Helhorse
Helhorse
Spinefarm
A melodic doomy hard rock thing.  Good groove, a bit stoner/doom-ish or just straight up hard rock, maybe a hint of Monster Magnet/Clutch too.

Kvelertak
Nattesferd
Roadrunner
Melodic black metal with a groove and well, kind of their own sound too. Take Ghost, some other black metal and some stoner stuff and mix it up.  Great follow up.

Jim Breuer and ethe Loud & Rowdy
Songs from the Garage
Metal Blade Records
What?  A comedian doing a metal album?  Yeah!  It’s not where it’s just a song or two and then a bunch of stand up.  This is actually some good music going on and catchy stuff and funny too.

Conniption
Relentless Tides
Self Released
Catchy hard rockin’ traditional type metal stuff from Milwaukee.    New album has some great guitar work, a good catchy groove and great melodic hooks.

WEEKEND NACHOS
Apology (NA Promo)
Relapse Records
A raw punked up hardcore thing.

Avatar
Feathers & Flesh
eOne Entertainment
Catch and modern… they have an “image” and it tends to bleed through the music a bit too.  Catchy good stuff.  Kind of a Marilyn Manson meets slipknot/Gwar.  decent stuff.

TERRORWAY
The Second
Bakerteam Records
A proggy djent Meshuggah sounding thing with some slower elements as well as some more groove and headbangy parts.

Hatebreed
The Concrete Confessional
Nuclear Blast Entertainment
You all know who Hatebreed is, you know what they sound like… and they’re back with a new album of stuff that sounds like Hatebreen and it’s great!

Death Angel
The Evil Divide
Nuclear Blast USA
The last few comeback albums from Death Angel featured some great music and some songs that tended to be longer… this one has more short, to the point tracks.  Great catchy heavy metal from one of the originals.

Lacuna Coil
Delirium
Century Media Records
This band has kind of crossed over out of metal and into solid rock… but this one seems to have maybe crossed back a bit.  This one is heavier and more aggresive than some past efforts… Still catchy and the back and forth of male/female vox still works for these guys.

WITHERED
Husk (Radio Promo)
Season of Mist
Just a single so far, but this is unrelenting brutal black metal.  No fucking around, just great brutal stuff.

Toska
Toska
Eihwaz Recordings
Fast and intense black/death metal.  A bit disjointed and frenetic… vocals are kinda lost in the mix, but it’s going from this fast brutal wall of sound to some interludes that are more ambient/melodic.  Kinda evil sounding too of course.

NIHILISTINEN BARBAARISUUS
MADNESS INCARNATE
Symbol of Domination Productions & Black Lion Productions
Classic melodic black metal, pretty decent, maybe a lil down tempo and doomy.

True Black Dawn
Come The Colorless Dawn
W.T.C.Productions
Blackened death metal.  Good brutal cool evil sound.

Band name: BLACK ROYAL
THE SUMMONING Pt. 2
Label: ARMLESS STRANGER
A heavy deathy stoner metal.  A bit doomy, growly, big big fat meaty riffs.

Winterhorde
Maestro
ViciSolum Productions
Melodic black/prog metal with maybe a little bit of a epic or folk feel.  Heavy brutal in parts, typical prog metal in parts…it’s got everything and it’s good.

Vainaja
Verenvalaja
Svart Records
A little bit of a sludgey death metal a little doomy in parts, but a good groove too.

Enthean
Priests of Annihilation
Self-Release
Brutal blackened death metal but with some melodic breaks… overall, technical fast and brutal.  Great stuff.

Atala
Shaman’s Path of the Serpent
Self-Release
A little bit stoner metal, some doom and some long songs.  Decent catchiness going on, but a bit too drawn out.

Teloch
Thus Darkness Spake
Saturnal
A classic-ish sounding black metal. A bit of a grove, some melodic stuff

SCAR OF THE SUN
In Flood
Scarlet Records
Kind of a prog metal melodic death crossover type thing.  There’s a cool heavy element, along with a more melodic proggy thing too.

Brutus
Wandering Blind
Svart Records
Cool catchy stoner metal… vox sound like Ozzy… good grooves and a little bit of a throwback to 70’s hard rock.

NIGHTMEN
Fifteen minutes of pain
Label:  Lövely
Old school female fronted garage rock.

GEBRECHLICHKEIT
Aphorismen der Angst
Label:  Human to Dust
Classic black metal. Good stuff, brutal, heavy, maybe a little on the death metal side too.

TED POLEY
Beyond the Fade
Frontiers Music s.r.l.
Singer from Danger Danger, and this is melodic hard rockin’ stuff… would fit into that classic rock/AOR type category.  Probably not going to get airplay, but it’s good if you like this stuff.

SUNSTORM
Edge of Tomorrow
Frontiers Music s.r.l.
this is some good early 90’s sounding AOR hard rockin’ type stuff.

Red Tide Rising
Voices
6 May 2016
Kind of a melodic modern solid rock type metal.  Featuring a former guys from Drowning Pool and Ill Nino. So, something along those lines.  Decent stuff

Behind The Shadows
Raising Hell
Visionaire Records
A bit traditional metal, a bit modern metal, great guitar work, catchy songs, clean vox.

MESARTHIM
Pillars
Label:  Avantgarde Music
Atmospheric black metal.  Not quite as doomy and spacy as a lot of stuff, just has a bit of a goth feel.

Mother Feather
Mother Feather
Metal Blade Records
A Metal blade band that’ll be out on Warped Tour this year.  Female fronted melodic stuff… probably not quite even metal or metal show worthy.  Alt-rock.

SYLVAINE
Wistful
Season of Mist
Trippy atmospheric black metal.

GORGUTS
Pleiades’ Dust
Season of Mist
One track, 32 minutes.  Technical brutal proggy death metal.  A few lighter breaks here and there, a bit doomy in those slower parts, cool guitar solos too.

HYPERSONIC
Existentia
Label:  Revalve Records
Epic female fronted symphonic power metal….there’s a good metal edge here and it does have that “epic” feel too.  Pretty good stuff.

DARK HAUNTERS
To Persevere is Diabolical
Label:  Revalve Records
Melodic proggy death metal… proggy mostly leaning towards the symphonic keyboardy stuff going on… makes it a bit creepy and adds to the evil feeling.

NETHERLANDS
L.M.M. (Single)
Prosthetic Records
Big sludgey stoner sound for this one song single.

MHONOS
Miserere Nostri
Label:  ZANJEER ZANI Productions
Long depressing doomy doom.  Doomy McDoomsleeepy.

AURIGA
VII – Dimensions of Asymmetry
Label:  Avantgarde Music
Kind of black metal, a bit atmospheric and classic old school black metal.