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1. Behemoth - Evangelion
2. Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest
3. Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
4. Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
5. Redemption - Snowfall On Judgement Day
6. Epica - Design Your Universe
7. Insomnium - Across the Dark
8. Slayer - World Painted Blood
9. Andre Matos - Mentalize
10. Immortal - All Shall Fall

11. Amorphis - Skyforger
12. Kreator - Hordes of Chaos
13. Crimfall - As The Path Unfolds...
14. Dark Funeral - Angelus Exuro pro Eternus
15. Celesty - Vendetta
16. The Chasm - Farseeing The Paranormal Abysm
17. Primal Fear - 16.6 (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead)
18. Lamb of God - Wrath
19. Necrophobic - Death to All
20. Urgehal - Ikonoklast

21. Dream Theater - Black Clouds And Silver Linings
22. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
23. Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Children Of The Dark Waters
24. Powerwolf - Bible of the Beast
25. Azaghal - Teraphim
26. Mantic Ritual - Executioner
27. SuidAkrA - Crógacht
28. Asphyx - Death...The Brutal Way
29. Strandhogg - Ritualistic Plague (Evangelical Death Apotheosis)
30. National Suicide - The Old Family is Still Alive
31. Brainstorm - Memorial Roots
32. Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With The Stars
33. PANTHEON I - Worlds I Create
34. Ex Deo - Romulus
35. My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire
36. God Dethroned - Passiondale
37. Suffocation - Blood Oath
38. Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmare
39. Marduk - Wormwood
40. ChthoniC - Mirror of Retribution
41. Finsterforst - ...zum Tode hin
42. Shadow Gallery - Digital Ghosts
43. Blackguard - Profugus Mortis
44. Pestilence - Resurrection Macabre
45. Code - Resplendent Grotesque
46. Funeral Mist - Maranatha
47. Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us
48. Rudra - Brahmavidya: Transcendental I
49. Mystic Prophecy - Fireangel
50. Swallow the Sun - New Moon

51. Týr - By the Light of the Northern Star
52. Goatwhore - Carving Out The Eyes Of God
53. Tardy Brothers - Bloodline
54. Amberian Dawn - The Clouds Of Northland Thunder
55. Megadeth - Endgame
56. Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
57. Sepultura - A-Lex
58. Nomans Land - Farnord
59. Marionette - Enemies
60. Funebrarum - The Sleep of Morbid Dreams
61. Bloodbound - Tabula Rasa
62. DGM - FrAme
63. Svarttjern - Misanthropic Path Of Madness
64. Аркона - Гой, Роде, Гой!
65. Ulcerate - EIF
66. Månegarm - Nattväsen
67. Obituary - Darkest Day
68. Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
69. Gama Bomb - Tales From the Grave in Space
70. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
71. Evil Masquerade - Fade To Black
72. Savage Circus - Of Doom And Death
73. Absu - Absu
74. Aeternam - Disciples of the Unseen
75. W.A.S.P. - Babylon
76. Hypocrisy - A Taste of Extreme Divinity
77. The Few Against Many - Sot
78. Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles
79. Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow
80. IXXI - Elect Darkness
81. Orcustus - Orcustus
82. Artillery - When Death Comes
83. Irminsul - Irminsul
84. The Project Hate MCMXCIX - The Lustrate Process
85. Katatonia - Night is the New Day
86. Miseration - The Mirroring Shadow
87. Devin Townsend - Ki / Addicted
88. Glorior Belli - Meet Us at the Southern Sign
89. Ad Hominem - Dictator - A Monument of Glory
90. Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
91. Susperia - Attitude
92. Deströyer 666 - Defiance
93. Mind Key - Pulse For A Graveheart
94. Obscura - Cosmogenesis
95. Ensiferum - From Afar
96. Vomitory - Carnage Euphoria
97. Lion's Share - Darkest Hours
98. Thanatos - Justified Genocide
99. Vindictiv - Ground Zero
100. Inferno - Black Devotion

Great releases that didn't make it into the list but still worth mentioning:
Saratoga, Flashback of anger, Graveland, Necrodeath, Theodore Ziras, Disparaged, Nightmare, Blood Red Throne, Shining, Skyclad, Unholy Matrimony, Dagon, Veloce Hystoria, Bornholm, Jungle Rot, Soulfallen, HammerFall, Grave Digger, Destroy Destroy Destroy, Napalm Death, Impious, Stratovarius, Vreid, D Creation, Andreas Kisser, Trail of Tears, Gorgoroth, Endstille, This Ending, Graveyard, Trepalium, Bibleblack, Mistur, Sarke, Tyrann, Ashent, Dark the Suns, Inmoria, Nefertum, Paganizer, Tim Ripper Owens, Stormheit, Silent Memorial, Torture Killer, Hammer Horde, Ablaze in Hatred, Conquest, Empires of Eden, Elias Viljanen, Bob Katsionis, Kiko Loureiro, Code For Silence, Old Man's Child, Wretched, Guilt Machine, Leaves' Eyes, Demonical, Kult ov Azazel, Dying Fetus, Gothmog

This is (obviously) by no means complete yet as we're only about halfway done with the year at the moment, but might as well put this up now. Ratings are certainly not final and will more likely than not change after more and more listens, but feel free to criticize/praise them as I welcome and encourage any comments on the list. Recommendations are also greatly welcomed and appreciated.

One quick note, all albums rated as "n/a" are albums that I currently have not listened to and/or have not been released yet.

3 Segundos Antes da Queda - 3 Segundos Antes De Queda (screamo) 7.25/10
A Fine Frenzy - Bomb in a Birdcage (singer-songwriter) 8.25/10
A Wilhelm Scream - A Wilhelm Scream (melodic hardcore) 8/10
Absu - Absu (black metal) 8/10
Across Tundras - Herds of the Fathomless Valleys (sludge/progressive metal) 7/10
Age Sixteen - Open Up Finders, Please (screamo) 8/10
Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans (funeral doom metal) 6/10
Ajattara - Noiturnaa (acoustic back metal) 7.5/10
Alarum - Natural Causes (progressive metal) n/a
Altar of Plagues - White Tomb (black metal) 7.5/10
American Steel - Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts (pop punk) 6.25/10
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs (shoegaze) 6.5/10
Amorphis - Skyforger (hard rock) 5.75/10
Amplifier - Eternity (prog rock) n/a
Amplifier - The Octopus (prog rock) n/a
Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation of the Black Widow (black metal) 7.25/10
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast (singer-songwriter/indie) 6/10
Anti-Flag - The People or the Gun (punk) 4.25/10
Antimatter - Live@An Club (progressive rock) 7.5/10
Anubis Gate - The Detached (progressive metal) 5/10
Archives - Decline (screamo) n/a
Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ (black metal) 7.75/10
Asobi Seksu - Hush (shoegaze/dream pop) 7.5/10
Augury - Fragmentary Evidence (technical/prog death metal) 5.5/10
Awaiting The Autopsy - Couldn't Tell The Bodies Apart (brutal death metal) 6.5/10
Asphyx - Death...the Brutal Way (death metal) 8/10
The Axis of Perdition - Urfe (black metal) 8/10
Azarath - Praise the Beast (black/death metal) 6.5/10
Baliset - A Time for Rust (progressive rock/metal) 8/10
Banner Pilot - Collapser (punk/pop punk) 5.5/10
Baroness - Blue Record (sludge metal) 7/10
Battlefields - Thresholds of Imbalance (sludge metal) 7.5/10
Begrime Exemious - Set Ablaze The Kingdom of Abraham (black/death metal) 6/10
Beherit - Engram (black metal) 7.5/10
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach (melodic death metal) 5.5/10
Bestial Holocaust - Temple of Damnation (black/thrash metal) 7.75/10
Big D and the Kids Table - Fluent in Stroll (ska/punk) 6/10
Black Sun Aeon - Darkness Walks Beside Me (melodic death metal) 6.5/10
Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars (black metal) 6/10
Braveyoung - Bloom (atmospheric sludge metal/post-rock) 7/10
Buried Inside - Spoils of Failure (sludge metal/metalcore) 6/10
Callisto - Providence (sludge metal/post-rock) 5/10
Calvin Harris - Ready for the Weekend (electronica/pop) 8/10
Candlemass - Death Magic Doom (doom metal) 6.25/10
Cauldron - Chained to the Nite (heavy metal) 6/10
Celeste - Misantrope(s) (screamo) 7/10
Chinese Telephones - Democracy (pop punk) 6.5/10
Claws - Absorbed in the Nethervoid (death metal) 7/10
Cobalt - Gin (prog black metal) 7.5/10
Code - Resplendent Grotesque (progressive black metal) 7.75/10
Comadre - A Wolf Ticket (screamo) 7/10
Converge - Axe to Fall (hardcore, metalcore) 8.25/10
Cormorant - Metazoa (prog black/death metal) 9/10
Count Raven - Mammons War (doom metal) 8/10
Crimfall - As the Path Unfolds... (power/folk metal) 3.5/10
Crippled Black Phoenix - The Resurrectionists (post-rock) 8/10
Cry of Silence - Wandering Through Pagan Times (black metal) 6/10
Crystal Viper - Metal Nation (heavy metal) 6.25/10
Daïtro - Y (screamo) 7/10
dälek - Gutter Tactics (experimental/hip hop) 8.25/10
Dananananaykroyd - Hey Everyone (indie rock) 6.75/10
Dear Landlord - Dream Homes (pop-punk) 7.75/10
Defeater - Lost Ground (hardcore) 7.25/10
Depressed Mode - ...for Death (doom metal) 7.25/10
Devin Townsend Project - Addicted (progressive metal) 6/10
Devin Townsend Project - Ki (progressive metal) 6.5/10
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious (prog/experimental metal/rock) 5/10
Diamond Plate - Relativity (thrash metal) 8/10
Disappearer - The Clearing (sludge metal) 7.5/10
Doomraiser - Erasing the Remembrance (doom metal) 8.25/10
Dr. Manhattan - Jam Dreams (indie rock) 5/10
Dreaming Dead - Within One (melodic death metal) 7/10
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings (progressive metal) 4.5/10
Dreams of the Drowned- Thanatotropic Principle (experimental black metal) 8/10
dredg - The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion (progressive rock) 7.75/10
Drowning with Our Anchors - You Can Never Go Home Again (screamo) 6.5/10
Drudkh - Microcosmos (black metal) 8/10
Embrace of Thorns - Atonement Ritual (black/death metal) 8/10
Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds... (death metal) 8.5/10
Exxasens - Beyond the Universe (post-rock) 6.75/10
Fall of Efrafa - Inlé (post-hardcore/sludge metal) 7.5/10
The Fall of Troy - In the Unlikely Event (post-hardcore, progressive rock) 5/10
Fen - The Malediction Fields (prog black Metal) 7.75/10
Festered - Flesh Perversion (death metal) n/a
Finsterforst - ...Zum Tode Hin (folk metal) 3/10
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles (brutal death metal) 7.75/10
Fucked Up - Year of the Rat (crust punk/experimental hardcore) 7.25/10
fun. - Aim and Ignite (indie rock) 4.75/10
Funebrarum - The Sleep of Mobid Dreams (death metal) 8.5/10
Gazpacho - Tick Tock (progressive rock) 6/10
Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs (melodic death metal) 7/10
Giant Squid - The Ichthyologist (progressive metal) 7.5/10
Gifts From Enola - From Fathoms (post-rock) 7/10
Gigantic Brain - Betelgeuse (ambient/electronic) 7.75/10
Gigantic Brain - World (ambient/cybergrind) 8/10
Gorod - Process of a New Decline (technical death metal) 5.5/10
Graf Orlock - Destination Time: Today (grindcore) 6/10
Graveless - Condemned to a Nameless Death (death metal) 7.5/10
Graveyard - One WIth the Dead (death metal) 8.25/10
GREYMACHINE - Disconnected (noise/industrial) 7.75/10
Halestorm - Halestorm (hard rock) 4/10
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know (heavy metal) 7.5/10
Heaven In Her Arms - Duplex-Coated Obstruction (screamo) 7.5/10
Hellbastard - The Need to Kill (crust punk, thrash metal) 7.5/10
Helvetets Port - Exodus to Hell (heavy metal) n/a
Horrific - Your Worst Nightmare (death metal) 8.25/10
If These Trees Could Talk - Above the Earth, Below the Sky (post-rock) 6.75/10
Ignivomous - Death Transmutation (death metal) 7.75/10
Indukti - Idmen (progressive metal/rock) 7.5/10
Isaïah - Ils Consomment, Tuent Et Prient Mais Me Pensent Pas (screamo) 7.25/10
Isis - Wavering Radiant (atmospheric sludge metal) 4/10
Iskra - Bureval (crust punk, black metla) n/a
Isole - Silent Ruins (doom metal) 7.25/10
Japandroids - Post-Nothing (noise rock) 7/10
Jesu - Infinity (post-rock/ambient/experimental) 8.25/10
Junius - The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist (post-rock) 7.5/10
Kailash - Past Changing Fast (progressive metal) 4.5/10
Kalisia - Cybion (progressive/melodic death metal) 9/10
Kaospilot - Shadows (screamo) 6.5/10
Katatonia - Night is the New Day (hard rock) 8/10
Kathaarsys - Anonymous Ballad (progressive metal) 5.25/10
The Kidcrash - Snacks (post-hardcore) n/a
Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage II (metalcore) 4.5/10
Kiss Kiss - The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left (indie/experimental) 6/10
Krypts - Opeth the Krypt (death metal) 7.75/10
Kylesa - Static Tensions (sludge metal) 7.75/10
La Roux - La Roux (electronica/pop) 7.75/10
The Lawrence Arms - Buttsweat and Tears (pop punk/punk) 7.5/10
Leathermouth - XO (post-hardcore) 2/10
Long Distance Calling - Avoid the Light (post-rock) 7.5/10
Longing For Dawn - Between Elation and Despair (funeral doom metal) 4/10
Maladie - MAladie (hardcore/screamo) 7.5/10
Master's Hammer - Mantras (black metal) n/a
Mastodon - Crack the Skye (progressive metal) 4/10
Maths - Descenet (hardcore) n/a
maudlin of the Well - Part the Second (experimental) 8.5/10
Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind (post-rock) 8/10
Morphosis - Rise of the Bastard Deities (death metal) n/a
Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressive (crossover/thrash) 5/10
My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire (gothic doom metal)) 4.5/10
My Heart To Joy - Seasons in Verse (indie/emo) 7.75/10
MYRKRAVERK - Nordevegen (folk/black metal) 6/10
Nahemah - A New Constellation (prog death metal) 6.75/10
Napalm Death - Time Waits for No Slave (grindcore) 7/10
Narrows - New Distances (hardcore) 7.5/10
Njiqahdda - Taegnuub - Ishnji Angma (black metal) 5.25/10
NOFX - Coaster (punk/pop punk) 3.5/10
Not So Young - One of the Trigger (melodic hardcore) 8/10
Novembers Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal (death/doom metal) 7.5/10
OM - God is Good (stoner rock/metal) 7.75/10
Omela - Viscum Album (heavy metal, prog rock) 7/10
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu (black metal) 7.75/10
Overhead - Live After All (progressive rock) 7.25/10
Pain of Salvation - Ending Themes (On the Two Deaths of Pain of Salvation) (progressive metal) 8/10
Peste Noir - Ballade cuntre lo Anemi Francor (black metal) n/a
Pianos Become The Teeth - Old Pride (screamo) 7.25/10
P.O.S. - Never Better (hip hop) 8.5/10
Pensees Nocturnes - Vacuum (black metal) 8.25/10
Persefone - Shin-ken (prog/melodc death metal) 6.5/10
Porcupine Tree - The Incident (progressive rock) 6/10
Portal - Swarth (death/black metal) 7/10
Polar Bear Club - Chasing Hamburg (post-hardcore) 5.25/10
Procession - The Cult of Disease (doom metal) 8/10
Propagandhi - Supporting Caste (punk) 6.25/10
Pure Reason Revolution - Amor Vincit Omnia (electronica/pop) 6.5/10
Ram - Lightbringer (heavy metal) 7.25/10
Revolting - Dreadful Pleasures (death metal) n/a
Riverside - Anno Domino High Definition (progressive metal) 6/10
Rome - Flowers From Exile (neofolk) 7.75/10
Rudra - Brahmavidya: Transcendental I (death metal) 7.5/10
Ruiner - Hell is Empty (hardcore) 7.25/10
The Ruins of Beverast - Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite (black metal) 6/10
Rx Bandits - Mandala (ska/progressive rock) 7/10
Sabertooth Zombie - ...And Your Fathers Are Dead in the Ground (hardcore) 7.5/10
Seance - Awakening of the Gods (death metal) 8/10
Secrets of the Moon - Privilegivm (black metal) 7.5/10
SelfSays - Something Out of Nothing (hip hop) 7.5/10
Semtex - Pot Secret (stoner/doom metal) 7.5/10
Set Your Goals - This Will Be the Death of Us (melodic hardcore/pop punk) 5/10
Shining - VI - Klagospalmer (black metal) 6.5/10
Shook Ones - The Unquotable A.M.H. (melodic hardcore) 4/10
Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder (doom metal) 8.25/10
Sigh & Explode - These Seem Like Tarantulas (screamo) 8/10
Sleepmakeswaves - Split LP With [artst]Tangled Thoughts of Leaving (post-rock) 8/10
Slough Feg - Ape Uprising! (heavy metal) 8/10
Solstafir - Kold (psychedelic rock, post-rock) 7/10
Spiritus Mortis - The God Behind the God (doom metal) 8.25/10
StapH - Keys (screamo) 7/10
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes (progressive rock) 8/10
Straighten Things Out- I Think We Better Split Up (melodic hardcore/punk) 7/10
Strike Anywhere - Iron Front (melodic hardcore/punk) 5.5/10
SuidAkrA - Crogacht (melodic death metal) 6/10
Sun of the Blind - Skullreader (black metal) 7.75/10
Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions (drone) 7.5/10
The Swellers - Ups and Downsizing (melodic hardcore/punk) 6/10
Teenage Bottlerocket - They Came from the Shadows (pop punk) 6.75/10
Teitanblood - Seven Chalices (death/black metal) 8.5/10
Temnojar - Nordscapes (ambient/electronica) 6/10
Thanatos - Justified Genocide (death/thrash metal) n/a
The_Network - Bishop Kent Manning (grindcore/hardcore) 4/10
These Hands Could Separate The Sky - Save Yourself (post-rock) 6.75/10
This Is a Standoff - Be Disappointed (melodic hardcore/punk) 8.5/10
Thy Catafalque - Róka Hasa Rádió [experimental/black metal] 8.25/10
Touche Amore - ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse (screamo/melodic hardcore) 8/10
Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted to Sin (singer-songwriter) 8/10
Trans Siberian Orchestra - Night Castle (progressive rock/metal) 6.5/10
Trapped Under Ice - Secrets of the World (hardcore) 7.5/10
Tribulation - The Horror (death metal) 8.25/10
Trist - Willenskraft (electronica, ambient) 4.5/10
TwinSisterMoon - The Hollow Mountain (experimental/folk) 5/10
Ulcerate- Everything is Fire (death metal) 7.5/10
Vomitory - Carnage Euphoria (death metal) 5.5/10
Vorum - Grim Death Awaits (death metal) 7.5/10
Why? - Eskimo Snow (indie rock) 6/10
Witchmaster - Trucizna (black/thrash metal) 8/10
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade (black metal) 4/10
Wolves in the Throne Room - Maleovelent Grain (black metal) 5/10

Fourth in a series of two.
See parts ONE, TWO and THREE

This time, they're in chronological order

Sempiternal Deathreign[NED] - The Spooky Gloom [1989]

Here's a band every Obituary fan should listen to and realize how foolish they've been to have worshipped that overrated tripe. Sempiternal Deathreign was probably the ORIGINAL death/doom band. This album came out a full two years before Autopsy's Mental Funeral, and one year before Winter's Into Darkness. Basically, it's really raw, ugly doom/death, influenced primarily by the likes of Hellhammer and Black Sabbath, as well as classic Teutonic thrash (Sodom, Kreator). And unlike the aforementioned Obituary, their solos AREN'T the only interesting thing about their music. There are some actually great riffs to be found in here. Songs range anywhere from 1:55 to 10:53, so there's plenty of variety here, as well.

Traumatic Voyage [GER] - Traumatic Voyage [1992]

This is just plain weird shit. I'm not even sure whether this can be classified as death metal, per-sé. There are a lot of progressive and psychedelic elements, the songs are abnormally long [averaging around 8 minutes], and there are occasional clean vocals as well. The closest thing to this that I can recall having heard prior was Timeghoul's demos, but those aren't exactly well-known, nor is a direct comparison fully accurate. You know what? Just check it out for yourself. There's a good chance you'll hate it, but it was definitely one of the more unique early extreme metal bands [use of past tense is misleading, since they're still around... and their more recent albums have gotten even weirder].

Chemical Breath [BEL] - Fatal Exposure [1992]

This one's a bit more mundane, but also has a lot more immediate appeal. Thrashy Belgian death metal, influenced by the likes of Sadus and early Pestilence, with a surprising amount of depth and technical prowess. These guys almost certainly would've been bigger if they'd come from Sweden or the U.S.
See also: Values [1994]

Ghost [POL] - The Lost of Mercy [1994]

One of the earliest Polish death metal bands, and one of the few that doesn't owe its sound directly to Vader in one way or another. I actually came upon this record while looking through the chronological data on the 'brutal death metal' genre on RYM. This was one of the first dozen or so releases under that tag, and the only one I hadn't heard. Turns out, this doesn't really fit the description [as it's commonly used], since it doesn't sound like NYDM at all. Instead, what we have is a solid slab of European death metal that can most directly be compared to Iniquity's classic Serenadium, with thick, abrasive, and often sludgy riffs, and vocals reminiscent of Grave's Jörgen Sandstrom. More surprisingly, this album actually has stellar production - especially for something so obscure. And if you don't get a chuckle out of the very first riff on the record, you suck at metal.

Agony [CAN] - Apocalyptic Dawning [1994]

Canadian death metal tends to be awesome. This is no exception. It's brutal as shit. Clearly inspired by NYDM in a big way, but also surprisingly melodic. In that sense, it also resembles the aforementioned Serenadium. It's not the most original thing ever, but it's pretty damn solid.

Morbius [USA] - Alienchrist [1995]

If that title sounds familiar to Arghoslent fans, it should. Drummer Matt Sylvester assumed the title as a pseudonym when he played in said band for several years. There are natural similarities between Morbius and Arghoslent, as well as fellow Virginians Deceased. But the closest parallels can be drawn to early Absu and The Chasm, with whom they share the distinction of being simultaneously raw and epic, with obscure melodies aplenty.
See also: The Shades Below [1992], Sojourns Through The Septiac [2005]

Scenery [CZE] - The Drowning Shadow Of Mankind [1997]

One word: Atheist. This is practically IDENTICAL to what Atheist might have put out between Unquestionable Presence and Elements. A lot of jazziness and unpredictable twists and turns. A few of the songs run a little bit long, and lack the punch that Atheist does, but for anyone wanting to get more from that same sound, you really couldn't do any better.
See also: Philosophy Of Ages [2002], Continuity [2006]

Cauldron Black Ram [AUS] - Skullduggery [2004]

This album sees members of Australian visionaries Portal and Stargazer returning to their roots, playing stripped-down, ugly, primitive death/thrash in the vein of Celtic Frost and Unleashed. Of course, it wouldn't be the same if they didn't let some of the progressive elements from their more well-known bands seep in, so expect some of that, too. Plus... their songs are about pirates, so there's awesomeness all around.

Mitochondrion [CAN] - Archaeaeon [2008]

This is one of the more intriguing up-and-coming bands in extreme metal. They take the 'war metal' sound native to western Canada, pioneered by Blasphemy and infuse it with a heavy dose of progressive elements. Think of it as Axis of Advance meets Ved Buens Ende, with elements of Lykathea Aflame also included. The down-side is that the production is typical of the war metal sound, with drums and vocals being over-emphasized and guitars frequently buried.

Denial [MEX] - Catacombs Of The Grotesque [2009]

you remember that level in the original Quake, where the big red dude rises out of that pit of lava, and starts throwing hot rocks at you? That's what this album reminds me of. Insanely brutal Finnish-style death metal, played by Mexicans - including former members of Cenotaph and Shub Niggurath. These guys have a convincingly hellish, morbid sound with a sludgy [but well-defined] guitar tone, and manage to pull it off with virtually no palm muting. If you enjoy Convulse and Demilich, you definitely need to check out this record.



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[the deathcore faggots might actually learn something...]

Newsletter time!!! Even though I never have any news...
I'm starting to think we should call this "The Top Bands of the Week" instead of a newsletter.

1. Rudra I think this is the first metal band I've heard from Singapore. They bring a similar feel as Melechesh, lots of Death metal with a bit of Black and Folk Metal influence, though it's folk Metal gone Hindu. Though I'd say they're mostly Death Metal. Anyway I highly recommend this band, it's different from the norm. Also they're releasing a new album this year, after hearing their most recent work I'm excited to hear their new material.

2. 7BZH is a band that's not so Metal, but so damn catchy! At least their first album is anyway.The song is my favorite, it's kind of sounds like a cross between, Flamenco, Celtic, and Progressive Metal. Their other songs are mostly Progressive Metal, with a few influences here and there. Unfortunately the album I like only has four songs, their other stuff is good, but I don't much care for the vocals. Though if your in the mood for really catchy and progressive it can't hurt to check them out.

3. DearestAzazel today is full bands that are out of the ordinary, and here's one more to keep the ball rolling. Take Power Metal and 80's Dance music, fuse them together and the end result is DearestAzazel. I don't know if many you will like this band, but I got a couple of good laughs from them. I'm not sure if this is supposed to be a parody band or not, but I found it to be pretty funny. Though this isn't the first time I've heard Dance and Metal in the same genre, though I think that Death Metal and Dance go together much better.

Listened to List:
Obsidia {Gothic Metal} 7.5/10 (John_Beak)
Eagleheart {Power Metal} 8/10 (John_Beak)
Swashbuckle {"Pirate" Thrash Metal} 8/10 (namnatulco)

Promotional band of the Week!

Ferrum Batavorum (brought to my attention by FolkMetalBass)
Genres: Post-Metal/Folk Metal
Websites/Music Downloads:
http://www.myspace.com/ferrumbatavorum
http://www.last.fm/music/Ferrum+Batavorum
Overview:
A great start for a new. Though the band is young they already have found a theme to stick to and back it up with good structure. Ferrum Batavorum may only have two songs, but they are both high quality songs. I love the beautiful melodies and catchy Folk riffs, the transitions between the two are smooth as well. The only thing that really needs improvement is the recording quality. Other than that Ferrum Batavorum has the makings of a great band, I'd say just some positive reinforcement and a push in the right direction and this band could be headed for great things. So be sure to check these guys!

(Next weeks promotional band: Soul Spit)

21.01 Sólstafir - Köld
31.01 Borknagar - TBA
Skyfire - Esoteric
Augury - Fragmentary Evidence
Rudra - Brahmavidya: Transcendental
Wolves in the Throne Room - Malevolent Grain [EP]
02.02 Adagio - Archangels In Black
20.02 SuidAkrA - Crógacht
27.02 Finsterforst - ...zum Tode hin
27.02 Redemption - Frozen In The Moment: Live In Atlanta [DVD]
Long Distance Calling - TBA
Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR
In Vain - Mantra
Eluveitie - Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion
31.03 Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight
Insomnium - TBA
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - TBA
Pagan's Mind - TBA [DVD]
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition (working title)
Nightrage - Wearing A Martyr's Crown
Wintersun - Time
To-Mera - TBA
Sigh - Scenes From Hell/Tempore Belli/Vanitas
Farmakon - Syan
Wolverine - TBA
Odroerir - Götterlieder II
Eluveitie - Evocation II - Visions
Korpiklaani - TBA
OSI - TBA
Varg - Blutadler
Be'lakor - TBA
Mistweaver - Tales From The Grave
Raintime - TBA
Porcupine Tree - TBA [DVD]
Kalmah - TBA
Indukti - TBA

Absu x 2
ABYSSMAL NOCTURNE
Acheron
Agalloch
Albino Spiders
American Head Charge
Anal Cunt
Angelcorpse
Arpad Leen
Assjack
Atom and His Package
Attacker
Backdoor Betty x 4
Bal-Sagoth
Beach Boys
Beast Wars
Behold...The Arctopus
Be Kind To Your Neighbor x 2
Big Business x 2
Birds Of Avalon
Birth Screams
Black the Sun x 8
Blind Guardian
Bloodcow x 2
Bloodlust
Blood Reaper
Blood Storm x 2
Bongrider
Bongzilla x 2
Bound by Entrails
Brazil
Breechloader x 3
Burmese
Burnout x 2
Cadaver Inc.
Cattle Decapitation x 4
Cephalic Carnage
Cianide
Cradle of Filth x 2
Crimson Moon
Cuda
Cutthroats 9
DADKIDS
Dagon
Darkane
Darkest Hour
Dark Mirror
Dawntreader x 3
Death
Death Kids
December
Deicide
Demoncy x 4
Destruction
Detachment x 2
DEVIN TOWNSEND BAND
Disinter x 2
Divine Empire
Don Caballero x 2
Dr. Mastermind
Drain STH
Dying Fetus
Dysrhythmia
Einherjer
emerge again x 4
Emperor
Enshrined
Envenom Ascension x 2
Evergreen Terrace
Ereshkigal
Faustio and the Beat Army x 2
Fear Factory
Filth Grinder
Flipp
Fog
Forest of Impaled
Freaklabel x 2
Furious Jebadiah
Gardy-Loo
Genital Hercules x 5
Gimpy
Goat Horn
Gorgoroth
GWAR
Hallow's Eve
Hank III
Har Mar Superstar
Hell I Feel
Heraldry
High on Fire
Hell-Born
Hypocrisy
Iced Earth
Identity Crisis
Immolation x 2
Immortal
Impaled Nazarene
Incursus
Indian x 2
Infandous
In Flames
John Vanderslice x 3
Jucifer x 2
Kataklysm
Kick Ass Tarantulas
Kingdom of Sorrow
Kita x 3
Knights Of Tethys
Krallice
Kreator
Krisiun x 4
Lawrence Arms
Legions of Astaroth
Limbonic Art
Lo-Ruhamah
LWA
M83
Mael Mordha
Macabre x 3
Marah-Mar
Manegarm
ManeThereN
Mayhem
maudlin of the Well
Meatjack
melt banana
Melvins
Men of Porn
Meshuggah
Minus the Bear x 2
Miracles of God x 2
Moonsorrow
Morbid Angel
Mr. Blanding's Dreamhouse
Nachtmystium x 4
Nasum
Nethervoid x 4
Neumatic
Neutral Red
Nifelheim
November's Doom
O'Jesus
October 31
Olivia Rose Muzzy
Only Ten Between Us
Origin
Orthrelm
Owls
Pantera
PBR Workshop
Petit Mal
Phobia
Pig Destroyer
Porno Galactica
Powerman 5000
Primordial
Radiation 4
Rammstein
Red Fang
Redline
Rellik
Reverend Horton Heat
Rudra
Rumpelstiltskin Grinder
Satyricon
School of Flyentology
Shanghai To Video
sine nomine x 5
sinister mind
Sioux City Pete & The Beggars
Six Feet Under
Skinless
Skullview
Skyforger
Slough Feg
Slipknot
Sludgeplow
Small Brown Bike
Soilwork
Sothis
Split Lip Rayfield x 4
St. Vincent
Stepping on Angels
Strapping Young Lad x 2
Stone Vengeance
Strong Intention
SubArachnoid Space
Superchrist
System of a Down
Tenebrous
Teratism
That1Guy
Theatre Of The Macabre
The Advantage
The Bends x 6
The Chasm x 2
THE CRYSTELLES
The Daredevil Christopher Wright
The Esoteric
The Fucking Champs
The Gathering
The Horde x 2
The Locust
The Murder City Devils
The Occasions x 2
The Faint
The Ravenous
The Red Chord
The Residents
The Show Is the Rainbow
The Schwillbillies
The Tallest Man on Earth
The Tanks x 2
The Tumbleweeds
These Arms Are Snakes
Thrones
Thyrfing
Todesbonden
Tori Amos
Tool
Toxic Holocaust x 2
Tricky
Truckstop Honeymoon
Twisted Tower Dire
Twelve Canons
Twin Obscenity
Typhus
Underoath
Unearthed
Vehemence
Velnias
Vesperian Sorrow
Vital Remains
Vreid
Watain x 2
Wesley Willis
Wheel and the Fence x 6
Willie Wisely
Wire Hangers
Without End
Wolves in the Throne Room x 3
Zyklon

I WILL DO ONE LAST UPDATE AT THE END OF THE YEAR

READ THIS:
Firstly, some of this info IS wrong. Since it's so many bands, and the dates may change etc., I can't keep track of them all.
TBA means to be announced.
Some of the albums on WILL RELEASE may be working titles, which means that the band may change it. That counts for the release dates too.

Example:
Genre (Additional genre)
- Band - Album (EP/split/itunes/demo) (release date)
(town, country: if there're several bands with same name / former band name: if they've changed it)

______________________________________________________________

HAVE RELEASED

Avant-garde metal
- Ensoph - REX MUNDI X-ILE


Black metal
- 1349 - Revelations of the Black Flame

- A Transylvanian Funeral - A Transylvanian Funeral

- Ajattara - Noitumaa

- Beherit - Engram

- Black Torment / Motörpenis - United Forces Of Blasphemy (split)
(Black Torment: Mexico)

- <code> - Resplendent Grotesque
(England & Norway / also known as Code)

- Endstille - Verführer

- Furia - Plon (EP)
(Poland)

- Hellsaw - Cold

- Kult ov Azazel - Destroying The Sacred

- Samael - Above

- Sólstafir - Köld

- Svarttjern - Misanthropic Path of Madness

- Thesyre - Résistance

- Tyrann - Shadows Of Leng

- Unlight - Death Concecrates with Blood

- Vreid - Milorg


Black metal (Ambient)
- Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II - Diaoluge with the Stars

- Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade


Black metal (Atmospheric)
- Geïst - Galeere

- Geïst - In den Werften der Galeere (EP)

- Wolves in the Throne Room - Malevolent Grain (EP)


Black metal (Depressive)
- Xasthur - All Reflections Drained


Black metal (Industrial)
- The Axis of Perdition - Urfe


Black metal (Melodic)
- Agathodaimon - Phoenix

- ArthemesiA - a.O.a.

- Enslavement of Beauty - The Perdition (EP)

- Graveworm - Diabolical Figures

- Old Man's Child - Slaves Of The World


Black metal (Orthodox)
- Funeral Mist - Maranatha

- Glorior Belli - Meet Us at the Southern Sign

- Noctiferum - Serenades of the Impure


Black metal (Progressive)
- Ørkenkjøtt - Jeg Ser Verden Brenne (EP)
(http://www.myspace.com/orkenkjott)


Black metal (Psychedelic)
- Nachtmystium - Doomsday Derelicts (EP)


Black metal (Raw)
- Antaeus / Katharsis - Antaeus/Katharsis (split)
(Antaeus: France)

- Dodsferd - Suicide and the Rest of Your Kind Will Follow

- Katharsis / Antaeus - Antaeus/Katharsis (split)
(Antaeus: France)


Darkwave
- Lacrimosa - Sehnsucht


Deathcore
- Crimson Falls - Fragments Of Awareness

- Darkness Dynamite - The Astonishing Fury Of Mankind

- Impending Doom - The Serpent Servant

- Trigger the Bloodshed - The Great Depression

- War From a Harlots Mouth - In Shoals


Death metal
- Amorphis - Skyforger

- Disbelief - Protected Hell

- Necropsy - Deathprayer
(Germany)

- Plastikpanzer - Plastikpanzer (demo)

- The Seven gates - Angel of Suffering

- Tardy Brothers - Bloodline


Death metal (Blackened)
- Acheron - The Final Conflict: Last Days of Gods
(the USA)

- Behemoth - Ezkaton (EP)

- God Dethroned - Passiondale

- The Lucifer Principle - Welcome to Bloodshed

- Mortal Form - Taste The Blood

- Necrophobic - Death to All

- Sathanas - Nightrealm Apocalypse

- Sepulchrum - A Sepulchral Theme
(Denmark)


Death metal (Brutal)
- Avulsed - Nullo (The Pleasure Of Self-Mutilation)

- Azarath - Praise the Beast

- Blastomycosis - The Putrid Smell Within

- Bloodfeast - Mea Culpa

- Blood Red Throne - Souls Of Damnation

- Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plauge

- Cerebral Incubation - Asphyxiating on Excrement

- Debauchery - Rockers & War
(Germany)

- Devourment - Unleash the Carnivore

- Embrional / Empheris - The Spectrum Of Metal Madness (split)

- Female Nose Breaker - A Crash Course In Brute Romance (EP)

- Jungle Rot - What horrors await

- Mental Demise - Final Step to Future Madness

- Repulsive Dissection - Cut Open The Aberration

- Sanctification - Black Reign
(formerly Divine Desecration)

- Torture Killer - Sewers

- Vomitory - Carnage Euphoria


Death metal (Melodic)
- The Bereaved - Daylight Deception

- Dark the Suns - All Ends In Silence

- Degradead - Out Of Body Experience

- Destroy Destroy Destroy - Battle Sluts

- Emergency Gate - Rewake

- Hearse - Single Ticket To Paradise
(Sweden)

- Lay Down Rotten - Gospel of The Wretched

- Mirdyn - My Enigma

- Noctem - Divinity (EP)

- Edge of Serenity - The Chaos Theory

- SuidAkrA - Crógacht

- This Ending - Dead Harvest


Death metal (Old School)
- Demonical - Hellsworn

- Graveyard / Terrorist - Same (split)
(Graveyard: Spain / Terrorist: the USA)

- Paganizer - Scandinavian Warmachine (EP)

- Seance - Awakening of the Gods


Death metal (Progressive)
- Hacride - Lazarus

- Nahemah - A New Constellation


Death metal (Technical)
- Amoral - Show Your Colors

- DÅÅTH - The Concealers
(also known as Dååth, Daath = misspelling)

- Gnostic - Engineering The Rule

- Gorod - Process of a New Decline

- Obscura - Cosmogenesis

- Trepalium - XIII


Doom metal
- Autumnblaze - Perdition Diaries

- Forest Stream - The Crown Of Winter

- Isole - Silent Ruins

- My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire

- Semlah - Semlah


Doom metal (Death)
- Ablaze in Hatred - The Quietude Plains

- The Prophecy - Into The Light


Doom metal (Drone)
- Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions


Doom metal (Funeral)
- Colosseum - Chapter 2: Namquam
(Finland)

- Longing For Dawn - Between Elation and Despair


Doom metal (Gothic)
- Ava Inferi - Blood of Bacchus

- Cemetery of Scream - Frozen Images


Doom metal (Traditional)
- Candlemass - Death Magic Doom

- Forsaken - After The Fall

- Spiritus Mortis - The God Behind the God


Folk metal
- Crimfall - As The Path Unfolds...

- Eluveitie - Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion

- Finsterforst - ...zum Tode hin

- Glittertind - Landkjenning

- Letzte Instanz - Schuldig

- Nachtgeschrei - Am Rande der Welt

- Skyclad - In The... All Together

- Subway to Sally - Kreuzfeuer

- TrollfesT - Villanden

- Týr - By the Light of the Northern Star

- Yggdrasil - Vedergällning
(Sweden)


Gothic metal
- Autumn - Altitude

- Entwine - Painstained

- The Gathering - The West Pole

- Interitus Dei - In Motion

- Madder Mortem - Eight Ways

- Mena Brinno - Wicked Polly

- Sirenia - The 13th Floor

- The Spektrum - Daemonicus Awakening

- Trail of Tears - Bloodstained Endurance

- Vanguard - Hydralchemy


Grindcore
- Afgrund - Vid Helvetes Grindar

- Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse

- Antigama - Warning

- Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution

- Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor

- Depression - Eine Rückbesinnung
(Germany)

- Gore and Carnage - Ruidos Para Descuartizar, Mutilar, Decapitar y Convivir en Familia

- Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave

- Success Will Write Apocalypse Across The Sky - The Grand Partition And the Abrogation of Idolatry


Hardcore
- A Day to Remember - Homesick

- Hatebreed - For The Lions


Heavy metal
- Cage - Science of Annihilation
(San Diego, California)

- Chainsaw - Evilution

- Crystal Viper - Metal Nation

- Doro - Fear No Evil

- Evil Masquerade - Fade To Black

- Grave Digger - Ballads Of A Hangman

- Hunter - HellWood
(Poland)

- Impellitteri - Wicked Maiden

- Jorn - Spirit Black

- Loudness - Return to Forever - Aun

- Motorband - Heart of the machine
(Teplice, Czech Republic)

- Rage - Gib dich nie auf (EP)

- Shakra - Everest

- Slough Feg - Ape Uprising
(formerly: The Lord Weird Slough Feg)

- Wolf - Ravenous
(Sweden)

- Yngwie Malmsteen - Angels Of Love


Heavy metal (New wave of British)
- Praying Mantis - Touch the Rainbow

- Raven - Walk Through Fire

- Saxon - Into the Labyrinth


Industrial metal
- Deathstars - Night Electric Night

- Marilyn Manson - The High End of Low

- No-Big-Silence - STARSTEALER


Mathcore
- PsyOpus - Odd Senes


Metalcore
- The Agonist - Lullabies For The Dormant Mind

- God Forbid - Earthsblood

- Lamb of God - Wrath

- Malefice - Dawn Of Reprisal

- Maroon - Order

- Neaera - Omnicide - Creation Unleashed

- ZAO - Awake?
(Greensburg, Pennsylvania)


Pagan metal
- Obscurity - Varar
(Germany)

- Riger - Streyf

- Wolfchant - Determined Damnation


Pirate metal
- Alestorm - Black Sails at Midnight


Post-metal
- Pelican - Ephemeral (EP)


Power metal
- Bloodbound - Tabula Rasa

- Crescent Shield - The Stars of Never Seen

- Domain - The Chronicles Of Love, Hate And Sorrow

- HammerFall - No Sacrifice, No Victory

- Iron Fire - To The Grave

- Lion's Share - Dark Hours

- Mystic Prophecy - Fireangel

- Powerwolf - Bible of the Beast

- Primal Fear - 16.6 (Before The Devil Knows You're Dead)

- Revolution Renaissance - Age Of Aquarius

- Saint Deamon - Pandeamonium

- StormHammer - Signs Of Revolution
(Germany)

- Stratovarius - Polaris

- Vision Divine - 9 Degrees West Of The Moon

- White Skull - Forever Fight

- Wizard - Thor
(Germany)

- Zandelle - Flames of Rage


Power metal (Symphonic)
- Fairyland - Score To A New Beginning

- Gwyllion - The Edge of All I Know


Progressive metal
- Adagio - Archangels in Black

- Anubis Gate - The Detached

- Cloudburst - Do Me A Favour And Die (iTunes)
(Germany)

- Daedalus - The never ending illusion
(ignore the electronic tags, tag it as prog. metal!)

- Derek Sherinian - Molecular Heinosity

- Devin Townsend - Ki

- DGM - Frame

- Ephel Duath - Through My Dog's Eyes

- Isis - Wavering Radiant

- Leprous - Tall poppy syndrome
(http://www.myspace.com/leprousband)

- Loch Vostok - Reveal No Secrets

- Madder Mortem - Eight Ways

- Mastodon - Crack The Skye

- Mind Odyssey - Time To Change It

- Nova Art - Follow Yourself

- OSI - Blood

- Persona Non Grata - Shade in the Light
(Greece)

- Pathosray - Sunless Skies

- Queensrÿche - American Soldier

- Sons of Seasons - Gods of Vermin

- Spheric Universe Experience - Unreal

- Stream of Passion - The Flame Within


Sludge metal
- Birds of Prey - The Hellpreacher

- Buried Inside - Spoils of Failure


Symphonic metal
- Delain - April Rain

- Lunatica - New Shores

- Nightwish - Made in Hong Kong (And Various Other Places) (EP)


Thrash metal
- After All - Cult Of Sin
(Belgium)

- Blood Tsunami - Grand Feast for Vultures

- Bloodthirst / Excidium - Infernal Thrashing Kömmandments (split)
(Bloodthirst: Poland / Excidium: Poland)

- Bulldozer - Unexpected Fate
(Italy)

- Chain Reaction - Vicious Circle
(Poland)

- Criminal - White Hell

- Dead Head - Depression Tank

- Drone - Juggernaut
(Celle, Germany)

- Ektomorf - What Doesn't Kill Me...

- Gurd - Your Drug of Choise

- Hatesphere - To The Nines

- Kreator - Hordes of Chaos

- Mantic Ritual - Executioner
(formerly Meltdown

- Motörpenis / Black Torment - United Forces Of Blasphemy (split)
(Black Torment: Mexico)

- Sepultura - A-Lex

- Soulfly - Blood Fire Water Hate (EP)

- Susperia - Attitude

- Thanatos - Justified Genocide
(the Netherlands)

- Voivod - Infini

- Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmares
(the USA)


Thrash metal (Blackened)
- Absu - Absu
(Plano, Texas)

- Empheris / Embrional - The Spectrum Of Metal Madness (split)

- Excidium / Bloodthirst - Infernal Thrashing Kömmandments (split)
(Excidium: Poland / Bloodthirst: Poland)

- Razor of Occam - Homage To Martyrs

- Terrorist / Graveyard - Same (split)
(Terrorist: the USA / Graveyard: Spain)


Thrash metal (Melodic)
- Legions of Fire - The Mark of Power

- Malefice - Dawn Of Reprisal


Thrash metal (Technical)
- Artillery - When Death Comes


Traditional metal
- Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know


Vedic metal
- Rudra - Brahmavidya: Transcendental I


Viking metal
- Hammer Horde - Under The Mighty Oath

- Strydegor - Back On Ancient Traces



WILL RELEASE

Alternative metal
- AM Conspiracy - While You Were Sleeping (TBA)

- Helmet (2009)

- Mandragora (Late 2009)
(Slovakia)

- Mourningside (TBA)

- SOiL (TBA)

- Stone Sour (2010)


Avant-garde metal
- Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious (September 2009)

- Sigh - Scene from Hell (2009)

- Sigh - Scene from Hell/Tempore Belli/Vanitas (December 2009)

- Subterranean Masquerade - In Pastille Colors (December 2009)


Black metal
- Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation of the Black Widow (29th June 2009)

- Angmar - Zurück in die Unterwelt (December 2009)

- Avsky - Scorn (December 2009)

- Azaghal - Teraphim (August 2009)

- Bestia - Ronkade Parved (Early 2009)

- Borknagar - Universal (September 2009)

- Bornholm - March For Glory And Revenge (30th June 2009)

- Carpathian Forest - Universal Evil (December 2009)

- Conspiracy - Concordat (June 2009)
(Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

- Decayed - Shadowland (EP) (December 2009)

- Dark Funeral (February 2009)

- Darkmoon Warrior - Crown of Snakes (July 2009)

- Darkthrone (2009)

- Destruktor - Nailed (2009)

- Enthroned - Pentagrammaton (December 2009)

- Fortid - Völuspá Part III: Fall of the Ages (December 2009)

- Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt Ad Satanitatem Trahunt (December 2009)

- Immortal - All Shall Fail (October 2009)

- The Legion - A Bliss to Suffer (2009)
(Sweden)

- Marduk (September 2009)

- Mayhem - Life Eternal (EP) (TBA)

- Nazxul - Iconoclast (December 2009)

- Negator - Misanthropic Manifest (December 2009)

- Nirnaeth - Splendour of the Abyss (December 2009)
(France)

- Ragnarok - Collectors of the King (December 2009)

- URT - Ex mortuis - Saatanhark III (September 2009)

- Wyrd - Kalivägi (June 2009)


Black metal (Ambient)
- Velvet Cacoon - Atropine (2009)


Black metal (Atmospheric)
- Drudkh - Microcosmos (14th July 2009)

- Foscor - Groans To The Guilty (June 2009)

- Summoning (September 2009)


Black metal (Depressive)
- Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs (March 2009)

- Bergraven - Asketens Enda Prydad (December 2009)

- Den Saakaldte - All Hail Pessimism (April 2009)

- Forgotten Tomb - Under Saturn Retrograde (December 2009)

- Secrets of the Moon - Privilegivm (September 2009)

- Shining - VI - Klagopsalmer (23rd June 2009)
(Sweden)

- Skitliv - Skandinavisk Misantropi (24th August 2009)

- Taake - Taake (December 2009)

- Wolfsmond (TBA)


Black metal (Industrial)
- Mezzerschmitt (October 2009)

- Reverence - Inactive Theocracy (October 2009)

- Thorns (2009)


Black metal (Melodic)
- Cryptic Wintermoon (September 2009)

- Illnath - Three Nights in the Sewers of Sodom (December 2009)

- PANTHEON I - Worlds I Create (27th July 2009)

- Rotting Christ (January 2010)

- Sworn - Bastards & Conqueror (October 2009)

- Varathron - Stygian Forces of Scorn (December 2009)

- Wolven Ancestry - Silence of the Boreal (7th August 2009)


Black metal (Orthodox)
- Corpus Christii (2009)

- Ondskapt - Arisen from the Ashes (December 2009)

- Temple Of Baal - Lightslaying Rituals (October 2009)


Black metal (Progressive)
- Akroma - Seth (EP) (December 2009)

- Gorath - MXCII (December 2009)

- Ihsahn (TBA)

- Ikuinen Kaamos - Fall of Icons (November 2009)

- Secrets of the Moon - Privilegivm (December 2009)


Black metal (Raw)
- Cobalt - Gin (17th March 2009)

- Trollzorn (Summer 2009)


Black metal (Symphonic)
- Ad Inferna - Trance: N: Dance (September 2009)

- Carach Angren - Death Came Through A Phantom Ship (December 2009)

- ChthoniC - Mirror of Retribution (10th August 2009)

- Dagor Dagorath - Yetzer Ha'Ra (August 2009)

- Darzamat - Solfernus' Path (December 2009)

- Dragonlord (December 2009)

- Lithica - Invokation of Satan Within (December 2009)


Darkwave
- YWOLF - Dark Gothic Orchestral (December 2009)


Deathcore
- Annotations of an Autopsy - II: The Reign of Darkness (December 2009)

- Despised Icon - Day of Mourning (22nd September 2009)

- Job for a Cowboy - Ruination (7th July 2009)

- The Red Chord - Fed Through the Teeth Machine (December 2009)

- Suicide Silence - Screaming Your Name (2009)

- Winds of Plague - The Great Stone War (11th August 2009)


Death metal
- Absentation - Claves Inferni (December 2009)

- Carnal Forge (January 2010)

- Demonic Resurrection - The Return To Darkness (December 2009)

- Devious - Vision (31st August 2009)

- Divine Heresy - Bringer Of Plagues (24th July 2009)

- Ex Deo - Romulus (19th June 2009)

- Gone Postal - One Kill Towards Progression (EP) (10th July 2009)

- Grimfist - A New Breed of Brutality (December 2009)

- Hypocrisy (October 2009)

- Illdisposed - Songs of Hate and Depression (28th August 2009)

- Laethora - The Light In Which We All Burn (December 2009)

- Lykathé (TBA)

- Magnacult (November 2009)

- Pandemia (November 2009)

- Vader (EP) (2009)

- Vader - Necropolis (21st August 2009)


Death metal (Blackened)
- Behemoth - Evangelion (7th August 2009)

- Belphegor - Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn (October 2009)

- Dawn of Azazel (2009)

- Goatwhore - Carving Out The Eyes Of God (23rd June 2009)

- Impiety - Terroreign (Apocalyptic Armageddon Command) (April 2009)


Death metal (Brutal)
- Abysmal Torment - Omnicide (April 2009)

- Bloodsoaked - Sadistic deeds... grotesque memories (June 2009)

- Corpus Mortale (December 2010)

- Deathead - An Offering to the Gods (TBA)

- Decrepit Birth - Polarity (August 2009)

- Defeated Sanity - Chapters Of Repugnance (December 2009)

- Despondency - Revelation IV (Rise Of The Nemesis) (2009)

- Dying Fetus - Descend Into Depravity (15th September 2009)

- Enthrallment - Immerse In to Bloody Bliss (2009)

- Fatal Agenda - A Dish Best Served Cold (TBA)

- Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles (Spring 2009)

- Hackneyed - Burn After Reaping (14th August 2009)

- Human Rejection - Decrepit To Insanity (2009)

- Infected Disarray - Disseminating Obscenity (21st April 2009)

- Kronos - Prelude To Awakening (April 2009)
(Thaon-les-Vosges, France)

- Malevolent Creation (2009)

- Nile (October 2009)

- Pathology (2009)
(Canada)

- Repulsive Dissection - Cut Open The Aberration (TBA)

- Resurrected - Fierce (December 2009)

- Resurrecturis - non voglio morire (TBA)

- Silencer - Divisions (TBA)
(the USA)

- Splattered Cadaver (TBA)

- Suffocation - Blood Oath (3rd July 2009)

- Supreme Pain - Nemesis Enforcer (May 2009)

- Thy Flesh Consumed - Unrepentant (December 2009)

- Ulcerate - Everything is Fire (2009)


Death metal (Industrial)
- The Project Hate MCMXCIX - The Lustrate Process (6th July 2009)

- Thy Disease - ANSHUR-ZA (December 2009)


Death metal (Melodic)
- The Absence - Enemy unbound (December 2009)

- Arch Enemy (October 2009)

- Arise - The Reckoning (2009)

- Avatar (TBA)

- Be'lakor - Stone's Reach (20th June 2009)

- Canopy - Will and Perception (December 2009)
(Södertälje, Sweden)

- Construcdead - Endless Echo (December 2009)

- Crystalic (December 2009)

- D Creation - Silent Echoes (Early 2009)

- Dark Age (October 2009)

- Dawn of Tears - Dark Chamber Letanies (2009)

- Disarmonia Mundi - The Isolation Game (December 2009)

- Disarmonia Mundi - Nebularium + The Restless Memoires (26th June 2009)

- Engel (February 2009)

- Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Children of the Dark Waters

- Insomnium (April 2009)

- Kalmah (December 2009)

- Mandragora (2009)
(Lithuania)

- Miseration - The Mirroring Shadow (December 2009)

- Mistweaver - Tales from the Grave (December 2009)

- Nightrage - Wearing A Martyr's Crown (22nd June 2009)

- nothnegal - Antidote of Realism (EP) (March 2009)

- Paths of Possession (November 2009)

- Prey For Nothing - violence divine (2009)

- Raintime (December 2009)

- Satariel - White Ink (2009)

- Skyfire - Esoteric (September 2009)

- Skyfire - Fractal (EP) (July 2009)

- Soilwork (2010/2011)

- Torchbearer - Dying Codex (November 2009)

- Toxicbleed - House of horrors (2009)

- Wintersun - Time (August 2009)


Death metal (Old school)
- Asphyx - Death... The Brutal Way (22nd June 2009)

- Benediction/Wolfbrigade - Benediction/Wolfbrigade Split (Split/EP) (September 2009)
(Benediction: Birmingham, England/Wolfbrigade: formerly Wolfpack)

- Hail of Bullets - Warsaw Rising (EP) (17th July 2009)

- Morbid Angel (2009)

- Nominon (December 2010)

- Obituary - Darkest Day (30th June 2009)

Death metal (Progressive)
- Augury - Fragmentary Evdence (17th July 2009)

- Estertor - Inner Sight (December 2009)

- Farmakon - Syan (December 2009)

- In Vain - Mantra (September 2009)

- Kalisia - Cybion (TBA)

- Obsidian (December 2009)

- Persefone - Shin-kan (22nd July 2009)


Death metal (Technical)
- Anata (December 2009)

- Atheist (2009)

- Carcariass (December 2009)

- Hellwitch - Omnipotent Convocation (1st August 2009)

- In-Quest - Made Out Of Negative Matter (December 2009)

- Man Must Die - No Tolerance For Imperfection (December 2009)

- Natron - Rot Among Us (December 2009)

- Necrophagist (December 2009)

- Oath To Vanquish - The Ruinous Fate of the Blind (December 2009)

- Pestilence - Resurrection Macabre (16th March 2009)

- Reciprocal - Reciprocal (December 2009)

- Trepalium - XIII (Spring 2009)

- Vengeful - The Omnipresent Curse (December 2009)

- Visceral Bleeding (December 2009)


Doom metal
- Agalloch (2009)

- Anathema - Horizons (December 2009)

- Ashes You Leave - Songs of the lost (July 2009)

- Bloody Panda (August 2009)

- Katatonia (TBA)

- Kimaera - Solitary Impact (December 2009)

- Sahg (October 2009)

- Virgin Black - Requiem - Pianissimo (December 2009)


Doom metal (Death)
- Novembers Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal (December 2009)

- Saattue - Vuoroveri (December 2009)

- Swallow the Sun - New Moon (November 2009)

- Syrach - A Dark Burial (22nd July 2009)


Doom metal (Drone)
- Hjarnidaudi - Psyko:Stare:Void (June 2009)

- Nadja - When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV


Doom metal (Funeral)
- Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans (22nd July 2009)
(Germany)


Doom metal (Traditional)
- Lord Vicar - Fear no Pain (2009)

- Trouble - The Dark Riff (December 2009)


Extreme Metal
- Aeturnus Dominion - Annihilation Process (December 2009)


Folk metal
- Arkona - Goi, Rode, Goi! (December 2009)
(Russia)

- Ásmegin - Tusind Tabte Siæles Kakofoni (TBA)

- Blackguard - Profugus Mortis (20th March 2009)
(formerly Profugus Mortis)

- Camlann - Caladbolg (2009)

- Dalriada - Arany-album (5th October 2009)
(Sopron, Hungary / formerly Echo of Dalriada[/artitst])

- Die Apokalyptischen Reiter (August 2010)

- Eluveitie - Evocation II - Visions (December 2009)

- Ensiferum (9th September 2009)

- Hyubris - Forja (July 2009)

- Korpiklaani - Karkelo (26th June 2009)

- Odroerir - Götterlieder II (December 2009)

- Svartby - Riv, Hugg och Bit (Rip, Chop and Bite) (December 2009)

- TrollfesT - Uraltes Elemente [b](EP)[/b] (17th July 2009)


[b]Gothic metal[/b]
- Charon (2009)

- Darkwell (December 2009)

- Elis - Catharsis (December 2009)

- EverEve - E-Mission (December 2009)

- Lacuna Coil - Shallow Life (20th April 2009)

- Leicohtica (2009)

- Letzte Instanz - Schuldig (29th February 2009)

- Leaves' Eyes - My Destiny [b](EP)[/b] (24th July 2009)

- Leaves' Eyes - Njord (28th August 2009)

- Morian - Ashen Empire (December 2009)

- The Old Dead Tree (November 2009)

- Penumbra (December 2009)

- Theatre of Tragedy (June 2009)

- The Wounded - Hail to the King (10th December 2008)


[b]Grindcore[/b]
- Circle of Dead Children - Psalm of the Grand Destroyer (December 2009)

- Deathbound - Non Compos Mentis (December 2009)

- General Surgery - Corpus In Extremis: Analysing Necrocriticism (March 2009)

- Inhumate - The Fifth Season (December 2009)

- Squash Bowels - Grindvirus (December 2009)


[b]Hardcore[/b]
- Converge (2009)

- Hatebreed (October 2009)

- Liberty n' Justice - Light It Up (November 2009)

- Machine Insufficiency - The Power of Denial (2009)
([url=http://www.myspace.com/machineinsufficiency06 nofollow=yes]http://www.myspace.com/machineinsufficiency06[/url])

- Wolfbrigade[color=red]/[/color] Benediction - Benediction/Wolfbrigade Split [b](Split/EP)[/b] (September 2009)
(Wolfbrigade: formerly Wolfpack [color=red]/[/color] Benediction:Birmingham, England)


[b]Heavy metal[/b]
- 3 Inches of Blood - Here Waits Thy Doom (November 2009)

- Astral Doors (September 2009)

- Bible of the Devil - Freedom Metal (2009)

- Brown Brigade - Guyanese Democracy (2009)

- Crimson Glory - Metatron, Lucifer and the Divine Chaos (December 2009)

- Emergency Gate - Reawake (23rd January 2009)

- Gitaron - Mental Visions (December 2009)

- Goddess of Desire - The Power of Metal Compels You (December 2009)

- Halford - Halford IV (December 2009)

- Hellfueled - Emission of Sins (December 2009)

- Herod - Curse of the King [b](EP[/b] (June 2009)

- Jacob's Dream - Beneath the Shadows (July 2009)

- Jon Oliva's Pain (October 2009)

- Lord - Set In Stone (June 2009)
(Wollongong, Australia)

- Manowar - Hammer of The Gods (December 2009)

- Manowar - Thunder In The Sky [b](EP)[/b] (December 2009)

- Masterstroke (2009)

- Nightmare - Insurrection (11th September 2009)
(Grenoble, France)

- Pretty Maids (April 2010)

- Ravage - The end of tomorrow (September 2009)

- Sandalinas - Circles (December 2009)

- Shadowside - Dare To Dream (December 2009)

- U.D.O. - Dominator (21st August 2009)

- U.D.O. - Infected [b](EP)[/b] (26th June 2009)

- Winterborn (December 2009)


[b]Heavy metal ([color=red]New wave of British[/color])[/b]
- Argus - Argus (2009)

- Iron Maiden (2010)

- Tank - STURMPANZER (December 2009)
(Britain)


[b]Industrial metal[/b]
- Die Krupps (December 2009)

- Dope - No Regrets (TBA)

- Fear Factory - Nong 7 (TBA)

- The Kovenant - Aria Galactica (December 2009)

- Mnemic - Sons Of The System (December 2009)

- Pitchshifter - 20 Years of Mayham (2009)

- Rammstein (December 2009)

- Rob Zombie (August 2009)

- Society 1 - Sadist Messiah (2009)

- Static-X - Cult of Static (17th March 2009)

- Techny-Call X - Evolution (TBA)


[b]Love metal[/b]
- HIM - Love In Theory And Practice (March 2010)
(Finland)


[b]Mathcore[/b]
- The Dillinger Escape Plan (April 2009)


[b]Metalcore[/b]
- Architects - Hollow Crown (2009)

- As I Lay Dying (December 2010)

- As We Fight - Meet Your Maker (December 2009)

- Between the Buried and Me (September 2009)

- The Blackout Argument - Remedies (June 2009)

- Blood Has Been Shed - Enloco Tacoa (2009)

- Buried Inside (February 2009)

- Burnt by the Sun (2009)

- Caliban - Say Hello To Tragedy (December 2009)

- Chimaira - The Infection (21st April 2009)

- Darkest Hour - The Eternal Return (23rd June 2009)

- The Devil Wears Prada (2009)

- DevilDriver - Pray For Villains (14th July 2009)

- Diecast (2009)

- Hell Within (February 2009)

- It Dies Today - Lividity (27th January 2009)

- Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage (23rd June 2009)

- Living Sacrifice - Death Machine (2009)

- Shadows Fall (November 2009)

- Threat Signal - Vigilance (28th August 2009)


[b]Nu metal[/b]
- Deftones - Eros (December 2009)

- Depswa [b](EP)[/b] (2008)

- KoЯn (August 2009)

- Mudvayne (Spring 2009)

- Papa Roach - Metamorphosis (February 2009)

- SOiL (August 2009)


[b]Pagan metal[/b]
- Black Messiah - First War of the world (20th March 2009)

- Fjoergyn - Jahreszeiten (September 2009)

- Minas Morgul - Eisengott (October 2009)
(Frankfurt, Germany)

- Varg - Blutaar (March 2010)


[b]Porngrind[/b]
- Total Anal Infection - Beast The Bitch (2009)


[b]Power metal[/b]
- Angband (2009)

- Axxis - Utopia (28th August 2009)

- Black Majesty (December 2010)

- Celesty - Vendetta (18th March 2009)

- Cellador - For All or Nothing (December 2009)

- Civilization One - Calling the Gods (December 2009)

- Dawn of Destiny (October 2009)

- Dream Evil - In The Night (December 2009)

- Dreamland - Exit 49 (December 2009)
(Sweden)

- Fool's Game - Reality Divine (2009)

- Freedom Call - Legend of the Shadowking (September 2009)

- Gaia Epicus - Dark Secrets (December 2009)

- Gamma Ray (November 2009)

- Heavenly (November 2009)

- Infinity Overture - Kingdom of Utopia (2009)

- Iron Mask - Shadow of the red Baron (December 2009)

- Jag Panzer - [album artist=Jag Panzer]The Scourge of Light[/album (November 2009)

- Kamelot (November 2009)

- Lord - [album artist=Lord]Set in Stone[/album] (2009)

- Magic Kingdom - [album artist=Magic Kingdom]Symphony of War[/album] (December 2009)

- Masterplan (Early 2009)

- Metalium (August 2009)

- Mob Rules - [album artist=Mob Rules]Radical Peace[/album] (December 2009)
(Germany)

- Morifade - [album artist=Morifade]Empire of Souls[/album] (December 2009)

- Nanowar Of Steel - [album artist=Nanowar of Steel]Metroplis Pt. 3: The Legacy[/album] (December 2009)
(formerly Nanorwar)

- Rebellion - [album artist=Rebellion]Arise: From Ragnarök to Ginnungagap - The History of the Vikings Volume III[/album] (24th July 2009)
(Germany)

- Rebellion - [album artist=Rebellion]The Clans Are Marching[/album] [b](EP)[/b] (19th June 2009)
(Germany)

- Sacred Oath - [album artist=Sacred Oath]Sacred Oath[/album] (10th July 2009)

- Sentiment - [album artist=Sentiment]From Here to Ever After[/album] (TBA)
(looking for a label)

- Sinergy - [album artist=Sinergy]Sins of the Past[/album] (December 2009)

- Sonata Arctica (September 2009)

- Tad Morose (December 2009)

- Thunderstone (September 2009)

- Warmen - [album artist=Warmen]Japanese Hospitality[/album] (26th August 2009)

- Wuthering Heights - [album artist=Wuthering Heights]SALT[/album] (December 2009)


[b]Power metal ([color=red]Symphonic[/color])[/b]
- Dark Moor - [album artist=Dark Moor]Autumnal[/album] (February 2009)


[b]Progressive metal[/b]
- Alarum - [album artist=Alarum]Natural Causes[/album] (December 2009)

- Ayreon - [album artist=Ayreon]Guilt Machine[/album] (TBA)

- Derek Sherinian - Molecular Heinosity (23rd March 2009)

- Devin Townsend - [album artist=Devin Townsend]Addicted[/album] (September 2009)

- Devin Townsend - [album artist=Devin Townsend]Deconstruction[/album] (2009)

- Devin Townsend (2009)

- Demians (March 2010)

- Dreamscape - [album artist=Dreamscape]Everlight[/album] (December 2009)
(Germany)

- Dream Theater - [album artist=Dream Theater]Black Clouds & Silver Linings[/album] (23rd June 2009)

- Dysrhythmia - [album artist=Dysrhythmia]Psychic Maps[/album] (7th July 2009)

- Echoes of Eternity - [album artist=Echoes of Eternity]As Shadows Burn[/album] (December 2009)

- Frameshift - [album artist=Frameshift]Loading Oakfield[/album] (December 2009)

- Freak Kitchen - [album artist=Freak Kitchen]Land of the Freaks[/album] (December 2009)

- Ghost Brigade - [album artist=Ghost Brigade]Isolation Songs[/album] (3rd August 2009)

- Indukti - [album artist=Indukti]Idem[/album] (27th July 2009)

- Mechanical Poet - [album artist=Mechanical Poet]Eidoline - The Arrakeen Code[/album] (2009)

- Myrath - [album artist=Myrath]Desert Call[/album] (December 2009)

- Nevermore - [album artist=Nevermore]The Obsidian Conspiracy[/album] (December 2009)

- Oblique Rain - [album artist=Oblique Rain]October Dawn[/album] (December 2009)

- Orphaned Land - [album artist=Orphaned Land]The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR[/album] (September 2009)

- Pain of Salvation (2009/2010)

- Prototype (2009)

- Riverside - [album artist=Riverside]Anno Domini High Definition[/album] (22nd June 2009)

- Shadow Gallery (October 2009)

- Silent Voices (June 2009)

- Vanden Plas (October 2009)

- Wolverine - [album artist=Wolverine]Communication Lost[/album] (December 2009)

- Yakuza (October 2009)


[b]Reggae metal[/b]
- Skindred - [album artist=Skindred]Jumping the Shark[/album] [b](EP)[/b] (August 2009)


[b]Sludge metal[/b]
- Baroness (November 2009)

- Kylesa - [album artist=Kylesa]Static Tensions[/album] (17th March 2009)

- Switchblade - [album artist=Switchblade]Invictus Infinitum[/album] (April 2009)


[b]Stoner metal[/b]
- Down - [album artist=Down]Down IV[/album] (June 2009)

- High on Fire (August 2009)

- Orange Goblin (September 2009)


[b]Symphonic metal[/b]
- Amberian Dawn - [album artist=Amberian Dawn]The Clouds of Northland Thunder[/album] (29th June 2009)

- Dark Moor (February 2009)

- Darzamat - Solfernus' Path (December 2009)

- Epica - [album artist=Epica]Design Your Universe[/album] (December 2009)

- Operatika (June 2010)

- Tarja - [album artist=Tarja]What Lies Beneath[/album] (December 2010)

- Trans-Siberian Orchestra - [album artist=Trans-Siberian Orchestra]Night Castle[/album] (December 2009)

- Whyzdom - [album artist=Trans-Wyzdom]From the Brink of Infinity[/album] (December 2009)

- Within Temptation (Early 2010)


[b]Thrash metal[/b]
- Ahoora (August 2009)

- Anthrax - [album artist=Anthrax]Worship Music[/album] (October 2009)
(New York, the USA)

- Chaosphere - [album artist=Chaosphere]Anthems to Agony[/album] (December 2009)
(Poland)

- Changer - [album artist=Changer]Darkling[/album] (July 2009)

- Contradiction - [album artist=Contradiction]The Essence of Anger[/album] (25th September 2009)

- Defender (December 2009)

- Defiance (May 2009)
(Oakland, California)

- Détente - [album artist=Détente]Decline[/album] (September 2009)

- Ektomorf - What Doesn't Kill Me... (TBA)

- Exhorder (TBA)

- Exodus - [album artist=Exodus]The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit B[/album] (December 2009)

- Flotsam and Jetsam - [album artist=Flotsam and Jetsam]The Cold[/album] (December 2009)
(Phoenix, Arizona)

- GWAR - [album artist=GWAR]Lust in Space[/album] (18th August 2009)

- Heathen - [album artist=Heathen]The Evolution of Chaos[/album] (December 2009)

- Hirax - [album artist=Hirax]El Rostro De La Muerte[/album] (June 2009)

- Impaled Existence - [album artist=Impaled Existence]Failure in Design[/album] [b](EP)[/b] (2009)

- Machinery (June 2010)

- Megadeth (September 2009)

- Meliah Rage - [album artist=Meliah Rage]Masquerade[/album] (28th July 2009)

- Methedras - [album artist=Methedras]Katarsis[/album] (2009)

- Mutation (TBA)

- Nocturnal Fear - [album artist=Nocturnal Fear]Metal of Honor[/album] (December 2009)

- Paradox - [album artist=Paradox]Riot Squad[/album] (16th October 2009)
(Germany)

- Pitch Black - [album artist=Pitch Black]Hate Division[/album] (TBA)
(Portugal)

- Rising Pain - [album artist=Rising Pain]The Essence of Decay[/album] (25th April 2009)

- Sacrifice - [album artist=Sacrifice]The Ones I Condemn[/album] (June 2009)
(Toronto, Canada)

- Slayer - [album artist=Slayer]World Painted Blood[/album] (7th July 2009)

- Soulfly (2010)

- Suicidal Angels (December 2009)

- Throwdown - [album artist=Throwdown]Deathless[/album] (December 2009)
(Orange County, California)

- Vektor - [album artist=Vektor]Black Future[/album] (August 2009)
(Arizona)

- Whiplash - [album artist=Whiplash]Unborn Again[/album] (15th July 2009)


[b]Thrash metal ([color=red]Blackened[/color])[/b]
- Dawn of Azazel (2009)

- Deströyer 666 - [album artist=Deströyer 666]Defiance[/album] (19th June 2009)

- Empheris - [album artist=Empheris]Dark Spaces[/album] [b](EP)[/b] (19th March 2009)

- IXXI - [album artist=IXXI]Elect Darkness[/album] (March 2009)

- Saros - [album artist=Saros]Acrid Plains[/album] (Early 2010)
(the USA)


[b]Thrash metal ([color=red]Crossover[/color])[/b]
- Lifeless - [album artist=Lifeless]Full Chill[/album] (TBA)
(England)

- Municipal Waste - [album artist=Municipal Waste]Massive Aggressive[/album] (25th August 2009)


[b]Thrash metal ([color=red]Melodic[/color])[/b]
- Sanctity (December 2009)

- The Spektrum - Daemonicus Awakening (17th April 2009)

- Terror By The Lake - [album artist=Terror by the Lake]Terror by the Lake[/album] (TBA)


[b]Thrash metal ([color=red]Technical[/color])[/b]
- Believer - [album artist=Believer]Gabriel[/album] (17th March 2009)


[b]Viking metal[/b]
- Nomans Land - [album artist=Nomans Land]Farnord[/album] (29th August 2009)

- Månegarm - [album artist=Månegarm]Nattväsen[/album] (22nd October 2009)

- Strydegor - [album artist=Strydegor]Midwinter's Eve[/album] [b](EP)[/b] (23rd October 2009)

- Thrudvangar (January 2010)

- Thundra - [album artist=Thundra]Ignored by Fear[/album] (29th August 2009)

- Wulfgar - [album artist=Wulfgar]Midgardian Metal[/album] (September 2009)
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Also see: [url=http://www.last.fm/user/gunleik/journal/2008/10/08/27kdk2_metal_bands_that_have_released_an_albumep_in_2008]Metal bands that have released an album/EP in 2008[/url]

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Last update: [b]17th June '09[/b] - Next update: [b]July - August '09[/b]

Firstly, YHALOTHAR. last.fm = epic fail for messing with their own formatting stuff. Hence, the repost. Go figure.

1. ‘surveys’, ‘top x questions/whatever’, ‘memes’, or other such material with similar ‘content’ infest the artist’s recent journals.

A transfer of symbols without a transfer of values, that’s what those ‘reading’ materials most signify. Boredom is no excuse for making trite observations about characteristics of so-and-so. At the very least there’s always the option of leaving the artist connections off for those who actually had something interesting to say. It’s almost always about original content. This journal is no different from the rest and that in itself should be a lesson for those who never knew better.

2. one retard polluting the shoutbox is enough to ruin them.

Two kinds of one, actually, the fan and the ‘hater’. The ‘hater’ for being ‘obviously’ what s/he is, and the fantard for needlessly glorifying them. Especially the ones who refuse to acknowledge imperfection’s reality; it comes hand in hand with lacking the necessary faculties and/or willpower for incisive cogitation. E-snarkiness is not that hard to detect, especially the tired old ones. Most people are still new to this internet socialization thingamajig, most presumably. Or just poor judges of character anywhere.

3. http://www.last.fm/charts .

Don’t delude yourself otherwise. A hundred thousand listeners give or take a few thousand spam scrobblers can’t be wrong. An unfunny example of emergent behavior in action. Besides, check the journal title. If you found yourself in this page from one of those listed there (how remote the possibility considering point 1) do the right thing and just accept the deal. And think about it, of course. Adroit observation of human behavior online and off helps. A lot.

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These only mean that for every grim and frostbitten band with only 666 listeners at least one of them’s bound to share the music with all the wrong sorts of people who more often than not will only repeat the process to offensive degrees until the label of ‘sellout’ emerges due to the number of so-called ‘fans’ who simply ‘don’t get it’. Children and men-children, the lot of them. Thus, EVERY artist is overrated on last.fm. A transfer of knowledge without a transfer of values. ‘not getting it’ and ‘getting it but disagreeing with it either in whole or in part’ are mutually exclusive principles, that much is obvious.

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A realization of futility won’t dull resolve if prime intent is to rise above it.

Also, because my motives are nigh unfathomable. Today is a relatively short one.

And it’s that time of the year again. Get yourselves some presents.