Vampires Everywhere
Ritual
Self-Released
Their previous efforts kind of showed us everything wrong with “metal”  this new stuff is more marilyn Manson-like than just their old stuff of being heavy, then turning on autotune vox.  This is a bit more straightforward modern electronified/industrial-ish hard rock.  Not sure if there’s really a spot for it on the Mosh Pit though.

Beastmaker
Lusus Naturae
Rise Above
Grungy and sludgey stoner metal, but with a bit of a groove and meaty sabbath feel.

Next To None
A Light In The Dark
Inside Out Music

Lody Kong
Dreams And Visions
Mascot Label Group
A loud hard rock sort of stoner metal, sort of growly sludge, kinda punk-ish.  Claim to fame?  Zyon and Igor Jr. Cavalera’s band.

Walls Of Jericho
No One Can Save You From Yourself
Napalm Records
Hardcore stuff… these guys have been around for a while, so why fuck with what you’re good at?  First new stuff in 8 years and it’s pretty good.  Pissed off, classic hardcore sound, heavy, catchy and groovin’.

Seventh Calling
Battle Call
Self Released
Traditional metal/power metal-ish… big screamy vocals, a good heavy almost thrashy music going on too.

SINISTRO
Reliquia (Radio Promo)
Season of Mist
Mostly ambient/atmospheric kinda doomy stuff… (probably not for the Mosh Pit — just a single too)

ZHRINE
Spewing Gloom (Radio Promo)
Season Of Mist
Just a single so far… Brutal blackened death metal, getting into some groove melodic stuff too.  This is comparible to older Opeth.

SKUGGSJÁ
A Piece for Mind & Mirror
Season of Mist
Mostly atmospheric doom… getting into some melodic death/black metal in parts too along with some folky stuff.

OBSIDIAN KINGDOM
A Year With No Summer
Season of Mist
Mostly melodic doom… kind of drony too… probably a bit too atmospheric for us.

Slave I
Scriptures
Transcending Records
Modern brutal-core.  Death metal, chuggy a bit djenty, a pissed off vibe but with a brutal groove… screamy vox and guttural growls too.

Blood
O Agios Pethane
Dunkelheit Produktionen
Raw death metal with a little bit of a black metal feel.  Production is a bit raw, but not shitty… decent heavy death metal.

IMMENSITY
The Isolation Splendour
Hypnotic Dirge Records
Doomy melodic death metal. Long tracks, growly vox, and a bit depressing.

Artillery
Penalty by Perception
Metal Blade Records
Great classic thrash… catchy and headbanging as all hell… there’s a little bit of a proggy power metal feel going on too.

Rotting Repugnancy
Harbringers Of The Last Judgement
CDN Records
Good groovin’ classic death metal.

Necronomicon
Advent of The Human God
Season of Mist  (Asher)
An epic black metal type thing, like the good old Dimmu Borgir (remember them?) days!

LIKE RATS
II
Southern Lord
A basic death metal, a little bit doomy, a little minor grind in some guitar work…. all with a big groove going on too.

NilExistence
Existence in Revelation
Self-Release
Good ol meat and potatoes brutal death metal with a bit of a groove and some good technical playing too.

Ifrinn
Ifrinn 12″ MLP
Iron Bonehead Productions
Classic old school black metal.

Kuoleman Galleria
Kärsimys Kunniaan
Inverse
Melodic death metal with a black metal vocal leaning, groovin’ melodic death metal music with good production too.

The Fog (Germany)
Perpetual Blackness LP
Iron Bonehead
Best i can describe this as punky black metal.  It has that creepy black metal feel, but a raw punk thing going on.

Caliban
Gravity
Century Media
Veteran German metalcore band is back…Good groove, heavy, catchy and melodic too.

C H R I S T
T O W E R
L’Oeil Du Tigre
Drony ambient doomy atmospheric stuff that I don’t like.  sorry!

GODHUNTER vs. DESTROYER OF LIGHT
Endsville
Battleground Records / Heavy Friends Records
Godhunter is doomy stoner metal and the Destroyer of Light is similar, just longer songs!

GREY SKIES FALLEN
Earthwalker
independent
Sort of melodic death, but more like a melodic doomy death.  It seems heavy and stuff, but there’s just some downtempo slowness that keeps it from getting going… ok stuff

Judas Priest
“Metal Gods” | “Breaking The Law” | “Electric Eye” (Live at Battle Cry) [Single]
Epic
Another single flowing in… Electric Eye.  great catchy anthem, and great live too

Impurity (Brazil) / Sex Messiah
Vomiting Blasphemies Over The World – split LP
Nuclear War Now! Productions
11 March 2016

UNIVERSAL THEORY
The Most Attractive Force
Label:  Metal Hell Records
Melodic gothy doom metal.

Crossing Rubicon
No Less Than Everything
Pavement Entertainment
Classic metal, a bit of a Priest/Maiden style, but a bit more thick and meaty… but also a bit Dio-like too… maybe a little more accessible?

Obsidian Sea
Dreams, Illusions, Obsessions LP/CD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
A bit of a doomy blackened classic stoner metal.  It’s not black metal per se, but more of a classic Sabbath-like doom, but with just a creepy feeling that makes me think of black metal.  most tracks clock in around 7 mins, great riffs and a big meaty sound.

CIRCUS MAXIMUS
The Weight – RADIO SINGLE
Frontiers Music s.r.l.
Prog metal…  leaning more on the prog hard rock than metal.  Good dynamic 6 minute track, a bit metal, prog, hard rock and emotion

Band: Ignea
Album: (single) Alga
One track of fe-metal.  Decent symphonic power metal stuff.

Morbus 666
Ignis Divine Imperium
Moribund Records
Sludgey blackened death metal… leaning more into scary old school black metal.

Unhuman Disease
De Templi Autem Veteris Serpentis
Moribund Records
Wall of sound classic black metal

A PERFECT DAY
The Deafening Silence
Scarlet Records
I guess this could be called a proggy hard rock thing, there are some more metal moments going on, but the full on clean vox and more melodic rock parts keep it from going full into prog metal.

DAKESIS
The New Dawn
CapsAArx
Epic proggy power metal with clean female vox…. good keyboard presence, but decent heavy guitars too.

Sailing to nowhere
To the unknown
Bakerteam Records
Proggy power metal, classic power metal vox, leaning more on the power metal side of things

Wyrd
Death Of The Sun
Moribund Records
Melodic classic black metal with a bit of a doomy feel in parts… folky prog metal in parts and some doomy stuff too.  Good variety going on!