New Stuff This Week… 7/22/2024

Category 7
Category 7
Metal Blade Records
26 July 2024
We’ve had a few singles from this one… super group, catchy thrashy goodness

Dream Evil
Metal Gods
Century Media Records
Classic power metal with some big grooves

Verni
Dreadful Company
M-Theory Audio
Full release of the kind of standard punky hard rock.

NZM
THE BEST OF NZM
FIREROCK MUSIC GROUP
Greatest hits from this power metal… catchy classic metal type stuff.

Unto Others
“Angel Of The Night”
(Century Media)
Gothy type metal and a bit epic

Obscene
Agony & Wounds
Nameless Grave
Release date: Friday, July 12th 2024
Death metal with some black metal stuff going on, solid stuff.

Richie Kotzen
On The Table (Single)
BMG
I became a bigger fan of this guy with the Winery Dogs, but he’s been around forever, his solo stuff is catchy and groovin’ as hell. These first two singles fit that bill perfectly

Duskwalker
Underground Forever
Black Lion Records
26 July 2024
Groovin’ thrashy metal with some growl-ish vox, and pushing into death metal with a tiny pinch of blackened thrash

Krypticy
The Non-Return
Memento Mori
22 July 2024
Brutal groovin’ and technical death metal. cool stuff

Mean Mistreater
Razor Wire
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 26/07/2024
Classic hard rock / metal. cool straightforward stuff

GOAT SEMEN
Fuck Christ (CD, 12″ MLP, TAPE)
Hells Headbangers
26 July 2024
Kind of a grindy black metal

Demon Spell
Evil Nights
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 26/07/2024
Old school sound with a Mercyful Fate type vibe.

Void Witch
Horripilating Presence
Everlasting Spew Records
26 July 2024
Doomy death metal

The Other Sun
Daimon, Devil, Dawn
Invictus Productions / The Ajna Offensive
23 July 2024
Kind of a doom thing but with a little surf guitar too

Culled
Psycles
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
July 26th
Raw grindy and technical death

TYRAELS ASCENSION
HELL WALKER
LABEL: ROTTWEILER RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: JULY 26th 2024
Groovin’ thrashy, deathy technical yeah!

BATTLEFRONT
Album: Among The Corpses
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: July 23rd, 2024
Classic metal with a little extra melodic stuff and poking a little into thrash when it gets a little faster

SOG
Man Demonic
Violent Creek Records
July 24
Classic Thrash Metal, nice grooves and heaviness

Uprising
III
AOP Records
19 July 2024
Here is some kind of melodic blackened death metal

Mountaineer
Dawn and All That Follows
A Thousand Arms/Dunk!Records
26 July 2024
Melodic doomy post metal

A Thousand Reasons
A Thousand Reasons
Wormholedeath
July 19
Melodic classic type metal,

Fading Echoes
Shadow of Another
Wormholedeath
July 19
Prog metal with more of a power metal thing going on. Zak Stevens on a track.

Orpheus Omega
Emberglow
Wormholedeath
July 24
Melodic Death Metal with a thrashy vibe and also some epic symphonic (keyboardey) stuff. Cool!

I, Cursed
Death Holograms (EP)
Record label: Inverse Records / Meara Music
Release Date: July 17th 2024
Death Metal / Grindcore brutal and a wall of sound

Requiem’s Embrace
Nightmares And Fairytales
Sleaszy Rider
Female fronted power metal, epic-ish

Selias
Headshot
Sleaszy Rider
Kind of a groove metal, a bit thrashy, some deathy (growly vox)

Damaged & Co
Life’s Grand Delusion
Wormholedeath
July 19
Melodic Metal, a little progressive, some just you know, like classic metal.

Orange Goblin
Science, Not Fiction
Peaceville Records
19 July 2024
Classic stoner metal,

ARKA’N ASRAFOKOR
Dzikkuh
Reigning Phoenix Music (RPM)
19 July 2024
Kind of a melodic death / prog metal.

Mortifer Rage
Release Title: Plagues Requiem
Label: DemonCratic Records
Release Date: July 12, 2024
Brutal death metal, with technical death stuff happening but some grooves and melodies… cool stuff!

The Stabbing Jabs
The Stabbing Jabs
Reptilian
Release date: Friday, July 19th 2024
Kind of a punky garage rock sound

Amorphis
Tales From The Thousand Lakes (Live At Tavastia)
Reigning Phoenix
Release date: Friday, July 12th 2024
Live release of one of the best albums in this band’s history… sounds great!

Art of Attrition
“…And It Will All End Forever”
Self-Release
7 July 2024
Blackened technical deathcore… brutal and pissed off too

Onchocerciasis Esophagogastroduodenoscopy
The Fallen Lament – Out July 19th (Digital) – Aug 9th (CD/Cassette)
Gore House Productions
19 July 2024
Brutal gore death grind metal with pig squeally vox

Clactonian
Dea Madre
Label: Self-release
Release date: July 12th, 2024
Brutal blackened death metal, more on the black metal side.

New Stuff This Week… 7/15/2024

SPEED
ONLY ONE MODE
Flatspot
Fast and heavy hardcore metal and crossover stuff… cool stuff.

Patriarchs In Black
Visioning
Metalville Records
Dooomy bluesy classic metal stuff… cool!

Falcon Trails
Coming Home
Metalville Records
Kind of an AOR hard rock type thing

EARTHBURNER
PERMANENT DAWN
M-THEORY AUDIO
Grindy death metal with members of Broken Hope and Sansuisuggabogg

WEREWOLVES
DIE FOR US
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: JULY 19th 2024
Technical and brutal death metal… cool stuff!

Ceremony of Silence
Hálios
Willowtip Records
19 July 2024
Kind of a doomy melodic blackened metal

Windwaker
HYPERVIOLENCE
(Fearless/Concord)
This up there as a kind of poppy rock/core… some heavy stuff, but the poppy clean parts are not for me

CASTRATED
SURGICAL VICISSITUDE EP
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: JULY 19th 2024
Brutal death metal with a bit of technicality

Black Lava
The Savage Winds of Wisdom
Season of Mist
17 July 2024
Melodic death with a black metal thing going on and a proggish heavy Opeth type thing too

SETH
La France des Maudits
Season of Mist
14 July 2024
This is some classic black metal with a melodic and

Ireful
Release Title: Agents of Doom
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: July 16, 2024
Thrash Metal… nice to have some good ol classic thrash in the inbox again! good stuff.

DECLARED DEAD
Album: Necrodeist
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: July 16th, 2024
when I read “Genre: Blackened Death-Thrash | Prog Death ‘n’ Roll” i was curious… and yeah, it’s kind of spot on… a little raw, vox remind me a little of Kreator.. cool stuff.

BLASFEME
BLACK LEGION
LABEL: WULFHERE PRODUCTIONS
RELEASE DATE: JULY 12th 2024
Kind of a blackened grindy thing more on a classic black metal sound… and some melodic stuff too

SARAJAH
Album: Sarajah
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: July 19th, 2024
Laid back doomy stuff…

Quiescent Mantis
Here Comes the Swarm
Exitus Stratagem Records
19 July 2024
A kind of groovin’ thrashy death metal. cool stuff.

Eternal Drak
Imprisoned Souls
FirstWave Canada
17 July 2024
A bit of a dark blackened sort of doomy thing

Jupiter Cyclops
Age of the UFOnaut
Rockshots Records
19 July 2024
Groovin’ stoner metal/hard rock. Catchy!

New Stuff This Week… 7/8/2024

Gutter Creek
Fangs To The Face
Independent
Catchy groovin’ just good ol metal.

Halcyon Way
Night Crawling (EP)
Agonia Records
Kind of a proggy power metal…cool stuff

Octoploid
Beyond The Aeons
Reigning Phoenix
Release date: Friday, July 5th 2024
Another project with some Amorphis members.. current bass player and keyboardist from Elegy/My Kantele. And it shows… this sounds like the old 90’s Amorphis with death vox, and melodic death… great stuff!

Thirteen Goats
Capricorn Rising
Exitus Stratagem Records
12 July 2024
I’d say this is melodic death, some brutal death stuff, melodic music, black metal vox, growns and clean vox too.

Visions of Atlantis
PIRATES II – ARMADA
(Napalm)
Epic female fronted power metal… they’ve been around a while and their sound is as good as ever

Kissin’ Dynamite
Back With A Bang
(Napalm)
Hard rock with kind of a 90’s AOR melodic metal type sound. catchy

SKELETHAL
Within Corrosive Continuums (CD, LP, TAPE)
Hells Headbangers
12 July 2024
Brutal death metal, groovin’ and on the technical side.

Mages Terror
Damnations Sight
Invictus Productions
12 July 2024
This has a overall thrashy sound, but with a black metal vibe. and a little black n roll too

Disloyal
Divine Miasmata
Black Lion Records
12 July 2024
Kind of a technical death metal with a pinch of black metalness

Kommandant
Exhibition of Conquest
ATMF
12 July 2024
A bit classic black metal, but a kind of thrashy catchiness going on too.

Vanhelgd
Atropos Doctrina
Dark Descent Records
12 July 2024
Here’s some black metal, but with a kind of gritty dirtiness. Not all crisp and cold… with some death metal groove

CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE
THE DEVIL KNOWS MY NAME
LABEL: ROTTWEILER RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: JULY 12th 2024
Dark pissed off death with a doom/sludge groove

MEIFU
Album: Haunted Dreams
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: July 5th, 2024
Doom with a little psychedlic old school thing and female vox…

Turbo
Broke & Ugly
Self-Release
12 July 2024
Kind of a fun thrashy thing… catchy with a classic metal sound too

BLOOD FEAST
Infinite Evolution
Hells Headbangers
12 July 2024
Punky thrash

Turin
The Unforgiving Reality In Nothing
MNRK Heavy
Release date: Friday, July 12th 2024
Kind of a melodic death, heavy yet melodic with some blackened death happening too!

SPIRAL GRAVE
Album: Ill Repute
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: July 12th, 2024
Here’s a mix of doom and classic metal

Erzsébet
Release Title: Six Hundred & Fifty
Label: Whispering Voice Records
Release Date: June 14, 2024
Symphonic Black Metal with some decent groovin’ stuff too, almost like Cradle of Filth with shorter songs

Torrefy
“Enslaved New World” [Single]
Self-Release
28 June 2024
Blackened thrashy death with a melodic death element

Apocryphal
All Is Empty
The Circle Music
13 June 2024
all tracks feature Bjorn from Soilwork, this is a single, kind of a starting off heavier, but then settling in to some melodic death.

Veln
Release Title: Veln
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: June 18, 2024
Gritty and cold black/death metal, with some doomy dark groovin’ too

Vulgar Chaos
Release Title: The Edge of Sanity
Label: Demons Records
Release Date: June 21, 2024
meaty and groovin’ death metal with some catchy thrashy stuff too

Artach
Sgrios
Self-Release
6 July 2024
Raw black/death metal, has some dark death metal vibes with a kind of cold black metal sound

Category 7
Category 7 – radio singles
Metal Blade Records
26 July 2024
Being a fan of all of the members of this band in their own thing… it’s reasonable to think I’d like this band… and i do. This track sounds more Anthrax-y mostly due to John Bush’s style on this one.

New Stuff This Week… 7/1/2024

Orden Ogen
The Oder Of Fear
Reigning Phoenix Music
Kind of a just straight up metal, melodic stuff, catchyish

Shade of Sorrow
Upon The Fields Of Grief
M-Theory Audio
28 June 2024
A little bit melodic death with a doom vibe.

200 Stab Wounds
Manual Manic Procedures
Metal Blade Records
28 June 2024
Brutal death metal and a technical ish element. Great stuff!

Neaera
All Is Dust
Metal Blade Records
28 June 2024
Kind of a melodic death/metalcore ish sound… always liked their stuff in the past and this has a nice heavy and melodic groove.

Riotous Indignation
Wheel of Misfortune (Single)
Repel Media
This is a bit of a thrash hardcore with a pinch of industrial.. pretty cool stuff

Future Palace
Dreamstate (Single)
Arising Empire
Kind of a modern metal- female fronted, some grooves and solid-rockish

Wraith
Fueled By Fear
Prosthetic Records
28 June 2024
Thrashy death metal, musically it’s kind of complex, maybe a bit progressive, with some catchy grooves too. Cool stuff.

STINKY (single)
DOWN IN THE DUMPS
M-THEORY AUDIO
A kind of modern metacore… a bit hardcore, some clean vox too

VEIL OF THE SERPENT (single)
Death Cult
Self Released
I guess I’d say this is just classic metal, a little poke into thrash… overall decent stuff.

Desaster
Bringing the Storm to Rotterdam
Nomad Snakepit Productions
1 July 2024
A raw kind of blackened death/thrash. Live album makes it a bit more raw.

Aposento
Release Title: No Safe Haven
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: July 2, 2024
meaty and groovin’ death metal… cool stuff!

MOTIVIK
RENOUNCEMENT
LABEL: ROXX RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: JULY 1st 2024
A little thrashy, some tech stuff, a bit metalcore and some modern metal stuff too… I guess when you throw all that together it’s a bit progressive? yeah

Liminal Shroud
Visions of Collapse
Willowtip Records
5 July 2024
Melodic blackened death

SIJJEEL
AFFILIATION OF HORRID CONTAINMENT
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: JULY 5th 2024
Brutal death metal…a little grindy and pig squeally. good stuff.

Inerth
Hybris
Abstract Emotions
5 July 2024
Kind of a groovin’ doomy death metal

Bloodcross
Gravebound
Personal Records
5 July 2024
Melodic blackened death metal

Black Hole Deity
Profane Geometry
Everlasting Spew Records
5 July 2024
Fast technical death, cool stuff.

Nifelheim
Unholy Death
Darkness Shall Rise
4 July 2024
Classic black metal

XASTHUR
Disharmonic Variations
Lupus Lounge
5 July 2024
Kind of progressive and epic yet laid back black metal type stuff. Primarily instrumental and atmospheric too

AEONS
Album: The Ghosts Of What We Knew
Country: Isle of Man
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: July 2nd, 2024
This has a modern metal deathcore vibe, but quite a bit more complex and kind of proggy thing going on

Kick The Giant
Presence
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: July 5th 2024
Progressive Rock/Metal, cool catchy grooves with a enough prog coolness to make it stand out… more of a hard rock thing with proggy but also maybe a 90’s AOR sound

Moloema
Unpredictable
Sleaszy Rider
Melodic rock, a clean vox, maybe rocking a little harder but not really getting too “metal” decent stuff.

Eons Aura
Hybris-Nemesis-Death
Sleaszy Rider
This is a little bit of a black and roll / melodic death.

REGICIDE
RESIST CONTROL
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: JULY 5th 2024
Here we have some kinda straight up metal, not really in any major subgenre. screamy (not really growly) vox, more of a kind of thrash style scream. Music groovin’ metal that’s catchy too. cool stuff.

Trauamatomy
Triumph Of Enslavement
Gore House Productions
5 July 2024
Brutal death metal… cool

earthtone9
In Resonance Nexus
Candlelight
21 June 2024
Melodic just like, “metal” some groovin’ and modern active rock type stuff overall but kicking it up a notch and getting a bit prog metal in complexity

The Shiva Hypothesis
Release Title: Faustian Restlessness
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: June 29, 2024
Blackened Death Metal, a good even mix of both.

Excruciation
Release Title: God
Label: Auric Records
Release Date: June 21, 2024
They describe this as “Doom Metal, Doom Death Metal” and yeah, that’s spot on

SABÏRE
JÄTT
Listenable Records
28 June 2024
A real old school metal, maybe a bit of a WASP type vibe with some Venom mixed in.

White Stones
Memoria Viva
Reigning Phoenix
Release date: Friday, June 28th 2024
band features Martin Mendez from Opeth, this has extreme vox, but music is a bit more laid back, melodic with some groove, almost has a little Moonspell vibe.

Trog
Horrors Beyond
Self-Released
Release date: Friday, June 28th 2024
Brutal death metal, with a little melodic flair, mostly heavy with a smidge of a black metal coldness

Amarok
Resilience
Vulture Print
Release date: Friday, June 28th 2024
Pretty long tracks of doomy black metal

TERMINAL SUN
ALL THAT WILL BURN IS ALREADY ON FIRE
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: JULY 6th 2024
This has a bit of a doomy death metal sound, but keeping pretty heavy with monster riffs and grooves

Isle of The Cross
Faustus The Musical
Rockshots Records
5 July 2024
Prog metal, clean and harsh vox, heavy and soft passages, overall, pretty cool and epic in parts.

The Omnific
The Law of Augmenting Returns
(Wild Thing Records)
pretty cool instrumental prog metal, mostly djenty, but lots of cool stuff going on all over the place. cool!!!

X-Cops
XCAB
Pit Records
28 June 2024
An offshoot of Gwar which hasn’t done much of anything in 10+ years are back with a new EP. Has a solid groove of classic metal with of course a bit of a Gwar sound too.

New Stuff This Week… 6/24/2024

CAVALERA
Schizophrenia re Recorded
Nuclear Blast
Release Date: June 21, 2024
After seeing these guys play live, and knowing they all still got and breathing some fresh light into some of these older albums… this one is especially good… good modern production makes it nice and punchy gooood stuff!

Thy Will Be Done
Encore Abomination
Self-Released
Death/brutal core. in your face with no fuckin’ around. cool stuff!

Devolution
Deceiver Believer
Close Encounter Records
A modern metal, cover of a Depeche Mode song in the singles… decent stuff.

Islander
Grammy Nominated
Independent
This has a nu-metal something core type sound, heavy and catchy too

SOULBOUND
INSANE
METALVILLE
A little modern metal, some nice catchy grooves a little Static X vibe.

Rendezvous Point
Dream Chaser
Long Branch
A modern metal meets prog with a nice full sound, a bit of a synthy thing to fill it out. cool stuff.

RivetSkull
Absence of Time
Self-Released
Classic metal a la Dio ish

The Black Dahlia Murder
Aftermath – radio single
Metal Blade Records
13 June 2024
New song! Heavy technical, brutal.. Trevor would want them to continue and they are sounding great

Kvaen
The Formless Fires
Metal Blade
Release date: Friday, June 21st 2024
Big sound, black metal with a nice catchy groove while still keeping it harsh and cold.

Portrait
The Host
Metal Blade
Release date: Friday, June 21st 2024
Classic metal with some thrashy and melodic/prog sounding stuff.

Post Pulse
Return to the Halls
Label: Inverse Records
Release date: May 31st 2024
They call it Modern Death Metal… has a bit of an epic sound (like, keyboard orchestra melodies backing up the stuff) A bit thrashy/deathy… good grooves…

Necronomicon Ex Mortis
You and Your Friends Are Dead: Game Over (2024) – Out June 28th
Self-Release
28 June 2024
Meaty groovin’ thrash/death metal. cool stuff.

Narcotic Wasteland
Barbarian (single)
Megaforce Records
31 May 2024
New single with Madison’s own Erik Schultek on drums and studio duties… heavy meaty brutal techy deathmetal great as usual

Ensiferum
Winter Storm Vigilantes – radio single
Metal Blade Records
18 October 2024
Cool stuff… early single for a late release, melodic death but with a power metal vibe too… also, quite epic!

NZM
NO INNOCENCE
FIREROCK MUSIC GROUP
Classic metal with a power metal vibe.. big powerful vox

Savage Lands
No Remedy
Season of Mist
19 June 2024
all proceeds from this song go to Reforestation effords in Costa Rica, Dirk from megadeth teamed with Sylvain Demercastel a friend from Costa Rica and enlisted a bunch of guests. Fairly straightforward classic metal

Drift Into Black
Voices Beneath the Rubble
Black Lion Records
28 June 2024
Standard metal type stuff, clean vox and a smidge doomy

WINTER ETERNAL
Echoes of Primordial Gnosis (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
28 June 2024
Black metal, a bit of a groove, more dark and gloomy. meedly guitars and cold

Kaipa
Sommargryningsljus
InsideOut
June 28
Classic prog rock getting a little bit heavier in parts.

Crystal Viper
The Silver Key
Listenable Records
28 June 2024
Classic metal, leaning a bit power metal, but just pushing into melodic death a tiny bit. Big soaring powerful female vox

LIMBONIC ART
Opus Daemoniacal
Kyrck Production & Armour
28 June 2024
Wall of sound black metal, cold, intense and harsh with a melodic element

SHUMAUN
Opposing Mirrors
Self-Release
28 June 2024
Prog metal, melodic and

GRAVE HERESY
Incineration Victory
Self Released
Black Death Metal. a bit of a blackened sludge

MIDNIGHT ODYSSEY
Closer To The Sky
I, Voidhanger Records
4 June 2024
Atmospheric doom

Hemorrhoid
Raw Materials of Decay
Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records
28 June 2024
Grindy gore brutal black/death metal, bodily function song titles

Devine Defilement
Age of Atrocities
Rising Nemesis Records
2 February 2024
Brutal death metal with some grooves, good stuff

Apes
Penitence
Secret Swarm
Release date: Friday, June 14th 2024
Kind of a blackened death/thraash good n brutal too

UPON THE ALTAR
Descendants of Evil
Godz of War Productions
Black Death Metal, fairly straightfoward and walking that line with death metal and black metal stuff going on

Genus Ordinis Dei
Three Kings
Eclipse Records
Radio Impact: 24 June 2024 Release: 21 June 2024
Gritty melodic death and a pinch of a modern metal sound.

Element of Fate
Basilisk
Bravemusic
28 June 2024
An epic groove kind of progressive and melodic metal… female vox, clean and harsh (getting into black metal sounds) too.. pretty cool

Indulgence
Release Title: Grim Times
Label: Headbangers Records and Big Bad Wolf Records
Release Date: June 12, 2024
Kind of a raw thrashy sound with a little punk attitude

The D.O.O.D. (Distinguished Order of Disobedience)
“2000 Miles” [Single]
SelfMadeRecords / Earache Digital Distribution
14 June 2024
I like the band name… musically it’s straightforward classic groovin’ metal.

Illdisposed
In Chambers Of Sonic Disgust
Massacre Records
28 June 2024
A melodic death thing, mostly harsh vox, and groovin’ death metal

The Eternal
Skinwalker
Reigning Phoenix
Release date: Friday, June 28th 2024
Amorphis members, a nice groovin’ melodio death, a little more down tempo and progressive… good stuff.

New Stuff This Week…6/17/2024

Seven Spires
A Fortress Called Home
Frontiers Music SRL
Kind of prog/power metal with some melodic death heavier music and vox… awesome!

Gasket
Babylon (EP)
Blue Grape Music
Kind of a death/hardcore and slightly punkish thing.

September Mourning
Body Count (Single) (Radio Edit)
Mortem Media
Funny, this is very similar to the above, but a bit more of a nu-metal/groove metal thing happening.

GORGATRON
Sentience Revoked
Redefining Darkness Records
21 June 2024
Technical and brutal groovin’ death metal. They’re about to headline a tour with Casket Robbery as support (and Voraath below)… So yeah, great stuff!

Ancient Entities
Echoes of Annihilation
Self-Release
21 June 2024
Milwaukee band. technical death metal, brutal and no fuckin around !

Codex Mortis
Tales of Woe
Black Lion Records
21 June 2024
Groovin’ brutal death metal, a smidge of black metal screams, but nice and technical, catchy cool stuff!

Assimilator
Expelled into Suffering
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
21 June 2024
Raw gore brutal death metal, a bit down tempo

ANTHROPOPHAGUS DEPRAVITY
DEMONIC PARADISE
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: JUNE 21st 2024
Brutal death metal, with a technical death thing going on too…

CAINITES
Revenant
Scarlet Records
21 June 2024
I’d have to say this falls into a melodic death category. Solid grooves and a big prog-ish too.

Unholy Craft
Saa Mørkt, Saa Mektig
Purity Through Fire
21 June 2024
Old school lo-fi black metal.

Saint Diablo
The Reckoning
Eclipse Records
19 July 2024
Kind of a groove metal core/modern metal core thing… some solid heavy stuff

L.M.I.
Failed To Feel It
June 21st
Horror Pain Gore Death
Kind of a heavier hardcore, a bit punked up and a bit of sludge

Seventh Dimension
Release Title: Of Hope & Ordeals
Label: Corrupted Records
Release Date: June 21, 2024
We have some prog metal here, along the lines of Dream Theater. Longer tracks, some heavier parts, more proggish stuff, a good slab of all that good stuff.

GREENLEAF
The Head & The Habit
Magnetic Eye Records
21 June 2024
Pushing a bit into a stoner metal sound, or some good heavy catchy hard rock. Clean vox, nice groovin’ sound

Hyperdontia
Harvest of Malevolence
Dark Descent Records / Me Saco Un Ojo Records
21 June 2024
Death metal with a bit of a technical death thing going on… some good bass guitar… lead bass! Also, throwing out a strong thrash vibe.

RELEASE THE TITANS
Album: Odyssey
Self-Release
Release date: June 21st, 2024
This is mostly prog metal with a smidge of thrash in the heavier stuff.

Derelict
Versus Entropy
Self-Release
21 June 2024
Kind of a deathy thrash. crisp heavy

Voraath
Vol 1: The Hymn of the Hunters
Exitus Stratagem Records
17 June 2024
A mix of brutal death metal, some blackened death and melodic death all staying heavy and groovin’ too

Paradise In Flames
Blindness
Xaninho Discos and Demoncratic Records
14 June 2024
Epic symphonic blackened melodic death-ish. A lot going on, some big epic symphonic stuff, and brutal black metal stuff too.. pretty cool!

ADELON
RESURGENCE
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: JUNE 21st 2024
Technical, brutal, some melodic stuff too… 4 song ep. cool stuff

SHADOW WITCH
Album: Eschaton (The End Of All Things)
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: June 21st, 2024
Classic sounding doomy stoner metal.

Serrabulho
Release Title: Piss & Love
Label: Rotten Roll Rex
Release Date: June 18, 2024
Kind of thrashy gore/grind death metal thing

IN FOR THE KILL
Release Title: Branded To Kill
Label: Spiritual Beast
Release Date: April 17, 2024
Thrashy metal with a little Pantera vibe mixed with some hardcore.

Ashes of Moments Perished
Clairvoyant Evanesce (Single)
self-released
24 May 2024
Kind of a tech death things

Decoy
Personality Program (single)
Self Released
thrashy hardcore

Embryonic Autopsy
Origins Of The Deformed
Massacre Records
14 June 2024
Brutal death metal, gurgly vox, nice chunky grooves

Paragnosis
Paragnosis
Self Released
Release date: Friday, June 21st 2024
Tech proggy Instrumental metal cool stuff

Hippotraktor
Stasis
Pelagic
Release date: Friday, June 7th 2024
Kind of a djenty blackened deathcore? Melodic parts, blackened stuff when the vox get harsh, all of the diff sounds make it come off as a bit prog.

Noroth
Sacrificial Solace
Carbonized
Release date: Friday, June 7th 2024
Raw blackened death, a bit sludgy

Okular
Regenerate
Regenerative Productions
7 June 2024
Technical progressive death with a lot of great playing and brutal too.

EIVØR
ENN
Season of Mist
14 June 2024
Ambient female fronted music.. not really metal.

Impact Approved
Way of the Warrior
Wormholedeath
This is a thrashy death metal, nice grooves with a little melodic stuff in there, production is a little raw… but sometimes comes off as a more full deathy lamb of god ?

Intranced
Muerte y Metal
High Roller Records
7 June 2024
Straightforward classic metal, some songs in spanish, others with a bit of a 80/90’s vibe

Cadaverous Condition
Never Arrive, Never Return
The Circle Music
14 June 2024
Death metal, a bit of a thrashy vibe, still brutal, but really catchy

MATRIARCHS
The Divinity Of All Things – Anthems For The Neurodivergent
Knucklehedz Inc
6 June 2024
Hardcore meaty grooves, abrasive vox… cool stuff.

New Stuff This Week… 6/10/2024

SEVERE TORTURE
Torn From The Jaws of Death
Season of Mist
7 June 2024
Meaty and brutal death metal, a pinch of black metal…. great stuff!

Mythraeum
Oblivion Aeternam
M-Theory Audio
7 June 2024
A symphonic black/death metal thing… good stuff… similar to a dimmu borgir/cradle of filth.

Malignancy
…Discontinued
Willowtip Records
14 June 2024
Brutal death metal, leaning on some tech/prog stuff… lots going on, but still groovin’ brutal death metal!

Axel Rudi Pell
Risen Symbol
SPV/Steamhammer
Classic metal with some shreddin’

Verni
Dreadful Company
M-Theory Audio
Kind of a punked up hard rock from Overkill’s DD Verni!

CANDY
It’s Inside You
(Relapse)
Raw kind of industrial punk and hardcore mooshed up together.

New Horizon
Conquerors
Frontiers Music
Epic power metal, wall of sound, almost kinda pop-ish. Catchy!

Rorschach Test (Single)
Fallen
Unlabeled Artists
This has a bit of a goth moonspell vibe, a bit industrial and prog metal to boot

Cloven Hoof
Heathen Cross
High Roller Records
31 May 2024
Classic metal, solid grooves and a catchy feel

Fu Manchu
The Return of Tomorrow
At The Dojo Records
14 June 2024
Stoner metal with a layer of fuzzy grooves

Wasabi Neon
Razer Ramone’s Edge
Self Released
Local! In your face grindy death-ish core.

Darkened
Defilers of the Light
Edged Circle Productions
Global Release Date: 14/06/2024
Groovin’ death metal, meaty, catchy and head banging goodness

ROYAL RAGE
Album: Evolve
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: June 11th, 2024
Good ol thrash, great guitar work, fast and heavy grooves

Rarity
Lower Feeling
(New Damage)
Kind of a modern metalcore – which I guess is called post-hardcore now. eh.

Kittie (single)
We Are Shadows
Sumerian
Mosh Pit studio veterans are back… heavy, brutal, yet melodic and catchy too… this track has clean vox. Cool stuff!

Entheos (single)
Life in Slow Motion
Metal Blade Records
29 May 2024
Technical death, brutal, yet melodic in parts. more plz!

SHAMASH
DONE WITH MISERY (NOS PERGAMOS IN DOMINE SALUTEUM)
LABEL: ROTTWEILER RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: JUNE 14th 2024
Blackened death metal, some melodic stuff.. heavy, catchy brutal too… pretty good stuff!!

Al-Namrood
Release Title: Al Aqrab
Label: Shaytan Productions
Release Date: June 9, 2024
they call it “Black Metal with Arabian and Oriental influences” And I can hear all that… there’s a bit of atmosphere with the asian/middle eastern sounds prevalent…, it’s not full on speedy blast beats, a bit of a down tempo vibe

Legionary
Prison Realm
Self-Release
14 June 2024
Kind of a thrashy death metal, harsh and clean vox.

Angel Sword
World Fighter
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 14/06/2024
Classic metal with a smidge of thrash

Lucifer’s Hammer
Be and Exist
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 14/06/2024
Doom with a classic hard rockin’ sound

Ancient Guard
Nightfall Enthroned
Iron Bonehead
14 June 2024
Classic black metal, melodic, cold and doomy, longer tracks

Vendel
Out in the Fields
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 14/06/2024
Kind of a proggy power metal with a classic metal thing going on .

GOLGOTHA
SPREADING THE WINGS OF HOPE
LABEL: ARDUA MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: JUNE 14th 2024
Female fronted classic metal with a little goth thing/melodic death sound happening. clean and harsh vox

THANATOTHERION
Alienation Manifesto
I, Voidhanger Records
7 June 2024
This has a blackend death/horror sound, a bit more of a gritty dirtier cradle of filth. solid groves a thrashy catchiness too. Cool stuff!

INCONCESSUS LUX LUCIS
Temples Colliding In Fire
I, Voidhanger Records
7 June 2024
Black metal, but kind of more on the blackened death side of things, has some of that groovin’ catchiness that gets your head bangin’

HOLYCIDE
Towards Idiocracy
Xtreem Music
6 June 2024
Catchy heavy blackened thrash, cool stuff with no fuckin’ around.

Hybreed Chaos
Release Title: Subliminal Abyssal Carnage
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: June 14, 2024
Progressive instrumental metal, a little djenty, a little Meshuggah-like

Mythologik
Blood in the Sky
Self-Release
14 June 2024
Technical thrash, reminds me a bit of Kreator… cool heavy catchy thrash… good stuff!

ALBERTO RIGONI
Album: Unexpected Lullabies
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: June 4th, 2024
Prog rock, a lot of chill parts, other just straightforward rock with

DISLIMN
Album: Esmee
Label: Octopus Rising
Release date: June 7th, 2024
Laid back doom, female fronted. very chill.

Returned to the Earth
Stalagmite Steeple
Giant Electric Pea
June 14
Laid back… rock? Prog? Kind of like a Opeth watershed vibe

we broke the weather
Album: Restart Game
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: June 14th, 2024
Prog rock in a stoner metal style

Dendera
Mask Of Lies
Rockshots Records
14 June 2024
Proggy melodic death, clean and harsh vox with some heavier cool tech deathish stuff and some typical prog metal stuff too

Millennial Reign
Release Title: World on Fire
Label: Ulterium Records
Release Date: June 14, 2024
Power Metal, Heavy Metal, a bit of a just a classic metal, with that power metal sound when it gets a little heavier… female clean vox, decent stuff

Sunburst
Release Title: Manifesto
Label: Inner Wound Recordings
Release Date: June 14, 2024
“Progressive Metal, Cinematic Progressive Metal” Clean vox, a sort of straightforward prog metal, clean vox, lots of musical prowess…

Nekrodawn
Release Title: Sculpted By Torture
Label: Legions Of Bane
Release Date: May 31, 2024
Gritty death metal, solid grooves and a touch of black metal

Thus
Release Title: The Terminal Condition of Existence
Label: Self-released
Release Date: May 24, 2024
Melodic Death & Thrash Metal with a nice deathy groove.

OVER NEMESIS
Nemesis
Music-Records
March 29
Fairly standard groove/deathish metal, probably throwing a bit into thrash but with some synth/keyboard giving it a bit of a melodic prog/deathish sound

Wormwood
The Star
Sound Pollution/Black Lodge Records
31 May 2024
Melodic and doomy black metal with a chilled death and rock groove.

Shrapnel
In Gravity
Candlelight
A bit classic metal, some thrashy elements, and nice melodic deathy grooves too.

HIGH DESERT QUEEN
Palm Reader
Magnetic Eye Records
31 May 2024
Catchy cool melodic stoner metal with a little heavier groove

Exodus
Exodus
British Disaster: The Battle of ’89 (Live At The Astoria)
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 31 May 2024
Live album hidden away for 35

WyndRider
Revival
Electric Valley Records
7 June 2024
Chilled out Stoner metal along the lines of Kyuss

Armored Saint
One Chain (Don’t Make No Prison) – radio single
Metal Blade Records
12 June 2024
New single, great classic metal sound

Category 7
Category 7 – radio singles
Metal Blade Records
26 July 2024
Super group0… second single “Exhausted” has a thrashy catchy groove, and John Bush? c’mon. Great stuff all around.

Lucifericon
Sabatraxis
Invictus Productions
21 June 2024
Black metal more on the black n roll side of things

Fixation
Random Acts of Violence
Indie Recordings
14 June 2024
Modern metalcore type stuff.

New Stuff This Week… 6/3/2024

Evergrey
Theories of Emptiness
(Napalm)
Solid groovin’ prog metal, they never seem to disappoint.

Deathwish
The Fourth Hoursman
Beer City Records
A bit thrashy, some hardcore, some just straight up hard hitting metal. catchy and fun

Holy Mother
Rise
Massacre Records
Groovin’ classic metal. A bit of a stoner vibe, but a bit more complex… cool stuff.

Mourning Noise
Screams Dreams
Cleopatra Records
A bit horror metal sounding, melodic and maybe a little heavy goth-ish… cool organ stuff.

Meanstreak
Blood Moon (EP)
ONErpm
Good thrashy all female band…

SPEED (single)
“THE FIRST TEST”
(Flatspot)
Hardcore meets just punishing metal, groovin and in your face too. cool stuff.

AVERNUS
NEMESIS
M-THEORY AUDIO
Doomy death metal, one song, almost 10 minutes…

Reverend Horton Heat
Ace of Spades
Fun Guy
Just a single of a nice rockabilly upbeat cover of a classic

Devil Moon Risen
Fissures of Men
Self Released
6 June 2024
a little doom/stoner and punk

BETWEEN THE KILLINGS
THE KILLING QUARTET VOL. 2: OMNIPOTENCE
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: JUNE 7th 2024
Brutal in your face death metal. fast and punishing

Void Moon
Dreams Inside the Sun
Personal Records
7 June 2024
Doom, melodic and depressing

Fractal Generator
Convergence
Everlasting Spew Records
7 June 2024
Kind of a technical and brutal death metal, fast and in your face… cool stuff.

Necrocene
Detrimental Paratomy
Personal Records
7 June 2024
A little black metal, some technical deathy stuff too.

Web
Release Title: Burden of Destiny
Label: Firecum Records
Release Date: June 8, 2024
Thrashy stuff with a kind of prog technical element… cool stuff!!

Ashes Reborn
Release Title: In Captivity
Label: Firecum Records
Release Date: June 3rd, 2023
Groovin’ deathy thrash metal… cool stuff

FOOL THE MASSES
It’s All Lost
Dr. Music Records
7 June 2024
Groove metal, a bit of a nu-metal/ modern metal thing too… harsh and clean vox.

Blynd
Unbeliever
Pitch Black
Release date: Friday, June 7th 2024
A meaty groovin’ melodic death. cool stuff

Grand Demise of Civilization
The Blaze of Abaddon
Ordovician Records
4 June 2024
Black metal, wall of sound, full of cold atmospheric evilness

AD PATRES
Unbreathable
June 7th 2024
Non Serviam Records.
Technical death metal, meaty, catchy, groovin’ and heavy!

Reliqa
Secrets of the Future
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 31 May 2024
Modern metal, female fronted, a little industrial and electronic with some nu-metal stuff too

Cathari
It Will Hurt the Entire Time You Are Alive
Self-released
24 May 2024
Kind of sludgey gritty maybe doomish

New Stuff This Week… 5/27/2024

Witherfall
Sounds Of The Forgotten
Deathwave Records
31 May 2024
Prog metal, big vocals, heavy and almost melodic death in parts, and some parts good ol power metal and everything in between great stuff!

Four Stroke Baron
Data Diamond
Prosthetic Records
Kind of a groovin’ melodic modern metal type stuff.

Hellbutcher
Hellbutcher
Metal Blade Records
31 May 2024
We have us some black metal, but with some brutal deathy groovin’ going on too.

Nestor
Teenage Rebel
(Napalm)
Kind of an 80’s hard rock/hair metal-ish sound. A fun throwback thing

Black Sabbath
Anno Domini
Rhino Entertainment
4 CD box set of the Tony Martin era, Headless Cross, Tyr, Cross Purposes and Forbidden… all remastered and the last one remixed by Tony Iommi… and as I always say on these legacy metal reissues… a good excuse to revisit and re play these classics.

Defects
Modern Error
(Mascot)
Kind of a melodic death/modern metalcore-ish. A nice heavy edge, clean parts aren’t like too “emo” nice grit and catchy groove

ARHAT
Secrets of Ancient Gods
Self Released
Release date: May 31st, 2024
A melodic death metal, there’s a little middle eastern sound, and some good meaty and catchy death metal stuff too. great stuff!

Lakeview (single)
“Money Where Your Mouth Is” feat. Gideon
(Self-Released)
Modern groove solid rock type stuff.

RivetSkull (single)
”The King is Dead”
Absence of Time
(Self-Released)
another single.. Good ol classic metal with a little hint of power metal with some Dio sounds

Abreaktion
Bornhatred
Chaos Records
31 May 2024
This has a black metal vibe, a bit more thrashy in tone however. Fast and furious and a bit catchy and raw too

Dusk
Industrie
self released
31 May 2024
This is kind of an industrial noise/black metal thing

Adversarial
Solitude with the Eternal
Dark Descent Records
31 May 2024
black/death metal, mostly black metal, but a dark brutality too

Black Wound
Warping Structure
Chaos Records
31 May 2024
Here’s some kinda sludgey black doomy metal.

NEMUS ANIMA
Album: The God Of Forest
Self Released
Release date: June 1st, 2024
straight up blackend death metal, some parts are just full on classic black metal, others more deathy thrash/death too… decent stuff.

My Diligence
DEATH.HORSES.BLACK
Listenable Records
31 May 2024
A bit doom, some prog, some stoner and atmospheric stuff…with a bit of a grungy sound

ViOS
SLAVEFORM
LABEL: LYDIAN IMPULSE
RELEASE DATE: MAY 27th 2024
This has a progressive metal groove metal thing happening… all instrumental – three song EP.

Deathcult
Seven Are They
Edged Circle Productions
May 31
2 song ep of some black metal, a bit melodic, a bit of a symphonic atmosphere as well.

Heimland
Tronearvingens Doed
Edged Circle Productions
May 31
Classic black/death metal, meaty hard grooves with some cold vox and blast beats with that brutal death metal chunk.

Cobra The Impaler
Karma Collision
Listenable Records
31 May 2024
It’s a bit stoner metal, or straight up hard rock/classic metal with a sound similar to Mastodon

Supermodel Taxidermy
At What Cost
Punishment 18 Records
31 May 2024
A little punked up thrashy hardcore type stuff (aka crossover)…. to go along with their band name, the song’s lyrical content is a bit topical… catchy!

Vredehammer
God Slayer
Indie Recordings
24 May 2024
Blackened death… a good balance between fast and intense black metal coldness and meaty brutal, yet catchy death metal.

DUNE
Years of Chains
Self-Release
31 May 2024
This has a bit of a classic metal and groove thing, pushing into thrash a bit. (from Saudi Arabia!)

Envig
SKATOS
At Dawn Records
Release Date: May 31, 2024
Classic blackened death metal, deathy groove with a harsh cold brutality

Ereley
Garden
Wormholedeath
May 31
Progressive metal, nice grooves, keyboards, clean vox… decent

Djiin
Mirrors
Klonosphere Records
3 May 2024
Psychedelic doomy stoner metal which of course has classic proggy stuff going on.

Lucidity
Escherian
Label: Inverse Records
Release date: May 17th 2024
They call it “Melancholic Progressive Metal” has quite the melodic death thing going on, maybe an Opeth type thing

Zygnema
Release Title: Iconic
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: March 14, 2024
Comes off as a nu-metal thing right away, but delving in a little more, it’s got a heavy kind of techy and djenty groove too. Cool stuff.

Carrion Throne
The Feast of Human Vices
Lacerated Enemy Records
31 May 2024
Chicago band, brutal death metal!

Giant Spider
Exit Plan/3 Moons
Self Released
Release date: Friday, May 24th 2024
Stoner sound, but more “extreme” vox. cool stuff.

End Of Dayz
Searching For A Way Out
Creator-Destructor
Release date: Friday, May 17th 2024
Thrashy hardcore with some grooves… probably fits more in a “crossover” category.

Vicolo Inferno
Circlesa
Rockshots Records
31 May 2024
Kind of a straightforward classic groovin’ hard rock/metal thing – clean vox.

BEWITCHER
“Starfire Maelstrom” (Radio Single)
Century Media Records
17 May 2024
Solid groove black n roll type black metal, Cool stuff!

Ataraxia
Centaurea
The Circle Music
22 May 2024
Folky music, primarily ambient

Scheitan
Songs for the Gothic People
The Circle Music
22 May 2024
As the album title suggests, it has a modern yet almost 80’s gothy sound.

Trail of Tears
Winds of Disdain
The Circle Music
24 May 2024
A sort of blackened death… symphonic and epic with clean operattic female vox, with male deathy growls… cool grooves too

CASSETTA (single)
GIVE THEM NOTHING
CASSETTA HC
Deathcore brutality sounding single… heavy!

Crystalline Thunderbolts Pierce The Sacred Mountain
Release Title: Shine Like The Suicidal Madness Of The Sacred Amethyst
Label: Kapmes
Release Date: May 10, 2024
Symphonic Black Metal but with a kind of techno sound… vox are kind of disturbing screaming and black metal shouting.

New Stuff This Week… 5/20/2024

ROTTING CHRIST
ΠΡΟ ΧΡΙΣΤΟU (Pro Xristou)
Season of Mist
24 May 2024
A bit melodic death, some dark doom sounds in this one too

Cognitive
Abhorrence
Metal Blade
Release date: Friday, May 17th 2024
Extreme blackened death, wall of sound in your face with technical brutality… cool stuff!

EvilDead
Toxic Grace
(SPV/Steamhammer)
Nice cool catchy classic metal/thrash.

Night Laser
Call Me What You Want
(SPV/Steamhammer)
Kind of a cool classic metal / hard rock… catchy and melodic too

Crownshift
Crownshift
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 10 May 2024
A sort of supergroup featuring members from Children of Bodom, Wintersun, fintroll and nightwish… pretty cool straightforward melodic death type stuff.

Boneripper
World Ablaze
Independent
24 May 2024
This is kind of a thrashy hardcore.. has a catchy punishing thing happening

PAIN
I Am
(Nuclear Blast)
Electronic-ish industrial grooves

Pallbearer
Mind Burns Alive
(Nuclear Blast)
Chilled out doomish stuff

Static Dress
“Crying”
(Roadrunner)
Modern pop metal core type stuff

COMBICHRIST
CMBCRST
Out Of Line Music via Rough Trade/Believe
17 May 2024
Industrial, kind of straight up that genre

JINJER
JINGER – Live in Los Angeles
(Napalm)
Live album… heavy, decent production and a bit raw and well, Live… it’s a good thing

JASTA
AND JASTA FOR ALL
Perseverance Media Group
17 May 2024
Hardcore-ish, straight up metal and thrashy… cool stuff!!

BAT
Under The Crooked Claw
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 17 May 2024
Side project of Municipal waste, catchy thrashed up grooves

Summoner’s Circle
Cult
Black Lion Records
24 May 2024
PRetty good melodic blackened death going on here with an epic feel too.

Vale of Pnath
Between The Worlds of Life and Death
Willowtip Records
24 May 2024
Black metal with an epic

Hextar
Doomsayer
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 24/05/2024
Straight up classic metal.

Eregion
Non Omnis Moriar – Out May 24th
Rockshots Records
24 May 2024
Power metal, with a little folk sound and a heavier edge

Reversed (Canada)
Wildly Possessed
Invictus Productions
24 May 2024
death metal, a bit prog/technical, with a big black metal and doomy dark sound

Lucifuge
Hexensabbat
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 24/05/2024
Raw old school sounding thrash with a death slant

Nightside
Death From the North
Purity Through Fire
24 May 2024
Black metal, a bit complex with a little atmospheric symphonic-ness

Mortal Wound
Anus of the World
Dark Descent Records / Me Saco un Ojo Records
24 May 2024
Gore brutal death metal with some humor

Grand Massive
Houses Of The Unholy
MDD Records
May 23
Groovin’ stoner metal

THE LURKING CORPSES
Lurking After Midnight (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
24 May 2024
Kind of a gothy stoner metal/classic metal type thing

Teramaze
Eli: A Wonderful Fall From Grace
Wells Music
24 May 2024
A classic modern prog hard rock pushing into the metal realm… cool stuff.

SPITER
Enter the Gates of Fucking Hell (CD, 12″ MLP, TAPE)
Hells Headbangers
24 May 2024
here’s a sort of black metal influenced thrashy stuff. heavy and raw… and even some groovin’ too

Kayleth
Album: New Babylon
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: May 24, 2024
Classic stoner Rockin

Black Sorcery
Plummeting Into the Hour of the Wolf
Eternal Death
24 May 2024
Classic black metal

Gnarwhal
Altered States
Self-Release
24 May 2024
A bit stoner, some grungy fuzz sounds too

Valfreya
Dawn of Reckoning
Self-Release
24 May 2024
Epic symphonic blackend metal, catchy heavy and a nice full sound… a little like Cradle of Filth

Living Inferno
Release Title: Triumvirate
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: April 12, 2024
Blackened death, a nice catchy heavy groove too

Dead Street Dreamers
Countdown To The Reaper
Screaming Crow Records
7 June 2024
Classic metal with a bit of a catchy stoner groove

ZEIT
Release Title: Grollwerfer
Label: 357 Records
Release Date: May 3, 2024
Death Metal with a raw gritty sound and groove.

CHRIST DENIED
Release Title: Christopsy
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: May 21, 2024
Wall of sound Brutal Death Metal… gurgly vox, fast and meaty grooves too

Abhoria
Release Title: Between the Strains
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: May 3, 2024
Blackened Death Metal… just a single, fast, technical, brutal and cold too

MORGUE
Close To Complete Darkness
GODZ OV WAR PRODUCTIONS
Brutal black/death metal… a wall of sound in your face.

Sailor Hunter
Evolution
Inverse
Release Date: May 24th 2024
Melodic Death Metal, a bit of a groove, more of just a slower groovin’ death metal… and yeah a bit melodic with the choruses…

Göden
Vale of the Fallen
Svart Records
17 May 2024
A kind of doomy dark thing.. a little goth, with some grooves

A Flourishing Scourge
Sickened Seed
Wormholedeath
17 May 2024
Blackened-Death Metal with a nice full catchy and technical sound.

Wraith
Fueled By Fear (single)
Prosthetic Records
28 June 2024
Heavier edge of thrashy stuff…cool!

Zombeast
Heart Of Darkness
Massacre/ Fiend Force Records
17 May 2024
A kind of classic metal with clean vox, a bit like a volbeat/metal elvis style

Henry Kane
Circle Of Pain
Selfmadegod
Release date: Friday, May 17th 2024
Epic and symphonic-ish blackened death.

Tzompantli
Beating The Drums Of Ancestral Force
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, May 17th 2024
Brutal chuggin’ black/death metal.

Nocturnus AD
Unicursal
Profound Lore
Release date: Friday, May 17th 2024
Technical death with some interludes

Ufomammut
Hidden
Neurot
Release date: Friday, May 17th 2024
Sludgy doomish kind of post metal

WITCHER
BOSZORKÁNYSZIMFÓNIÁK
LABEL: FILOSOFEM RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: MAY 8th 2024
Mostly actual symphonic covers with a bit of metal thrown in – interesting

Lost in Exile
Deathbed Dreamer
Self Released
april
Chicago area melodic death with a bit of a metalcore sound

HammerFall
Hail To The King (single)
Nuclear Blast
A new song… a big laid back for the first half and picks up its epicness and goes out with a bang

2 WOLVES
Not Worth It (CD)
Werewolf
13 May 2024
A kind of doomy melodic death

Portrait (single)
The Host – radio singles
Metal Blade Records
21 June 2024
Kind of a classic metal, thrashy and big vox!

Fessus
Pilgrims of Morbidity
Darkness Shall Rise
29 April 2024
Sludgey doomy death metal with a bit of a black metal coldness

Sotherion
Vermine
W.T.C.Productions
9 May 2024
Classic black metal

Summoning the Lich (single)
Under the Reviled Throne
Prosthetic Records
26 July 2024
Technical fast and heavy! cool stuff