Scour
Scour
Housecore
That new project with Phil Anselmo and a bunch of others. Pretty much a blackened death metal thing. Brutal with a hint of grind… great extreme brutal stuff.
Dead By Wednesday
Darkest of Angels
EMP
New release features a different guest vocalist on each song… Eric AK, John Arch, Brian Fair, Rob Dukes, and more! Great heavy metal, each song seems to fit the style of each vocalist, while staying in a classic heavier metal shell. Cool stuff.
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The Lifespan of a Moth
Relapse
Sludgey metal with a bit of a groove going on too.
Doro
Strong And Proud, 30 Years Of Rock And Metal
Nuclear Blast USA
A live album recorded over a few nights with some anniversary shows and lots of special guests/covers and stuff. Pretty good stuff. I’ve never been a huge Doro fan, so this is a good way for me to get into it a bit more.
Barb Wire Dolls
Desperate
Motorhead Music/UDR
Female fronted classic hard rockin’ metal type stuff.
Despised Icon
Beast
Nuclear Blast USA
Just good ol fashioned classic brutal death metal.
DEADLOCK
Hybris
Napalm Records
Melodic death metal with growly vox and clean female vox. Good groove, catchy and maybe a bit commercial sounding with the female vox, I think it’s a good balance of more “accessible” metal but with a heavy brutal thing too.
Hammers of Misfortune
Dead Revolution
Metal Blade Records
Classic metal with some prog and epic type stuff going on too. There’s a little bit of a Queen feeling in the guitar tone. Clean vox, organ, and stuff.. Cool and kind of unique.
Witherscape
The Northern Sanctuary
Century Media
Another one of those Dan Swano type projects, this is some melodic proggy death metal and it’s great. Heavy, catchy, brutal in parts, melodic and epic too.
VISIONARY
Gabriel
Bakerteam Records
Hard rock, or maybe just prog rock, maybe just a classic rock type thing, I mean, there’s a flute going on, some great vocals and music, just not really quite metal… good proggy leaning rock though!
Kissin’ Dynamite
Generation Goodbye
AFM Records
Standard classic metal, but with a Steel Panther-like sense of humor. Fun stuff!
Celestial Grave
Burial Ground Trance TAPE
Iron Bonehead Productions
Classic black metal sound with a bit more of a death metal thing too. 3 Song EP with more of a black metal thing, but not all shrieky, some decent growly vox.
PROFANATICA
The Curling Flame of Blasphemy (CD, LP, TAPE)
Hells Headbangers
Some classic doomy black metal.
Vanhelgd
Temple of Phobos
Dark Descent Records
Doomy melodic death metal, a bit of a viking metal feeling and a pinch of black metal too. A good slow headbanging metal groove.
DENOUNCEMENT PYRE
Black Sun Unbound (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
Blackened death metal, a good black metal feel, but technical prowess adding to the brutality of death metal too. A good amount of melodic black metal happening too.
NATIONAL SUICIDE
Anotheround
Scarlet Records
Classic thrash, but the vox are a mix of maybe some Exodus’ Zetro and someone making fun of dave mustaine. Pretty unique, but it works in this great catchy thrash music.
Harakiri for the Sky
III: Trauma
Art of Propaganda
Melodic black metal with a little bit of doomy feeling and some proggy stuff as well. Good stuff.
MIZERY
Absolute Light
Flatspot Records
A little hardcore, some groove metal a pinch of thrash and some classic metal.
DEJECTED MASS
Dirge
Self Released
The name says it all… sludgey doomy dejected mass of metal.
UROBILINEMIA
Wriggling Chrysalis Of Metaphysical Grudge
Gore House Productions
Brutal squeal-core. Squealy growly death metal and some just brutal djenty death metal with a fast drum machine sound.
Vow of Thorns
Farewell To The Sun
Forest Dweller Inc.
Melodic black prog metal. Some classic black metal stuff, but then you get some cool progged up black metal and just plain proggy stuff too.
Karmakanic
DOT
Inside Out
Welll I’m going to have to go with throwing this in the “not even metal” category… but it is definitely prog rock. So, if you’re into some modern prog type stuff… this is good stuff.
ARPHAXAT
Ex Inferis (12″ MLP)
Hells Headbangers
Old school noisy black metal.
NUKE
Nuke (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
Kind of a death metal, maybe a little doom, standard metal… with some groove.
ROMUVOS
Infront of Destiny
Label: No Colours Records
Folk metal with a more doomy downtempo going on.
SAD THEORY
Vérmina Audioclastia Póstuma
Label: Self-Released
Death metal but with a bit of a catchy melodic death thing going on.
Jim Crean
Insatiable
Rocker Records
A melodic hard rock AOR type thing with lots of guests like the Appice brothers, Tony Franklin, White Lion, a who’s who of 80’s 90’s rock.
DISSECTOR
Planetary Cancer
Label: Mazzar Records
Catchy thrashed up melodic death metal.
Perverted Ceremony
Demo 1 TAPE
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Well it’s called “demo 1” and on a “tape” (even though it’s a digital download promo) Production is pretty bad, but it’s grindy death metal stuff. Bad production wrecks it for me.
Overunit Machine
Aldaraja
Sliptrick Records
This is a melodic death / tech death type thing. Catchy, a little djent
ONIRISM
The Well Of Stars
Self Released
Black metal with a doomy melodic feel.
HOSTAGE OF FATE
II
Label: Self-Released
Grindy death metal
Various Arists
DEVOURING THE MOUNTAINS VOL.III
Argonauta Records
Mostly Doomy stuff with some stoner and sludge, a little death metal and some ambient melodic doomy stuff. heh.
Allegaeon
Gray Matter Mechanics – radio single
Metal Blade Records
New album not out til fall, so this single will have to getcha til then. Great proggy technical death metal. These guys can do no wrong!