Sister
Stand Up, Forward, March!
Metal Blade Records
Kind of a punked up hardcore, catchy, a bit accessible and it has that full wall of sound type thing going on .
Primordial
Gods to the Godless (Live at Bang Your Head Festival Germany 2015)
Metal Blade Records
Live album from this doomy black metal band. Sounds decent, lots of monster riffs and brutal black metal too
Ancient
Back To The Land Of The Dead
EMP
Blackened death metal, with no fucking around.
Freedom Call
Master of Light
Epic
Classic power metal big sing-a-longs and fun stuff.
In Flames
Battles
Eleven Seven Music
After their last album… it’s hard to get too much worse. This one still has a classic In Flames feeling, is definitely heavier and they still seem to be more of a hard rock/alt metal band nowadays though. This one is a decent listen.
Black Sabbath
Paranoid Super Deluxe
Rhino Entertainment
Another reissue this one is like 4 discs, we just got a sampler, but always a decent excuse to play some classic Sabbath!
SIRENIA
Dim Days of Dolor
Napalm Records
Femaled fronted metal, epic and proggy. Comparable to Epica
Distant Sun
Into the Nebula
Metalism Records
Kind of a heavier power metal/thrash type thing. Good balance between the two to have that galloping power metal thing with a good thrashy edge.
Karg
Weltenasche
Art of Propaganda
Doomy post metal branching into some classic evil/cold black metal
RECITATIONS
The First of the Listeners
Signal Rex / Avantgarde Music
Dark and evil blackened death metal. A bit of a melodic doom thing happening when it’s not full on brutal/evil.
Dead Conspiracy
Dead Conspiracy
Self-released
Grindy blackened death metal. Fast, furious, brutal and intense. Good stuff, quick songs.
FlaktiiN
Souls For The Legions
War Arts Productions
Kind of a noisy black metal.
Initiated
World On Fire
Svart Records
A little punked up hard rock, mostly sounds a bit like Gwar (musically)
ID
Tinieblas
Horror Pain Gore Death
Four songs of blistering brutal death metal. Great stuff.
CTULU
Ctulu
Label: MDD Records
Kind of a blackened thrash. OR maybe just extreme metal. Fast, catchy and brutal too. Great stuff with that German edge.
TONGUES
Tongues
Label: Core Records
Some brutal djentcore. Math metal. A little rap metal stuff happening too. And yeah, brutal core.
Cross Vault
Miles to Take CD/12″ MLP
Iron Bonehead
2 songs of melodic doom, maybe a little atmospheric/prog too?
Soulburn
Earthless Pagan Spirit
Century Media
Classic Modern black metal. Big grooves, brutal riffs and catchy too. Great stuff.
Maschine
Naturalis
InsideOut
Cool prog rock leaning a little heavy in parts, but overall, some good old Prog (look at the record label too!)
WITCHWOOD
“Handful Of Stars”
Jolly Roger Records
Some really good catchy stoner metal. Throwback hard rock stuff.
BE THE WOLF
Rouge
Scarlet Records
Kind of stoner rock, prog rock, just good old rock. Higher pitch clean male vox, very melodic and well, not really metal, but still cool stuff.
SIASKEL
Haruwen Airen
Signal Rex
Brutal blackend death metal. Great stuff.
Zombie Rodeo
Cult Leader
Inverse
Good catchy stoner metal, reminds me of Spiritual Beggars.
Perikato
Kuka hyötyy
Svart Records
Noisy punked up blackened extreme grind metal.
Panphage
Drengskapr
Nordvis Produktion
Extredme old school black metal. Production is a bit distant and muddy
TEETHGRINDER
Nihilism (Grindcore)
Lifeforce
Grindy death metal. And yeah, the word of the week is extreme!
Band: MindAhead
Album: Reflection
Label: Revalve records
Proggy melodic death-ish with clean female vox and growly stuff too. Good mix of out there prog stuff and more traditional melodic death tool Cool stuff.
Gravehill / Mordbrand
Skullbearer / In Nighted Waters – split LP
Doomentia
Gravehill is some good blackened death metal. Mordbrand has more of a deathy grind feel… but still full on blackened death too
Evil Madness / Infant Death
split LP
Doomentia
Evil Madness is blackend deathy thrash. Infant death, brutal blackned deathmetal. Good stuff.
Inire
Cauchemar
Self-Release
Grooving metal. A hard rocking borderline metal band. A good heavy groove, a bit on the modern commercial metal sounding side of things. Good stuff though.
Herman Frank
The Devil Rides Out
AFM Records
Classic power metal with a good metal edge
EXCEL
The Joke’s On You [remaster]
Southern Lord
Classic thrash. melodic catchy, great stuff and a sort of forgotten band/album. This was a staple of my metal show in college in the early 90’s and there’s a cover of “Message in a Bottle” on here too!
Violent Opposition
Violently Enforced Poverty
Horror Pain Gore Death
Most songs under a minute! Brutal grindy death metal
ERA DECAY
Inritum
Self Released
Kind of a proggy power blackened melodic death thing
ARMAGEDDON (serbia)
Triptych
Tmina Records
A bit melodic, maybe gothy. Vox seem a bit more, like pop/goth/alternative. Music is a little bit of a standard metal type thing.
Blackened
Truth Behind Destruction
Label: Witches Brew
They have the whole classic thrash thing going on, sounds like they’re nailing that old trading tape sound from the 80’s. As a matter of fact, I had to make sure this wasn’t some reallly underground band re-issuing their demo tape from the 80’s. But nope, it’s new and raw.
UBUREN
Fra Doden Fodes Liv
Via Nocturna Records
This is some raw black metal. A bit in your face and brutal yet it still has that classic black metal melody too
Callidice
Scarlet
Inverse
Melodic death metal. What can I say, it’s got melody and it’s got death. good stuff.
Band: L’Homme Absurde
Album: Monsters
Label: FONO LTD.
Black metal with a bit of a doomy melodic post metal thing going on too.
MARIANNE TOILET AND THE RUNS
Eargasms For Your Genitals
Label: Self-Released
Sex comedy rock type stuff. Not quite metal musically, but it is soooo “metal”
Band: TÁLESIEN
Album: TÁLESIEN
Label: Suspiria records
Good melodic metal (in spanish). So it has a little power/prog metal feel, but just good ol catchy classic metal.
Band: The Descent
Album: The Coven Of Rats
Label: Suspiria records
Melodic death, catchy, vox are mostly harsh, music has some good brutal stuff and melodic stuff too.
Oni
Ironshore
Blacklight Media / Metal Blade Records
A lot of buzz around this band. More melodic death, and their xylo synth (sythned up xylophone) Cool stuff. Heavy stuff, djent stuff, clean vox and kind of a proggy math thing going on too.
Vader
The Empire
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
First album in a couple years. They still have that “Slayered” up death metal type sound. Quick brutal and headbaning songs. Great stuff.
Band: Second To Sun
Album: Blackbound
Self Released
Seemingly intstrumental stuff here, kind of a melodic death metal. Lots of brutal death metal type stuff but pulling back to have that good classic metal guitar to keep it real.
PERC3PTION
Once and for All
Label: Shinigami Records
Genre: Progressive/Power Metal
Good ol classic prog metal, a little of a Dream Theater type sound…. a little symphonic stuff and heavier gritty parts too
Band: Death Metal Pope
Album: Harvest
Self Released
Some of this is doom, a bit death metal. Some catchy stoner metal type stuff too.
Protokult
Oy Kanada (single)
Self-Release
Operatic female vox, bouncy melodic death with a folk metal feeling. Interesting stuff.
The Chronicles of Israfel
A Trillion Lights, Tome II
BOH Records
Melodic death… or almost some sort of metalcore. The music has brutality, melodic stuff, but the clean vox lean a bit to the modern metalcore. We could probably call this proggy melodic death too, because it kind of switches up a bunch too. Good stuff.
The Neal Morse Band
The Similitude of a Dream
Radiant
A lot of self induced hype from the band and well, a lot of early reviews saying the same. This is really a prog rock/hard/rock bordering on prog metal in parts masterpiece. Comparable to Spock’s Beard’s Snow. A lot of great prog and signature Neal Morse stuff going on in this 2 disc concept album. All band members contributing greatly. Album of their careers (as they say)? I dunno. it’s awesome for a fanboy like me. Maybe a few more listens. Great stuff, and maybe a track or two are worthy of some Mosh Pit play.