Manowar - Kings Of Metal MMXIV (SOtD MLXXII)

Why? Oh, why?!? Why are they butchering their own career?
If you ever bump into a Manowar album with roman numerals in the title, run away immediatly.
This re-release is pointless, tasteless, and an ofense to the original release.

So, for the first time in this blog's history, I'm not recommending the album on the title, and the video is not from that album. It's from the original Kings Of Metal, released in 1988.

Manowar - Heart Of Steel

ADX - Ultimatum (SOtD MLXXI)

ADX is a Speed Trash Metal band from France.
Ultimatum is their ninth album.

ADX - Commando Suicide

Macbeth - Neo-Gothic Propaganda (SOtD MLXX)

Macbeth is a Gothic Metal band from Italy.
Neo-Gothic Propaganda is their fifth album.

Macbeth - Scent of Winter

Crematory - Antiserum (SOtD MLXIX)

Crematory is a Gothic Metal band from Germany.
Antiserum is their twelfth full-length album.

Crematory - Kommt Näher

Apostolum - Winds Of Disillusion (SOtD MLXVIII)

Apostolum is an Atmospheric Black Metal band from Italy.
Winds Of Disillusion is their debut full-length album.

Apostolum - Unworthiness and Decay

Frequency Of Butterfly Wings - The Weight Of Existence (SOtD MLXVII)

Frequency Of Butterfly Wings is a Melodic Death Doom Metal band from Iran.
The Weight Of Existence is their latest EP.

Frequency Of Butterfly Wings - Equal to My Ruin

Freedom Call - Beyond (SOtD MLXVI)

By now, everyone knows what to expect from Freedom Call. With more or less keyboards, their Power Metal has a distinctive trait, that makes it very hard to know from which album is a certain song.
Beyond is the eighth full-length release from the German band, and, as always, they deliver.
If you are looking for something new, better look somewhere else.

Freedom Call - Union Of The Strong

Silent Opera - Reflections (SOtD MLXV)

Silent Opera is a Symphonic Gothic Metal from France.
Reflections is their second full-length release.

Silent Opera - Dawn Of The Fool

SpellBlast - Nineteen (SOtD MLXIV)

SpellBlast is a Folk Power Metal band from Italy.
Nineteen is their third album. A record somewhat different from their previous efforts, where they drop some of their Folk influences, and add up some Symphonic flavour to the mix.

SpellBlast - Eyes In The Void

Slough Feg - Digital Resistance (SOtD MLXIII)

Slough Feg is an Heavy Metal band from the USA.
Digital Resistance is their ninth full-length release.

Slough Feg - Habeas Corpsus

Eldritch - Tasting The Tears (SOtD MLXII)

Eldritch is a Power Trash Metal band from Italy.
Tasting The Tears is their ninth album.

Eldritch - Tasting the Tears

Amoral - Fallen Leaves & Dead Sparrows (SOtD MLXI)

Amoral is a band from Finland, now playing Progressive Metal.
Fallen Leaves & Dead Sparrows is their sixth album.

Amoral - If Not Here, Where?

Appearance Of Nothing - A New Beginning (SOtD MLX)

Appearance Of Nothing is a Symphonic Progressive Power Metal band from Switzerland.
A New Beginning is their third album.

Appearance of Nothing - Chains of History

I Killed The Prom Queen - Beloved (SOtD MLIX)

I Killed The Prom Queen is a Metalcore band from Australia.
Beloved is their third full-length release.

I Killed The Prom Queen - Thirty One & Sevens

Woods Of Desolation - As The Stars (SOtD MLVIII)

Woods Of Desolation is an Atmospheric Black Metal band from Australia.
As The Stars is their third ful-length record.

Woods of Desolation - Like Falling Leaves

Astral Domine - Arcanum Gloriae (SOtD MLVII)

Astral Domine is a Symphonic Power Metal band from Italy.
Arcanum Gloriae is their debut album.
The good news is that they sound a lot like early Rhapsody. The bad is that they don't have the duo Turilli/Staropoli composing the songs. But it's a nice listen nevertheless.

Astral Domine - Where Heroes Die

Solstice - Death's Crown Is Victory (SOtD MLVI)

Solstice is an Epic Doom Metal band from the UK.
Death's Crown Is Victory is their latest EP.

Solstice - Death's Crown Is Victory

Where Angels Fall - Redemption (SOtD MLV)

Where Angels Fall is a Gothic Metal band from Norway.
Redemption is their third full-length release.

Where Angels Fall - Senseless

Iron Maiden (SOtD MLIV)

After one day locked inside my house with howling wind blowing all the time, I was in a mood for a nice and warm classic.
This is Iron Maiden live at Rock in Rio in 2001.

Iron Maiden - Fear of The Dark

Stam1na - SLK (SOtD MLIII)

Stam1na is a Finnish band that mixes together several Metal styles. Heavy, Death and Metalcore are some of the influences they display in their records.
SLK is their sixth full-length release.

Stam1na - Panzerfaust

Van Canto - Dawn Of The Brave (SOtD MLII)

New release from the German band Van Canto, the only A Cappella Power Metal band in the world (at least I don't know any other).
Dawn Of The Brave is their fifth album. To my taste is a couple of notches below their last album, Break The Silence.

Van Canto - The Awakening

Whispered - Shogunate Macabre (SOtD MLI)

Whispered is an Extreme Power Metal band from Finland. Their music is inspired by japanese culture.
Shogunate Macabre is their second album.

Whispered - Lady Of The Wind

Pantokrator - Incarnate (SOtD ML)

Pantokrator is a Death Metal band from Sweden.
Incarnate is their fourth album.

Pantokrator - Incarnate

Behemoth - The Satanist (SOtD MXLIX)

The Polish gods of Death Metal, Behemoth, are back with their tenth full-length album, The Satanist.
The five year old silence in terms of full-length releases was mainly due to the severe leukemia treatments that kept the band's frontman, Nergal, in the hospital and at home, in full rest, during most of 2010 and 2011. Fortunately he is back, fully recovered and in great shape.

Behemoth - Ora Pro Nobis Lucifer

Grand Magus - Triumph And Power (SOtD MXLVIII)

Grand Magus is a Heavy Doom Metal band from Sweden.
Triumph And Power is their seventh album.

Grand Magus - Triumph And Power

Mayan - Antagonise (SOtD MXLVII)

Mayan is a Melodic Death Metal band from The Netherlands. It's a side project from Mark Jansen, Epica's main composer.
Antagonise is their second album.

Mayan - Faceless Spies

The Unguided - Fragile Immortality (SOtD MXLVI)

The Unguided is a Melodic Death Metal band from Sweden.
Fragile Immortality is their second full-length release.

The Unguided - Inception

Within Temptation - Hydra (SOtD MXLV)

The dutch Symphonic Metal band Within Temptation is back, 3 years after the acclaimed The Unforgiven.
The new album is called Hydra, and is the seventh full-length release from the band.

Within Temptation - Dangerous