New stuff from Now until Dec. 16
SARTEGOS / BALMOG
Split 7″
Caverna Abismal
Sartegos is more of a doomy death metal, Balmog is more of a black metal.
HAMKA
Multiversal
Fighter Records
Epic symphonic power metal with a big powerful female voice. Good stuff!
Brody’s Militia
Early Days Discography
Horror Pain Gore Death
Lots of quick short grindy punky hardcore songs.
LUCIFER’S HAMMER (Chile)
Victory is Mine (MCD, MLP, TAPE)
Shadow Kingdom
Classic metal, a little on the power metal front
IAMSIN
Kings & Queens
Inverse Records
Melodic Death/Metalcore/Post Hardcore, there’s a good groove, harsh vox are solid and a good heaviness to it. The clean vox parts are more trivium than like a more mallcore thing
Deathmarch
Dismember
Black Lion Records
Death metal with a blackened thrash edge.
MIDNIGHT
Sweet Death and Ecstasy (CD, LP, TAPE)
Hells Headbangers
A sort of blackened speed thrash thing from this one mand band.
Beastiality
Worshippers of Unearthly Perversions
Invictus Productions
This is blackened death metal, more of a doomy dark feel, while still being fast and furious.
Bunkur / Mordor
Split LP/CD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Bunkur is one 20 minute track of post metal doom/black metal noise. Mordor, is a little bit of doomy black metal and sludgey folk metal.
NUPRAPTOR
The Heresiarch (CD, LP, TAPE)
Shadow Kingdom
Dark and doomy, long songs, some parts get going a little bit, but it’s good solid doom stuff.
Evilfeast
Elegies of the Stellar Wind
Eisenwald
Atmospheric black metal. Wall of cold guitars with keyboards and classic black metal sound.
Obscure Burial
Obscure Burial
Invictus Productions
Death metal with a fast brutal thrash thing happening
Mz.412 / Trepaneringsritualen
X Post Industriale / Rituals 2015 e.v.
AnnapurnA / Old Europe Cafe
Noise/post black metal. 4 long tracks. meh.
The Howling Void
The Darkness at the Edge of Dawn
Avantgarde Music
Laid back classic rock/doom, a bit atmospheric and a tiny bit of black metal.
Ofdrykkja
Irrfärd
Avantgarde Music
Doomy black metal, creepy shouted vox, down tempo black metal music
Circle Of Salt
Suffer The Cold
Avantgarde Music
Two 20ish minute tracks of wall of sound post-black metal.
Mist of Misery
Fields of Isolation
Black Lion Records
This is some good melodic black metal. Fast and furious in some parts, cool and melodic and doomy in others… probably a bit technical too.
Grafvitnir
Keys to the Mysteries Beyond
Carnal Records
A classic cold evil black metal, with an overall underlying good melodic base
Band: Three Eyes of the Void
Album: The Moment Of Storm
Label: Self-release
Atmospheric Black metal, not much more I can say… cold, dark, classic black metal.
Malakhim
Demo I 12″ MLP/MCD
Iron Bonehead
Classic black metal, more of an atmospheric death metal thing going on behind the black metal surface
Kuoleman Galleria
Pimeys Saapuu Pohjoiseen
Inverse
This grooving blackened metal. Music is kind of a melodic death/blackened melodic metal with more extreme black-ish metal vox… Almost a bit like Skeletonwitch meets Amorphis a little.
MIKE LEPOND’S SILENT ASSASSINS
Avengers Of Eden – RADIO SINGLE
Frontiers Music s.r.l.
Bassist from Symphony X with a 2nd album of a sort of super group of prog metal, this one single is some solid heavy proggy power metal!
(PRC90) DAEDALEAN COMPLEX
After the Fall CD
PRC MUSIC
Heavy thrashy melodic death metal… really just one song, but it’s good stuff
Transylvania Stud
The Red Queen
Transcending
Grooving sort of psychedelic stoner metal.
Band: Vane
Album: The Prologue
Label: Not on label
This is some good stuff out of Poland. Kind of an extreme thrash/death groove metal. Take some Lamb of God Grooves, add some Kreator intensity and grit… great stuff.
Oracle
“Into the Unknown”
Self Released
Melodic death, with some monster death metal grooves, a little flavor of extreme thrash and black metal too.
Harms Way
Human Carrying Capacity – radio single
Metal Blade
Good meaty classic brutal death metal. no messing around, good grooves.
Out between Dec. 16 and Dec 31
NOVA
Soli Contro Il Mondo
ATMF Aeternitas Tenebrarum Musicae Fondamentum
Kind of a melodic death with some thrashy stuff/hardcore stuff/black metal stuff and classic metal… all rounding out into pretty much extreme metal.
Dreadful Fate
The Sin of Sodom
Edged Circle Productions
Take some fast and heavy trash metal and throw in a pinch of black metal, and you got yourself something super good… Just three quick songs!
CENTRIPETAL FORCE
Eidetic
Xtreem Music
A little thrash, kind of like Anthrax a bit (singer sounds like Joey B), and musically when not being thrashy, is a bit prog metal, melodic power metal prog type stuff. Production is ok, could be a bit cleaner.
TRONO ALEM MORTE
O Olhar Atento da Escuridão
Harvest of Death / Signal Rex
Creepy classic black metal with basic music, shouting screamy vox, “meh” production.
THY SEPULCHRAL MOON
Indignant Force of Great Malevolence
Signal Rex
This is some raw brutalized black metal, production is a bit raw and you’ve got some gurgling, blast beats and just overall noise
Eternal Torment
Blind to Reality
Self-Released
Brutal technical death metal. Great chugga chugga drumming and riffs, clean production and monster grooves
DROPZONE
Rape Killing Murder
Osmose Productions
A grungy/sludgy extreme almost death metal type thing. I guess there’s a bit of a hardcore thing happening, with some grooves and a raw feeling
HAUNT (U.S.)
Luminous Eyes (MCD, MLP, TAPE)
Shadow Kingdom
Basic melodic metal, a kind of classic metal with a doomy groove.
Band: National Lagarde
Album: Story of a Southern Gentleman
Label: Sliptrick records
The “style” is said as “Rock n’ Roll Tales of the Dark South” It has a bit of a surfy blues feeling to it, so
Antiquus Scriptum
Antologia
This Winter Will Last Forever
Black metal with some gritty edge to it, a bit symphonic/electronic-ish (keyboards)… kind of grindy
SATANIC WARMASTER
We Are The Worms That Crawl On The Broken Wings Of An Angel (CD, LP)
Werewolf
This is some black metal, grooving old school stuff with some sort of lo-fi-ish sound.
Nortt
Endeligt
Avantgarde Music
Laid back doom… background slooowwwww something.
Handsome Prick
Anonymityville
Horror Pain Gore Death
Freight train of grooving brutal death metal. Good stuff. There’s like almost a little punky thrash thing going on in there too. A little Johnny Cash -like.