Cormorant – Diaspora
If you haven’t heard this band before, they play big, dark, progressive metal with elements of black metal and even death metal embedded in the mix.
Hell – Hell
The void is strong with this one.
Crimfall – Amain (Review and Interview)
Amain is grand perfection, a metal opera of the highest caliber.
Portrait – Burn the World (Review and Interview)
Burn the World is a dark romp through the metal of three and a half decades ago, played immaculately, but with some serious fire.
Temple of Void – Lords of Death (Review and Interview)
This is death metal played in the darkest recesses of a post-apocalyptic doom soundscape.
The Convalescence – This Is Hell
It takes you from the first moment of childhood anger to the very last breath and leads one to remember that for some, This Is Hell.
Xanthochroid – Of Erthe And Axen
Gargantuan and robust, familiar and far reaching, forward thinking, chin stroking, one of a kind.
From North – From North
If you enjoy movies with obelisk, sword, runestone, or quest in the title and can think of nothing better than a nice mead while wearing a kilt, then this is the album for you.
Personalities – Loose Ends
I do think they are influenced by metal bands that I remember 20 years ago, but you can tell they definitely strive to push the sound to new levels.
Moral Void – Deprive
Moral Void is a destructive nightmare bringing to sonic life the vast disease of human society.