Superjoint
Caught Up In The Gears of Application
Housecore
Probably not my favorite Phil project, but I don’t hate it… This new one is heavy, in your face, raw and yeah, it’s got grooves too.
Forest Wars
Worship and Slaughter
Self-Released
Grindy and in your face. Brutal quick songs
Annisokay
Devil May Care
SPV
Modern metal core with clean emo-ish vox.
Metallica
Atlas Rise
Blackened
Another track of new Metallica goodness. They are keeping that classic metallica sound and making a good album from what it sounds like so far!
Enslaved
The Sleeping Gods – Thorn
By Norse Music
full-length album comprised of rare material from 2010/2011. Mostly melodic doomy death metal.
Code Orange
“Forever”
Forever
Roadrunner
Just some grooving kinda sludgey metal.
HIEROPHANT
Mass Grave
Season of Mist
Grindy death metal… when it’s not full on grind, it’s just classic grooving death metal.
CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX
Bronze
Season of Mist
Experimental post-prog-doom-rock metal. A little like Tool and Porcupine Tree and some Queens of the Stone age doom stuff.
Esben and the Witch
Older Terrors
Season of Mist
Female fronted ambient post-metal.
GLENN HUGHES
Resonate
Frontiers Music s.r.l.
Now this guy… he’s the real deal, been around forever, in a ton of bands and is still at the top of his game. This is some good classic hard rock. Might be good for a spin or two!
PRETTY MAIDS
Kingmaker
Frontiers Music s.r.l.
This is some great classic hard rock too. It’s too bad that people in the US just don’t really like this kinda stuff anymore. Different times I guess.
Naberus
The Lost Reveries
Eclipse Records
Has a strong modern In Flames thing going on. Heavy, melodic death type stuff, crossing over into a little melodic hardcore. A good groove, maybe a little classic metalcore too.
Downfall of Gaia
Atrophy
Metal Blade Records
Long songs of doomy melodic black metal. While heavy and decent black metal, it gets a little too drony and post-metal for me.
HammerFall
Built To Last
Napalm Records
Another new album from these veterans. Just classic power metal going on… Big riffs, catchy sing a longs. good stuff.
Arkona
Vozrozhdenie
Napalm Records
Russion folk metal, heavy parts are brutal heavy, folky parts keep it well, you know, folky and catchy. Overall, it’s a great balance of melodic death type stuff and a folky feel. Good stuff.
Attila
Chaos
SharpTone Records
Metalcore with a decent groove, but with some anthemic solid rock type choruses. Catchy and stuff, maybe not long term for the Mosh Pit
Cognition
Procession Of Thoughts
Overman Productions
Melodic groove metal with a little bit of metalcore, a pinch of djent. Clean vox, harsh vox. Hints of death metal, prog metal, metalcore… all thrown together… It works.
GOODBYE, KINGS
Vento
Argonauta Records
Instrumental Post Rock with some good prog leanings… it’d probably make a good background to, um, something.
Old Chapel
Visions from Beyond
Chaos Records
Classic death metal with a big big groove, cookie monster vox, catchy riffs
Xoth
Invasion of the Tentacube
Self-Release
Melodic death metal, catchy guitar attacks, btutal blackened death parts, but great classic metal guitars too
Pohjoisen soturit
Oksat pois… ja osa latvuksista
Inverse
Grooving old school death metal, or maybe just cookie monstered groove metal. There is a little melodic doomy death going on, but did I say it had groove?
NEPHROLITH
Paleness of the Bled World
Label: Cursed Records
Classic brutal black metal. Good stuff.
AKASAVA
Nothing At Dawn
Label: Triton’s Orbit
Psychedelic Doom, catchy groove and classic out there doom
Adaestuo
Tacent Semitae
W.T.C.Productions
Black metal, a little creepy with some ghastly background vox, otherwise, classic melodic black metal
ROTTEN UK
That Is Not Dead (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
Kind of a grindy punk metal. quick short songs.
WITCHTRAP
Trap the Witch (CD, LP, TAPE)
Hells Headbangers
Blackened classic metal. So just a groovin’ classic metal but with some black metal type vox.
Spiritus Mortis
The Year Is One
Svart Records
A doomy melodic metal, maybe a little like Solitude Aerternus or a heavier Trouble.
Hammer King
King is Rising
Cruz Del Sur Music
Classic metal/power metal. Catchy and big voice!
Shark Infested Daughters
These Tides, Our Tombs
Self-Release
Meleoid metalcore type stuff. Heavy, catchy, a little symphonic/epic in parts too. Kinda cool.
Trees of Eternity
Hour of the Nightingale
Svart Records
Female fronted melodic doomy type stuff.
Chhinnamasta
Vajra-Sarpa 12″ MLP
Iron Bonehead
Doomy creepy black metal. Cold and scary
Face of Oblivion
Cataclysmic Desolation
Comatose Music
Another classic brutal death metal thing. No fucking around, nothing ground breaking, just good ol death metal.
Quicksand Dream
Beheading Tyrants
Cruz Del Sur Music
Melodic doom type stuff. Clean vox, music has a doom feel, but also just a classic hard rock/metal thing too. good grooves
Ruinous
Graves of Ceasless Death
Dark Descent Records
You know when you hear those first few bars of something you know it’s gonna be good? Yeah, this is the stuff. Brutal death metal, heavy and with no fucking around. Big fat grooves too.
GAEREA
Gaerea
Everlasting Spew Records
Blackened doomy death metal. Good grooves, a bit melodic too. Just good all around “extreme” metal.
YSENGRIN / SARTEGOS
Resvrrezionespiritval
I, Voidhanger Records
Sludgey blackened death metal on both. Production is a little mushy
Versifist
Cipher
Vault of Dried Bones / Iron Bonehead
Blackened death metal, a little more on the melodic black metal side of things. But these two songs are pretty good with a little melodic black metal type stuff too.
Mosh-Pit Justice
Stop Believing Lies
Label: Witches Brew
First off, what a great band name… this is classic thrash/power metal type thing. Heavy, catchy and just 100% metal!
FALSE GODS
Wasteland
Label: Self-Released
Sludgey doom metal but BIGGGG classic grooves. Abrasive vox, but a stomping fat sound..
Band: MYRKGRAV (NO)
Release: “Takk Og Farvel; Tida Er Blitt Ei Annen”
Label: Pest
Folk metal, with just a classic metal sound and vocal accents and a little instrumentation make it feel folky, but not over the top with hurdy gurdys or anything.
Balance Interruption
Door – 218
Label: Satanath Records & Abstruse Eerie Radiance
Experimental Black Metal. Brutal, quirky.. think of maybe a Mr. Bungle of black metal. Good stuff.