Nova Collective
The Further Side
Metal Blade Records
Instrumental prog metal/rock/jazz/fusion from Trioscapes/BTBAM members and Haken current and former members. Probably the most prog instrumental stuff since Liquid Tension Experiment!
DISPERSE
Foreword
Season of Mist
Kind of an alternative prog type thing. It’s got some Devin Townsend band type stuff going on, maybe some Tesseract type things too. Heavy in spots, more ambient/spacy/melodic in others. Overall it’s decent stuff, just not full on heavy.
SICOCIS
REQUIEM OF THE WORLD
M-THEORY AUDIO
A bit of a progressive death metal/melodic death type thing. Some keyboards, death metal growls, clean vox, decent stuff.
HARK
Machinations
Season of Mist
Cool stoner metal, great grooves, probalby more stoner “hard rock” than metal… but I guess that’s the norm for the whole genre, right?
Power Trip
Nightmare Logic
Southern Lord
Actually put this out here last week, but a primary marketing firm threw it our way again, so I’ll just copy/paste what I said last week: Ooohhh we’re talking some classic heavy thrash here. As far as thrash goes, this would be fast and not quite “brutal” but speed metal style heavy!
Crystal Fairy
Crystal Fairy
Ipecac
Female fronted stoner-ish hard rock. Decent edge and groove, vox are kind of a modern Janis Joplin sound. There’s a cool energy
Zeal & Ardor
Devil Is Fine
ADA
This is one of those things it’s hard to put a finger on, but it’s definitely got its own sound and apparently it’s like kind of Ghost in that it’s all evil, but not typical in what you’d expect. The write up (via Rolling Stone) that comes with it kind of helps a little: “The creation of Swiss-American songwriter/soundscaper Manuel Gagneux, Devil Is Fine is an artistic artefact like no other, a meld of black metal, field recordings, Delta blues, jazz, ring shouts, music box melodies, glitchy hip-hop beats, soul and gospel, brought together in the service of The One With Horns. It is the most provocative, challenging, innovative and utterly individual album of the year, a recording which obliterates genre boundaries and creates a dark, diabolical universe all its own.” So yeah, it might not be full on metal on the surface, but it’s definitely “metal”
The Bug vs. Earth
“Snakes vs. Rats” [Single]
Ninja Tune
Post-metal electronic noise
Body Count
No Lives Matter (Radio Edit Single)
Century Media Records
Just this one single so far, and it’s a radio edit… but it’s decent stuff, great metal edged rap just like Body Count can do. And of course, there’s a message!
Emmure
Look At Yourself
SharpTone Records
This is some brutal core type stuff like they do, but one thing that’s not what I remember, it gets a bit rap-metal-ish in with the breakdowns and all that stuff.
ZOMBIE MOTORS WRECKING YARD
Supersonic Rock n Roll
Napalm Records
So when you hear this band name, what do you think it’d sound like? Kind of a rob zombie southern fried catchy biker metal type thing? yeah. It sounds like that. decent stuff.
Nick Douglas
Regenerations
Metalville Records
Kind of a pop rock type thing. Nick is known for being Doro’s bass player.
Segregates
Burston
Cleopatra Records
Kind of a dirty hard rockin’ metal… maybe along the lines of a Motorhead type thing. A little punked up, a bit metal, and raw.
The Mute Gods
Tardigrades Will Inherit the Earth
InsideOut
Prog Rock type stuff. A bit along the lines of a Porcupine Tree.
Funeral Storm / Celestial Rite
Funeral Rite – split MCD/MLP
Iron Bonehead
Funeral Storm’s two tracks are a bit of a keyboardy black metal, and Celestial Rite is more of a classic cold yet btutal black metal… not all shreiky and tinny, this has a heavier growly groove.
Artist: Sanctuary
Title: SANCTUARY – Inception (Advance)
Label: Century Media
SO, they say this is a long lost prequel album to Refuge Denied, and they worked some magic to make it sound new… well, magic it is. Amazing how they can get something this old and lost to sound so crisp and like, brand new… And yeah, what a dream for a Sanctuary/Nevermore fan to find something… great classic sound and Warrell Dane just singing sky high!
Helion Prime
Helion Prime
AFM Records
Female fronted classic metal, maybe with a little power metal leaning. Catchy tracks, mainly guitar based. Decent melodies and just a decent sound
DOCTOR LIVINGSTONE
Triumphus Haeretici
Osmose Productions
The first track is 16 minutes of ambient post-metal noise. Get to track 2 and the rest, we have some grindy black metal.
Manetheren
The End
Avantgarde Music
Classic doomy and dark black metal.
CRYPTIC BROOD
Brain Eater
Xtreem Music
Kind of grindy, a bit death metal, production is a bit raw and unpolished, but there’s a cool groove going on here
Bear Mace
Butchering the Colossus
Self-released
This is kind of a thrashy brutal technical death metal. A great meaty driving beat… a little like cannibal corpse, but a bit more groove and technicality. Good stuff.
Zombie Assault
Video Nasty
Eclectic Productions
Just a good ol classic brutal death metal.
Cataleptic
Forward
Archaic Sound
blackened doomy death metal. A bit down tempo, depressing and some long songs.
Ymir’s Blood
Ymir’s Blood
Archaic Sound
Doomy throwback with some viking metal grooves going on.
Mindful Of Pripyat / Stench Of Profit
New Doomsday Orchestration
Everlasting Spew Records
Both bands are pretty good grindy brutal death metal.
Band: Katharos
Album: Exuvian Heraldry
Label: Sliptrick records
Black metal with a bit of a wall of epic-ness sound. So a bit of a symphonic feel, but not a lot. Otherwise, that cold classic fast and heavy black metal.
Band: Atreides
Album: Neopangea
Label: Suspiria records
Classic metal, spanish lyrics/vox, a little melodic death feeling and maybe a little prog/power metal too. Lots going on, but the production is a bit raw… just not a very full sound…otherwise, decent stuff.
Bungler
The Nature of Being New
Innerstrength Records
Kind of a screamo metal core / hardcore. Fast and raw, a little brutal,
Gorephilia
Severed Monolith
Dark Descent Records
A bit death metal and some grind. This is some brutal death metal and as their name says, yeah, it’s a bit gore toO!
Disharmony (Greece)
Goddamn the Sun CD/LP
Iron Bonehead
Kind of a brutal death metal/thrash. Catchy riffs, brutal vox and tone… catchy and a bit techy too
Danko Jones
Wild Cat
AFM Records
Probably not metal, but just good fun times punky hard rock.
Desecrate the Faith
Unholy Infestation
Comatose Music
Classic brutal Death metal. Cookie Monster, big meaty grooves
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The Day Of The Beast
The Ultimate Cremation Pyre
Horror Pain Gore Death
This is more of a melodic death/technical death thing. Melodic for the catchy riffs, but the vox are abrasively pissed off. More of an At The Gates type sound. great stuff.
Nord
Alpha
Inverse
Melodic doomy rock type stuff. 4 song EP.
SOLITARY
THE DISEASED HEART OF SOCIETY
LABEL: UKEM
Classic thrash type stuff. Catchy, heavy, and goood.
Vorzug
Three (EP)
Label: Apollyon Entertainment / Universal Music Group
Kind of a brutal thrash, blackened death metal 3 song ep.
COLDBORN
LINGERING VOIDWARDS
Label: FINAL SACRIFICE RECORDS
Classic black metal, melodic, cold, and harsh.
Band: Sanatana
Album: Brahmavidya
Label: Rising Moon
A bit of a folk metal feel, but a good blackened melodic death type thing going on. Catchy and a bit proggy too
ELECTRIC AGE
Sleep of the Silent King
Argonauta Records
Southern fried doomy stoner metal. Catchy grooves, but a little, well, you know doomy and just a bit slow to get to some grooves. But yeah, decent stuff.
TUMOURBOY
Damaged System
Label: Witches Brew
Heavy thrash from China! Extra fast, a little brutal, but some great classic and modern thrash stuff going on, vox are a bit unique but still fitting into a great thrash style
Foetal Juice
Masters of Absurdity
Label: Grindscene Records
A nice new death metal band name. Brutal death metal, fast short songs and maybe a little thrash undertone to keep it catchy.
Laments of Silence
System Failure
Label: Self-Released
A melodic death metal, with some solid heavy vox and brutal edge with maybe a little bit of an industrial thing going on too.
Band: Skeletoon
Album: Ticking Clock
Label: Revalve records
Power metal with a little edge. Some dragonforce parts, others are just some classic metal/power metal.
Nuclear Oath
Razor Blade Regrets (single)
Self-Release
Raw old school extreme thrashy / dark metal
Carpatus
Malus Ascendant
Label: Black Lion Records
Kind of classic black metal, but the vox are a bit more in front and death metal growly as opposed to shrieky screams. Music is more of a classic blast beat cold black metal thing