I listened to a sample album from Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles magazine. It's got songs by a whole bunch of metal bands. Lots of death metal, which gets real boring, real fast. There was one good death metal song, a band called Moonspell's song "The Southern Deathstyle." It had a strong gothic influence and the growling vocals weren't completely incomprehensible. I liked it enough to check out more by them.
The best song on the album was "Feed Part 1: Stone by Stone," which had a very Tool-like feel. The review in the magazine says the band, Dead Soul Tribe, plays a very '70s style metal. I didn't hear that at all. Still, it was catchy and wasn't going to turn away people who don't regularly listen to metal (no opera-style screamers, no death metal growling). Anyway, it was an interesting sampling, but could have used a few more power metal bands to give an overall feel of what's going on these days in metal.