White Miles
The Duel
Long Branch
A kind of throwback female fronted hard rock… maybe like an almost Joan Jett/Benatar type thing. Not really in the metal realm at all, but it’s decent fun hard rock.
Ensiferum
Two Decades of Greatest Sword Hits
Spinefarm
A good greatest “hits” type collection from this band. Great folk/melodic death stuff.
Volbeat
“The Devil’s Bleeding Crown” [Single]
Republic
It’s fun and catchy and in the rockabilly hard rockin’ style you expect from Volbeat. Not sure if it’s all “mosh pit” material…
SHIRAZ LANE
Wake Up – Radio Single
Frontiers Music s.r.l.
Catchy classic metal/hard rock with some over the top vocals. Catchy and fun
ZHRINE
Unortheta
Season of Mist
Brutal blackened death metal with some melodic grooves…. kind of raw in parts, but evil and brutal sounding.
SINISTRO
Semente
Season of Mist
Kind of atmospheric doomy stuff, and seems to just go on and on… eh.
Otep
Generation Doom
Napalm Records
ALways heavy, catchy and artistic, Otep is back with another album. Good and heavy but with some tracks with her doing more rapping over slower groovin’ stuff too. So heavier stuff is great as always, but you gotta take that with the slower artsy stuff too.
Surgical Meth Machine
Surgical Meth Machine
Nuclear Blast
Al Jourgensen’s newest creation… Probably heavier and more “brutal” than anything he’s done. There’s a very strong Ministry feel here, so why not just call it that? hehe.
Destruction
Under Attack
Nuclear Blast USA
One track so far… great classic heavier thrash metal. First album in four years, but these guys are carrying the flag for german thrash. Great stuff.
Mindshift
Horizon
Eclipse Records
Seems like a proggy djent thing, but then really turns out to be a new sort of metalcore, sort of modern metal core, like lamb of god in parts, then clean emo-ish singy in others. overall it’s decent.
NEGATIVE VOICE
Cold, Redrafted
Hypnotic Dirge Records
A bit of a doomy black metal, then getting into some heavier stuff, maybe a bit proggy because of its diversity? Maybe a little like Katatonia.
Mantar
Ode To The Flame
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Kind of black metal, but a bit more straightforward grungy doomy death metal with some black metal tendencies.
JORDAAN
Theoretic
Argonauta Records
Instrumental post-rock doomy stuff. A bit drony and slow, but it would make for some good background music for time-lapse videos if you know what I mean.
A Rebel Few
As The Crow Flies
Self-Release (Asher)
This is some really good grooving hard rock. Maybe not necessarily for the Mosh Pit, but as far as good hard rock goes, these guys have it going on… catchy grooves all over the place and a pinch of blues.
Gypsy Chief Goliath
Citizens of Nowhere
Pitch Black Records
A bit stoner metal, a little on the bluesy grooves side of things… Some Thin Lizzy/Sabbath stuff going on. Cool stuff.
Murder Made God
Enslaved
Comatose Music
Heavy brutal death metal. Good stuff.
Zamboni
Zamboni
Self-Release
Kind of a punked up hardcore thing… maybe a little doomy too.
Goatess
Purgatory Under New Management
Svart Records
A doomy Sabbath-y stoner metal… clean vox, good groove… just a big of a down tempo…maybe a slowed down CoC?
GAME OVER
Crimes Against Reality
Scarlet Records
Some traditional metal meets classic thrash
Necrosic
Putrid Decimation 12″ MLP
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Brutal death metal, a little bit of grind, and some hints of black metal and some melodic stuff (musically) too… cool stuff.
INNER BLAST
Prophecy
Label: Nordavind Records
Female fronted metal, a little gothy, clean female vox, growly other vox… good mix of melodic/goth and heavier stuff too. Reminds me a little of Epica meets Lacuna Coil.
Hemotoxin
Biological Enslavement
Unspeakable Axe Records
Kind of a deathy/thrash thing… a bit proggressive death. Kind of reminds me a little of Death.. pretty good stuff!
BARBARIAN (Italy)
Cult of the Empty Grave (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
A deathy thrash metal. Too heavy to be called just thrash, not quite brutal enough to be called Death metal. Great riffage, catchy and headbangin’ good stuff.
TILES
Pretending 2 Run
Laser’s Edge
Prog hard rock/nearly metal. These guys have been putting out good stuff for a while.
Nucleus
Sentient
Unspeakable Axe Records
At first I thought this was going to be some doomy blah… but turned out to be some brutal death metal, a raw brutal groove going on.
HOWLS OF EBB
Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows
I, Voidhanger Records
Brutal blackened death metal with a heavy groove… a bit raw, but also doomy too.
LIVE BURIAL
Forced Back to Life
Dunkelheit Produktionen
Death Metal, a bit raw and a little bit thrashy
Holy Dragons
Civilizator
Pitch Black Records
Sort of Power metal, mostly traditional good ol fashioned metal metal. Screamy almost Bruce Dickinson-like vox, great riffage and all that stuff. Kind of what you’d expect from a band called “Holy Dragons” haha
DROUGHT
Rudra Bhakti
Label: Avantgarde Music
Sludgey black metal.
Vetten Äpärät
Syntyi Talven Kyynelistä
Label: Inverse Records
Melodic Deathy Folk metal. Heavy parts are really cool n heavy. Good catchy stuff with the fun folk feel without taking away from the heavy stuff. Thumbs up
CIRCLE OF INDIFFERENCE
Title: WELCOME TO WAR
Label: RECORDS OF INDIFFERENCE
Kind of a brutal death metal/melodic death metal, but I think they have a few too many movie dialogue parts going on in the first couple tracks. Otherwise, it’s pretty good proggy death metal.
Vile Insignia
Bestial Invocation
Label: Independent
Blackened death metal… this release is actually from last Oct. but just making it in the inbox… great stuff… brutal but with some catchy grooves with vox coming from the bowels of hell.
Band: Rotting Flesh
Album: Infected Purity
Label: Symbol Of Domination
Some basic good death metal here that’s straight and to the point.
Band: Vanad Varjud
Album: Dismal Grandeur In Nocturnal Aura
Label: Symbol Of Domination
Drony doomy black metal. Long songs a bit more traditional creepy black metal in parts.
BLACK MAGIC FOOLS
Soul Collector
Label: Self-Released
Folk metal with some progressive hard rock/rock/metal leanings.
Band: Goholor
Album: In Saeculis Obscuris
Label: Symbol Of Domination
4 tracks of brutal blackened death metal, pretty decent.
Band: Assailant / Ubiquitous Realities
Album: Bringers Of Delusion
Label: Symbol Of Domination
Assailant is kind of a proggy thrash metal. Ubiquitous Realities is a technical death metal thing.. both pretty good.
Band: The Eyes Of Desolation
Album: Awake In Dead
Label: Symbol Of Domination
Gothy melodic death metal
Band: Colemesis
Album: Vivisección [re-release]
Label: Symbol Of Domination
Raw old school death metal.
ABSCENDENT
Decaying Human Condition
Label: Revalve Records
Melodic death metal. Good death n roll type of groove, maybe a little thrash feel too. good stuff.
HELSLAVE
An Endless Path
Label: Revalve Records
Release Date: August 6th, 2015
Death metal with more leanings towards melodic death. Vocals are harsh, music kinda brutal and heavy thrash in parts too.
CHAOS PLAGUE
Existence Through Annihilation
Label: Revalve Records
Release Date: April 16th, 2015
Primarily Death metal, but with a proggy bass groove going on… and overall a proggressive death feel.
LACERHATE
Mass Distraction
Label: Revalve Records
Release Date: October 27th, 2014
Normally I don’t review stuff that’s almost 2 years old, but we just got a bunch of stuff from this label all in at once. This is some basic melodic thrashy death metal.
Band: EDxKEMPER
Album: Cut Her Head And Love Her
Country: Greece
Style: Grindcore
Label: Symbol Of Domination
Grindy fast songs. 10 tracks, full album clocking in at under 9 minutes! haha.
Band: Endlos
Album: Im Fallen Verlaufen
Label: Symbol Of Domination
Black metal but more doomy than most.
Band: Nazghor
Album: Death’s Withered Chants
Label: Satanath
Classic melodic black metal, got that cold black metal guitar sound, evil vox, but a decent melodic overtone that carries it through pretty well.
THE DREAD CREW OF ODDWOOD
Lawful Evil
self-released
Fun folky metal, these guys are a bit pirate folk sounding, and not being too serious, but it’s seriously fun to listen to!
Ancst
Moloch
Halo of Flies
Classic black metal meets some classid death metal. Decent stuff.