Criminal
Fear Itself
Metal Blade Records
Great catchy heavier thrash stuff with a little bit of that south america feel. (as they’re from Chile)
Accuser
The Forlorn Divide
Metal Blade Records
Thrashy groove metal. Catchy, a bit brutal, and an old school thrash feel, but really all modern metal type stuff too.
Myrath
Legacy
Nightmare
A modern power symphonic metal with vocals that almost sound like David Draiman (in a good way)
Anger As Art
Ad Mortem Festinamus
Old School Metal Records
Classic thrash with a little bit of hardcore and maybe a little bit of a grindy punk feel too… but overall, great thrashy stuff.
PSYCHO
From The Asylum
CDN Records
Just a heavier classic metal with some great meaty and catchy riffs. Not too heavy, not too light, just decent “metal”
KHANUS
Rites Of Fire
Self Released
A creepy-ish sort of doomy black metal. A bit of that “occult” metal feel. It’s not quite all cold and blast beat black metal, but it does have a bit of a creepy black metal feel.
LAST IN LINE
Heavy Crown
Frontiers Music srl
This is the project of Dio’s “ex band” and now with the bass player passing away, this makes this album even more special. While Dio was the main focus of his band/music, the backing band had it going on too… this is some great classic metal with a bit of a modern hard rock feel too.
INGLORIOUS
Inglorious
Frontiers Music srl
Some decent hard rock, just not quite metal… Might come up on the “moshing with scissors” show at some point.
Bushwhacker
The False Dilema
Self-Release
Thrashy groove metal, almost melodic death-like. Good edge, not brutal, a bit thrashy, but a cool groove. Found myself just leaving this one play a bit longer.
LIGHTSUCKER
Zammal
Argonauta Records
Basically some stoner doom metal, but this actually gets a little heavy, great riffage and groove too
A SOUL CALLED PERDITION
INTO THE FORMLESS DAWN
SELF RELEASED
This is melodic death metal, kind along the lines of Amon Amarth… great stuff.
Band name: BLODSMAK
Title: GJENNOM MARG OG BEIN
Label: CRIME RECORDS
A grooving hard rock, with maybe a little folk metal goth feeling… so a pinch of Amorphis light going on.
Band name: FEAR THEORIES
Title: THE PREDATOR
Label: CRIME RECORDS
Fairly standard Metal, maybe a bit of an UDO type style. cool melodies a little edge vocally, a decent groove going on otherwise too.
Six Reasons to Kill
Rote Erde
Bastardized Recordings
Well, this is just two songs, but it’s heavy deathy thrash metal. Catchy, heavy and grooving!
Voidnaga
Demo MMXVI TAPE
Iron Bonehead Productions
Heavy chaotic brutal black metal. Production is ok, classic wall of cold guitar sound with gurgly screaming… creepy and dark.
Veneficium (New Zealand)
Veneficium TAPE
Iron Bonehead Productions
Some raw production death metal.
Panopticon & Waldgeflüster
Split album
Nordvis Produktion
Waldgeflüster is some melodic blackened doom and Panopticon is some just classic black metal.
Mithridatic
Miserable Miracle
Kaotoxin Records
Brutal blackened death metal. No screwing around here, some decent groove, but yet, full on brutal death metal and some black metal riffy stuff.
Alastor
Waldmark
Wrath of the Tyrant
A good quality production of grooving catchy black metal. A groove like Satyricon, but with more of an old school black metal feel.
ANIQATIA
Luminous
Nefarious Industries
Prog/Experimental rock type stuff. I wouldn’t call this metal, just a little out there. It does get sort of metal in parts, but overall, this is best classified as prog/experimental (hard) rock.
SKÁPHE
Skáphe²
I, Voidhanger Records
Echoey doomy black metal… what did they record this in a cave? WTF.
Band: Ragestorm
Album: The Thin Line Between Hope And Ruin
Label: Sliptrick records
Kind of a standard death metal, but with a bit of a heavy thrash feeling going on too. Great stuff.
CORPROPHEMIA
Abhorrogenesis
CDN Records
Brutal death metal… quick and short and to the point songs.
HOODED EAGLE
Nightscapes from the Abyssal Plane
Label: Swamp Metal Records
Drony doom metal. sloooowwww and dowwwn tempozzzzzzzzzz
Akem Manah
Demons Of The Sabbat
Possession Productions
A down tempo doomish black metal, some decent stuff going on here, gets a little heavy/proggy in some parts, but overall a lot of yawny doom stuff too.
APELSINOVAYA KREVETKA (Citrus Lobster)
“????????”
Label: Irond/Molot
All of the songs are in Russian, but this is some interesting almost proggy and punk schizo metal. Catchy, a little bouncy in parts, and a bit thrashy in parts too.
OFGHOST
The Awakening
Self Released
This is some raw black metal.. fast kind of traditional metal… death metal stuff… atmospheric stuff… pretty decent and diverse all around.
MAGISTER DIXIT
Opus Astral
Scum Productions
Epic black metal with keyboards and stuff. good production, pissed off classic black metal thing going on too… pretty good stuff.
The Aesthetic
Abandoned Homes
Self Released
Fast, raw brutal blackened death metal, but with a little bit of a folk metal thing going on ever so slightly.