STRYPER
Fallen
Frontiers Music srl
Classic Stryper.  Not real any rippers on here, just some classic metal.

Twitching Tongues
Disharmony
Metal Blade Records
Kind of some hardcore but with gothy doom taking over.  A bit of a Type O/Life of Agony meets Hatebreed thing going on.  Not too many bands throwing those beats down.  Cool stuff.

With the Dead
With The Dead
Rise Above
Sludgey doom stoner metal with a bit boomy sound.

Coheed and Cambria
The Color Before the Sun
Roadrunner Records
Cool proggy rock… pretty much like all of their stuff.  Probably not really mosh pit material though.

Eye of the Destroyer
Methods of Murder
Self-Released
Brutal death metal, fast and frenetic, grindy and chugga chugga brutal.

Killing Joke
Pylon
Spinefarm
Kind of a post-punk/industrial/alt rock type thing.  They’ve been on the fringes of metal/hard rock, but still not quite ready for the Mosh Pit.

Counting Days
Liberated Sounds
Mascot
A bit thrash, hardcore and yeah, metalcore… cuz that’s what metalcore is right?  metal and hardcore mixed up with some melodic stuff too?  This throws in a bit of brutality, but mostly staying in the good metalcore area.

Amberian Dawn
Innuendo
Napalm Records
Female fronted power metal…fe-metal if you please..

Teramaze
Her Halo
Mascot Records
Melodic hard rock/proggy metal/hard rock.  Clean vox with catch metal edge in parts and definitely a prog metal thing going on too.

Circle II Circle
Reign Of Darkness
earMUSIC
In case you forgot this is that classic metal/power/prog metal band fronted by Zak Stevens who used to be Savatage’s frontman… Well, as power metal goes, this is good stuff as there’s a good metal edge, powerful vox, catchy and just good ol “metal”

Grave Digger
Exhumation, The Early Years
Napalm Records
Looks like this is a compilation of stuff they dug up from the old days… then re-recorded them to give them some new life and show that modern production does make a difference.  These songs sound great and this band has been doing classic German metal the right way a very long time.

Infected
Infected (Single)
Dark Star Records
Industrial… sounds like this could have almost come from the Matrix soundtrack a buncha years ago.

ZOMBI
Shape Shift (NA Promo)
Relapse Records
Proggy stuff with lots of keyboards, kind of reminds me of the 80’s Rush years.  This is all instrumental, so if you like the Signals, Power WIndows or Grace Under Pressure era Rush, you’ll dig this.

Moloken
All is Left to See
Temple of Torturous
Blackened doom.

Bauda
Sporelights
Temple of Torturous
Kind of a proggy pop rock type thing.

SUMA
Ashes
Argonauta Records
Sludgey stonery doomy metal.  You got some really long tracks on here too.  So get your work boots on, the sludge is deep!

Apparatus
Apparatus
Lavadome Productions
Creepy doomy black metal…

Odium
Failure II
Self-Release (Asher)
Heavy yet melodic, proggy and catchy.  Brutal shit going on, yet a melodic death thing happening too. I just started reviewing stuff, but I think this is going to be my “other” pick this week.

Onirik (Portugal)
Casket Dream Veneration CD/LP
Iron Bonehead / Altare
Old school classic black metal… a bit doomy.

Broken Teeth
Bulldozer
Texas Metal Underground
Classic hard rock… maybe a bit like an AC/DC type band, but with more of a classic metal sound and a bit more melodic.

PROPAGANDA
The Mask Of Sanity
Brute! Productions
Brutal Death metal with an emphasis on the BRUTAL.  Cookie Monster growling and gurgling,

ANAL FISSURE
Mind Of A Serial Killer
Brute! Productions
What can you expect from a band with this name?  Well, just like the Propaganda above, it’s full on brutal death metal which is never a bad thing.  This one throws it all at you with song titles and presumably lyrics too. “Swarming Vile”, “Rectal Bludgeoning” and “Sodomy Fundamentals” to name a few.

Alien Syndrome 777
Outer
Avantgarde Music
I think this label typically gets bands that match up with their label name… so yeah, the style of this band falls into the Avant-garde Black metal.  You got your classic Black metal sound along with some clean gothy vox and sound too.

MORTAL TORMENT
Cleaver Redemption
Gore House Productions
Classic brutal death metal, good clean production and just a great chugga chugga cookie monster sound and a bit of a blackened death thing going on too.

HORNWOOD FELL
Yheri
Avantgarde Music
Mostly classic black metal, maybe a bit of an avant garde thing and atmospheric stuff going on too.

ABSCONDITUS
Kat?ßas??
I, Voidhanger Records
Fast fast fast old school black metal.

Nuclear
Formula for Anarchy
Candlelight Records
Classic heavy thrash, a bit like Slayer vocally, a bit more catchy musically.

OTARGOS
Xeno Kaos
Kaotoxin
Blackened death, blackened black metal?  haha  Heavy wall of sound black metal with some death brutality in there too.  You want a bit of melodic proggy stuff too?  Yeah!  So blackened melodic death metal it is.