New Stuff This Week… 3/31/14
STEEL PANTHER
All You Can Eat
Open E/Kobalt
You just can’t go wrong with this band. Non-PC, funny, hard rockin’, fun lovin’.
THE INTERSPHERE
Relations in the Unseen
Long Branch
Cool proggy hard rock/metal, probably most similar to like a Porcupine Tree.
CREMATORY
Antiserum
SPV
Doomy melodic death metal type stuff with some keyboards and catchy metal stuff too. Reminds me a little of some Moonspell.
Ronnie James Dio
This Is Your Life
Rhino Records
Dio Tribute album, a sort of compilation, Anthrax, Adrenaline Mob, Tenacious D, Metallica. Lots of great bands doing great songs well. No slouches here.
Hatriot
Dawn of The New Centurion
Massacre
Steve Zetro Sousa’s band… great thrashy stuff with his great voice, plus two of his kids are in the band!
Sonata Arctica
Pariah’s Child
Nuclear Blast
Way back in the day, I thought this band was pretty cool, back when this power metal genre was just getting off the ground, since then, lots more bands sound like them, and heavier cool stuff is out there…. but you know what, it’s kinda nice that this band is still around and doing what they’re doing. Nice to get refreshed again.
Delain
The Human Contradiction
Napalm Records
It’s your typical fe-metal thing… decent metal with female vox and some epic stuff here and there.
Lacuna Coil
Broken Crown Halo
Century Media
Been a couple years since their last. This one is a bit more heavy than some previous stuff. It still is your typical Lacuna Coil with the two singers going back and forth.
Ceremonial (Chile)
Ars Magicka 7″ EP
Blood Harvest
Old school thrashy black metal sound, creepy evil vocals, great riffs, and a great undergound metal EP.
Sargeist
Feeding The Crawling Shadows
W.T.C.Productions
Dark, classic black metal sound with some melody and groove, but still “cold” sounding black metal.
Pilgrim
II: Void Worship
Metal Blade Records
Big meaty riffs, some powerful and sorta creepy vocals and yeah, it’s stoner metal.
Massacre
Back From Beyond
Century Media
Not too many just straightforward death metal albums these days. This is their first album since 1996, and it probably could have been released them too. A cool retro death metal thing going on, like, oh, they haven’t needed to do whatever. It’s nice to just have this sort of sound.
Relief In Sleep
Godspeed
Imminence
Some fe-metal type stuff, a bit of a pop-metal feel musically.
Erebus Enthroned
Temple Under Hell
Seance
A bit of a technical death metal/black metal thing
Heresiarch
Wælwulf 7″ EP
Iron Bonehead
Doomy, downtempo death metal
Cemetery Fog
Shadows From The Cemetery TAPE
Iron Bonehead