Enoch - The Hierophant

2011

Jam out fuzz out rock out.  Psyche Power trio stoner rock out extended jams.

Panties - Panties

2011

Sounds like updated mid 90's Hardcore/Power Violence. Fans of Spazz will love this. Although these guys are quite a bit more pissed and evil. Nice to see they're keeping it real with the album cover.

Chronaexus - A Tempest Of Reticence

2011

Long epic Post Black Metal. Not re-inventing the wheel here, but super solid. I'd love to catch these guys live since they are a semi local/Sacramento band.

These guys have got the Black Metal thing down. I'm hoping next time they break out of the box and take it to the next level. I hope it happens.

Children Of Doom - Doom, Be Doomed, or Fuck Off

2011

Very raw sounding punkish (and by punkish I'm meaning messed up Germs, Flipper...something wrong here type of stuff) rockish metalish, with a singer who sounds like a drunk Glenn Danzig with a cold. I like this quite a bit.

Gridlink - Orphan

2011

Crazy chaotic post hardcore blast beat down.

Amen Dunes - Through Donkey Jaw

2011

Sounds like (and it is) one guy multi-tracking some mellow psychedelic tunes. I'm really gonna have to listen to this more closely if I want to figure out what language he is singing in.

Ken Mode - Venerable

2011

Post Noise Rock.

Oranssi Pazuzu - Kosmonument

2011

Swirling outer space effects throughout. Some doomy psyche, with some Sonic Youth type rythyms and occasional scary monster in a cave vocals and a bit of Black Metal tossed in at the end.

Primordial - Redemption At The Puritan's Hand

2011

Braveheart Metal.

Hail !Hornet - Disperse The Curse

(2011)

If Eyehategod played with the precision of Goatwhore.

Elder - Dead Roots Stirring

2011

If Dixie Witch was a jam band.

Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients

Folky 70's horror occult metal.

Crumbling Ghost - Crumbling Ghost

Folky progressive metal that is not angry.

Craft - Void

Black 'N Roll that gets darker and darker...

Norska - Norska

Somewhere between Yob and Unearthly Trance.

Moon Duo - Mazes

2011

Spacemen 3 and Velvet Underground rolled into a ball. Pavement, Devo and The Cars rolled into a smaller ball. Then, smashed up and squeezed into Moon Duo.

Krallice - Diotima

2011

Epic Black Metal.

Virus - The Agent That Shapes The Desert

2011

Early Sonic Youth and Hammers Of Misfortune share a donut at the Celtic Faire.

Thot - Obscured By The Wind

2011

Faith No More meets Rammstien for lunch in France while Nine Inch Nails poisons the food.

Maruta - Forward Into Regression

Crazy chaotic hardcore punishment.

-Been gettin' lots of air time in the car... when I can take it.