Killer Bee
Rock Another Day
Self-released
A bit thrash, a bit of a throwback to some 70’s metal with some prog thrown in. Catchy classic metal.
Prong
Songs From The Black Hole
eOne Music / SPV
The new Prong album is an album of covers from bands like Butthole Surfers, Black Flag, Fugazi, and Neil Young to name a few. It’s got that cool catchy Prong sound, but of songs you may know… I’m not a huge fan of the punky genre that most of these covers are of, but this could be an excuse to help me learn some stuff. (I’m a Prong fan, so I’ll give it a shot!)
ROYAL THUNDER
Crooked Doors (NA Promo)
Relapse Records
Female fronted stoner grungy metal.
Damian Murdoch Trio
Electric Tentacles
Prosthetic Records
Instrumental guitar stuff. catchy, proggy, melodic… a nice change to the norm.
MINSK
The Crash and The Draw (NA Promo)
Relapse Records
Doomy metal with a little bit of a black metal tendency. Really depressing, but there’s still a bit of hope, it’s not all just a big drony snoozefest like this genre tends to be.
Full Devil Jacket
Valley Of Bones
eOne Entertainment
Catchy commercial metal… melodic with a little edge, but really “solid rock” material here.
Nightwish
Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Nuclear Blast
Pioneers of fe-metal are back with a new effort. This band has been around for quite some time and haven’t really messed around with their formula, so you know what you’re in for. This has some epic metal stuff going on and
The Darkness
“Open Fire” (single)
Kobalt
Akrotheism / Septuagint
Sphinx: The Great Enigma Of Times split CD
Forever Plagued
Both bands sound fairly similar, just three tracks, and it’s some old school black metal… fast, cold and evil.
TOME OF THE UNREPLENISHED
Innerstanding
I, Voidhanger Records
Kind of a drony black metal with some melodic stuff too, but overall it’s just a lil tedious to listen to.
Wrathage (from Finland)
Discipline
Label: MAA Productions
Thrashy extreme metal. A pinch of black metal, a bit heavier thrash and some death metal… a good mix of genres taking care of metal business.
TEMPERANCE
Limitless
Scarlet Records
Female fronted power metal, which really just turns into fe-metal? What’s fe-metal? Well, it’s female fronted metal where the vocals are more of the operattic clean style and some standard power metal music behind it. The music on this one has a little bit of an edge to it.
Pregierz
Blood Sanctions double-7″ EP
Blood Harvest
Blackened death metal. Cold black metal riffage with cookie monster vox.
Arvas
Black Satanic Mysticism
ATMF
Raw punky thrashy black metal, decent production, and some classic black metal sound too.
Nyseius
De Divinatione Daemonium?
ATMF
Classic old school black metal
Ergot
Victims of Our Same Dreams
De Tenebrarum Principio
Black metal, but with a melodic laid back groove to most parts, then it does get going to classic black metal in other parts.
Murg
Varg & Björn
Nordvis Produktion
Classic black metal
Infesting Swarm
Desolation Road
Art of Propaganda
Melodic black metal metal… a bit doomy, and a bit death metally in parts too.
Predatory Light
MMXIV EP
Pesanta Urfolk
2 song ep, black metal, drony and growly.
TRISTANA
Virtual Crime
Bakerteam records
Not to be confused with TristanIa… this band is more of a commercial metal thing with some clean vox and a few growls. A bit of electronic stuff too
Where Evil Follows
Portable Darkness
Moribund
Thrashy power metal, great to have power metal kicking it up a notch.
Crowbar
Equilibrium
eOne Music
Reissue of their album from 2000. Crazy to think it’s been 15 years… this was a pretty good album and it’s a good exuse to play it again.
DE LA MUERTE
De La Muerte
Bakerteam Records
Catchy heavy thrash
Abhor
Rituale Stramonium
Moribund
Classic evil black metal with some keyboards, blast beats, cold guitars, good production, of all of the black metal in the inbox this week, this one might be the best.
Nepente
I Will Get Your Soul
Cimmerian Shade Recordings
Brutal death metal. Just 4 songs, but this is 4 tracks of brutal death metal that is literally music to my ears. Some catchy riffs, melody but cookie monster all the way.
CHUGGER
HUMAN PLAGUE
RAMBO MUSIC / GAIN MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT / SONY MUSIC
The band is called Chugger and they have a cool heavy sound with yeah, some chugga chugga going on. Maybe a bit like Pantera with a bit of a thrashy groove.
ACID WITCH
Midnight Movies (12″ MLP)
Hells Headbangers
Seems like some horror movie, party rock type stuff.
UNMERCENARIES
Fallen in Disbelief
MFL-Records / Frozen Light
Release Date: 25 December 2014
Drony funeral doom.
MELLEVON
Solace
Self-Released
Kind of a proggy death metal… it’s keyboardy prog metal with growly vocals… interesting. Production is decent, just sounds a bit overprocessed.
Haar
The Wayward Ceremony
ATMF
Yup, more black metal. This one is a bit melodic, catchy and heavy…
Potergeist (from Greece)
Swampires
Label: Distroball Productions (CD), B Otherside Records (Vinyl)
Stoner metal from Greece
Cognitive
Cognitive
Self-released
4 November 2014
Death metal, a bit technical musically, great cookie monster vox, and just some catchy, classic death metal.