Dream Widow
Dream Widow EP
Roswell/ RCA
Fictitious band in the new Foo Fighters Movie, Dave Grohl made it into a real thing, full on metal with hints of thrash, black metal, doom, stoner metal, great all around.

Absent In Body
Plague God
Relapse
Release date: Friday, March 25th 2022
The post metal supergroup with members from Amenra, Neurosis and Sepultura… it is a kind of ambient, post metal thing. probably great if you like this sort of thing!

Satan
Earth Infernal
Metal Blade Records
1 April 2022
Old school metal with a little thrash, lots of NWOBHM sound and while there’s a throwback sound, it’s still got modern catchiness

OHM
EXIT STAGE LEFT
M-THEORY AUDIO
New single from instrumental band, has a good catchy just “metal” sound (Chris Poland’s band)

Deathspell Omega
The Long Defeat
NoEvDia
23 March 2022
Not a lot of tracks on here, but they’re all long, only 5 tracks clocking in at 44+ minutes. Some dark and epic classic black metal. A lot of melodic stuff happening too

GRAVESHADOW
SOLDIER OF 34
M-THEORY AUDIO
Melodic death with big powerful female vox but doubled with some cool death growls going on. Pretty cool epic sounding stuff. (just a single so far)

ONI
“War Ender” feat. City Morgue
Ironshore Records
This is mostly some proggy metalcore, nice edge, melodies and catchiness. cool stuff!

Powerwolf
“Sainted By The Storm”
Napalm
Classic power metal where I just want to throw up my horns and grab a turkey leg.

Dianthus
Realms
Deko Entertainment
Classic metal with a nice melodic groove, a little bit of crunch and clean female vox

Meshuggah
Immutable
Atomic Fire Records
c’mon now, how do you write something up about this without just saying “it sounds like meshuggah”? Cuz that’s what it is and it’s cool.

Evil Envaders
Shattering Reflection
Napalm Records
CLassic metal with lots of thrash going on.. cool stuff!

Animals As Leaders
Parrhesia
Sumerian Records
As with Meshuggah, you kind of know what you get with this band, technical instrumental stuff with some djent and good to get new stuff!

The Hellacopters
Eyes Of Oblivion
Nuclear Blast USA
Been a while since I’ve heard this band… has an old school 70’s almost blue oyster cult type sound… catchy stuff.

Lords of the Trident
The Offering
Self-released
1 April 2022
New album from local favorites, Lords of the Trident… this album is the real deal and a concept album, their most ambitious to date. Great stuff!

Artist: Ysilik
Release title: Eunoia
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 26-03-2021
When the genre says “Progressive Technical Death Metal” I get excited, but nervous, will it be like Allegaeon/BTBAM, or will it be like, just fast gurgling with crappy production? Well, this has decent production and it’s fast, heavy brutal, and technical too, and yes, enough crazy stuff to throw it in progressive too… pretty decent stuff.

Haunted By Silhouettes
No Man Isle
Eclipse Records
6 May 2022 (adds march 28)
Melodic death with a bit of a metalcore slant. One track features Speed from Soilwork, so they have that going for them! Good solid grooves, harsh gritty heavy parts and melodic parts remind me a bit of Dark Tranquillity Cool stuff!

Chthonic Cult
Become Seekers for Death
Putrid Cult
28 March 2022
Brutal, technical, a bit blackened death, regular groovin’ death and a pinch of thrash too. Cool stuff!

Artist: Xeno
Release title: Sojourn
Label: Art Gates Records
Release Date: 30-10-2020
Prog metal ticking off the boxes, keyboards, complexity, this one has harsh and clean vox (i like that), more atmospheric parts and crunchy metal parts too. cool stuff.

Aethyrick
Pilgrimage
The Sinister Flame
31 March 2022
Classic black metal a bit more down tempo while still being cold, harsh and evil.

Ravenous Dusk
The Dead Of Night
Seance Records
31 March 2022
Classic black metal, cold, harsh, dark, with some decent groove and melody too

AETERNUS PROPHET
RUTHLESSNESS
LABEL: INVIMA RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 14th 2022
Gritty, brutal blackened/death metal a bit of a raw sound

NONE
“Interdimensional War Poetry” EP
Wormholedeath
March 25th, 2022
Atmospheric and post black meal type stuff

Mind Imperium
Nemesis
Wormholedeath
March 25th, 2022
Technical death metal, a bit brutal in parts, melodic and atmospheric too, overall pretty decent melodic death

Release: Cerebral Mist
Age of Mist
Release Date: March 31st 2022
Record label: Inverse Records
Melodic Death Metal but with a heavy boopy keyboard thing going on, pretty cool stuff.

Lifvsleda
Sepulkral dedikation
NoEvDia
1 April 2022
Classic old school black metal

Savage Necromancy
Feathers Fall To Flames
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, March 18th 2022
Groovin’ death metal

The Cruel Intentions
Reapercussion
Indie Recordings
22 March 2022
Modern hard rock metal type stuff.

Release: Varjo-Orkesteri
Prima Volta
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: April 1st 2022
Progressive Metal which stays fairly straightforward, sun in finnish,

Artist: Rimthurs
Release title: Thursamál
Label: A.D.G. Records
Release Date: 25-03-2022
Black metal with a full death metal-ish sound, a bit epic in parts as well. decent stuff.

KNIM
PRISONER ON THE SEAS (SINGLE)
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 18th 2022
A sort of dark, groove metal with melodies and a prog-metal taste as well.

RADIO: Yatra
Born into Chaos
Prosthetic Records
10 June 2022 (single)
Doomy and meaty death with some harsh blackened death vocals… cool stuff… full album in june

RADIO: Huntsmen
The Dying Pines
Prosthetic Records
22 April 2022
First single is “carry on” from CSNY…. starts off acoustic… then gets into some big doomy riffs, pretty neat!