Virgin Steele - The Wine of Violence, off The House of Atreus: Act II

Superb Virgin Steele tune. Nothing more to say here.

Cirith Ungol - Nadsokor

Classic metal... ATTACK WITHOUT MERCY!

Ondskapt - A Graveyard Night

This sits musically and stylistically somewhere between Funeral Mist and Watain, which is no cause for complaint by me.

trivium - departure

Pallid Hands by In Solitude may be the greatest metal track of the year. There is so much going on. The guitar riff is the epitome of catchiness and good taste (the overall tone of the guitars is a glorious gothic rock worship) Hell, as much as I love their previous albums, Sister is their masterpiece.

Abysme - Strange Rites

These guys know their old school Swedeath alright, and they pull it off flawlessly

Wayne- Metal Church.

Never got around to it until now, and it's ok; the first 3 songs are the best. It's not great, but it's better than the stuff the real Metal Church put out around the same time.

Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 5

Sibelius is the shit.

The Cure - The Kiss

Fits my mood, minus the negativity, if that makes sense.

Goat - Let it Bleed

Swedish and living in the seventies. I like it!

Paradise Lost - Hallowed Land

Great riffs and keyboards in this

Deafheaven-Roads to Judah

Got the chance to see them on Saturday, not sure if i am going yet though, are they any good live?

Omen - Make Me Your King

My half-weekly dose of USPM.

Cradle of Filth - Darkness Incarnate

Even though the ending is a little too drawn out, I think this is my favorite song from "Godspeed..."

Absolutely Supernatural Addiction is probably my favorite Deceased album.

Judas Priest- Delivering the Goods

Cultes Des Ghoules - Vintage Black Magic

Hail the Hell's Headbangers label for releasing great albums!!!

My Dying Bride, Like Gods of the Sun...Such a bastardized album. I love every bit of it!

Morbid Angel - Suffocation

It's waking me up.

Obituary - Cause of Death

Groovy as hell.
"Chopped in haughhh...."

New Bomb Turks - Tail Crush

Love this!

Necropolis- The Black Dahlia Murder

TBDM's albums keep incorporating a little more melodic black metal influences each album. It started around this album, though (Deflorate)

Torture Squad - Horror and Torture

My favourite of "modern" thrash metal, tho they arent modern at this point, i consider Pandemonium to be a modern thrash masterpiece. The true successors of old school Sepultura. Awesome riffs and fairly technical and catchy songs.

Woe - Quietly, Undramatically

I forgot how good this is instrumentally. Not a fan of the vocals though

Anti-Depressive Delivery - Chain Of Foods

Brilliant album cover. First listen. As far as I know (based off the one song I heard), they dropped a fair amount of the metal sound they had on the first album.

Edit: Definitely some 70s-style metal riffing at times, but more prog rock than the debut.

Right now I'm listening to Sepultura - Chaos A.D due to Autothrall's super positive review. I'm actually kind of digging this. Which is a first time for Sepultura material.

death - empty words

A.G.E. - Runaway Machines

Japanese metalpunk with 10+ minute songs and a fuckload of black metal influence. Some of the best music I've heard in a while.

Sounds interesting. I noticed you posted about New Bomb Turks earlier...cool band, one of the most fun live shows I've ever been to actually.

Prong: "Eternal Heat"
Well here we go: One of those bands which I sometimes kind of surprise myself by liking so much. here they are playing fast music again and it's pretty killer, with Tommy Victor being the star of the match as usual with his precise, choppy guitarwork and instantly recognisable snarls (love that take-no-prisoners New York accent)...of course some of the choruses aren't too great and repeat too often, but I'm happy they're still around. Also, this album has brief bursts of shreddy soloing, which are surprising, tasteful and gets a smile of approval from me.

I think you would get a kick out of them man you should totally give them a shot. They're from '99, unique year for a unique sound.

Iron Maiden - Killers

I haven't listened to Iron Maiden in so long!!!

Mars On Earth - Mars On Earth

A weird industrial black metal gem.

Alhambra "Siegfried"

Vocals are a bit more reigned-in than "Fadista", bar the opener (where they're as shrill as ever, thankfully).

Faith No More - The Real Thing

Ah, the cheese of yesteryear.

Ah, yeah, this is pretty cool. It's too bad they disappeared off the face of, uh, Mars once this was released.

Vader - Welcome to the Morbid Reich

This holds up really well and one of their better modern albums. Nothing will be quite as good as Litany for me, but this is well worth anyone's time.

Degial - Serpent's Tide

Death metal on the more melodic and thrashy side. Of course it comes from Sweden!!

That album fuckin' rules.

Depeche Mode - The Bottom Line

Not my favourite Depeche Mode album (Ultra), but it's still good to great in places.

Inquisition - Arrival of Eons After

Definitely a solid Inquisition album, this.

HAHAHA!! I was listening to Depeche Mode a few days ago. Shit are they good!

Powervice - Into the Light

Great classic metal courtesy of the master Fenriz!!!

just finishing up

Nagelfar - Srontgorrth

up next, probably some verdunkeln, must be in an atmospheric mood.

Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn

Really on a big epic/atmospheric BM kick, listening to a lot of Summoning, Caladan Brood, Falkenbach, Elderwind and the like.

ZØRORMR - Beyond Atonement, from Kval

Just got this in the mail today. FANTASTIC album!