GATECREEPER
Sonoran Depravation
Relapse
Relapse was starting to worry me there for a while.  All I’ve been getting is keyboardy synth stuff and post-metal.  Well, faith is restored.  Good old school death metal here. Big Riffs and big grooves.

The Dillinger Escape Plan
Dissociation
Party Smasher
Never been a huge fan, but I respect these guys.  Techny screamy type stuff, actually there’s some proggy math stuff going on too too.

Red Fang
Only Ghosts
Relapse
A sort of stoner metal, a little doomy, a good catchy edge too.

Killer Bee
Eye In The Sky
Self-Released
Modern hard rock… Kind of like a new-modern day Guns n Roses feeling going on.

Darke Complex
Point Oblivion
Spinefarm
Modern melodic metal.  Kind of a nu-metal feel.  Catchy and some heavy moments, but maybe just a bit too pop-metal for us?

Wovenwar
Honor Is Dead
Metal Blade Records
Another modern metal thing.  Melodic hardcore /metalcore type stuff.  Clean vox, got some screams and clean vox.  It’s almost like as if Sevendust were to come out today… they’d sound like this.

Take Over And Destroy
Take Over And Destroy
Prosthetic Records
Melodic doom with a little throwback to some 70’s hard rock.  Good melodic catchy parts

GLENN HUGHES
Heavy – Radio Single
Frontiers Music s.r.l.
Big full hard rockin’ sound.  This guy has been around forever and still brings it full on with such smooth vox too.

FLAYED
XI Million
Kaotoxin
A bluesy hard rockin’ thing, keyboard/organ heavy, but catchy big meaty sound (not metal though)

The Devil Wears Prada
Transit Blues
Rise Records
Another band that I’m not a huge fan of, but they’re pretty good at what they do.  More melodic modern metalcore type stuff.

DangerAngel
All The Kings Horses
Melodic Rock Records
Sort of a power metal thing.  Melodic hard rock/power metal feel. Keyboard heavy, good metal edged guitars.

Kai Hansen
XXX 3 Decades In Metal
earMUSIC
First solo album from the Helloween/Gamma Ray front man.  Good hard rockin’ power metal type stuff with Kai’s big voice

AGATUS
The Eternalist (CD, LP, TAPE)
Hells Headbangers
A bit doom, and a bit melodic metal and prog too. Has some Ghost throwback catchy vibe.

VAREGO
Epoch
Argonauta Records
Some doomy post-metal, a bit melodic and not quite as aimless most post metal, but this one doesn’t seem to drone on and on… it’s got a bit of a stoner metal thing going on.

SUMA
The Order of Things
Argonauta Records
We’re on a roll here with some sludgey doom.  Just a lot of big slow downtempo stuff.

Tortorum
Rotten. Dead. Forgotten.
W.T.C.Productions
Good meaty and evil black metal.  Good groove, classic black metal sound

Eden’s Curse
Cardinal
AFM Records
Power metal with a good edge.  Catchy and good stuff.

Waldgeflüster
Ruinen
Nordvis Produktion
Melodic doomy black metal.  Big and evil with an eery post metal doom feeling

Polyptych
Defying the Metastasis CD
Blood Harvest
A kind of wall of blackened death metal.  A big heavy meaty sound with a black metal feel while having a big brutal death metal thing in your face. great stuff.

Iron Mask
Diabolica
AFM Records
A heavy thrashy power metal thing.  Great stuff with singalong great catchy riffs and heavier music than a typical power metal thing

Spectral Voice / Phrenelith
Split 7″ EP
Iron Bonehead / Dark Descent
one song from each band, both are good dark brutal death metal

Our Place of Worship is Silence
The Embodiment of Hate
Broken Limbs
Brutal blackened death metal

Perpetual Despair is the Human Condition
Cara Neir
Broken Limbs
Black metal, kind of classic, a bit screamy and decent production

Sleepwalkers
Hollowpath
Transcending
Melodic death metal, kind of like the medium Opeth type stuff.  Death metal vox, but more melodic doom-ish music.

Sacred Steel
Heavy Metal Sacrifice
Cruz Del Sur Music
Good ol classic power metal with a nice heaver thrashy metal edge.

Atanor
Atanor 12″ MLP
Iron Bonehead
Brutal deathy black metal.

THRONEUM
Morbid Death Tales (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
Raw death metal, meaning, not so great production.

Blasphemer
Ritual Theophagy
Comatose Music
Brutal black/death metal.  More on the death metal side, classic true brutal wall of sound production.  good evil brutal stuff.

HOBBS’ ANGEL OF DEATH
Heaven Bled (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
It’s kinda thrashy, a little death-metal like, but totally full on metal.  Maybe comparable to like, Slayer.

THEATRES DES VAMPIRES
Candyland
Scarlet Records
A modern metal, with a pinch of gothy metal, female fronted.

ALTAR OF OBLIVION
Barren Grounds (CD, TAPE)
Shadow Kingdom
Grooving melodic hard rock.  Almost power metal, but not quite.

FALSE GODS
Wasteland
Label:  Self-Released
Sludgey doom with a big meaty groove.

Sixty Miles Ahead
Insanity
Eclipse Records
Modern metal, catchy, a little metal edge, but all clean vox, and a bit “commercial”-ish.

SPIRIT OF THE FOREST
A Void Into The Fields Of Silence
Scum Productions
Classic black metal, brutal, heavy, good stuff.

Michael Sweet
One Sided War
RatPak Records
Good classic metal sound here with the frontman of Stryper’s solo project.   Great vox, some heaver songs, some power ballads, good stuff.

OBSIDIAN
Into Oblivion
Hammer Down Records
Groove metal, with some hints of black metal (guitar sound)  and death metal in overall feel

MINDSCAR
What’s Beyond The Light
Label:  Self-Released
Death metal with a little hardcore and technical prog stuff going on too.  Good stuff

Buzzard Canyon
Hellfire & Whiskey
Salt of the Earth Records
female fronted grooving stoner metal