KMFDM
Salvation EP
Metropolis
This band is hit or miss when it comes to crossing over to the Mosh Pit.  Usually it’s a miss… and this time again, it’s not quite metal and with a whole show before the Mosh Pit (Something Wonderful) that is all up on this stuff, I think we’ll pass this EP on to Ryan…

Failure
The Heart Is A Monster
InGrooves
An Alice In Chains type thing, but with a bit of a doomy stoner metal thing going on.

The Maension
AEvolution
Self-Released
A bit of a hard rock thing with a bit of proggy stuff going on, more of a commercial hard rock thing going on too.  Pretty interesting stuff, but probably not as much for the Mosh Pit

Yuth Forever
Freudian Slip
Prosthetic
I guess they used to be called Villians… and now Yuth Forever… a bit screamy punky metalcore.

Between the Buried and Me
Coma Ecliptic
Metal Blade Records
These guys have gotten more and more proggy and maybe a bit less heavy… but at the same time more interesting too.  This new album should cement them firmly in the prog metal hall of fame.

DragonForce
In the Line of Fire… Larger Than Live
Metal Blade Records
Can they pull this stuff off live?  Of course they can… and here’s recorded proof.

Cradle of Filth
Hammer of The Witches
Nuclear Blast USA
First new album in a while and first without Paul Allender in a while too… Well, you still have that classic Cradle of Filth sound… this might be a bit more catchy and more straightforward metal.  Dani Filth’s trademark vocals are in full force….and it’s nice to just have new stuff from these guys again… Dimmu Borgir who?

Karbholz
Karma
Metalville Records
German hard rock with a pinch of punk going on (lyrics are all in German too)  It’s a bit catchy, but a bit too rock n roll and not metal.

Nihilosaur
Icebreaker Hope
Self-Released
Release Date: December 12th, 2014
Genre: Death Metal/Hardcore | Origin: Poland

DH Project
The Resurrection
Self Released
I guess I’d call this metalcore… brutal heavy, yet melodic, mostly growly vocals with some clean singing too.

UNLEASH THE ARCHERS
Time Stands Still
Napalm Records
Kind of a Dragonforce meets melodic death metal.  Big screamy metal vocals and then you get some growls too.  Pretty cool actually.

The Negation
Memento Mori
Kaotoxin
Wall of sound noisy blackened death metal.  Raw, in your face and brutal

Sudden Death
Monolith Of Sorrow
Killerpool Records
Classic Cookie monster death metal… great stuff though

Svärta
Sepultus
A Sad Sadness Song
Old school black metal… a bit drony, but fast in some parts too.  Pretty raw and evil.

EVEMASTER – III
Country: Finland
Label: The Goatmancer
Melodic Blackened death metal.  A bit of a doomy feel, but not enough to make it a snoozer.  it’s got some good death stuff, great proggy melodic stuff and a good amount of brutality.  good stuff.

PARTY CANNON
Bong Hit Hospitalisation
Gore House Productions
I’d say it’s party metal, but it’s pretty much full on classic death metal. Song titles are silly and I’m sure the lyrics are too… decent meat and potatoes death metal going on though.

SOULLINE
Welcome My Sun
SEO RECORDS
Deathy Thrash metal from Switzerland, a good groove going on, not too deathy and not too thrashy…

On Top
Topless
Toil Records
Classic hard rockin’ old time metal.  Catchy songs, great riffs.

Dysentery
Fragments
Comatose Music
Brutal death metal.  A bit of a groove… but mostly like some Cannibal Corpse stuff… pretty cool.

Necromantic Worship
Spirit of the Entrance Unto Death TAPE
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Not sure if this is really music other than some creepy organ and ambient scary doom groove black metal.  Meh.

Undergang
Døden Læger Alle Sår
Dark Descent
Brutal blackened death metal.  A little bit grindy, but a brutal evil grindy.

Dark Hound
Oceans
Self-Released
I guess i’d call this some standard “metal”  a bit thrashy, a little proggy… just all around some good metal.

Gutalax
Shit Happens
Label: Rotten Roll Rex
Any album that starts off with a fart sound… well, yeah!  Cool death/gore grindy music, but the vocals?  Sounds like someone making funny throat noises or pig squeals in most parts… otherwise, I finally got to some cookie monster growls.

MACABRE DEMISE
Homicidal Parasites
Rebirth The Metal Productions
Fast, brutal death metal.  As Mike would say, the “fucking around factor is pretty low on this one”  Yeah, agree… there’s no fucking around  100% brutal metal

Juggernaut
Trama!
Subsound Records
Proggy hard rock/experimental metal with some jazzy and maybe latin stuff going on too.

Harrow
Fallow Fields
Label: Avantgarde Music
Doomy ambient folky black metal.

EnkeliNation
EP
EMail submission
Female fronted prog metal from the UK.  Music is proggy, vox are along the operattic “fe-metal” lines