MASTODON
Hushed And Grim
Reprise Records
Seems to be a bit more melodic and laid back than previous stuff… maybe needing to give some deeper listens… not a lot of heavy “grabbers”

MONOLORD
Your Time To Shine
Relapse
Sludgey doom with melodic stuff… not too bad.

Allegaeon
Into Embers – radio single
Metal Blade Records
This band crushes it every time… technical/progressive death metal, being heavy harsh yet with a melodic groove… And a sliver of some clean vox that fit in perfect! awesome stuff can’t wait for more and the tour!!

BASTARÐUR
Satan’s Loss of Son
Season of Mist
29 October 2021
Heavy blackened thrash, good grindy riffage, and catchy and brutal and harsh with a groove too.

Bornholm
Apotheosis
Napalm Records
Melodic black metal with a bit of an epic thing too, a little like old Opeth going from laid back clean parts to full on black metal

Extinction A.D.
Chaos Collision Carnage and Propaganda
Unique Leader Records
Blackened thrashy metal with some solid heavy grooves… another little different thing from Unique Leader… all good!

Bullet For My Valentine
Bullet For My Valentine
Spinefarm Records
A bit laid back on this single, a melodic metalcore which builds and builds and pays off heavy in the end… cool stuff.

Bonded
Into Blackness
Century Media Records
Here’s some catchy thrashed up groove metal. good stuff!

Ominum Gatherum
Origin
Century Media Records
Melodic death, this single is pretty melodic and laid back and does build up to some heavier stuff by the end… looking forward to hearing the rest

GOAT TORMENT
Forked Tongues
Season of Mist Underground Activists
29 October 2021
Fast and brutal old school black metal. good stuff!

Letzte Instanz
Ehrenhort
AFM Records
29 October 2021
A sort of electronic basic german thing, not quite in the metal vein.

Witnesses
The Collapse
Self-Release
31 October 2021
Doomy post metal

Outre-Tombe
Abysse Mortifère
Temple of Mystery
31 October 2021
Old school death metal with a blackened raw sensibility.

Aarkanne
Mysterii
Inferna Profundus Records
1 November 2021
Classic black metal

MORTE INCANDESCENTE
Vala Comum
Signal Rex
31 October 2021
Old school Black n roll metal, cold dark and evil with a rockin’ groove too.

DECEASED
Thrash Times at Ridgemont High (CD)
Hells Headbangers
31 October 2021
All covers of old school stuff from bands like Whiplash, Blessed Death, Sacrifice, Artillery and more! Great heavy, catchy thrash!

CR?HM
Paindemic
Independent
5 November 2021
Live show from the pandemic times. Melodic classic metal, a bit of a doomy groove

Fordom
Manic Howls
Night in Terrors
5 November 2021
old school lo-fi black metal.

ZAA?AR
Magicka? Dz?ungl’a
I, Voidhanger Records
5 November 2021
Lots of long tracks, experimental post metal type stuff.

DUNGEON STEEL
Bloodlust
Signal Rex
5 November 2021
Old school punked up black metal, a bit of a classic metal sound musically… vox are crazy shrieky, screamy, punky.

In Aphelion
Luciferian Age
Edged Circle
5 November 2021
A 4 song blackened thrash… great stuff, An epic feel, wall of dark evilness while having great production and a catchy thrashy sound.

Bryan Eckermann
Plague Bringers
Self-Release
5 November 2021
Melodic death with a little black metal feel… great stuff!!

Gold Spire
Gold Spire
Chaos Records
5 November 2021
Doooomy and brutal death metal… a pinch o black metal, and a bit of a viking melodic thing too Cool stuff.

Sarke
Allsighr
Soulseller Records
5 November 2021
Is there such a think as blackened stoner metal? I think this might be it… a cool catchy groovin’ thing, but a little bit of a black metal feel/attitude. (not harsh or anything, more of a “Ghost” vibe)

Deber
Aspire to Affliction
Personal Records
5 November 2021
Doomy, depressing death metal.

Autokrator
Persecution
Krucyator Productions
5 November 2021
Brutal death metal with a smidge of black metal darkness. A doomy groove

Cystectomy
Deprive to Hollowness
Comatose
BRUTAL Death metal! Also monster meaty grooves

Varius
Concordance (EP) – Out Nov 5th
Self-Release
5 November 2021
Melodic blackened death metal. A little bit on the prog metal side with some of the guitar and instrumental passages.

ALTARETH
Blood Magnetic
Eye Records
Release: 5 November 2021
A bit sludgey, mostly doom, some stoner grooves… a bit depressing and old school

Band: Disbeliever
Album: Archetype
Label: Revalve Records
Release date: November 5, 2021
Gothy doom, laid back

MYSTRAS
Empires Vanquished And Dismantled
I, Voidhanger Records / Stellar Auditorium Prod
5 November 2021
Classic old school black metal

Fearout
Bleedthrough
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: November 5th 2021
Classic metal with a bit of a catchy stoner groove. vox are bit dark sounding

Band: The Shape
Album: In The Age of Doom and Fear
Self Released
Release date: October 29th, 2021
This is some classic/thrashy metal, reminds me a little bit of Iced Earth stylistically… with a pinch of melodic death and grooves too. Cool stuff!

MØL
Diorama
Nuclear Blast
5 November 2021
So this is a bit doom, a bit melodic black metal, but with not such a cold harsh blackness. there’s some more upbeat sounds and maybe prog metal-ish when it does get heavier. decent stuff!

Anomalie
Tranceformation
AOP Records
5 November 2021
A sort of melodic doom with a black metal darkness.

Schattenmann
Chaos
AFM Records
5 November 2021
German industrial metal, a little goth going on, not hard to draw comparisons to Rammstein…

Bone Tower
We All Will Die One Day – Out Nov 5th
No Funeral Records / Fresh Outbreak Records
5 November 2021
Super fast and brutal deathcore with really short songs (less than 2 min!)

DEATH SS
Ten
Lucifer Rising
Oct 29
Classic metal with a big doomy / sabbath / dio type vibe. catchy cool

Demonztrator
Sinister Forces Of Hatred
Ossuary
Nov 1
Mega heavy deathed up thrash metal, a bit of a Kreator/Slayer vibe to me. Cool stuff!

Anti Ritual
Expel The Leeches
Indisciplinarian
Release date: Friday, October 29th 2021
This one has a little blackened melodic thrashy death sound? yeah. haha Catchy and heavy, brutal vox and solid grooves while still being harsh

Band: Tormentor Bestial
Album: 13 Years Old
Label: Music-Records
Release date: October 29, 2021
Classic/thrashy metal from Brazil, some virtuosity and catchy stuff… production is a little raw.