I've been told Sevendust puts on a fantastic live show.
Anyway, my song of the moment is "Doorway to Heaven" by Graveshadow. I'll admit, I wasn't very impressed by their prior material. I felt that the band had talent (especially the vocalist Heather, who I loved on Helion Prime's first album) but were playing generic paint-by-numbers songs. However, I'm really digging this and the other teaser track from their upcoming Ambition's Price album. This band has clearly been spending their between-album time putting in serious work to improve their skill, sound, and songwriting on all levels. If the rest of the album is as good as these songs, then I may have to put this in the running for "Most improved band of 2018."
https://graveshadow.bandcamp.com/album/ambitions-priceSpeaking of Helion Prime, after they parted ways with Heather they recruited another vocalist named Kayla who did not last long. They now have a fellow named Sozos and I definitely like his voice and the lyrics he wrote for this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nytTOpMwj0E . I think his lyrics and vocal melodies flow with the song better than the original lyrics. I'm sure plenty of people will bag on the band for not "staying tr00" with a lady singer, but talent knows no gender and what's important is having band members that bring out the best in everyone and inspire them to become better.
So much killer music this year so far and more on the horizon. New Rivers of Nihil and Strychnia albums slay, new Graveshadow has promise, I hope the new Helion Prime and Eluveitie albums come out this year (I'm loving that new Eluveitie song Rebirth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-pSq4MJmy8)