Gizmachi
”Broken Ends”
The Orchard/ CEN
A kind of modern hardcore sound, nice thick, layered sound.. clean and harsh vox, so a metalcore/modern metal thing happening… pretty cool, yet melodic and accessible
MORDRED
VOLITION
INDEPENDENT
Newly signed to M-Theory Audio, Mordred has a new album out in spring of 2021, so this EP is actually new from June and as one of those lost underrated bands (heard in mike’s picks)… new stuff sounds great
Yashira
Fail To Be
Good Fight Entertainment
Grindy fast metalcore, technical, brutal, heavy and raw. Cool stuff.
Cryptodira
The Angel Of History
Good Fight Entertainment
A sort of grooving and melodic-ish and technical death-core type stuff. yeah!!
Dvne
Omega Severer
Metal Blade Records
6 November 2020
(pronounced Dune) A bit doom, some heavier sludgey progressive stoner and noisy grooves. just a 2 song digital EP
NAR
Blood Moon Omen
Self-Released
Release date: Saturday, November 28th 2020
a one-man black metal band from Malta
ONDSKAPT
Grimoire Ordo Devus
Osmose Productions
27 November 2020
Here is some kind of classic old school melodic black metal… there’s just an evil dark feeling going on with this chilling coldness. It’s not that harsh shrieky black metal, more of a dark groove with some death metal stuff happening
Sorcier Des Glaces
Un Monde de Glace et de Sang
Obscure Abhorrence
Release date: Saturday, October 31st 2020
Here lies some blackened death metal, driving beats, harsh vox, and headbang inducing with some melodic passages to lull you in to false security before the black metal brutality crushes yo.
Suidakra
Lupine Essence
MDD Records
Release date: Friday, November 20th 2020
Reissue of debut album, a kind of raw melodic death thing going on, closer to maybe Amorphis?
Ende
Mörnöyr
Obscure Abhorrence
Release date: Sunday, November 1st 2020
Raw, old school black metal with some lo-fi style production, however, musically it does seem pretty good… it’s hard for me to get over audio that sounds like AM radio or through a telephone.
Carnage Alpha
From There to Oblivion
Wormholedeath
Melodic, deathy, a pinch of black metal, pretty good stuff here.
Iron Savior
Skycrest
AFM Records
4 December 2020
Catchy heavy thrashy power metal.
ALCOHELLDRUGS
Infernal Metal Punk
Murder Records
30 November 2020
Raw kind of thrashy crust
Annisokay
Aurora
Arising Empire
Here’s a bit of a modern metalcore type thing. more on the melodic side of things
Krushhammer
Speed Blacking Hell
Helldprod Records
30 November 2020
as the title suggested, speed blacking hell… speed metal/thrashy with a little black metal dark tone.
Possessed Steel
Aedris
Temple of Mystery
30 November 2020
Classic metal, melodic with a bit of a stoner metal meets power metal and even a growl or two with the more doomy classic vox. Neat stuff.
Pneuma Hagion
Voidgazer LP
Nuclear War Now! Productions
1 December 2020
Dark death, with some monster death metal grooves brutal and punishing riffs
ZEBADIAH CROWE
THE CLOVEN HAND
LABEL: INDEPENDENT
RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 2nd 2020
A bit of an industrial noise metal thing, maybe a bit like Ministry
Awrizis
Gears of Fear
Slovak Metal Army
1 December 2020
Technical and proggy blackened death metal. A kind of unique mix of styles and genres from prog rock to full on blistering black metal. cool stuff!
Band: MOSKOWA
Album: The Man Of The Three Islands
Label: Music-Records
Release date: December 2nd, 2020
They call this progressive death metal, I guess I’d call it more of a doomy death, but yeah there are some big meaty riffs and prog type themes, but with a doom/gloomy brutal sound it’s not too apparent. not too bad overall.
Hadopelagyal / Thorybos
Conjuring Subterranean Vortex
Amor Fati
2 December 2020
Hadopelagyal, one song is drony post metal, then the other two are some raw classic black metal. Thorybos is a bit more straightforward black/death metal, with a raw in your face production (a lot of mid-range)
Gravfraktal
Unhallowed Death Triumph 12″ MLP
Iron Bonehead
4 December 2020
Brutal blackened death 4 song ep, fast and heavy, maybe a bit of extreme thrash going in there
Nexul
Scythed Wings of Poisonous Decay LP/CD
Iron Bonehead
4 December 2020
Black metal with a kind of muffled darkness. an old school sound
March In Arms
Pulse Of The Daring
Self-Release
4 December 2020
Classic metal, has a bit of a Trivium type sound.
Serpents Oath
Nihil
Soulseller Records
4 December 2020
Throw this on the good pile of melodic blackened death.
Undergang
Aldrig i livet
Dark Descent Records / Me Saco Un Ojo Records
4 December 2020
Brutal death metal, a little sludgey.
Mollo Rilla
Viva El Camino
Seeing Red Records
4 December 2020
A bit stoner metal, some classic metal good ol groovin’ going on here.
Sarvekas
Of Atavistic Fury & Visions
Soulseller Records
4 December 2020
melodic blackened death metal, good stuff.
The Deviant
Rotting Dreams of Carrion
Soulseller Records
4 December 2020
Blackened death, more dark and harsh , decent stuff.
EYES OF TOMORROW
SETTLE FOR MORE
Swell Creeck
Release Date: 4th December 2020
Good ol hardcore metal! Heavy, catchy and quick songs.
Opium Warlords
Nembutal
Svart Records
4 December 2020
Doom, bordering on post-metal.
The Advent Equation
Remnants of Oblivion
Self-Release
4 December 2020
Here we have some kind of straightforward classic prog metal type stuff… dream theater-like, and also pushing a little into melodic death in heavier parts with a few growls. cool stuff.
IRON MASK
MASTER OF MASTERS
AFM
Release Date: 4th December 2020
full on power metal with a little pinch folky prog
SHLAK
Kill Them All And Let SHLAK Sort Them Out: Killer Cuts Vol. 1
Horro Pain Gore Death
(set for release on December 4th)
Valravn (Finland)
Prey
Primitive Reaction
4 December 2020
Blackened death, with a more downtempo gloom sound
Zvijer
Navia (Zadah Jalovog Svijeta)
Seance Records
4 December 2020
Black metal with a bit of a black n roll thing going on pushing into almost thrashy death metal musically too, while staying cold and evil
Hegeroth
Perfidia
Self Released
Release date: Thursday, November 19th 2020
A kind of classic grooving black metal sound. Solid heavy stuff with good production
Release: Plaguebreeder
Annihilation
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: November 20th 2020
Fast and heavy and EPIC brutal blackened death metal, a little reminiscent of Dimmu Borgir without the symponic bits… big grooves and catchy too. Great stuff.
Fuming Mouth
Beyond The Tomb
Self Released
November 20th
Gritty and meaty death metal a heavy thrash feel and freight train punishing riffs and drumming
Aeternitas
Haunted Minds
Wormholedeath
11/20/20
Starts off with some symphonic epic soundscape, leading into some epic power metal, male and female vox, full orchestral sound getting in to some heavy grooves/riffage too
Sainte Marie des Loups
Funérailles de Feu
Amor Fati / Extraconscious Records
25 November 2020
Classic old school black metal, fast meedly guitars, fast drumming, harsh vox, but not all shrieky and scary. This is just an intense good ol black metal
THE MACHINIST
I AM VOID
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 4th 2020
Brutal fast and heavy blackened death metal, artwork looks evil, music is kind of burtal thrashy and yeah, catchy too… cool stuff.
Incognosci
A Biography of Madness
Self Released
Release date: Thursday, October 22nd 2020
Brutal deathcore type stuff, heavy and kind of just classic blast beat death metal with some more “core” type technicality too.
Diamond Head
Lightning To The Nations 2020
Silver Lining
Release date: Friday, November 27th 2020
Re-recorded first album, great production and a new way to get into some of these old classics… also there are a few covers on here too from Metallica, Zep, Priest, DP.
Scour
The Black EP
Housecore
Release date: Friday, November 27th 2020
Phil Anselmo’s other other project… this is brutal fast and furious, a black metal feel, man, just full on brutality!