Wild Throne
Harvest of Darkness
Roadrunner Records
A sort of melodic metalcore/proggy metal thing with a Deftones feel.

Clutch
Psychic Warfare
Weathermaker
New Clutch!  This is more of a hard rockin feel with a big fat sound and catchy as hell.  Great stuff.

W.A.S.P.
Golgotha
Napalm Records
A new classic metal album from good ol Blackie Lawless and crew.  I’m hearing a pretty straightforward classic metal sound… nothing really going WHOA! WASP!!  But nothing horrible either… it’s almost a classic rock sound too.  Good stuff though.

Separations
Dream Eater
Imagen Records
Clean vox/growled vox and a catchy melodic metalcore.  A lot of different stuff going on… djent, hardcore, mallcore, brutalcore… yeah lots of cores.. melodicore electronicmetalicore whineyemovocalcore hashtagcore.  But then some songs are mostly brutalcore too… soo maybe to whineycore for the mosh pit but it’s pretty decent

Saber Tiger
Best Of
Cleopatra Records
A best of compilation for this Japanese thrash/metal outfit.  Around since the early 80’s and putting out new stuff until 2012… and still touring.  Great classic yet modern melodic metal.  I guess a best-of is a great starting point here!

Veronica Freeman
Now Or Never
Frontiers Records
Classic metal sound… female fronted, she sounds a bit like Blackie Lawless… great powerful voice with some rasp.

Any Given Sin
Forbidden
Resurrection Records
A classic sounding groove metal, a bit like a Black Label Society

MONSTER MAGNET
Cobras and Fire (The Mastermind Redux)
Napalm Records
Monster Magnet taking and totally re-doing an earlier album again… in this case, they rearrange their 2010 Mastermind album.  Not sure if it’s just writer’s block to rehash old stuff or what… either way, this re-do is kind of like a more psychedelic version.

NEVER TO ARISE
GORE WHORES ON THE KILLING FLOOR
CIMMERIAN SHADE RECORDINGS
Brutal death metal.. morbid song titles and I assume lyrics… fits the whole death metal persona thing, right?  Good stuff.

Malady
Malady
Svart Records
Psychedelic 70’s throwback prog rock… I guess I wouldn’t even call this metal, but it got sent via a metal and I already had the info copied here.  It’s pretty cool if you’re an ELP/Deep Purple fan.

Days Of Collapse
We Got This Far
Imminence Records
A raw punky metal/mathcore thing.  In your face.

Vantablack Warship
Self-Titled EP
Self-Release (Asher)
A heavier than thrash thrash with a bit of a Slayer gets some groove thing happening.

Dope Stars Inc.
The Saw Saga EP
Self Released on Bandcamp
Electronic hard rock type stuff… this is an “EP” of the songs they had on the Saw soundtracks…

ISLAY
Angels` Share
Final Gate Records
A cool catchy death metal with a bit of melodic stuff going on here and there… but overall, great brutal death metal.

THE UNDER
THE UNDER
SELF RELEASED
Proggy hard rock. With some great vox, prog rock underpinnings with some metal flourishes… probably deserves a deeper listen than I’m giving in my mini-review.

A bunch of stuff from Witching Hour records out of Poland hit the inbox at once… this stuff all came out a few weeks ago…
NON OPUS DEI
“Diabe?”
Melodic death/doom/black metal.

NOMAD
“Tetramorph”
Death metal with a little bit of black metal feel.  Good brutal hold your invisible orange up in the air kind of stuff.

SACRILEGIUM
“Sleeptime”
Old school crappy production black metal.

GRAVELAND
“Epilogue”
This is one of those things that might have promise if the production was a bit better… but it’s an old school black metal thing with a lot of a weird bass/guitar sound that just overwhelms.  meh.

HOLY DEATH
“Triumph Of Evil”
A trashy thing with an old school death metal feel.  One of the best of this bunch from Witching Hour.