THE GREAT OLD ONES
EOD : A Tale Of Dark Legacy
Season of Mist
A dark black metal. A bit melodic, a little groove, a pinch doomy, but all evil.
STEPHEN PEARCY
Smash – DOWNLOAD
Frontiers Music s.r.l.
Classic hard rock stuff from the orginal frontman of Ratt. Has a feel of the old Ratt musically too.
Lorna Shore
Flesh Coffin
(Outerloop)
Kind of a melodic blackened death type thing. Extreme, brutal and atmospheric too. A cool back and forth kind of like older Opeth, but the heaver stuff, is, like, more heavy. Good stuff.
Sepultura
The Roadrunner Albums: 1985-1996
(Rhino)
This looks to be a box set of the older orginal good classic Sepultura on Roadrunner Recs. Can never go wrong with these?
Power Trip
“Executioner’s Tax (Swing Of The Axe)”
(Southern Lord)
Kind of some just good old metal. Decent groove, maybe a light thrash feel
Motionless In White
“Eternally Yours” [Single]
Roadrunner
So the first time I saw these guys live, they had that full on emo-hardcore look going on with the makeup and all that, and I thought it’d just be one of those bands/shows… but they blew me away and kept it heavy and melodic death-like. This song, has a bit of that same feel, but really getting into what I first thought, some clean-emo-ish singy stuff. no autotune stuff, but it’s kind of formulaic.
Aversions Crown
Xenocide
Nuclear Blast Records
Kind of a brutal metal core with some meeedly guitar and melodic stuff going on. You know most of the time a band like this comes around and then some emo vox come on and ruin it. None of that here. Just brutal throughout.
Iron Reagan
Crossover Ministry
Relapse Records
Kind of a punked up hardcore. They’ve been around a while, lots of short songs that don’t fuck around. Good and heavy with a throwback old school thrash thing too.
Galactic Empire
Galactic Empire
Rise Records
Metal versions of star wars songs. Live show videos look to be works of art with the band performing in storm trooper and a darth vader costume. Great melodic technical metal. Great stuff for the metal nerd in all of us!
Black Star Riders
Heavy Fire
Nuclear Blast USA
Basically Thin Lizzy with a new name. Good classic hard rockin’ stuff.
Ghost Season
Like Stars In A Neon Sky
Pavement Entertainment
A little bit of a modern metal feel, some proggy metal stuff, some more just standard metal and yeah, a commercial hard rock/metal thing going on too. catchy songs, melodic clean vox.
Azreal
Premonition
Music Gallery International
This is some cool melodic death with some more of a extreme death metal sound. Good groove and a bit technical in parts too… and yeah kinda catchy as well. good stuff.
John Garcia
The Coyote Who Spoke In Tongues
Napalm Records
Former Kyuss frontman… this is mostly acoustic, great vox, but just not really metal… cool laid back guitar/vox stuff
Crurifragium
Beasts of the Temple of Satan
Invictus
Grindy raw death metal
EPHEDRA
Can’-Ka No Rey
Argonauta Records
HEavy instrumental stoner rock… Good meaty grooves and a bit doomy too.
Palace of Worms / Ecferus
Split
Crown & Throne Ltd
Both are a bit of a grindy black metal with some death metal grooves.
Body Void
Ruins
Crown & Throne Ltd
Slugdey doom. 4 tracks and a couple are quite long.
Fabio La Manna
“EBE”
Label: Self-Released (2016), Via Nocturna records (2017)
Instrumental Progressive Rock… a lot of laid back acoustic type stuff, but then it does get into a little bit of heavier stuff here and there…. but overall, a little bit new-agey.
Band: Mourning Dawn
Album: Waste
Label: Aesthetic Death
Interestingly, this album has 3 tracks each at 24:12. All dark doom type stuff.
Band: Norunda
Album: Irruption
Label: Suspiria records
If I had to pick something this sounds like… probably some more modern Megadeth. Decent heavy metal, with a tiny thrash… not really hitting a sub genre hard, just good “metal”.
Holycide
Annihilate… Then Ask!
Xtreem Music
Some classic thrash with a bit of a maybe old Prong/punk edge to it…or maybe a little hardcore… but definitely classic old school thrash riffage. Good stuff!
Bestial Raids
Master Satan’s Witchery LP/CD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Raw crazy fast blackened death metal.
SECTLINEFOR
“Anorexic Insect”
Label: Self-Released
File this under experimental metal. Some music, some acting type stuff, cinematic and electronic stuff too. Just a bit too out there for me.
KAIRON; Irse!
Ruination
Svart Records
Kind of a psychedelic prog. ALmost has a feeling of that new Opeth style of prog throwback… but this could be a more experimental “out there” version of it.
Ghost Avenue
Impact
Pitch Black Records
A thought I was listening to Metal Church for a second… good classic metal
Band: Starbynary
Album: Divina Commedia Inferno
Country: Italy
Label: Revalve records
This is the kind of prog/power metal that has it going on. Good meaty heavy aggressive music with good clean vox, kind of like a heavier Dream Theater musically with a singer that is a bit more euro power metal. Great stuff.
Skeletal
Dreadful Life
Inverse
Blackend death metal, great barked out growly vox, heavy and brutal death metal with massive groove too
Band: The Brood
Album: The Truth Behind
Label: Give Praise records
Grindy death metal but with a bit of a melodic groove too. Fast and short brutal songs.
The Mist
Phantasmagoria
Greyhaze Records
Kind of a mix of some Obituary meets classic thrash. A bit raw, but heavy, grooving and catchy too
Tomb Mold
Primordial Malignity CD/LP
Blood Harvest
Grindy Brutal death metal. Very brutal.
IC Rex
Tulen Jumalat
Saturnal
Black metal… a little melodic and kind of evil feeling. There’s just a cold dark quality about this that just kind makes you think “what’s their problem?”
Haken – Aquarius
Release date: Friday, February 3, 2017
Haken – Visions
Release date: Friday, February 3, 2017
Contrastic
Contrastic LP Reissue (released on January 20th 2017)
Horror Pain Gore Death
Brutal, grindy, and yeah grooving and in your face too. Some things might be out of place like the electronic video game sound intro, or maybe a little electronic part or piano here and there, but I think it adds a little to the charm.
Fight The Fight
“Fight The Fight”
Indie Recordings
Kind of a modern hardcore type thing. Grooves, melody and a hard edge, yet still being heavy, accessible and catchy too.
Mutilator
Immortal Force
Greyhaze Records
Pretty raw production on this kind of old school thrash/extreme metal type stuff. Kinda like an old heavy raw slayer.
Noctiferia
Transnatura
Label: Nika Records
This is what the description says… Metal – Industrial, Death, Black, Djent, Unplugged… and yeah, it’s all of that and more. Maybe a bit goth and kinda ragtime, folk… neat stuff.
THE EVAPORATORS
Ogopogo Punk
(Mint Records)
Kind of a punky ska /pop punk/surf rock thing
Maze Of Sothoth
Soul Demise
Everlasting Spew Records
Brutal blackened death metal.. first thing comes to mind… seems like Behemoth. Heavy has hell, and even a bit of melodic stuff (more black metal type stuff) great stuff!
Oracle
Beyond Omega
Label: Independent
Melodic blackened death metal from Mobile Alabama! Whoa! This is some good stuff. Catchy, brutal, grooving
Blood Region
For All the Fallen Heroes
Inverse
Melodic doomy death metal..> But there’s a lot of classic metal type stuff going on with guitar work… but a doomy death metal overtone.
KRATORNAS
Devoured by Damnation
Label: Grathila Records
Grindy fast and in your face black metal. No fucking around here, fast and furious
XENOGRAMM
The Wolf and the Hourglass
Label: Self-released
Kind of some sci fi post rock type stuff. It gets going into a little bit of melodic black metal type stuff here and there.
CYCLOCOSMIA
Immure EP
Label: self-released
A little doom, a little goth… a little of an epic feel in parts too. A little bit Lacuna Coil in style(without the female vox), maybe a little bit of an Epica thing too.
DEVIL-M
Hollow Earth
Dark Tunes
Kind of a new take on Marilyn Manson meets Rammstein. Industrial/Electroni metal type stuff