I haven't heard any good melodic black metal in ages but this is giving me a good tickle... leads and solos remind me of early Windir. From Kiwi of all places.
Max Planck - Kill the Pain. Some obscure heavy/power metal full length demo from the 80s. Saw guys talking about it on RoD and checked it out. Badass stuff and stormspell still has copies because he sucks at distributing his releases.
Servants to the Tide - st
True epic heavy/doomy metal like Atlantean Kodex. I thought this type of metal had all but gone extinct in the past couple years.
servants of the tide is a super promising failure to me, keeps threatening to be really good but has a few too many awkward illogical debut wobbles to get there. can see them releasing something great in the future though.