SONS OF BALAUR
Tenebris Deos
Season of Mist
Blackened death metal, but a little groove in some tracks, other full on blackened death metal on others.  good stuff

ANCIIENTS
Voice of the Void
Season of Mist
Proggy melodic deathy stoner metal, really big meaty riffs, maybe a bit of a mastodon thing happening

DÉPARTE
Failure, Subside
Season of Mist
A little bit of an atmospheric black/death metal thing

Venom Prison
Animus
Prosthetic Records
Good grooving death metal, maybe a little bit of a blackened feel or a Morbid Angel type thing going on.

Avenged Sevenfold
“The Stage” [Single]
Capitol
Good classic Avenged Sevenfold.  Great melodies, hooks, catchy, kinda heavy, but kinda not…  I like this track and the video is cool too.

Sonic Syndicate
Confessions
Despotz
Electronicified modern commercial hard rock type stuff.

Amaranthe
Maximaiism
Spinefarm
Female fronted-ish “metal”  I guess they have 3 singers, this has a bit of a commercial metal electronicified sound, harsh vox mixed in make it a bit cooler too.

Shvpes
Pain. Joy. Ecstasy. Despair.
Spinefarm
A little bit screamo… and then just some modern metalcore.  Good metal catchy beat but you get some happy clean chorus type stuff going on too.

Serpentine Dominion
Serpentine Dominion
Metal Blade Records
What a fun lineup.  Adam from KsE, former drummer from Black Dahlia Murder and Corpsegrinder.  Catchy brutal classic death metal.

Invidia
Making My Amends (Single)
Music Gallery International
Kind of a middle Pantera sounding groove metal band.  the one song sounds pretty good.

Darkthrone
Thundra Leech (Single)
Peaceville Records
Good grooving death n roll black metal.

Beyond Threshold
Live To Fight
Pavement Music
Heavy groove metal, yeah, a bit thrashy, and big meaty grooves… and they’re practically local!… From Rockford!

Ars Moriendi
Sepelitur Alleluia
Archaic Sound
Melodic black metal, some proggy stuff and brutal black metal stuff too.

Demoncy
Faustian Dawn LP/CD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Brutal blackened evil metal.  A dark sound, a little black metal feel, but guttural growly gurgly vox make it real

Xaon
Face of Balaam
Self-Release
Melodic death, heavy metal music, not too heavy, not too light, screams, clean vox, melodic stuff, some heavier parts and brutal stuff, some just good metal, and all a big prog metal too.

AN AUTUMN FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
Eternal
Wickerman Rec
Melodic post-metal doomy black metal.  Keyboards, a bit of what would probably be a post-metalcore emo thing, but it’s all black metal screamy.

MONOLITH WIELDER
Monolith Wielder
Argonauta Records
Heavy doomy stoner metal.

QUEEN ELEPHANTINE
kala
Argonauta Records
Drony chanty creepy post-metal/doom

Soulwound
No Peace
Inverse Records
Kind of brutal thrash, borderline death metal.  Heavy, catchy with a groove and probably a little Slayer musically, with oh, say death metal thrown in.  Good stuff

Soliloquium
An Empty Frame
Transcending
classic melodic black metal.  good

ICETHURS
Unlocked Doors
Bud Metal Records
A bit of a folk metal.  Grooving, melodic death, prog, tech, a lot of stuff going on from this band from Moscow.  Interesting stuff.

KHEMMIS
Hunted
20 Buck Spin
Doomy melodic metal.  Some longer songs, not really getting heavy, just kind of stoner-ish when it gets a groove going.

Riverside
Eye of the Soundscape
InsideOut
Laid back prog rock… atmospheric and yeah, not metal.

Verberis
Vexamen CD/2LP/TAPE
Iron Bonehead
Kind of a basic black metal, a bit downtempo/doomy.

Debackliner
Debackliner
Pitch Black Records
A little bit of a traditional metal, maybe a little power metal and some classic metal, catchy with some great hooks.

AUROCH
Mute Books
Profound Lore Records
Blackened death metal.  Evil, brutal, and yeah, good!

ANAGNORISIS
Peripeteia
Vendetta Records
Black-ish metal, a bit deathy, some doom (mostly because of the melodic parts seem a bit more downtempo)

RECITATIONS
The First of the Listeners
Label:  Avantgarde Music
Classic old school creepy scary black metal

Jupiter Hollow
Singles: Hades Heart, Deep In Space, Ascending
Self-Release (Asher)
Female fronted hard rock type stuff.  A little blues rock, maybe a little prog.

ZORNHEYM
A Silent God (Single)
LABEL    Non Serviam Records
Just a single of symphonic black metal.  Great stuff and epic!

Band: Embalming Theatre
Album: Re-Animated Tomb Contents (Live At Sedel)
Label: Give Praise records
Live album of some gore/grind stuff.  Lots and lots of short brutal songs.

ODDHUMS
The Inception
Inverse
Doomy stoner metal.

Dreamarcher
“Dreamarcher”
Indie Recordings
Experimental post-metal doom/black metal type thing.

THY CATAFALQUE
Meta
Season of Mist
Some parts full on black metal, some are ambient doomy, some a bit like some of the old melodic chilled out Opeth.

VVORSE
Näkyjä Helvetistä
Inverse
BLackened hardcore.  Yeah, hardcore with a little bit of a black metal feel.  Also a bit on the melodic doom side too

Cardinal Wyrm
Cast Away Souls
Svart Records
More Doom.  This is big meaty doom with a bit of a creepy black metal feel too.

HAAN
Sing Praises
Label:  Kaos Kontrol
Sludgey noise with some stoner metal grooves too.