THE FLIGHT OF SLEIPNIR
V.
Napalm Records
Kind of a slow post-black metal doomy thing, just a bit too slow for me.

Rise Of The Northstar
Welcame
Nuclear Blast USA
A sort of hardcore metal thing… but not really metalcore per se. Just some catchy heavy metal with that NYCHC feel, you know, maybe like Biohazard?  yeah.  I can’t quite figure out where they are from, there’s a lot of Japanese imagery, but it’s definitely pretty cool stuff.

Magnum
“On Christmas Day”
Steamhammer / SPV
A classic rock/AOR type sounding christmas music thing.  It’s a re-recording of the song from their 1994 album “Rock Art”  It has a bit of an epic hard rock/rock opera feel to it.  I think it’s always neat to have some metal/hard rock original xmas type music.

Various Artists
Ragnarok Juletide
Spinefarm
a bunch of different artists all together doing different xmas classics with a metal style… mostly a hard rock/power metal/rock opera style.  You aren’t getting any cookie monster death metal little drummer boy’s here.

Skalmold
Meo Vaettum
Napalm Records
Folk/viking metal, but a bit more on the black metal, fast fast metal side of things.  Pretty sure there aren’t any flutes or hurdy gurdys in here.  It’s good meat and potatoes brutal viking metal.

Aversions Crown
Tyrant
Nuclear Blast USA
Brutal-core-ish stuff from Australia.  Heavy, catchy and yup, brutal.

Cripper
Hyëna
Metal Blade Records
Catchy thrashy almost melodic death.  Great riffing, nice abrasive vocals, production is nice and crisp and there’s a bit of a groove going on too.

Primordial
Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Metal Blade Records
Doomy post-ish metal.  Long songs, a gothy doom sludgey

Thomas Giles
Modern Noise
Metal Blade Records
Front man from BTBAM is back with another solo effort.  A bit more on the prog rock side of things, or just some experimenteal/alt rock type stuff.

Blind Race
Come And Get It (EP) 2014
Self-Release (Asher)
At first it reminds me of some heavier Volbeat (probably because of the vocal style…) music is heaver and a bit of a shuffle beat going on. Otherwise, the vocals get a little more abrasive and turns into some decent modern metal.

Fayne
The Queen of Kings
Self-Release (digitally distributed by Crystal Math) (Asher Media)
Metalcore with some brutal crazy parts, but with a bit of a Protest the Hero thing going on too. (clean vox and some singy parts)

fubear.
Hopeless
Inverse Records
A sort of throwback to 70’s metal, but with a lil bit of a modern stoner rock vibe.

Sepulchral Temple
Sepulchral Temple
Invictus Productions
Noisy black/death metal.  two long tracks, production is a little muddy… and it almost sounds like kitchen sink metal… like, EVERYTHING is going on here.

Wayfarer
Children of The Iron Age
Prosthetic Records
Extreme post-metal atmospheric doom, some long tracks here, screaming, melodic stuff, but yet that cold black metal feel.

Cloudkicker
Live with Intronaut
Century Media
One man instrumental band from Ohio doing up some melodic metalcore type stuff. This is a live album where he had the band Intronaut perform as his backing band. Interesting stuff and sounds great for a live album!

ZOM
Flesh Assimilation
Invictus Productions
Fast, heavy black metal with vocals that are somewhat buried in the mix… a bit growly, music is in your face and loud… and yeah, vocals are reverbed up good and down in the mix.  eh.

LAST LEAF DOWN
Fake Lights
Lifeforce
When a bio describes a band with a genre of “Shoegaze”  I know it’s going to be something I’m not going to be a fan of.  sorry… just don’t like it.  Ambient/atmospheric slow doomy stuff.  Meh.

Dirty Mike & The Boys / Violation Wound / First Class Elite –
Grime! Greed! Gore! Split CD
Horror Pain Gore Death
Dirty Mike’s stuff are quick short punky metal songs.  Violation Wound… same thing, some punky metal short quick songs. First Class Elite is a bit more of a death metal thing with some punky vocals

United Progressive Fraternity
Fall In Love With The World
Inside Out
Definitely prog rock (not metal) A bit jazzy in parts, but full on prog stuff going on… always have that thought that a Prog show would be cool, right?

Other new stuff to us, but released earlier this year…

Metal Cross
Metal Cross 2LP + 7″
Horror Records
Two albums and an EP of older stuff from this band.  Pretty decent catchy old school melodic thrash.

Ignis Haereticum
Luciferian Gnosis
Goathorned Productions
Blackened death metal, decent production, just a right balance of black/death and brutality.

AFTERBIRTH
2014 Demo
Self-Released
Decent death metal music, but the gurgly frogman voice vocals are a bit distracting.

MASS HYPNOSIS
Sanctimonious
Self-Released
Heavy (low end) brutal thrash.  Some cool chugga chugga stuff going on.

Graveyard Ghoul + Cyptic Brood
The Graveyard Brood
Final Gate Records
CD 31. oct. 2014 / Vinyl LP: dec. 2014
Graveyard Ghoul is some thrashy/punky stuff maybe a bit like old school Slayer.  Cryptic Blood is some raw melodic death metal (not so great production)

Nameless One
Thousand Memories And Nameless Sword
Self-Released
7 October 2014
Melodic thrashy death metal. Sounds a bit like Arch Enemy, but maybe a bit more melodic.  I think lyrics are all in Japanese too… I think!? Pretty cool stuff though.

Mortal Factor
No Lessons Need Learning
Self-Released | Distribution – Non Stop Music
31 October 2014
Brutal thrashy stuff with some catchy stuff going on too.