Not sure what it is… Bands wanting to release something right on Halloween weekend?  a LOT of releases and not a lot of time, so some short reviews going on this week…

RAM
Svbversvm
Metal Blade Records
Classic old school thrash metal.  Big screamy voice but with some evil abrasiveness to it too.

Abigail Williams
The Accuser
Candlelight
They’re back with their modern, yet classic black metal.  A big wall of grindy black metal noise mostly going here.  Good stuff though.

Caligula’s Horse
Bloom
InsideOut
Hard rockin’ prog, a little bit like the band 3 with maybe some Karnivool/Yes/Tool stuff all going on.

Shining
International Blackjazz Society
Spinefarm
Heavy modern metal with an ecclectic jazzy thing going on with horns and stuff like that.  Pretty unique but yet a bit “out there”

Incite
The Slaughter
MinusHEAD
This is a reissue of their first album from 2009… and yeah, we loved their album from last year… didn’t hear this one before and now I’m glad I am.  Great catchy heavy Lamb of God-like monster riffs and precision.  Great stuff.

HOODED MENACE
Darkness Drips Forth (NA Promo)
Relapse Records
This is four pretty long songs of doomy blackened death metal also touching into some melodic stuff too.

PINKISH BLACK
Bottom of the Morning (NA Promo)
Relapse Records
A little bit stoner metal, some mr. bungle like weirdness and some post-metal depression stuff too.

THE GREAT TYRANT
The Trouble WIth Being Born
Relapse Records
Experimental drony post-metal type stuff.

The Hell
Brutopia
Prosthetic Records
Hardcore meets thrash with some chugga chugga riffs and brutal grooves.

Avatarium
The Girl With The Raven Mask
Metalville Records
I’d say this is a classic metal, but a little bit stoner metal-like utilzing a female vocalist, so it had a pinch of that femetal sound.  (cool organ stuff though)

Thor
Metal Avenger
Cleopatra Records
A catchy classic metal with a little thrash and stoner metal tendency

Hatchet
Far Beyone Lunacy
The End Records
Oooh yeah.  Classic bay area thrash sound… and they’re from the Bay Area!  Great galloping riffage.  They have a Testament/Death Angel thing going on.

Skindred
Volume
Napalm Records
When you say reggae metal, who else is there?  Right. Just Skindred.  Heavy sound with some reggae infused thrashy metal.

Draconian
Sovran
Napalm Records
Doomy meets goth and melodic black metal.  Maybe a bit like the slower Opeth melodic deathy songs.  Some clean female vox

The Wild! (EP)
GxDxWxB
eOne Entertainment
Fun party sounding hard rockin good time stuff.

Infalling
Distorted Visions (single)
Self-Release
14 October 2015

BornBroken
A Nation of Ignorance (single)
Self-Release
Brutal thrashy groove metal.

Speaking The King’s
Carousel
Nuclear Blast Records
Metalcore… singy vox, meh.

Selvans
Lupercalia
Avantgarde Music
Symphonic Folk Black metal… classic black metal with melodic folky stuff going on

Tundra
The Burning Fanatism
Avantgarde Music
Black metal… yeah, lots of black metal this week, go figure.

Hornwood Fell
Yheri
Avantgarde Music
Classic black metal with some atmospheric stuff… not bad.

ALIEN SYNDROME 777
OUTER
Avantgarde Music
Good groovin’ classic black metal, a little proggy in parts too

Véhémence
Assiégé
De Tenebrarum Principio
Old school sounding black metal with the good melodic stuff going on too.

Ravendark’s Monarchal Canticle
Sobre as Cinzas do Fracasso Alheio
HAMMER OF DAMNATION
A classic black metal with some deathy and thrash stuff… and lots of battle scene sounds.

Under the Church
Rabid Armageddon
Pulverised Records
Dirty blackened thrashy death.

Abhorrent Deformity
Entity of Malevolence
Comatose Music
Brutal classic death metal

Horrendous
Anareta
Dark Descent Records
Melodic blackened thrash

Certo Porcos
Odio 666
Greyhaze Records
Raw thrash from Brazil.

Visceral Throne
Those Who Have Fallen Beyond the Grace of God
Comatose Music
Brutal frenetic death  metal.

Silent Line
Shattered Shores
Self-Release
Catchy melodic death metal, great riffs and a bit proggy throughout.

Sacrificium Carmen
Ikuisen Tulen Kammiossa
Saturnal
Blackened thrash… yeah, black metal sound but with some thrash tendencies… cool stuff.

Cold Northern Vengeance
Maelstrom
Moribund
Blackened doom.

Lunar Mantra
Genesis
Invictus Productions
Classic wall of sound black metal

BE THE WOLF
Imago
Scarlet Records
Driving hard rock stuff.  Clean sung vox… probably best for “solid rock”   It’s good, just probably not good for the Mosh Pit.

Grave Ritual
Morbid Throne
Dark Descent Records
Classic grooooovin’ death metal.

Aggravator
Populace Destructor
Dead Center prods
Classic thrash with a modern brutal edge.

Canyon of the Skull
Canyon of the Skull
Self-Release
Doomy long songs (just two on this one)  experimental maybe proggy, and a bit out there.  The name of the band kinda says it all.

Panopticon
Autumn Eternal
Nordvis Produktion
Melodic almost folky black metal.

Unrest / Idolatry
Infection Born of Ending (Split)
Appalachian Noise Records
Idolatry is some classic black metal, Unrest is some, um, brutal, badly produced noisy black/death stuff.

LURID MEMORY
Dematerializing
Funeral Noise Records
Doomy and proggy blackened death metal.

ANTICOSM
ANTICOSM
Label: Born of Chaos Records
Blackened thrash… good groove and catchy stuff, it’s heavy, yet melodic too.

Bloodwraith
The Omnipresent Darkness Demos
Self Released
Raw (in this case, it’s more of a demo type quality) black metal.

MATUBES
The Return of Black Metal
Distributor of Pain
Groovin’ black metal

Wasted Shells
Dark Matter
Broken Bones Production
Modern thrash/brutal metal… not deathy or really “core”  but melodic in parts, maybe like a Five Finger Death Punch type thing?  decent stuff.

Joe Stump
The Dark Lord Rises
Lion Music
Instrumental guitar and well, kick ass instrumental prog metal.  You know how you wish Satriani would just be heavier?  Or something like that?  well, you got it here.

PSYCHOSOMATIC
Clicking Sound Of A Hammer Pulled Back
Label: Buriedinhell Records
We really liked the alst thing this band sent us a few years ago and this is no different.  Just a fast heavy catchy new wave of American thrash that isn’t fucking around.

ABSCONDITUS
Kat?ßas??
I, Voidhanger Records
Black metal