This edition includes everyone's favorite crazy German dude going solo, lots of prog, and more! To the metals…
Abyssal – Antikatastaseis 
Genre: Blackened doom
Origin: United Kingdom
Label: Profound Lore
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This is a massive achievement of an album. This band managed to put a spin on the tired atmospheric black metal genre by infusing elements of melodic death metal, technicality and doom. Very interesting record.
District 97 – In Vaults 
Genre: Progressive
Origin: Chicago, Illinois
Label: Lasers Edge
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A really, really good prog record. They're like if you mixed Spock's Beard or Yes with an Anneke van Giersbergen project. Less metal than progressive, but pretty fantastic. They have two other records that I'm going to dip back and find also. Huzzah.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BviJOzPin68[/youtube]
Kingcrow – Eidos 
Genre: Progressive metal
Origin: Rome, Italy
Label: Sensory
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More prog? Why not? Heavier than our last band, certainly, but a different angle completely. Somewhere between Leprous and Anubis Gate. Not quite "power prog," but there is certainly epicness to be had.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Giy35m410&spfreload=10[/youtube]
Lindemann – Skills In Pills 
Genre: Industrial/goth
Origin: Leipzig, Germany
Label: Warner Brothers
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Till Lindemann doesn't stray too far from what he's known for. This is basically your typical driving, industrial-ish Rammstein record that is a bit weirder somehow.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWE_M0CX9So[/youtube]
Pro-Pain – Voice of Rebellion 
Genre: Hardcore/Groove
Origin: New York City, New York
Label: SPV
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I feel like is could copy and paste what I said about their album that dropped last year. In fact lets do that. "Good ol' east coast fight metal. The kind you get in a pit and skip to. These guys are a long running band, so I suppose I respect their journey, but they sound like the band Hatebreed based themselves on before perfecting (strong word) their sound." Yup. Still works. Not too much different form the last record, but you'll still wanna skip to it.
Virgin Steele – Noctures of Hellfire & Damnation
Genre: Heavy metal
Origin: Long Island, New York
Label: SPV
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If Stan's Dad on South Park had a band, I imagine that it would sound like Virgin Steele. This band has been around for almost thirty-five years and sound like a present day power metal band. I respect that a lot. Found myself really into the song form the video below actually.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di-vXNwOOGI[/youtube]
Also dropping today…
All Out War – Dying Gods (Organized Crime) – Crossover
Arabrot – You Bunch Of Idiots EP (Eolian Empire) – Noise rock
Biotoxic Warfare – Lobotomized (Static Tension) -Thrash
Bluuurgh – Suffer Within (25 Years Of Suffering) (Vic) – Death metal/thrash
Breaking Benjamin – Dark Before Dawn (Hollywood) – Rock
Carnivora – The Vision EP (Manshark) – Groove metal
Crematory – Live WOA 2014 DVD (SPV) – Goth death metal
Crystal Ball – LifeRider (Massacre) – Power metal
Damnation Angels – The Valiant Fire (Massacre) – Symphonic death metal
Decrepid – Osseous Empire (Xtreem) – Death metal
Degreed – Dead But Not Forgotten (Sun Hill) – Melodic rock
Deraign – Purity In Violence EP (Dead Center) – Thrash
Dolentia – Iniciacao Eversiva (Altare) – Black metal
E-Force – Demonikhol (Mausoleum) – Thrash
Eskimo Callboy – Crystals (Spinefarm) – Metalcore
Fogg – High Testament (Tee Pee) – Stoner
Forgotten Horror – Aeon Of The Shadow Goddess (Woodcut) – Blackened thrash
Forndom – Flykt (Nordvis) – Black metal
The Ghost Next Door – The Ghost Next Door (Mausoleum) – Alt metal
Humangled – Prodromes Of A Flatline (Bakerteam) – Death metal
Max Pie – Odd Memories (Mausoleum) – Power metal
Nahtrunar – Symbolismus (Altare) – Black metal
Nevoa – The Absence Of Void (Altare) – Black metal
Nomans Land – Last Crusade (Massacre) – Viking metal
The Other – Fear Itself (SPV) – Horror punk
Outlands – Grave Mind (Tragic Hero) – Metalcore
Perzonal War – The Last Sunset (Metalville) – Power metal/thrash
The Relapse Symphony – Born To Burn (Standby) – Post hardcore/alternative metal
Solstice Coil – Commute (Taklit) – Progressive
Tarja – Luna Park Ride (earMusic) – Symphonic metal
The Things They Carried – Melancholia EP (Revival) – Metalcore
Vanum – Realm Of Sacrifice (Profound Lore) – Black metal
Various Artists – A Light In The Black (A Tribute To Ronnie James Dio) (Massacre) – Dio
Jason W. Walton – Mara EP – Ambient noise
