There have been many killer releases this year but for me these have been the cream of the crop thus far:
January:
Dipygus - Bushmeat (death doom/punk metal)
Transilvania - Of Sleep and Death (black/heavy metal)
StarGazer - Psychic Secretions (tech/prog death metal)
Blind Golem - A Dream of Fantasy (FFO Uriah Heep)
Mortify - Grotesque Buzzsaw Defilement (buzzsaw deathgrind)
February:
Mvltifission - Decomposition in the Painful Metamorphosis (obscure Chinese death metal)
Pan-Amerikan Native Front - Little Turtle's War (awesome black metal)
Abythic - Dominion of the Wicked (death metal with galactic riffs)
March:
Metharoma - Pipe Dreams (Through the Alley) (brutal/tech death metal)
Rapture - Malevolent Demise Incarnation (aggressive death/thrash)
Stargazer....a band I heard once many a moon ago and it made my penis soft.
but i see it reco'd all the time and it's in the tourney, so Im excited about it. Plus, our very own Rico Suave (aka Dorian) loves the band, so how bad can it be?