Tempel
The Moon Lit Our Path
Prosthetic Records
Melodic doomy black metal, kind of proggy with some maybe (older) Opeth dynamics… heavy, and melodic parts and long songs….and all instrumental!

KEN Mode
Success
Season of Mist
A punky stoner metal type thing.  Raw vocals, a bit of a groove in the music, some catchy stuff, but overall a bit grungy.

Mallory Knox
Asymmetry
SIN
Kind of an emo pop-hard rock thing.  Overall, it’s not bad hard rock stuff, just not really for the Mosh Pit.

High On Fire
Luminiferous
eOne
This is how big bad stoner metal should be.  Extra heavy, raw, in your face and doing what they always do.

Edge of Paradise
Immortal Waltz
Pure Steel Records
Female fronted metal… a bit of a hard rock feel.  Vocal style is fairly straightforward singing with a little bit of rasp and going into clean vox.  Ok stuff.

Dew-Scented
Intermination
Prosthetic Records
Trashy, brutal, catchy, heavy… all the stuff that makes these guys awesome is all here in their new album.  They are not taking their foot off the gas.  Great stuff.

Mefitic
Woes of Mortal Devotion LP/CD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Old school black metal with gurgly vocals, production is a bit muddy, but you can tell there’s some cool stuff going on.

Vattnet Viskar
Settler
Century Media
Kind of a melodic doomy black metal

ROLLING THROUGH THE UNIVERSE
Lethe
Hidden Temple Records
Sludgey doomy post metal… a bit too depressing for me.

Nekromanteion
Cosmic Horrors 7″ EP
Iron Bonehead
Kind of a black metal with some thrash happening… production is pretty tinny.

Acrania
Fearless
Label: Self-Released
Experimental death metal from Mexico… horns, bongo drums and some jazzy stuff going on too giving it a latin feel…. this is pretty cool (must have open mind)

FIGHT AMP
Constantly Off
Brutal Panda Records
A bit punky in raw attitude, otherwise, it’s some metal with some stoner metal type qualities.

REANIMATOR
Horns Up
Self Released
Album title says it all.  Horns up!!  Classic thrash going on here… great catchy riffs and perfectly heavy.

Fuck The Facts – RADIO SINGLE ‘SOLITUDE’
Desire Will Rot
Noise Salvation
Kind of a stoner black metal… pretty cool stuff.

M.H.X’s Chronicles
Infinite Ocean
Label: Self-Released
Melodic death.  Pretty standard stuff, Iron Maiden riffs meet some thrashy death stuff with growly vox.. probably like a Dark Tranquillity or Hypocrisy

Lost Reflection
CARECROWD
Label: SG Records
A straightforward metal/hard rock thing with a pinch of thrash… but overall a heavy AOR type thing. A bit of an Alice Cooper vibe.

Graveyard Shifters
High Heels & Broken Bones
Eternal Sound
Thrashy metal with a little bit of punk attitude, yet some melodic heavy stuff going on too. They seem to be not taking themselves too seriously too. Good stuff.

SHRAPNEL STORM
MOTHER WAR
WITCHES BREW
A basic groove death metal with some sludgey grungy guitars going on.

Gestalt
Infinite Regress
Label: Self-Released
Modern sounding black metal.  Production is a bit tinny, but the music is there.  Melodic stuff, evil vocals

Barbelith
Mirror Unveiled
Grimoire Records
Post metal black metal.  Long songs.. .melodic stuff, fast stuff, overall, production is ok

HELLRAD
Things Never Change
Label: Self-Released
Sludgey metal…screamy/growly vox.

W. ANGEL’S CONQUEST
Taste of Life
Ferrrum
Just starting off, it’s reminding me a bit of some old Dream Theater… it’s going more into a standard heavier power metal area as we get in deeper.  Pretty good stuff.