Mastodon
High Road (Single)
Warner Brothers
Well, these guys did it again.  100% mastodon sound.  Stoner, proggy, catchy, heavy, melodic.  While this isn’t a barn burner, it’s got it all.

Mekong Delta
In A Mirror Darkly
SPV
A unique proggy thrash from this often overlooked band.

Holy Moses
Redefined Mayhem
SPV
Heavy thrash, catchy, almost brutal, lots of quick riffs and that German edge

The Graviators
Motherload
Napalm Records
Meaty riffed Stoner metal with cool melodies and a laid-back 70’s metal vibe.

Dead Earth Politics
The Queen Of Steel (EP)
Genuine Records
Catchy hard rock/metal, a bit of a commercial feel, but maybe right on the edge.  Thrashy, melodic, reminds of of Iron Maiden in parts, then some Pantera, or even Godsmack too.  It’s tough to have a sound that’s kind of unique yet still accessible, I think this throws a lot of genres together but they make it work.

ANUBIS GATE
Horizons
Nightmare Records
Decent proggy power metal, cool melodies, catchy songs, standard power metal-style vocals.

TERAMAZE
Esoteric Symbolism
Nightmare Records
Prog metal, with a little bit of a Redemption vibe, Great riffs, some epic prog moments with a little bit of a heavier element to keep it interesting.

Krokus
Long Stick Goes Boom: Live From Da House Of Rust
The End Records
It’s Krokus, it’s a live album, it sounds good.

Rubicon Cross
Rubicon Cross
Raider Rock/INgroves
Reminds me of a Motley Crue/Poison or maybe… Firehouse?  Yeah, this is new project from CJ Snare (of Firehouse fame)  It’s a good hard rock thing.  Catchy melodic hard rock songs.

EVENOIRE
Herons
Scarlet Records
Heavier standard metal music with female vocals. We dip into the operattic stuff a bit and get into some symphonic stuff too..

TEMPERANCE
Temperance
Scarlet Records
A flavor of proggy power metal fe-metal.  Clean sung female vocals, but not quite all opera-ey. An occasional Epica-like sound with some death growls.  Overall, it’s an epic female fronted proggy metal thing.

ASTRA
Broken Balance
Scarlet Records
Melodic hard rock type stuff with a proggy element.  Clean singy vocals a little bit of a Dream Theater vibe.

Memories Of A Dead Man
Ashes Of Joy
Send The Wood Music/Season Of Mist
Gothy doomy post metal with a little bit of a heavier metal vibe (so yeah, it’s not a complete endurance test, there are some decent metal growly stuff things going on)

My Reflection
This World Belongs To Us
Inverse Records
Commercial poppy female fronted “metal”

Skelethal
Deathmanicvs Revelation MLP
Iron Bonehead
Old school sounding death metal with very very basic “bad” production.  I don’t get it.

Woman Is The Earth
This Place That Contains My Spirit
Eisenwald
Black metal meets post metal.  Pretty heavy, cold vibe, four long tracks.

Harakiri For The Sky
Aokigahara
Art of Propaganda
A Blackened doom thing  melidic in parts, black metal brutal in others

Aurvandil
Thrones
Eisenwald
Old school black metal, icky production, indescernable   vocals, yet still good (if production was better!)

Patria
Individualism
Indie Recordings
Modern black metal (good production)   No messing around  good blast beats, cold, evil riffs and harsh vocals.

Sebastian Bach
Bach From Hell
Radio Edits
Frontiers Records
One of the best rock vocalists is “Bach” heh.  This is some decent hard rock stuff.  Mostly power ballad or AOR type stuff.  Catchy anthemic hard rock.  Curious if the rest of the album is more “metal”

At Radogost’s Gates
Reflection Of A Lunar Eclipse In The Stained Mirror Of Time
Horror Pain Gore Death
This is some alright brutal thrashy metal, however, it sounds like it was recorded on cassette tape.  production and drum sound is distracting to the rest of what sounds like decent metal.

Polar
Shadowed By Vultures
Prosthetic Records
15 April 2014

THE DRIP
A Presentation of Gruesome Poetics (NA Promo)
Relapse Records
A Big wall of Grindy thrash deathy metal, pissed off, in your face and alll metal.

ANDROMEDA
Shock
Southern Brigade Records
Standard hard rock/metal with a bit of a power metal feel.  This is not to be confused with the “other” Andromeda.  This one sings everything in Italian.