ELECTRIC WIZARD
Time to Die
(Spinefarm)
Bit meaty riffy Sabbath-like doomy stoner metal. Seems a bit more down-tempo than their old stuff.  Probably a lot more on the doomy gloomy side of things than the stoner metal side.

WINTERFYLLETH
The Divination of Antiquity
(Candlelight)
Some classic black metal stuff, good production and some cool melodic stuff while still staying true to that cold yet laid back black metal sound.

INTERNAL BLEEDING
Imperium
(Unique Leader)
These classic Death metallers are back! First album in 10 years. While not quite the groundbreaking stuff they were many many years ago, this is a solid brutal death metal album.  Sounds pissed off and brutal and heavy as fuck.

Lords Of Mercy
Lords Of Mercy
Mainman Records
Good driving hard rock with a bit of an edge

Steak
Slab City
Napalm Records
Doomy Stoner metal with some catchy grooves.

Philm  (Fet. Dave Lombardo Formerly Of Slayer)
Fire From The Evening Sun
UDR Music GmbH
Kind of a grungy punky hardcore with well, Dave Lombardo of course. Lombardo’s distinctive drumming, a bit of a raw stoner metal sound too.

Hellion
Karma’s A Bitch
New Renaissance Records
Some classic metal with a bit of an Iron Maiden meets Trouble vibe. First new stuff from these guys/Girl in 11 years.  Great

Noctem
Exilium
Prosthetic Records
I would have to call this band Spain’s answer to Behemoth.  Blackened thrashy death metal… fast, in your face and no fucking around. awesome stuff.

PARTY CANNON
Partied In Half
Gore House Productions
Probably a death metal version of Psychostick?  At least judging by some of the song titles, this is probably funny if you could understand it.  “Duck Taped to A Flag Pole”  “There’s a Reason You’re Single” Well, if I’m wrong, this is some quality brutal grindy death metal anyway (whatever they’re growling about)

Panopticon
Roads to the North
Bindrune (US)
Melodic ambient black metal

Affiance
Blackout
Bullet Tooth
Metalcore, catchy riffs and good clean vocals with a good heavy backup with great guitar work.  A lot of times bands like this will be all brutal then the all whiney autotune chorus comes in. This guy has some great pipes and sings great throughout.

Dire Peril
Queen of the Galaxy
Dead Inside
Some thrashy stuff with a bit of a groove and female vocals… and they do a cover of Boston’s “Something About You” on this 4 song EP.

Estado Novo
Estado Novo
Inverse Records
A stoner throwback groove thing.

TNT
30th Anniversary 1982-2012 Live In Concert
Indie Recordings
30th Anniversary concert with orchestra, these guys were always a bit under my radar, but they always seemed to be one of the more concise hard rockin’ bands from the 80s/90s.

The next batch of stuff were all released earlier this year, but just came into the Mosh Pit inbox …

TYRANT’S KALL
DAGON
WITCHES BREW
Death metal from Belgium with a hint of black metal and doom.

ABIGOR
Leytmotif Luzifer
AVANTGARDE MUSIC
Black metal band from Austria, they’ve been around since 1993… have a good cool basic black metal thing going on on this album.  There’s some melody, cold sounding guitars and a general evil tone.

WILL THE THRILL
Sorry To Disappoint Ya
Self-Released
Classic metal, some basic hard rocking stuff with a bit of an early 90’s AOR/metal type thing.

NECROPOLI
I
SELF RELEASED
Debut album from this Italian band.  Some doom, but also some black/death metal too.  The doom parts tend to go on for a bit.

WOMIT ANGEL
Holy Goatse
Inverse Records
Extreme thrash/blackened thrash with a bit of a punk vibe.  Fast, Heavy stuff with a little bit of “catchy” and yeah, pissed off sounding.

ALITOR
ETERNAL DEPRESSION
WITCHES BREW
Classic thrash with some proggy technicality from Serbia!

ENDLESS RECOVERY
RESISTANT BANGERS
WITCHES BREW
2 song EP, raw extreme blackened thrashy metal

FIGHTCAST
Siamesian
To React Records
Catchy classic groove metal with thrashy stuff going on.

THE LAST CHARGE
Anima Sola
Beatdown Hardwear Records
Brutalcore, decent heavy stuff on this 4-song ep.

SGUAGUARAHCHRISTIS
Der Nacht
This Winter Will Last Forever / Paige
Well, this is some black metal with production that is more on the treble side of a phone call, crappy production just takes so much away from what could be something that is actually pretty good. Classic black metal stuff, but it’s so compressed into a tiny frequency range, who knows.

WITCHING HOUR
Where Pale Winds Take Them High…
Undercover Records
Some raw thrashy black metal

MANU ARMATA
Surpass the Master
Beatdown Hardwear Records
Thrashy hardcore metal, good punchy sound.

DECONSTRUCTING SEQUENCE
Access Code
Self-Released
Proggy black metal with some doomy stuff here and there, otherwise, pretty crazy out there stuff for a 2 song EP.

Energumen (Switzerland)
Void Spiritualism 7″ EP
Blood Harvest
Raw old school blackened death metal.  (kind of “meh” production) a bit TOO raw if you get what I’m sayin’.