I always enjoy Evergrey's MMA...I mean, yes, it's not among their best, but it's a interesting one-off in their catalog, and it's catchy as hell. It's for sure more bare-bones than usual for them, but it is unmistakably Evergrey (plus it sounds GREAT...I like how the guitars are crunchy but well-defined, as opposed to their more recent productions, where they sound kinda muddy)
Plus some 2023 stuff over the weekend
Just discovered that Aortha album...I guess it came out in September. Kinda fun - pretty aggressive, somewhat thrashy power metal with a bunch of vocalists (including Christian Alvestam, ex Scar Symmetry and Kyle Thomas from Exhorder). All clean vocals. Not sure if it was talked about here. Anyway, nothing groundbreaking, but nice riffage.