Pain Is A Warning

Steve Austin returns with the mighty Today Is The Day with a new lineup to create their most rockin', progressive, heavy and epic music to date (his words). Supposedly Today Is The Day has a solid lineup as opposed to their usual coming and going roster that has included members of Mastodon, Hate Eternal, and Nile. Today Is The Day (for those of you who don't know) are an Experimental/Noise/Grind/Progressive Metal band from Nashville, Tennessee, enjoy this new mamajama!

2011 - Pain Is A Warning

01 - Expectations Exceed Reality
02 - Death Curse
03 - Pain Is A Warning
04 - Wheelin'
05 - The Devil's Blood
06 - Remember To Forget
07 - Slave To Serenity
08 - This Is You
09 - Samurai

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Asylum

Morne is a slightly Progressive Sludge band from Chicago. Adding elements of keyboards to their already apocalyptic heavy sound creates quite the atmosphere to go along with their wall crumbling riffs. Longer songs than their previous effort make this quite an enjoyable listen for any fan of Sludge, Doom, and surprisingly Hardcore. Enjoy!

2011 - Asylum

01 - Asylum
02 - Edge of The Sky
03 - Nothing To Remain
04 - I Will See You
05 - Killing Fields
06 - My Return
07 - Volition

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The Tree of Life

Orne are a Progressive Rock Band from Finland created by Peter Vicar of Lord Vicar and Reverend Bizarre fame. A complete turn from those two bands, Orne create music that a peaceful group of settlers might listen to next to a babbling creek with a nice fire going. Filled with pan flutes, saxophones and other medieval instrumentation, The Tree of Life will definitely warm the heart of any Metal Fan out there, enjoy!

2011 - The Tree of Life

01 - Angel Eyes
02 - The Temple of The Worm
03 - The Return of The Sorcerer
04 - Don't Look Now
05 - Beloved Dead
06 - I Was Made Upon Waters
07 - Sephira

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Flammentriebe

Austrian Black Metal band, Dornenreich return with their 7th album, "Flammentriebe". Now playing more of a Progressive style of Black Metal with a dash of Atmospheric Rock thrown in to create an awesome listening experience. For fans of Nocte Obducta and Agrypnie will love this, of course any fan of Progressive Black Metal will enjoy. Plenty of instrumentation, plenty of acoustic guitar, keyboards and pure evil make this record stand out amongst its predecessors. Enjoy!

2011 - Flammentriebe

01 - Flammenmensch
02 - Der Wunde Trieb
03 - Tief Im Land
04 - Wolfpuls
05 - Wandel Geschehe
06 - Fahrte Der Nacht
07 - In Allem Weben
08 - Erst Deine Tane Loscht Den Brand

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Dead Land Energy

Hidden are from Los Angeles, California and play Progressive Blackened Death Doom! Definitely for fans of evil music and bands like Hooded Menace and Mourning Lenore. Definitely worth a download for any fan of the aforementioned genres. They're really into Science and Outer Space. Enjoy!

2011 - Dead Land Energy

01 - Out of Control
02 - Dead Land Energy
03 - HumanJunk
04 - Archaic Wasteland
05 - Starboard Pandemic
06 - Giganormous
07 - Hydrazine Plasma
08 - Shorelines Pound
09 - Prehistoric Impact
10 - No Purpose
11 - Gone South
12 - Enormous Hazardous
13 - Vaporization of The Behemoth

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Axioma Ethica Odini

Enslaved from Norway play Progressive Black Viking Metal. You know the rest. Enjoy, it's their new one!

2010 - Axioma Ethica Odini

01 - Ethica Odini
02 - Raidho
03 - Waruun
04 - The Beacon
05 - Axioma
06 - Giants
07 - Singular
08 - Night Sight
09 - Lightening

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New Shit! New Shit! New Shit!

So it's been 2 1/2 months into 2010 and some albums of pure awesomeness are already starting to pour in from the kick ass rivers of music. So here's 2 new albums, one just came out and the other is about to come out.

First up we have BLACK BREATH. This band is from Seattle and even though Seattle is known for depression, this band is definitely not depressed... they're fucking ANGRY! Black Breath play a mix of metal, hardcore, thrash, death metal (all old school versions of) in a crusty kinda way. This album is packed with riffs and Black Breath definitely surpassed their previous ep, "Razor To Oblivion" on this one. Solo's going off, circle pit educing riffage, and pissed as hell vocals all combine together to make one hell of a record. So do enjoy... highly recommended. Definitely can't wait to catch these guys at Maryland Death Fest this year.

Black Breath - "Heavy Breathing"

01 - Black Sin (spit on the cross)
02 - Eat The Witch
03 - Escape From Death
04 - I Am Beyond
05 - Virus
06 - Heavy Breathing
07 - Children of The Horn
08 - Fallen
09 - Unholy Virgin
10 - Wewhocannotbenamed

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Lastly, we have Negură Bunget from Romania. Scary band name, scary album cover, scary Romanian language = scary album. This album is awesome black metal done in a unique way... with a lot of different instruments and tons of progressive ideas. Negură Bunget have put out an album that is purely amazing and it definitely delivers. I doubt anyone can walk away from this album not thinking what they just heard was amazing. So enjoy this one, definitely worth a download even if you're not a huge black metal fan. Romanian Progressive Folk-Post-Black Metal? j/k

Negură Bunget - "Vîrstele Pămîntului  translation: ages of the earth

01 - Pãmînt (earth)
02 - Dacia Hiperboreanã
03 - Umbra
04 - Ochiul Inimii
05 - Chei de Rouã
06 - Cara de Dincolo de Negurã
07 - Jar
08 - Arborele Lumii
09 - Întoarcerea Amurgului

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