Kerry King
Idle Hands (single)
Rising Phoenix
I think we all knew whatever Kerry was going to do would be Slayer 2.0, but this is even better than expected, Mark Osegueda on vox is great and the rest of the lineup is superb. Worth the wait!

Týr
Axes – radio single
Metal Blade Records
12 April 2024
Epic and melodic death type stuff.

AMIENSUS
“VERMILLION FOG OF WAR”
M-THEORY AUDIO
Progressive blackened death from Rochester Min! Technical, blackened, catchy cool stuff.

Boundaries
”Easily Erased”
(3Dot)
Deathcore, heavy and brutal til the emo part… then back to some more typical death core

ILLUMISHADE
Another Side of You
(Napalm)
Female fronted power metal, a bit epic and staying fairly melodic

Pink Elefants
”Same Person”
(Chirp)
Modern metal, clean vox, melodic and accessible

Samael
Passage – Live
(Napalm)
as the title states, live performance of their arguably best album, good sound and another reason to revisit them and this album.

Art Of Anarchy
Let There Be Anarchy
Pavement Entertainment
Melodic hard rock type stuff… Jeff Scott Soto handling vocals this time around, seems to step things up a little bit. Good stuff

Ihsahn
Ihsahn
Candlelight Records
Epic symphonic prog metal with a little blackened smidge of edge/vox. Great stuff

O Zorn!
Vermillion Haze
Hard Drugs Records
A kind of groovin’ doom, a little alice in chain-ish

Metal Warrior
The Battle Will Be Won (Radio Version) (Single)
TSDC Records
This is a bit power metal and some just straight classic metal type stuff.

CERCENATORY
GORESPHERE
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 16th 2024
Brutal guttural death metal with a bit of a groove and some technicaltiy.

Dead Earth (Sweden)
Et Disperdam Illud
Chaos Records
16 February 2024
here we have some good melodic black metal, catchy, melodic and a nice full sound

Grin
Release Title: Hush
Label: The Lasting Dose Records
Release Date: 16 February 2024
This has some doom, death/black metal, groovin’ psychedelic stuff too… nice grooves.

SUJIN
Save Our Souls
Scarlet Records
16 February 2024
Melodic death with a nice groove too… cool stuff!

ELETTRA STORM
Powerlords
Scarlet Records
16 February 2024
Female fronted speedy power metal, a bit of an epic sound.

FARSOT
Life Promised Death
Lupus Lounge
16 February 2024
A kind of classic black metal, but with a nice groove and bit of a black n roll thing too.

Profiler
A Digital Nowhere
SharpTone Records
16 February 2024
This is a modern metal thing, nice grooves, but an emo-ish vox thing

River City Rebels
Pop Culture Baby
Screaming Crow Records
16 February 2024
4 song ep of a kind of punky pop

THE SCREAM
Album: WHELLCOME
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: February 13th, 2024
A little pink, some hard rock.

LEAH
The Glory And The Fallen
Ex Cathedra Records
16 February 2024
Female fronted symphonic power metal type stuff, a bit goth and epic, but generally laid back.

Bokassa
All Out of Dreams
Indie Recordings
16 February 2024
Groove metal, a bit melodic and a bit active rockin’

WITCHORIOUS
Album: Witchorious
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: February 16th, 2024
Doom meets some modern metal

PONTE DEL DIAVOLO
Fire Blades From the Tomb
Season of Mist
16 February 2024
A bit doomy, some black metal, female fronted, and a bit of a proggy atmosphere

Volucrine
ETNA
Inverse
Release Date: February 16th 2024
Modern Melodic Death Metal, some edgy heavier stuff, a bit of more modern metal-core-ish clean melodic parts

OMEGA DIATRIBE
Deviant
Wormholedeath
Kind of a deathy groove metal, not quite death metal, but not like just thrash… so, yeah, that said, it’s cool heavy groovin’ stuff.

Hulder
Verses In Oath
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, February 9th 2024
Black metal, with a wall of sound, a bit epic/amospheric too, with a classic brutal cold sound

Memento Mori (US)
Memento Mori
Shattered Earth Records LLC
16 February 2023
Primarily death core, brutal, punishing and groovin’

Atrophy
Punishment For All [New Single & Video]
Massacre Records
15 March 2024
Classic thrashy sound from these vets… just a single for a release next month

Nefarious Mash
In Memory of Your Hopes
Wormholedeath
Blackened death, nice grooves, evil yet, not soo super harsh and cold. Cool stuff.