have they ever disappointed? Classic brutal death metal – technical too!

Green Lung
This Heathen Land
Nuclear Blast USA
Stoner metal with a doomy thing, and a little bit of a “Ghost” vibe

Fifth Angel
When Angels Kill
Nuclear Blast USA
Straight up classic metal with a little power metal/judas priest style

Aaron Cravens
Regenerate
Wormholedeath
Instrumental Metal with a proggy thing happening

Immortal Guardian
Unite and Conquer – Out Oct 27th
M-Theory Audio
27 October 2023
Kind of a proggy power metal, melodic deathish too. they’ve been pretty great lately and this adds to it. good stuff.

Autopsy
Ashes, Organs, Blood And Crypts
Peaceville Records
27 October 2023
Brutal death metal hitting on the grind side of things.

Darkness Is My Canvas
White Noise
Inverse
Release Date: October 27th 2023
Progressive rock/metal with a laid back doomy sound too

HOWLING GIANT
Glass Future
Magnetic Eye Records
27 October 2023
This has a kind of progressive doomy metal sound.

Genus Ordinis Dei
The Beginning
Eclipse Records
8 December 2023 (radio adds on Oct 30)
Melodic death sound, nice groove, a bit progressive too

Crystal Coffin
The Curse of Immortality
A Beast in the Field
31 October 2023
Mostly black metal, there’s a little doom and some decent technicality and some room to breathe too.

Stenched
Gorging on Mephitic Rot 12″ MLP
Blood Harvest
31 October 2023
Sludgey death metal

Tetragrammacide
Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From The Arachneophidian Qur’an CD/LP
Iron Bonehead
3 November 2023
Brutal death metal… freight train of punishing drums and guitar and COOKIE MONSTER . cool stuff.

Goatkraft
Prophet of Eternal Damnation LP/CD
Iron Bonehead
3 November 2023
a sort of wall of old school black metal sounds.

NECROTICGOREBEAST
REPUGNANT
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 3rd 2023
Brutal death metal, with a lil tech death thing

Kill The King
Kill The King
Self-released
3 November 2023
A bit classic metal, some thrash, and techy prog metal stuff. cool!!

Massive Scar Era
Metal Goes Egyptian
Self-Release
3 November 2023
As the title indicates, it’s metal with a middle eastern tone and style… mostly melodic death with clean and harsh vox.

Bunsen
Release Title: Burner
Label: Kaos Kontrol
Release Date: 01-11-2023
They describe it very accurately as “Industrial Metal, Industrial Rock, Industrial Noise”

FOUL BODY AUTOPSY
CRUCIFIX DREAMS EP
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 31st 2023
Techy brutal death metal, looks like one new song and 3 live tracks

Mugshot
Cold Will (EP)
Pure Noise Records
3 November 2023
Classic brutal death metal with a little hardcore breakdown

DEGRAVE
Volume
Horror Pain Gore Death
November 3rd 2023
A kind of groove metal, a little bluesy thrashy sound –

Sigir
Rainmaker
Gramophone Records
3 November 2023
Gritty yet melodic… a pinch of a black metal and groovin’ death metal.

Xoth
Exogalactic
Dawnbreed Records
3 November 2023
Technical and heavy melodic death with some good thrashy stuff too.

Wounded Cross
Single Title: ‘Monument Of Bones’
Label: Self Titled
Release Date: 02/11/2023
they say “For Fans Of: Mastodon, Nine Inch Nails & Iron Maiden” And it does have a bit of a stoner melodic and classic metal thing going on

Alchemy Fire
Alchemy Fire
Self Released
Classic metal, clean vox, a bit of a groove metal thing happening too

Wake up Frankie
Release Title: Thrashrockin’ Beats
Label: RANKA KUSTANNUS
Release Date: 8th September 2023
Thrashy deathy groove metal… catchy with a really nice punchy groove and a smidge of a modern metal sound. Cool stuff

Sol Negate
On the Verge of Dreaming Again (2023) (out Sept 26th)
Self-Release
26 October 2023
Kind of a melodic death, prog metal, blackened death, symphonic death too. lots… but really cool!

Scent of Death
Release Title: Into Everlasting Hate
Label: Hecatombe Records, Base Records and Vinilako
Release Date: June 2023
Technical progressive death metal, brutal, fast, lots going on. great stuff

Glacier Eater
Tempest
Glacier Recordings
Release date: Friday, October 27th 2023
Melodic thrashy with maybe a hardcore thing too. cool stuff!

Satan’s Fall
Destination Destruction
(SPV/Steamhammer)
Straight up classic metal but with a nice catchy edge

Sodom
1982 EP
(SPV/Steamhammer)
Rerecording of their first EP… a modern raw sound if that makes sense.

Tortuga
Iterations
(Napalm)
Here is some old school doom

Endseeker
Global Worming
Metal Blade Records
27 October 2023
Kind of a classic death metal but with a little gritty thrashy sound too.

Sorcerer
Reign of the Reaper
Metal Blade Records
27 October 2023
CLassic metal, clean vox, maybe a pinch of a power metal thing

W.E.B.
Into Hell Fire We Burn
Metal Blade Records
26 October 2023
Here’s a kind of extreme thrashy thing with maybe a push into death metal. Cool stuff

Myrkur
Spine
Relapse
Release date: Friday, October 20th 2023
A kind of synthy atmospheric doom-ish female fronted deal.

DOG EAT DOG
FREE RADICALS
METALVILLE
This is a kind of nu-metal hardcore crossovery thing… not too shabby

Austrian Death Machine
“No Pain No Gain”
(Napalm)
Great to have “them” back… fast heavy and BRUTAL. Great stuff again

Allegaeon
Inhumation
Metal Blade Records
18 October 2023
Always a great day to get new material from Allegaeon. They have their old singer back… while I did like the most recent guy a little more, this guy is great too and it’s all about the music right?

DragonForce
“Power Of the Triforce”
(Napalm)
I just don’t remember them being so “poppy” and, yeah. it is what it is. Pop speedy metal

Mourning Mist
Amen
Moribund Records
Old school creepy doom

Motley Crue
Year Of The Devil
BMG
Old school 40th anniversary Crue.

Doro
Conqueress – Forever Strong And Proud
Nuclear Blast USA
The original female metal? she’s got just a good “metal” quality. cool

CoreLeoni
Alive
Metalville Records
Classic power-ish metal in a live album.

Kami Van Halst
Welcome To My Nightmare (Alice Cooper Cover)
Independent
A fairly straightforward cover with a more emotive female vocal.

Infestation
The Vermin Within
Self Released
PRetty cool classic thrash

Mindrazer
A Thing of Nightmares
Misanthropic Records
13 October 2023
There’s a bit of a classic metal/thrash going on here, cool stuff. Clean vox

OMISSION
Release Title: Disciples of Ravens Vengeance
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: October 24, 2023
Thrashy speed metal, catchy with a pinch of a black metal vocal and blast beat

Pattern-Seeking Animals
Spooky Action at a Distance
Inside Out Music
10/27
Prog side-project supergroup of current and former Spocks Beard members, so it has that vibe… old Yes/Genesis and yeah of course Spocks Beard. I’m a prog fan, so I Like!

Bulletbelt
Burn It Up
Impaler Records
22 September 2023
This is a kind of groovin’ thrash with a bit of a melodic thing thrown in

HELGRINDUR
Helgrindur
MDD Records
Release Date: October 20th, 2023
Pagan Metal, so it’s a bit of a melodic death with a smidge of folky sound with a catchy thing

Farsoth
Morbid Symphonies
Black Lion Records
27 October 2023
Death metal with a little blackened/melodic death sound

Ignited
Cradle of the Wicked
Self Released
27 October 2023
Melodic/classic metal with a heavier thrashy edge. Pretty cool stuff with some catchy grooves.

BERZERKER LEGION
Chaos Will Reign
Listenable Records
27 October 2023
Gritty and groovin’ classic death metal… with a smidge of melodic death grooves

Eternal Evil
The Gates Beyond Mortality
Listenable Records
27 October 2023
A little thrash, a little classic metal, a little doom, a little black metal too. neat amalgamation of metal

CEMETERY URN
Suffer the Fallen (CD, LP, TAPE)
Hells Headbangers
27 October 2023
Old school groovin’ death metal

Lightlorn
At One With The Night Sky
Black Lion Records
27 October 2023
Black metal, but a melodic blackened death… Not super “cold” but still cooool. and a complex prog-ish sound

Ecocide (The Netherlands)
Metamorphosis
Memento Mori
23 October 2023
Meaty death metal, a little of a thrashy sound too. decent stuff

AEGRUS
Invoking the Abysmal Night
Osmose Productions
27 October 2023
Classic black metal, a bit of a groove and black and roll while still keeping “troo” to black metal

Bacterial Husk
Anthropogenic Ruin
Self-Release
27 October 2023
Thrashy death metal.

DRAWN AND QUARTERED
To Kill is Human
Moribund Records
27 October 2023
Brutal death metal, a bit of a raw production, it’s a limited edition reissue of their 1998 album.

Broder
Skarpretterfossilet
Extremely Rotten Productions
27 October 2023
Wall of noise/sludgy brutal black/death type stuff.

Elm Street
The Great Tribulation
Massacre Records
27 October 2023
Mostly a classic metal, a bit thrashy and cathcy.

MANGLED CARPENTER
SALVATION SYNDROME
LABEL: ROTTWEILER RECORDS/BROKEN CURFEW RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 27th 2023
Death metal, a bit raw, sludgey… but brutal and chunky

Summoning Death
A Traumatic Night of the Creeps
Chaos Records
28 October 2023
Has a kind of blackened death with melodic-ness and a bit of room to breathe and groove, not all super fast and up in your business.

Martyrdoom
As Torment Prevails
Memento Mori
23 October 2023
This has a kind of deathy groove

ERECTION HOUSE
Feels of Correction
Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records
27 October 2023
There’s a kind of fuzzy/doomy stoner noise sound going on, it’s just too distorty for me

One of Nine
Eternal Sorcery
Wolves of Hades
27 October 2023
Classic black metal

Stu Brooks
40HZ
Dine Alone
26 October 2023
Some electronic, some kinda progressive rock, a pinch of industrial in some parts… mostly not metal.

Stomach
Parasite
Hibernation
Release date: Friday, October 20th 2023
A kind of blackened /post black /doom metal

War Curse
Confession
Metal Blade Records/Blacklight Media
Release date: Friday, October 20th 2023
A kind of classic metal, thrash and just a bit of technicality/progness too.

Cirith Ungol
Dark Parade
Metal Blade
Release date: Friday, October 20th 2023
Full on old school metal

KILL DEVIL HILL
Pharmaceutical Sunshine
Legend Recordings
Single of kind of a power ballad, southern rock

TAPROOT
SC\SSRS
THC MUSIC
Kind of a nu-metal, modern hard rocky thing.

Mangini
Invisible Signs (singles)
Self Released
Kind of a straightforward modern metal thing with obviously good drumming, Gus G on Guitars…

Judas Priest
“Panic Attack” (single)
Epic Records
Unmistakably Judas Priest, good solid catchy rockin’ song.

URAL
Album Title: Psychoverse
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: October 10th, 2023
Crossover/Old School Thrash Metal… it’s catchy, and has a bit of a prog thing

Temperance
Hermitage – Daruma’s Eyes Pt. 2
(Napalm)
A kind of epic proggy power metal… neat stuff

THEOCRACY
Mosaic
Atomic Fire Records
13 October 2023
Kind of starts off, almost metalcore sounding, but as it delves in, it’s some pretty great prog/power metal. They were one of the highlights of 2022’s Mad with Power Fest. Great stuff.

AMORPHIS
Queen Of Time (Live At Tavastia 2021)
Atomic Fire
13 October 2023
Amorphis performing their 2018 album… in 2021 sounds great!

Extol
Labyrinth of Ill / Exigency
Indie Recordings
12 October 2023
A couple singles of some decent melodic death

Krieg
Ruiner
Profound Lore
Release date: Friday, October 13th 2023
Classic black metal

False Fed
Let Them Eat Fake
Neurot Recordings
Release date: Friday, October 13th 2023
Kind of a doomy post-metal ish thing with a little grungy stoner sound

Blessed Curse
Pray For Armageddon
M-Theory Audio
13 October 2023
Heavy and catchy thrashy stuff. Great!

Apeiron Bound
(singles)
Self Released
Prog Power metal, a mix of harsh and clean vox. cool stuff.

FURIA
Huta Luna
Pagan Records
10 October 2023
Fast black metal with some sort of chant-ish vox? or maybe some viking shouts…

Go Ahead And Die
Unhealthy Mechanisms
Nuclear Blast USA
Classic Death metal, good stuff

From Hell
God Of Thunder (Kiss Cover)
Scourge Records
They just had the Mercyful fate cover, now this Kiss cover has a nice heavy groove.

Angelus Apatrida
Aftermath
Century Media Records
Highlight of milwaukee metalfest, just right in your face classic thrash. great stuff

Within Temptation
Bleed Out
Force Music
Classic female fronted power-ish metal, full sound.

ONI
The Silver Line
Self-Release
13 October 2023
Modern metalcore type stuff.

Comaniac
Release Title: None For All
Label: Metalworld
Release Date: October 13th, 2023
Thrash! great catchy riffs, a little melody, abrasive vox, but not too harsh… and with that classic SCREAAAAAMMMM too

Illusion of Fate
‘Shapeshifters Among Us’
Self Released
From Milwaukee … a single of Melodic Blackened Death Metal, cool stuff

Silent Revenants
The Withering Of The Blue Flower
Wormholedeath
October 13th, 2023.
Female fronted classic metal with a little bit of a folky power metal sound

Suicide Puppets
Beyond the Veil
Self-Released
13 October 2023
Melodic death with a little bit of an epic sound and some cool blackened death grit

SLOWBURN
Release Title: Fire Starter
Label: Fighter Records
Release Date: October 17, 2023
CLassic metal with a little stoner doom sound. PRetty cool catchy stuff.

Entierro
The Gates of Hell
Self-Release
19 October 2023
More classic metal, this has a bit of a catchy groovin’ edge

MEPHISTOFELES
Werewolf Boogie / Lucky Spin
Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records
20 October 2023
Good stoner doom.

Afterbirth
In But Not Of
Willowtip Records
20 October 2023
Brutal, yet technical death metal. Solid

SANGDRAGON
Album Title: HIEROPHANT (Double)
Label: Wake Up Dead Records
Release Date: October 21, 2023
Double album, one white dragon, one black dragon. white dragon is mostly like a movie sound track, symphonic, epic… not much metal here. black dragon is an epic symphoninc blackened death thing… pretty cool stuff.

Reckless
Sharp Magik Steel
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 20/10/2023
Pretty much a heavier thrash, with a raw production, giving it an old school sound

Savage
Glory Riders
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 20/10/2023
Classic metal!

OWDWYR
Receptor
Self-Release
20 October 2023
kind of a proggy death metal, neat stuff.

VERTEBRA ATLANTIS
A Dialogue With The Eeriest Sublime
I, Voidhanger Records
20 October 2023
Melodic blackened death

BARING TEETH
The Path Narrows
I, Voidhanger Records
20 October 2023
Kind of a blackened doom, with some techy prog stuff going on.

Solemn Vision
Despite the Rise of the Sun
Black Lion
20 October 2023
Here’s some blackened death, a nice kind of groove, harsh vox.

GAME OVER
Hellframes
Scarlet Records
Oct 20
Here’s some classic metal… catchy good stuff.

ARCHANGEL
Total Dark Sublime
Scarlet Records
20 October 2023
This has a kind of 80’s/90’s metal hard rock sound, clean vox and a bit of power punk-ish feel

Display of Decay
Vitriol – Out Oct 20th
Gore House Productions
20 October 2023
Wall of brutal death metal sound with a heavy groove. Cool stuff

ALDAARON
Album: Majestic Heights, Melancholic Depths
Label: Paragon Records
Release date: October 20, 2023
Classic old school groovin’ black metal

Kalmo
Release Title: Dominus Meus
Label: Self-release
Release Date: October 20th, 2023
Doomy black metal. 3 song ep

Reginn
Release Title: Self-titled
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 18-10-2023
Death/Black Metal with a little technicality and some headbangin’ deathy grooves

death pose
Midnight Society
Brutal Panda Records
20 October 2023
Kind of a hardcore with a metalcore-ish thing going on and a smidge of punk

ELEGY OF MADNESS
XI
Scarlet Records
20 October 2023
Female fronted euro power metal

TRASHCAN DANCE
Killing Moon
Sleaszy Rider
Oct 13
This has a kind of just straight up hard rock metal-ish pace, keyboards giving it a doomy sound and a groove.

Verderbnis
Release Title: Paria
Label: Black Sunset
Release Date: September 22, 2023
Melodic Black Metal… cool stuff

MISLEADING DAYS
Kintsugi
Label: Ænima Recordings
Release Date: October 20th, 2023
Instrumental Prog Metal, nice groovin’ stuff, not too technical, good guitar work.

ANGELES
“JUST DO IT” / “CRIMES OF INSANITY”
DGL/DARK STAR
Classic metal through and through.

CONQUEST
WRITING’S ON THE WALL
DARK STAR RECORDs
Classic metal, straight up. Good single

BEWITCHER
“Manifesting Darkness” (Radio Single)
Century Media Records
17 November 2023
Nice fast and thrashy melodic death.. great stuff

HEALTH
“CHILDREN OF SORROW” ft. Willie Adler
RAT WARS
(Loma Vista/Concord)
A kind of industrial yet atmospheric goth-ish sounding thing.

The Vintage Caravan
The Monuments Tour (live)
(Napalm)
Good ol live stoner metal album… good stuff.

Capra
Errors
Metal Blade Records / Blacklight Media Records
6 October 2023
Female fronted kind of metalcore / screamo

Svalbard
The Weight Of The Mask
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 6 October 2023
A little bit of a modern metalcore and a bit melodic death.

Aroma
Adenocarcinoma
Horror Pain Gore Death
September 29th 2023
Raw and brutal gore/grindy death metal

Lightcrusher
Constructing Stairs Of Mortared Bone
Moribund Records
Mostly black metal, a bit of atmospheric part and some metalcore groovin’

Jackpipe
Getting Jakd
Independent
Chungy groove metal. decent stuff.

LORD VOLTURE
Release Title: Live ’em Up!
Label: Freya Records
Release Date: 12th October 2023
Classic metal with a lean towards power metal, big screamy clean vox, and straightforward just metal going on this live album

State of Deceit
Stalked By Daemons
Eclipse Records
13 October 2023
A thrashy groove. just a good solid catchy metal thing. good stuff

DÉCEMBRE NOIR
Your Sunset | My Sunrise
Lifeforce
Oct 13
Doomy death metal with some good melodic grooves

Overthrow
Ascension of the Entombed
Redefining Darkness Records
Oct 13
melodic blackened death a little prog/technical

Vanishing Kids
Miracle of Death
Aural Music
13 October 2023
A kind of atmospheric doomy type thing

Michael Voss
Rockers Rollin’ (A Tribute To Rick Parfitt)
Massacre Records
13 October 2023
Classic metal or more like a hard rock…

Seraphic Entombment
Sickness Particles Gleam
Everlasting Spew Records
13 October 2023
Dark sludgey death metal

Malformed
The Gathering of Souls
Extremely Rotten Productions
13 October 2023
death metal, brutal, dark and cold, borderline blackened death territory. good stuff

Ohmwork
In Hindsight
Rob Mule Records
13 October 2023
A bit of a progressive and stoner doomish thing. cool stuff.

LASTER
Andermans Mijne
Prophecy Productions
13 October 2022
Melodic metal, leaning towards a grungy/doom sound

FORTÍÐ
Narkissos
Lupus Lounge
13 October 2023
Melodic classic black metal, has a nice warmer black metal sound if that makes sense.

SADISTIC FORCE
“Midnight Assassin”
Horror Pain Gore Death
October 13th 2023
Thrashy death metal cool stuff.

BERMUDA’S BURDEN
DEVIL’S PARADISE
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 13th 2023
Female fronted classic metal with some melodies and a little harsh vocal here and there too

CORROSIVE
Wrath of The Witch
MDD Records
Release Date: October 13th, 2023
Doomy blackened death… then it kicks in and gets nice n heavy with a heavy brutal groove. Cool stuff!

GOATBURNER
Fatal
Time To Kill Records
October 6th 2023
Death metal with a little grind

Esprit D’Air
The Trooper (feat. Tim “Ripper” Owens & Ben Christo)
Self Released
29 September 2023
Straightforward cover

Mortuary Drape
Black Mirror
Peacevile Records
3 September 2023
Kind of a mix of a thrashy, or regular metal music with a kind of black metal vocal style… neat stuff.

Gods of Gaia
As Daylight Dies
Wormholedeath
October 13th, 2023
A little prog/technical, black/deathy and some big sludgey grooves and also some big epic symphonic blackened death too. cool stuff.

Lost To The Void
Embrace In Disgust – Out Sept 1st
Self-Release
1 September 2023
Deathcore, good brutality

Eshtadur
Umbra (single) – Out Sept 5th
Self-Release – Blood Blast Distribution
5 September 2023
Epic blackened death.

Primordial
How It Ends
Metal Blade Records
29 September 2023
EPic deathy/dooom.

Harms Way
Common Suffering
Metal Blade Records
29 September 2023
Modern death metal with deathcore-ish stuff

Asinhell
Impii Hora
Metal Blade Records
29 September 2023
Good old meaty classic death metal. (front man from Volbeat’s side project) good stuff

FREYA
FIGHT AS ONE
UPSTATE RECORDS
Good ol metalcore stuff. No messin’ around

Prong
State of Emergency
(SPV/Steamhammer)
There have been a couple of singles released and they’ve all be good, just a good classic catchy Prong sound… great stuff!

Conquer Divide
Slow Burn
(Mascot)
Modern metalcore with the emo-electronica-ish sound.

Filth Is Eternal
Find Out
(MNRK Heavy)
A kind of punky hardcore thing, fast, quick songs

Nytt Land
Torem
(Napalm)
a kind of chilled out folk metal

Wolves in the Throne Room
Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge
Relapse
Release date: Friday, September 29th 2023
Blackened death, a little melodic stuff which can get real chill…otherwise, nice n raw too

Carnifex
Necromanteum
Nuclear Blast USA
Full on brutal death metal with a little black/deathcore bit too. great stuff

Blackbriar
A Dark Euphony
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 29 Sep. 2023
Female fronted kind of a classic / goth-like metal catchy

WORMHOLE
Almost Human
Season of Mist
22 September 2023
Brutal death metal with a bit of a prog/tech death thing going on.

Disguised Malignance
Entering The Gateways
Prosthetic
Release date: Friday, September 29th 2023
Good ol death metal

Sorcerer
Reign of the Reaper – singles
Metal Blade Records
27 October 2023
Classic metal with a hint of power metal

Endseeker
Global Worming – singles
Metal Blade Records
27 October 2023
Gritty blackened death with a smidge of melodic death

Sins Of Shadows
Release Title: Awake (single)
Label: Self-Released
Release Date (dd/mm/yyyy): 25-09-2023
Classic metal

Final Gasp
Mourning Moon
Relapse
Release date: Friday, September 22nd 2023
here’s some doom, with a kind of dark gothy/almost black metal vibe, but not being black metal, ya know? Just has that cold dark sound

Apotheus
Release Title: Ergo Atlas
Label: Black Lion Records
Release Date: October 6, 2023
Prog metal with a bit of a Tool/modern Opeth sound

Karras
We Poison Their Young
M-Theory Audio
29 September 2023
Deathcore, quick fast in your face songs

Deathblow
Rotten Trajectory
Sewer Mouth Records
29 September 2023
Fast and catchy classic thrash stuff. cool!

Linus Klausenitzer
Tulpa
AOP Records
6 October 2023
This has a proggy melodic death sound, cool stuff

RESTLESS SPIRIT
Afterimage
Magnetic Eye Records
6 October 2023
Heavy groovin’ stoner/doom. Harsh vox, kind of an extreme stoner metal? cool stuff

PATRIARCHS IN BLACK
My Veneration
MDD Records
Release Date: October 6th, 2023
Stoner Rock/Doom/Rock nice grooves and chill

Iron Savior
Firestar
AFM Records
6 October 2023
Classic metal with that you know, power metal thing, a little like Blind Guardian happening

Michael Abdow
Séance In Black
Couch Cat Records
6 October 2023
Prog metal, instrumental guitar based stuff

Third Storm
The Locust Mantra
Chaos Records
6 October 2023
Blackened death with some good grooves

Eradikated
Descendants
Indie Recordings
6 October 2023
Metalcore, or more of a hardcore thing, catchy

Moonlight Sorcery
Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle
Label: Avantgarde Music
Release date: September 29, 2023
Symphonic black metal, a bit of an edge and still epic!

Lieder Distortion
Release Title: The Age of Art
Label: Shunu Records
Release Date: 22-09-2023
Mostly a doom thing, kind of a prog rock opera thing too

Born In Blood
Can’t Save Us All
Shattered Earth Records LLC
6 October 2023
Deathcore, meaty, gritty and punishing. good stuff

CARNAL SAVAGERY
Grotesque Macabre
Moribund Records
13 October 2023
Reissue, good ol brutal death metal, a bit into grind

DRAWN AND QUARTERED
Return of the Black Death
Moribund Records
13 October 2023
Brutal death metal

King Ov Wyrms
The Womb Ov Borealis – Out Oct 6th
Self-Release
6 October 2023
Death metal, brutal, with a little deathcore and blackened death too

Torn The Fuck Apart
Kill.Bury.Repeat. – Out Oct 6th
Gore House Productions
6 October 2023
Classic brutal death metal, a little black metal vox, otherwise, a meaty cannibal corpse type sound

GOATBURNER
Fatal
Time To Kill Records
October 6th 2023
Sludgey doomy death metal

PUTRASCENSION
Forever Below
Horror Pain Gore Death
Oct 6
Brutal and technical death metal. Cool stuff

Essence Of Datum
Album: Radikal Rats
Self Released
Release date: October 6th, 2023
Prog metal with a synthy and guitar focus

PRAISE THE SUN
Surrendering to an Alterego (single)
Label: Independent
Release Date: October 1st, 2023
Melodic Death Metal/Metalcore, catchy, harsh and groovin’… wouuld like to hear more

Kerrigan
Bloodmoon
High Roller Records
4 October 2023
Classic metal, a bit of a power metal thing

Great Master
Release Title: Montecristo
Label: Underground Symphony
Release Date: 21-09-2023
Power Metal straight up… sing-a-long, symphonic, epic gallopey

Palehørse
Skeleton Shuteye
Indie Recordings
4 October 2023
A prog hard rock, maybe classic metal type thing (single)

Ruin Lust
Dissimulant
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, September 29th 2023
Wall of sound brutal death metal with a black metal coldness

Rat King
Psychotic Reality
Satanik Royalty Records
Release date: Friday, September 29th 2023
Death metal, a little grit, and all brutal!