Them
Sweet Hollow
Empire Records
Metal done in the spirit of King Diamond… probably a bit heavier.  High vox, some melodic death type stuff too.   Kind of an all-star cast with Kevin Talley on drums Mike LePond from Symphony X on Bass and the singer from Coldsteel… and more.

Ravencult
Force of Profanation
Metal Blade Records
Heavy?  Yes. Fucking around?  No.  Blackend death metal at almost what you really want to hear.  A big of a cold black metal feel with a punchy brutal grooving death metal.

Starkill
Shadow Sleep
Prosthetic Records
Catchy, heavy and yeah, headbanging good melodic death metal from Chicago!  First album on Prosthetic after a couple on Century Media.  Great stuff.

Death Valley High
CVLT [AS FVK]
Minus HEAD
Electronic/industrial gothy hard rock type stuff.

Avenged Sevenfold
The Stage
Capitol
The last album was kind of, I don’t know… not all there.  This one seems to be a bit more heavy/together and heavier and grittier in parts.

The Outlaws
Legacy Live
SPV
Live album from the classic Southern rock/country type band.  Ummmmmm Not quite Mosh Pit Material

Lamb of God
“The Duke” [Single]
Epic
An outake from the last albums recording sessions… a different side of Lamb of God here, with mostly clean vox on a melodic yet still heavy feeling song.

Testament
Brotherhood Of THe Snake
Nuclear Blast USA
Furthering their “Legacy” with another great album.  Heavy, catchy, full of monster riffs and even some good melodic stuff too.

Civil War
The Last Full Mesure
Napalm Records
Nice big epic power metal from some former members of Sabaton.  This has just a standard full on fist pumping sing-a-long metal.  Good stuff.

Dope
Blood Money Pt 1
Entertainment One
As expected, catchy commercial sounding hard rock.

Whores.
Gold
eOne Music
Noisy sort of sludge metal.  Not too doomy, but still has that big sludge distortion feel.  Vox are kinda scream/shouted.

GRIDFAILURE
Further Layers Of Societal Collapse
independent
Noisy post metal blah.

GARGOYLE (Italy)
Reborn in Blasphemy (TAPE)
Shadow Kingdom
Doomy stoner metal.  Release indicates it’s for “Tape” and it sounds like it.  SHouldn’t it sound good then put to tape to sound bad?  what if it sounds bad first?  wtf?

Profanal
Supreme Fire
Iron Tyrant
Good grooving death metal.   Brutal, big meaty grooves and kinda catchy too.  Great stuff.

BlackWitchery
Evil Shall Prevail DLP/CD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Noisy and tedious classic black metal.  Cold, evil, blast beat sounding black metal.  Production and sound is all pretty raw.  Good for those old school classic black metal fans!

NIGHT DEMON
Night Demon (TAPE)
Shadow Kingdom
A little of a classic metal, a big doomy stoner metal groove.  Catchy, maybe a Trouble sort of vibe, but with a more clean classic metal sounding vocals.

Vornth
Black Pyres
Iron Tyrant
Blackened deathy thrash, evil screamy/sung vox, fast riffage, catchy and headbangin’ good stuff.

VOID MEDITATION CULT
Utter the Tongue of the Dead (CD, LP, TAPE)
Hells Headbangers
Sludgey black metal with some crappy production.

FORNICUS
Hymns Of Dominion
Negative Earth Records
Heavy blackened death metal.  Black metal feel, heavy brutal music.  Good stuff.

SOULEMISSION (Dutch Black Metal)
Tales of Inevitable Death
Black Lion Records
Primarily some classic evil black metal, a bit of melodic stuff going on.   Good stuff.

Lord Almighty
Paths
Self Released
Another blackened death metal with a good groove, some melodic death moments too.   Good stuff!!

Atlas
Death & Fear
Label:  Self- Released
Big grooving stoner metal.  Catchy, heavy fun stuff.

ABYSMAL GRIEF
Reveal Nothing
Label:  TERROR FROM HELL RECORDS
Doomy horror metal with a little gothy feel, keyboard/organ sounds fill out this downtempo creeper metal.

Robert Pehrsson’s Humbucker
Long Way To The Light
High Roller Records
Some laid back rock… sounds a lot like some Thin Lizzy

FLAYED
XI Million
Kaotoxin
Classic deep-purple ish hard rock.  Organs, big grooves catchy tunes.

Band: Cities Of Mars
Album: Celestial Mistress
Label: Suicide records
Big pscychedelic doom.  Three longs songs, a little melodic stuff, but mostly just long meaty doom riffage

PAGANLAND
From Carpathian Land
Label:  Svarga Music
Heavy and brutal yet catchy and melodic blackened death metal.   Great stuff.

Leaves’ Eyes
Fires In The North (EP)
AFM Records
4 November 2016

Kyy
Beyond Flesh – Beyond Matter – Beyond Death
Saturnal
This is fast, brutal blackened death metal leaning more towards black metal with good melodic stuff to keep it from being all blasty black metal.

NOISE TRAIL IMMERSION
Womb
Label:  self-released / Triton’s Orbit
Blackened math metal.  So yeah, black metal with a lot of djent.

Dead End Finland
Slaves To The Greed
Inverse
A little power metal (keyboards) a bit of a gothy electronic modern metal sound too.  Some growly vox throwing it into the melodic death area too.

Hoath
Codex III: Crown of the Mind
Saturnal
Brutal blackened death metal, blast beating howl/growled vox.  A bit of a black metal groove to keep it interesting and flowing.

NEBRUS
Exta Malorvm
Razed Soul Productions
Black metal, but with a grooving death metal music vibe.  Vox are echoey and creepy black metal style.

WHEEL OF SMOKE
Mindless Mass
Label:  Self-Released
a little bit Rock, Prog, Psych, and stoner metal

Ealo
In The Fire, Thou Shalt Rise (EP)
LOCATION    Kansas City, USA
RELEASE DATE    April 09, 2016
Thrashy power metal, vox are screamy, maybe a little strained in parts, but a heavy brutal thing going back n forth with thrashy power metal.

WOLF’S HUNGER
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Label:  Symbol of Domination
Release Date:  September 9th, 2016
Blackened thrash, some of the coolest thrashy stuff mixed in with a cold black metal style with crisp production make this pretty good stuff.

Band: MYR
Album: Habits
Label: Revalve records
When something is just METAL, it’s got heavy stuff, doesn’t really fit into too many subgenre’s it’s easy to just say, this is “metal”  However, this one leans a bit towards Prog metal.  Not too heavy, not too light, not really leaning into anything too far, but it’s got melodic stuff, a good edge, clean vox… good stuff.

Band: Eufobia
Album: Eufobia
Label: Wizard
Catchy and heavy melodic death metal.  Great catchy riffs, mix of heavy and clean vox.  Songs are short and to the point too.

Band: Macaria
Album: A Strings’ Dramedy
Label: Revalve records
Had to go through some work on this one, they sent the album as wav files, needed to convert and whatever… well, it’s some folky death metal.  Good stuff.  brutal, catchy and well, kind of a death metal rock opera.

Sorguinazia
Sorguinazia
Vault of Dried Bones
Noisy creepy 3 song EP of black metal.

Band: Carved
Album: Kyrie Eleison
Label: Revalve records
Melodic death metal from Italy, Decent stuff, with some piano/keyboards going on.  Good abrasive vox, a little Meshuggah like in parts, others are kind of your standard melodic death.

Band: Afterlife Symphony
Album: Moment Between Lives
Label: Revalve records
Femaled fronted symphonic power metal.  Metal parts have a decent edge, and you have that orchestra feel with that typical femaled operatic vox.  Pretty decent.

Beasto Blanco
Feed My Frankenstein
RatPak
This is a band of CHuck Garric, longtime bassist from Alice COoper’s band.  First single, is a cover from his boss’s band.  It has a White Zombie/Motorhead feel.

Endemise
Anathema
Self-Release
Epic brutal melodic black metal.  Great stuff

Eggs of Gomorrh
Rot Prophet
Vault of Dried Bones
Brutal old school black metal.  A bit noisy but heavy, brutal and evil.

THE DOWNSPIRAL TO HELL
Unusual Methods To Dismember The Spiritual Halo
Base Records
Brutal, yet melodic too… black metal.  and well, just judging by the band name… EVIL!