Vermillion
Tales of the Dead
Self Released
Madison area’s own! Big monster grooves, growly guttural vox and some major riffage going on. Great stuff!!

Dust Biters
Guilt
Pavement Entertainment
Hard rockin’ stuff, a little punk attitude

Ahab
The Coral Tombs
(Napalm)
Doomy blackened death metal

Lord of the Lost
Blood & Glitter
(Napalm)
A bit of a goth/ melodic classic metal, a little industrial

Screamer
Kingmaker
(SPV/Steamhammer)
Straight up classic metal

Feueurshwanz
Todsünden
(Napalm)
Folk metal band with a straigtforward sound, this is an all covers album covering bands from Ed Sheeran to Ghost to Amon Amarth… fun stuff.

Ten56
Downer Part 2
Out Of Line Music
Industrial/groove/technical metalcore-ish, A bit like Tallah with more of an industrial electronic sound.

Beyond The Black
Beyond The Black
Nuclear Blast USA
Kind of a straight up classic metal with catchy grooves and female vox.

Ripper
Return To Death Row
Perseverance Music Group
Ripper Owens with another solo album…. seems like he’s everywhere these days, guest on this, front

CONCRETE AGE
BARDO THODOL
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 6th 2023
Heavy brutal thrashy death metal, catchy melodic death stuff and some middle eastern type sounds too. Cool stuff!!

VARMIA
Album (EP): Prolog
Label: M-Theory Audio
Release date: January 6th, 2023
Pagan Black Metal… a kind of classic black metal thing with a bit of that Behemoth style too (yes, there’s something in the water in Poland!)

QUIET RIOT
I CAN’T HOLD ON (single)
Red Samurai Music
Good ol classic hard rock… this track has a power ballad thing going on.

Pagan Rites / Vulcan Tyrant
Split
Horror Pain Gore Death
December 30th 2022
Both of these tracks are raw black metal

Deadnight
Release title: Canon of Irreverence
Label: Self-Released
Release Date (d/m/y): 04-01-2022
Blackended thrashy metal, pretty cool stuff. Songs straight to the point

Anti-Flag
Lies They Tell Our Children
Spinefarm
6 January 2023
A kind of pop rock/punk type thing

Thy Darkened Shade
Liber Lvcifer II-Mahapralaya
W.T.C.Productions
10 January 2023
Technical blackened death… pretty cool stuff which has just enough melodic proggy complex stuff and enough classic black metal too. cool stuff!

The Gauntlet
Dark Steel and Fire
Eternal Death
13 January 2023
Mostly classic black metal sound here

Hellevate
The Purpose is Cruelty
Self-released
Jan 14
A bit classic metal, some heavier groovin’ thrash, maybe just melodic death/metalcore too? A little of it all, which makes it interesting!

Blindead 23
Towards the Dark
Self-release
23 November 2022
Doomy laid back sound for this single. A little hint of damnation type Opeth going on

Orob
Release title: Aube Noir
Label: Self-Released
Release Date (dd/mm/yy): 14-12-2021
Here’s some doomy black metal, a bit atmospheric and progressive too.

Misþyrming
Með hamri
NoEvDia
16 December 2022
Old school black metal, a bit of a doomy down tempo sound

GRYMMSTALT
Anthems of Mournful Despondency
Signal Rex
21 December 2022
Super lo-fi black metal.

HATE FOREST
Innermost
Osmose Productions
21 December 2022
Blackened death metal, wall of brutal and cold layers of black metal with a smidge of death metal groove going on. Cool stuff.

Gridfailure
Perpendicular To The Living Ones
Self Released
Release date: Friday, December 30th 2022
Kind of a noise/post metal thing

High Fells
Catharsis (released Nov 25th)
Self-Release
25 November 2022
This one falls under a pretty straightforward classic black metal.

Lethal Technology
Release title: Mechanical Era
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 25-11-2022
Here’s some kind of proggy technical metal, harsh vox, clean vox, clean female vox, all sorts of stuff probably make this more into a proggy metal overall.

Self-Deceiver
Album: Across the Styx
Self Released
Genre: Blackened Death Metal
Release: December 1st, 2022
This has a nice gritty groovin’ death metal sound. Cool stuff.

WOODS OF DESOLATION
The Falling Tide
Season of Mist Underground Activists
9 December 2022
Straightforward black metal, melodic with a bit of atmosphere.

DEATHLESS LEGACY
Mater Larvarum
Scarlet Records
9 December 2022
Female fronted metal, melodic, a little bit goth.

VRSTY
Welcome Home Pt. 3
Spinefarm
1 December 2022
Kind of a modern metal, all melodic and a little nu-metal sounding too.

LYZZÄRD
Release title: The Abyss
Label: Fighter Records
Release Date (d/m/y): 01-12-2022
Straightforward just good ol classic metal. Good stuff.

XYGRBRYRX
CUNNING PUNTS
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 12th 2022
A sort of extreme/technical death metal, a bit like Strapping Young Lad if I had to compare to something, but I guess a bit more extreme/black metalish… and with a groove

Krvna
For Thine is the Kingdom of the Flesh
Third Eye Temple / Ancient Dead Productions
12 December 2022
Full on cold and harsh old school black metal, good technicality and a meedly medley with epic harsh vox. Neato

UNCOMMON EVOLUTION
Album: Fry
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: December 16th, 2022
Stoner groovin’ metal, also just a good classic hard rockin’ groove.

Rampage
Veil of Mourn
Dying Victims Productions
12/16/22
This has a classic old school, like Venom type black metal sound. Raw speed metal sound…. reissue from 1988

PERCUSSOR
“Ravenous Despondency”
Horror Pain Gore Death
December 16th 2022
Kind of a brutal thrash, or maybe a thrashy death metal. There’s a brutality to it, but a catchy thrashy thing going on too. sounds good!

Nigrum
Elevenfold Tail
Into Endless Chaos
16 December 2022
Classic black metal, nice and complex, a lot going on, melodic, kind of proggy, and not just full on cold harsh meedly stuff. Cool!

The Wring
Spectra
WormHoleDeath Records
16 December 2022
Here we have some progressive metal/classic metal, getting a little more into some more typical prog metal with good technical/complex stuff and yeah, keyboards!

CONGEALED PUTRESCENCE
Within the Ceaseless Murk
Caligari Records
17 December 2022
Brutal death metal with some big meaty grooves.

Sortilège
Larmes de héros
Dying Victims Productions
Release Date: 16/12/2022
Some basic classic metal, clean vox, melodic, maybe a little smidge of Doom

Green King
Hidden Beyond Time
The Sign
16 December 2022
Classic metal going on here, vocals have a little king diamond sound to them.

Hellish
The Dance of the Four Elemental Serpents
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 16/12/2022
Blackened death… mostly a black metal vocal sound, musically a bit more speed/thrashy

Order of Nosferat
Vampiric Wrath Unleashed
Purity Through Fire
21 December 2022
Black metal, old school melodic style with and atmospheric (keyboard) sound to keep it more creepy

Vampyric Tyrant
Zorn und Hass
Purity Through Fire
21 December 2022
Old school lo-fi black metal

The Crippler
I’m Just Gonna Let Myself In
Horror Pain Gore Death
Dec 23
Nice, heavy gritty death metal, some elements of thrash, black metal, death metal and brutality! kinda cool all around.

Embalm
Prelude To Obscurity
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, December 23rd 2022
Remaster from their 1993 material. From Milwaukee! Good ol classic groovin’ death metal.

Ancient Mastery
Release title: “Chapter One: Across the Mountains of the Drämmarskol” & „Chapter Two: The Resistance“
Label: Northern Silence Productions
Release Date: 02-12-2022
Melodic Black Metal, mostly classic stuff with that atmospheric sound, and a bit lo-fi production

Hamvak
Release title: Maelstrom Of Abhorrent Incantations
Label: Self-Released
Release Date (dd/mm/yy): 30-11-2022
Brutal and gritty death metal

TAILGUNNER
Crashdive
Fireflash Records
9 December 2022
Classic metal with soaring vocals, with a bit of a Judas Priest/Iron Maiden

Bloodclot
Souls
Upstate Records
Release date: Friday, December 16th 2022
A gritty heavy thrashy thing… catchy and throw the horns up! cool stuff.

DEMONIO
Electric Voodoo of the Black Dawn
Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records
24 December 2022
A fuzzy stoner metal from Italy, production is a bit raw though.

Floating
Release title: The Waves Have Teeth
Label: Spirit Coffin Publishing
Release Date (dd/mm/yy): 16-12-2022
Kind of a Progressive Death Metal, leaning more to black metal and that type of atmospheric sound around it.

SPECTRAL CORRUPTION
Requiem
Signal Rex
21 December 2022
Mostly atmospheric black metal/noise.

Entheos
In Purgatory – radio single
Metal Blade Records
30 November 2022
Brutal technical death metal.

AGGRESSION
From Hell With Hate
Xtreem
Fast heavy thrashy stuff with well, satanic themes… I just assume this is for a shock factor or some edgy subject matter… whatever it is, the music is great and it’s good and fast!

Metallica
“Lux Æterna” (3:26)
Blackened
Classic old school sounding Metallica with modern sounds… of course it’s not groundbreaking, and with a stinker like St. Anger in your catalog, it makes this seem even better!

Vis Mystica
Celestial Wisdom – Out Dec 2nd
Dark Star Records
2 December 2022
A kind of collab guest project of some pretty good proggy power metal along the lines of Epica and Symphony X… one track features Fang from Lords of the Trident!

Lacerated
The Vile Domain
Self-Release
31 October 2022
Heaby and brutal blackened death. Machine gun fire drumming with catchy guitars and riffs… cool stuff.

REABILITATOR
Mentally Defected
Xtreem Music
Good ol catchy classic thrash! cool stuff.

EXIST IN RUIN
Exist in Ruin EP
Wormholedeath
December 2nd, 2022
Symphonic epic blackened death, sounding a bit like Cradle of Filth or Dimmu Borgir right out of the box, with maybe more of a Behemoth type sound with orchestra sounds. Cool stuff.

RITUAL DEATH
Ritual Death
Shadow Records / Regain Records
5 December 2022
A bit of a dark black/death metal with a bit of a doomy/gloom tempo… and yeah, regular blast beats and some groovin’ too.

MAHARAJA
Aviarium
Seeing Red Records
9 December 2022
A bit prog, mostly sludge/doom/stoner-ish, and doing lots of interesting stuff.

Ramchat
Release title: Krveľ
Label: HladoHlas
Release Date: 29-11-2022
Black metal, or they call it pagan metal, heavy, cold, and brutal with that black metal melodic goodness too.

Cristobal Perez
Headfist
Album (EP): This New World….
Release: November 23rd, 2022
Classic thrash from Chile. Good catchy stuff.

Lionheart
Welcome To The West Coast III
Arising Empire
Release date: Friday, December 9th 2022
Hardcore catchy metal with Jamey Jasta on this track, and yeah, sounds a bit like Hatebreed too…the other track features Ice T

Sacrilegion (USA)
From Which Nightmares Crawl
Chaos Records
9 December 2022
Gritty and heavy brutal blackened death. Good stuff.

Arrayan Path
Thus Always to Tyrants
Pitch Black
Release date: Friday, December 9th 2022
Classic metal, with soaring clean vox. Gets more into a power metal thing when it gets a bit heavier.

HETMAN
Album: Black Heart
Self Released
Release date: December 9th, 2022
This is just something we’d say Oh, that’s just some metal. it’s got some slower parts, heavier parts, nothing really leaning into one way or another… melodic metal.

UNCHRISTIAN CHRISTIAN
Album: Sulphurfeast
Self Released
Release date: December 9th, 2022
Death metal with a little bit of a blackened harshness, but some death metal grit and a bit of melodies to remind you they’re swedish! haha… Good stuff!

IMPERIAL EXECRATION
COMMANDING SATAN’S CRUSADES
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 9th 2022
Brutal gurgly vocal death metal. Wall of brutality washing over you like a freight train.

KRILLOAN
Emperor Rising
Scarlet Records
9 December 2022
This has a big epic power metal thing going on, a bit like Blind Guardian, staying nice and heavy, catchy and overall good stuff!

MEPHISTOFELES
Violent Theatre
Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records
9 December 2022
Fuzzy stoner metal with some big bottom end and sludgey grooves

STABBING
EXTIRPATED MORTAL PROCESS
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 9th 2022
BRUTAL death metal, as with most stuff on Comatose, it’s punishing and lots of gurgly vocals. Good heavy death metal.

Dehiscence
Colony
Chaos Records
9 December 2022
Fast and heavy death metal with a bit of a black metal vibe and a sort of wall of sound with a bit of noise metal factor.

BLACK SPELL (Italy)
Season of the Damned
Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records
9 December 2022
A striaght up doom with an old school vibe.

Autumn’s Grief
Dead By The Dawn
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: December 9th 2022
Melodic/symphonic Metal with an epic sound and clean female vox.

NAZGHOR
Album: Seventh Secular Crusade
Self Released
Release date: November 25th, 2022
Black metal, got the cold sound, harsh vox, melodic stuff, blasst beats, yup yup yup… this has a nice kind of overall cleaner progressive tone… cool stuf.

SKYTHALA
Boreal Despair
I, Voidhanger Records
18 November 2022
Classic black metal. harsh, cold, melodic and longer tracks

Lo Oscuro
Release title: Terror
Label: Kvlt und Kaos Productions
Release Date (d/m/y): 01-09-2022
Stoner Metal with more extreme vox, but musically a nice heavy and catchy Groove!

VORGRUM
Release title: Nature Emerge
Label: Self-Released
Release Date (d/m/y): 25-11-2022
They call it Fantasy Metal, Folk Metal… I guess it’s kind of a blackendd power/prog metal… pretty cool actually

Twisted Mind
From Slave To Prophet – Out Dec 9th
Self-Release
9 December 2022
Good old just “metal” nice edge, catchy good stuff.

Aghiazma
Album: Carnage
Self Released
Release date: November 30th, 2022
A bit of a modern metal/industrial thing.

Farzad Golpayegani
Release title: Nine
Label: Self-Released
Release Date (d/m/y): 14-10-2022
Pretty cool prog metal with a little middle eastern vibe… not many vocals. cool stuff.

Judicator
The Majesty of Decay
Prosthetic Records
22 November 2022
Solid proggy power metal flying the flag of america’s Blind Guardian… Great stuff!

Melted Bodies
The Inevitable Fork Vol. 1
(Self-Released)
We’ve had a few singles already, and best I can desribe this is kind of an alt-groove new metal, proggy and similar to system of a down but with maybe a bit more industrial stuff too

Induction
Born From Fire
Atomic Fire
Release date: Friday, November 25th 2022
Epic power/prog metal with a symphonic element and they keep it pretty heavy too. cool stuff!

Obvurt
Triumph Beyond Adversity
Unique Leader Records
Brutal and technical death metal. Good stuff.

Type O Negative
Dead Again
Genre: Metal
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 25 Nov. 2022
15th anniversary re-issue and vinyl… with some live bonus tracks and stuff recorded at Wacken in 2007. Always a good excuse to revisit a classic.

Lethal Technology
Release title: Mechanical Era
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 25-11-2022
This has a progressive death metal/melodic death/industrial with cookie monster vox and female operratic vox too. interesting!

MALUS DEXTRA
III, Pt.1″
Wormholedeath
November 25th, 2022
Pretty solid groove metal catchy and headbangin’ goodness

SCI-FI SCIENTISTS
Album: Sars Attacks
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: November 22nd, 2022
This is some melodic/ish laid back industrial alt-rock/metal type stuff

Soen
Atlantis
Silver Lining Music
18 November 2022
Live album with their classic songs performed with an orchestra and worked around a little bit… production is crisp and sounds great, just about all of the tracks are pretty slowed down and chill

DARK MATTER
The Rectory
Wormholedeath
November 25th, 2022
Pretty chill and laid back old school bluesy doom

DEPRESSIVE WITCHES
Distant Kingdoms
Wormholedeath
November 25th, 2022
Old school black metal but also keeping a bit of a black n roll thing going on too. There’s a bit of a doomy groove going on

BinaryOrder
Release title: Messages From the Deep
Label: Self-released
Release Date: 29-11-2022
Industrial Metal with a little techno stuff going on, harsh vox, distored guitars, and clean vox too

RYTH
Album: Deceptor Creator
Self Released
Release date: December 1st, 2022
Classic grooving death metal with a little melodic death going on musically. cool

Appalling
Sacrilege
Personal Records
2 December 2022
All on heavy and in your face black metal, nice wall of sound

Nihilist Death Cult
Death To All Tyrants
Self-Release
2 December 2022
Death metal with a punk attitude, short and to the point tracks.

Shining Wizard
Tournament Of Death
Horror Pain Gore Death
December 2nd 2022
Extreme thrash/death metal, there’s a thrashy base, but vox are “extreme” and an in your face punky thrash attack

Asterise
Two Worlds
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: December 2nd 2022
Symphonic Power Metal, wailing vocals, lots of notes and singalong stuff, not a lot of ground being broken here, but still cool

Acid Blade
Power Dive
Personal Records
2 December 2022
Classic metal… sounds like it could have come from the early 90’s in a kind of prog/thrash/classic metal thing. neat stuff

Hammers of Misfortune
Overtaker
Independent
2 December 2022
Symphonic blackened death, symphonic is more like synthonic… but yeah, progressive fast metal with a clean and harsh vox, keyboards, complex arrangements… cool stuff!!

Opus Arise
The Network – Out Dec 2nd
Self-Release
2 December 2022
Instrumental proggy power metal

Funeral Mass
Album: Shadow of the Raventhrone
Self Released
Release date: December 2nd, 2022
Classic black metal, cold heavy and melodic too… good black metal here

Terrible Sickness
Release title: Flesh for the Insatiable
Label: Black Sunset
Release date: 18 November 2022
Good ol Brutal death metal, classic with a bit of a heavy thrash groove too

Runamok
Release title: The Clown Brigade
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 25-11-2022
Classic metal, a bit thrashy, probably similar to Annihilator musically… cool stuff

Blackrain
Untamed
(SPV/Steamhammer)
Classic metal, straight up hard rockin’ stuff

Leather
We Are the Chosen
(S PV/Steamhammer)
Old school thrashy classic metal,

Threshold
Dividing Lines
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 18 Nov. 2022
Solid prog metal leaning more on the melodic and kind of modern metal with a little electronic/industrial-ish feel too

Immortal Guardian
Perfect Person (single)
M-Theory Audio
21 October 2022
Another new single, pretty melodic and a bit technical as it gets deeper, probably leaning a bit power metal vocally, but prog metal musically. cool stuff.

Catalyst
A Different Painting For A New World
Non Serviam
Release date: Friday, October 14th 2022
Technical and brutal death metal, with a smidge of some blackened death. BRUTAL! Good stuff

RADIO: Judicator
The Majesty of Decay
Prosthetic Records
25 November 2022
Third single… this one has more of a Blind Guardian feel… heavy, technical, power/prog metal too… need more!!

Lord of The Lost
Die Tomorrow (Deluxe Edition)
Out Of Line Music
A little goth (vox), melodic groovin’ music, probably falling into a modern metal sound.

SpiritWorld
DEATHWESTERN
Century Media Records
Nice heavy grooves, catchy kind of thrash, just overall good metal.

Lee Aaron
Elevate
Metalville Records
Classic rock with female vox, pretty straightforward rock.

The Last Ten Seconds Of Life
Disquisition Of An Execution
Unique Leader Records
BRUTAL Technical death with just a punishing sound. Cool!

GRAVE OF SACRIFICE
Land Of Decay EP
Wormholedeath
November 18th, 2022
Melodic death, leaning more on the death metal with a nice heavy catchy groove.

WHIRLWIND
1714
Fighter records
November 22nd, 2022
Classic metal with a good thrashy sound. Cool stuff!!

Aviscerus
Release title: Visceral Depths
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 22-11-2022
Death Metal with a bit of a progressive death thing going… and yeah, headbanging grooves while still being heavy.

Wheel
Rumination
Inside Out Music
11/23
Melodic prog-rock, one of the three tracks has a little metal edge, maybe a little Tool-ish… the other two are pretty chill.

Lucifericon
The Warlock of Da’ath
Invictus Productions
25 November 2022
Blackened death metal, good stuff.

OFERMOD
Ofermodian Litanies
Shadow Records / Regain Records
25 November 2022
More traditional black metal, cold guitars, shrieking screams with a melodic base and a heavier edge

Ciminero
Album: Shadows Digging the Grave
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: November 25th, 2022
Laid back doom rock.

Katapult
Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
Discouraged Records
25 November 2022
This has a bit of a hardcore punky thrash side with a little melodic thing too

Black Beast (Finland)
Arctic Darkness
Primitive Reaction
25 November 2022
Classic black metal. Cold sound, harsh vox, a bit creepy, but a good catchy melodic thing going on too.

In The Woods…
Diversum
Soulseller Records
25 November 2022
Rolling up the doom and a little melodic death, clean vox, mostly staying melodic and doom and mayble a tiny blackened death thing when it gets heavier.

The Riven
Peace and Conflict
The Sign Records
25 November 2022
Old school sounding doom/stoner with clean vox and a basic straightforward sound

Hibernus Mortis
The Monoliths of Cursed Slumber CD/LP/TAPE
Blood Harvest
25 November 2022
Brutal death metal with a little black metal evilnes

Extirpation (Italy)
The Endless Storm
Chaos Records
25 November 2022
CLassic sounding Black metal

Karg
Resignation
AOP Records
25 November 2022
A bit doom/dark melodic metal, some full on black metal, a kind of epic yet dark and depressing sound… going from light to heavy… also, long tracks!

KNIM
WHEN A STAR FALLS
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 25th 2022
This would fall into a prog metal category, light and melodic in parts, then the heavier stuff has a bit of a Tool-like groove and vibe…

Sépulcre
Cursed Ways of Sheol
Invictus Productions
25 November 2022
Brutal black metal? It’s got the black metal thing going on and a brutal death thing too. Cool stuff.

TERRÖRHAMMER
Gateways To Hades
Osmose Productions
25 November 2022
Nice catchy thrash with gritty edge to it. Good stuff!!

THE WOLVES OF AVALON
Y GODODDIN
LABEL: GODREAH RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 25th 2022
This has melodic music, kind of thrashy, also a bit of a black metal thing, and some doomy prog-ish rock… overall with all of the dynamics it’d fall for me into the progressive metal area… with a little raw production

VENGEUR
Par Feu et Par Flammes
I, Voidhanger Records
25 November 2022
This is a kind of industrial noise type thing

Anomaly
Somewhere Within The Pines
Self-Release
25 November 2022
Seems like this is the week for stuff that’s light and laid back then gets into some full on black/death metal. Decent stuff, probably hitting the melodic death box.

Mycelium
Mycoticism (Disseminating the Propagules) CD/LP/TAPE
Blood Harvest
25 November 2022
Full on brutal and gritty death metal. cool .

Alienatör
Regrets – Out Nov 25th
Self-Release
25 November 2022
A little thrash, some groovin’ parts, harsh vox, and a bit of a stoner metal thing going on. cool stuff.

Rienaus
Luciferille
KVLT
25 November 2022
Melodic blackened death, eh, probably more just deathmetal. decent stuff.

Tyrannosatan
“Katakombernas Kakofoni”
Jawbreaker Records.
A gritty death/black/thrash thing, probably living more in the black metal zone.

Doomsday
Depictions Of Chaos
Creator Destructor
Release date: Friday, November 18th 2022
A sort of hardcore thrashy thing, catchy and heavy

PUSCIFER
V Is For Versatile
[Self-Released]
Reworked stuff from their early days

Soul Grinder
Release title: Anthems From The Abyss
Label: MDD Records
Release date: 11 November 2022
Here’s some heavy and technical death metal, brutal vox and drums, catchy riffs and clean production. Cool stuff!

Void Moon
Release title: Waste of Mind
Label: Obelisk Polaris Productions
Release Date: 11-11-2022
A single 20 minute doom track

Blood and Brutality
EP Title: Life Support
Release Date: November 14, 2022 (Digital and CD)
Label: Blood and Brutality Records
A bit thrashy and melodic with harsh vox

Malist
Release title: As I Become Darkness
Label: Northern Silence Productions
Release Date: 11-11-2022
Classic full on black metal. Good production though

U.D.O.
The Legacy [Best Of]
AFM Records
18 November 2022
Best of UDO! You know what you’re getting here. \m/

Mind Erasure
CONNIVE
Self Released
Melodic death, a bit on the prog side of things, a lot going on, heavy parts, melodic softer parts, black metal parts, and it’s all good.

Signs Preyer
Release title: III
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 12-11-2022
Taking a bit of stoner, doom, classic metal, groovin’ stuff… alright

Saint Asonia
Extrovert
Spinefarm
Release: 18 November 2022
Modern metal, melodic clean vox,

DEVIN TOWNSEND
LIGHTWORK
INSIDEOUT MUSIC
This one is a bit laid back and more atmospheric, more light and pop-rock-ish… which is what he set out to do

200 Stab Wounds
Masters of Morbidity
Metal Blade Records
11 November 2022
A new signing… good crunchy and brutal death metal

Obituary
“The Wrong Time”
(Relapse)
100% classic Obituary… meaty as hell riffs, scrwoly vox and headbanging beats! Great single!

Candlemass
Sweet Evil Sun
(Napalm)
Good ol doom, clean vox, solid melodies and atmosphere too!

League of Distortion
League of Distortion
(Napalm)
Modern metal with a wall of sound with a bit of electronic sound too

Amberian Dawn
Take A Chance
(Napalm)
All Abba covers, while adding a little metal edge, they are pretty straightforward covers with female vocals and stuff. Fun!

L.S. Dunes
Past Lives
(Fantasy/Concord)
Here’s some modern metal, female fronted, a little doom-ish, melodic and catchy, and a bit alt-rockish as well.

CONQUEST
“MAN ON THE SILVER MOUNTAIN”
Darkstart Records
Obviously a cover of the Rainbow classic, a pretty straightforward cover, not straying too far

NITA STRAUSS
“The Wolf You Feed” ft. Alissa White-Gluz
Sumerian
Catchy guitar, harsh and clean vox, kind of a groove/melodic death sound musically… cool stuff!!

Carnal Savagery
Worm Eaten
Moribund Records
Groovin’ and a bit sludgy/stoner-ish sounding death metal. Big doomy riffs, death metal beats, grooves, and vox! cool stuff.

Tallah
The Generation Of Danger
Earache Records
Taking it up another notch… Groove/nu-metal sound, a bit of Slipknot, but a bit more deathcore-ish with even a bit of melody too. Cool stuff.

Kingsphere
Release title: Enigmatic
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 07-10-2022
Metalcore and melodic death with a bit of electronic

He is Legend
Endless Hallway
Spinefarm
11 November 2022
A sort of technical modern metal, I’d say comparable to a Mastodon with a metalcore feel too with clean and harsh vox.

DESECRATE THE FAITH
III
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 18th 2022
Brutal and fast/heavy death metal. good stuff as usual from Comatonse

Kill Ritual
Kill Star Black Mark Dead Hand Pierced Heart
Massacre Records
18 November 2022
Some just straight up classic metal. Good catchy grooves.

Jaded Heart
Heart Attack
Massacre Records
18 November 2022
Here’s some classic metal, a bit more of a melodic maybe AOR type stuff.

Blood Of The Wolf
IV: The Declaration Of War Eternal
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
November 18th
Wall of sound brutal blackened death metal. A fast heavy thing going on with machine gun fire drumming, a bit of a melodic groove (while being brootal too!) cool stuff.

Digir Gidim
The Celestial Macrocosmic Scale and The Shimmering Path of the Supreme Regulator
ATMF
18 November 2022
Four 11+ minute tracks of kind of post black metal/classic black metal type stuff.

7MND
Cataclysm – Out Nov 18
Wall of Sounds Records
18 November 2022
A bit prog, some electronic, post-metal/doom type stuff. Doesn’t really get going enough for me.

Sword
III
Massacre Records
18 November 2022
Classic metal with catchy riffs and solid grooves, a pinch of a stoner metal, but maybe more of a Dio sound vocally too. Cool stuff.

CRITICAL EXTRAVASATION
Order of Decadence
Redefining Darkness Records
18 November 2022
I’d say this is a blackended thrash… primarly a nice gallopy thrash sound with a little black metal vocal extremeness. Cool.

Qrixkuor
Zoetrope
Invictus Productions / Dark Descent
18 November 2022
A single 26+ minute track of black metal/progressive wall of post metal sound

Witchunter
Metal Dream
Dying Victims Productions
Nov 18
Classic metal, a little thrashy, clean vox, decent.

Scars of the Flesh
In Darkness Alone
Self-Release
18 November 2022
Here is some blackened thrashy/death metal, some decent grooves and a bit of a melodic death thing too. Cool stuff.

Mythosphere
Pathological
Cruz Del Sur Music
18 November 2022
Melodic classic metal, clean vox, a little downtempo groove, maybe a little doomy because of that

This Is The Last Time
Acclimation
Self-Release / Here is Nowhere / Dead Red Queen / Drown Within
18 November 2022
Melodic blackened progressive doom-ish with some dynamics going from some traditional black metal to some just post metal doom too. four 7+minute tracks.

AMON ACID
Cosmogony
Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records
18 November 2022
Straight up doom going on here, fuzzy distorted guitars, downtempo grooves…

MMXX
Sacred Cargo
Candlelight
11 November 2022
Overall some doom, maybe a smidge gothy

Crest
Riptide
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: November 18th 2022
They call this “Hawaiicore” not sure what that means, but it is mostly metalcore with some decent melodies and catchiness.

Omnifariam
The Summoning
Self-released
18 November 2022
Black metal with a melodic death thing, pretty good gritty stuff.

Void Cruiser
Album: Call of the Void
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: November 11th, 2022
Kind of a doomy stoner rock.

Féleth
Divine Blight
Rob Mules Records
11 November 2022
Thrashy melodic death pushing a little into some black metal too. Cool stuff!

Sweet Cobra
Threes
Hawthorne Street Records and Pax Aeternum.
Release date: Friday, November 11th 2022
This is a kind of grungy stoner rock.

Orbiter
Head Wounds
Salvaged
Release date: Friday, November 11th 2022
Here’s some doomy fuzz rock.

Vittra
Blasphemy Blues
Self Released
Release date: Friday, November 11th 2022
Blackened death with a catchy melodic thrash thing going on. cool stuff!!

Zeke Sky
Intergalactic Demon King
Atomic Fire
Release date: Friday, November 11th 2022
Kind of a classic metal, catchy, clean vox, a little thrashy, mostly prog metal ish. Kinda cool.

DiGregorio
Release title: House of Gregory, Chapter 2
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 12-08-2022
Symphonic Metal with mostly a power metal thing happening.

Dune Sea
Orbital Distortion
All Good Clean Records
11 November 2022
Stoner metal with a catchy groove going on, vocals are a bit atmospheric.

DREAMS OF VENUS
Cause of Death
Dyamond Roxx & Hellven Records
4 November 2022
Some jammin’ bluesy hard rock type stuff going on .

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
“Mr Medicine”
(Missing Piece)
Definitely the most fun band name of the week. This is a single of some fuzzy stoner metl

Warkings
Morgana
(Napalm)
Melodic power metal with some harsh melodic death elements here and there. And there’s just an epic feel here.

PYRAMID
Rage
Sleaszy Rider Records
Release Date: 4 November 2022
Prog metal… this band is the Bass player Lance Sawyer’s project, he writes everything, plays bass and hires everyone… Ripper Owens on vox, and it’s a good solid prog metal thing

LOKURAH
Release title: DISTORTED TRUTH
Label: CRIMSON PRODUCTIONS
Release Date: 04-11-2022
This is pretty cool, has a sort of brutal thrashy sound with some melodic stuff going on, harsh and clean vox, I’d say it’s melodic death, but it’s not quite as polished… pretty cool stuff!

BLACK ANVIL
Regenesis
Season of Mist
4 November 2022
A black metal thing happening with some melodic doomy grooves too. great stuff!

Ingested
Ashes Lie Still
Metal Blade Records
4 November 2022
Melodic death/deathcore happening here, some good blackened death brutality with a bit of a melodic base… great stuff!

Leatherwolf
Kill The Hunted
N.I.L.8. Records
classic hard rock/metal, good and steady!

Bonecarver
Carnage Funeral
Unique Leader Records
Brutal technical death metal! and throw in a little Epicness too

R.A.M.B.O.
Defy Extinction
Relapse
Release date: Friday, November 4th 2022
Punky metal with a little thrashy metalcore too

Epica
The Alchemy Project
Atomic Fire Records
The band lives up to their name! Big Epic sounds, symphonic, the first track (featuring fleshgod apocalypse) starting off sounding more like Dimmu Borgir than anything! And of course you get the clean vox too… it’s just cool how they can do this and make it work.

Seventh Station
Heal The Unhealed – Out Nov 7th
Self-Release
7 November 2022
Solid prog metal checking off the boxes of what makes prog metal cool, technicality, complexity, keeping it different and interesting and yeah, heavy catchy stuff too.

Aittala
Live to Regret – Out Nov 7
Exitus Stratgem Records
7 November 2022
Cool straight up doomy classic metal, Trouble-esque riffage and groove

BRKN Love
Black Box
Spinefarm
4 November 2022
Kind of a catchy good ol new hard rock thing. Nice and distorted fuzzy guitars, clean vox, toe tappin’ head bobbin’ rock.

False Figure
Castigations
Transylvanian Recordings
Release date: Tuesday, November 1st 2022
Kind of a surf sounding doomy alternative hard rock.

LORD OF HORNS
Album: The Forest At Dusk
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: November 8th, 2022
I really don’t like to write bad things about stuff I get in the mail and take the time to download and tag and type this up… but really? I think the tape head on the cd player clogged up and this noise came out. ugh. sorry!

Casket Robbery
Rituals of Death
Blood Blast Distribution
11 November 2022
A little biased since this band is from around here, but man, this is brutal and slays!

Xentrix
Seven Words
Listenable Records
11 November 2022
Yeah that Xentrix, for a long time the only metal band that I could come up with that started with an X, which was always a great classic thrash band. This is their second album since returning from a long hiatus

Scattered Storm
In this Dying Sun – Out Nov 11th
Blood Blast Distribution
11 November 2022
A bit sludge, a bit death metal, some prog, groove metal, lots of different things going on, pretty cool

BIWO
Life And Death
Self Released
Nov. 11
Just some just “metal” or maybe hard rock. a little groove, maybe stoner-ish, a bit blues/grungy, clean vox.

Lamentations
Passion Of Depression
Willowtip Records
11 November 2022
This label seems to always have decent stuff. This is melodic death, harsh vox, but musically there’s a chill melodic thing going on… full on death metal, laid back parts and brutal melodies! hah. Great stuff.

Encryptment
Dödens födsel
Nuclear Winter
11 November 2022
Wall of blackened death metal sound… pretty cool stuff

SPIDER GOD
FLY IN THE TRAP
LABEL: REPOSE RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 11th 2022
Black metal with a little groovn goin on, almost a super speedy thrash and headbangin goodness

Aldaaron
Album: Arcane Mountain Cult
Label: Paragon Records
Release date: November 11, 2022
Straight up black metal, melodic and cold.

BARK
Rambler Of Aeons
Listenable Records
11 November 2022
Heavy, thrashy, melodic with some grit and harsh-ish vox, a little bit of a viking metal feel.

Monster Magnet
Test Patterns: Vol. 1
God Unknown Records
11 November 2022
Two super long halves of lo-fi jams from the early days of the band

SNIPERS OF BABEL
“Gabriel”
Horror Pain Gore Death
Nov 11
Groovin’ death metal with a prog/technical element happening

KAMPFAR
Til klovers takt
Indie Recordings
11 November 2022
Mostly a wall of sound black metal with some down tempo doom too… otherwise pretty much fast black metal stuff. decent

DETHEROUS
Unrelenting Malevolence
Redefining Darkness Records
11 November 2022
A bit thrash, some death metal, a little deathcore, but overall a bit brutal and catchy too with some grooves too… good stuff.

Devilpriest
Album: In Repugnant Abortion
Label: Odium Records
Release date: November 12, 2022
Brutal death metal with some blackened death stuff too.. pretty cool stuff!

Inverted Matter
Harbinger
Avantgarde Music / Unorthodox Emanations
November 11th, 2022
Death metal, brutal vox, music has some catchy grooves, overall a bit sludgy

RAVENOIR
In the Womb of Sin
Self Released
blackened death metal with some thrashy heaviness. Cool stuff

Morbikon
Ov Mournful Twilight
Tankcrimes
10/28
Here’s some blackened death, had a catchy heavy thrashy thing going on, pretty cool!!

Anima Morte
Serpents In The Fields Of Sleep
Release date: Friday, October 28th 2022
Progressive instrumental rock, some cool heavy moments, I’m a prog fan so it’s pretty cool.

Void Cruiser
Album: Call of the Void
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: November 11th, 2022
Heavier hard rock with a bit of a psychedelic doomy stoner sound. Decent.

Raster Density
Apothecary’s Tome ov Depravity and Filth
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: October 28th 2022
Technical and brutal death metal, great stuff!

Goatburner
Release title: Danger EP
Label: Self-Released
Straight up brutal Death metal

Godless Angel
Release title: Year Ten
Label: Atomic Zombie Records
Release Date: 28-10-2022
Raw metal with a little bit of it all, doom, thrash, and it’s a bit raw.

EVILLUTION
Elements of Genocide
Label: FIRECUM RECORDS
Release date: 31/10/2022
Some kinda classic sounding thrash with a heavier edge… cool stuff.

Blood of Angels
Release title: Spillage
Label: Biohazardous Records
Release Date: 31-10-2022
Brutal death metal with some more screamed/growly vox, not quite down to cookie monster (the music sound like it would have cookie monster vox)

Frank Bello
THEN I’M GONE
Rare Bird
Straight forward rock stuff.

Mandragora Thuringia
Release title: Rex Silvarum
Label: MDD Records
Release date: 04 November 2022
Epic Folk Metal, as with most of this genre some good heavier parts, some sound more like power metal with a basic metal thing going on and always a fiddle or hurdy gurdy or some flutey thing… or symphonic synth stuff… this ticks those boxes, and it’s decent stuff.

Black Mirrors
Tomorrow Will Be Without Us
(Napalm)
This is kind of doomy and straight up rockin’ female fronted stuff. it’s alright

Dead Cross
II
(Ipecac)
Fast and punky crazy experimental stuff. Cool!

Hoaxed
Two Shadows
(Relapse)
a little gothy and a bit laid back doom-ish with ethereal female vox.

Jerry Only
Anti-Hero
(Misfits)
Of course it has a bit of a misfits type sound, just straightforward stuff.

Show Me the Body
Trouble The Water
(Loma Vista/Concord)
Mostly crusty punk type stuff.

Thotcrime
D1G1T4L_DR1FT
Prosthetic Records
28 October 2022
Industrial or maybe even electronic dance techo stuff

Melted Bodies
“Liars”
(Self-Release)
Another single and they still sound like SOAD. cool stuff still.

Entheos
Absolute Zero – radio single
Metal Blade Records
Technical and brutal, then open airy and prog/jazzy. Harsh vox

Violet Blend
Voices In My Head
Eclipse Records
2 November 2022
Laid back clean female vox, melodic hard rock with a little prog groove

Royal Hunt
Dystopia. Part II
Northpoint Productions.
October 28, 2022
Epic prog metal with a power metal emphasis cool stuff!

Katatonia
“Atrium”
(Napalm)
New album coming soon, melodic and a little bit of a gothy groove in this single.

Leather
“Who Rules the World”
(SPV/Steamhammer)
straight up classic metal, just like a Judas Priest type thing

Golgotha
Mors Diligentis
Xtreem Music
October 25th, 2022
A bit melodic goth and a bit black metal too.

96 Bitter Beings
Synergy Restored
Nuclear Blast
Melodic kind of modern metal-ish with a catchy groove

The Offering
Seeing The Elephant
Century Media Records
This is a little groove metal, a bit industrial, a bit metalcore and yeah progressive metal too. Decent stuff

Avantasia
A Paranormal Evening with the Moonflower Society
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 21 October 2022
Another epic masterpiece form Tobias Sammet with many different guest vocalists again. Some over the top heavy stuff too!

Despised Icon
DÉTERRÉ
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 28 October 2022
Brutal and punishing death metal with maybe a tiny pinch of deathcore, but overall just classic brutal heavy death metal.

Worm
Bluenothing
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, October 28th 2022
Dark doomy black metal

FUNERAL HARVEST
Redemptio
Signal Rex
31 October 2022
OId school black metal with a little brutal stuff too

VHS
Deep Gashes And Long Lashes
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
Oct 31
dark doomy Death metal with a techno industrial synth thing happening too

Exordium Mors
As Legends Fade and Gods Die
Praetorian Sword Records
31 October 2022
Technical blackeded death metal. Catchy and heavy with a little extreme thrash thing too. Great stuff!!

TIME TO KILL
Album: S.B.A.H.
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: November 1st, 2022
Wisconsin’s own TTK with a new album with raw punk/thrashy tracks.

Helvellyn
The Lore of the Cloaked Assembly
Purity Through Fire
4 November 2022
Classic old school black metal. Decent

HELLFEKTED
DEATH OF IRON (SINGLE)
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 4th 2022
Melodic and groovin’ and maybe a little prog too, harsh vox and decent stuff.

Vacuous Depths
Corporal Humiliation
Blood Harvest / Chaos Records / Goat Throne
4 November 2022
Sludgey, dark black/death

Ninth Realm
A Fate Unbroken
Mercenary Press
4 November 2022
A heavier extreme thrash/death metal thing.. Cool stuff !

DISILLUSION
Ayam
Prophecy Productions
Release: 4 November 2022
Kind of starts off slow, almost like goth/doom-ish… but kicks in a gear and can poke into some melodic death or even full on death/blackened death and total prog metal stuff too.

Mandragora Thuringia
Release title: Rex Silvarum
Label: MDD Records
Release date: 04 November 2022
Epic Folk Metal with a more melodic thing going on

9 DEAD
9 DEAD
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 4th 2022
Blackened death metal, good meaty grooves with a little black metal evilness

Gorgatron
Agony Reborn
Blood Blast Distribution
4 November 2022
Catchy extreme-ish thrash, with a bit of a deathy groove. Cool stuff!!

Strychnos
A Mother’s Curse
Dark Descent Records
4 November 2022
Kind of a raw grindy black/death metal. Decent

Cydemind
The Descent
Self-Release
4 November 2022
A kind of symphonic prog metal instrumental stuff, cool

FOUL BODY AUTOPSY
SHADOWS WITHOUT LIGHT PART 3
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 4th 2022
Technical death/blackened death (single) with a little epic symponic black metal stuff. Cool.

MIST OF MISERY
Severance
Non Serviam Records
4 November 2022
Doomy symphonic/epic-ish black metal

Iron Kingdom
The Blood Of Creation – Out Nov 4th
Self-Release
4 November 2022
Fast power / prog metal, cool stuff.

ATOMIC WITCH
Crypt of Sleepless Malice
Redefining Darkness Records
4 November 2022
Extreme thrash with a blackened death going on, almost like a thrashy cradle of filth with some of the vocal screams. Great stuff!

Lucifer Jones
Release title: Awful
Label: Rotten Xore Records
Release Date: 31-10-2021
A heavier doomy stoner metal, a decent groove and old school vibe. Cool stuff

Bavaustrian Metalbrothers United
Release title: Fall Into Oblivion
Label: RTM-Productions
Release Date: 28-10-2022
Deathy thrash metal with a blackened death thing going on too. Pretty cool brutal stuff too.

HELL THEATER
S’Accabadora
Wormholedeath worldwide.
October 28th, 2022
A bit thrashy, kind of technical and progressive death-ish. Cool stuff.

Sickrecy
Salvation Through Tyranny
Selfmadegod Records
Release date: Friday, October 28th 2022
Brutal thrashy death metal, some good production, and even just full on death metal with some grit. Cool stuff!

Denial of Death
Release title: A failed exorcism
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 31-10-2022
A good mix of classic death metal and black metal.

BRAN (Czech)
Odcházení
Signal Rex
31 October 2022
Classic old school black metal.

Throwing Bricks
The Burden
Tartarus Records
28 October 2022
There’s a kind of doomy black metal rawness going on here, staying mostly down tempo and melodic doomy musically, the vocals are screamy almost black metal style

Numento
The Vile Entity
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: October 28th 2022
Progressive Melodic death Metal, clean and harsh female vocals, with a catchy groove… pretty cool stuff.

God Alone
ETC
Prosthetic Records
21 October 2022
A progressive metal/just prog rock thing, kind of post metal, but a jazzy dance beat going on. pretty neat stuff.

Abduction
Black Blood
Candlelight
21 October 2022
Black metal with a doomy melodic tone to keep it from being that old school shreiky coldness. decent stuff.

Black Royal
Earthbound
M-Theory Audio
21 October 2022
I’d call this some kind of basic death metal, but with a stoner/sludge doomy groove Cool stuff!

Darkthrone
Astral Fortress
Peaceville
Black metal (duh), but they’ve had a slower doomy dark sound… this song picks up and gets faster and groovin’ about halfway through… cool stuff!

Exhumed
To The Dead
Relapse
Release date: Friday, October 21st 2022
Gore/brutal thrash from these veterans! Good stuff!

Swept to Sea
Tides
Eclipse Records
2 December 2022
Pretty good technical metal/death core. catchy heavy has an old Shadows Fall vibe to me

Cassius King
Release title: Dread The Dawn
Label: MDD Records
Release date: 21 October 2022
straight up doomy hard rock, catch and groovin’

Fit For A King
The Hell We Create
Solid State Records
Modern metalcore type stuff, melodic singy stuff, the second single “Times Like This” have more of a melodic death and is heavier… and cool stuff!

Who On Earth
Blame
WOE Entertainment
Classic metal with a hard rock catchiness

Onward
Of Epoch And Inferno
Moribund Records
This band has been around for a while, well, Toby Knapp has, (the former singer and bass player died several years back) and Toby reformed the band with new members. (he records most of the instruments himself anyway) it’s got a melodic deathy thrash going on with a good ol classic metal theme. Cool stuff.

Obsidious
Iconic
Season of Mist
We’ll just call this prog metal… a bit of a power/classic metal vibe, and little pinch of black metal, cool stuff!!

Joe Lynn Turner
Belly of The Beast
Music Theories MLG
This guy needs no introduction, this album has a good heavy classic metal groove going on.. cool stuff!

Terraphobia
Rise
Self Released
Thrashy melodic death metal from Australia, great stuff!

OFFICER X
Hell is Coming
Self Released
September 30
Just straight up classic metal, clean vox, solid good ol hard rockin’ stuff.

Morbific (Finland)
Squirm Beyond the Mortal Realm
Memento Mori / Me Saco Un Ojo
24 October 2022
Raw death metal/ blackened death metal, music and production are a bit raw

Metallian (Canada)
Beyond the Wall
Temple of Mystery
24 October 2022
Classic metal, big screamy clean vocals, catchy

Fall of Seraphs
From Dust to Creation
Memento Mori
24 October 2022
A heavy groovin’ and brutal death metal. Some catchy and kind of technical stuff going on too. Great stuff.

Jesters of Destiny
Distorting Everything
Ektro Records
25 October 2022
Production is a bit “distant” otherwise, it’s some maybe doomy stoner metal with a bit of a fuzz and/or bluesy hard rock going on

BURN THE SUN
Album: Le Roi Soleil
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: October 25th, 2022
This has a doomy stoner metal thing going on… cool stuff

Knekelput
Album: Teloorgang
Self Released
Release: October 25th, 2022
Here’s some progressive blackened death/doom

MindAhead
“6119 – Part 1” – Out Oct 28th
Self-Release
28 October 2022
Dual male/female vox, clean, melodic kind of basic prog metall music overall. cool stuff!

Universally Estranged
Dimension of Deviant Clusters CD/LP/TAPE
Blood Harvest
28 October 2022
Death metal with a kind of prog metal music backing with harsh cookie monster growls. interesting stuff

CHROME GHOST
House of Falling Ash
Seeing Red Records
28 October 2022
very chilled out doomy sludge

NECROMUTILATOR
Oath Of Abhorrence
Osmose Productions
28 October 2022
Brutal fast and heavy black/death metal with a raw production sound

Deathsiege
Throne Of Heresy
Everlasting Spew Records
28 October 2022
In your face brutal death metal!

ABYSSIC
Brought Forth in Iniquity
Osmose Productions
28 October 2022
THis has some long epic tracks of doomy blackened progressive/symphonic death metal.

MULCIBER
Misery of One
Redefining Darkness Records
28 October 2022
Technical and brutal death metal, with a blackened death thing going on. great stuff!

Clamoris
Opus Limbonica
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: October 28th 2022
A kind of epic blackened death, a bit of a neoclassical symphonic element… draws a little comparison to Dimmu/Cradle of Filth, but just enough difference to have them doing their own thing, a little prog/power metal thing going on while staying evil and blackened heavy Cool stuff!!

Thammuz
Album: Sons of the Occult
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: October 28, 2022
Psychedelic doomy metal…. decent grooves

KOSMIK TOMB
Origins Of The Horror
Dupicate
A gritty kind sludge/doomy black metal, normally I don’t like this kind of stuff, but it seems to just have a good background music groove and heaviness

ENDLYSET
Beholders
Dupicate
Kind of a doomy post black metal… there’s a good solid classic black metal thing going on

Cult of the Fox
Release title: Blood Omens
Label: Obelisk Polaris Productions
Release Date: 28-10-2022
Classic metal, a bit basic just hard rockin’ stuff.

Black Widows
Among The Brave Ones
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: October 21st 2022
Blackened melodic death, clean female vox, harsh vox with a cool catchy heavy edge. Cool stuff!

Peterson
Metallophobia
Self Released
Classic metal, with a little bit of a german type edgy sound. Snowy Shaw playing drums!

IN PAIN
The Thing From the Grave
Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records
16 October 2022
Swedish death metal, full of grit, groove and a bit of brutality… did I mention groovin’ too? Just good ol classic death metal. Cool stuff!

GOSPELHEIM
Ritual & Repetition
Prophecy Productions
21 October 2022
A bit of a classic doom with a smidge of a goth sound

Pistacia
Edgy – Out October 21st
Self-Release
21 October 2022
Overall, I guess this would be metalcore, with a doomy tendency… it’s alright

Nocturnis
Release title: Unsegen
Label: Black Sunset
Release date: 28 October 2022
Classic Black Metal with a bunch of melody and full on heaviness and groove. Great stuff

FIFTH RING
MASOCHIST
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 28th 2022
This has a deathcore groove metal vibe, but like way heavier, more of a death/grind-ish sound. Definitely brutal, heavy and raw with a black metal slant too

Disgusting Perversion
Release title: Remember Me
Label: Black Sunset
Release date: 21 October 2022
Classic death metal, with a bit of a groove reminiscent of Obituary (but a bit heavier/faster). Cool stuff.

Boundaries
Burying Brightness
3dot
Overall some catchy groovin’ deathcore

Ripped to Shreds
Jubian
(Relapse)
Blackened death, leaning more black metal, decent stuff

Seraina Telli
Simple Talk
Metalville Records
Straightforward female fronted hard rock.

Triskelyon
Downfall
Moribund Records
Thrashy metal with a big screamy vocal… cool stuff

A Wake In Providence
Eternity
Unique Leader Records
Technical and progressive death… brutal!!! Cool stuff

Architects
The Classic Symptoms Of A Broken Spirit
Epitaph Records
that modern metalcore thing… melodic choruses and overall pretty “modern”

Invictus
Unstoppable
MNRK
Melodic deathcore-ish… Has a good groove, almost a bit melodic death but yeah, does have a bit of that “core” sound… cool stuff though.

The New Roses
Sweet Poison
Napalm Records
Classic hard rock, like a 90’s AOR type thing

Rhythm Of Fear
Fatal Horizons
MNRK
Release date: Friday, October 14th 2022
Straight up classic thrash! Sounds fresh out of the bay area. Great stuff.

BLACK REUSS
Album: Journey
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: October 11th, 2022
From Liechtenstein with a gothy hard rock sound

DEMOGORGON
Album: You Are Worthless And I Want You Dead
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: October 18th, 2022
I’m a bit burned out on black metal, as we get SOOO MUCH… this is some good stuff, while it has the “cold” classic black metal sound, it has a cool groove too.

Knogjärn
Bedövning
Indie Recordings
18 October 2022
Single of some finnish just straight forward “metal” decent stuff.

Vacuous (UK)
Dreams of Dysphoria
Me Saco Un Ojo / Dark Descent
18 October 2022
Black metal with a bit of a black n roll thing going on too.

Cabal
Magno Interitus
Nuclear Blast
21 October 2022
Deathcore type stuff, a nice heavy brutality . cool stuff

Orden Ogan
Final Days- Orden Ogan And Friends
AFM Records
21 October 2022
Same album as last year but with some more guests added and a new track… good classic metal/power metal.

Blakk Ledd
Heavy Metal Fans
Melodic Passion
21 October 2022
Classic metal with a little power metal going on, cool stuff.

O.R.k.
Screamnasium
Kscope
21 October 2022
Vocals remind me of chris cornell, music is fairly straightforward hard rock/metal. neat stuff, but not too like “METAL”

COATHANGER ABORTION
PLAN C
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 21st 2022
As expected, brutal and bludgeoning death metal with a little bit of grindy/gore thing going on too. Despite the shocking name, decent brutal stuff

Witch Blade
Månsken
Dying Victims Productions
Oct 21
A bit doom, a bit stoner, all with an old school bluesy metal vibe

Avatarium
Death, Where Is Your Sting
AFM Records
21 October 2022
A bit of a melodic almost folk/symphonic/acoustic-ish metal rock type thing

Folkrim
On Foaming Waves
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: October 21st 2022
Primarily folk metal but with a good melodic heavy edge to it. Parts get pretty heavy into a thrashy/melodic death area.. Cool stuff!

SEDE VACANTE
Conium
Scarlet Records
21 October 2022
Female fronted metal with a little modern melodic flair and electronic/industrial sound

Sarcator
Alkahest
Black Lion Records
21 October 2022
A little blackened death, some melodic death and just straight up regular ol metal all happening. cool stuff.

Vigilance
Vigilance
Dying Victims Productions
10/21
pretty much classic metal with a little prog, some melodic and shades of thrash. cool.

Iron Allies
Blood In Blood Out
AFM Records
21 October 2022
Former ACCEPT members Herman Frank and David Reece with their new band with a basic classic metal thing going on. Decent stuff.

RUBY THE HATCHET
Fear Is a Cruel Master
Magnetic Eye Records
21 October 2022
A femaale fronted doomy sounding laid back thing. Cool stuff with a bluesy doomy vibe and a hammond organ to make it interesting

OneLegMan
Event Horizon
Rockshots Records
21 October 2022
Melodic metal, maybe a little bit of a folk sound, some classic metal, and a bit of a prog/power/modern metal thing happening

MesaVerde
KY
Apollon Records
21 October 2022
Progressive rock, almost jazzy type stuff going on. cool, but not quite metal.

Source
Release title: Emergence EP
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 07-10-2022
A porcupine-tree like progressive hard rock, maybe a little Tool like as well

Gothminister
Pandemonium
AFM Records
21 October 2022
A bit industrial, prog metal, modern metal catchy cool stuff

Mal
Malbum
Ordovician Records
21 October 2022
Kind of a progressive metalcore, with saxophone! Cool stuff.

Nameless Theory
Into The Void
Wormholedeath
October 21st, 2022
Fairly laid back just kinda stonerish rock, maybe like a post rock thing?

Kajoshin
Chrisalys
Wormholedeath
October 21st, 2022
A bit prog, a bit bluesy hard rock, some solid grooves and catchiness