Wovenwar
All Rise – Single
Metal Blade Records
This was to be a side-project of most of the members of As I Lay Dying… well, with Tim Lambesis being in trouble and stuff, this is a real “band” now. It’s the rest of the As I Lay Dying members with the singer from Oh, Sleeper. So, the song… metalcore, catchy, melodic, clean vox, decent guitar work and music and all that, but a little bit “emo” on the vocals I guess.

Mindcage
The One Constant “Single”
Kinematic Music
Booooo.. Just a single. Great proggy power metal though… Mostly power metal, but with a bit of an edge and enough prog to keep it interesting.

Mattersphere
Mattersphere
Omni Entertainment
Some hard rock / standard metal type stuff. Clean vocals, almost a heavier AOR with a bit of metal thrown in.

NECRODEATH
The 7 Deadly Sins
Scarlet Records
Thrashy black metal. Fast, in your face brutal metal!

Boris The Blade
The Human Hive
Siege of Amida
Brutal technical death metal. No other way to describe it. Good stuff.

MARTY FRIEDMAN
Inferno
Prosthetic
Marty’s first metal album released in the US in a long long time. And I’d say it’s about time! First two tracks are awesome thrashy shredding metal… the rest of the tracks have a little bit of collaboration on them with people such as Rodriego y Gabriela, Danko Jones, Alexi Laiho and a track co-written by Jason Becker

EYEHATEGOD
Eyehategod
Housecore
HEavy, grindy sludgy stoner sound… just like they’ve always had. The first track has a little bit of a punk vibe. But then it slides into what they’re known for.

CROBOT
Crobot EP
(Wind-Up)
Melodic Hard rockin’ metal with a hint of a 70’s and stoner vibe. Great clean vocals with range, cool catchy riffs, harmonies and cool melodic stuff all with a great solid rock going on. There’s a bit of a Clutch or Zeppelin thing going on, but maybe a Winery Dogs thing too.

BEARTOOTH
“Dead”/”Beaten In Lips”
(Red Bull)
A raw punk infused thrashy metal EP. While I’m not a fan of Punk, there’s just enough to still like… the metal-ness of this is pretty good in one track, and the other starts out pretty good, but gets a bit metal-core-ish

Mirzadeh
Desired Mystic Pride
Inverse
Melodic / symphonic black metal.

Henric Blomqvist & Friends
All Of Your Illusions
Secret Entertainment
a 70’s hard rock thing that sounds a bit like old Dio.

Landskap
I LP
Iron Bonehead
Two tracks, one 15 min, one is 19 min. Long drawn out doomy gothy stoner metal.

HYPERBOREAN
MYTHOS OF THE GREAT PESTILENCE
SELF RELEASED
Swedish black-ish metal. It’s a bit thrashy, technical, proggy and mostly death and black metal. But on the surface, I guess you’d call it black metal. Decent production, it’s all on brutal and a bit raw too (at least vocally). Pretty good stuff for being self-released.

Vainaja
Kadotetut
Svart Records
Dark doomy death metal. It’s all growly death vocals in Finnish. While the music is doomy, there’s a bit of a melodic feel which doesn’t make it seem tooooo depressing.

Insense
De:Evolution
Mas-Kina Recordings/Indie Recordings
This has a bit of a commercial metal sound going on at its base, but kind of taking over the top is a more metal (distorted guitar) layer