Vermillion
Tales of the Dead
Self Released
Madison area’s own! Big monster grooves, growly guttural vox and some major riffage going on. Great stuff!!

Dust Biters
Guilt
Pavement Entertainment
Hard rockin’ stuff, a little punk attitude

Ahab
The Coral Tombs
(Napalm)
Doomy blackened death metal

Lord of the Lost
Blood & Glitter
(Napalm)
A bit of a goth/ melodic classic metal, a little industrial

Screamer
Kingmaker
(SPV/Steamhammer)
Straight up classic metal

Feueurshwanz
Todsünden
(Napalm)
Folk metal band with a straigtforward sound, this is an all covers album covering bands from Ed Sheeran to Ghost to Amon Amarth… fun stuff.

Ten56
Downer Part 2
Out Of Line Music
Industrial/groove/technical metalcore-ish, A bit like Tallah with more of an industrial electronic sound.

Beyond The Black
Beyond The Black
Nuclear Blast USA
Kind of a straight up classic metal with catchy grooves and female vox.

Ripper
Return To Death Row
Perseverance Music Group
Ripper Owens with another solo album…. seems like he’s everywhere these days, guest on this, front

CONCRETE AGE
BARDO THODOL
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 6th 2023
Heavy brutal thrashy death metal, catchy melodic death stuff and some middle eastern type sounds too. Cool stuff!!

VARMIA
Album (EP): Prolog
Label: M-Theory Audio
Release date: January 6th, 2023
Pagan Black Metal… a kind of classic black metal thing with a bit of that Behemoth style too (yes, there’s something in the water in Poland!)

QUIET RIOT
I CAN’T HOLD ON (single)
Red Samurai Music
Good ol classic hard rock… this track has a power ballad thing going on.

Pagan Rites / Vulcan Tyrant
Split
Horror Pain Gore Death
December 30th 2022
Both of these tracks are raw black metal

Deadnight
Release title: Canon of Irreverence
Label: Self-Released
Release Date (d/m/y): 04-01-2022
Blackended thrashy metal, pretty cool stuff. Songs straight to the point

Anti-Flag
Lies They Tell Our Children
Spinefarm
6 January 2023
A kind of pop rock/punk type thing

Thy Darkened Shade
Liber Lvcifer II-Mahapralaya
W.T.C.Productions
10 January 2023
Technical blackened death… pretty cool stuff which has just enough melodic proggy complex stuff and enough classic black metal too. cool stuff!

The Gauntlet
Dark Steel and Fire
Eternal Death
13 January 2023
Mostly classic black metal sound here

Hellevate
The Purpose is Cruelty
Self-released
Jan 14
A bit classic metal, some heavier groovin’ thrash, maybe just melodic death/metalcore too? A little of it all, which makes it interesting!

Blindead 23
Towards the Dark
Self-release
23 November 2022
Doomy laid back sound for this single. A little hint of damnation type Opeth going on

Orob
Release title: Aube Noir
Label: Self-Released
Release Date (dd/mm/yy): 14-12-2021
Here’s some doomy black metal, a bit atmospheric and progressive too.

Misþyrming
Með hamri
NoEvDia
16 December 2022
Old school black metal, a bit of a doomy down tempo sound

GRYMMSTALT
Anthems of Mournful Despondency
Signal Rex
21 December 2022
Super lo-fi black metal.

HATE FOREST
Innermost
Osmose Productions
21 December 2022
Blackened death metal, wall of brutal and cold layers of black metal with a smidge of death metal groove going on. Cool stuff.

Gridfailure
Perpendicular To The Living Ones
Self Released
Release date: Friday, December 30th 2022
Kind of a noise/post metal thing

High Fells
Catharsis (released Nov 25th)
Self-Release
25 November 2022
This one falls under a pretty straightforward classic black metal.

Lethal Technology
Release title: Mechanical Era
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 25-11-2022
Here’s some kind of proggy technical metal, harsh vox, clean vox, clean female vox, all sorts of stuff probably make this more into a proggy metal overall.

Self-Deceiver
Album: Across the Styx
Self Released
Genre: Blackened Death Metal
Release: December 1st, 2022
This has a nice gritty groovin’ death metal sound. Cool stuff.