Singles from….
Act of Defiance, The Black Dahlia Murder, Slayer, Fear Factory, Parkway Drive, Disturbed
Tune in to the mosh pit to hear them!

CUT UP
Forensic Nightmares
Metal Blade
100% brutal death metal… great solos, fast, technical and yeah, I’ll say it again… Brutal!

Lindemann
Skills In Pills
Warner
When you have a solo project from Rammstein’s frontman, you can expect it’s going to sound a bit like Rammstein right?  Well, it does and that’s not a bad thing.   It’s probably not quite as heavy and more melodic… but there are some good heavy moments, just not “FAST” heavy.

Robots and Monsters
Down To Ash
(self)
A hardcore/metal commercial metal mix going on with some cool catchy stuff too.

Refused
Freedom
Epitaph Records
I can’t say I’ve ever really been a fan of these guys, as they’re primarily punk and they were just off my radar.  Well, this new album lets me take a fresh look… it’s not too shabby, a bit punky, but hardcore and just plain metal and hard rock stuff going on.

Thy Art Is Murder
Holy War
Nuclear Blast Entertainment
Heavy, techy death metal with a math metal/meshuggah feel just from the proggy standpoint… otherwise, it’s good ol technical brutal death metal! \m/

Runaway Kids
Better Days (EP)
Mediaskare
Punky emo metal, yeah the songs are catchy, but I’m not quite sure this is for the Mosh Pit.

GLOWSUN
Beyond the Wall of Time
Napalm Records
Big riffy doomy stoner metal with some pretty long ass songs.  Normally long doomy songs get kinda boring… this has some good metal moments going on.

Next To None
A Light In The Dark
InsideOut
This will always be the band known as the one with Mike Portnoy’s kid in it… but that’s not a bad thing.  This is actually some good stuff especially when the band is made up of like 15 year old and they’re throwing out some prog metal beyond their years.  Yeah it’s a lot like some older Dream Theater, but also throw in a little Slipknot too.  The only thing that’s a bit rough are the vocals, but not enough to really ruin anything.

Demoncy
Empire of the Fallen Angel (Eternal Black Dominion) CD/LP
Forever Plagued
Doomy gloomy black metal.

Thornesbreed
GTRD
Art of Propaganda
Melodic blackened death metal.

AZAVATAR
AZAVATAR
Art of Propaganda
Decent classic black metal with good production

OHHMS
Cold
Label: Holy Roar Records
Two tracks of really long stoner metal.  The description said sludgey post metal… but it’s really not quite that bad.  Just some long tracks of doomy stoner metal.

Harrow
Fallow Fields
Label: Avantgarde Music
Another one of those black metal things… just decent doomy depressing black metal.

Dystopia Na
Dweller on the Threshold
Label: Avantgarde Music
Proggy doomy blackened metal…. going into some standard just prog rock type stuff.

Antonio Pantano
Arcandia
Label: Self-Released
Symphonic prog metal… yeah epic man.

ABNORMAL THOUGHT PATTERNS
Altered States Of Consciousness
Lifeforce
Instrumental prog metal.  Good stuff, lots of great guitar work

Strains
Redefine[d]
Famined Records
Some catchy melodic death or maybe a little bit of metalcore going on.

Barshasketh
Ophidian Henosis
Blut & Eisen Productions
Some classic old school melodic black metal.

Lothlöryen
Principles of a Past Tomorrow
Label: Self-Released
Folky power metal, kind of a nice change from lots and lots of black metal.

DISORDER
En El Rio Del Olvido
Label: Morbid Skull Records
Blackened thrashy death metal

DEATHHAMMER
Evil Power (CD, LP, TAPE)
Hells Headbangers
This sounds like something that may have come out in the early 80’s.   Just a super heavy fast classic thrashy thing… oh with satanic lyrics and stuff.  I think this is the “other” pick of the week.

BEARSTORM
Americanus
Grimoire Records
There seems to be a Mastodon thing going on here… guitar sound, a little bit of style, a proggy stoner metal thing, heaver in parts, more Clutch like in other parts pretty cool overall.

Blasphemy
Fallen Angel of Doom… LP/CD/MC
Nuclear War Now! Productions / Ross Bay Cult
raw death metal

Insulter
Blood Spits, Violences and Insults LP/CD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Raw black/death metal… a bit too raw.  I’m pretty sure this is a few EPs (probably tapes) put together on one thing.  eh.

Ysengrin
Liber Hermetis DLP
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Doomy death metal

Aversion
Aversion
Self-Released
Black metal, cold, evil guitars, decent production, pretty harsh creepy vox.