Impellitteri
War Machine
Frontiers Music Srl
Classic metal pushing into power metal territory

Solstafir
Hin Helga Kvol
Century Media Records
A bit of a gothy sound, and a smidge of an old school black metal sound

The Dark
Slip Away (Single)
Arising Empire
Metalcore-ish, melodic and catchy

Delain
Dance With The Devil
(Napalm)
Clean vox, power metalish with a bit of heavier grooves too

Ratt
Out Of The Cellar 40th Anniversary
BMG
40 years! Whoa, while Ratt isn’t usually the Mosh Pit’s thing, you gotta respect them and this album.

Defences
Shadowlight
Long Branch
Modern metal/metalcore, some heavier stuff, but then the singy clean vox and polished

DEATH RATTLE (single)
IMMERSED IN THE BLACK
M-THEORY AUDIO
A bit thrashy, lots of groove, sounds a lot like Lamb of God to me. cool stuff

elijah
”HUMAN” ft. Matty Mullins
(Defiant Music Group)
Oh boy, this one is almost country solid rock but a bit too modern emo for me

Heavy-Hitter
Moments Of Misery (Ep)
Blue Grape Music
A nice groovin’ brutal death/metal core type thing

Chaos Invocation
Wherever We Roam…
AOP Records
8 November 2024
Mostly blackened death

ABSCHWÖRZUNGE
Whorl
I, Voidhanger Records
8 November 2024
Fast and brutal blackened death metal

IN DAKHMA
Album: He Who Sows the Ground
Label: Tower of Silence Records
Release date: November 8th, 2024
Meaty death metal with a pinch of black metal, some thrashy stuff too.

MOSS UPON THE SKULL
Quest For The Secret Fire
I, Voidhanger Records
8 November 2024
Death metal, a bit technical with a doom vibe

PLOUGHSHARE
Second Wound
I, Voidhanger Records
8 November 2024
Classic black metal, longer tracks

ARCHSIN
Album: On Death and Dying
Self Released
Release date: November 8th, 2024
Prog metal, of a doomy opeth-ish style, heavier parts, more chill melodic parts, maybe not quite as epic/brutal as classic opeth in parts, but interesting!

SHRYKULL
BEYOND SUBCONSCIOUS REALMS
LABEL: ROAD TO MASOCHIST / EGGY TAPES
RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 8th 2024
Brutal death metal with growls, black metal shrieks and a solid meaty groove

Black Aeons
Release Title: Entering the Shadows
Label: Silent Watcher Records
Release Date: November 1, 2024
They say it’s Melodic Black, Death Metal… and yup, solid meaty death metal grooves with the coldness of black metal.

Shadows Decay
Agent of Chaos
Preoptic Distortion Records
8 November 2024
Kind of a straight up metal with a little deathy brutality, big grooves, a little doom darkness.

Neal Morse & The Resonance
No Hill For A Climber
InsideOut
With Mike Portnoy back in Dream Theater, the Neal Morse band is kind of on a longer hiatus, so Neal Morse grabbed some local to him musicians and made a prog album which is pretty close to the other Neal Morse band type stuff as far as sound, I mean, it’s Neal’s voice, keyboard and writing… So, while not super metal, I’m still a fan and there’s some harder rockin’ stuff in here too

Crucifixion Ritual
Desecration of the Archangels
Invictus Productions
1 November 2024
Black metal, a bit on the lofi side of production, raw and classic coldness and a little groove

PAYSAGE D’HIVER
Die Berge
Kunsthall Produktionen
8 November 2024
Long tracks of noisy black metal

The Pineapple Thief
Last To Run (EP)
Kscope
8 November 2024
Prog, more just straight up prog rock

Herin
Hiding In Plain Sight
The Laser’s Edge
Release date: Friday, November 1st 2024
Prog rock, but more like classic rock type stuff… There are some good guests copy/pasted from the bio: “Lending their exceptional talents to “Hiding in Plain Sight” is an impressive cast of nearly (30) supporting musicians including: PETER FRAMPTON, ALEX LIFESON (Rush), MARTIN BARRE, JOHN O’HARA, and DOANE PERRY (Jethro Tull), MICHAEL SADLER (Saga), KIM MITCHELL (Max Webster), CODY BOWLES and KEVIN COMEAU (Crown Lands), JEFF KOLLMAN and SHANE GAALAAS (Cosmosquad), TIM BOWNESS (No-Man), COLIN EDWIN (Porcupine Tree), RANDY McSTINE (Porcupine Tree), KEVIN CHOWN (Tarja Turunen, Chad Smith), MATTHEW PARMENTER (Discipline), and many other notable guests. “

Himiltungl
Release Title: Djupt Under
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: October 31, 2024
Straightforward metal with a folky type sound

Vessel
The Somnifer
Majestic Mountain Records
1 November 2024
Chilled out doom.

Atreyu
The Pronoia Sessions
Spinefarm
25 October 2024
This is pretty much acoustic stuff, laid back

HIM
When Love and Death Embrace – The Best of HIM 1997-2003
BMG
25 October 2024
I haven’t really listened to this band a whole lot, but this would be a good starting point.

Just Reborn
Formae Mentis
Wormholedeath
Nov 8
Progressive power metal with operattic female vox

Schammasch
The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean
Prosthetic Records
25 October 2024
Melodic black metal, a little avant garde-ish, longer tracks that take their way to get there.

Genus Ordinis Dei
Eternal Cycle (feat. Ambre Vourvahis of Xandria)
Eclipse Records
15 November 2024
new Single, melodic death with a more modern (keyboardy) sound… cool stuff tho

Lankester Merrin
Release Title: Dark Mother’s Child
Label: MDD Records
Release Date: October 24, 2024
A mix of classic metal and thrash with a nice powerful female voice…

QAALM
Grave Impressions Of An Unbroken Arc
Hypaethral Records
Release date: Friday, November 1st 2024
This has some cool stuff going from death, prog, thrashy grooves… songs are all 10+ minutes, but don’t seem to fuck around much

Recidivist
Madness Malformed
Creator-Destructor
Release date: Friday, November 1st 2024
brutal sludgey black metal with some meaty grooves too

Saltwound
The Temptation Of Pain
SharpTone Records
1 November 2024
Heavier deathcore… brutal even with breakdowns