Whitechapel
Mark of the Blade (radio single)
Metal Blade Records, Inc.
Just a single from their forthcoming June 24th album, this has some brutal elements but with a groove and headbanging quality… good stuff.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Nonagon Infinity
ATO
Kind of an indie sounding pop rocking stoner rock. Can’t say there’s really much metal going on here… maybe the attitude?  I dunno.

Beartooth
“Aggressive”/”Always Dead” [Single]
Red Bull
A bit of a modern metalcore feel, catchy and groovin’, but the clean vox are a bit whiney.

Satyricon
Nemesis Devina (Re-Issue)
Napalm Records
Satyricon was below my radar for some time, so I’m not too familiar with the older stuff, well this is a remaster of the 1996 album, and what a great excuse to get acquanted with it.  A nice newly remastered version of Mother North?  Ok!

Cilver
Not The End of The World
eOne Entetainment
Female fronted modern “pop” metal?   Solid rock sound happening here. Yeah, good groove, catchy and all that… just nothing really “METAL” going on here.

Wicked Maraya
Lifetime In Hell
Massacre Records
Kind of a traditional metal, maybe with a little bit of an Iced Earth and WASP feel to it.

SUNSTORM
Edge of Tomorrow – RADIO SINGLE
Frontiers Music s.r.l.
As with most of the singles from this label… this is some good early 90’s sounding AOR hard rockin’ type stuff.

SXUPERION
Cosmic Void
Label:  Bloody Mountain Records
Brutal black metal… kind of old school black metal but also death metal roots, and vocals are kind of echoey giving it that raw feeling.

Qrixkuor
Three Devils Dance
Invictus
Doomy gloomy raw, “bad production” black metal type stuff.

Ithaqua (Greece)
The Black Mass Sabbath Pulse 7″ EP
Iron Bonehead Productions
2 Song EP… kind of black metal mixed with some traditional melodic metal.  Keyboards make it maybe a bit prog metal sounding. Interesting stuff.

Hatespirit
Blood & Poetry
Altare Productions
Blackened punk?  A raw black metal feel but with screamy punk vox and stuff going on.  Not really for me, just too raw.

Ordem Satanica
Ventos de Odio
Altare Productions
Two Big long raw black metal songs… production is not good and it just has a disjointed feeling to it.  no thanks.

Pyramido
Vatten
Halo of Flies
A bit doomy and screamy vox.  Yup.  Screamy doom.

Nocturnal Hollow
Deathless and Fleshless
Undeground Movement
Kind of a grooving melodic death metal with some hints of black and grind.  Not too fast or brutal, just a good headbanging groove.

GRIMNESS
A Decade of Disgust
The Goatmancer Records
This is some good blackened death metal.  Heavy, catchy and melodic too.

Cadaveric Fumes
Dimensions Obscure 12″ MLP
Blood Harvest
a muddy sludgey doomy black metal thing

Prisoner of War
Rot CD/12″ MLP
Iron Bonehead Productions
Heavy almost grindy death metal. Little hints of black metal, a big wall of raw metal sound too.

Lucifericon
Brimstone Altar 12″ MLP
Blood Harvest
two long songs of Decent black/death metal.  Good production, some groove, evilness and brutality too.

The Hypothesis
Origin
Record label: Inverse Records
You got your melodic death/prog going on.  Growly vox but with a prog/grooving death metal feeling music backing it up.

TheClosedCircle
Love, Shine & Die
Inverse
Hard rock base, but vocals kick in and it almost has a country feel… just not for the mosh pit.

Marauder
Bullethead
Pitch Black Records
This is just some decent “metal”  Nothing really standing out… decent melody, cool vox, guitar solos

INFERIOR
The Red Beast
Label:  Big Balls Productions
Classic thrash with a bit more of a deathy metal growly vox.  Catchy headbanging stuff.

Maleficence
Realms of Mortification 7″ EP
Blood Harvest
Two tracks of some pretty good blackened death metal.  Yup, death metal with a black metal feel… good stuff.

POWER FROM HELL
Sadismo (LP)
Hells Headbangers
Raw, low production punky deathy/thrash metal.  Bad production just ruins it for me.

WHEN OUR TIME COMES
When Our Time Comes
Lifeforce
Modern metalcore/mallcore stuff.  Electronic-ey over produced sound with emo singy vox.

Near
Own Sun
De Tenebrarum Principio
A classic black metal sound with some melodic stuff going on too.

Kratos
Arlechino
Record label: Inverse Records
Melodic death with growly male vox and singy female vox. Pretty decent stuff.

Tendagruta
Ensalmo Do Sargaço
Dissociated Records
Ambient doomy post-metal noise.

Sinnery
A Feast of Fools
Pitch Black Records
Catchy old school thrashy sound. good stuff.

OKKULTOKRATI
Snake Reigns/Night Jerks
Southern Lord Recordings
Kind of a deathy stoner metal.  Vox are a bit growly, but the music is along the lines of a doomy stoner metal type thing.

Band: Saintorment
Album: Well Of Sins
Self Republic
Classic thrash from Latvia. Catchy and heavy too.

Band: Antyra
Album: Pentachronist
Epic metal with some symphonic interludes, mostly proggy melodic death metal in the main parts.  production is a bit muddy, but overall it’s decent stuff.

DEVIL GONE PUBLIC
Smokehound
Self-Released
This is just some pretty cool “metal”  Good groove, a bit of a shouted clean vocal, dirty guitars

WORSHIP OF KERES
Bloodhounds for Oblivion
Label:  Self-Released
Sounds like female fronted doomy stuff.  Big meaty sound

BLACK PESTILENCE
Carry On The Black Flame
Self released
A raw punked up death metal

Abyssian
Nibiruan Chronicles
Violet Nebula Productions/Visionaire Records
A little bit of a melodic death/doom/goth going on.  cool stuff.

Band: Eyestral
Album: Beware The Rat King
This was described as Progressive Thrash…. I can see that, it’s not quite just thrash, not all on prog, but it’s definitely a mix of both.

Schammasch
Triangle
Prosthetic Records
Three albums in three parts in one package.  Kind of a melodic deathy/proggy doom.  with some post-metal stuff too.