Devin Townsend Project
Transcendence
Inside Out
He’s back with a melodic and very Devin Townsend sounding album. nothing hugely metal, and mostly prog
Norma Jean
Polar Similar
Tooth & Nail
This band has been around for a while, always kind of a loud metalcore type thing, and this album has some melodic catchy tendencies, while still being all metal/hardcore and heavy. Good stuff.
Steve N’ Seagulls
Brothers In Farms
Spinefarm
Finnish bluegrass country band playing metal songs in bluegrass country style. Fun for a conversation starter, that’s for sure! Kind of sounds a little like Wierd Al.
TesseracT
Errai (EP)
KScope
Chilled out laid back prog rock… kinda like Porcupine Tree. I thought I recalled their past stuff being a bit heavier… huh.
Finsterforst
#Yolo
Napalm Records
Like their last release, this is brutal death blackened folk metal. Great heavy stuff, catchy folky drinking metal too. Lots of fun too (yes, even the Miley Cyrus cover of “Wrecking Ball” LOL)
Slaves On Dope
Horse
ILS Group
Catchy nu-metal type stuff from these vets.
KMFDM
Rocks-Milestones Reloaded
earMUSIC
Kind of a greatest hits mostly remixed and “reimagined” created as a playlist for an ultimate live set or something. While there’s some metal influence in here, we like to let Something Wonderful keep the KMFDM.
DGM
The Passage
Frontiers Music s.r.l.
Good classic hard rock/metal. Sort of a power metal-ish thing, but more or less some heavier AOR stuff with some heavier prog metal stuff going on here and there. Good stuff.
Skeleton Of God
Primordial Dominion
Everlasting Spew Records
Kind of grindy, a little bit doomy and death metal.
ORDO OMEGAE ABSOLUTAE
Compendium Ordinis
Label: Altare Productions
A bunch of different bands on this compilation featuring mostly classic old school black metal.
Quake the Earth
Declaration Of War
Inverse Records
Good ol catchy metal core. A little thrashy and melodic too. Good stuff.
Aum (France)
Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum CD/LP
Iron Bonehead
Brootal death metal with a little tiny doomy feel, probably just because it sounds depressing (down tempo-ish) but still fast and heavy with some black metal stuff going on too.
ODDLAND
Origin
Sensory Records
Proggy hard rock, clean vox, some heavier metal type moments, and some cool techy/prog stuff going on
SMOKEY FINGERS
Promised Land
Label: Tanzan Music
Southern hard rock… from Italy of all places. Good catchy fun lovin’ blues tinged hard rock.
INTHYFLESH
The Flaming Death
Label: Altare Productions / Blackseed Productions
Classic black metal, decent production, cold and evil sounding with good levels of melodic and brutal!
Amphisbaena
Amphisbaena
Iron Bonehead
Blackened doomy death metal. Decent melodic stuff, kinda heavy, but a little cold and evil sounding too.
Serious Black
Mirrorworld
AFM Records
Decent power metal, good groove, just good classic melodic hard rockin’ metal.
MIST OF MISERY
Absence
Black Lion Records
Classic melodic black metal a little bit of a doom thing going on too.
KARMANJAKA
I Tornrosdalen
Black Lion Records
Blackened death metal with an interesting sort of groove, a little doom, a bit “black n roll” too.
Destrage
Symphony of the Ego – radio single
Metal Blade Records
First taste of this album, proggy technical mathcore-ish stuff.
Pain
Coming Home
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Industrial metal with a little epic symphonic feel in some parts, while still just being mainly good heavy classic industrial catchy metal
Band: Virtual Symmetry
Album: “Message From Eternity”
Self Released
Prog metal along the lines of a Dream Theater, maybe a bit more on the Power Metal side of things, but still having that proggy feeling and edge to it.
Band: Veil Of Deception
Album: Tearing Up The Roots
Style: Metal
Classic metal with a groove and clean yet edgy vox.
Zornheym
The Opposed (Single)
Non Serviam Records
Nice heavy symphonic melodic death metal stuff. (only a single, but great stuff!)