Black Anvil – As Was
With their fourth full length release As Was, Black Anvil is fast becoming the US answer to Enslaved (as a huge fan of the latter, this is not a comparison I make lightly).
Sunlight’s Bane – The Blackest Volume: Like All The Earth Was Buried
This album may be the darkest cleansing fire I have ever witnessed.
Obituary – Obituary
Long-time Obituary fans will be very happy with the variety on the album and it may even be enough to win back some fans that left them for dead.
Behind the Sun – Post Solis
North Carolina’s Behind the Sun deliver a blistering five songs full of the heavy riffs, rhythmic shifts, and choral ensembles of growl not unknown in the prog side of death metal.
Dakhma – Suna Kulto
What the band certainly is not, is soft. They have all the intensity of a fully loaded freight train bearing down on you.
Pestilent Age – Novgorod
Two different writers take a crack at this Michigan release. Check it out.
Temptation’s Wings – Skulthor Ebonblade
This epic, doomy, thrashy, stonery, and very Viking sounding band picks up the pace at points on this one. Right off the bat, this album sends you back in time to the battlegrounds, almost inducing marching and preparing you for this epic tale.
Tim Bowness – Lost in the Ghost Light
Lost in the Ghost Light, however, mines the steady, mid-tempo rhythms and more pastel and at times pastoral production of Marillion or more sedate Pink Floyd material.
Bonesteel – Epitome of Infamy
With a little rap metal style, Bonesteel’s music provides real-life lyrics backed by catchy, powerful hooks.
Iron Magazine – Queen of Hell
Queen of Hell sounds like it’s fresh off the time machine from the 1980s.