New Stuff This Week… 4/6/15

Station
Station
Electric Cheetah
Sounds just like some 90’s hard rock AOR type stuff. It’s a little like some Whitesnake or that sort of band from that era.  While it’s good and all, I’m not sure it’s long term Mosh Pit material.

Sworn In
The Lovers/The Devil
Razor & Tie
A little djenty, math metal, (a Winds of Plague tone) brutalcore type stuff… then into a melodic chorus with singy vox… while it’s that sort of catchy pop-metal chorus thing, I’m not quite sure if it’s a full on deal breaker yet.  Ok, more tracks are like it… so, hmmm…

Kings Destroy
“Mr. O” (single)
War Crime
Catchy melodic stoner metal.

Agnostic Front
The American Dream Died
Nuclear Blast USA
Great hardcore stuff as always, with the very distinctive vocals which really makes these guys stand out and you know exactly who you got.  The music is heavy and great…

Cracked Alice
Soul Debris (EP)
Independent
Kind of commercial metal sounding, melodic stuff, some catchy guitars and maybe a little bit prog rockish too.

HEIDEVOLK
Velua
Napalm Records
Folk metal with some thrashy stuff and death metal stuff going on musically, pretty catchy and the folk stuff works well with this band.

Whitesnake
Radio Sample
Frontiers Music
Just a two song sampler from the forthcoming album… Coverdale decided to go back and re-do a bunch of his old Deep Purple tracks with the current Whitesnake lineup… I have to say it sounds pretty good, as I was a little late on a lot of the deeper or not so popular DP tracks.  This has “Stormbringer” and “Burn”

Malthusian
Below the Hengiform
Invictus Productions
Brutal and chaotic doomy black/death metal. Three long tracks, sometimes pretty blah, but it does get heavy and fast and a little melody too.  Sometimes bands like this just stay in that drony noise, but this one breaks free and gets brutal.

Ill Omen
Compendium Melificarum – Esoterica CD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Old school black metal, a little mooshy on the production… you know that “old school” feel, where you can’t really pick anything out, it’s just all kind of mooshed together in a black metal noise.

DENIZEN
Troubled Waters
Argonauta Records
Stoner metal with some attitude.  Catchy stuff, not all that “brutal”… just some southern stoner metal feelin’ type stuff… like the more up-tempo Clutch stuff.

SKYFORGER
Senpr?sija
Thunderforge Records
Catchy melodic black metal, then we get into some folk metal too… There’s a little bit of thrash and melodic death stuff going on here too.  Great stuff.

Apophys
Prime Incursion
Metal Blade Records
Brutal death metal with oh, technical stuff too.

LAY SIEGE
hopeisnowhere
Lifeforce
Metal/hardcore meat and potatoes type stuff.  pretty cool

Ether
Hymns of Failure DCD
Sepulchral Productions
Some pretty long tracks of classic black metal.

ABOMINATOR
Evil Proclaimed (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
Classic heavy blackened death metal. There’s a bit of an evil feel or as mike would say “What’s THEIR Problem?” hehe.  cool stuff.

SATANIC WARMASTER
Fimbulwinter (CD, LP, TAPE)
Hells Headbangers / Werewolf Records
Another from the “What’s THEIR problem” department.  Fast, heavy classic black metal. Cold guitars, good production, evil vocals and your good ol fashioned blast beats.  A bit of a melodic break here and there to make it more interesting.

Morgoth
Ungod
Century Media
Classic death metal from a classic death metal band! First real album since 1996 !   New vocalist, classic death metal going on here and it’s 100% brutal.  Great stuff.

INCANTATION
Entrantment of Evil MLP
Hells Headbangers
Reissue from 1990… Sounds like good stuff… classic death metal from a great band.

Psychomancer
Inject the Worms
Orchestrated Misery Recordings
Thrashy death metal leaning more towards the classic death metal side of things.

Oshiego
Crossing The Bridge Of Siraat CD
Horror Pain Gore Death
Thrashened death metal with some middle-eastern riffs/sounds. This band is actually from Singapore and has some catchy brutal stuff going on.

IMPALERS
GOD FROM THE MACHINE
CRIME RECORDS
Fast, heavy thrash from Denmark.  Great catchy galloping riffs,

Spitfire
Fuel To Burn
Indie Recordings
Hard rock with a catchy side… probably a bit on the “solid rock” side of things for the Mosh Pit… but it would fit on that show that I’d do if I had another show for this type of stuff. haha.

PLAGE
Den Kristne Stank
Alusia Productions
And old school black metal thing, pretty much that classic black metal thing going on.

Strong Addiction
Anesthesia
Inverse Records
Hard Rock/Melodic metal… reminds me a little of Last Crack actually.

Sinners Moon
Atlantis
Inverse
Fe-metal… power metal-ish music, female fronted stuff with epic orchestra stuff going on…and what’s this?  growls?  Yup… sweet.  We got some epica sounding stuff now… and now we’re talking. Good stuff.

Velvet Six
Demons Los Divas
Inverse
Gothy Hard rock… some organ stuff to make it you know, all creepy and gothy.  It’s interesting, haven’t heard any real decent gothy stuff lately.

DESPOT
PICTURES OF THE VOID
SELF RELEASED
Old school black metal but fast and thrashy too.  Production is a bit raw, but still good enough.

Shroud of Despondency
Family Tomb
Self-released
1 February 2015

Between the Buried and Me
Memory Palace – radio single
Metal Blade Records
Starting off here, I thought I was listening to some new Opeth!  Proggy organs and stuff… if the rest of their album this will be cemeting these guys more and more into the prog metal halls of fam. Album comes up July 7.  Can’t Waid!

VASOMORTUS
Instrument Torture Of Pyramid
Brute Productions
Heavy, brutal, old school death metal

Pohjoinen
Pohjoinen
Inverse Records
Doomy doom metal with a throwback to some 70s’ metal.

CYHYRAETH
Servant To The Fire
Self Released
Female fronted melodic death metal.  Vocally, it’s a little bit like Arch Enemy, musically, a bit more on the death metal side.  Good stuff.