Necromancing the Stone
The Siren’s Call – radio single
Metal Blade
Catchy heavy melodic metal with thrashy undertones.
EARTH SHIP
Hollowed
Napalm Records
A bit doomy, a little sludge, some melodic stoner metal stuff too. Cool catchy riffs and not all down tempo, there’s some glimmers of catchier more rhythmic stuff going on too.
Wolf Hoffmann
Headbangers Symphony
Nuclear Blast USA
Wolf Hoffman metalling up classic symphonic/classical music with guitar… Kinda sounds a bit TSO’ish…. Cool stuff!
Apothesary
Sensory Overload
Salem Rose Music
Just missed these guys in town the other night… good heavy technical-ish death metal with a bit of a thrash vibe.
Aftershok
Detonate
Aunurun Records
Classic metal with a great heavy Judas Priest vibe.
The Browning
Isolation
Spinefarm
What happens when you take some electronic dance music and mix it with metal? Yeah… The Browning! not too bad actually. Growly industrial feel, a little black metal thing going on too.
Wolves In The Throne Room
Diadem of 12 Stars [2016 Reissue]
Artemisis
Four long tracks of melodic blackened black metal.
Every Time I Die
“The Coin Has A Say” [Single]
Epitaph
28 June 2016
Rotten Casket
Emerged From Beyond
Underground Movement
Big meaty death metal with a great groove, a bit raw in parts, and a hint of a black metal sound too.
DESPITE
Synergi
Eclipse Records
A melodic deathcore type thing. A little like Meshuggah, but more melodic and “solid rock” on some tracks. Where some releases get all emo in the clean parts, this just gets more hard rock-ish. Decent stuff overall.
Band: Throes
Album: This Viper Womb
Label: Aesthetic Death records
Screamy metalcore type stuff on the top… melodic stuff going on too in the middle.
Band: Ascent
Album: Don’t Stop When You Walk Through The Hell
Sliptrick
Female fronted melodic death with a big meaty groove. Heavy, brutal in parts, and more of a death metal vibe happening. Great stuff.
Band: Berserker
Album: Dark worlds collide
Sliptrick
Female fronted melodic metal with a little goth/symphonic/folk thing going on.
Band: Chugun
Album: Virus
Sliptrick
Female fronted Deathy thrash metal… these vocals are brutal too. Music is great catchy deathy/thrash.
Mental Coma
Fragments Of Democracy
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
Classic thrash with a brutal heavy edge happening. great stuff.
Carnal Decay
Album: Promo 2016
Label: Rising Nemesis Records
2 songs of brutal death metal… except that one of the tracks doesn’t play right. Well, “no Sequel” is great!
Storm of Particles
Storm of Particles
Self Released
Basically some melodic death, cookie monster vox with some more melodic death music.
Band: Children Of Seraph
Album: Warriors Of Light
Self Released
Classic metal with a bit of a keyboardy power metal thing going on.
ISKRA
Ruins
Southern Lord
Brutal classic blackened death metal. Raw and pissed off
Insane Vesper
LayiL
Art of Propaganda
Good classic melodic black metal with a brutal groove happening.
Pain Of Salvation
Remedy Lane Re:visited (Re:mixed & Re:lived)
InsideOut
Of all of the PoS albums, I guess I’m most familiar with this one, listened to it a lot at work back in the day… great emotional songs… This seems to be a much meatier remix and a full live set too. Great stuff and a great excuse to listen to this again.
AMONG GODS
Ghost Empire
Argonauta Records
Doomy death metal, decent riffage, some brutality and a decent chugga chugga groove.
Band: Banned From Hell
Album: Fall Of Humanity
Label: Sliptrick records
Labeled as horror metal, it’s a decent death metal with some cool melodic death and thrashy stuff going on. cool stuff!
Band: Unlit Face
Album: Everlasting Transformation
Sliptrick
Proggy melodic death metal… Proggy stuff seems a bit on the power metal side of things… then you get into some growly stuff and you get a good mix of a Dream Theater type prog metal and some good growly blackened thrashy/death type stuff.
Band: Brute Forcz
Album: self titled
Sliptrick
Kind of some standard metal type stuff but with fun / silly lyrics.
Band: Project Silence
Album: Slave to the machine
Sliptrick
Catchy industrial death metal. It’s heavy but with a cool melodic death thing going through some of the industrial stuff.
Band: Shantak
Album: For The Darkening
Sliptrick
Good melodic death metal a bit more on the death metal side. Good heavy stuff with that melodic stuff done well to make it interesting (cool guitar solos, etc)
No Jogging For Today
La Flemme
Imminence Records
a Proggy hardcore type thing, a little stoner and doom in parts, hardcore and experimental and yeah, proggy hardcore.
Stages
New War
Imminence Records
Modern screamy metalcore with clean vox chorus stuff going on .
Coscradh
Coscradh
Invictus
A bit of a raw sludgey doom black metal. meh.
Sludgehammer
The Fallen Sun
Self-Release
Release: 10 May 2016
I was expecting sludge! It’s not sludge. A traditional kinda thrashy metal, but then branching into some melodic death type stuff too. cool.
WINTERLORE
Winterlore
Label: Slaughterhouse Records
Release Date: May, 2016
Classic black metal sound with some cool melodic stuff to keeep it grounded and to give a break from full on blast beats and shrieking
Psychotron
Lethal Paralysis
Label: Mortuary Records
Classic thrash, with a bit of a raw production, still cool stuff though.
Netherlands
Audubon
Prosthetic Records
Sludgey noisecore, a little catchy stoner metal stuff underneat the sludge…
Creinium
Hallucinosis
Inverse Records
Melodic death metal… mostly death metal with keyboards… 🙂
Sleaszy Rider promos…
ENERGEMA
The Lion’s Forces
Sleaszy Rider
Proggy power metal… production on these files is raw, like, someone re saved mp3 files over and over. Decent heavy prog metal.
SHATTER MESSIAH
ORPHANS OF CHAOS
Sleaszy Rider
Heavy traditional-ish metal, maybe a little prog metal vibe, clean vox, but with a little edge.
LIQUID GRAVEYARD
BY NATURE SO PERVERSE
Sleaszy Rider
Good ol meaty death metal. Headbanging stuff without being too brutal or fancy.
DEVISER
UNSPEAKABLE CULTS
Sleaszy Rider
By the album title and some of the files, this seems like a greatest hits type thing for some classic melodic blackened death metal.
MYTH OF A LIFE
SHE WHO INVITES
Sleaszy Rider
A brutal melodic death tthing going on here. Instant catchy brutal stuff.
Band: Deathfare
Album: Shotgun Surgery
Label: Heathen Tribes Records
Release date: 06 February 2016
Classic brutal death metal, headbanging and brutal… yup. good stuff.
Band: SELTAR
Album: “Are Teike” + “Declaration MMXV”
Country: USA
Style: Atmospheric Black Metal
Label: Heathen Tribes records
Release date: 30 April 2016
Band: Excöriator
Album: Faster Harder Louder
Label: Heathen Tribes
CLassic thrash with a classic metal thing going on, but with more growly (not quite cookie monster) vox.
Band: Too Left 2 Be Right
Album: SOS Mall
Label: Sliptrick records
Reminds me of some 80’s rock or hard rock. It is called “alternative/Crossover” I already downloaded and tagged and put the info in this list here… so, no, not metal… why am I still typing?
Band: Valgaldr
Album: Østenfor sol
Heathen Tribes
Classic old school black metal… decent production… Evil cold guitars yet still catchy and melodic
Band: Protean
Album: The Burning Centuries
Label: Heathen Tribes
Black metal, but more of a brutal death metal side of black metal.
THE PETE FLESH DEATHTRIP
Svartnad
Label: Critical Mass Recordings
Release Date: May 16th, 2016
Blackened doomy death metal.