My top four albums so far are Summoning's With Doom We Come, In Vain's Currents, Visigoth's Conqueror's Oath, and Kalmah's Palo. Here's some songs I like from them.
Some comments on those albums: Summoning's new one is like if you took OMD's song structures and gave it Oath Bound's production. The closer is like Land of the Dead in terms of epicness.
In Vain's new album continues their formula of melodic/progressive death metal with a bit of melodic black metal influence, though this one has more emphasis on clean vocals than previous albums, but those vocals are usually quite good. The two bonus tracks are pretty essential, And Quiet Flows the Scheldt is epic, while Ghost Path is interesting and probably the most creative/experimental song on the album, not experimental by avant-garde standards just fyi.
Visigoth's new album is executed very well and takes a positive direction, or at least an arguably positive one as a developmemt from their debut. This one has shorter more concise songs, not epics that are too long drawn out, though they never had that problem personally. Also, the production is a lot crisper and hard hitting than the debut. All the songs are solid heavy/power metal with at least one great moment in each song.
Kalmah's new albums is kinda a mix of their most recent few in style. It's not as immediately catchy as their past two, but it is possibly more aggressive than Seventh Swamphony. It's a real grower, imo.
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