I know that this video is old as fuck, but it was recently reintroduced into my life and I can't stop showing it to people.
Play it on repeat as you skim this week's post.
To the metals…
Dagoba – Post Mortem Nihil Est 
Genre: Groove Metal/Metalcore
Origin: Marseille, France
Label: eOne
Buy now on Amazon.com
I was super excited to check this band out. As their music played I realized that the place in Star Wars is spelled Dagobah. At this point their fair to middling groove metal set in. I get why people might like it, but Fear Factory did this already. I like that it's French for some reason though.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zXi6JS_ASw[/youtube]
Dream Theater – Live At Luna Park 
Genre: Prog Metal
Origin: Boston, Massachusetts
Label: Eagle Rock
Buy now on Amazon.com
Roadrunner and Eagle Rock might be over saturating the Dream Theater market this year. I suppose it's kinda neat to hear newish drummer Mike Mangini tear up older material in a professionally recorded setting, but the self-titled album seems like it JUST came out. I do enjoy seeing just how much shit they use in a live show these days though.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C98sOdWjtsw[/youtube]
Melvins – Tres Cabrones
Genre: Melvins
Origin: Montesano, Washington
Label: Ipecac
Buy now on Amazon.com
Buzz and the guys are just doing whatever the fuck they want these days, huh? Mixed in their batch of crazy quasi-sludge songs are covers of "99 Bottles of Beer on The Wall," "You're In The Army Now," and of course "Tie My Peck To A Tree." Adorable goat though.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI0idx-QlnQ[/youtube]
Tides From Nebula – Eternal Movement 
Genre: Instrumental Atmospheric Post Rock
Origin: Warsaw, Poland
Label: SPV
Buy now on Amazon.com
While "metal" seems like a strong word for these guys, boy howdy are they awesome. This album is pure melody, atmosphere and beauty. This one is right up there with this year's Scale The Summit and Cloudkicker records as one of the best instrumental records of the year.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9_pIla12qA[/youtube]
Also dropping today…
Aqua Nebula Oscillator – Spiritus Mundi (Tee Pee)
Baxter Stockman – Punter (Ektro)
Bonesaw – The Illicit Revue (Unholy Anarchy)
Cara Neir – Portals To A Better, Dead World (Broken Limbs)
Cathexis – Pillar Of Waste (Mulligore)
Convulse – Evil Prevails (Svart)
Czar – No One Is Alone If No One Is Alive(Cracknation)
Dawn Of Tears – Act III: The Dying Eve (Inverse)
Dead End Finland – Season Of Withering (Inverse)
Enabler – Flies EP (The Compound)
Epysode – Fantasmagoria (AFM)
Europe – Live At Sweden Rock: 30th Anniversary ShowDVD/CD (MVD)
Exlibris – Humagination (Metal Mind)
Falkenbach – Asa (Prophecy)
Finnr's Cane – A Portrait Painted By The Sun(Prophecy)
Freya – Paragon Of The Crucible (Holy Mountain)
Gift Of Gods – Receive EP (Peaceville)
Gravecode Nebula – Sempiternal Void (Baneful Genesis)
Grim Funeral – Abdication Under Funeral Dirge(Avantgarde)
Impending Doom – Death Will Reign (eOne)
Izegrim – Congress of the Insane (Listenable)
Leash Eye – Hard Truckin' Rock (Metal Mind)
Lions Of Tsavo – Traverser (Toxic Assets)
Lita Ford – The Bitch Is Back…Live (SPV)
Lovijatar – Pimeän Tuoja (Inverse)
Mad Hatter's Den – Welcome To The Den (Inverse)
Mad Max – Interceptor (SPV)
Magoa – Topsy Turvydom (Klonosphere)
Mother Susurrus – Maahaavaa (Ektro)
Necrowretch – Bestial Rites 2009-2012 (Century Media)
Nekrofilth – Devil's Breath (Hells Headbangers)
Northlane – Singularity (UNFD)
Old Skin – Maere EP (Dry Cough)
Otargo – Apex Terror (Listenable)
Ovo – Abisso (Supernatural Cat)
Paradise Lost – Tragic Illusion 25 (The Rarities) (Century Media)
Place Vendome – Thunder In The Distance (Frontiers)
Rising – Abominor (Indisciplinarian)
Seventh Key – I Will Survive (Frontiers)
Soul Remnants – Black and Blood (Horror Pain Gore Death)
Stryper – No More Hell To Pay (Frontiers)
Thalion – Dawn Of Chaos (Maple Metal)
Thraw – Decoding The Past (Metal Tank)
Tragodia – Mythmaker (Kolony)
Tyranny Is Tyranny – Let It Come From Whom It May(Phratry)
Tyrants Blood – Into the Kingdom of Graves (Tridroid)
Vengeance – Piece Of Cake (SPV)
Voices Of Extreme – Break The Silence (Smash Mouth)
Warmaster – The End Of Humanity (Slaughterhouse)
Zemial – Nykta (Hells Headbangers)
