Witherfall
Sounds Of The Forgotten
Deathwave Records
31 May 2024
Prog metal, big vocals, heavy and almost melodic death in parts, and some parts good ol power metal and everything in between great stuff!

Four Stroke Baron
Data Diamond
Prosthetic Records
Kind of a groovin’ melodic modern metal type stuff.

Hellbutcher
Hellbutcher
Metal Blade Records
31 May 2024
We have us some black metal, but with some brutal deathy groovin’ going on too.

Nestor
Teenage Rebel
(Napalm)
Kind of an 80’s hard rock/hair metal-ish sound. A fun throwback thing

Black Sabbath
Anno Domini
Rhino Entertainment
4 CD box set of the Tony Martin era, Headless Cross, Tyr, Cross Purposes and Forbidden… all remastered and the last one remixed by Tony Iommi… and as I always say on these legacy metal reissues… a good excuse to revisit and re play these classics.

Defects
Modern Error
(Mascot)
Kind of a melodic death/modern metalcore-ish. A nice heavy edge, clean parts aren’t like too “emo” nice grit and catchy groove

ARHAT
Secrets of Ancient Gods
Self Released
Release date: May 31st, 2024
A melodic death metal, there’s a little middle eastern sound, and some good meaty and catchy death metal stuff too. great stuff!

Lakeview (single)
“Money Where Your Mouth Is” feat. Gideon
(Self-Released)
Modern groove solid rock type stuff.

RivetSkull (single)
”The King is Dead”
Absence of Time
(Self-Released)
another single.. Good ol classic metal with a little hint of power metal with some Dio sounds

Abreaktion
Bornhatred
Chaos Records
31 May 2024
This has a black metal vibe, a bit more thrashy in tone however. Fast and furious and a bit catchy and raw too

Dusk
Industrie
self released
31 May 2024
This is kind of an industrial noise/black metal thing

Adversarial
Solitude with the Eternal
Dark Descent Records
31 May 2024
black/death metal, mostly black metal, but a dark brutality too

Black Wound
Warping Structure
Chaos Records
31 May 2024
Here’s some kinda sludgey black doomy metal.

NEMUS ANIMA
Album: The God Of Forest
Self Released
Release date: June 1st, 2024
straight up blackend death metal, some parts are just full on classic black metal, others more deathy thrash/death too… decent stuff.

My Diligence
DEATH.HORSES.BLACK
Listenable Records
31 May 2024
A bit doom, some prog, some stoner and atmospheric stuff…with a bit of a grungy sound

ViOS
SLAVEFORM
LABEL: LYDIAN IMPULSE
RELEASE DATE: MAY 27th 2024
This has a progressive metal groove metal thing happening… all instrumental – three song EP.

Deathcult
Seven Are They
Edged Circle Productions
May 31
2 song ep of some black metal, a bit melodic, a bit of a symphonic atmosphere as well.

Heimland
Tronearvingens Doed
Edged Circle Productions
May 31
Classic black/death metal, meaty hard grooves with some cold vox and blast beats with that brutal death metal chunk.

Cobra The Impaler
Karma Collision
Listenable Records
31 May 2024
It’s a bit stoner metal, or straight up hard rock/classic metal with a sound similar to Mastodon

Supermodel Taxidermy
At What Cost
Punishment 18 Records
31 May 2024
A little punked up thrashy hardcore type stuff (aka crossover)…. to go along with their band name, the song’s lyrical content is a bit topical… catchy!

Vredehammer
God Slayer
Indie Recordings
24 May 2024
Blackened death… a good balance between fast and intense black metal coldness and meaty brutal, yet catchy death metal.

DUNE
Years of Chains
Self-Release
31 May 2024
This has a bit of a classic metal and groove thing, pushing into thrash a bit. (from Saudi Arabia!)

Envig
SKATOS
At Dawn Records
Release Date: May 31, 2024
Classic blackened death metal, deathy groove with a harsh cold brutality

Ereley
Garden
Wormholedeath
May 31
Progressive metal, nice grooves, keyboards, clean vox… decent

Djiin
Mirrors
Klonosphere Records
3 May 2024
Psychedelic doomy stoner metal which of course has classic proggy stuff going on.

Lucidity
Escherian
Label: Inverse Records
Release date: May 17th 2024
They call it “Melancholic Progressive Metal” has quite the melodic death thing going on, maybe an Opeth type thing

Zygnema
Release Title: Iconic
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: March 14, 2024
Comes off as a nu-metal thing right away, but delving in a little more, it’s got a heavy kind of techy and djenty groove too. Cool stuff.

Carrion Throne
The Feast of Human Vices
Lacerated Enemy Records
31 May 2024
Chicago band, brutal death metal!

Giant Spider
Exit Plan/3 Moons
Self Released
Release date: Friday, May 24th 2024
Stoner sound, but more “extreme” vox. cool stuff.

End Of Dayz
Searching For A Way Out
Creator-Destructor
Release date: Friday, May 17th 2024
Thrashy hardcore with some grooves… probably fits more in a “crossover” category.

Vicolo Inferno
Circlesa
Rockshots Records
31 May 2024
Kind of a straightforward classic groovin’ hard rock/metal thing – clean vox.

BEWITCHER
“Starfire Maelstrom” (Radio Single)
Century Media Records
17 May 2024
Solid groove black n roll type black metal, Cool stuff!

Ataraxia
Centaurea
The Circle Music
22 May 2024
Folky music, primarily ambient

Scheitan
Songs for the Gothic People
The Circle Music
22 May 2024
As the album title suggests, it has a modern yet almost 80’s gothy sound.

Trail of Tears
Winds of Disdain
The Circle Music
24 May 2024
A sort of blackened death… symphonic and epic with clean operattic female vox, with male deathy growls… cool grooves too

CASSETTA (single)
GIVE THEM NOTHING
CASSETTA HC
Deathcore brutality sounding single… heavy!

Crystalline Thunderbolts Pierce The Sacred Mountain
Release Title: Shine Like The Suicidal Madness Of The Sacred Amethyst
Label: Kapmes
Release Date: May 10, 2024
Symphonic Black Metal but with a kind of techno sound… vox are kind of disturbing screaming and black metal shouting.