I'd love to see Brainstorm (or Symphorce) again. I doubt it is them. Metal Blade does indeed have some great artists. I guessing that it won't be any of the European bands (unless they paid their own way over). You are then left with an abundance of crappy metalcore bands out of the available Metal Blade artists to choose from. I like some metalcore, but we are now seeing the "Warrants" of the metalcore scene being signed by the labels.
Here is most of the current Ferret artists. Extremely unappealing.
36 Crazyfists
A Life Once Lost
Blood Has Been Shed
Boys Night Out
Chimaira
Dead Hearts
Elysia
Eternal Lord
Every Time I Die
Foxy Shazam
Full Blown Chaos
Gwen Stacy
Heavy Heavy Low Low
Ligeia
LoveHateHero
Lower Definition
Madball
Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster
Misery Signals
Poison The Well
Remembering Never
Scarlet
See You Next Tuesday
Suicide Note
Twelve Tribes
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Zao