Overkill - Feel The Fire

1985

Not quite Thrash. Sounds like a bridge from NWOBHM to Thrash. Good stuff for sure. This record didn't come out until '85. I guess some of the songs were written in '83. If this record had come out in '83 these guys would have been legends. Instead they are just Over Kill.

Kreator - Endless Pain

1985

Venom meets early Slayer. The first album from Kreator. Really fast and raw.

Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

2012

Legendary Thrash/Death Metal band Kreator. How many people on this album played on the classic albums of the mid and late 80's?

This album rips and smokes. The only problem is there's a big commercial sound going on here in the choruses and some of the chant along/anthem type vocals. If you can get past that, this thing rips and smokes. Very slick production.

For fans of Slayer. Not so much for fans of Kreator old school. People say the last 4 Kreator albums all sound pretty much like this.

Nile - At The Gates Of Sethu

2012

Technical Death Metal. This is nuts but, there's enough to grab a hold of here though. Streamlined production that serves the music well. Fast.

Nile fans seem to like this release least of all. It's been getting quite a bit of play time in the car, I will tell you that.

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.

Goatwhore - Blood For The Master

2012

Goatwhore pretty much rules.

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.

Municipal Waste - The Fatal Feast

2012

Retro crossover. Probably a couple D.R.I. albums you should have before this. Heck, there's probably a couple Municipal Waste albums you should have before this one.

Burzum - Umskiptar

2012

Not really feeling this spoken word Black Metal.

Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

1983

People say this is the weakest in Iron Maidens run of great albums. Well, I don't know about that.

Krallice - Diotima

2011

Epic Black Metal.

High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis

2012

Even better than the last High On Fire record.

Angel Witch - As Above, So Below

2012

New Angel Witch sounds a lot like old Angel Witch, but not as good.

Virus - The Agent That Shapes The Desert

2011

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