Andromeda - Another Sleep Very impressed with what I've heard from their recent work so far. Can't wait to get home and crank it instead of listening through muffled laptop speakers.
Morgion - She, The Master Covets great USA doom in that awesome early 80's vein of male singer (Dead Can Dance/This Mortal Coil ilk). very nice.
Metallica - Cyanide It's growing on me a lot faster (see: at all) than St Anger. I think they've gone as much back to 'form' as can be hoped. At least enough so that I'll actually buy it and see them on their next tour.
Metallica - All Nightmare Long I find myself enjoying all the songs a lot more when I look past the generic solos. Very quickly becoming one of my favourite Metallica albums... sorry Pyro, Death Magnetic > Kill 'Em All. [edit] Interesting observation I just noticed on another forum:
Thats the best song i've ever heard you listen to! Amazing song. No One Like You - Scorpions Stupidly brilliant song.
Neskimos - Metroid Norfair Tenement Blues a game theme cover band that do some really cool stuff such as this song. taking the Norfair theme, twisting it and adding lyrics to it. pretty awesome song I do think.
Enslaved - The Watcher From easily my favourite album of the year so far, Vertebrae. It's such an amazing album. I've been giving it several listens a day since I got it.
Ne Obliviscaris - As Icycles Fall They have a new guitarist at last so hopefully the return of live shows can't be too far off. He's French which is apparently a big deal, though unless he's Stephan Forte I really couldn't care less.