John Diva & The Rockets Of Love
The Big Easy
(SPV/Steamhammer)
Classic hard rock/metal, clean vox, a kind of a 90’s AOR sound

Kamelot
The Awakening
(Napalm)
Epic prog/power metal, always great stuff from this band, and nice to have some good crunchy heaviness too.

Downfall of Gaia
Silhouettes of Disgust
Metal Blade Records
17 March 2023
Technical death, but with a blackened doomy thing going on.

VEIL OF MAYA
“Red Fur”
Sumerian
Fairly melodic and pushing into some mathy tech deathcore

Night Demon
Outsider
Century Media Records
Classic metal, clean vox, melodic. decent

Alex Nunziatti
Black Space Void
Moribund Records
Clasic metal here… a cool groove too

Karbholz
Kapitel 11: Barrikaden
Metalville Records
Yeah! More classic metal this time seems to be all German, nothing too heavy, nothing too wimpy either. Just melodic classic metal

Redemption
I Am The Storm
AFM Records
17 March 2023
Nice to have new stuff from this prog metal powerhouse. Powerful catchy tracks, great soaring vox and technical prowess… great stuff!

Contrarian
Sage of Shekhinah
Willowtip Records
17 March 2023
Technical progressive death metal, a lot going on… harsh vox, a tiny black metal sound and overall mostly prog metal

Carbellion
Weapons of Choice
Eclipse Records
17 March 2023
Catchy groovin’ stoner metal… cool stuff. A little Trouble thing going on

INGRAVES
HUMAN ABYSS
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: 10th MARCH 2023
Mostly a deathcore thing, some melodic atmosphere, but also a dark groove too

Majesties
Vast Reaches Unclaimed
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, March 3rd 2023
This has a kind of a classic metal music sound with kind of harsh black metal type vocals… the music stuff gets heavier and in line with some good melodeath. Cool stuff!

Vanishment
No More Torture
Dead Sage
Release date: Friday, March 3rd 2023
Classic metal with a kind of gritty doom/melodic sound Cool

Décryptal
Sabazios Culte
Me Saco Un Ojo / Rotted Life
15 March 2023
Sludgey black/death metal

RIFFOBIA
Release title: RIFFOBIA
Label: FLOGA RECORDS
Release Date (dd/mm/yy): 13-03-2023
guess what? lots of good thrashy riffs! and if you wanted to nitpick the “fobia” would mean “fear of” but there’s no fear of riffs here, great stuff.

DEATH REICH
DISHARMONY
Non Serviam Records
17 March 2023
Thrashy brutal blackened death. Heavy punishing sound. and a headbangin’ groove. Great stuff.

Verminous Serpent
The Malign Covenant
Amor Fati
17 March 2023
A bit of an old school black metal thing

Sepulcrum (Chile)
Lamentation of Immolated Souls
Chaos Records / Canometal / Burning Coffin
17 March 2023
Brutal blackend thrashy death. Dark punishing grooves cool stuff.

Úlfúð
Of Existential Distortion
Dark Descent Records
17 March 2023
A bit of a classic black metal… cold harsh evil

Death Vanish
Hermitic Fire
Eternal Death
17 March 2023
Raw lo-fi black metal.

Wild Beyond
Wild Beyond
Gates of Hell Records
Primarily black metal but it’s got a smidge of a death metal groove going on. decent stuff

Maleva
Release title: Saab maailm otsa
Label: Self-Released
Release Date (dd/mm/yy): 25-04-2022
Metal from Estona! Not sure what language this is in, but it’s kind of a thrashy melodic death

ORDALIE
Album: Mass of Perdition
Label: Paragon Records
Release date: March 17th, 2023
Straight up classic black metal, cold, bleak, harsh, with some melodic grooves too.

Wardress
Release title: Metal Till The End
Label: Black Sunset
Release Date (dd/mm/yy): 17-03-2023
Classic metal from Germany. The German part as you probably guessed adds a bit of a heavier grit to it. cool stuff!

Bred For Slaughter
Here You’re Born… Here You Die
Horror Pain Gore Death
March 17
Raw and grindy in your face black/death metal.

Downshot
Endgame
WTF Records
17 March 2023
This is kind of a hardcore with a little punk attitude

GENOCIDAL RITES
Exsanguination of the Gods (TAPE)
Hells Headbangers
10 March 2023
Sludgy distorted wall of black metal death mean something? it’s just so mushed together… not a fan

Morcaint
Elessar
Nordvis Produktion
3 March 2023
Single of some black metal… production is a bit, harsh… no bass and that just makes it cold and tinny.

Sacrificium
Release title: Oblivion
Label: Nordic Mission
Release Date (dd/mm/yy): 10-03-2023
Death Metal/ Melodic Death Metal, a heavy gritty sound with a maybe a pinch of blackened death.. Great stuff

Ice Age
Waves Of Loss And Power
Sensory Records
Release date: Friday, March 10th 2023
Here’s some pretty good prog metal, they have that dream theater style of prog going on, good playing, clean vox, a bit of a real metal grit and long songs!!

STONED JESUS
Father Light
Season of Mist
3 March 2023
Very laid back stoner rock

Sorrow Enthroned
Release title: Constricted Upon the Throat of the Lamb
Release Date: 30-01-2023
Label: Self-Released
Brutal death metal… production is a little raw

FROZEN CROWN
Call of the North
Scarlet Records
10 March 2023
A kind of epic power metal, female vox, nice and heavy/proggy too