Italian doom and screech vocal band with a viciously awesome album

Ketama Gold: Tons (Italy) 2012, New Import (0:28-6:36)

One of my favorite Boston bands has a new album – a great Friday album – both for decompression and pumping beer energy into your soul.

Bleed Out: Black Pyramid (Boston) New! (7:43-13:14)

Vancouver’s Anciients has one of the most solid proggy riff-tastic albums of the year (so far, I mean, its April and shit).

Raise the Sun: Anciients (Vancouver) New! (13:45-20:17)

Apparently reviewers think Ghost has gone pussy or something, but I like their Satanic values and organ (that sounds dirty).  Yes, easy-listening metal is the new thing.

Secular Haze: Ghost B.C. (Sweden) New! (20:52-26:00)

Lots of gorgeous build-up to epic black metal is All the Empires of the World.  Even the name of the band is kinda build-up.

Paladin Curses: All The Empires Of The World (England) New! (26:53-31:38)

Fun stoner hardcore, garage-y and rocking out from Poland.

http://shotsfromdeneb.bandcamp.com/

War Never Changes: Shots From Deneb (Poland) New! (32:03-34:46)

A Russian jam band.  Nuff said.

Ice Tentacles: Grave Disgrace (Russia) New! (35:04-38:58)

PlasticBag Facemask.  PlasticBag Facemask.  Best name ever.

Alien Shark Embryo: PlasticBag Facemask (Yosemite, California) New! (39:20-40:25)

Progressive mixed with death, spacy and nerdy.  Russia in the hiz-house.

Algorithms (of interplanetarian geometry): Dejuvenation (Russia) New! (40:58-43:47)

Hilarious band from Netherlands, who are clawing the world ladder in best scene.

Raising the Chalice: Acid Deathtrip (Netherlands) New! (44:25-47:23)

Spanish female lead vocals, great bluesy vocals.

The Wicked King: Hela (Spain) New! (47:35-52:31)

Estonians download my show, so I have to check out their scene more often.  Talbot claims to be the loudest duo on the earth. 

Hallelucinogen: Talbot (Estonia) New! (52:54-56:57)

Witty, and country?!  Yep, country style southern death metal.  Ever heard of it?  The Italians Carcharodon have a full on hilarious album, and rocks you out the door.

Adolf Yeti: Carcharodon (Italy) New! (57:16-end!)



Fulgora shares their drummer with Misery Index and Pig Destroyer, you can hear his brutal influence. This band is just hard.

Artifice: Fulgora (St. Louis) New! (6:30-10:47)

Italian jazz hard experimental, the album is very ethnic and world.

667 A Step Ahead Of The Devil: Mombu(Italy) (11:10-14:37)

Crust mixed with black mixed with rock, and romantic enough for this gal. Second album.

Retrospect Dissonance: Ramlord(New Hampshire) New! (15:02-19:06)

Rock band is tongue in cheek, but because they are from Norway, there is some darker elements.

Ladies Of The Night: The Devil(Norway) New! (19:31-24:43)

I can hear the back up vocalist, he sounds like Dave Ed! Danish band The Psyke Project pummels, HUGE epic sound.

Ghost Fight: The Psyke Project(Denmark) New! (25:35-29:42)

Shining is produced by the dude that does Nine Inch Nails, and you can hear the industrial influence, and of course the jazz-y ness.

The One Inside: Shining(Norway) New! (30:06-34:06)

Landscape epic romance soundtrack from Italy.

Son of the Cathartic Cave: Hierophant(Italy) New! (34:19-38:34)

Surtr breaks down, and you are like, holy headbanging crap. Medieval drumming, folksy vocals, and a whole lotta doom. Love this album.

Three Winters of War: Surtr(France) New! (38:56-44:57)

Azure Emote brings forth experimental death with progressive and psychedelic and industrial, in a fully complex album.

Epoch of De-Evolution: Azure Emote (Philly) New! (45:56-51:30)

Even though we are all over Isis, Red Apollo has really pretty and emotional sound to back them up.

Ordeal: Red Apollo (Germany) New! (51:59-56:12)

Iron Witch is NOT sludge, they have a lot of hardcore influence, but they breakdown like a metal band, with heavy riffs.

Hangover Suicide: Iron Witch(England) New E.P.! (56:44-END!)



A very heavy set of Italian bands! Starts off with Black Capricorn, a very catchy rockin’ headbang-y album, for good times and beers.

Double Star Goatfish: Black Capricorn (Italy) New! (0:28-6:14)

The riffs in Ulvedharr’s new album totally breaks badass.

The Raven's Flag: Ulvedharr (Italy) New! (7:10-13:16)

Cave In’s spin-off band Zozobra is as tight and hard as Cave In. 

Born In A Blaze: Zozobra (Boston) New! (13:47-16:39)

Acoustic with violinist, the dude sings a lot and you think it is going to be cheesy, but give it a chance, very varied and talented.  Dark folk.

Ad Rubrum Per Nigrum: Eloa Vadaath (Italy) New! (17:06-24:01)

Amenra’s hardcore baby is Hessian.

Sons of Avarice: Hessian (Belgium) 2011 (24:55-27:19) New album at the end of the month!

Glad that Zaar recovered from a bandmate’s death to put out this proggy noise album. 

http://zaar.bandcamp.com/

06: Zaar (France) 2012 (27:43-32:24)

Dark and sweet soundtrack.

http://soliloquium.bandcamp.com/album/the-concept-of-escape?from=embed

Crossroads: Soliloquium (Sweden) New! (32:50-40:00)

Finnish vocals and rockin’ riffs from this prolific band. 

She-Wolf: The Wandering Midget (Finland) 2012 (40:19-47:39)

Death from Australia, a smart album.  Stands out next to the resurgence of death albums.

The Crawling Horror: Sacriphyx (Australia) New! (48:24-52:57)

Ending with a Sabbath-y Italian band, very good vocals. 

http://krownn.bandcamp.com/

The Woodwose: Kröwnn (Italy) New! (53:37-end!)