Since we’re doing our 2015 recaps and fun shows, we didn’t have time to play most of this stuff, but look for it to turn up later or give us a request!

Killswitch Engage
“Strength of the Mind” (Single)
Roadrunner
Good catchy decent and kinda heavy, typical KsE

NEURONIA
Under The Same Sky
Label: Self-Release
Polish heavy thrash/standard metal.  A good edge to it, also melodic too.  Actually reminds me a little bit of Grip Inc.

Anopheli
The Ache Of Want LP
Halo Of Flies
Melodic doomy death with a pinch of a folk feel.  As I look them up a bit more… they call themselves “emo crust” with a cello.  Interesting.

Svalbard
One Day All This Will End LP
Halo Of Flies
A screamy melodic doomy stuff.

Dark The Suns
Life Eternal
Inverse
Kind of a melodic gothy doom / melodic death… I guess they remind me a little of Moonspell.  Getting heavy and growly with a little melodic black metal sound going on, but also a bit doomy.

Chaos Echoes
A Voiceless Ritual LP
Nuclear War Now! Productions
The name says it all… echoing some chaos… a drony doom/experimental black-ish metal type thing… meh.

Kombur
I Am Alpha
Imminence Records
Kind of death metal, kind of death core, a little bit of melody and some chugga chugga.

AGAINST THE PLAGUES
Purified Through Devastation
Non Serviam Records
Brutal, classic death metal.  Good crisp production a bit of technicality and just full on cool stuff.

Ice War
Battle Zone 7″ EP
Iron Bonehead
Classic punky um, metal?  2 songs and crappy production.  meh.

Ripping Death
Tales of the Ripper TAPE
Iron Bonehead
Death/thrash with a raw feel.  A cool groove going on here too. (4 songs)

Bloodlash
Rain EP
Inverse Records
Melodic, proggy and melodeath in parts too… and a little bit of a doomy stoner metal sometimes too… and maybe a lil bit like Tool as well.

ENDLESS RECOVERY
Revel in Demise
Label: Witches Brew
Brutal trash… Heavy, yet catchy and lots of classic thrashy riffage, but with more extreme abrasive screamy/growly or “scrowly” vocals… great stuff.

WAR ATROCITIES
NECROMANTICAL LEGIONS
WITCHES BREW
This is I guess a textbook example of blackened thrash?  IT’s got that dark black metal feel, but that familiar thrash thing going on too.

ENDLESS RECOVERY
REVEL IN DEMISE
WITCHES BREW
Fast, heavy classic, well classic influcence thrash.  Great riffage and catchy.  Brutal vocals, almost black metal sounding… but it all works great.

Beorn
Time To Dare
Self Released
Kind of an epic proggy power metal with a bit of a thrashy edge

Various Artists
Happy Metal Annihilation Vol. 5
Asher Media PR

GRAVE FORSAKEN
The Fight Goes On
Label: Soundmass
Release Date: 1 December 2015
Genre: Thrash Metal | Country: Australia

Savage
7 / Live N Lethal
Minus 2 Zebra
Classic traditional metal… 2 albums, a studio album and a live album.  Good hard rockin’ drivin’ stuff.

ABSOLUTUS
Pugnare in iis quae obtinere non possis
Label: Heidens Hart Records
Classic black metal, good production, decent melody and that cold northern feeling.

HEIMDALLS WACHT
Der Untergang der alten Welt
Label: Heidens Hart Records
Release Date: December 2015
Genre: Black Metal | Country: Germany

Nachtzeit
Där Föddes En Längtan
Nordvis Produktion
Classic black metal with a bit of a drony sound.

Akatechism
Dripping Flames
Invictus Productions
Noisy classic doomy black metal

Serpents Athrist
Heralding Ceremonial Mass Obliteration
Invictus Productions
Kind of a brutal blackened death metal with grindy stuff going on.. (3 song ep)

Ravenous
We Are Become Death
Coffee Jingle Records
Good classic thrashy stuff with a heavier edge… kind of a groove metal.

COSTIN CHIOREANU
The Quest For A Morning Star
Avantgarde Music
Genre: Avantgarde / Experimental Music  Yup.  Yawwwn.

Angerhead
Headful of Hate EP
Self Released
Catchy thrashy metal with bit of a brutal edge to it.

DRAMA / PERDITION WINDS
[SPLIT] Drama / Perdition Winds
Label: Satanath Records
Drama is some doomy black metal but with a bit of a black and roll groove going on.  Perdition Wings… classic black metal.

ANCESTORS BLOOD & HEERVADER
Ancestors Blood & Heerva
Label: Heidens Hart Records
Heervader is some creepy black metal, Ancestors blood is more of a symphonic black metal.

Band: Inner Odyssey
Album: Ascension
Country: Canada
Proggy hard rock not quite venturing into the metal realm.  Maybe you know, kind of Porcupine Tree-ish.

Grill
Grill
Self Released
Technical brutal death metal.  Production is a little raw, but still brutal.

LAST FRONTIER
Theta Healing (Through the poison)
Label: Revalve Records
Heavier Prog metal… not so much power metal-ish, there’s good distorted guitars, keyboards, kind of a more raw metal early Dream Theater type thing.

Corners of Sanctuary
Metal Machine
Self Released
Classic metal with a little old thrash tendency.

Band: Batushka
Album: Litourgiya
Label: Witching Hour Prods
Starts of with some chanting… but then gets black and brutal real fast. The chanting stays in there with the brutal blackened death to just keep it creepy and evil sounding.  pretty cool stuff.

Infamy
The Blood Shall Flow (2015 Reissue)
Terror from Hell Records
Classic death metal on this 2015 reissue… classic because it IS old, and still holds up too.

Band: Vader
Album: Future Of The Past II – Hell In The East
Label: Witching Hour prods
It’s hard for Vader to do any wrong… This is a covers album of stuff that I haven’t really heard of, but it doesn’t matter, Vader sounds like Vader here, heavy, brutal and catchy all the while doing songs from bands like Exorcist, Imerator, Krabathor, Merciless Death and more.

Khazaddum
In Dwarven Halls
Self-Release
Here’s a band from Milwaukee that got sent our way via a PR firm.  Based on JRR Tolkein subjects, this is some brutal technical death metal kind of like a Nile/Behemoth.  Great stuff!

ZAFAKON
Release
Self Released
A heavier thrash… with a groove… a cool abrasive brutal sound going on too.

NIDAFJOLL
Einar
Self Released
Melodic folky black metal.

INSISION
Terminal Reckoning
Label: Sevared Records
Classic death metal… and yeah, there’s a cool groove going on here too.

Battle Path
Ambedo
Label: Inherent Records
Doomy black metal

Band: Denigrate
Album: Hollowpoint
Label: Looking for
Classic thrashy metal.  Good stuff.