Korn
The Serenity of Suffering
Roadrunner
Well, they went and did it… They made a great album again. A throwback to the old days, but still a little new.  Classic Korn heavy, catchy and melodic too.  Best new album from them in a long time.  (you probably have to be an old school Korn fan to really appreciate this new one… or not  LOL)

Pantera
The Great Southern Trendkill [20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]
Rhino
20 years old!!  Remastered and a full 2nd disc of outtakes and new mixes.  A big reissue/anniversary is always a good excuse to break out an old classic.

Rock Wolves
Rock Wolves
SPV
Melodic hard rock

Dark Tranquillity
Atoma
Century Media Records
Well, this is one of those gothenburg bands that never really changed too much. ANd that’s a good thing.  Solid melodic death metal, catchy, heavy, big grooves and all around great stuff.

The Answer
Solas
Napalm Records
Kind of an indie rock prog rock type thing.  Maybe a little southern rock.  But definitely not metal.

Crowbar
The Serpent Only Lies
Entertainment One
I’m not normally a huge crowbar fan… but these two tracks have a great groove and catchiness to them… Good stuff!

Helmet
Dead To The World
earMUSIC
Another band I’ve never really been a fan of.  Can’t really say why, just not my thing.  They seem to have that same grungy melodic groove thing.  Almost a bit Kings X/STP like on a few tracks… so a big more melodic and laid back.

Tower
Tower
The End Records
Female fronted classic metal.  A little bit like some Motorhead light.  Guitar driven hard rockin’ metal.

Anaal Nathrakh
The Whole of the Law
Metal Blade Records
Everything heavy and brutal and maybe some electronic heavy fast industrial stuff too.  Almost a little like some Industrial SYL meets black metal.  ALways decent stuff from these guys.

THEOLOGIAN / LAMENT CITYSCAPE
Soft Tissue
Battleground Records
Ambient atmospheric noisy doom post metal.  no thanks.

ELIXIR
Where The Secret Lies
Maple Metal Records (MMR027 – 2016)
Classic prog/power metal. Good and heavy too.

Zealot Cult
Karmenian Crypt 12″ MLP
Blood Harvest
Kind of a grooving blackened death metal.  A bit of an Obituary feel.

Grimoire –
À la lumière des cendres (Reissue)
Classic black metal.  Good heavy evil feel, a little melodic and scary too!

Dirkschneider
Live- Back To The Roots
AFM Records
Udo under his last name… a live show of his old Accept stuff… music sounds almost studio quality… vocals are a little raw, but so is Udo, right?   Good live album with some nice classic song with a new edge.

Fluisteraars
Gelderland
Eisenwald
Brutal yet melodic classic black metal.

Band: AXIS OF DESPAIR
Album: Mankind Crawls
Label: Give Praise records
A little bit grindcore, deathcore death metal and deathy groove.  All decent stuff, with an obvious Napalm Death feel.

NETHERBIRD
The Grander Voyage
Black Lodge Records
Good production, quality melodic black metal. Not too evil or brutal, just a good classic cold guitar black metal with

Krypts
Remnants of Expansion
Dark Descent Records
Brutal blackened death metal with a pinch of melodic stuff too.

STEEL HOOK PROSTHESES
Calm Morbidity
Malignant Records
Sludgey Noise.  WTF?

SATANIC WARMASTER
Black Metal Kommando / Gas Chamber (CD)
Werewolf Records
Reissue from 2005.  Old school black metal.  “ok” production

Dehumanized
Beyond the Mind
Comatose Music
Good ol brutal death metal.  Big meaty grooves

THE TRUE WERWOLF
Death Music (CD)
Werewolf Records
Raw black metal, mushy production, very evil.

PRINCIPALITY OF HELL
Sulfur & Bane
Osmose Productions
Modern black metal with a throwback feel.  Evil and brutal, and catchy too

CRUCIFIED MORTALS
Psalms of the Dead Choir (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
A little bit of a thrashy groove metal.  Maybe a more death metal feeling Lamb of God type thing.

ULCERATE
Shrines Of Paralysis
Relapse Records
Brutal grindy wall of sound death metal

NOVERIA
Forsaken
Scarlet Records
Heavy prog metal with a power metal thing too.  A good heavy edge musically with great clean singing vox.  Such a nice fresh change from listening to oh, I don’t know 20 black/death metal releases in a row!

Unendlich
Scales Of Existence
Horror Pain Gore Death
Big meaty grooves, brutal death metal and a black metal tone/feel too.  GOod stuff!

ACROSS THE BURNING SKY
The End Is Near
Label:  MDD Records
Sort of a melodic death.  A little bit thrashy, but really some good heavy stuff.

Year of The Cobra
In the Shadows Below
STB Records
Doomy stoner metal.  A little bit proggy I guess and female vox.

Dark Clarity
Dark Clarity
Inverse
Two tracks of hard rock, a bit of a power metal feel.

BLACK OATH
LITANIES IN THE DARK
TERROR FROM HELL RECORDS
Melodic doom.  Down tempo, but with a little bit of a groove.

Northern Crown
The Others
Self-Release
Tough to put a finger on this one, a bit doomy, a bit melodic metal, and electronic-ish too.

Crown of Earth
Crown of Earth
Self Released
Kind of a prog metal/power metal thing.  And yeah, classic metal.  Good high screamy vox too!

SKEWERED
Deathmethyltryptamine
Stillborn Records
Classic death metal, heavy brutal and good stuff!

SOUL SELLER
Matter of Faith
Label:  Tanzan Music
Melodic Hard Rock, decent AOR early 90’s sounding stuff.

Band: Bahrrecht
Album: “L’Aube Glacée”
Ketzer records
Big full on modern black metal, a little epic feel.  Brutal, fast, technical, and good evil sounding stuff!

Blindfold
Multipolar Disorder of Substance
Imminence Records
Technical djenty “math core”  It’s a bit proggy and has some big bass drop break downs

Cries of the Captive
Totalitarian
Imminence Records
Death core or “brutal core” as I like to call it.  This has big brutal breakdowns and brutal this and brutal that.