https://mergedinabyss.bandcamp.com/releases

found this to be an interesting listen, it's listed as an EP, I would rather call it a demo, the quality is really bad tbh, the amount of static noise in the background can be off putting at times

If this guy manages to record with some better equipment it's something I would be interested in listening more closely for sure, even with such bad sound there's some good music here

didn't want to create a separate thread so figured this to be a good place to share and help spread it around

Archemoron is pretty cool. Haven't gotten around to listening to anything else from the last page yet. I'll give Unburial a shot also.

LOSA "Mastrucatum"
The special edition (ltd 30 copies), is an absolute beauty!!!
Available at 3rdirex.bandcamp.com!
https://3rdirex.bandcamp.com/album/mastrucatum

Matt Barlow (Iced Earth) made a really cool album called We Are Sentinels, although its not metal, just orchestration type stuff.

I just finished listening to Wytch Hazel II: Sojourn. I have not heard their previous album, so I cannot compare and say if they have improved or not, but I did like the album. It reminds me of the original NWOBHM bands in that they still have a lot of, "rock," to the sound and are not wholly metal. They will not compete for a top spot for me, but I think there are some here who might feel otherwise.

i will have to spin the new wytch hazel a couple times before i can really properly compare it with the debut which was my favourite album of 2016. It seems pretty good to excellent on first listen but i didnt realize how excellent prelude was till i had spun it like 5 times.

All metal songs have Bolt Thrower riffs because Bolt Thrower managed to cram every riff that could ever possibly exist into their songs.

I just received Drawn and Quartered’s “The One Who Lurks.” It had been six years since their last release. However they did not disappoint. The new album is what one would expect from DaQ. The production was great and seemed like a continuation of “Feeding Hells Furnace.” The album artwork was probably their best yet. Highly recommended.

Good to know! They've been a really solid band so far, and it's great that they've continued putting out high-quality stuff.

I've been listening to A Sound of Thunder's new album and thought I would add to the chorus that It Was Metal is worth hearing.

Another that I've been listening to lately that I do not believe has been mentioned here yet is 1968-Ballads of the Godless. This is their debut, and it is a very solid stoner album. Those who have enjoyed Witch Mountain, Sergeant Thunderhoof, and other stronger stoner and doom releases this year should give 1968 a listen.

Plenty of great stuff this year if you like black and/or death metal: Altar of Perversion, Balmog, Adzalaan, Knokkelklang, Cosmic Church, Spectral Wound, Varathron, Serpents Lair, Vilkacis, Turia, Urfaust, Mylingar, Nechros Christos, Chaos Echoes, Burial Invocation, Tomb Mold, Taphos, Knelt Rote, Argonavis...

My favorite metal release this year is still "The Sciences." It has been a surprisingly great year all around.

Abigor - Höllenzwang - Chronicles Of Perdition
Bongripper - Terminal
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods
Khemmis - Desolation
Lugubrum - Wakar Cartel
Myrkraverk - Nær Døden
Reverorum ib Malacht - Im Ra Distare Summum Soveris Seris Vas innoble
Runemagick - Evoked from Abysmal Sleep
Solstice - White Horse Hill
Thy Catafalque - Geometria
Wayfarer - World's Blood



These too.

The new Dee Snider album is legit as fuck

https://open.spotify.com/album/3hltBVcs ... 57N4dvWv4g

I wanted to post this. Granted it is slanted towards a more modern approach - both in production and songwriting - but the songs are tight, short and to the point. Plus the riffs really deliver.

I think it is just ok. Didn't know until after buying it that Dee Snider has zero writing credits. All the music and lyrics are written by that Hatebreed guy and the band. Thought that was odd. Sort of what Frontiers do with some releases.

I can see why some people might consider it just OK. I knew that Dee had zero writing credits - even the lyrics were written by Jasta. From every interview I have seen Dee is fine with it. At this point in his life he would not sing stuff he does not like.

Musically I thought I would not like it much but strangely I do. It has enough balls and power to propel the music forward and is just a simple, no-nonsense heavy metal album. Some tracks really rock like "Lies Are a Business" or the title track.

I'm not even that familiar with TS, but this Dee Snider is fun. The snappy writing and hard-hitting hooks make it work and rock the fuck out.

Yeah - forgot to mention that it is very hooky and catchy amidst the heaviness. It just goes in, rocks out, no bones about, no progressive or complex stuff. Just riffs and a GREAT voice (Dee still has it!).

It almost felt like something I'd once have really disliked, with the way the vocals and instruments are produced, in that very aggro modern-rock way. But I guess either my standards have changed or this is good enough to break through.

It feels that way doesn't it? It has that aggo modern-rock type of production with some Andy Sneap approach sprinkled in. For what it is supposed to be - a straight head, modern, heavy metal album - it works pretty well. A gigantic plus for me is that the songs are short and to-the-point meaning they do not overstay their welcome.

It's not going to win album of the year on anyone's lists but as someone who was never the biggest Twisted Sister fan, seeing him do something like this with *that* voice he's got, it's pretty damn cool. Most of the songs on that album deliver, even if it's not reinventing the wheel. Dee's performance is very convincing and I can hear his passion for the music.

This is also what struck me about that album. I like the first three TS albums (and I would say that the some of the tunes are classics) so I knew Dee has the pipes but the vocals on this one really came out of left field. He sounds so powerful and huge on this record. Mean, snarling and still delivering a ton of catchy vocal melodies. The guy deserves praise for that to be sure.

Between the new Dee Snider, Derdian, and A Sound of Thunder, this has been a pretty excellent summer for heavy/power metal. Hopefully fall and winter can keep it up.

What an amazing new album from Imber Luminis. https://naturmachtproductions.bandcamp. ... /contrasts

Different from Nausea, zero depressive vocals, this is atmospheric black metal. Three tracks in this beast, each clocking in at over 18 minutes. Amazing.

Agree Snider sounds great on that album. He looks after himself.

Good recommendation. Love the guitar harmonies on this one.

Kinda meh on the new Dee Snider writing wise but he has held up pretty well vocally.

is Dee Snider the psychopathic gun freak or is that someone else?

You're probably thinking of Ted Nugent.

That would be Ted Nugent. If you discard his politics and general craziness his early solo albums are great pieces of sleazy, heavy, slithering hard rock. Some great guitar playing on those.

Dee Snider would be be guy who went after the PMRC.

that's one way of labeling "ephebophilia" in a friendly way.

and that’s one way of labeling pedophilia in a friendly way.

I have listening to Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods on endless repeat last weeks. I was and still am not very touched by the first single, but the other tracks are an avalanche of musical greatness. Yearlist material.

newcomers Throne just released a really nice Black/Death EP

https://thronemetal.bandcamp.com/album/ ... -the-dying

lots of melodic riffs, yummy solos, great drumming and vocals, really well done overall

I mean, it's not particularly innovative, they themselves describe their sound in the vein of Behemoth, Belphegor and so on, but still, any fan of Black/Death should enjoy this one

Funeral Mist's 'Hekatomb' is an absolute facemelter. Not a weak song on there for me and will definitely be on my Top 2018 list.

Arioch is in fine form and this pummels anything Marduk have put out in a long time. It's definitely more of a straightforward, blistering BM sound to previous Funeral Mist releases. Riffs for days with some nice tempo changes and that unmistakeable atmosphere Arioch is known for. Phenomenal.

everybody knows ted nugent is as much of a fucktard as he was a great musician.

The new Aura Noir is great as usual.

this: https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/K ... ion/718343
Excellent debut full length album...

nice - sounds very bölzer inspired

Ted could rip and shred and write some tasty jams. Got to give him that. His politics...I will not get into that.