Agent Fresco
Destrier
Long Branch
Well I’d have to say while this is a decent rock type release, it’s not really “metal”  A little bit proggy and maybe even pop-modern rock type stuff.  Not quite sure this has a place on the Mosh Pit.

Lamb of God
VII: Sturm Und Drang
Epic
Now here we go!   While these guys haven’t done anything bad since their inception, some albums have been better than others.  This is one that’s better than others.  With everything that’s happened, it seemed to have charged them up.  A big ramp up with some singles and videos, Randy’s book, etc.  This is a great payoff to finally hear the full album.  it’s on!

Xandria
Fire & Ashes (EP)
Napalm Records
Some modern sounding power metal with female vox.  Heavier than most “femetal” stuff musically, but the vox are in the opera style. So it’s cool for fans of the more epic femetal type stuff.  (and there’s a cover of Meatloaf’s “I’d Do Anything For Love”  haha

Murder FM
Happy Never After
Pavement Music
Kind of a Modern metal think with a little bit of a Marilyn Manson music feel with some guitar driven keyboard stuff.  Vox are mostly clean but with that Manson style going on too.

Kataklysm
Of Gods And Ghosts
Nuclear Blast USA
You want good death metal?  This is the band right here.  Brutal, catchy, technical, heavy, crisp production… this is it.  These guys never disappoint.  This one has a little bit of melodic stuff going on here and there too.

AGUSA
Agusa 2
The Laser’s Edge
A couple of about 20 minute long instrumental tracks of good ol (psychedelic) prog rock.  (not metal)

PERVERSOR
Anticosmocrator (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
Brutal blackened death metal… a bit of a thrashy thing, but pretty much fast, evil black metal tinted death metal.  Good n Raw.

OBSIDIAN
Time Erodes
Self Released
Deathy thrashy metal with a bit of a groove.

Iron Kingdom
Ride For Glory
Self-Released
Classic metal in the lines of Priest and Maiden.  Cool guitar work, great over the top vox and a full sound that you just don’t get to hear much anymore.

Barshasketh
Ophidian Henosis
Blut & Eisen Productions
Petty good melodic black metal

My Hollow
On Borrowed Time
Self-Release
Modern metal, with a bit of a thrashy catchy vibe.  Screamy vocals, some melodic stuff going on, almost crossing into a feeling of melodic death musically.

Mastiphal
For A Glory of All Spirits, Rise for Victory LP/CD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Melodic proggy black metal.  There’s some consistent keyboard action, but the cold guitars and scary black metal vox are all there with the blast beats too.  good production rounds this out to be decent stuff.

Shroud of the Heretic
Unorthodox Equilibrium
Iron Bonehead
Some classic doomy melodic black metal with looonnng sonnnnggss..

Kore Rozzik
Rock Star [single]
Self Release
Just a classic hard rock catchy type song.

Deathstorm
The Gallows EP
Dying Victims Productions
They say it’s thrash, but I say it’s heavier than that even… maybe a blackened thrash type thing but with some Slayer vibes going on.  Cool stuff from Austria.

Dresden
Dresden
Famined Records
Melodic prog rock type stuff.  Maybe not even metal… yeah, not metal, but ok if you like Stephen Wilson type stuff.

HYBRID NIGHTMARES
The Third Age
Self Released
Well, this is the 3rd EP of this series… Same stuff as the others… It’s got elements of melodic death, thrash, and harsh black metal-like vocals.  Pretty cool catchy stuff going on too.

GOTH
GOTH
Manifest Record
Hummmm  what to expect from a band called Goth.  Well, yeah, I guess it’s a little Goth.  but I’d say it’s a bit more in the femetal genre with some gothy stuff going on too.  I’m sure it could be compared a bit to Lacuna Coil with a male/female vocal pairing with a standard metal type music backing.

FULLY CONSUMED
Incendium
Art Consumed Records
This is one of those albums that just starts off with a bang to set the tone.  No “intro” No spoken word movie quote.  Just brutal death metal from the first note.

To The Pain
7
Self-Released
A bit of a raw light thrash thing with vox that sound a bit like Dave Mustaine in parts, otherwise it’s a little growly.

Pray of North
Bloodline (Single)
Inverse
Catchy modern metal (vocals are in english but with a strong euro accent or something)

LYNCH MOB
Rebel
Frontiers Music srl
Great classic hard rock… still with original singler Oni Logan.  Catchy songs with a throwback feel, but still new sounding.

Joe Satriani
Shockwave Supernova
Legacy Recordings
Well, Joe has quite the lineup on this new album. Bryan Bellor, Marco Minneman and Mike Keneally… and yeah, Joe himself.  This isn’t messing around.  Just the first song/title track is enough to sell you on this thing.  Classic Joe solos and music, but really stepping it up with the other musicians on this.

CORNERS OF SANCTUARY
Prelude To War (The Japan Demo)
Self Released (Online Metal Promo)
Some classic metal mixed in with a bit of thrash… not too bad.

Atreyu
“Long Live” (single)
Spinefarm