Broken Hope
Live Disease at Brutal Assault
Century Media
Never sure what to expect from a death metal band doing a live album… I am pleasantly surprised at this one.  Great production/live mix… nice and clean.  This band is brutal death metal and now they have a recorded record that they pull this off live!

Haste The Day
Coward
Tooth and Nail
Mostly a modern metalcore thing, but we’re getting into some heavier stuff on here. A little djent, some screamo, some shouty stuff, melodic breaks… Probably a bit to “modern” or “post metal” for me, but there’s enough metal on the fringe to keep it ok.

Mindless Self Indulgence
PINK
Metropolis
This will probably fit Something Wonderful (the show before the MOsh Pit on WORT) more than ours, but I’ve always thought these guys were decent.  Fast uptemp “heavy” electronic stuff.  This is an album that was never really released before, but recorded a while back. Listen early in the Mosh Pit, or, maybe like REALLY early to hear it (say, on the show before ours?… yeah)

Parkway Drive
IRE
Epitaph
A bit of a hardcore meets groove… actually reminds me of a metalcore-ish Pro-Pain in a good way.

Exmortus
For The Horde (7″)
Prosthetic Records
Just two songs on this digital EP… these guys have the heavy thrashy brutal thing going on great, but then they mix in some traditional metal and it’s all awesome.

Leaves Eyes
King of Kings
AFM Records
These guys/gal have been consistent… kind of a very similar thing to Epica.  Epic symphonic metal mixed with some melodic death stuff too.

Huntress
Static
Napalm Records
Hard rock groovin’ classic female fronted metal.

Rocket Queen
Goodnight California
Fade To Silence Records
So, this is kinda of a hard rock thing with Green Day-like vox, and a bit of a poppy punk sound

Graveyard
Innocense & Decadence
Nuclear Blast USA
A groovin’ 70’s throwback stoner metal thing (just one song so far, but I’d like to hear more)

Denner / Shermann
Satan’s Tomb
Metal Blade Records
You know these guys from Mercyful Fate… well they wanted to make some music and teamed up with the singer from Cage and make four brand new great classic metal songs.  Catchy riffs, over the top yet still not “too much” vox…oh, and Snowy Shaw on drums!?  Great stuff!!

OPERATION: MINDCRIME
The Key
Frontiers Music srl
Or should this be called Geoff Tate 2.0?  Basically Geoff Tate’s melodic hard rock type stuff which is what he turned the later Queensryche and solo stuff into.  It’s not bad, but I prefer the heavier stuff.

SWAMP / FETID ZOMBIE
NECROMANTIC PASSAGES
MORBID VISIONS MUSIC
The Swamp is some pretty good raw brutal classic death metal.  Fetid Zombie is decent melodic proggy black metal

KRALLICE
Ygg Huur
Label: Avantgarde Music
A sort of screamy melodic black/death metal thing with some of those “Avant garde” tendencies.

Display of Decay
Dust of Existence
Self-Release ASHER
A good brutal groovin’ death metal.

Iniquitous Savagery
Subversions of the Psyche
Grindethic Records
Classic brutal death metal with maybe a little bit of Grind going on.  pretty good stuff.

Shrine of Insanabilis
Disciples of the Void
W.T.C.Productions
On the surface I guess you could say this is black metal, but it’s a bit more modern and brutal… so it doesn’t have that classic “cold” black metal thing going on.  It’s got a black metal feel while also being a bit melodic and deathy too.  Great stuff. So blackened death metal sure?  Compare to who?  I guess I’d say Behemoth.

Horna
Hengen Tulet
W.T.C.Productions
A sort of a classic black metal with a little bit of brutal thrash stuff.  These guys have been around since 1995… but this is the first I’ve heard of ’em.  Decent stuff going on.

Tantrum
Devirginized
Inverse
Some brutal raw old school thrash sounding stuff.  (thrashy music with growly vox)

Veiled
Omniscient Veil TAPE
Iron Bonehead
Classic old school sounding black metal.  lots of meedly meedly cold guitars with no real direction.

AmoK (Norway)
Necrospiritual Deathcore
Edged Circle Productions
Raw evil blackened death metal

TODESSTOSS
Hirngemeer
I, Voidhanger Records
Three really long tracks of experimental black metal/prog/weird.

Ruach Raah
Hate Fanaticism
War Arts Productions
Some more classic black metal.

Sivyj Yar
Burial Shrouds
Avantgarde Music
Melodic black metal from Russia.  A good “cold” black metal sound with some decent melodic stuff which keeps things interesting.

DECEASED
Cadaver Traditions (2CD)
Hells Headbangers
This is seemingly a compilation of like, every cover song this band has done. (53 tracks!)  Some sound pretty raw and live, but all decent from a wide variety of metal bands.

88 Mile Trip
Through The Thickest Haze
Label: Self-Release
Release Date: 17 September 2015
Genre: Stoner Rock/Metal | Country: Canada