January 1, 2020 (Week 1)

Band: Tod Huetet Uebel

Release: Nomen Nescio

Style: Black Metal

+0

From: Portugal

Band: Oath

Release: Legacy

Style: Traditional

+1

From: Scotland

Band: MOP (MOR)

Release: Czernobog

Style: Progressive Black Metal?

From: Russia

Band: Slimepunk

Release: I Quit: The Last Slimepunk Album

Style: Instrumental Melodic Death

From: Florida

Band: Sadotank

Release: Hammer of Hell

Style: Blackened Thrash

+0

From: Netherlands

Band: Fostioner

Release: Backsgrind Boys

Style:… uh grindcore…? Death Metal…. something

+1

From: Spain

Band: Odour of Death

Release: Satanic Devotion [EP]

Style: Black Metal

+1

From: UK

January 2, 2020

Band: Unbounded Terror

Release: Faith in Chaos

Style: Death Metal

+1

From: Spain

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January 3, 2020

Band: The Psychodox

Release: Skychodox

Style: … it sounds like grunge to me… gothic?

-1

From: Ohio

Band: Grimah

Release: Intricacies of Bowed Wisdom

Style: Black Metal

+2

From: Spain

Band: In Victory

Release: Ecstasy of the Enlightened

Style: Symphonic Power Metal

+1

From: Sweden

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Band: Хаме-леон

Release: К.О.Д.

Style: Russian Helloween

From:… Russia

Note: All the links I found for this band go to Russian sites, so good luck to all you non-Russian speakers finding this.

January 4, 2020

Band: Svrm

Release: Позбавлення

Style: Black Metal

+1

From: Ukraine

January 8, 2020

Band: Abandoned by Light

Release: Algor Mortis

Style: Black Metal

+0

From: UK

January 9, 2020

Band: War Dogs

Release: Die By My Sword

Style: Traditional

+2

From: Spain

January 10, 2020

Band: Brothers of Metal

Release: Emblas Saga

Style: Power Metal (for fans of Manowar, Sabbaton, Gravedigger)

+2

From: Sweden

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Band: Apocalyptica

Release: Cell-0

Style: Symphonic, Progressive

+1

From: Finland

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Band: Snorlax

Release: II

Style: Blackened Death Metal

+0

From: Australia

Band: Rage

Release: Wings of Rage

Style: Traditional Heavy , speed, power

+2

From: Germany

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Band: Empire of the Moon

Release: Εκλειψις

Style: Black Metal

+0

From: Greece

Band: Kawir

Release: Adrasteia

Style: Black Metal (reminds me of Rotting Christ)

+1

From: Greece

Band: Haunt

Release: Mind Freeze

Style: Traditional (reminds me of Angel Witch)

+1

From: US

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Band: Mystic Prophecy

Release: Metal Division

Style: Power, Heavy, speed

+2

From: Germany

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Band: Back Rainbows

Release: Pandemonium (vinyl, cd is out now!)

Style: Stoner (Sounds like Sabbath and Corrosion of Conformity)

+1

From: Italy

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Band: Rýr

Release: Left Fallow (digital already available)

Style: instrumental, atmospheric doom (for hipsters and fans of drugs because any band who calls themselves “post-metal” are hipsters and atmospheric doom is most appreciated by those under the influence of something)

+0

From: Germany

Band: Circus of Fools

Release: Contracult (EP)

Style: Gothic, Nu-Metal (for fans of Avatar)

+0

From: Germany

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Band: Kassad

Release: London Orbital

Style Black Metal

From: London

Band: Plague Weaver

Release: Through the Sulphur Eyes

Style: Black Metal

+1

From: Canada (also cold… not sure about grim)

Band: Hildia

Release: Valkyrie

Style: Power, Jpop?

+1

Band: Cryptic Rising (what you couldn’t read the log?)

Release: Putrid Remnants

Style: Death Metal, Slam?

+0

From: Nashville (famous for death metal… or was that country?)

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Band: Misanthrope

Release: Bâtisseur de cathédrales : Les fissures de l'édifice

Style: Progressive Death Metal (not so apparent on this song, other songs I checked out were more inline with that though)

+1

From: France

Band: Necromantia

Release: First two albums being released on vinyl, but if you don’t care you can still just get the cds (Crossing the Fiery Path & Scarlet Evil Witching Black)

Style: Black Metal (although sounds like it has some death metal in there)

+2

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Band: Vital Remains

Release: Forever Underground (highly praised classic now on vinyl but you can still just get other versions)

Style: Death Metal

+3

From: US

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Band: Unreqvited

Release: Mosaic II: La Déteste Et La Détresse

Style: Post-Black Metal (it’s barely black and barley metal)

+0

From: Canada (even their black metal is to nice)

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Band: Father Befouled

Release: Anointed in Darkness -Live in Europe

Style: Death Metal

+0

From: US

Band: Lotus Thief

Release: Oresteia

Style: Gothic (goth metal/rock meets fleetwood mac)

+0

From: US

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Band: Vvilderness (almost couldn’t find this band… that’s V V not W. Glad I didn’t)

Release: Dark Waters

Style: Black Metal, melodic

+0

January 11, 2020

Band: Ancient Crypts

Release: Inhaling the Fumes of a Burning Carcass (EP)

Style: Death Metal

From: Chile

January 13, 2020

Band: Cult of Horror

Release: Hermetik Heretik

Style: Black and speed? (I like to call this style Witching Metal)

+1

January 14, 2020

Band: Wormhole

Release: The Weakest Among Us

Style: Death metal, technical, deathcore

+0

From: US

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Band: Hyperia

Release: Insanitorium

Style: Thrash, with maybe some core in the vocals?

+2

January 15, 2020

Band: Woorms

Release: Twitching, as Prey

Style: Sludge

+1

Band: Carved Cross

Release: Severance of Disparity in Absolute Acrimony (LP)

Style: Shitty

-1

January 17, 2020

Band: Exa

Release: Cut The Past

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Victorious

Release: Space Ninjas From Hell

Style: super cheesy power metal

+2

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Band: Odious Mortem

Release: Synesthesia

Style: Death Metal

+1

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Band: Horned Almighty

Release: To Fathom the Master's Grand Design

Style: Black Metal

+1

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Band: Hazzerd

Release: Delirium

Style: Thrash

+2

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Band: Doomed To Fail

Release: Fury

Style: Melodic Death Metal

Band: Garganjua

Release: Toward The Sun

Style: Doom

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Band: Steve Harris’s British Lion

Release: The Burning

Style: Progressive Rock, Traditional Metal

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Band: Grin

Release: Translucent Blades

Style: Stoner, Doom

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Band: Serpent Eater

Release: Vanitas

Style: Black Metal and a bunch of other stuff

Band: Osedax

Release Meridian

Style: Atmospheric Doom

Band: Sons of Apollo

Release: MMXX

Style: Progressive Metal

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Band: DarkTribe

Release: Voici L’Homme

Style: Power Metal

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Band: Svarttjern

Release: Shame is Just a Word

Style: Black Metal

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Band: Porta Nigra

Release: Schöpfungswut

Style: Black Metal

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Band: Catalepsia

Release: Inheritance

Style: Gothic, doom

Band: Rat King

Release: Vicious Inhumanity

Style: Death, Sludge

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Band: Elder Druid

Release: Golgotha

Style: Sludge, Doom

Band: Mindless Sinner

Release: Poltergeist

Style: Traditional Heavy Metal

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Band: Black Queen

Release: The Destructive Cycle (digital out now)

Style: Black Metal???

Band: Blood and Brutality

Release: Fatal

Style: Death with some other influences

Band: Red Dead

Release: Forest of Chaos

Style: Death Metal

Band: Rage of Samedi

Release: Blood Ritual

Style: Something, is melodic sludge a thing?, doom?

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Band: Kaoteon

Release: Kaoteon

Style: Black, Melodic Death, Death

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Band: L’Homme Absurde

Release: Belong

Style: Black Metal, Post-black metal

Band: Ether Coven

Release: Everything is Temporary Except Suffering

Style: Sludge, sounds pretty core to me

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Band: Arcana 13

Release: Black Death (EP)

Style: Doom

Band: Wyred

Release: Image (limited release in 1995, now re released 500 copies)

Style: Progressive meta ( for fans of Queensryche)

Band: Skull Koraptor

Release: Chaos Station

Style: Thrash

Band: Macabre Demise

Release: Awakening

Style: Death Metal

Band: Brotthogg

Release: Echos of the Past (digital available now)

Style: Blackened Thrash, black/death

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Band: Agony By Default

Release: For All The Rest of Time

Style: Black, Melodic Death

January 18, 2020

Band: Kloct

Release: Years of Silence

Style: Black Metal

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Band: Nephylim

Release: Severance of Serenity

Style: Melodic Death

Band: Die Like Gentle Men

Release: Stories

Style: Progressive Rock, Doom, acoustic

January 19, 2020

Band: Drune

Release: Seer (EP) (digital available now)

Style: Stoner, Sludge, Doom

January 20, 2020

Band: Double Horse

Release: The Great Old Ones

Style: Doom / stoner

Band: Revenant Marquis

Release: Youth in Ribbons

Style: bad black metal

Band: Psychosurgical Intervention

Release: Prologue (EP)

Style: Brutal Death Metal

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Band: Asgrauw

Release: IJsval

Style: Black Metal

Band: Critical Sodom

Release: Indulgence Decay

Style: Brutal Death Metal

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Band: Dominia

Release: The Withering of the Rose

Style: Gothic

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Band: Pestilenght

Release: Eilatik

Style: Black and doom

Band: Desolation

Release: Where Darkness Dwells (EP) (vinyl, digital already out)

Style: sounds Randy Blyth singing in a Death Metal band

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Band: Impiety

Release: Versus All Gods

Style: Death, Black , Thrash (a good blend of all three)

Band: Железный Поток (Iron Steam)

Release: Mystic

Style: Thrash Metal (Russian Sepultura?)

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Band: Naamah

Release: Death, My Saviour…

Style: shitty black metal

Band: Eerie (EerieLowMoon)

Release: Midnight Despair

Style: Doom, stoner, sludge

Band: Scorn (there are literally dozens of bands named this)

Release: A Comedic Tragedy

Style: Death Metal

Band: Sigiriya

Release: Maiden Mother Crone

Style: stoner, doom (for fans of Corrosion of Conformity or The Sword)

January 21, 2020

Band: Necropsy

Release: Exitus (EP)

Style: Death Metal

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Band: Red Cain

Release: Kendred: Act I (just now on cd)

Style: Progressive, gothic? Power?

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January 22, 2020

Band: SWMM (Sometimes We Make Music)

Release: Trail of the Fallen

Style: Symphonic, Folk

January 23, 2020

Band: Grey Skies Fallen

Release: Cold Dead Lands

Style: Progressive Melodic Death

Band: Unguilty

Release: Beyond the Black Horizon

Style: Depressive Black Metal

Band: Ancient Knights

Release: Camelot

Style: Symphonic Power Metal

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January 24, 2020

Band: Midnight

Release: Rebirth by Blasphemy

Style: Blackened Metal (for fans of Venom and Celtic Frost)

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Band: Elegy of Madness

Release: Invisible World

Style: Symphonic Metal

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Band: Konvent

Release: Puritan Masochism

Style: Death, Doom

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Band: Temperance

Release: Viridian

Style: Symphonic Power

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Band: Pyogenesis

Release: A Silent Soul Screams Loud

Style: melodic death for punks?

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Band: Second Brain

Release: The Mind Awakes

Style: Progressive

Band: Annihilator

Release: Ballistic, Sadistic

Style: Thrash / groove

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Band: Iron Sword

Release: Servants of Steel

Style: heavy metal, epic, early power

Band: Thy Catafalque

Release: Naiv

Style: progressive, folk

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Band: Nero di Marte

Release: Immoto

Style: progressive, post-metal (metal for hipsters)

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Band: Dead End Finland

Release: Inter Vivos

Style: Gothic, synthonic melodic death

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Band: Defiled

Release: Infinite Regress

Style: Death Metal

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Band: Zifir

Release: Demoniac Ethics

Style: Black Metal

Band: Jordablod

Release: The Cabinet of Numinous Song

Style: Black Metal, although it reminds me of 60’s and 70’s rock

Band: Slave One

Release: Omega Disciples

Style: Death Metal

Band: Seder

Release: Sunbled

Style: Black Metal

Band: Forlorn Citadel

Release: Ashen Dirge of Kingslain

Style: Atmospheric Black Metal

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Band: Etoile Filante

Release: Magnum Opus Caelestis

Style: Atmospheric black metal

Band: Doomraiser

Release: The Dark Side of Old Europa

Style: Doom

Band: Last Frontier

Release: Aether (Equivalent Exchange)

Style: who knows they only give a 30 second clip of an intro

Band: Wolfpakk

Release: Nature Strikes Back

Style: Traditional, power

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Band: Worm

Release: Gloomlord

Style: Atmospheric death doom

I couldn’t find any links, there are a lot of bands named Worm

Band: Colosso

Release: Apocalypse (EP)

Style: Death Metal

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Band: Zolfo

Release Delusions of Negation

Style: Sludge, doom

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Band: Thoughts Factory (not to be confused with THOT Factory)

Release: Elements

Style: Progressive

Band: Invictus

Release: The Catacombs of Fear

Style: Death, Thrash

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Band: Dawn of Solace

Release: Waves

Style: Gothic

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Band: Surgical Strike

Release: Part of a Sick World

Style: Thrash

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Band: Aethyrick

Release: Gnosis

Style: Black Metal, atmospheric

Band: Death. Void. Terror.

Release: The Great Monolith II

Style: Black, Doom

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Band: Quasarborn

Release: A Pill Hard to Swallow

Style: Thrash, technical, melodic? Vocal layer reminds me of Iced Earth in a way

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Band: Chains

Release: Sonic Sabbath

Style: Doom

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Band: Vananidr

Release: Damnation

Style Black Metal

Band: Blasphemer

Release: The Sixth Hour

Style: Brutal Death Metal

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Band: Major Kong

Release: Off the Scale

Style: stoner, doom, instrumental

Band: Acid Mammoth

Release: Under Acid Hoof

Style: Doom

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Band; Sivyj Yar (Сивый Яр)

Release: Grief (Горе)

Style: Black Metal

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Band: The Absolution Sequence

Release: Silent King (EP)

Style: Technical Metalcore

Band: ADX

Release: Bestial

Style: Speed

Band: Nauthik

Release: Araganu

Style: Death Doom

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Band: Tidal Dreams

Release: Access Denied

Style: Traditional

Band: Avund

Release: Avund (EP)

Style: Black, Doom, Crust punk

Band: Frigoris

Release: …in Stille

Style: melodic black metal

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Band: Morphine

Release: Dysphoria

Style: crappy one man black metal

with such a unique name it was to difficult to find this band for me to care

Band: Eighty One Hundred

Release: Heaven In Flames (first physical)

Style: Heavy, Power

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Band: Bonded

Release: Rest in Violence

Style: German Thrash but reminds me Exodus, Onslaught and Lamb of God a bit

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Band: Hallowed Fire

Release: Pillars of Lies (EP)

Style: Thrash!!!

Band: Totenheer

Release: Die schwarze Spinne

Style: Black Metal

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Band: Crimson Sun

Release: Fates

Style: Symphonic without symphonic elements…. so gothic / power?

Band: Reincarnage

Release: Reap

Style: Death, melodic death

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Band: Withern

Release: Withern (EP)

Style: Death

Band: Belore

Release: Journey Through Mountains and Valleys

Style: Black, melodic, atmospheric, epic

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Band: Xenos

Release: Filthgrinder

Style: Thrash

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Band: Souls of Jack Ketch

Release: Danger of Death

Style: Death, Thrash

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Band: Cruel Bomb

Release: Trinity Terror (EP)

Style: Thrash, crossover

Band: Catarsis Incarne

Release: Abiogénesis Libro III

Style: Brutal Death

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Band: Creeping Flesh

Release: Into the Meat Grinder

Style: Death Metal

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Band: Silverstage

Release: Heart n’ Balls

Style: Heavy

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Band: Morte Lune

Release: Temple of Flesh

Style: Black Metal

Band: Doomentor

Release: Altar of Resurrection

Style: Black, doom

Band: Grumble Duke

Release: The Wretched & the Sick

Style: Black Metal

Band: Beastmaker

Release: Body and Soul

Style: Doom

Band: Floodstain

Release: Satanic Ampcraft (EP)

Style: Doom, Stoner