This year has been disappointing for music so far, so I actually don't have much worth recommending.
Those Soreption and Alterbeast CDs I told you I was looking forward to ended up being not that great. Behemoth CD is overrated. Benighted was a disappointment. And then on the non-metal side, the Broken Bells/Blood Red Shoes/Manchester Orchestra CDs I was looking forward to were boring except for a couple songs.
Cynic and Inferi have been the only real standouts for me as a whole, but here's some other pretty solid releases:
Ageless Oblivion - Penthos - awesome progressive death that has more of an old school death metal feel
Architects - Lost Forever // Lost Together - metalcore you're probably already familiar with, but it's a lot heavier than their past 2 if you've been keeping up with them
Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi - really fun black/progressive rock
Aeon of Horus - Existence - progressive/technical death that doesn't cross that annoying line of technical for the sake of being technical
Hannes Grossman - The Radial Covenant - solo project of guy in Obscura... and it sounds exactly like them
Descend - Wither - old Opeth clone