Atreyu
Long Live
Spinefarm
While this is modern metal, it’s got an edge and has roots in metal. Cool vocal contrasts between clean and not/clean vox. The singy stuff isn’t all whiney.
XXI
Inside Out
Tooth & Nail
A modern metalcore thing with melodic parts, singy stuff, some abrasive stuff too. Some ok metal parts going on, but it’s Probably more for a Warped Tour crowd
Reflections
The Color Clear
eOne
Another modern metalcore thing… screamy and clean vox, melodic stuff… this one gets a little bit more proggy.
Ghost Ship Octavius
Ghost Ship Octavius
Knife Fight Media
This is melodic proggy metal. Featuring the guitarist from Himsa/God Forbid/Warrel Dane and Van Williams formerly of Nevermore. Great vocalist with a bit of a power metal feel, but more of a heavier sound. Good stuff!
Stratovarious
Eternal
earMUSIC
One of the original power metal bands that kept things all “power” and cheesy, but still heavy enough to be interesting to the concerning metal head. They are good at what they do and keeping it up with this release.
Metal Allegiance
Metal Allegiance
Nuclear Blast Entertainment
An all-star “band” made up of a who’s who in metal championed by Mike Portnoy, Alex Skolnick and David Ellefson. Each song/vocalist sort of takes on that singer’s original band’s style and feel while still being new and modern and all that. Good stuff.
Bring Me The Horizon
That’s The Spirit
Columbia Records
This is that moderm “mall core” type stuff. Not really for the Mosh Pit.
TesseracT
Polaris
Kscope
These guys have always had a pretty good proggy hard rock yet slightyly djenty sound and they continue with it here.
WINDHAND
Grief’s Infernal Flower
Relapse Records
Sludgey doom metal with a stoner metal feel… so not all 100% a depressing snoozer.
CHRISTIAN MISTRESS
To Your Death
Relapse Records
Classic throwback hard rockin’ metal with female vox. It’s pretty catchy and has a great groove, but might be just too light for the ‘pit.
MOVIMENTO D’AVANGUARDIA ERMETICO
Torri del Silenzio
Avantgarde Music
I guess this is just your run of the mill classic black metal. nothing bad about it, nothing groundbreaking (aside that they’re Italian!) So there ya go.
The Black Dahlia Murder
Abysmal
Metal Blade Records
These guy have been around for a while… Techy death metal and still going strong. Just extreme brutal stuff with a pissed off sound which makes you want to break things.
Harlott
Proliferation
Metal Blade Records
A very Slayer-like modern yet classic thrash sounding thing.
In Twilight’s Embrace
The Grim Muse
Label: Arachnophobia Records
This is some Polish melodic death, but moreso in the melodic deathy black metal. We’re getting into some prog metal stuff in here too. This is brutal yet has some melodic stuff and technical stuff as well.
WHEN BITTER SPRING SLEEPS
SPIRIT IN FLAMES
PAGAN FLAMES PRODUCTIONS
Doomy black metal with a bit of pagan feel vocally. The music has a doomy black metal feel, but the vocals are more like a gothy clean sung style. Production is a little mushy.
Funeral Throne
Threshold
Blut & Eisen Productions
For a little bit, this got to be a down tempo or old school black metal thing, but then it kicked in and got brutal and still black metally too. So overall, you got some melodic brutal black metal.
Pneuma Hagion
Trinity I TAPE
Nuclear War Now! Productions
A dark sludgey death metal. we got three quick tracks here, so not much to go on, but I think I hit it right it with the dark sludgey death metal label.
The Hudson Horror
Nemesis
Label: Self-Released
Brutal edged melodic death metal
Evilheart
Quinquaginta (Re-Release Sept 15, 2015)
Test Your Metal Records
This is some brutal thrashy-death metal. Growly vox, yet riffy heavy thrashy music with a brutal edge to it.
Ares Kingdom
The Unburiable Dead LP/CD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
18 September 2015
Cropsy Maniac / Burial Ground / Grave Wax / Severed Limbs
Four Paths To Horror Split CD
Horror Pain Gore Death
All four of these bands put out some quality classic brutal death metal. I’m so used to these split EP’s being like 1 or 2 songs per band. This one has 4 tracks per band. good stuff.
Grift
Syner
Nordvis Produktion
Doomy atmospheric black metal.
King Heavy
King Heavy
Cruz Del Sur Music
A bit goth, a bit stoner metal, a bit classic metal, some thrash, lots of going on here…. but the vocals tend to define it and it’s a bit too “volbeat” for me.
Magister Templi
Into Duat
Cruz Del Sur Music
To me, this is a proggy heavy doom sound. Off the top of my head, this has a stoner metal sound, yet some proggy/classic (Sabbath type) metal. Pretty cool stuff.
Skepticism
Ordeal
Svart Records
Doomy post-metal. A bit gothy, but yawn.
ONE MACHINE
The Final Cull
Scarlet Records
A melodic standard metal thing. A bit proggy, a bit power and your meat and potatoes euro-metal. Decent stuff.
Moon (Australia)
Render of the Veils
Moribund
Atmospheric doomy black metal. meh.
Atila
V
Signal Rex
Doomy post “something” I can’t say that it’s metal.
TSAR BOMB
EXTERMINANS IX:XI
CIMMERIAN SHADE RECORDINGS
Brutal brutality of brutalness. So yeah, blackened death metal… great brutal stuff. BRUTAL!
Soulthern
Rock You ‘Till Die (Demo)
Label: Self-released
Classic southern stoner metal (just 3 demo-sounding tracks)
Eternal Voyager
The Battle for Eternity
Self Released
An epic prog/power metal thing with yeah, a bit of an edge, but maybe a pinch of a folk thing too.
W.A.S.P.
Radio Single “Scream”
Napalm Records
The last WASP track was just ok. This one is maybe a bit better. A little heavier, and still pretty cool.
SKINDRED
Radio Single “Under Attack”
Napalm Records
always one of the orignal “rap” metal/Nu metal type bands but with a metal reggae thing going on too!