DEFILED
Conspiracy (Radio Single)
Season of Mist
Brutal raw death metal, not the greatest production, but it’s brutal and raw!
BAPTISM
The Sacrament of Blood and Ash (Radio Promo)
Season of Mist
Classic melodic black metal, throwing a little doom in a decent sounding brutal thing.
White Knuckle Riot
Amurdica
Epocalyptc Records
Catchy groove metal, a little bit thrash, maybe a little hardcore/Pro-Pain type sound going on too. Cool stuff!
Be’Lakor
Vessels
Napalm Records
Proggy melodic black metal. Long songs that go from doomy black metal to prog metal/rock… a little reminiscent of some Opeth type stuff.
Black Explosion
Atomic Zod War
Metalville Records
A 70’s throwback type thing of some old school doomy hard rockin’ stoner metal.
Zeistencroix
Saturated (Single)
Independent
Electronic industrial metal type thing on this single. Great metal riffage, keyboard hits with an industrial style vocal.
Dramatica
Fall of Tyranny
Record Label Music
Kind of a prog metal / power metal / just plain kick ass metal type thing. A little bit of Iron Maiden meets older Metallica going on.
Gojira
Magma
Roadrunner
It’s here, the full album! A band that just feels and sounds heavy without really like, feeling really heavy or brutal. Good melodic stuff, technical things happening, but not meedly pretentious sounding. The title track gets into some more clean vox and melodies while keeping a good heavy undertone. Great stuff… and it’s no surprise
Motorhead
Clean Your Clock
UDR Music
Live album with stuff culled from their final shows in Munich, Germany last year. Classic Motorhead, raw and awesome. RIP Lemmy.
GRAVE DESECRATOR
Dust to Lust
Season of Mist
There’s a brutal black metal thing going on with a little bit of a Slayer vibe in the more melodic (if you can call it that) parts. Great stuff.
Whitechapel
Mark of the Blade
Metal Blade Records
Some good heavy stuff on here, and actually some slower stuff, almost a power death metal ballad if there’s such a thing. some downtempo stuff going on too. Good tech stuff… kinda bordering on some proggy death metal in parts.
Cloak
Cloak
Boris Records
A good catchy blackened death metal/ black n roll type thing. Reminds me a lot of Satyricon. (only 2 songs on this EP)
Paradox
Pangea
AFM Records
A little bit thrash, a little bit power metal and prog metal… but really it’s just 100% metal. A good edge and catchy too. great stuff.
BLACK FUCKING CANCER
Black Fucking Cancer
Osmose Productions
Black/death metal with a bit of a grind thing happening too… oh yeah and it gets doomy too.
Forteresse
Thèmes pour la Rébellion
Sepulchral Productions
Good melodic black metal. Good production, gold meedly guitars, blast beats and evil vox.
Monsterworks
Black Swan Annihilation
Eat Lead & Die
Doomy in parts, black metal in others, death metal too. Lots of good stuff going on and it all works well together.
Rotting Obscene
Depths Of Decay
Transcending Recs
Technical death metal. great stuff, brutal, heavy, groovin’ and yup, brutal again!
Head of the Demon
Sathanas Transmigestos
The Ajna Offensive / Invictus Productions
A bit doomy and post-metal. Kind of laid back, except when there are vocals, they’re kinda scream/shouty.
Sheidim
Shrines of the Void
Dark Descent Records
Melodic black metal. It’s like this week is sound like old Opeth week! These guys have a bit more of a classic black metal sound when it gets heavier, but interleaved with some decent melodic metal too.
Waxen
Weihung Auf Satan
Moribund Records
Faster classic black metal, distorted vox, heavy blast beats going on… you know… black metal!
Violent Scum
Festering in Endless Decay TAPE
Blood Harvest
Classic death metal with a little bit of groove, but a bit raw in the production dept.
SHED THE SKIN
Harrowing Faith (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
Blackened death metal, fairly quick songs, brutal stuff with a head banging groove.
Front (Finland)
Iron Overkill CD/LP
Iron Bonehead
Raw old school deathy black metal, good brutality, seems pissed off.
Light of the Morning Star
Cemetery Glow MCD/12″ MLP
Iron Bonehead
Doomy metal with melodic stuff
Neige et Noirceur
Les Ténèbres Modernes
Sepulchral Productions
Classic black metal, on the brutal side, a little bit raw and evil sounding.
SECRET RULE
Machination
Scarlet Records
Starts off a bit prog metal-like, but turns into femaled fronted gothy solid rock, maybe a long the lines of Lacuna Coil-ish on the heavy scale and clean female vox comparison. Some songs get heavier and almost in the melodic death/prog metal area.
C.B. Murdoc
Here be Dragons
ViciSolum Productions
I guess this would be kind of a melodic metal core proggy metal thing. Good and heavy, a bit catchy and overall pretty decent stuff
GOTTWEIST
Future Is In Our Hands
Collective Wave Records
Modern groove metal.. melodic stuff and a bit of a metal edge… production is a bit raw, yet overproduced a bit.
PAUL CHAIN
Alkahest
Label: Minotauro Records
Doom metal with some melodic tendencies and a bit of a groove.
NULLA
Stornelli Distopici
Symbol of Domination Prod. (RUS) Co-release with Metal Throne Prod. (GRC)
Raw black metal. Production is raw, the metal is raw and the sound is raw!
RECTAL SMEGMA
Gnork
Label: Rotten Roll Rex
Well, there hasn’t been a band name this offensive in some time. So yeah, they got that. And they got a great deathgrind/goregrind thing going on.. Growly vox that you can’t understand, but with a song title like “Sacred Semen Altar” do you really need to know what the lyrics are? Fun stuff.
Wayfarer
Old Souls
Prosthetic Records
Doomy black/death metal, melodic acoustic type stuff in parts, then brutal black metal in others. Probably again, for a fan of older Opeth but that likes the lighter stuff too.
Subject to Slaughter
Eschatology
Plug Music Agency
Classic death metal, brutal, a bit technical and it’s good stuff.
FRANGAR
Trincerocrazia
Label: Ultima Madre
A bit black metal, with some hard rock mixed in. They call it black n roll, so I can sorta see that. Black metal vibe, but a classic beat/groove. Harsh vocals but paced decently
Band: Humanity Delete
Album: Fuck Forever Off
Label: Iron, Blood & Death Corporation
Good classic death metal and with some great swedish melodic guitars too!
DEFUNTOS
A Eterna Dança da Morte
Label: Dunkelheit Produktionen
Doomy metal with a little black metal vibe vocally. Long down tempo doomy tracks with the occasional speedup (good parts)
Band: Ligature Wound
Album: Self-titled
Country: USA
Label: Iron, Blood & Death Corporation
Death metal, good classic heavy stuff with a brutal groove.
Lustravi
Cult of the Blackened Veil (Full Length)
Label: Obscure Musick
Raw blackened death metal. Kind of a heavy evil feeling going on with a good meaty groove.
Mustan Kuun Lapset
Kuolemanvirta
Label: Inverse Records
Melodic black metal, 2 studio tracks, 2 live tracks… a little bit of an old Amorphis vibe going on.