Pallbearer
“Fear and Fury” (Decibel Tour Flexi)
Profound Lore
sludgy doomy stuff with a bit of melody. Just one song, so might be good for some chill time on the Mosh Pit.

Ranger
Where Evil Dwells
Spinefarm
Old school thrash with high screamy (with some edge) vocals, great catchy metal riffage and an overall joy to listen to!

The Sanity Days
Evil Beyond Belief
Candlelight
Thrashy stuff, a bit similar to Metal Church, great catchy guitar work and maybe a little big proggy too.

Segression
Painted In Blood
Murder Machine
It’s sort of a melodic death, thrashy and crunchy but with some melodic stuff going on too.  Vocals go clean and not-clean and guitar work is great too.

THE ANSWER
Raise A Little Hell
Napalm Records
Melodic throwback hard rock type stuff. A little on the AC/DC side of things, but then a bit more on the catchy melodic “prog rock” sound

MOONSPELL
Extinct
Napalm Records
Ever since these guys decided to be “metal” again, they’ve been on a roll and this keeps it going.  A nod to the heavier side of things, but more on the gothy melodic metal side. Great stuff.

KATAVASIA (from Greece)
Sacrilegious Testament
FLOGA Records
Black metal, with a throwback melodic feel, but I’m also getting a little bit of a Moonspell vibe going on tool.  Heavy and brutal yet still a bit melodic and catchy too.

Lago
Tyranny LP
Blood Harvest
Blackened Death metal…great brutal stuff, some cold, melodic black metal guitars, cookie monster vocals alternating with some black metal screams… blast beats, it’s good stuff.

Rellik
Spiraling Infinite Chaos
Horror Pain Gore Death
A bit like the Lago above, some death metal, but with some good black metal tendencies.  This one is a bit more death metal and basic, but still pretty good.

Sorcerer
In the Shadow of the Inverted Cross
Metal Blade Records
A bit of a darker feel of traditional metal.  A bit like Dio musically and similar style vocally too. A bit more down tempo from something thrashy, but still all metal.

HADAL
The Obscure I
Self-Released
Doomy melodic death metal. Some clean vox with a few growls.  Music is mostly melodic (opeth damnation type stuff), it gets a bit more distorty when the growls kick in, but never really gets into full on death metal type stuff.

Damian Murdoch Trio
Jump Rope With Electric Wires
Prosthetic Records
Guitar virtuoso stuff going on here, great stuff. (just a single so far – boooo)