Megadeth
“The Threat Is Real” / “Fatal Illusion”
Universal Music Enterprises /Tradecraft / T-Boy Record
So far, two tracks from the new Megadeth and both are pretty damn good.  Glad to see ’em back in full force (so far!)

Stone Sour
Straight Outta Burbank
Roadrunner
Covers EP #2 this one has more “metal” going on.  From Bad Brains to Slayer… as you may know, I’m a sucker for covers, so this is cool stuff.

Black Oath
To Below and Beyond
Self Released
A old school stoner metal classic doomy hard rock sound. Good catchy riffs and not quite as gimmicky as Ghost, there’s a similarity there.

Just Before Dawn
The Dead And Those About To Die
Chaos records
A sort of blackened death metal.  Brutal heavy wall of sound with a pinch of black metal riffs, but a brutal chuggy death metal sound.

MORKESAGN
Where The Darkness Never Ends
Self Released
Melodic black thrashy metal.  I guess it’s just more of a modern sounding black metal.  It has a classic feel, but with great production and cool melodic hooks and still a brutal cold feel to it too.

Hellish (Chile)
Theurgist’s Spell 7″ EP
Blood Harvest
A raw thrashy blackened metal. Four brutal quick rippin’ tracks.

Confrontation
Aggregat 4
Chaos records
Doomy death metal.

ESHTADUR
OBLIVION
REBELSIGN
A sort of melodic black/death metal with some symphonic-y type stuff going on.  Quick to the point brutal tracks… great stuff.

Ysengrin / Black Grail
Nigrum Nigrius Nigro – split LP
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Ysengrin is some creepy experimental black metal.  Black Grail is one track of old school melodic black metal.

Abominator
Barbarian War Worship CD/DLP
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Crazy frenetic brutal black metal.

Kvltist
Catechesis
W.T.C.Productions
Some good ol black metal…. good production, decent amount of melodic stuff… crazy brutal stuff too.  overall pretty decent.

Necrosemen
Vglns TAPE
Blood Harvest
Brutal blackened death metal.  Lots of brutal blackened stuff this week!  Production is a bit raw, but it’s still good enough.

Vorna
Ei valo minua seuraa
Inverse
Melodic death/black/folk metal. Cool melodic metal with screamy black metal vox, black metal guitar feeling, but overall a melodic death thing going on.

An Ocean of Void
The Great Escape
Inverse
A bit of a proggy doomy metalcore, or just plain proggy hard rock… I guess you could call them “Post-Metal”  right?

Standing Ovation
Gravity Beats Nuclear
Inverse
Some pretty cool prog metal along the lines of a blind guardian/dream theater sound. A good heavier edge when it needs it and some good solid hard rockin’ prog and prog rocky stuff too.  Good diversity and I’m a fan.

MACHINÆ
Clockwork
Concorde Music Company
Prog metal / melodic death metal.  There’s a bit of a doom/goth feeling going on, so a little bit like Moonspell.  Cool stuff.

Jess and the Ancient Ones
Second Psychedelic Coming: The Aquarius Tapes
Svart Records
Psychedelic stoner and classic metal with female vox.  Pretty cool throwback type stuff.

Pyriphlegethon (Netherlands)
Night of Consecration LP
Iron Bonehead
A classic black metal thing with a doomy feel going on.  Good production… pretty ok stuff.

Night Viper
Night Viper
Svart Records
Catchy female fronted stoner-ish throwback metal. Great edge and riffs and a little bit of a creepy feeling too.

VoidCeremony
Cyclical Descent of Causality TAPE
Blood Harvest
Kind of old school black metal.. meh production, but there’s something decent going on.  Good raw stuff.

CLOAK OF ALTERING
Manifestation
Crucial Blast
I’d throw this one in exprimental territory.  Black metal, electronic stuff, weird Mr. Bungle type stuff.

SADISM
Alliance
Label: Toxic/Mechanix Records
Good classic death metal with some melodic and thrashy stuff going on too.

Conflicted
Under Bio-lence
Sick Bangers
Great heavy extreme thrash stuff.

Various Artists
“Metal of Oz” Compilation
Online Metal Promo
Lots of indie and “local” bands on this promo company’s compilation of 40 artists.

ZOMBIESLUT
Undead Commando
Label: Rotten Roll Rex
Good classic zombie themed death metal.

King Diamond
The Spider’s Lullabye (Deluxe Version)
Metal Blade Records
Reissue of the King’s 1995 album… the first album of his that came out while the Mosh Pit was a radio show!  Great to have a reissue and some bonus demo tracks… always a good excuse to play the King!

OBSCURA
Akróasis (Single)
Relapse Records
Great technical death… just a single so far, but looking forward to January!

HOLOCAUST
PREDATOR
Sleaszy Rider Promo
Hard rock/classic metal made kind of in the vein of some groovin’ Judas Priest stuff.

Mano Humana
Sombras
Sick Bangers
Kind of a melodic/brutal latin-ish death metal.

OBSCURE ORACLE
In Death We Trust
Label: Self-Released
Catchy melodic thrash from Texas…