Revocation
Deathless
Metal Blade Records
Well, for their Metal Blade debut, they decided to just kinda go a bit more folk metal and tune things down a bit and take a more 70’s throwback metal approach…. okay just kidding, they are still a relentless force of all that is cool about technical death metal.

GODFLESH
A World Lit Only by Fire
Avalanche
I was never a huge fan of these guys, and I guess I just never “got it”  sludgey semi-industrial stuff… and well, after 13 years since their last album, this kind of sounds like it could have been a year later.  Same sludgey doomy industrial tinged metal.  While I’m not a huge fan, I do get it and it’s pretty cool, heavy as fuck and definitely unique.  You hear this and you know it’s Godflesh.

RINGS OF SATURN
Lugal Ki En
Unique Leader
Pissed off sounding technical deathcore.  Almost one of those bands where you say “what’s THEIR problem?”  just so pissed off, yet catchy, brutal and heavy too.  (yea, there’s a little djent going on too)

BLACK MAP
And We Explode
Minus Head
Catchy hard rock, cool guitar work, but overall, this gives me an alt-rock feeling

Cognition
Cognition
Overman Entertainment
A thrashy deathy metalcore type thing.  While it’s got a lot of these little hints of different metal subgenres, it’s still tough to pick what it really is.  It’s “metal”  more modern, growly, screamy, thrashy, deathy, core-y.  Just lots of different stuff and it’s good.

Audrey Horne
Pure Heavy
Napalm Records
Hard rock stuff, catchy, cool riffs, good beat, emotional vocals… maybe a bit of a Thin Lizzy vibe

Aurin
Catharsis
Pavement Music
Female fronted generic metal.  Nothing really too new or groundbreaking going on, and production is a little

In Search Of Sun
The World Is Yours
Raging Demon Entertainment
A standard melodic hard rock thing with a bit of an edge, catchy stuff, clean vocals and some screamy stuff too.  Great mix of the both and going between melodic and heavier stuff… not like a “core” but more of a proggy feel.

Butcher Babies
Uncovered
Century Media
A 5 song EP of covers.  Edgey female fronted stuff just like they’re good at doing.  “Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers” “They’re Coming to Take Me Away” “Crazy Horses” and more.  a neat mix of covers you don’t normally hear done “metal”

Kreyskull
Tower Witch
Inverse
Mostly a throwback type thing, but more of a melodic stoner metal with some

Alexanred
Always Active
Inverse Records
An industrial electronic thing… eh… not for the Mosh Pit.

ssSHEENSss
Strapping Stallions
Soulseller Records
Some basic stoner metal a bit of a wall of doomy melodic hard rock coming at you.

Sumia
Until We Shine Again
Inverse
Laid back alternative hard rock sounding stuff. meh.

Vomitile
Mastering the Art of Killing
Pitch Black Records
Great basic death metal… great riffs, drumming, brutal vocals and catchy guitar work.

Viathyn
Cynosure
Self-Release (Asher Media)
Epic proggy power metal

Quartered
Eyes And Ears
Self-Release
A dynamic prog rock thing, going from heavier stuff to just melodic rock stuff.  The heavier stuff is more like a basic metalcore

Crucifixion BR
Destroying The Fucking Disciples Of Christ
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
Blackened um, well, black metal. I guess it’s a bit thrashy, has good production, sounds EVIL and yeah, good stuff.

Solitary Sabred
Redemption Through Force
Self-Release
Power metal/metal, with some over the top vocals, a little epic feel, but more of thrashy power metal.  A good amount of good heavy stuff and not the typical sterile power metal.

BETOKEN
Beyond Redemption
Buil2Kill Records
Some standard hard rockin metal.

SINGULARITY
Singularity
Self Released (Full Blast PR)
Melodic death, with a more extreme heaviness to it than a normal Melodeath thing.  Music has a good catchy heavy brutal fast thing going on one minute, then gets into frenetic blast beats. And yes, piano and keyboards do a great job of filling out the sound and adding the melody.

MANDATORY
Catharsis
Self Released
Good basic brutal metal, some melody, some heavy stuff, and great headbanging thrashing stuff too.

MAAHLAS
NIGHTMARE YEARS
SELF RELEASED
Blackened thrash, good heavy stuff, heavy, but also a bit technical and proggy too

MOROST
Solace in Solitude
Self-Released
Techy thrashy death metal.

ORDINANCE
Relinquishment
AHDISTUKSEN AIHIO PRODUCTIONS
Basic production black metal, and one of those digital files (from a vinyl release) that doesn’t have the tracks split up.

ThunderWorks
Thoughts & Thunder
Self-Released
Death metal with the occasional meedly guitar… but yeah, good guitar stuff going on, a little bit bass-y on the production.

AFTERBIRTH
2014 Demo | Foeticidal Embryo Harvestation (2013 compilation)
Self-Released
Cool technical death metal from a band that’s been around a looonng time.  Music is tech deathy, vocals are a bit buried in the mix and very gurgly.