Nile
What Should Not Be Unearthed
Nuclear Blast Records
Well, Nile has always been pretty cool.  Sometimes they get a little bit prog/death or have some longer songs and drift a bit, but are still classic intense death metal. This album is a bit more concise, shorter songs and more straightforward.

Hammercult
Built For War
SPV/Steamhammer
This has a great heavy thrash element, but kicked up a notch and maybe a little bit of a death feel, but also some proggy melodic stuff… all while staying heavy and tr00.

Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats
The Night Creeper
Rise Above
Some doomy stoner hard rock.  A bit raw in the production department but not too bad.

Baroness
“Chlorine & Wine”
Abraxan Hymns
Long track, a bit doomy and melodic… I’d have to say this would be a new stoner metal power ballad.

Once Human
The Life I Remember
earMusic
Melodic death metal… female fronted and with Logan Mader playing guitars.  Good abrasive female vox, a good groove, but still heavy and brutal too.

Burn Halo
Wolves Of War
eOne Entertainment
I’d have to say this is some modern metalcore type stuff.  Screamy vocals, clean vocals, that sort of “solid rock”  groove (reminds me of Disturbed a bit)

Amorphis
Under The Red Cloud
Nuclear Blast USA
In the early days of the Mosh Pit, the early albums from Amorphis were a staple… they got a bit more mainstream-ish (no growly vox!)  but have since returned a bit to form.  These pioneers of melodic death/black metal are back to keep it real and show who the masters are.  You’ve got the clean vox, the melody, the heavy stuff, the growly stuff too and even a little folk metal too.

My Dying Bride
Feel The Misery
Peaceville Records
Doomy melodic black metal.  album isn’t out til mid September, so we just have 2 songs here.  The 2nd one has all clean vox, first track is a bit heavier and has screamy vox.

Diemonds
Never Wanna Die
Napalm Records
Some nice hard rockin’ female fronted music going on here.  Catchy songs, but mostly of the hard rock more commercial friendly type of thing.

Ramming Speed
No Epitaphs
Prosthetic Records
Kind of a melodic death metal meets a metalcore.  Vocals are more of a screamy metalcore style, but them music has a bit more of a traditional metal/thrashy/melodic feel yet HEAVY. (oh, catchy too)

Quor
Human Paradigm
New Ocean
A thrashy mainstream metal thing… melodic more commercial sounding vocals, musically sort of a groovin’ thrash.

CHRISTIAN MISTRESS
To Your Death (Radio Promo)
Relapse Records
Just a two song sampler so far, but what I’m hearing is pretty damn good.  Catchy hard rockin’ female fronted stoner metal.  They keep the metal in stoner metal, great throwback vibe while staying heavy and modern sounding.

PIG DESTROYER
Prowler In The Yard Reissue
Relapse Records
Reissue of their album from 2001.  I am a bit late to the Pig Destroyer game… this old stuff was great too.  grindy brutal stuff.  Reissues are always a good excuse to bring back and play some cool classic stuff that people already knew and liked or maybe to get some new ears on it too.

Twitching Tongues
Disharmony – radio single
Metal Blade
Some melodic-ish death metal.  (one song)

Gomorrah
A Disaster’s Nightmare Single
Test Your Metal Records (Asher)
BRUTAL technical death metal!  (one track)  Looking forward to more!

RITO PROFANATORIO
GRIMORIOS E INVOCACIONES DESDE EL TEMPLO DE LA PERVERSION
Label: Dunkelheit Produktionen
Raw classic death metal with oh, I’d say a bit of black metal thrown in.  (Snare drum reminds me of St. Anger though… ugh)

Necromancy (Greece)
Ancient Wrath 12″ MLP
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Melodic, kind of proggy blackened doomy death metal…  yeah lots of genres covered in here (only 3 tracks)  The 3rd track is pretty raw though.

BENEATH THE STORM
Devil’s Village
Self Released
Sludgey doomy blackened/doom metal.  Reaaallly growly depressing vocals and music too.

CEMETERY LUST
Screams of the Violated (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
Kind of a Slayer-esque metal thing… heavier than thrash, but not quite up into death or black metal… but really close.  Brutal Thrash?  Great stuff.

Broken Flesh
Broken Flesh
Luxor Records
Fast brutal and a little bit grindy death metal.  Good production, heavy brutal sound with decen production and yeah a bit of a groove too.

Cretus
Dux Mea Lux
Pavement Entertainment
A thrashy melodic classic metal thing going on… with some hints of doomy 70’s metal (you know, kinda like Ghost)

CHAOS FRAME
Paths to Exile
Nightmare Records
This is pretty much your standard power metal, but then, hey, it’s actually more than that, we’re pretty proggy, maybe a bit like some older Dream Theater without so much wanking.

Black Tongue
The Unconquerable Dark
Century Media
Doomy death metal with a little bit of djent and black metal too.

Dalkhu
Descend… into Nothingness LP
Iron Bonehead
This might be some decent death metal… but… sounds like a cassette tape.  c’mon man!

Nechochwen
Heart of Akamon
Nordvis Produktion
Mostly some decent black metal, but this gets more into some cool prog metal while being all blackened death/black metal too.

Abominor (Iceland)
Opus: Decay
Invictus
Classic black metal sounding stuff.  Two long tracks.

Altarage
MMXV 7″ EP
Iron Bonehead
2 songs of blackened death metal.  A bit raw and straigtforward.

Morbid Slaughter
A Filthy Orgy of Horror and Death
Boris Records / Inti Records
Classic heavy thrash music with black metal vox…and it works pretty good in my opinion.  Has this classic old school metal feel but this creepy screamy vocals which make it something that I haven’t really heard before.

SIMPLE LIES
Let It Kill
Bakerteam Records
A glam-ish stoner metal thing, music has a groovin’ stoner hard rock with an 80’s metal voice.

MIDNIGHT / SHITFUCKER
Split 7″
Hells Headbangers
The Midnight track is some brutal fast, in your face blackened death.  Good stuff.  The Shitfucker track is more or less raw black metal.

Marty Friedman
“Inferno” Bonus Tracks
Prosthetic Records
Great classic metal on the first track, the second track is a lot of metal guitar noodling.  All great stuff though.

Black .44
No Blanks
Inverse
Stoner metal with a groove… So not quite “groove metal” but maybe “groove hard rock”

Barbarian Fist
The Whorelord Cometh
Voidcaller Records
Psychedelic stoner hard rock.  there’s a cool groove going on here, a bit melodic, LONG songs, but they seem to be interesting throughout.

BARYON
Inauguration
Dark Tunes
Doomy stoner metal with some long melodic passages and stuff.