Revocation
Deathless – Radio Single
Metal Blade
We’ve been fans of these guys since the very first listen.  Good technical brutal metal.  This first single from their Metal Blade debut starts off that way, builds up to be a bit more of a melodic death sound, still with brutal vox and technicality. can’t wait to hear more!

Brute Forcz
Out For Blood
Pure Steel Records
Standard metal, your basic riffs, shouted vocals with a bit of that “local” band vibe.

A Midnight Tragedy
Lost Under Infinite Sorrow
AMTMusic Publishing
Clean vocals, standard metal, a bit on the 90’s AOR metal sound, with a little bit of prog/power metal stuff going on.

The Order Of Israfel
Wisdom
Napalm Records
Melodic doomy metal, with a little bit of that slower Godsmack song vibe in parts (you know, like the song “Vooodooooo”)  but it does have some big meaty riffs, some cool melody and transcends doom into epic stoner 70’s metal jams.

Circle II Circle
Live At Wacken
Eagle Rock Entertainment
Some Savatage songs, some C2C songs, pretty decent stuff.

Empress AD
Empress AD
The End/Roadrunner Records
A grungy, yet melodic and dynamic proggy type thing.  Kind of like a Mastodon meets Pink Floyd.

ENGLISH DOGS
The Thing With Two Heads
Candlelight
Old school raw punked up thrash  Mostly thrash, but with that bit of a punk vibe

COLOMBIAN NECKTIE
Twilight Upon Us
(Self-released)
A bit thrashy, a bit grindy, some groove and hardcore too.

FORCE OF DARKNESS
Absolute Verb of Chaos and Darkness (CD)
Hells Headbangers
raw, scary black/death metal. Pretty heavy, sick and brutal with some raw production, but not quite like, you know, playing through an 1940’s telephone, you can actually hear what’s going on.  There’s just an evil feeling going on here too.

Get Stoked
Washington Street
Imminence Records
Commercial pop hard rock… not gonna be playing this, actually, nevermind.

SWINE OVERLORD
Parables of Umbral Transcendence
Gore House Productions
Full on brutal death metal.  Wall of brutal sound crushing you.

Here’s a bunch of stuff that came into the inbox lately, but was released earlier this year

PLANET OF ZEUS
Vigilante
Ihaveadrum Records
A bit like Clutch, but maybe with a little bit more energy.  So yeah, amped up stoner metal with a very strong Clutch vibe.

EXHUMATION
Bread Buttered on both Sides
Self-Released
28 April 2014
This is some cool thrashy extreme metal.  Musically it’s more thrash, vocally it’s more screamy.

ORDOXE
Beyond Mankind
Hymnes d’Antan
14 March 2014
Blackened death metal.  A cool groove, yet 100% brutal… yet, there’s also some doomy melodic parts too.  (and no, it doesn’t take away from the brutality!)

DESTRUKTOR / THRONEUM
A Prophecy of Nihilism (Split 7″)
Hells Headbangers
Both a bit raw, but both bands are just full on brutal death metal.  I’d have to go with the Destruktor on this one, production is a bit better, and well, now listening to it more, I can skip the Throneum… too raw and the vocals just are a shouty scream. (bad production)

MALHKEBRE
Revelation
I, Voidhanger Records
6 July 2014
Basic black metal.  Music is more like a black/death metal, vocals are just a creepy shouted/screamed and are somewhat haunting… like a ghost yelling at you for one of those haunted house things.

SVENGALI
Unscathed
Self-Released
15 April 2014
A metal band from Dubai of all places.  I’d say it’s a little bit of proggy melodic death.

GUILTY AS CHARGED
Leap of Faith
Self-Released
13 June 2014
Thrashy metal with a Bay Area feel from the 90’s.  A little Slayer, Death Angel, melodic thrash stuff.

CONJURO NUCLEAR
Conjuro Nuclear
Self-Released
Atmospheric black-ish metal.  A big keyboard base for part of this thing, otherwise it’s just kind of that wall of cold drony black metal guitars with vocals that are growly, but hardly discernable from the music.

ENCELADUS
Journey to Enlightenment
Self Released (online Metal Promo)
Power metal from Texas!  A bit over the top with the guitars, and heavier than the average “power metal” band.. some great stuff going on musically, lots of meedly guitars, quick drums to match and yeah, great screamy vocals.

Crimson Reign
The Calling (2014)
Self Released (Online MEtal PRomo PR)
Standard “metal” going on here. A little bit of a mercyful fate vibe vocally, maybe not quite over the top like the King, but just a tonal quality that reminds me of it.  Music can go from cool heavier metal and other tracks are power ballady.

Soulnerve
The Dying Light
Self Released (email-bandcamp)
Melodic thrashy death from the Netherlands.  Usually when we get an email from a band, it’s like, oh, this isn’t too bad, in this case, this is kinda like whoa, this is pretty damn good!  A cool melodic death with thrashy stuff going on too.  While it’s like, nothing we haven’t heard before, there’s just something about this and what they all mix together that does make it sound a bit unique too.