Bear Mace – Butchering the Colossus
Beware, this may bring out the mosh monster in you.
The Obsessed – Sacred
All in all, just a heavy, old school, meaner version of their younger selves.
Iron Reagan – Crossover Ministry
With 18 songs and the longest coming in at a whopping 3:37, the Virginia 5-piece rips through the album in the best crossover thrash tradition.
Bill + Phil – Songs of Darkness and Despair
Covering the gamut from straight stoner rock to gorgeous psychedelic interludes, Songs of Darkness and Despair comfortably bridges the gap between both.
Sweat Lodge – Tokens For Hell
Tokens for Hell is groovy, cosmic music with a very Black Sabbath feel. Except it’s on acid.
Arduini/Balich – Dawn of Ages
The album delivers torrents of guitars, deluge after deluge of roar and wail, with riffs that are more often engaging and accessible than dizzying and speed-driven.
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.