Unwill
Past Life
(eOne)
Kind of an alternative metal.

Mastodon
“Show Yourself” [Single]
Reprise
A bit more accessible than their past stuff, still good, catchy and rockin’

NIDINGR
The High Heat Licks Against Heaven
Season of Mist
This falls into that new wave of black n roll…. grooving black metal.  heavy and brutal, yet with a big groove too.

Evocation
Children of Stone – radio single
Metal Blade Records
Brutal, melodic and grooving.  Me want more!

Overkill
The Grinding Wheel
Nuclear Blast USA
Consistently good.  That’s Overkill for you. Catchy classic thrash every time.  Great stuff once again!

Once Human
Evolution
earMUSIC
This has a very Chimaira feeling to it for me.  Catchy, heavy, a little brutal… melodic/death metal like too.  This is the second album from these guys founded by Logan Mader

Devilskin
Be Like The River
Music Management (NZ)
Female fronted metal.  Kind of an accessible groove metal/hard rock type thing with a little crunch

The O’Reilly’s And The Paddyhats
Sign Of The Fighter
Metalville Records
Well, this one isn’t quite metal… more of a ska/folk/flogging molly/Dropkick Murphy type thing.  Might be cool more around St. Patty’s day!?

Ande
“Het Gebeente”
Label:  Self-Released
Atmospheric Black Metal… kinda doomy and slow, but evil and dark vocal-wise

Praecognitvm
Inalienable Catharsis TAPE
Iron Bonehead
Old school sounding black metal.  Not too bad for a “tape”  (the files are digital! LOL)  But yeah… nothing real groundbreaking.

Weltesser
Crestfallen
Prosthetic Records
Kind of slow-doomy sludgey… not a big fan.

Pillorian
Obsidian Arc
Eisenwald
Melodic blackened metal.  A little bit of a slower doom pace, but not all post-metal and blah.  There’s actually a bit of a melodic death thing happening too.  Dark and foreboding but some groove too… and yeah it gets going into some full fast black metal in parts as well.

Mors Principium Est.
Embers Of A Dying World
AFM Records
10 February 2017
Catchy, heavy, technical, melodic and brutal too.  Overall, good melodic proggy death metal.  Great stuff

Abhorrence
Totally Vulgar – Live at Tuska Open Air 2013
Svart Records
Good meaty classic death metal.

Band: Bad Bones
Album: Demolition Derby
Label: Sliptrick records
classic hard rock AOR type stuff.

Band: In My Embrace
Album: Black Waters Deep
Label: Sliptrick records
Melodic blackened death metal.  Great grooves, catchy, heavy and not quote full on brutal, just good melodic death with a black metal feel

Band: Alfredo Gargaro
Album: Various
Label: Sliptrick records
Classic hard rock/metal.  Good big voice (with some cool rasp) and just a classic metal hard rock type thing.

Band: Marianas Rest
Album: Horror Vacui
Label: Sliptrick records
Kind of a doomy death metal…a bit slow, still melodic.

Band: Killer 4
Album: Self-Titled
Label: Sliptrick records
This is some grungy stuff with a little punk thing going on

Band: Tytus
Album: Rises
Label: Sliptrick records
Good classic metal, musically, maybe a little like Iron Maiden… but with vox a bit more growly/sung.  A low gravely clean vox type thing.  Decent stuff.

Band: Veonity
Album: Into The Void
Label: Sliptrick records
Power metal.  Lots of meedly meedly, singy stuff, vox are not all high and screamy, a little rasp and lower key… but getting higher in parts.  Some good sing-along anthem stuff too.

Band: Scum
Album: Humana
Label: Sliptrick records
Groove metal… a little bit of a death metal feel, but a cool melodic catchy groove.

Band: Precipitation
Album: The Power Of
Label: Sliptrick records
Melodic death with a prog metal thing going on too.

Band: ART
Album: Planet Zero
Label: Sliptrick records
Rock with a little alternative rock and some prog rock things going on too.

Band: Lunokhod
Album: Watch Out…Season Of Discontent
Label: Sliptrick records
Catchy grooves, a little funky, a little hardcore

Band: The Silverblack
Album: The Silverblack
Label: Sliptrick records
Industrial / electronic metal

Band: Burn Down Eden
Album: Ruins Of Oblivion
Label: Sliptrick records
Melodic Death Metal with more of a screamy vox.  A bit brutal in spots, and vox are harsh throughout.  Good stuff.

Band: Heartache
Album: Skyscrapers and Firefalls
Label: Sliptrick records
Prog hard rock with some heavier metal edges in parts.

Band: Project Theory
Album: Something Between Us
Label: Sliptrick records
Metalcore… and more or less metalcore meets nu-metal!  And some electronic stuff too

Thormesis
Trümmerfarben
Label:  MDD Records
They say Pagan Black Metal.  I’m not sure what that means, but it’s more or less some blackened melodic death metal.  Abrasive vox

Matt Chanway
Self Titled Debut Album
Self Released
Technical proggy instrumental type stuff along the lines of a Jeff Loomis good stuff with some great crunchy riffs and head banging goodness.

Hidden Danger
Access Denied
Self Released
This is just some decent classic hard rockin almost metal stuff.  Good groove, catchy in spots too.

Artist:    Cynic
Title:    Uroboric Forms – The Complete Demo Recordings
Label:    Century Media
Well, this album was awesome to begin with… and hell, now we know the demos are too.  And as demos go, this sounds great, clean and good stuff!

Band: Concrete Jelly
Album: Getting Noticed
Label: Sliptrick records
Proggy hard rock/stoner metal.  Catchy and lots of great riffs.  Good grooves.

Band: Damned Pilots
Album: Overgalaxy
Country: Italy
Label: Sliptrick records
Decent new metal, a gritty guitar, melodic chorus, kind of standard metal with some groove

Band: Tonight We Stand
Album: Redemption
Label: Sliptrick records
Melodic metal, a little bit of a metalcore thing.

The Evil Dead
Earth Inferno
Label: Witches Brew
So the description for genre is “Blackened Heavy/Speed Metal with Rock n Roll”  And yeah… it’s a good grooving hard rock/mild thrash, but the vox and feel are like black metal… and it works.  Kind of a blackened stoner metal.  neat stuff.

Craving Strange
Landmines
SmashMouth Records/MIR/RED
catchy hard rock but not really metal.  It’s a bit of a poppy/alternative rock thing.  not for the mosh pit.

Kaos Krew
“Panama” (Single)
Inverse Records
Kind of an industrial metal/hard rock.  Good catchy single.

WAN
Wan Way to Hell
Carnal Records
Dark, cold black metal, a bit atmospheric… and production is a little eh.

Band: Frozen Sand
Album: Fractals: A Shadow out of Lights
Prog metal, a bit on the power metal side, vox are a little like Hansi Kursch, but in Italian! hah.

Valfreya
Promised Land
Self-Release
Symphonic and epic death metal with a little bit of folk metal going on too.   think of Dimmu Borgir meets Amon Amarth.