Anyone got anything good from this year that they are listening to? Mostly looking for heavy / thrash / death / black / doom but i could listen to about anything if it was good.
Bastard Priest - Ghouls of the Endless Night (punky/crusty Swedeath worship)
Acid Witch - Stoned (doom with death metal and psychedelic keyboards)
Absu - Abzu (actually haven't listened to this yet but Absu is always top quality black/thrash)
Autopsy - Macabre Eternal (death metal)
Cianide - Gods of Death (death metal)
Deceased - Surreal Overdose (death metal)
Exhumed - All Guts, No Glory (deathgrind, Carcass worship)
Havok - Time Is Up (new wave thrash the good way)
Mammoth Grinder/Hatred Surge split (Mammoth Grinder is punky death metal, Hatred Surge is powerviolence)
Jesu - Ascension (pretty drone type shit- haven't listened to this much and not as good as previous material but eh)
Miasmal - Miasmal (crusties playing death metal)
Ulcerate - Destroyers of All (death metal)
40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room (somewhere between epic and Saint Vitus type doom metal)
Ghoul, Asphyx, and Immolation, who are deathgrind, death/doom, and death metal respectively, also have new albums later this year, and each rarely disappoints
new tracks by the first two:
http://downloads.tankcrimes.com/track/off-with-their-heads
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_p8pWYsky0
Coffins also have a cover album where they cover sludge bands which is going to be out later this year; they've covered Eyehategod quite wonderfully before so i'm pretty excited
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evuJlKuFhbQ (horrible sound quality so unless you've heard the original song it might be a bit difficult to follow)
blehhhhhhhhhhhhhh power metal
first two Blind Guardian albums + Sanctuary are all i'll ever need. and even Sanctuary wears thin on me at times.
i guess is should give some US power metal a few more tries if i like Sanctuary though, but can't be bothered. that said i consider bands like Manilla Road more traditional than anything, but that's a different argument entirely.
but anything symphonic in metal tends to be fucking awful.
on it's own topic i've been digging Master's first album the last few days. primitive as cave man shit.