Abiotic
Casuistry
Metal Blade Records
Technical death metal.  Fast, in your face modern death metal with some almost Cynic like musical proggy techy interludes.  Vocals are just full on brutal.  I want to break things now.

Continuum
The Hypothesis
Unique Leader
Brutal core death metal, screamy angry vox along with great cookie monster growls.

Red Moon Architect
Fall
Playground Music
So it’s starting off with some femetal vocals, all quiet and unassuming, then boom, death metal.  YEEESSSS.  So yeah, the comparisons to Opeth come into play, as it’s some standard doomy female fronted rock type stuff, then we get into cool doomy death metal stuff.  Cool dynamics.

Stone Sour
Meanwhile In Burbank…
Roadrunner
Covers EP with 5 tracks… Alice In Chains, Priest, Kiss, Metallica, Sabbath.  A good straightfoward slab of 5 covers.  I’m a sucker for cover songs, so this is pretty cool.

Armored Saint
Win Hands Down – radio single
Metal Blade Records
Well, when John Bush was in Anthrax, he was out there a lot more, and since he’s gone, we really only get to hear him in is “own” band… and it’s great.  Just solid classic metal.  This is just a single for now, but Armored Saint doesn’t disappoint.

Airstream
Kingdom Of Isolation
Metalville Records
One of those early-mid 90’s hard rock/AOR sounding type bands.  We got clean vox, keyboards, catchy hooks, but probably just not quite Mosh Pit Material.

MAMMOTH MAMMOTH
Volume IV – Hammered Again
Napalm Records
A grungy punk/stoner metal type thing.  More musically, it’s stoner metal, vocally, I think the punk or whatever the style is kind of ruins it a bit for me.

Embrace of Thorns
Darkness Inpenetrable LP/CD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Fast and furious black metal leaning towards death metal.

NELSON
Rockstar Radio Single
Frontiers Music
Well, yes, it’s THE Nelson.  This is just a single, and it’s some catchy hard rock.  Sounds like old Nelson but with shorter haircuts.

Shrine Of The Serpent
Shrine Of The Serpent
Materia Prima Records
Sludgey death metal, 3 long songs.

BLACK FLAME
The origin of Fire
Avantgarde Music
Blackened Death metal from Italy.  Good fast pace, evil sounding vox, cold guitars, yet some melody mixed in with the blast beats.

DOWNFALL OF NUR
Umbras de Barbagia
Avantgarde Music
Atmospheric Folk Black Metal from Argentina.  A mix of some melodic death/black metal with noisy death metal.

Éohum
Revelations, Aurora of An Epoch
Mycelium Networks (Asher Media)
Black/death metal with some epic stuff going on, trumpet in a track or two, some doom stuff, but also full on black and death metal too.

BAND OF SPICE
Economic Dancers
Scarlet Records
Remember that band Spritual Beggars and how awesome their first couple albums were?  And the singer’s name was Spice.  This band’s name has that word in it too… coincidence?  Nope.  A catchy hard rockin’ stoner metal type band with Spice on lead vox.  Not quite as good as Spiritual Beggars, but this reminds me a little bit of some basic Trouble and just some catchy stoner metal.

Seigmen
Enola
Indie Recordings
Melodic doomy not-quite-metal stuff.

BANTORIAK
Weedooism
Argonauta Records
Heavy doomy down tempo slow “metal”   One track is “try to sleep”  well, yeah, nuff said.

Sacred Blood
Argonautica
Pitch Black Records
Anthemic power metal.  I found myself pumping my fist and wanting to sing along.  SOme epic symphonic keyboardy stuff, catchy stuff too.

BLADECATCHER
Obverse
EEE Recordings
Fast, technical death metal, but the production kind of sucks.  bummer. It’s intense, fast and cool.

STARSICK SYSTEM
Daydreamin’
Bakerteam Records
A little bit Fates Warning, a little 80’s hard rock going on.

Infernus
Grinding Christian Flesh
Moribund
Scary, old school black metal.  Raw, evil, creepy and full on metal. Production isn’t great, but it’s not unlistenable either.

Wende
Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft
Moribund
Old school black metal, a bit more atmospheric and doomy… still fast and screamy vox, but just even a darker more depressing feel than the stereotypical “old school black metal”

Black Witchery + Revenge (Canada)
Holocaustic Death March to Humanity’s Doom – split MLP/MCD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
BLack witchery is some sludgey, yet old school black metal with some “meh” production.  Revenge just one 10 min. track of full on death metal…

Witch of The Waste
Made of Teeth
Self Released (Asher)
Thrashy, a bit metalcore, a bit death metal.

Acid King
Middle of Nowhere, Center of Everywhere
Svart Records
Big meaty, doomy sludge metal

Nocternity (Greece)
Harps of the Ancient Temples
Iron Bonehead
doomy black metal.  Lots of that cold guitar, down tempo and depressing.