VIPASSI
Benzaiten (Radio Promo)
Season of Mist
This single is some cool prog metal that reminds me a bit of Cynic with the prominent bass riffage, kind of a melodic death feel and most definitely prog.

EMPTINESS
Meat Heart (Radio Promo)
Season of Mist
20 January 2017
Kind of a doomy dark death metal.

Ranger
Speed and Violence
Spinefarm
Classic old school thrash, great stuff, fast, heavy, catchy and melodic too.

Legion Within
Scourge
Self-released
This is more or less alt-rock type stuff.

Gone Is Gone
Echolocation
Rise Records
Kind of a grooving doom, maybe a little prog.  Not real heavy, just chilled out hard rocking stuff.

Machinae Supremacy
Into The Night World
BD Pop
Sounds a little bit like In Flames meets a hard prog type thing like Fair to Midland.

Grave Digger
Healed By Metal
Napalm Records
Good ol german classic thrashy metal.  This band has been around forever and they still know how to put out the great metal

Sepultura
Machine Messiah
Nuclear Blast USA
First track (title track) starts off kind of slow… the 2nd track which is the lead single… now we’re talking.  Heavy raw metal!  Not much real signature tribal Sepultura stuff, just the full heavier old school death metal style.  The next track has more of a classic Sepultura feel… a bit more melodic and catchy.  Cool stuff.

Voodoo Terror Tribe
The Sun Shining Cold
VTT Music
Heavier hard rock maybe a little bit of a groove metal Static X type thing with mostly clean vox.

THE VOMITING DINOSAURS
Exoplanets
Grimoire Records
Classic death metal.  Good groove, yet a bit raw and a little bit of a hardcore vibe.

Ignis Gehenna
Baleful Scarlet Star
Seance Records
Black metal, wall of cold dark blast beat metal.  Nothing awful, nothing new.

Laster
Ons vrije fatum
Dunkelheit Produktionen
Mostly black metal, melodic stuff, kinda doomy prog… some atmospheric doom stuff too.

MANGOG
Mangog Awakens
Argonauta Records
A little doom, some big meaty grooving stoner metal type stuff.

CONDENADOS
The Tree of Death
Shadow Kingdom
Overall doom feel, clean vox kind of like an old school black sabbath thing.

FOUR STAR REVIVAL
The Underdog
Label:  Headstone Records
Classic hard rock. A good punchy and catchy sound, clean vox, but not too much on the true metal side.

Fides Inversa
Rite Of Inverse Incarnation
W.T.C.Productions
Two long tracks of ritualistic black metal type stuff.

Damage Limit
Crank
Secret Entertainment
Kind of a grungy hard rock with a litttttttle bit of a doomy groove.

SPECTRAL
Arctic Sunrise
Label:  Boersma – Records
Great catchy melodic death.  Abrasive vox, good growls, black metal tones, thrashy metal tones, death metal and melodic death all in here.  Great stuff!

Herem
III
Inverse
A bit sludgey, down tempo slow depressing doom with black metal screamy growls… over this realllly slow shoegazey doom. yeah.

THYRANE
BLACK HARMONY
Woodcut
Good meaty black metal, great grooves, melody and evil coldness

Jupiter Hollow
Odyssey (EP)
Self-Release
Melodic prog metal, some tracks get into melodic death, some are more just melodic hard rock prog.  Great all around prog metal here.

Pain Of Salvation
In the Passing Light of Day
InsideOut
I’ve been a fan of this band in the past, then kind of lost interest, well, this one has me back.  Darker, heavier, but still going back to that melodic proggy metal too.  Lots of emotion coming through on this one too.

Shaarimoth
Temple of the Adversarial Fire
W.T.C.Productions
Kind of doom, ok, it’s doom.  melodic stuff, depressing stuff, a little black metal, and kind of death mnetal too.

Rajalla –
Diktaattori
Inverse
I guess all I can say about this… it’s some good grooving metal, maybe a little like Sepultura musically, and presumably all sung in finnish.

KLADOVEST
Ignitiate
Label:  No Colours Records
Black metal… four almost 10 minute or more songs.  Classic cold melodic black metal sound.

SKALLBANK
Skallbank: The Singles
Label:  Big Balls Productions
A heavier hard rock… kinda almost-metal.  Good groove, growly vox, melodic grooving hard rock music.

THEOSOPHY
Eastland Tales- Part II
Label:  No Colours Records
This is some good modern-ish black metal.  A full wall of sound, not symphonic, but just a full almost Dimmu Borgir feeling.  Melodic, yet still heavy and good tones.  Good stuff!

Black Light
Name of the One
Label:  Support Underground
Thrashy death metal from Slovakia.  Some good catchy stuff with some growly vox.  Kind of a big groove going on.

Killing Addiction
Shores of Oblivion
Xtreem Music
Brutal death metal.  Four tracks of good classic brutality

Steelballs
Steelballs (EP)
Label: Witches Brew
Heavy classic metal… kind of like a speed/power/thrash type thing.  Good stuff (4 tracks)

United
Subconscious Endeavor EP
Online Metal Promo
Classic metal, sounds kind of like a live recording.  ok stuff, decenet melody