T.S.O.L.
The Trigger Complex
Rise Records
Kind of a laid back thing with a little light punk feel

Cultural Warfare
Future Kill
M Theory
Classic thrashy type stuff, along with some good groove metal.  Just all in all great thrashy stuff… and yeah, they’re from the Bay Area, so they have a good base to work from!

wars
We Are Islands, After All
Spinefarm
At first with a good melodic keyboardy groove with a pinch of goth, it sounds like heavier Lacuna Coil musically… but vocally it’s more of a hardcore screaming… then we get to some melodic almost emo-core-ish singing too.

Firewind
Immortals
(AFM)
This band has been doing its thing for quite some time and great to have a new one!  This is how power metal should be… catchy, heavy, fast, a good edge and yeah a prog metal feel too.  Vox, music, production all top notch.

Unearthly Trance
Stalking the Ghost Radio Singles
Relapse
meaty doom.  Depressing and slow, but still heavy

Me And That Man
“My Church Is Black”
(Cooking Vinyl)
What. Is. This.!?  Why send stuff like this to metal radio?   Johnny Cash type stuff.  ugh.  I get the “darkness” of the sing title and stuff, but this is basically a country song.

Protest The Hero
Pacific Myth
Razor and Tie
I haven’t heard new stuff from these guys in a while.  They are one of my favorite of this metalcore thing… They seem to prog it up and they have a guy that can really sing without being all emo, or even growly.  Just everything works in this band.

VIPASSI
Sunyata
Season of Mist
Got the single of this a week or two ago… great technical instrumental melodic death type stuff.  A djenty almost Cynic feeling going on.  Great stuff.

Emptiness
Not for Music
Season of Mist
Kind of a depressing doom.  Something in the bio says that they “further their exploration of absolute sonic dread”  And yeah, sonic dread.

NIDINGR
Surtr (Radio Promo)
Season of Mist
Blackened death metal… one song single so far… good melodic and cold black metal feeling, but a full on death metal feeling too

Kreator
Gods Of Violence
God Of Violence
Can these guys do wrong?   A light instrumental intro going right into that classic brutal Kreator sound.  I want more!

Twiztid
Nothing To You (Single)
MNE
This Korn-like rap metal band is back… never quite made the cut on the Mosh Pit before… probably not quite our thing.

Xandria
Theaters Of Demensions
Napalm Records
Epic symphonic female fronted (operatic) metal.  She gets a bit more of a standard clean female vocal in other parts too, so it’s not just full on opera singing… But it is pretty epic full classical/symphonic metal type stuff… and yeah the metal stuff does keep it kind of heavy in parts too, and other more power metal stuff too. A little folk stuff too.

HEAVY BABY SEA SLUGS
Teenage Graveyard Party
Label:  Heavy Baby Records
Kind of a sludgey punk/alternative thing.  Meh.

Ekpyrosis
Asphyxiating Devotion
Memento Mori
Good brutal death metal, Classic grooving stuff.

Infamovs
Under the Seals of Death
Memento Mori
Brutal blackened death metal.  Maybe a little grindy, full on growly gurgles, blast beasts, fast everything.

MARS ERA
Dharmanaut
Argonauta Records
Some classic stoner rock/hard rock.  Good Groove, a vocal that reminds me a little bit of Spiritual Beggars.

A Breach of Silence
Secrets
Eclipse Records
Screamy metalcore.  melodic Hardcore feel, some screamy vox, and clean vox too.

Ghost Season
Like Stars in a Neon Sky
Pavement Entertainment
A little bit of a modern metal feel, some proggy metal stuff, some more just standard metal and yeah, a commercial hard rock/metal thing going on too.  catchy songs, melodic clean vox.

Borealis
World Of Silence MMXVII
AFM Records
This is a power metal/prog type of thing

Mustan Kuun Lapset
Saatto
Label: Inverse Records
Kind of a melodic death/black metal.  A little bit of an Amorphis feel, decent grooves and stuff.

THE OMINOUS CIRCLE
Appaling Ascension
Osmose Productions
Good old grooving death metal with a little bit of a black metal vibe/evilness

RIDE FOR REVENGE
Thy Horrendous Yearning (LP)
Hells Headbangers
Kind of a doomy blackened stoner thing… maybe a little raw punk thing too

GLARE OF THE SUN
-Soil-
Lifeforce
Doomy post-rock/metal.  A bit slow and depressing, yet melodic and yeah sad…

Deserted Fear
Dead Shores Rising
Century Media
Great melodic death.  Huge grooves, big meaty riffs, catchy and heavy too.  A little bit of an Amon Amarth type of feeling

FALL OF CARTHAGE
“The Longed-For Reckoning”
Label:  MDD Records
A little bit thrash, a bit on the just standard modern new metal thing.  Catchy chugga chugga riffage, not quite heavy thrash, but just a basic thrash-tinged just good old “metal”

Tenebrae in Perpetuum
La Genesi: 2001-2002
Ordo MCM
LoFi black metal.   next.

Diablerie
The Catalyst vol. 1: Control
Primitive Reaction
Melodic death metal from Finland.  A good edge, a bit of a little power/prog metal feel with heavy keyboards… vox are abrasive with a good heavy sound.  You know what, it reminds me a bit of Strapping Young Lad!

Horn (Germany)
Turm am Hang LP
Iron Bonehead
This is melodic death with a little bit of a viking metal feel…and since they’re from Germany, they have that little extra edge… and to make it even more edgy?  it’s all in German too!

DEATHLESS LEGACY
Dance With Devils
Scarlet Records
This is some proggy female fronted metal.  Kind of a symphonic and epic feel… cool stuff that keeps it to the point and doesn’t mess around

Band: Axis Of Despair
Album: Mankind Crawls
Country: Sweden
Label: Give Praise records
Kind of a grindcore, but really a good grooving death metal too.

Band: HUMMINGBIRD OF DEATH / BEARTRAP
Country: USA
Label: Give Praise records | To Live A Lie | Here and Now Records | Riotous Outburst
Style: Grindcore
LOL  this whole EP is One minute, 44 seconds long and 8 tracks betwen two bands.  Fast, to the point punked up metal.  fun.

Band: Crossbones
Album: WWIII
Country: Albania
Label: Nadir Music
Kind of a groove metal, a little stoner metal, a big meaty riff factory.

Terrifier
Weapons of Thrash Destruction
Test Your Metal
Now this is frickin’ thrash, man!  Fast, heavy, raw, almost brutal too, but just keeping that fast catchy heavy thrash thing.  Great stuff.

Curses
Chapter I: Introspect
Imminence Records
This was pretty cool and brutal, with a bit of a djent feeling… brutalcore… then a total melodic/mallcore type of clean vox chorus.  I just don’t know man.

Evil Force
Banging On The Pentagram
Label: Witches Brew
This is some classic thrashy stuff.  A little raw, but a decent basic classic thrash thing.

Trigon
The Night Is Young (single)
Self-Release
Just some modern hard rocking stuff, kind of like a Volbeat.

JOHN GARCIA
The Coyote Who Spoke In Tongues
Napalm Records
Former Kyuss frontman… this is mostly acoustic, great vox, but just not really metal… cool laid back guitar/vox stuff

WARBRINGER – Radio Promo
Silhouettes
Napalm Records
Just having a single from this band just isn’t fair.  Great heavy thrash… so much groove, headbanging and yeah… awesome.  Bring it on!