Dec 19-31

(As of Dec 15, I am drastically cutting down this list from a new release list to a recommendation list. I get all my info from https://www.metal-archives.com/, from which you can find upcoming releases, and from http://metalstorm.net/home/, from which you can find both upcoming and past releases although it is not as complete of a list compared to metal-archives.)

(I’m still using the rating system although I will likely no longer be listing anything below a +2)
Because there can be hundreds of releases a month style is noted to help you find something you are interested in. There is also my personal recommendation score ranging between -1 to +3.

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interest peaked

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

( I’m no Longer covering anything that doesn’t have a cd release )

Dec 19, 2020

Band: Black Hysteria

Release: Tenebrae Oboriuntur (EP)

Style: Black

+2

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Dec 23, 2020

Band: Deathblow

Release: Insect Politics

Style: Thrash

+2

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Dec 24, 2020

Band: Arawn

Release: Odkazy doby

Style: Melodic Death

+2

(+3 if I spoke the language)

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Band: Flaussen

Release: I

Style: Melodic Death/Groove

+2

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Band: Onda Makter

Release: The Misanthropic Blasphemy

Style: Black, melodic

+2

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Dec 25, 2020

Band: Corrupted Saint

Release: Mutilated Before the Masses (EP)

Style: Death/Thrash, Death

+2

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Band: Evil

Release: Possessed by Evil

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

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Band: Dira Mortis

Release: Ancient Breath of Forgotten Misanthropy

Style: Death

+2

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Band: Blessed By Perversion

Release: Remnants of Existence

Style: Death

+2

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Dec 26, 2020

Band: Empyrean Fire

Release: Deliverance

Style: Symphonic Black

+2

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Dec 31, 2020

Band: Fiur

Release: Verse

Style: Melodic Black

+2

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Band: Craving for Chaos

Release: Brink of Calamity

Style: Melodic Death, Death/Groove

+2

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Dec 5-11

Because there can be hundreds of releases a month style is noted to help you find something you are interested in. There is also my personal recommendation score ranging between -1 to +3.

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interest peaked and may be added to buy list after a listen

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

( I’m no Longer covering anything that doesn’t have a cd release )

Dec 7, 2020

Band: Chasmdweller

Release: Bacterial Lotus

Style: Death

+1

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Band: Engulfed

Release: Vengeance of the Fallen (EP)

Style: Death

+1

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Band: Defamed

Release: Aeon

Style: Deathcore

+1

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Band: Kranium

Release: Uma Tullu

Style: Death/Folk/Domm

+?

(I couldn’t find any full songs)

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Band: Jay A. Goin

Release: The Road To Ruin

Style: Heavy, “Epic”

+0

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Dec 8, 2020

Band: Horna

Release: Kuoleman Kirjo

Style: Black

+1

label bandcamp

Band: Abigor

Release: Totschläger (A Saintslayer's Songbook)

Style: Black, symphonic black

+3

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Band: Deus Mortem

Release: The Fiery Blood (EP)

Style: Black

+2

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Dec 9, 2020

Band: Concerto Moon

Release: Rain Fire

Style: J-Power

+2

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Band: Greenmachine

Release: Greenmachine

Style: Sludge, Stoner

+2

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Band: Axbites

Release: Now is the Time (EP)

Style: Heavy

+2

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Band: Rektal Tuşe

Release: Aklen Mauf

Style: grindcore

+0

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Band: Depths of Despair

Release: Мрак пожирающий реальность

Style: Black, Depressive

+1

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Dec 10, 2020

Band: Airborn

Release: Lizard Secrets - Part Two - Age of Wonder

Style: Power

+3

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Dec 11, 2020

Band: Nocte Obducta

Release: Irrlicht (Es schlägt dem Mond ein kaltes Herz)

Style: Black, atmospheric

+1

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Band: Heretical Sect

Release: Rapturous Flesh Consumed

Style: Black

+1

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Band: Yashira

Release: Fail To Be

Style: Metal-core, Post-metal

-1

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Band: Deeds of Flesh

Release: Nucleus

Style: Technical Brutal Death

+3

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Band: Satan’s Fall

Release: Final Day

Style: Traditional, Heavy, Speed

+3

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Band: Heads For The Dead

Release: Into The Read

Style: Black/Death

+2

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Band: Brave The Cold

Release: Scarcity

Style: Grindcore, Death/Thrash

+2

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Band: Fortíð

Release: World Serpent

Style: Black, Progressive

+3

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Band: Imha Tarikat

Release: Sternenberster

Style: Black

+1

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Band: Bròn

Release: Pred dverima noći

Style: Atmospheric Black, Synthonic Black

+2

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Band: Chalice

Release: Trembling Crown

Style: Traditional, Epic

+3

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Band: Six Foot Six

Release: End of All

Style: Heavy, traditional

+3

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Band: Dispyt

Release: Under tiden jag sålde min själ till Satan

Style: “Blackened crust”, Swedish Death

+2

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Band: Suntorn

Release: The First Covenant

Style: Deathcore, Brutal Death, Slam

+1

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Band: Einvigi

Release: Sielulintu

Style: Post-Black, Melodic Death, Rock

+1

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Band: Snowblind

Release: The Holy Metal Spirit

Style: Traditional

+1

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Band: Sebastien

Release: Integrity

Style: Synthonic Heavy, Synthonic Power

+2

website

Band: Cerulean Dawn

Release: The Octant Moons (EP)

Style: Atmospheric Black

+1

bandcamp

Band: Pequod

Release: Spineless

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

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Band: Lautreamont

Release: The Cult of Grinning Martyrs

Style: Black/Death

+2

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Band: Cyhyraeth

Release: Unholy Night’s Mischief

Style: raw black

+0

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Band: Fullminator

Release: Omniplasm (EP)

Style: Thrash, crossover

+2

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Band: Abvulabashy

Release: Atomik Triumphator Elite

Style: Black, Black/Thrash, “bestial war metal”

+3

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Band: Carnal Disfigurement

Release: An Intense Hatred For Humanity

Style: Brutal Death, Slam

+0

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Band: Crescent Lament

Release: 噤夢 Land of Lost Voices

Style: Folk, Symphonic, Gothic

+1

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Band: Nosturaack

Release: Tolas (EP)

Style: Black/Doom

+1

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Band: Bloodfiend

Release: Creature of the Catacombs

Style: Death

+2

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Band: Folterkammer

Release: Die Lederpredigt

Style: Symphonic/Black

+2

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Band: Caelestra

Release: Black Widow Nebula

Style: Atmospheric Post-Black

+1

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Band: Phase Reverse

Release: Phase IV: Genocide

Style: Southern

+3

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Nov 28 - Dec 4

Because there can be hundreds of releases a month style is noted to help you find something you are interested in. There is also my personal recommendation score ranging between -1 to +3.

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interest peaked and may be added to buy list after a listen

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

( I’m no Longer covering anything that doesn’t have a cd release )

Nov 28, 2020

Band: Armed Cloud

Release: Torque

Style: Progressive

+2

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Band: Twisted Mist

Release: Orbios

Style: Melodic Death/Folk

+1

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Band: Gjendød

Release: Angrep

Style: Black

+0

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Nov 29, 2020

Band: Human Vivisection

Release: Salvation Will Come

Style: Brutal Death, Slam

+1

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Band: Gjaldur

Release: Nachtreich

Style: Epic Black

+2

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Band: Dowhanash

Release: From the Ashes (EP)

Style: Black, Melodic Black/Death

+1

bandcamp

Nov 30, 2020

Band: I’m in a Coffin

Release: Waste of Skin

Style: Depressive Black

+1

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Band: Possessed Steel

Release: Aedris

Style: Heavy, Traditional

+3

bandcamp

Band: Serpents

Release: The Brimstone Clergy (EP)

Style: Black

+2

label bandcamp

Band: Platinum

Release: Vanitas (The Lost Recordings)

Style: Heavy

+3

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Band: Stubora

Release: Vision Obscure (EP)

Style: Heavy, Groove, Alternative

+2

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Band: Veil of Secrets

Release: Dead Poetry

Style: Gothic, Doom

+2

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Band: Sotury

Release: Anděl zkázy

Style: Heavy

+2

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Band: Necromancer

Release: Pattern of Repulse

Style: Death/Thrash

+1

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Dec 1, 2020

Band: Shadows Ground

Release: Wanderer

Style: Black

+1

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Band: Funeralis

Release: Gatewasy to Esoteric Light

Style: Black/Death

+1

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Band: Matanza

Release: Grotesco

Style: Death

+0

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Band: Awrizis

Release: Gears of Fear

Style: Melodic Black/Death

+2

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Band: Sophist

Release: Putrid Faction

Style: Blackened Grindcore

+0

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Band: Energema

Release: The Legend of Krampus

Style: Power

+0

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Band: Butterfly Temple

Release: Волчье cолнце

Style: Melodic Death/Power, folk

+1

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Dec 2, 2020

Band: Foghorn

Release: Le sang versé

Style: Black

+0

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Band: Ordo Caper

Release: Aphorism of Baneful Arts

Style: Death

+0

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Band: 矢島舞依

Release: Heaven Knows (EP)

Style: Symphonic J-Power

+2

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Dec 3, 2020

Band: Idle Ruin

Release: Idle Ruin (EP)

Style: Death/Thrash

+1

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Dec 4, 2020

Band: Iron Savior

Release: Skycrest

Style: Heavy, Power

+3

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Band: Adder’s Fork

Release: The Fatalist (EP)

Style: Gothic, Heavy

+2

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Band: Depravity

Release: Grand Malevolence

Style: Death

+3

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Band: Sarvekas

Release: Of Atavistic Fury & Visions

Style: Black

+2

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Band: Persuader

Release: Necromancy

Style: Power

+3

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Band: Majestic

Release: A Christmas Carol

Style: Symphonic Power

+3

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Band: Iron Mask

Release: Master of Masters

Style: Heavy, Power

+3

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Band: Squealer

Release: Insanity

Style: Heavy

+1

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Band: Green Druid

Release: At the Maw of Ruin

Style: Doom, Sludge

+1

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Band: Opium Warlords

Release: Nembutal

Style: Doom, ambient drone

+0

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Band: Undergang

Release: Aldrig i livet

Style: Death

+1

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Band: Genus Ordinis Dei

Release: Glare of Deliverance

Style: Symphonic Death/Groove

+3

website

Band: Tau Cross

Release: Messengers of Deception

Style: Heavy, Speed

+2

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Band: SRD

Release: Ognja Prerok

Style: Black

+1

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Band: The Deviant

Release: Rotting Dreams of Carrion

Style: Black

+1

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Band: Nexul

Release: Scythed Wings of Poisonous Decay

Style: Death

+0

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Band: Gama Bomb

Release: Sea Savage

Style: Thrash

+3

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Band: Vanden Plas

Release: The Ghost Xperiment - Illumination

Style: Progressive

+3

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Band: Growth

Release: The Smothering Arms of Mercy

Style: Extreme Progressive

+1

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Band: Sculptor

Release: Untold Secrets

Style: Melodic Death

+2

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Band: Serpents Oath

Release: Nihil

Style: Black

+2

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Band: Hyrgal

Release: Fin de Règne

Style: Black

+1

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Band: Saurom

Release: Música

Style: Folk

+1

website

Band: S.C.A.L.P.

Release: Героям прошлых лет

Style: Progressive

+1

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Band: Profanity

Release: Fragments of Solace

Style: Technical/Progressive Death

+2

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Band: Wheelfall

Release: A Spectre is Haunting the World

Style: Post-metal, industrial

-1

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Band: The Advent Equation

Release: Remnants of Oblivion

Style: Progressive

+2

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Band: Rex Demonus

Release: Damnatio

Style: Melodic Black/Death

+2

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