Top Pick
Oxygen Destroyer – Guardian Of The Universe (crusty/blackened death-thrash)
This is some very good crusty, blackened death-thrash. A lot of it sounds like Immortal, some of it gets pretty grindy and by the end it all gets pretty death-metal-sounding, but there's always a consistent thrash energy and riffing style at its core. The constant assault can get a bit much, even at only thirty-three minutes-long, and slowing down and throwing in some hooks every now and then would probably make for a more memorable experience, but if its endless extreme metal blasting you're after, then you could hardly do better. Gamera would be proud.
Release Roundup
And So I Watch You From Afar – Megafauna (post/match rock)
Andy Wood – Charisma (country shred)
Anoxide – Morals And Dogma (death metal, melodeath)
The Aphelion – Nascence (prog rock/metal)
Ashen Horde – Decayed (progressive blackened death metal)
Atom Driver – Occupants (noise rock)
Becoming the Entity – Chronicles of the Trephine: Creeping Abominations in Saturnine Dimensions (proggish death metal)
Carnivore Diprosopus – Rise Of The Insurrection (slammish brutal death)
Cremulation – Amalgamated Abomination (death metal)
CrusHuman – CrusHuman (sludgey deathgrind)
Dark Deeds – Death Keeps (deathcore)
Dark Funeral – Dark Funeral (30th Anniversary Edition) (black metal)
Deserter – Disfigured Revelation (brutal death)
Destroy Boys – Funeral Soundtrack #4 (alt rock)
Drowning in Blood – You’ve Won... But At What Cost? (thrash)
Duhkha – A Place You Can’t Come Back From (brutal hardcore)
Dune Rats – If it Sucks, Turn It Up (pub punk)
Earth Ship – Soar (sludge doom)
Entering Polaris – Myths in Motion / Songs of Ivory and Obsidian (prog metal)
Feind – Ambulante Hirnamputation (weird/techish deathgrind)
four year strong – analysis paralysis (pop punk, metalcore)
Fourwindsaway – Fourwindsaway (metalcore, hardcore)
Free Ride – Acido Y Puto (instrumental stoner rock/prog)
Fucked Up – Another Day (progressive/art punk)
Fuckhammer – Scorched Earth Prophets (deathsludge)
Fulci – Duck Face Killings (death metal)
Gelatin Skeleton – Big Trouble (hair metal)
Gråt Strigoi – The Prophetic Silence (proggish black metal)
Grinspoon – whatever, whatever (alt rock)
HammerFall – Avenge The Fallen (power metal)
Heilung – Lifa Iotungard (folk, metal?)
In Aphelion – Reaperdawn (black metal)
Iniquitous Monolith – Monstrous Degradation (slamming brutal death)
Jim Peterik & World Stage – Roots & Shoots Vol. 2 (AOR)
Kaisas – I E R I A (hard/melodic rock)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Flight b741 (psychedelic hog-rock)
Kurokuma – Of Amber And Sand (death sludge)
Malamorte – Abisso (blackish doom metal)
Malodorous – The Carrion Recoil (slamming brutal death)
Mamaleek – Vida Blue (weird blackish post-jazz?)
Mausoleum – Defiling The Decayed (death metal)
Mnajdra – In the Name of the Goddess (black metal)
Monument Of Misanthropy – Vile Postmortem Irrumatio (brutalish death metal)
Mushroomhead – Call The Devil (muppet metal)
Nova Charisma – Metropolitan (progressive post-hardcore)
Osees – SORCS 80 (jazz punk)
Oso Oso – Life Til Bones (altish indie rock)
Punks Of The Empire – Gehenna (prog metal)
Røkkr – Mørkdrøm (black metal)
Siamese – Elements (electro/pop rock, baddiecore)
Stahlmann – Phosphor (industrial metal)
Twin Atlantic – Meltdown (whiney pop rock, emo)
Vesper the Aerial – Devote Eternal (melodeath)
Viacrucis – Melhorament (black metal)
Viscera Infest – Teratoma (brutal goregrind)
Voidstrider – Voidstrider (psychedelic doom)
Zero Tolerance – Tender Is the Flesh (thrash)