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.

I've found a rarity among heavy metal e-zines, an intelligent one. It's called Transcending the Mundane, and if there's anyone who reads this who is actually interested in heavy metal, check out the editorials. Some are very insightful, especially the one about Nevermore's songwriting and it's links to Timothy Leary.