EVILDEAD
United $tate$ Of Anarchy
SPV/ Steamhammer
Classic heavy thrash, cool stuff.
Them
Return To Hemmersmoor
SPV
Thrashy stuff with some horror and a bit of an obvious Mercyful Fate/King Diamond sound too. cool stuff.
Fates Warning
Long Day Good Night
Metal Blade Records
6 November 2020
Been too long… their last album was great, this one has it going on too a mix of classic proggy FW tracks and some more mellow grooves too.
De?luge
Ægo Templo
Metal Blade Records
6 November 2020
Kind of a gothy melodic black metal, a little moonspell meets black metal thing?
Surma
The Light Within
Metal Blade Records
6 November 2020
Epic prog / power / melodic death… clean female vox, some epic symphonic parts and some good harsh vox… a bit like an Epica
Nothing
The Great Dismal
Relapse
Release date: Friday, October 30th 2020
A kind of alterative, emo, doomy post rock thing like they’ve always been…
NETHERLANDS
ZOMBIE TECHNO: UNDEAD
Self Released
Electronic, experimental, grungy, sludge, all over the place.
MR BUNGLE
THE RAGING WRATH OF THE EASTER BUNNY DEMO
Ipecac Recordings
Re-recording of their original demo all full on thrashy with Dave Lombardo on drums and Scott Ian on guitar… great stuff
Nuclear Power Trio
A Clear and Present Rager
Metal Blade Records
30 October 2020
Prog metal instrumental featuring members of Allegaeon (Greg- guitar) Nick from JFAC/Havoc/Cephalic Carnage and Pete, the drummer from Havoc. A bit jassy, and funky too, and good full on shred. Cool stuff.
Doro
Magic Diamonds, Best of Rock, Ballads & Rare Treasures
Rare Diamonds/Flying Dolphin
Best of album – 3 disk set featuring stuff from her whole career. S
Convulse
Deathstar
Transcending
Release date: Friday, October 30th 2020
A bit post metal, a bit prog, some kind of experimental death metal stuff too.
Vessel of Light
There’s No Escape
Self
Laid back kind of stoner/grungy stuff with a good melodic groove.
KYRIOS
Saturnal Chambers
Caligari Records
30 October 2020
Full on wall of sound black metal with a bit of an epic experimental thing too
Damn Your Eyes
Radio Sampler
Low Road Records
This is a modern day groove metal… nothing too heavy, not light… melodic
Trip 6
Spit
Dark Star Records
A kind of hardcore groovin’ metal pushing a little into thrash
Them Damn Kings
Throw it Away (Single)
Stereo Dynamite
Bluesy hard rockin’ stonerish metal. big grooves
Apochryphal Revelation
Primeval Devilish Wisdom LP/CD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
1 November 2020
Raw black metal but some tracks have more of a thrashy/metal than the full on raw blast beats and cold guitar… don’t worry, there’s some blast beats and cold meedlys too.
Band: Hell:on
Album: Scythian Stamm
Label: Hell Serpent Music
Release date: November 1st, 2020
Mostly some heavy thrashed up death metal, but some melodic parts happening too. Cool stuff!
Band: Metalriff
Album: Under My Skin
Label: Australis records
Release date: August 25th, 2020
Melodic thrash from Chile, also, probably some just good ol classic “metal” happening
Countless Skies
Glow
Willowtip Records
6 November 2020
Pretty straight up melodic death, heavy, melodic, even a bit epic… blast beats, harsh vox, clean vox… all the good stuff.
Bloodsoaked Necrovoid
Expelled into the Unknown Depths of the Unfathomable LP/CD
Iron Bonehead
6 November 2020
raw black/death metal, vox are that growly echo style, music is a bit post-metal/black metal ish.
Hanging Fortress
Darkness Devours
Redefining Darkness Records
6 November 2020
classic death metal.
Band: Pulse
Album: Adjusting The Space
Label: NRT-Records
Release date: November 6th, 2020
“Cyber Metal” It’s mostly a techo/industrial electronic thing with a pinch of metal happening
Isolert
World in Ruins
Nihilistische KlangKunst
11 November 2020
Classic black metal, more on the melodic side, but still heavy, dark and cold.
Dark Quarterer
Pompei
Cruz Del Sur Music
6 November 2020
Here is some kind of epic power/prog metal, big powerful voice, catchy more classic metal music, but proggy… they’ve been around (from Italy) since 1980!
Ancient Thrones
The Veil – Out November 6th
Self-Release
6 November 2020
Thrashy blackened death metal, pretty cool stuff.
Arcana
Letters From A Lost Soul – Act I: The World One Forms (EP) – Out Nov 6th
Self-Release
6 November 2020
4 song ep of some good ol prog, getting into prog metal in parts, and otherwise a porcupine tree style.
Ambassadors of The Sun
Orbiting A Dead Star
Self Released
Progressive Metal maybe like a Mastodon type style.
Band: Perduratum
Album (EP): Exile’s Anthology
Genre: Progressive Metal
Release date: October 10th, 2020
Prog metal like an old Dream Theater
UTILITARIAN
STAY ANGRY
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 6th 2020
Extreme heavy thrash, I’d say a bit in the Slayer vein.
Pupil Slicer
L’appel du Vide
Prosthetic Records
30 October 2020
kind of a metalcore heavy thing