Bands that I have recently discovered, both established and fairly new, thanks to Living for Metal:

Celtic Frost

King Diamond/Mercyful Fate (How could I not with all the reviews done by our very own Metalhead87)

Kamelot

Witchery

Beyond Twilight

Communic

Excalion

Tears of Anger

Section A

There might be others I am missing at the moment, but this is a start.  So, tell me what bands you have begun listening to since the beginning of this year? 

Icarus Witch.  Capture the Magic is a great debut (minus the EP Roses on White Lace) and I eagerly await the follow-up.

Communic

Benedictum

A Perfect Murder

Killing Machine

Eidolon

Beautiful Sin

Circus Maximus

Hellfueled

Theater of Tragedy

Sahg

We're in the darkest region of the human brain, a radiant abyss where men go to find themselves........We're in HELL!!!!!

There are too many bands to list but...

Scott Mosher (probably my top 3 favorite albums of the year)

Eidolon

Enochian Crescent

Loch Vostok

Section A

Simone Fiorletta

Dimension Zero (I love those two albums)

and many others

(I won't list Angel Blake because I was waiting for the album ever since they formed)

What you used to love now, you're gonna adore. With Charmin Ultra, less is more. Cha Cha Cha, Charmin.

 

Wipe ya ass, wash ya self.

Power of Omens "rooms of anguish"- technical progressive metal

Prototype "Continuum"- technical progressive metal

Vox Tempus "in the eye of time"-  technical progressive metal

Tunnelvision - "Tomorrow" - Awesome Technical prog metal

Dreamscape "end of silence"-  technical progressive metal

Tiles - "window dressing" technical progressive metal

Pyramid "gaudi's legacy" - technical progressive metal, these first 7 bands i listed i found out about here on the progressive/tehcnical board...great bands

Unreal Overflows "Architecture of Incomprehension"- Technical Progressive Death Metal

Red Circuit "Trance State" technical progressive metal

Abysmal Dawn "from ashes" - technical brutal  death metal

Atheretic "Apocalyptic Nature Fury"- technical brutal death metal

Bethlehem " dictius te necare" id always heard about but never heard it, finally did, its great!One of my fav black albums of all time, their vocalist - the bassist of Pavor - is awesome! At bass and vocals.

Collapsar "s/t" - instrumental technical metal

Sybreed "Slave Design"- industrial groove metal with electronic infleunces

Rain "Starlgiht Extincition"- progressive electronic/techno metal

Perimeter "Healing by festering"- brutal industrial metalcore

Aurora "dead electric nightmares" Melodic doom metal

Sculptured "apollo ends"- great mellow progressive death metal....jazzy like athiest at times, great use of horns

Volbeat "the stregth/the sound/the songs" -heavy/Groove metal

Waterclime "astral factor"- progressive metal

Resleep "kerione" - good industrial deathcore...polyrythymic

Degree Aboslute "s/t"- great technical progressive metal

Edenshade "lesson betrayed"- good technical progressive death metal with clean and harsh vocals

Ellipsis - "beyond thematics" great technical progressive death metal with clean and harsh vocals

Amok - "Lullabies of Silence" awesome amazingly technical death metal (lots of jazzy and polyryhtymical parts)- one of my fav except for poor production

Mindflowers  "Nuances" amazing instrumental progressive metal

TruckFighters - "Gravity X" - totally awesome stoner metal

Atakhama "  existance indifferent" - brutal/death metal, technical drumming

Arthemesia "devs iratvs" - progressive medodic doom black/death metal

theres plently more, maybe ill post somemore later

Dreamscape's End of Silence, while very similar to Dream Theater, is also absolutely killer except for track 4 (I forget the name right now).

I need to get familiar with Power of Omens.  Everything I have I heard like, so far.  Have you ever heard of Twelfth Gate?  Very similar band, technical prog metal out of Chicago.

I was disappointed with Red Circuit.  I got it because of the names associated with it and I find it a little weak.  I'll give it more time, though.

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