DAN REED NETWORK
Fight Another Day
Frontiers Music s.r.l.
Mmore of a modern rock thing with some keyboard… definitely not metal… but it might be something the wife might like!

Volbeat
Seal The Deal & Let’s Boogie
Republic
We all know what Volbeat is about… rockabilly bouncy fun metal.  This album was demoed and recorded on the road, so they kind of have a better energy about it rather than just gathering in a studio and doing this and that.  Good and catchy and maybe a little more edge to it in parts.

WITHEM
The Unforgiving Road
Frontiers Music s.r.l.
Prog metal… good big voice, a decent hard rockin’ thing, good big voice vox… and just your normal Prog metal type band.  Good stuff.

Beartooth
Aggressive
Red Bull
This would fall under that modern metalcore type stuff.  Good bit of hardcore metal type stuff, but then getting a little bit into the emo-ish core type stuff too.

JORN
Heavy Rock Radio
Frontiers Music s.r.l.
A fun mix of tracks that Jorn Lande himself likes, and an covers album that he wanted to do because.  And it’s fun, not too serious and a cool take on good slab of different music.

Flotsam And Jetsam
Flotsam And Jetsam
AFM Records
Thanks to some friends, I finally got some stuff from AFM records, and most importantly, this album which may be in the top 10 of the year.  Flots is back and with a vengeance!  Jason Bittner behind the drums and great production.  Heavy thrashy and classic metal stuff with a good meaty sound and catchy heavy stuff…. Erik AK’s vox are spot on too.

Iron Savior
Titancraft
AFM Records
Brand new stuff from German power metallers!  There are power metal bands… then there are GERMAN Power metal bands.  Something about these German bands… they just have a little bit of a heavier edge which make this power metal stuff better.  Still sing-a-long type stuff… great stuff.

Suidakra
Realms Of Odoric
AFM Records
This band has been around for a bit too.. german melodic death.  A little bit of a folk/viking metal feeling going on too.  Heavy and catchy.

Die Krupps
Live Im Schatten Der Ringe
AFM Records
This is more of an industrial thing… a live album, sounds good, but I’m passing this along to Dr. Parks and Something Wonderful.

Even The Dead Love A Parade
Even The Dead Love A Parade
EMP Label Group
This is a hard rock/metal thing.  Good groovin and catchy stuff.  Like if this were released 10-15 years ago, this would be brutal death metal sounding stuff… Nowadays, it’s kind of a groovin’ modern metal thing, maybe along the lines of a Five Finger Death Punch for heaviness and groove.  Seems a bit more straightforward maybe a bit doomy with it’s downtempo groove.  Vox are scream/shouted.  Decent stuff.

Dark Funeral
Where Shadows Forever Reign
Century Media Records
Good old school black metal with good melodic stuff and good heavy evil stuff.

Nervosa
Agony
Napalm Records
This has a blackened death metal feeling, but a good death metal groove.  A bit brutal feeling but with melodic tendencies oh, and it’s good for headbangin’!

Saosin
Along The Shadow
Epitaph Records
Mostly a melodic modern metalcore type thing.  Clean singy vox, probably more for the younger kids out there these days… or the Warped Tour crowd.  Decent stuff, just not for our show.

The Schoenberg Automaton
Apus
eOne Entertainment
Technical death metal from Australia!  Relentless brutality and yeah, grooves too.

Scorpion Child
Acid Roulette
Nuclear Blast Entertainment
Only have one song so far, but this band has just a great throwback hard rock vibe like a heavier led zep type thing.  While not brutal/thrashy… and with clean melodic vocals… there’s just some heavy feeling with a big meaty groove that is just fun to listen to.  Can’t wait for more.

CAUCHEMAR
Chapelle Ardente LP/CD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Kind of a doomy female fronted metal thing.  A bit throwback, a bit just standard groovin’ basic doom.

SURYA
Apocalypse A.D.
Argonauta Records
Doomy post metal… grungy and sludgey in parts, a bit more clean melodic doom almost tool type stuff going on too.

DEE CALHOUN
Rotgut
Argonauta Records
It’s described as “Acoustic / Southern Blues / Doom” and yup, kinda sounds like a solo acoustic Zakk Wylde type thing.  not great for the Mosh Pit.

ASHBRINGER
Y?gen
Label:  Avantgarde Music
Atmospheric black metal… slow and kinda proggy rock type stuff, then it’ll get into some post-black metal in parts.  Just not really concise enough for me.

High Fighter
Scars & Crosses
Svart Records
Groovin’ stoner metal with clean female vox. A little heavier in parts with some growls… Pretty cool stuff

SARABANTE
Poisonous Legacy
Southern Lord
A bit melodic death metal, a bit of a punky hardcore, maybe grindy feel… quick songs, about 2 and a half minutes each.  Decent stuff.

HISSING
Hissing
Southern Lord
2 songs of growly black/death metal with some not-so-great production.

Astrakhan
Reward in Purpose
War on Music / Sunmask
Prog metal with some heavier stuff, mostly a melodic hard rock with clean vox getting into some screamy stuff in parts as the music gets a bit heavier (like usual, right?)  yeah.  Good groove, and a sound that’s hard to compare other stuff too.  Kind of a little hardcore, some power metal, prog metal, melodic death and doom stuff too.  Decent all around.

BAT
Wings of Chains
Hells Headbangers
Raw punked up hardcore metal, heavy with a fast in your face edge to it.

Skeleton Wolf
Skeleton Wolf
Self-Release
Heavy and brutal thrash, catchy and kinda nearing death metal…or groovin’ thrash death metal?  Either way, great stuff.

NÉVOA
Re Un
Label:  Avantgarde Music
Release Date:  June 7th, 2016
Genre:  Atmospheric Black Metal
Country:  Portugal

SOJOURNER
Empires of Ash
:  Avantgarde Music
Release Date:  May 25th, 2016 | Physical release (digipack cd) June 13rd
Genre:  Epic/Atmospheric Black Metal

HOUR OF ANGUISH
Solace of Sorrow
Label:  Self-Released
This is some melodic death, with more of a deathy groove metal vibe with melodic stuff going on.

JINJER – Radio Promo
Words Of Wisdom
Napalm Records
Starts off a bit tech djent-like, gets a bit melodic death in the middle with growly Meshuggah-like precision with some clean vox mixed in.  Cool/heavy/catchy… just one song so far.

Iron Imperium
Dead Ahead
Label: Inverse Records
A cool solid rockin catchy single, a bit accessible, but catchy and heavy too.  Cool stuff.  I’d like to hear some more.

Korgonthurus
Vuohen Siunaus
Woodcut Records
Classic old school black metal…. good melodic parts, decent production, sounds evil and the vocals are very abrasive and pissed off!

Band: Morthus
Album: Over The Dying Stars
Self Released
This is kind of a blackend death metal. Good brutal sound, some classic death metal with a black metal base.  Good stuff.

WITHERED
Grief Relic
Season of Mist
Had a single of this a while back.  This is some nice brutal death metal with some more atmospheric black metal

Heaven’s Cry
Outcast
Prosthetic Records
Prog metal, vocals similar to a toned down Bruce Dickinson, a heavier prog metal music, good technicality and your typical prog metal goodness.

Yüth Forever
Skeleton Youth Forever
Prosthetic Records
A bit screamy, a little djent, some brutalcore stuff too.