DREAM THEATER
A VIEW FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD
INSIDEOUT MUSIC
Well, officially DT is my favorite band and when they have new material, I will always like it… This album is the best since their last one! It’s got all of the crazy overplaying and well, this one is mastered by andy sneap, so everything sounds crisp, clear and probably the best drum sound Mangini has had since joining the band. Thumbs up of course.
IN THE WHALE
Vanishing Point
Riot Records
A bit hardcore with a melodic punky sound
BREED OF AGGRESSION
THIS IS MY WAR
DARK STAR RECORDS
A bit of a classic metal with a bit more of an edge and clean female vox mixed with some harsh brutal vox too… It’s pretty cool how it flips around genres in single songs, some groove metal, to melodic death to Judas Priest-esque riffage.
Whitechapel
Kin
Metal Blade Records
29 October 2021
Technical, brutal, progressive and dynamic… these guys up their game with every album!
Trip Villain
“The Villain”
Self Released
a kind of tripping grooving almost alternative techno… but with a drony grunge thing going on.
Beast In Black
Dark Connection
Nuclear Blast
29 October 2021
Here’s a modern metal/power metal type thing. A bit of keyboard and electronic base, with a classic power metal sound with an epic sing-a-long thing going on.
Thulcandra
A Dying Wish
Napalm Records
Melodic blackend death metal, some great instrumental passages and the vox are pretty low in the mix, I thought it was all instrumental at first… the vox just fit right in, harsh, but not overpowering or weird. just right… technical, progressive musically good stuff!
Ad Infinitum
Chapter II Legacy
Napalm Records
melodic female fronted metal, a bit symphonic, general power metal type stuff.
Lucifer
Lucifer IV
Century Media Records
Melodic doomy female fronted hard rock
Motorhead
Everything Louder Forever
BMG
A Motorhead very best of compilation… if you don’t have all of the best of Motorhead already… this is the one! An excuse to play motorhead? sure!
Be’Lakor
Coherence
Napalm Records
I’d say this is primarily melodic death, a heavy edge with melodic parts rounding it out.
First Fragment
Gloire Eternelle
Unique Leader Records
Unlike most of the other stuff on this label, this isn’t full on deathcore brutal. It’s got a neoclassical speedy guitar. This is more of an extreme thrash (at least on this first single)
Knocked Loose
A Tear In The Fabric Of Life
Pure Noise Records
Brutal groovin’ death metal. with a bit of a djenty deathcore thing
SKELETOON
The 1.21 Gigawatts Club
Scarlet Records
15 October 2021
Big voice, big epic sound of power metal. Cool stuff.
Massacre
Resurgence
Nuclear Blast
22 October 2021
Brutal death metal… I don’t this band has done anything half ass. Catchy, brutal classic death metal. Great stuff.
Sentinels
Collapse By Design
SharpTone Records
22 October 2021
Deathcore, technical, harsh, brutal, catchy… even a bit of melodic stuff too. cool!!
The Pineapple Thief
Nothing But The Truth
Kscope
22 October 2021
Classic prog rock. has a bit of a Porcupine Tree sound/style and their drummer as of 2017 is former PTree drummer Gavin Harrison. Cool stuff.
SOMNENT
GARDENS FROM GRAVES
LABEL: GS PRODUCTIONS
RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 25th 2021
Fairly laid back gothy doom rock.
Conjureth
Majestic Dissolve
Memento Mori / Rotted Life
25 October 2021
Heavy blackened death metal, great technical and brutal, and even a bit thrashy too… cool stuff!
AGGRESSION
Field of Nightmares
Xtreem
Oct 25
Classic old school thrash/speed metal. Fast and face melting riffs with some groovin’ evilness.
MORTAL VISION
Mind Manipulation
Redefining Darkness Records
29 October 2021
Great stuff here… deathy thrash metal, catchy, kind of brutal, and just overall good headbanging goodness!
Sunless
Ylem
Willowtip Records
29 October 2021
Melodic, progressive death / deathcore with a little stoner stuff too
Nuclear Death
Harmony Drinks of Me
Moribund Records
29 October 2021
Kind of a classic rock, maybe doom/laid back stoner rock… clean Robert Plant-esque vox.
Moon
Pandimensional Gnosis
Moribund Records
29 October 2021
Classic old school black metal, atmospheric, dark, cold, evil, haunting and yeah, long songs too.
MOLYBARON
The Mutiny
InsideOut
Release date: Friday, October 29, 2021
Prog metal with catchy and maybe a Faith No More type groove to it… cool stuff.
Burial
Inner Gateways To The Slumbering Equilibrium At The Center Of Cosmos
Everlasting Spew Records
29 October 2021
Long album name, long song titles… long songs! Doomy death/black metal, dark, sludgey in parts, cold and meaty… not “harsh” like classic black metal.
David Reece
Blacklist Utopia
El Puerto Records
29 October 2021
Classic metal, clean vox, a bit of a 90’s AOR sound. Catchy cool stuff.
HOLY DEATH
Separate Mind From Flesh
Seeing Red Records
29 October 2021
Classic basic death metal. A pinch of a thrashy groove metal going on. Cool stuff.
The Design Abstract
Metemtechnosis – Out Oct 29th
Abstrakted Records
29 October 2021
This has a melodic death sort of metalcore thing happening, but more death and groove too.
MORGAL
Nightmare Lord (CD, LP, TAPE)
Werewolf
29 October 2021
Blackened extreme thrash is about as easy as I can describe this. It’s cold dark and evil, but yet a bit catchy and not quite as bleak as typical black metal.
Cult of Eibon
Black Flame Dominion LP/CD
Iron Bonehead
29 October 2021
Classic metal musically with harsh vox, production kind of ruins it, almost sounds like it’s through a phone in a tunnel.
Thrash La Reine
Notre-Dame-de-l’Enfer
Bam&Co. Heavy
29 October 2021
Classic metal sounding, with a power metal and almost folk metal sound in parts, but a cool groove overall.
EVIL DAMN
Necronomicon (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
29 October 2021
Here we have some fast extreme thrash… harsh vox, almost blackened thrash in speed… but just fast and heavy… brutal vox.
ZYCH
Dante’s Inferno Part I
Metal Assault Records
22 October 2021
Prog/power metal with epicness
VANDALIZER
Ride
Metal Assault Records
29 October 2021
A kind of stoner/doom throwback sound.
Coffin Creep
Voids
Grind to Death
Oct 29
Classic meaty death metal.
Rival Order
Beyond the Ashes
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 27-08-2021
Melodic Death Metal, almost has a heavier Trivium sound. cool stuff!
VARECHIAN
Album: Tabula Rasa Ultima /// The Morbidoom)))
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: October 26th, 2021
Here’s a sort of blackened death metal, with a bit of a groovin’ old school death metal sound
Brundarkh
Haunted Worlds (EP)
Self Released
October 11, 2021
Epic blackened melodic death. just two songs, but pretty cool stuff here!
Band: Fear Connection
Title: Progeny Of A Social Disease
Label: Black Sunset / MDD
Release: 01 October 2021
Good dark and meaty grooving death metal Great stuff!
Remain Untamed
New World Order
Big Bad Wolf
Classic death metal, more of a thrashy music sound, death vox. Cool stuff.
AMON SETHIS
Part 0: The Queen With Golden Hair
Wormholedeath
10/22
Progressive, symphonic, epic, folk, classic metal, a lot of different things going on.
Worm
Foreverglade
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, October 22nd 2021
Brutal doomy and epic blackend death, moments of post-metal and then full on black metal too.
Apparition
Feel
Profound Lore
Release date: Friday, October 22nd 2021
Groovin’ and doomy death metal with a guttural deep vocal. Bruuutal