Drone Throne - Everybody Dies Alone

With a name like Drone Throne I would expect something like Sunno)))...these guys are angry doomy metal.

Lately...

Deadbird - Twilight Ritual

Eyehategod plays Neurosis. This album crushes and rules.

40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room

Sounds like Michael Stipe or Eddie Vedder doing a melancholy sad heavy album. It's got a one man band feel. There's five songs, but it all just sounds like one long song, or the same song over and over if you prefer. Lot's of good reviews out there for this, so I'm dissapointed it's not better.

Best of 2011

Because only I know. Here is the best of 2011. Albums that received the most airplay in my car, make up this list. Mostly.

Subrosa - No Help For The Mighty One

Demonic Death Judge - The Descent

East Of The Wall - The Apologist

Neither Regions - Into The Breach

Witch Mountain - South Of Salem

Pulling Teeth - Funerary

White Wizzard - Flying Tigers

Black Majesty - Storm and Stree

In Solitude - The World...

Mastodon - The Hunter (Catchy Fancy Metal)

Essence - Lost In Violence (Thrash)
Unholy Cadaver - Unholy Cadaver (Post progressive Metal)

Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats - Blood Lust

Ice Dragon - The Sorrowful Sun

Ginger Pig - The Ways Of Ginger Pig

Red Fang - Murder The Mountains (Catchy Metal)

Heavy Lord - Balls To All

Portrait - (Slick Merciful Fate Metal)

Wizard Smoke - The Speed Of Smoke

Pharaoh Overlord -

Graveyard - Hisingen Blues

Krallice - Diotima

Vried - V (Slick Black Metal)

Megadeth - Thirteen (Megadeth)

Green & Wood - Devil's Plan (Head Bobbin' Sabbath Metal)

Maruta - Forward Into Regression

Demonic Death Judge - The Descent

Don't let the name fool you this is really good.

-Sounding a lot like the Weedeater/Bongzilla side of things. Zoraoster. They're doing it real good.

David Benson - Purposes Of The Cross

1996

Well, David Benson certainly has Ozzys' vocal sound down to a T. The tunes sound like some early Sabbath.

East Of The Wall - The Apologist

2011

These guys rock out real good. Jam out! Jam band meets Post-Rock.

Fair To Midland - Arrows & Anchors

2011

It's like the Deftones, I think. I'm not sure exactly what the Deftones sound like. This is Duran Duran metal. Thom York singing for the Deftones. Less and less metal as it progresses. Wussies.

Unholy Cadaver - Unholy Cadaver

2011

Iron Maiden inpired heavy metal meets technical speedy metal. and metal. Lots of stuff going on here. -Progressive metal. You can hear Pink Floyd, Maiden, Queensryche...It's like Post progressive Metal 'cuz it's very modern and very rocking.

Trap Them - Darker Handcraft

2011

Chaotic rapid beat down. Get pummeled! This really wears me out.

Tombs - Path Of Totality

2011

Gut wrenching Black Metal inspired gutter crawling with a sludge hammer. It's like getting beat up for an hour in many different ways.

Neither Regions - Into The Breach

2011

Iron Maidenish guitar epicness meets High On Fire steamroller of rumble.

Machinehead - Unto The Locust

2011

This is better than I thought it was going to be. Tough guy metal that is commercial metal. Not into the vibe here. Doesn't suck. No, the lyrics are too wimpy to be tough guy metal. They seem to be directed at 14 year old girls.

Iron Maiden - Brave New World

2001

Really, some repetitious vocals going on here. More sing a long chants than I care for (One is too much). Good album, it doesn't touch the early stuff of course, but not too bad.The way overly repetitous vocals knocks this album back from being really good and listenable.

Hull - Beyond The Lightless Sky

2011

Thank you Hull for bringing something new to the table. I'm not even sure what's going on here. Somewhere in the neighborhood of Rwake...a post rock Rwake.

Hell - Human Remains

2011

Old school 80's metal sound here (with modern production). These guys are good and satanic. Personally, I'm just not feeling it. They've got epic Iron Maiden type songs. Lots of good playing.

-I have to come back to this one.

Dead Existence - Born Into The Planet Scar's

2011

Dirty sludgy Southern dirt rock like Sourvein. Super long songs. Slow, fast.

The Wounded Kings - The Chapel Of The Black Hand

2011

Really long heavy psychedelic Doom with occasional female vocals. I think it's a female.

Candelmass - Nightfall

1987

One killer doom riff after another. The dudes voice is sure to turn some people off. Keeping Doom alive in the 80's, not many had it in them.

Indian - Slights and Abuse / The Sycophant

2007 / 2008

Big crushing heaviness that is a steamroller of a beatdown. For fans of Black Cobra, High On Fire...also long, long slow parts.

-This is two vinyl releases collected on one CD.

Witch Mountain - South Of Salem

2011

Heart meets Goatsnake with even more swagger. A favorite for 2011.

Ice Dragon - The Burl, The Earth, The Aether

2010

Sounds like late model Electric Wizard recorded on a boom box. With even more psychedelicness. I like it.

Pulling Teeth - Funerary

2011

Mind numbing crushing big epic Hardcore/Post Rock. This thing really is an epic. - More like Power Violence Crossover Doom and whatever Torche and Karp are.

-There's a Neurosis like epicness going on as well.

Mother Sun Flower - Mother Sun Fucker

2011

Starts out like late model Electric Wizard, but more psyche freak out. Then it turns indie rock. Then it's a bluesy White Stripes type number + some cool psyche. This is an EP.

Hunters - From Birth To Soil

2011

Big riff rockin' like Down. Gruff vocals. Easy to bang your head and get into it from the very first listen. I don't dig the vocals all that much, but they're not a deal breaker. This rocks!

Green & Wood - Devil's Plan

2011

Love this band. Love this album. Let the head bobbin' commence. Early Pentagram/Black Sabbath, you get the idea.

Eliminator - The One They Were Waiting For

2011

Technical Black Metal. Fast and scary. These guys really get going. Hang on a second...there's some styles here getting mixed that don't usually get mixed. They take some hard right turns towards the unexpected. Purist will be sure to hate on this. It's got the feel of a side project where things are too adventuresome for the "main" band. These guys have got skills and this record pretty much rules.

Brutality - In Mourning

1996

Some pretty awesome Death Metal going on right here. Gruff coarse vocals bordering on the whole cookie monster thing, but not quite there.

Devil - Time To Repent

2011

Retro Doom Metal that's not drawing strictly from one era to do it. Lo-ish fidelity.

Angel Of Damnation - Carnal Philosophy

2011

Traditional Doom Metal with lots of singing about the Devil and God.

Condenados - A Painful Journey Into Nihil

2011

Doomy Metal. I think they're singing in Spanish.

Grant Black - Babylon

2011

If Stevie Ray Vaughn was a fan of 70's rock riffage. There's a little Grunge vibe too, but mostly and overwhelmingly it's got the white boy blues playing the blues festival down in the park vibe.

Isole - Born From Shadows

2011

Sad Doomy metal. Dramatic vocals. It gets black metaly sometimes. Nice blend of styles. Well done. Get bummed!