Recomendar
Metal bands that have released an album/EP in 2008
Out 8 2008, 0h56
Example:
Genre (Additional genre)
- Band - Album (EP/split/itunes)
(town, country: if there're several bands with same name / former band name: if they've changed it)
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Alternative metal
- Sevendust - Chapter VII:Hope & Sorrow (Allmusic 3/5; Bullz-Eye.com 4/5)
Avant-garde metal
- Kekal - Audible Minority
Black metal
- A Forest of Stars - The Corpse Of Rebirth
- Aisling - Stone of Light
- Besatt - Diabolic Altar (EP)
- Cor Scorpii - Monument
- Darkspace - Darkspace III
- Darkthrone - Dark Thrones and Black Flags
- Horna - Sanojesi Äärelle
- Koldbrann - Stigma: På kant med livet (EP)
- Mirrorthrone - Gangrene
- Nortt - Galgenfrist
- Paragon Belial - Nosferathu Sathanis
- Paysage d'Hiver - Schnee
- Satyricon - The Age Of Nero
- Stormlord - Mare Nostrum
- Taake - Taake
- Woods of Ypres - Woods 3
Black metal (Depressive)
- ColdWorld - Melancholie²
- Lifelover - Konkurs
- Melencolia Estatica - Letum
- Nyktalgia - Peisithanatos
- Sombres Forêts - Royaume De Glace
Black metal (Melodic)
- ArthemesiA - A.O.A
- Dark Fortress - Eidolon (Allmusic 4/5)
- Goathemy - Torn
- Nocte Obducta - Sequenzen einer Wanderung
Black metal (Progressive)
- Enslaved - Vertebrae (Imhotep 5/5; Terrorizer 9,5/10)
- Ihsahn - angL (Allmusic 4/5)
Black metal (Psychedelic)
- Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. 1 (Allmusic 4,5/5; Pitchfork 8,5/10)
Black metal (Raw)
- Behexen - My Soul For His Glory
- Vargsang - Werewolf Of Wysteria
Black metal (Symphonic)
- Alghazanth - The Polarity Axiom
- Carach Angren - Lammendam
- Hellveto - Neoheresy
- Veneficium - De Occulta Philosophia
Deathcore
- All Shall Perish - Awaken The Dreamers
- Winds of Plague - Decimate The Weak (Lambgoat 4/10)
Death metal
- Abdicate - Relinquish the Throne
- Blasphemer - On the Inexistence of God
- Behemoth - Ezkaton (EP)
- Bloodbath - Unblessing The Purity (EP) (Sound Of Metal 4,5/10)
- Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
- Carnal Lust - Dawn Of The Hatred
- Crucifix - Threnody of the Crucifix
(the Danish one)
- Cynic - Traced In Air (Sputnikmusic 5/5)
- Demonicon - Hymns of Apostasy
- Devian - God to the Illfated
- Disdained - We All Reek
- Dismal Foresight - Obscured Mind
- Edge of Anger - The Chaos Theory
- Embrional - Cusp of Evil
- Embryotomy - Dissasemble The Dethroned
- Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh (Metal Hammer 9/10; Thrash Hits 5/5)
- Hate Eternal - Fury & Flames (RateYourMusic 3,5/5; Allmusic 4/5)
- Katalysm - Prevail (Allmusic 3/5)
- Konkhra - Nothing Is Scared
- One Man Army and the Undead Quartet - Grim Tales
- Postmortem - Constant Hate
(either Brazil or Estonia, tell me if you know!)
- Six Feet Under - Death Rituals (Kerrang! 5/5)
- Soul Embraced - Dead Alive
- Stridor - The War of Flesh (http://www.myspace.com/stridor666)
- Zimmer's Hole - When You Were Shouting at the Devil... We Were in League With Satan (Allmusic 3/5)
Death metal (Brutal)
- ANMOD - Monstrosity Per Defectum
- Banishment - Cleansing the Infirm
- Cephalectomy - The Dream Cycle Mythos
- Carnophage - Deformed Future//Genetic Nightmare
- Cephalic Impurity - Perverted Surgical Concept
- CREMATED LIVES - Bloodluster
- Cumbeast - Gourmet Of Ill Shit
- Dead for Days - Disassociated From Reality
- Deeds of Flesh - Of What's To Come
- Defloration - Necrotic Nightmares
- Dementor - Faithless
- Devast - Art Of Extermination
- Die You - Antagonist
- Disembowel - Symptoms of Decline
- Disinfect - Screams of Pleasure
- Enthrallment - Immerse Into Bloody Bliss
- Exhumer - Bloodcurdling Tool of Digestion
- Exmortem - Funeral Phantom
- Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles
- Forgotten - Tiga Angka Enam
(the Indonesian one)
- Funeral Inception - H.A.T.E
- Gelgamesh - Last Breath Of The Dying One
- Goreinhaled - The Art Of Sickness
- Horde Casket - Landscape Of Cadavers
- Human Mincer - Degradation Paradox
- Jack Slater - Blut/Macht/Frei
- Orchidectomy - A Prelate's Attrition
- Nailed - Hatred, Failure & The Extinction Of Mankind
- Perfidy Biblical - Generation from Dense Lords
- Prostitute Disfigurement - Descendants Of Depravity
- Repulsive Dissection - Murder-Suicide (EP
- Severed Savior - Survile Insurrection
- Unaussprechlichen Kulten - People Of The Monolith
Death metal (Industrial)
- The Amenta - n0n
Death metal (Melodic)
- Abigail Williams - In The Shadow Of A Thousand Suns
- Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God (Sputnikmusic 4/5; IGN 8/10)
- The Arcane Order - In The Wake Of Collisions
- Catamenia - VIII - The Time Unchained
- Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk (All Music Guide 3,5/5; Metal Hammer 8/10)
- Darkane - Demonic Art
- Deadlock - Manifesto
- Diabolical - The Gallery of Bleeding Art
- Edenbeast - Pasivity Causes Genocide
(the Italian one)
- Enemy is Us - Venomized
- Evocation - Dead Calm Chaos
- Fragments of Unbecoming - Everhaunting - Chapter IV - A Splendid Retrospection
- In Flames - A Sense of Purpose (About.com 3,5/5; Allmusic 4/5)
- Kalmah - Fo the Revolution
- Norther - N (Metal Rules 4/5; Metal Underground 3/5)
- Profugus Mortis - Another Round (EP)
- Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe (Allmusic 3,5/5; Obnoxious Listeners 4/5)
- Sonic Syndicate - Love and Other Disasters (Sound Of Metal 9,5/10)
- Universum - Leto Destinatus (http://www.myspace.com/universumband)
- Urkraft - A Scornful Death
- Zonaria - The Cancer Empire
Death metal (Old school)
- Benediction - Killing Music
(Birmingham, England)
- Grave - Dominion VIII
- Paganizer - Carnage Junkie
- Unleashed - Hammer Battalion
Death metal (Progressive)
- In Salvo - As it Withers (EP) (http://www.myspace.com/insalvoband)
- Into Eternity - The Incurable Tragedy (Allmusic 4/5; Sputnikmusic 1,5/5)
- Opeth - Burden (EP)
- Opeth - Watershed (Sound Of Metal 9,5/10; About.com 4,5/5)
Death metal (Technical)
- Aeon Of Horus - The Embodiment of Darkness and Light
- Arsis - We Are The Nightmare
- Beneath the Massacre - Dystopia (About.com 3,5/5; ChartAttack 1,5/5)
- The Faceless - Planetary Duality
- Irate Architect - Visitors
- Origin - Antithesis
- Psycroptic - Ob(Servant) (Allmusic 3/5)
Doom metal
- Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
- The Eternal - Kartika
- Faal - Abhorrence - Salvation
- Forest of Shadows - Six Waves Of Woe
Doom metal (Funeral)
- Doom:vs - Dead Words Speak
- Monolithe - Monolithe III
- Pantheist - Journey Through Lands Unknown
- Skepticism - Alloy
Folk metal
- Adorned Brood - Noor
- Ásmegin - Arv
- Blackguard - Another Round (EP)
(formerly Profugus Mortis)
- Eluveitie - Slania (Allmusic 3,5/5; About.com 4/5)
- Elvenking - Two Tragedy Poets (...and A Caravan of Wierd Figures)
- Ferrum Batavorum - In Sovjet Rusland, Brood zit in een Flesje EP (EP) (http://www.myspace.com/ferrumbatavorum)
- Korpiklaani - Korven Kuningas (Kerrang! 4/5; Metal Hammer 8/10)
- Kivimetsän Druidi - Shadowheart
- Moonsorrow - Tulimyrsky (EP)
- Saurom - Romances from Al-Andalus (EP)
Gothic metal
- Before the Dawn - Soundscape Of Silence
- Coronatus - Porta Oscura
- Cradle of Filth - Goodspeed On The Devil's Thunder (Blistering 8/10; Kerrang! 4/5)
- Dark the Suns - The Dead End
- Flowing Tears - Thy Kingdom Gone
- Moonspell - Night Eternal (Metal Rules 4,5/5)
- Silentium - Amortean
- Where Angels Fall - Marionettes
Grindcore
- Abnormyndeffect - Betwin
- Cliteater - Scream Bloody Clit
- Distaste - Of Abyss-Hearts and Falsity...
- Exit Wounds - Exit Wounds
(either the Polish or the Finnish one, not sure)
- Extreme Noise Terror - Law Of Retaliation
- Leng Tch'e - Leng Tch'e/Fuck The Facts Split (EP)
- Total Fucking Destruction - Peace, love and total fucking destruction
Hardcore
- Fear Before - Fear Before (Alt Press 4,5/5; Daily Dischord 4,5/5)
- Hearts Alive - The Black Sheep (EP)
- Norma Jean - The Anti Mother (AbsolutePunk.net 7,5/10; Alt Press 4/5)
- Walls of Jericho - The American Dream (Rockmidgets.com 4/5)
- Walls of Jericho - Redemption (EP) (Berontak Zine 3/10)
- Wolfbrigade - Comalive
(formerly Wolfpack)
Heavy metal
- Axel Rudi Pell - Tales Of The Crown
- Benedictum - Seasons Of Tragedy
- Black Tide - Light From Above (Allmusic 3,5/5; IGN 7,5/10)
- Blaze Bayley - The Man Who Would Not Die
- Chris Caffery - House of insanity
- Doro - Celebrate (The Night of the Warlock) (EP)
- Eden's Curse - The Second Coming
- Grave Digger - Pray (EP)
- Helstar - The King Of Hell
- Lord - Hear No Evil (EP) (http://www.myspace.com/lordaus)
(the Australian one)
- Metallica - Death Magnetic (Allmusic 4/5; IGN 8/10)
- Motörhead - Motörizer (Allmusic 3,5/5; Metal Hammer 8/10)
- Judas Priest - Nostradamus (Allmusic 2,5/5; Blabbermouth.net 5/10)
- Rage - Carved In Stone
- Volbeat - Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood (World of Music 4,5/5)
- Yngwie Malmsteen - Perpetual Flame
Heavy metal (New way of British)
- Girlschool - Legacy
Industrial metal
- Pain - Cynic Paradise
Instrumental metal
- John 5 - Requiem
Mathcore
- Architect - Ghost of the Salt Water Machines
(the American one)
- Don the Reader - Humanesque
- Romans - All Those Wrists (http://www.myspace.com/romansnoise)
(the American one)
- Stray From the Path - Villains
Metalcore
- 36 Crazyfists - The Tide And Its Takers (Allmusic: 3,5/5; Total-Guitar 3/5)
- The Acacia Strain - Continent
- Adelleda - Adelleda (Allmusic 4/5; Kerrang! 5/5)
- All That Remains - overcome (Alt Press 3,5/5; IGN 8/10)
- Architects - Ruin (AbsolutePunk.net 9,1/10)
(the UK one)
- Austrian Death Machine - A Very Brutal Christmas EP (EP)
- Austrian Death Machine - Total Brutal (ChartAttack 3,5/5; DEAD PRESS! 3/5)
- Becoming the Archetype - Dechotomy (Decoy Music 4/5; The Christian Manifesto 4/5)
- Benea Reach - Alleviat
- Bleed the Sky - Murder The Dance
- Bleeding Through - Declaration (Alt Press 4/5)
- Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire (About.com 3,5/5; Allmusic 4/5)
- Haste the Day - Dreamer (Alt Press 2/5; 411mania 8/10)
- Heaven Shall Burn - Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance)
- In This Moment - The Dream
- Inhale Exhale - I Swear... (AbsolutePunk.net 8,2/10)
- Misery Signals - Controller (Rockmidgets.com 5/5; Skylinepress.net 9/10)
- Protest the Hero - Fortress (Allmusic 4/5; Alternative Press 4/5)
- The Showdown - Back Breaker (Jesusfreakhideout 4,5/5; Metal-Archives 7,5/10)
- Straight Line Stitch - When Skies Wash Ashore
- Trivium - Shogun (About.com 4/5; Allmusic 4,5/5)
- Underoath - Lost In The Sound Of Separation (Allmusic 4/5; Alt Press 5/5)
- Unearth - The March
Nu metal
- Disturbed - Indestructible (About.com 3,5/5; Allmusic 3,5/5)
- Ill Niño - Enigma (TuneLab Music 9/10)
- Mudvayne - The New Game (Rolling Stone 2/5; Sputnikmusic 1,5/5)
- Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone (Allmusic 4/5; Blabbermouth.net 7,5/10)
Pirate metal
- Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge (About.com 3,5/5; The Metal Observer 8/10)
- Alestorm - Leviathan (EP)
Post-metal
- Trenches - the tide will swallow us whole (Driven Far Off 9/10; Punkbands.com 4/5)
Power metal
- Almah - Fargile Equality
- Angband - Rising From Apadana
(Persia)
- Avantasia - The Metal Opera: Pt 1 & 2 - Gold Edition
- Cryonic Temple - Immortal
- Crystal Eyes - Chained
- DragonForce - Ultra Beatdown (Allmusic 4,5/5; Kerrang! 4/5)
- Edguy - Tinnitus Sanctus
- Falconer - Among Beggars And Thieves
- Firewind - The Premonition
- Gaia Epicus - Damnation
- Harmony - Chapter II: Aftermath
- Harmony - End of my road (EP)
- Hibria - The Skull Collectors
- Iced Earth - The Crucible Man: Something Wicked Part 2 (Allmusic 3,5/5; IGN 7/10)
- Kiuas - The New Dark Age (Sound Of Metal 9/10)
- Lanfear - X to the Power of Ten
- Lord - Hear No Evil (EP)
- Magica - Wolves and Witches
- Paragon - Screenslaves
- Secret Sphere - Sweet Blood Theory
- Shadowkeep - The Hourglass Effect
- Theocracy - Mirror of Souls
Progressive metal
- Aeon Of Horus - The Embodiment of Darkness and Light
- After Many Days - After Many Days (EP)
- Ansata - Crux Ansata
- Ayreon - 01011001 (About.com 4/5)
- Ayreon - Elected (EP)
- Chaoswave - Dead Eye Dreaming
- Circle II Circle - Delusion of Grandeur
- Crises - Coral Dream
- Cronian - Enterprise
- Evergrey - Torn (Allmusic 3,5/5; Sound of Metal 10/10)
- Eyefear - The Unseen
- Jeff Loomis - Zero Order Phase (Allmusic 3/5; Blabbermouth.net 8,5/10)
- Communic - Payment of Existence
- Meshuggah - obZen (Allmusic 4/5; Alternative Press 4/5)
- Royal Hunt - Collision Course... Paradox II
- Suspyre - When Time Fades...
- Warrel Dane - Praises to the War Machine
Sludge metal
- Mouth of the Architect - Quietly (About.com 4/5; Lambgoat 8/10)
Symphonic metal
- Northern Kings - Rethroned (RevelationZ 8,5/10)
Thrash metal
- Bonded By Blood - Feed The Beast (Allmusic 3/5)
- Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted (About.com 4/5; Allmusic 4/5)
- Death Angel - Killing Season (Allmusic 3,5/5)
- Deceiver - Thrashing Heavy Metal
- Eliminator - Breaking The Wheel
- Exodus - Let There Be Blood
(a re-release of their debut album, Bound by Blood)
- Gama Bomb - Citizen Brain (Kerrang! 4/5; Big Cheese 5/5)
- Guillotine - Blood Money
- Hatred - Madhouse Symphonies
(the German one)
- The Haunted - Versus (Sound Of Metal 8/10)
(Sweden)
- Legion of the Damned - Feel The Blade
- Legion of the Damned - Cult of the Dead
- Nitrous - Cult of the Dead
- Ravage - Freedom fighter (EP)
- Soulfly - Conquer (Allmusic 3,5/5; About.com 4,5/5)
- Stam1na - Raja
- Subliminal Crusher - Endvolution
- Tankard - Thirst
- Testament - The Formation Of Damnation (Allmusic 3,5/5; Blabbermouth.net 9/10)
- Warbringer - War Without End (Allmusic 4/5)
Thrash metal(Blackned)
- Empheris - Necrohautic Raids (EP)
- Empheris - Regain Heaven
- Terrorist - Blessed by the beast
(El Paso, Texas)
Thrash metal(Blackned)
- Crawling Quiet - Between shadow and Light
Viking metal
- Esoteric - Sagas (Allmusic 4/5)
- Falchion - Chronicles of the Dead
- Thyrfing - Hels Vite
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Genre (Additional genre)
- Band - Album (EP/split/itunes)
(town, country: if there're several bands with same name / former band name: if they've changed it)
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Alternative metal
- Sevendust - Chapter VII:Hope & Sorrow (Allmusic 3/5; Bullz-Eye.com 4/5)
Avant-garde metal
- Kekal - Audible Minority
Black metal
- A Forest of Stars - The Corpse Of Rebirth
- Aisling - Stone of Light
- Besatt - Diabolic Altar (EP)
- Cor Scorpii - Monument
- Darkspace - Darkspace III
- Darkthrone - Dark Thrones and Black Flags
- Horna - Sanojesi Äärelle
- Koldbrann - Stigma: På kant med livet (EP)
- Mirrorthrone - Gangrene
- Nortt - Galgenfrist
- Paragon Belial - Nosferathu Sathanis
- Paysage d'Hiver - Schnee
- Satyricon - The Age Of Nero
- Stormlord - Mare Nostrum
- Taake - Taake
- Woods of Ypres - Woods 3
Black metal (Depressive)
- ColdWorld - Melancholie²
- Lifelover - Konkurs
- Melencolia Estatica - Letum
- Nyktalgia - Peisithanatos
- Sombres Forêts - Royaume De Glace
Black metal (Melodic)
- ArthemesiA - A.O.A
- Dark Fortress - Eidolon (Allmusic 4/5)
- Goathemy - Torn
- Nocte Obducta - Sequenzen einer Wanderung
Black metal (Progressive)
- Enslaved - Vertebrae (Imhotep 5/5; Terrorizer 9,5/10)
- Ihsahn - angL (Allmusic 4/5)
Black metal (Psychedelic)
- Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. 1 (Allmusic 4,5/5; Pitchfork 8,5/10)
Black metal (Raw)
- Behexen - My Soul For His Glory
- Vargsang - Werewolf Of Wysteria
Black metal (Symphonic)
- Alghazanth - The Polarity Axiom
- Carach Angren - Lammendam
- Hellveto - Neoheresy
- Veneficium - De Occulta Philosophia
Deathcore
- All Shall Perish - Awaken The Dreamers
- Winds of Plague - Decimate The Weak (Lambgoat 4/10)
Death metal
- Abdicate - Relinquish the Throne
- Blasphemer - On the Inexistence of God
- Behemoth - Ezkaton (EP)
- Bloodbath - Unblessing The Purity (EP) (Sound Of Metal 4,5/10)
- Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
- Carnal Lust - Dawn Of The Hatred
- Crucifix - Threnody of the Crucifix
(the Danish one)
- Cynic - Traced In Air (Sputnikmusic 5/5)
- Demonicon - Hymns of Apostasy
- Devian - God to the Illfated
- Disdained - We All Reek
- Dismal Foresight - Obscured Mind
- Edge of Anger - The Chaos Theory
- Embrional - Cusp of Evil
- Embryotomy - Dissasemble The Dethroned
- Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh (Metal Hammer 9/10; Thrash Hits 5/5)
- Hate Eternal - Fury & Flames (RateYourMusic 3,5/5; Allmusic 4/5)
- Katalysm - Prevail (Allmusic 3/5)
- Konkhra - Nothing Is Scared
- One Man Army and the Undead Quartet - Grim Tales
- Postmortem - Constant Hate
(either Brazil or Estonia, tell me if you know!)
- Six Feet Under - Death Rituals (Kerrang! 5/5)
- Soul Embraced - Dead Alive
- Stridor - The War of Flesh (http://www.myspace.com/stridor666)
- Zimmer's Hole - When You Were Shouting at the Devil... We Were in League With Satan (Allmusic 3/5)
Death metal (Brutal)
- ANMOD - Monstrosity Per Defectum
- Banishment - Cleansing the Infirm
- Cephalectomy - The Dream Cycle Mythos
- Carnophage - Deformed Future//Genetic Nightmare
- Cephalic Impurity - Perverted Surgical Concept
- CREMATED LIVES - Bloodluster
- Cumbeast - Gourmet Of Ill Shit
- Dead for Days - Disassociated From Reality
- Deeds of Flesh - Of What's To Come
- Defloration - Necrotic Nightmares
- Dementor - Faithless
- Devast - Art Of Extermination
- Die You - Antagonist
- Disembowel - Symptoms of Decline
- Disinfect - Screams of Pleasure
- Enthrallment - Immerse Into Bloody Bliss
- Exhumer - Bloodcurdling Tool of Digestion
- Exmortem - Funeral Phantom
- Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles
- Forgotten - Tiga Angka Enam
(the Indonesian one)
- Funeral Inception - H.A.T.E
- Gelgamesh - Last Breath Of The Dying One
- Goreinhaled - The Art Of Sickness
- Horde Casket - Landscape Of Cadavers
- Human Mincer - Degradation Paradox
- Jack Slater - Blut/Macht/Frei
- Orchidectomy - A Prelate's Attrition
- Nailed - Hatred, Failure & The Extinction Of Mankind
- Perfidy Biblical - Generation from Dense Lords
- Prostitute Disfigurement - Descendants Of Depravity
- Repulsive Dissection - Murder-Suicide (EP
- Severed Savior - Survile Insurrection
- Unaussprechlichen Kulten - People Of The Monolith
Death metal (Industrial)
- The Amenta - n0n
Death metal (Melodic)
- Abigail Williams - In The Shadow Of A Thousand Suns
- Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God (Sputnikmusic 4/5; IGN 8/10)
- The Arcane Order - In The Wake Of Collisions
- Catamenia - VIII - The Time Unchained
- Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk (All Music Guide 3,5/5; Metal Hammer 8/10)
- Darkane - Demonic Art
- Deadlock - Manifesto
- Diabolical - The Gallery of Bleeding Art
- Edenbeast - Pasivity Causes Genocide
(the Italian one)
- Enemy is Us - Venomized
- Evocation - Dead Calm Chaos
- Fragments of Unbecoming - Everhaunting - Chapter IV - A Splendid Retrospection
- In Flames - A Sense of Purpose (About.com 3,5/5; Allmusic 4/5)
- Kalmah - Fo the Revolution
- Norther - N (Metal Rules 4/5; Metal Underground 3/5)
- Profugus Mortis - Another Round (EP)
- Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe (Allmusic 3,5/5; Obnoxious Listeners 4/5)
- Sonic Syndicate - Love and Other Disasters (Sound Of Metal 9,5/10)
- Universum - Leto Destinatus (http://www.myspace.com/universumband)
- Urkraft - A Scornful Death
- Zonaria - The Cancer Empire
Death metal (Old school)
- Benediction - Killing Music
(Birmingham, England)
- Grave - Dominion VIII
- Paganizer - Carnage Junkie
- Unleashed - Hammer Battalion
Death metal (Progressive)
- In Salvo - As it Withers (EP) (http://www.myspace.com/insalvoband)
- Into Eternity - The Incurable Tragedy (Allmusic 4/5; Sputnikmusic 1,5/5)
- Opeth - Burden (EP)
- Opeth - Watershed (Sound Of Metal 9,5/10; About.com 4,5/5)
Death metal (Technical)
- Aeon Of Horus - The Embodiment of Darkness and Light
- Arsis - We Are The Nightmare
- Beneath the Massacre - Dystopia (About.com 3,5/5; ChartAttack 1,5/5)
- The Faceless - Planetary Duality
- Irate Architect - Visitors
- Origin - Antithesis
- Psycroptic - Ob(Servant) (Allmusic 3/5)
Doom metal
- Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
- The Eternal - Kartika
- Faal - Abhorrence - Salvation
- Forest of Shadows - Six Waves Of Woe
Doom metal (Funeral)
- Doom:vs - Dead Words Speak
- Monolithe - Monolithe III
- Pantheist - Journey Through Lands Unknown
- Skepticism - Alloy
Folk metal
- Adorned Brood - Noor
- Ásmegin - Arv
- Blackguard - Another Round (EP)
(formerly Profugus Mortis)
- Eluveitie - Slania (Allmusic 3,5/5; About.com 4/5)
- Elvenking - Two Tragedy Poets (...and A Caravan of Wierd Figures)
- Ferrum Batavorum - In Sovjet Rusland, Brood zit in een Flesje EP (EP) (http://www.myspace.com/ferrumbatavorum)
- Korpiklaani - Korven Kuningas (Kerrang! 4/5; Metal Hammer 8/10)
- Kivimetsän Druidi - Shadowheart
- Moonsorrow - Tulimyrsky (EP)
- Saurom - Romances from Al-Andalus (EP)
Gothic metal
- Before the Dawn - Soundscape Of Silence
- Coronatus - Porta Oscura
- Cradle of Filth - Goodspeed On The Devil's Thunder (Blistering 8/10; Kerrang! 4/5)
- Dark the Suns - The Dead End
- Flowing Tears - Thy Kingdom Gone
- Moonspell - Night Eternal (Metal Rules 4,5/5)
- Silentium - Amortean
- Where Angels Fall - Marionettes
Grindcore
- Abnormyndeffect - Betwin
- Cliteater - Scream Bloody Clit
- Distaste - Of Abyss-Hearts and Falsity...
- Exit Wounds - Exit Wounds
(either the Polish or the Finnish one, not sure)
- Extreme Noise Terror - Law Of Retaliation
- Leng Tch'e - Leng Tch'e/Fuck The Facts Split (EP)
- Total Fucking Destruction - Peace, love and total fucking destruction
Hardcore
- Fear Before - Fear Before (Alt Press 4,5/5; Daily Dischord 4,5/5)
- Hearts Alive - The Black Sheep (EP)
- Norma Jean - The Anti Mother (AbsolutePunk.net 7,5/10; Alt Press 4/5)
- Walls of Jericho - The American Dream (Rockmidgets.com 4/5)
- Walls of Jericho - Redemption (EP) (Berontak Zine 3/10)
- Wolfbrigade - Comalive
(formerly Wolfpack)
Heavy metal
- Axel Rudi Pell - Tales Of The Crown
- Benedictum - Seasons Of Tragedy
- Black Tide - Light From Above (Allmusic 3,5/5; IGN 7,5/10)
- Blaze Bayley - The Man Who Would Not Die
- Chris Caffery - House of insanity
- Doro - Celebrate (The Night of the Warlock) (EP)
- Eden's Curse - The Second Coming
- Grave Digger - Pray (EP)
- Helstar - The King Of Hell
- Lord - Hear No Evil (EP) (http://www.myspace.com/lordaus)
(the Australian one)
- Metallica - Death Magnetic (Allmusic 4/5; IGN 8/10)
- Motörhead - Motörizer (Allmusic 3,5/5; Metal Hammer 8/10)
- Judas Priest - Nostradamus (Allmusic 2,5/5; Blabbermouth.net 5/10)
- Rage - Carved In Stone
- Volbeat - Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood (World of Music 4,5/5)
- Yngwie Malmsteen - Perpetual Flame
Heavy metal (New way of British)
- Girlschool - Legacy
Industrial metal
- Pain - Cynic Paradise
Instrumental metal
- John 5 - Requiem
Mathcore
- Architect - Ghost of the Salt Water Machines
(the American one)
- Don the Reader - Humanesque
- Romans - All Those Wrists (http://www.myspace.com/romansnoise)
(the American one)
- Stray From the Path - Villains
Metalcore
- 36 Crazyfists - The Tide And Its Takers (Allmusic: 3,5/5; Total-Guitar 3/5)
- The Acacia Strain - Continent
- Adelleda - Adelleda (Allmusic 4/5; Kerrang! 5/5)
- All That Remains - overcome (Alt Press 3,5/5; IGN 8/10)
- Architects - Ruin (AbsolutePunk.net 9,1/10)
(the UK one)
- Austrian Death Machine - A Very Brutal Christmas EP (EP)
- Austrian Death Machine - Total Brutal (ChartAttack 3,5/5; DEAD PRESS! 3/5)
- Becoming the Archetype - Dechotomy (Decoy Music 4/5; The Christian Manifesto 4/5)
- Benea Reach - Alleviat
- Bleed the Sky - Murder The Dance
- Bleeding Through - Declaration (Alt Press 4/5)
- Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire (About.com 3,5/5; Allmusic 4/5)
- Haste the Day - Dreamer (Alt Press 2/5; 411mania 8/10)
- Heaven Shall Burn - Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance)
- In This Moment - The Dream
- Inhale Exhale - I Swear... (AbsolutePunk.net 8,2/10)
- Misery Signals - Controller (Rockmidgets.com 5/5; Skylinepress.net 9/10)
- Protest the Hero - Fortress (Allmusic 4/5; Alternative Press 4/5)
- The Showdown - Back Breaker (Jesusfreakhideout 4,5/5; Metal-Archives 7,5/10)
- Straight Line Stitch - When Skies Wash Ashore
- Trivium - Shogun (About.com 4/5; Allmusic 4,5/5)
- Underoath - Lost In The Sound Of Separation (Allmusic 4/5; Alt Press 5/5)
- Unearth - The March
Nu metal
- Disturbed - Indestructible (About.com 3,5/5; Allmusic 3,5/5)
- Ill Niño - Enigma (TuneLab Music 9/10)
- Mudvayne - The New Game (Rolling Stone 2/5; Sputnikmusic 1,5/5)
- Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone (Allmusic 4/5; Blabbermouth.net 7,5/10)
Pirate metal
- Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge (About.com 3,5/5; The Metal Observer 8/10)
- Alestorm - Leviathan (EP)
Post-metal
- Trenches - the tide will swallow us whole (Driven Far Off 9/10; Punkbands.com 4/5)
Power metal
- Almah - Fargile Equality
- Angband - Rising From Apadana
(Persia)
- Avantasia - The Metal Opera: Pt 1 & 2 - Gold Edition
- Cryonic Temple - Immortal
- Crystal Eyes - Chained
- DragonForce - Ultra Beatdown (Allmusic 4,5/5; Kerrang! 4/5)
- Edguy - Tinnitus Sanctus
- Falconer - Among Beggars And Thieves
- Firewind - The Premonition
- Gaia Epicus - Damnation
- Harmony - Chapter II: Aftermath
- Harmony - End of my road (EP)
- Hibria - The Skull Collectors
- Iced Earth - The Crucible Man: Something Wicked Part 2 (Allmusic 3,5/5; IGN 7/10)
- Kiuas - The New Dark Age (Sound Of Metal 9/10)
- Lanfear - X to the Power of Ten
- Lord - Hear No Evil (EP)
- Magica - Wolves and Witches
- Paragon - Screenslaves
- Secret Sphere - Sweet Blood Theory
- Shadowkeep - The Hourglass Effect
- Theocracy - Mirror of Souls
Progressive metal
- Aeon Of Horus - The Embodiment of Darkness and Light
- After Many Days - After Many Days (EP)
- Ansata - Crux Ansata
- Ayreon - 01011001 (About.com 4/5)
- Ayreon - Elected (EP)
- Chaoswave - Dead Eye Dreaming
- Circle II Circle - Delusion of Grandeur
- Crises - Coral Dream
- Cronian - Enterprise
- Evergrey - Torn (Allmusic 3,5/5; Sound of Metal 10/10)
- Eyefear - The Unseen
- Jeff Loomis - Zero Order Phase (Allmusic 3/5; Blabbermouth.net 8,5/10)
- Communic - Payment of Existence
- Meshuggah - obZen (Allmusic 4/5; Alternative Press 4/5)
- Royal Hunt - Collision Course... Paradox II
- Suspyre - When Time Fades...
- Warrel Dane - Praises to the War Machine
Sludge metal
- Mouth of the Architect - Quietly (About.com 4/5; Lambgoat 8/10)
Symphonic metal
- Northern Kings - Rethroned (RevelationZ 8,5/10)
Thrash metal
- Bonded By Blood - Feed The Beast (Allmusic 3/5)
- Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted (About.com 4/5; Allmusic 4/5)
- Death Angel - Killing Season (Allmusic 3,5/5)
- Deceiver - Thrashing Heavy Metal
- Eliminator - Breaking The Wheel
- Exodus - Let There Be Blood
(a re-release of their debut album, Bound by Blood)
- Gama Bomb - Citizen Brain (Kerrang! 4/5; Big Cheese 5/5)
- Guillotine - Blood Money
- Hatred - Madhouse Symphonies
(the German one)
- The Haunted - Versus (Sound Of Metal 8/10)
(Sweden)
- Legion of the Damned - Feel The Blade
- Legion of the Damned - Cult of the Dead
- Nitrous - Cult of the Dead
- Ravage - Freedom fighter (EP)
- Soulfly - Conquer (Allmusic 3,5/5; About.com 4,5/5)
- Stam1na - Raja
- Subliminal Crusher - Endvolution
- Tankard - Thirst
- Testament - The Formation Of Damnation (Allmusic 3,5/5; Blabbermouth.net 9/10)
- Warbringer - War Without End (Allmusic 4/5)
Thrash metal(Blackned)
- Empheris - Necrohautic Raids (EP)
- Empheris - Regain Heaven
- Terrorist - Blessed by the beast
(El Paso, Texas)
Thrash metal(Blackned)
- Crawling Quiet - Between shadow and Light
Viking metal
- Esoteric - Sagas (Allmusic 4/5)
- Falchion - Chronicles of the Dead
- Thyrfing - Hels Vite
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