Dec 19-31

January 05, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in New Releases

(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

Dec 23, 2020

Band: Deathblow

Release: Insect Politics

Style: Thrash

+2

Dec 24, 2020

Band: Arawn

Release: Odkazy doby

Style: Melodic Death

+2

(+3 if I spoke the language)

Band: Flaussen

Release: I

Style: Melodic Death/Groove

+2

Band: Onda Makter

Release: The Misanthropic Blasphemy

Style: Black, melodic

+2

Dec 25, 2020

Band: Corrupted Saint

Release: Mutilated Before the Masses (EP)

Style: Death/Thrash, Death

+2

Band: Evil

Release: Possessed by Evil

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

Band: Dira Mortis

Release: Ancient Breath of Forgotten Misanthropy

Style: Death

+2

Band: Blessed By Perversion

Release: Remnants of Existence

Style: Death

+2

Dec 26, 2020

Band: Empyrean Fire

Release: Deliverance

Style: Symphonic Black

+2

Dec 31, 2020

Band: Fiur

Release: Verse

Style: Melodic Black

+2

Band: Craving for Chaos

Release: Brink of Calamity

Style: Melodic Death, Death/Groove

+2

Dec 12-18

December 22, 2020 by Joe Cearlock in New Releases

(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 4, 2020 (something I missed)

Band: Burning Palace

Release: Hollow

Style: Tech Death

+2

Dec 12, 2020

Band: Pile of Death

Release: Obliteration MMXIX

Style: Death/Thrash

+1

Band: Steingrab

Release: Malum Genesis

Style: Black, atmospheric

+0

Band: Worlds Beyond

Release: Symphony of Dawn

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: До Скону (Du Skonu)

Release: Offering

Style: Black

+0

Band: Smerdead

Release: Во тьме лесов

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Königreichssaal

Release: Witnessing The Dearth

Style: Black/Doom

+1

Dec 14, 2020

Band: Akhlys

Release: Melinoë

Style: Black, Ambient

+2

Dec 15, 2020

Band: Dormanth

Release: Complete Downfall

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Dec 16, 2020

Band: Apraxic

Release: Edge of Human

Style: Death/Grind

+2

Dec 18, 2020

Band: Stormhunter

Release: Ready for Boarding (EP)

Style: Power, Speed, Traditional

+2

Band: Royal Hunt

Release: Dystopia

Style: Symphonic Progressive

+2

Band: Misanthropia

Release: Convoy of Sickness

Style: Symphonic Black

+2

Band: Evangelist

Release: Ad Mortem Festinamus (EP)

Style: Epic Doom

+2

Band: Injector

Release: Hunt of the Rawhead

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Old Growth

Release: Mossweaver

Style: Atmospheric Black

+2

Band: Crimson Cry

Release: Playing Gods

Style: Synthonic Power

+2

Dec 5-11

December 15, 2020 by Joe Cearlock in New Releases

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

Band: Engulfed

Release: Vengeance of the Fallen (EP)

Style: Death

+1

Band: Defamed

Release: Aeon

Style: Deathcore

+1

Band: Kranium

Release: Uma Tullu

Style: Death/Folk/Domm

+?

(I couldn’t find any full songs)

Band: Jay A. Goin

Release: The Road To Ruin

Style: Heavy, “Epic”

+0

Dec 8, 2020

Band: Horna

Release: Kuoleman Kirjo

Style: Black

+1

Band: Abigor

Release: Totschläger (A Saintslayer's Songbook)

Style: Black, symphonic black

+3

Band: Deus Mortem

Release: The Fiery Blood (EP)

Style: Black

+2

Dec 9, 2020

Band: Concerto Moon

Release: Rain Fire

Style: J-Power

+2

Band: Greenmachine

Release: Greenmachine

Style: Sludge, Stoner

+2

Band: Axbites

Release: Now is the Time (EP)

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Rektal Tuşe

Release: Aklen Mauf

Style: grindcore

+0

Band: Depths of Despair

Release: Мрак пожирающий реальность

Style: Black, Depressive

+1

Dec 10, 2020

Band: Airborn

Release: Lizard Secrets - Part Two - Age of Wonder

Style: Power

+3

Dec 11, 2020

Band: Nocte Obducta

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

Style: Black, atmospheric

+1

Band: Heretical Sect

Release: Rapturous Flesh Consumed

Style: Black

+1

Band: Yashira

Release: Fail To Be

Style: Metal-core, Post-metal

-1

Band: Deeds of Flesh

Release: Nucleus

Style: Technical Brutal Death

+3

Band: Satan’s Fall

Release: Final Day

Style: Traditional, Heavy, Speed

+3

Band: Heads For The Dead

Release: Into The Read

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: Brave The Cold

Release: Scarcity

Style: Grindcore, Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Fortíð

Release: World Serpent

Style: Black, Progressive

+3

Band: Imha Tarikat

Release: Sternenberster

Style: Black

+1

Band: Bròn

Release: Pred dverima noći

Style: Atmospheric Black, Synthonic Black

+2

Band: Chalice

Release: Trembling Crown

Style: Traditional, Epic

+3

Band: Six Foot Six

Release: End of All

Style: Heavy, traditional

+3

Band: Dispyt

Release: Under tiden jag sålde min själ till Satan

Style: “Blackened crust”, Swedish Death

+2

Band: Suntorn

Release: The First Covenant

Style: Deathcore, Brutal Death, Slam

+1

Band: Einvigi

Release: Sielulintu

Style: Post-Black, Melodic Death, Rock

+1

Band: Snowblind

Release: The Holy Metal Spirit

Style: Traditional

+1

Band: Sebastien

Release: Integrity

Style: Synthonic Heavy, Synthonic Power

+2

Band: Cerulean Dawn

Release: The Octant Moons (EP)

Style: Atmospheric Black

+1

Band: Pequod

Release: Spineless

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Lautreamont

Release: The Cult of Grinning Martyrs

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: Cyhyraeth

Release: Unholy Night’s Mischief

Style: raw black

+0

Band: Fullminator

Release: Omniplasm (EP)

Style: Thrash, crossover

+2

Band: Abvulabashy

Release: Atomik Triumphator Elite

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

+3

Band: Carnal Disfigurement

Release: An Intense Hatred For Humanity

Style: Brutal Death, Slam

+0

Band: Crescent Lament

Release: 噤夢 Land of Lost Voices

Style: Folk, Symphonic, Gothic

+1

Band: Nosturaack

Release: Tolas (EP)

Style: Black/Doom

+1

Band: Bloodfiend

Release: Creature of the Catacombs

Style: Death

+2

Band: Folterkammer

Release: Die Lederpredigt

Style: Symphonic/Black

+2

Band: Caelestra

Release: Black Widow Nebula

Style: Atmospheric Post-Black

+1

Band: Phase Reverse

Release: Phase IV: Genocide

Style: Southern

+3

Nov 28 - Dec 4

December 08, 2020 by Joe Cearlock in New Releases

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

Band: Twisted Mist

Release: Orbios

Style: Melodic Death/Folk

+1

Band: Gjendød

Release: Angrep

Style: Black

+0

Nov 29, 2020

Band: Human Vivisection

Release: Salvation Will Come

Style: Brutal Death, Slam

+1

Band: Gjaldur

Release: Nachtreich

Style: Epic Black

+2

Band: Dowhanash

Release: From the Ashes (EP)

Style: Black, Melodic Black/Death

+1

Nov 30, 2020

Band: I’m in a Coffin

Release: Waste of Skin

Style: Depressive Black

+1

Band: Possessed Steel

Release: Aedris

Style: Heavy, Traditional

+3

Band: Serpents

Release: The Brimstone Clergy (EP)

Style: Black

+2

Band: Platinum

Release: Vanitas (The Lost Recordings)

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Stubora

Release: Vision Obscure (EP)

Style: Heavy, Groove, Alternative

+2

Band: Veil of Secrets

Release: Dead Poetry

Style: Gothic, Doom

+2

Band: Sotury

Release: Anděl zkázy

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Necromancer

Release: Pattern of Repulse

Style: Death/Thrash

+1

Dec 1, 2020

Band: Shadows Ground

Release: Wanderer

Style: Black

+1

Band: Funeralis

Release: Gatewasy to Esoteric Light

Style: Black/Death

+1

Band: Matanza

Release: Grotesco

Style: Death

+0

Band: Awrizis

Release: Gears of Fear

Style: Melodic Black/Death

+2

Band: Sophist

Release: Putrid Faction

Style: Blackened Grindcore

+0

Band: Energema

Release: The Legend of Krampus

Style: Power

+0

Band: Butterfly Temple

Release: Волчье cолнце

Style: Melodic Death/Power, folk

+1

Dec 2, 2020

Band: Foghorn

Release: Le sang versé

Style: Black

+0

Band: Ordo Caper

Release: Aphorism of Baneful Arts

Style: Death

+0

Band: 矢島舞依

Release: Heaven Knows (EP)

Style: Symphonic J-Power

+2

Dec 3, 2020

Band: Idle Ruin

Release: Idle Ruin (EP)

Style: Death/Thrash

+1

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

Band: Depravity

Release: Grand Malevolence

Style: Death

+3

Band: Sarvekas

Release: Of Atavistic Fury & Visions

Style: Black

+2

Band: Persuader

Release: Necromancy

Style: Power

+3

Band: Majestic

Release: A Christmas Carol

Style: Symphonic Power

+3

Band: Iron Mask

Release: Master of Masters

Style: Heavy, Power

+3

Band: Squealer

Release: Insanity

Style: Heavy

+1

Band: Green Druid

Release: At the Maw of Ruin

Style: Doom, Sludge

+1

Band: Opium Warlords

Release: Nembutal

Style: Doom, ambient drone

+0

Band: Undergang

Release: Aldrig i livet

Style: Death

+1

Band: Genus Ordinis Dei

Release: Glare of Deliverance

Style: Symphonic Death/Groove

+3

Band: Tau Cross

Release: Messengers of Deception

Style: Heavy, Speed

+2

Band: SRD

Release: Ognja Prerok

Style: Black

+1

Band: The Deviant

Release: Rotting Dreams of Carrion

Style: Black

+1

Band: Nexul

Release: Scythed Wings of Poisonous Decay

Style: Death

+0

Band: Gama Bomb

Release: Sea Savage

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Vanden Plas

Release: The Ghost Xperiment - Illumination

Style: Progressive

+3

Band: Growth

Release: The Smothering Arms of Mercy

Style: Extreme Progressive

+1

Band: Sculptor

Release: Untold Secrets

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Serpents Oath

Release: Nihil

Style: Black

+2

Band: Hyrgal

Release: Fin de Règne

Style: Black

+1

Band: Saurom

Release: Música

Style: Folk

+1

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

Release: Героям прошлых лет

Style: Progressive

+1

Band: Profanity

Release: Fragments of Solace

Style: Technical/Progressive Death

+2

Band: Wheelfall

Release: A Spectre is Haunting the World

Style: Post-metal, industrial

-1

Band: The Advent Equation

Release: Remnants of Oblivion

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Rex Demonus

Release: Damnatio

Style: Melodic Black/Death

+2

Nov 21 - 27

December 01, 2020 by Joe Cearlock in New Releases

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 21, 2020

Band: Taur-im-Duinath

Release: The Burning Bridges

Style: Black

+1

Band: Behrosth

Release: Bѣдьминъ часъ

Style: Blackened Psychedelic Rock

+1

Nov 22, 2020

Band: Korpsesoturi

Release: Korpskrist

Style: Death

+1

Band: GumoManiacs

Release: Morbid Tales of Terror

Style: Thrash, Heavy

+2

Band: Astarot

Release: Equinox of Winter Dysthymia (only one song, ep length)

Style: Atmospheric Black

+0

Band: Malignance

Release: Dreamquest: The Awakening

Style: Black

+3

Nov 23, 2020

Band: Shaark

Release: Deathonation

Style: Thrash, Death/thrash

+3

Band: Oes Galliath

Release: Sous l'œil fermé des paradis

Style: Black

+2

Band: Undĕrnæcht

Release: The Undĕrnæcht Cult

Style: Black

+1

Band: Azgarath

Release: Echoes from the Past

Style: Black

+0

Band: Бурелом (Burelom)

Release: The Songs of the Snowy Taiga

Style: Folk/Death/Doom

+0

Band: Found Hanging

Release: Spilled Forth Despoiled Remnants (EP)

Style: Brutal Death

+0

Band: Fenrir

Release: Condessa Sangrenta

Style: Black, pagan

+0

Band: Bergaisar

Release: Bergaisar

Style: Black/Death

+2

Nov 24, 2020

Band: Bis•nte

Release: Ancestral Punishment

Style: Doom

+1

Band: Hellraizerr

Release: Life After Death

Style: Blackened Crossover

+1

Band: Insanis

Release: Black Metal Marginals

Style: Black/Thrash, Black ‘n’ roll

+2

Band: Loculo

Release: Full Metal Racket (EP)

Style: Thrash

+0

Band: Luctum

Release: Ashes of the Titans

Style: Black

+2

Band: Goatscorge

Release: False Sabbath of Heathen Scum

Style: Black

-1

Band: Devil Unnamed

Release: Media!

Style: Heavy

-1

Nov 25, 2020

Band: Tears of Tragedy

Release: Trinity

Style: Symphonic J-Power

+2

Band: Kramp

Release: Gods of Death

Style: Heavy, Traditional, Speed, Power

+3

Band: Tuatha de Danann

Release: In Nomine Éireann (Brazil)

Style: Folk (celtic) metal/rock

+2

Band: Rie a.k.a. Suzaku

Release: World Journey

Style: Instrumental

+2

Band: Aquaria

Release: Alethea

Style: Symphonic Power

+2

Band: Moeror

Release: The Ghost of Amour Propre

Style: Black

+2

Band: Sainte Marie des Loups

Release: Funérailles de feu

Style: Black

+0

Band: Medjay

Release: Sandstorm

Style: Heavy, Power

+1

Band: Вихрь

Release: Кощунство

Style: Black

+1

Band: Ixkal

Release: The End of the Wicked

Style: Death

+2

Nov 26, 2020

Band: Void Moon

Release: The Autumn Throne

Style: Doom

+1

Band: Perpetual Gestation

Release: Excremental Uremic Fragrance

Style: Slam, Brutal Death

+0

Band: Ecchymosis

Release: Ritualistic Intercourse Within Abject Surrealism

Style: Brutal Death, Slam

+0

Band: Elegos

Release: The Awakening of Evil (EP)

Style: Atmospheric Black, Epic

+1

Band: Zwetwezen

Release: The Wrath of Satan

Style: raw black, ambient, noise

-1

Band: Kvlt of Odium

Release: Beheading ov a Sheep (EP)

Style: Black

+0

Nov 27, 2020

Band: Ondskapt

Release: Grimoire Ordo Devus

Style: Black

+2

Band: Eleine

Release: Dancing in Hell

Style: Symphonic

+3

Band: Wreck-Defy

Release: Powers That Be

Style: Thrash, Power/Thrash

+2

Band: Siculicidium

Release: Az alámerülés lárvái

Style: Black

+2

Band: Slaughterday

Release: Ancient Death Triumph

Style: Death

+3

Band: Magoth

Release: Invictus

Style: Black

+2

Band: Keiser

Release: Our Wretched Demise

Style: Black

+3

Band: Revolting

Release: The Shadow at the World's End

Style: Death

+2

Band: Shores of Null

Release: Beyond the Shores (On Death and Dying)

Style: Doom, Death/doom, gothic, progressive

+1

Band: Kaunis Kuolemoaton

Release: Syttyköön toinen aurinko

Style: Melodic Death/doom

+2

Band: Mogrel’s Cross

Release: Arcana, Scrying and Revelation

Style: Melodic Black/Thrash

+2

Band: Corrupt Moral Altar

Release: Patiently Waiting For Wonderful Things (EP)

Style: Sludge, grindcore

+0

Band: Sodom

Release: Genesis XIX

Style: Thrash, Black/Thrash, Blackened Speed

+3

Band: Diamond Head

Release: Lightning to the Nations 2020

Style: Heavy, Traditional

(re-recording of first album, guitars are heavy and thick, but I prefer the original vocalist. Covers are really good but I don’t know if I can advise this over the original. It’s worth a listen though.)

+2

Band: IronFlesh

Release: Summoning the Putrid

Style: Death

+3

Band: Byfist

Release: In the End

Style: Heavy, Power

+3

Band: Roadwolf

Release: Unchain The Wolf

Style: Traditional

+3

Band: Invisible Horizon

Release: Deafcon : One

Style: Traditional, Speed, Power, Progressive

+3

Band: Methusalem

Release: Masters of the World

Style: Heavy, Power

+3

Band: Treading on Divine

Release: Embrace The Dark

Style: Black

+1

Band: Varde

Release: Fedraminne

Style: Black, Folk

+1

Band: Cadaver

Release: Edder & Bile

Style: Extreme, (elements of Black/Death/Thrash/Doom)

+3

Band: Within The Ruins

Release: Black Heart

Style: Technical Metal-core

+0

Band: Dodenkrocht

Release: The Dying All

Style: Black

+1

Band: Terravore

Release: Vortex of Perishment

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Jaded Heart

Release: Stand Your Ground

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Glorious Depravity

Release: Ageless Violence

Style: Death

+2

Band: Obscurae

Release: To Walk The Path of Sorrows

Style: Atmospheric Raw Black

-1

Band: Azarath

Release: Saint Desecration

Style: Death, Black/Death

+3

Band: Loudblast

Release: Manifesto

Style: Death

+3

Band: Bethmoora

Release: Thresholds

Style: Death/Doom

+0

Band: Ultimatium

Release: Virtuality

Style: Progressive Power

+2

Band: Exarsis

Release: Sentenced to Life

Style: Heavy, Thrash, Speed

+1

Band: Arrayan Path

Release: The Marble Gates to Apeiron

Style: Epic Power

+1

Band: Alitor

Release: II

Style: Melodic Thrash, Progressive Thrash

+3

Band: Toblakai

Release: Puritans Hand

Style: Black, Black ‘n’ Roll, Black/Thrash, Traditional Black

+1

Band: Darkness

Release: Over and Out (EP)

Style: Thrash, Melodic Thrash

+2

Band: Ceremonial Castings

Release: Salem 1692 (MMXX)

Style: Synthonic Black/Death

+2

Band: Anthenora

Release: Mirrors and Screens

Style: Heavy

+1

Band: Black Pyre

Release: Winter Solstice

Style: Black

+1

Band: Nocte Obducta

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

Style: Black/Doom

+1

Band: Exitium Sui

Release: Ad Personam

Style: Symphonic Black/Death/Doom

+2

Band: Oreamnos

Release: Into The Night (EP)

Style: Death, Black/Death

+1

Band: Svartghast

Release: Perdition

Style: Symphonic Black

+1

Band: E.N.D.

Release: A Grave Deceit (EP)

Style: Groove, Groove/Thrash

+1

Band: Sylent Storm

Release: The Fire Never Dies

Style: Heavy, Hard Rock

+1

Band: Panychida

Release: Gabreta Aeterna

Style: Black

+1

Band: Urfaust

Release: Teufelsgeist

Style: Orchestral Doom, ambient, atmospheric Black/Doom

+2

Band: Scour

Release: Black (EP)

Style: Black and Brutal

+3

Band: The Corona Lantern

Release: Certa Omnibus Hora

Style: Blackened Sludge

+1

Band: Vaneno

Release: Struggle Through Absurdity (EP)

Style: Sludge

+2

Band: Duister Maanlicht

Release: Over zwarte kunsten, hekserij en andere dienaren van het kwaad

Style: Black

+1

Band: Leviathan

Release: Words Waging War

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Blazon Stone

Release: Return to Port Royal: Definitive Edition (re-recording of first album)

Style: Traditional, Speed, Power

+3

Band: Rocka Rollas

Release: Metal Strikes Back: Definitive Edition (re-recording)

Style: Traditional

+3

Band: The Spectre Beneath

Release: The New Identity of Sidney Stone

Style: Melodic Death with clean female vocals… whatever genre that is… Alternative???, Heavy, Progressive

+2

Band: Carnal Abhorrence

Release: The Crowned Apocalypse

Style: Brutal Death

+1

Band: Sorceress of Sin

Release: Mirrored Revenge

Style: Heavy

+1

Band: Intolerant

Release: Primal Future

Style: Raw Black

+0

Band: Furious Trauma

Release: Decade at War

Style: Groove/Thrash

+3

Band: Ingrina

Release: Siste Lys

Style: Post-metal, ambient

+0

Band: Amahiru

Release: Amahiru

Style: Alternative

-1

Band: Hatebreed

Release: Weight of the False Self

Style: same hardcore shit as always… maybe even worse than normal

-1

(normally I put a link here, but there are a thousand bands more deserving of your listen.)

Nov 14 - 20

November 25, 2020 by Joe Cearlock in New Releases

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 14, 2020

Band: Isenscur

Release: Āsyndraþ

Style: Black

+0

Band: Wolvenfrost

Release: Hel Embattled (EP)

Style: Black

+1

Nov 15, 2020

Band: Sarcasm

Release: Pot v Raj

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Eurynome

Release: Obsequies

Style: Funeral Death/Doom

+0

Nov 16, 2020

Band: Aliicide

Release: First Prayer (EP)

Style: Black

+0

Band: Critical Legacy

Release: Keep The Flame Alive

Style: Thrash

+1

Nov 17, 2020

Band: !T.O.O.H.!

Release: Free Speech

Style: Progressive Death, Grindcore, experimental

+2

Band: Umbra

Release: Indomable

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

(to bad I don’t speak Spanish, it would be +3)

Nov 18, 2020

Band: Intolerance

Release: Laments From The Dripstone Cave

Style: Death

+1

Band: Shadow Warrior

Release: Cyberblade

Style: Traditional, Speed

+2

bandcamp

Band: Darzamat

Release: A Philosopher at the End of the Universe

Style: Gothic/Black

+2

Band: Troll

Release: Tilbake Til Trollberg (EP)

Style: Black, Folk, Symphonic

+1

Band: Holiest Era

Release: The Dawn of Eternal Salvation (EP)

Style: Melodic Death

+1

Band: Masturbation with the Bible

Release: Good Nuns Gone Dirty (EP)

Style: Brutal Death

+0

Band: Wings of Destiny

Release: Ballads

Style: Power

+1

Band: Voidsphere

Release: To Sense | To Perceive

Style: atmospheric Black

-1

Band: Mahr

Release: Maelstrom

Style: Raw Atmospheric Black

+0

Nov 19, 2020

Band: Hegeroth

Release: Perfidia

Style: Black

+2

Band: Prezir

Release: Depredation

Style: Black

+1

Band: Totalitarian

Release: Kulturkampf / Los Von Rom (EP)

Style: Black

+1

Nov 20, 2020

Band: Toxaemia

Release: Where Paths Divide

Style: Death, Death/Thrash

+3

Band: Empyreal Sorrow

Release: Praey (Præy)

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Eternal Champion

Release: Ravening Iron

Style: Traditional, Heavy, “Epic”

+3

Band: Subterraen

Release: Rotten Human Kingdom

Style: Black/Sludge

+0

Band: Corrosive

Release: ED

Style: Death

+3

Band: Fore Aeons

Release: The Fall of The Damned (EP)

Style: Black/Death

+0

Band: Tombs

Release: Under Sullen Skies

Style: Black, Black/Death, Death

+3

Band: Killer Be Killed

Release: Reluctant Hero

Style: Groove, Metalcore

+1

Band: Contarian

Release: Only Time Will Tell

Style: Progressive Death

+1

Band: Lord Fist

Release: Wilderness of Hearts

Style: Traditional, NWOTHM

+1

Band: Aeolian (Æolian)

Release: The Negationist

Style: Melodic Death, blackened melodic death

+3

Band: White Magician

Release: Dealers of Divinity

Style: Traditional, Hard Rock

+1

Band: Dark Psychosis

Release: The Edge of Nowhere...

Style: traditional black

+1

Band: Dark Tranquillity

Release: Moment

Style: Melodic Death, Gothic

+3

Band: Horncrowned

Release: Rex Exterminii (The Hand of the Opposer)

Style: Black

+0

Band: Skelethal

Release: Unveiling The Threshold

Style: Death

+2

Band Odem

Release: Timelss Past Above

Style: Death, Black/Death

+3

Band: Avandra

Release: Skylighting

Style: Progressive Rock/Metal

+2

Band: Ar da Desgraça

Release: Enigmática Perpétua Sinfonia

Style: Black

+1

Band: My Dying Bride

Release: Macabre Cabaret (EP)

Style: Doom

+1

Band: Communic

Release: Hiding from the World

Style: Heavy, Power, Progressive

+3

Band: Lie in Ruins

Release: Floating in Timeless Streams

Style: Death

+2

Band: Aqvilea

Release: Beyond the Elysian Fields

Style: Symphonic

+3

Band: Ilsa

Release: Preyer

Style: Sludge, Death/Doom

+1

v

Band: Greenwitch

Release: CosmoSteelBlood Trinity

Style: Death

+3

Band: Liminal Shroud

Release: Through the False Narrows

Style: Black

+1

Band: Exaugurate

Release: Chasm of Rapturous Delirium

Style: Death

+1

Band: Nader Sadek

Release: The Serapeum (EP)

Style: Technical Death

+2

Band: End of Mankind

Release: Antérieur à la lumière

Style: Black, Post-black

+2

Band: Crawling Chaos

Release: XLIX

Style: Death, Progressive Death

+3

Band: Harkane

Release: Fallen King Simulacrum

Style: Symphonic Black/Death

+2

Band: Raptor

Release: On the Loose (EP)

Style: Traditional, NWOTHM

+1

Band: Aeternitas

Release: Haunted Minds

Style: Symphonic

+3

Band: Anderwelt

Release: 2084

Style: Post-metal

+1

Band: Cristiano Filippini's Flames of Heaven

Release: The Force Within

Style: Symphonic Power

+2

Band: Stormkeep

Release: Galdrum (EP)

Style: Black, symphonic black

+2

Band: Concede

Release: Indoctrinate

Style: Grindcore, Hardcore

-1

Band: Best Within The Sound

Release: Resistance

Style: Crossover Thrash

+1

Band: Inquisition

Release: Black Mass for a Mass Grave

Style: Black

+2

Band: King Ov Wyrms

Release: Lord OV Thornes

Style: Black/Death

+1

Band: Hjelvik

Release: Welcome to Hel

Style: Blackened Heavy

+1

Band: Corteza Inhumana

Release: Non Estás Só

Style: Black

+0

Band: Light Field Reverie

Release: Another World

Style: Atmospheric Doom

+1

Nov 7-13

November 18, 2020 by Joe Cearlock in New Releases

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 7, 2020

Band: Misanthropy Apotheosis

Release: Against Your Filthy Kind (EP)

Style: Death

+1

Band: Sardonic Witchery

Release: Moonlight Sacrifice Ritual

Style: Black

+1

Band: Anguish Sublime

Release: Maelstrom Imperium

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Nov 9, 2020

Band: Winterhewn

Release: Appalachian Winter

Style: Symphonic Black

+2

Nov 10, 2020

Band: Total Death

Release: Mar de Aguas Amargas

Style: Doom, Death/Doom, Progressive, Symphonic

+1

Band: Warkvlt

Release: Deathhymn

Style: Black

+0

Band: Heretic Ritual

Release: War - Desecration - Genocide / Passages of Infinite Hatred

Style: Black/Death

+0

Band: Elegis

Release: Kultus

Style: Black/Death, Death

+2

Band: Cytolysis

Release: Portraits of Malevolence

Style: Brutal Death, Slam, Deathcore

+1

Band: The Damnnation

Release: Parasite

Style: Death/Thrash

+1

Band: Kalibur

Release: Call of the Vril’s Sign

Style: Black

+1

Nov 11, 2020

Band: Isolert

Release: World In Ruins

Style: Black

+1

Band: Blindman

Release: Expansion

Style: Synthonic Heavy

+2

Band: Principium

Release: Principium

Style: Heavy, Progressive

+2

Band: Soulskinner

Release: Seven Bowls of Wrath

Style: Death

+1

Band: Oldeath

Release: Rise from Majestic Darkness

Style: Black

+1

Band: Shawn Whitaker

Release: The Sickness Singularity (EP)

Style: Brutal Death

+1

Band: SVO

Release: Дежавю (Déjà vu)

Style: Synthonic Heavy

+1

Band: Rosa Nocturna

Release: Andělé a bestie

Style: Symphonic

+1

Nov 12, 2020

Band: Soul Dissolution

Release: Winter Contemplations

Style: Depressive post-Black

+1

Nov 13, 2020

Band: Maculator

Release: Witchcraft

Style: Death

+2

Band: Puteraeon

Release: The Cthulhian Pulse: Call from the Dead City

Style: Death

+3

Band: Pyramaze

Release: Epitaph

Style: Symphonic, Progressive

+2

Band: Megaton Sword

Release: Blood Hails Steel - Steel Hails Fire

Style: Traditional, Power

+2

Band: Blackhorned

Release: The Rise of Naamah

Style: Black

+0

Band: Time Rift

Release: Eternal Rock

Style: Traditional, Hard Rock

+2

Band: In Malice's Wake

Release: The Blindness of Faith

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Warfect

Release: Spectre of Devastation

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Nuclear

Release: Murder of Crows

Style: Thrash, Death/Thrash

+3

Band: Macabre

Release: Carnival of Killers

Style: Death/crossover

+1

Band: Death Dealer

Release: Conquered Lands

Style: Speed, Power, Heavy

+3

(it’s barely a +3, lyrics are super cheesy from what I’ve heard.)

Band: Nibiru

Release: Panspermia

Style: Shitty

-1

Band: Völur

Release: Death Cult

Style: Doom, folk, symphonic

+1

Band: Realms of Chaos

Release: The Seed

Style: Death

+1

Band: Décembre Noir

Release: The Renaissance of Hope

Style: Death, Melodic Death/Doom

+2

Band: Omegavortex

Release: Black Abomination Spawn

Style: Black/Death

+0

Band: Gwydion

Release: Gwydion

Style: Blackened Symphonic Melodic Death/Folk

+3

Band: Of Feather and Bone

Release: Sulfuric Disintegration

Style: Death

+1

Band: Ymir

Release: Ymir

Style: Black

+2

Band: Cidesphere

Release: Dawn of a New Epoch

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Soulburn

Release: Noa's D'ark

Style: Black/Doom

+3

Band: Serrated

Release: Sifting Through the Remnants (EP)

Style: Death/Thrash

+1

Band: Harlott

Release: Detritus of the Final Age

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Accuser

Release: Accuser

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Dismal

Release: Quinta Essentia

Style: Gothic, Symphonic, Progressive

+0

Band: Ecclesia

Release: De Ecclesiæ Universalis

Style: Heavy, Groove, Doom

+3

Band: Cerebral Invasion

Release: Cerebral Invasion (EP)

Style: Death/Thrash, Death

+3

Band: Humanity is Cancer

Release: Humanity is Cancer (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Todestriebe

Release: In the Vortex of Destructive Creations

Style: Black

+1

Band: Starbynary

Release: Divina Commedia: Paradiso

Style: Progressive, Symphonic Power

+2

Band: Qilin

Release: Petrichor

Style: Stoner

+1

Band: Garagedays

Release: Something Black

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Snow White Blood

Release: Hope Springs Eternal

Style: Symphonic

+3

Band: Anachitis

Release: The Sorcerer’s Sorrow

Style: Depressive Black

+1

Band: Under

Release: Training Resource

Style: Hardcore Punk, Sludge

-1

Band: Brutal Kraut

Release: Progression In Madness

Style: Groove, Death/Thrash, Melodic Death

+2

Band: Shrines of Dying Light

Release: Sadness

Style: Melodic Doom, Death/Doom

+1

Band: Ramchat

Release: Znelo lesom

Style: Black

+1

Band: Spell Forest

Release: Cadent in Aeternum: The Dark Spell Forest

Style: Symphonic Black

+1

Band: Fecalizer

Release: The Planet of Seven Billion Zombies

Style: Grindcore, Brutal Death

+1

Band: QuickFire Deus Sol Invictus

Release: Conqueror of the Void (previously not available internationally)

Style: Thrash, technical

+2

Band: Hurraco’s Massacre

Release: Chaosmology

Style: Black/Death/Thrash, Melodic Death

+3

Band: Metal Detektor

Release: The Battle of Daytona

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons

Release: We’re The Bastards

Style: Hard Rock, Heavy

+1

Band: AC/DC

Release: Power Up

Style: Hard Rock

+3

Oct 31 - Nov 6

November 10, 2020 by Joe Cearlock in New Releases

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 )

Oct 31, 2020

Band: Wintarnaht

Release: Hriuwa

Style: Epic Black, Pagan Black, Viking

+2

Band: Psychonaut 4

Release: Beautyfall

Style: post-black, SDBM

+2

Band: Dawnbreaker

Release: Vanquished Horrible Night

Style: Symphonic black, black

+1

Band: Internal Organs External

Release: Into The Depths

Style: Brutal Death

+0

Band: Liksminke

Release: Landet av frost

Style: Black

+1

Band: Sadistic Oppressor

Release: Blessing or Terror

Style: Death

-1

Band: Burden of Ymir

Release: And Then Twilight Fell

Style: Blackened Folk

+3

Band: Odiosior

Release: Syvyyksistä

Style: Black

+1

Band: Encenathrakh

Release: Thraakethraaeate Thraithraake

Style: Technical Brutal Death

-1

Band: Motherfog

Release: OxMxRx

Style: Grindcore, death

-1

Band: Orcrypt

Release: Balrog & Roll

Style: Black

+1

Band: Recently Vacated Graves: True Zombie Metal

Release: Devoured in Decay (EP)

Style: Death

+1

Band: Vomit Division

Release: Hell in a Bottle

Style: Black/Thrash

+1

Band: Summoning Death

Release: One Step Beyond

Style: Death

+1

Band: Necrogosto

Release: Ancestral Bestiality

Style: Black/Thrash, Death/Thrash

+0

Band: Chainbreäker

Release: Relentless Night

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Legionem

Release: Sator Omnia Noctem

Style: Doom

+1

Band: Els Focs Negres

Release: Els Focs Negres

Style: Traditional Heavy

+3

Band: Tazer Torture

Release: Playground Massacre

Style: Grindcore

+1

Band: Asarmoth

Release: Princess of Darkness

Style: Death

-1

Band: Glädjekällor

Release: Jesuskomplex

Style: Black

+1

Band: Hellspike

Release: Lords of War

Style: Heavy, Speed

+3

Band: System Trashed

Release: Oxygen Thieves

Style: Heavy, Thrash

+2

Band: Baphomet’s Cunt

Release: The Alluring Old Hag

Style: Black

+2

Band: Ashenvoid

Release: Psalms of the Grave Serpent

Style: Doom

+3

Band: Multiple Personality

Release: Of Truth

Style: Black

+1

Band: Jester’s Tears

Style: Progressive, Power

+2

Band: The Morgrotuskthululustoccultobskullty Horrormance

Release: Baptism by Firewater

Style: Black/Thrash, Heavy, Speed

+1

Band: Shekinah

Release: Trve Pentecostal Black Metal

Style: Black

-1

Band: Ignitor

Release: The Golden Age of Black Magick

Style: Heavy

+2

Nov 1, 2020

Band: Hell:on

Release: Scythian Stamm

Style: Death

+3

Band: Ana Argan List

Release: Ana Argan List (EP)

Style: Post-black

+1

Band: Oldeath

Release: Rise from Majestic Darkness

Style: Black

+1

Band: Eye of Solitude

Release: The Ghost (2020)

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+2

Band: Dark Doom

Release: Mourning’s End

Style: Melodic Black/Death

+1

Band: Ignis Gehenna

Release: Rites of Transvaluation

Style: Black, Black/Death

+3

Band: Inhale

Release: My Loneliness

Style: Depressive Atmospheric Black

+1

Band: Chagrin

Release: Memories Never Die (EP)

Style: Atmospheric Post-Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Motion Failure

Release: Detraxi

Style: Black Metal-Core

+0

Band: Cruthu

Release: Athrú Crutha

Style: Stoner, Doom

+0

Band: Asmoday

Release: Misanthrop

Style: Black

+0

Nov 2, 2020

Band: Okrütnik

Release: Legion Antychrysta

Style: Blackened Heavy Metal, Black

+2

Band: Jonkal

Release: This Fight is My Own

Style: Instrumental, Shred

+2

Band: Massenmord

Release: Blut des Nordens

Style: Black

+1

Nov 6, 2020

Band: Yaotl Mictlan

Release: Sagrada Tierra del Jaguar

Style: Atmospheric Black, Folk

+2

Band: The Malum Process

Release: Historical Pathology (EP)

Style: Brutal Death

+0

Band: Dysmorphic Demiurge

Release: As You Hunger For Pardon

Style: Technical Brutal Death

+2

Band: Externatropsy

Release: Bassu Hypnotiqua (EP)

Style: Instrumental Death, bass

+1

Nov 4, 2020

Band: Countless Skies

Release: Glow

Style: Atmospheric Melodic Death, Progressive

+3

Band: Streams of Blood

Release: Erløsung

Style: Black

+1

Nov 5, 2020

Band: Deaf Aid

Release: Precursors of Extermination (EP)

Style: Death

+1

Band: Fatal Castration

Release: Diversed Paradigm of Lunacy

Style: Brutal Death

+1

Band: Ustkara Ghost

Release: Consuming The Abyss

Style: Death/Doom

+1

Band: Necromantic Forces

Release: Mysanthropic Beast (EP)

Style: Black/Thrash

+1

Band: Lucid Dreaming

Release: The Chronicles Pt. III

Style: Power

+1

Band: Kombat

Release: New Dimensions of Pain (EP)

Style: Death

+3

Nov 6, 2020

Band: Sólstafir

Release: Endless Twilight of Codependent Love

Style: what ever the hell post-rock is

+1

Band: MRTVI

Release: Omniscient Hallucinatory Delusion

Style: Black

+0

Band: Fates Warning

Release: Long Day Good Night

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Neptune

Release: Northern Steel

Style: Traditional

+1

Band: Lords of Black

Release: Alchemy of Souls Part I

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

Band: Jaded Star

Release: Realign

Style: Alternative

+0

Band: War Agenda

Release: Propaganda

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Bloodsoaked Necrovoid

Release: Expelled into the Unknown Depths of the Unfathomable

Style: Death/Doom

+0

Band: Hanging Fortress

Release: Darkness Devours

Style: Death

+1

Band: Sabrewulf

Release: Mala Suerte

Style: Death, harcore

+1

Band: Eternal Idol

Release: Renaissance

Style: Symphonic

+3

Band: Pulchra Morte

Release: Ex Rosa Ceremonia

Style: Death, Death/Doom

+1

Band: Dark Quarterer

Release: Pompei

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Void Paradigm

Release: Ultime Pulsation

Style: Experimental Black/Doom

+1

Band: Beltez

Release: A Grey Chill and a Whisper

Style: Black

+1

Band: Guignol Noir

Release: Mantric Malediction

Style: Black

+1

Band: Deluge

Release: Ægo Templo

Style: Black, post-hardcore

+2

Band: Forsaken Age

Release: Heavy Metal Nightmare

Style: Heavy, NWOTHM

+3

Band: Vespers

Release: Shattered Hope

Style: Funeral Death/Doom

+2

Band: Walk In Darkness

Release: On the Road to Babylon

Style: Gothic, Symphonic

+1

Band: Light Dweller

Release: Apparition

Style: Black/Death

+0

Band: Inhuman

Release: Contra

Style: Gothic, Progressive

+2

Band: Plasma

Release: Engulfed in Terror

Style: Death, Grind

+0

Band: Cannibe

Release: Sacrificio Umano

Style: Industrial Grind

-1

Band: Froglord

Release: Amphibian Ascending

Style: Doom, Sludge, Stoner, Death/Doom

+1

Band: Abstract Dream

Release: A Vision Among The Stars

Style: Atmospheric Black

+0

Band: Raven God

Release: Raven God

Style: Black, melodic

+1

Band: Surma

Release: The Light Within

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: Elvenscroll

Release: Never to Be Mourned (EP)

Style: Folk

+1

Band: Headless Eyes

Release: Horripilations

Style: Death, Heavy

+1

Band: Old Ruins

Release: Old Ruins (EP)

Style: Black

+2

Band: Eleanora

Release: Mere

Style: Black/Doom, post-core

-1

Band: Odious Devotion

Release: Odious Devotion

Style: Black

+0

Band: Cerberus

Release: Cerberus

Style: Black

+0

Band: Darkenhöld

Release: Arcanes & Sortilèges

Style: Black, melodic, folk, symphonic black

+3

(Maybe not if you don’t speak French… I don’t but would be +3 if I did)

Band: Kalapács

Release: Világvégre

Style: Traditional, Heavy (Hungarian)

+1

Oct 24-30

November 03, 2020 by Joe Cearlock in New Releases

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 )

Oct 24, 2020

Band: The Osedax

Release: Meridians

Style: Black/Doom

+0

Band: Thousand Oxen Fury

Release: Victory March

Style: Progressive, Heavy

+2

Band: Brain Corruption

Release: Profiteers of Suffering

Style: Grindcore

+0

Band: Damnatus

Release: Quando nessuno ti aspetta nel mondo...

Style: Depressive Black

-1

Band: Contemptor

Release: Devil of the Crossroads

Style: Black/Death

+0

Oct 25, 2020

Band: Scatology Secretion

Release: Submerged in Glacial Ruin

Style: Brutal Death

+1

Band: Molecular Fragmentation

Release: Unparalleled Fatal Collapse

Style: Brutal Death

+0

Oct 26, 2020

Band: Wombripper

Release: Macabre Melodies

Style: Death, melodic death

+3

Band: Disrupted

Release: Pure Death

Style: Death

+2

Band: Autumn's Dawn

Release: The End of it All

Style: depressive post-black

+1

Oct 27, 2020

Band: Six Degrees of Separation

Release: Old Dogs

Style: Progressive, melodic death/thrash

+2

Band: Holocausto War Metal

Release: Batismo de fogo

Style: Black/Thrash

+1

Band: Depressive Mode

Release: Equilibrium

Style: Gothic Doom

+1

Band: Atheos

Release: Words of Eroding Worlds

Style: Technical Black/Death

+1

Oct 28, 2020

Band: Negative or Nothing

Release: Drowned

Style: Black

-1

Band: Dead Sun

Release: Waterlands

Style: Melodic Death

+1

Band: Monstrous

Release: Dawnsleeper

Style: Death

+1

Band: Begräbnis

Release: Izanaena

Style: ambient funeral doom

-1

Band: Weald and Woe

Release: The Fate of Kings and Men

Style: Black, melodic

+2

Band: Flail

Release: Dying Embers to Coldening Coals

Style: shitty

-1

Band: Deceates

Release: Ex Nihilo Lux

Style: Melodic Death, Alternative

+0

Oct 29, 2020

Band: In Demise

Release: Conjuring Dystopia (EP)

Style: Technical Death

+1

Oct 30, 2020

Band: Klak

Release: Infernu (EP)

Style: Deathcore

+1

Band: Nether

Release: Between Shades and Shadows

Style: Black

+3

Band: Svarta

Release: Befreiung

Style: Black

+1

Band: Machine Gun Majesty

Release: The Lethargy of Custom

Style: melodic death, metal-core

+2

Band: Mesarthim

Release: Planet Nine (EP)

Style: atmospheric black

+1

Band: Rockin’ Engine

Release: The Wretched and the Damned (EP)

Style: Heavy, Groove

+2

Band: Shagor

Release: Sotteklugt

Style: Atmospheric Black

+1

Band: Raven Black Night

Release: Run With the Raven

Style: Traditional

+0

Band: Violent Life Violent Death

Release: The Color of Bone (EP)

Style: metal-core

+2

Band: Sick Society

Release: URNØ1

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Svabhavat

Release: Black Mirror Reflection

Style: Black

+1

Band: Nihilistium

Release: Punishment in the Abyss of Self Hate

Style: Depressive Black

+0

Band: Unheil

Release: Grauen

Style: Raw Black, black/doom

+1

Band: Peste Umbrarum

Release: Night Canticles of the Ancient Ana’themae

Style: Black

+1

Band: Cimetière

Release: Extinction

Style: Black

+0

Band: Nahemia

Release: AR-CAOSAJI

Style: Black

+1

Band: Disgusting Perversion

Release: Eternity of Death

Style: Death

+2

Band: Xeno

Release: Sojourn

Style: Progressive, Progressive Death

+1

Band: Draconian

Release: Under a Godless Veil

Style: Gothic, Doom, Death/Doom

+2

Band: Bliss of Flesh

Release: Tyrant

Style: melodic black/death

+3

Band: Revolution Within

Release: Chaos

Style: Thrash, Groove, Groove/Thrash

+3

Band: Convulse

Release: Deathstar

Style: Experimental/progressive Death

+2

Band: Dorothy Doll

Release: To Push Forward to Goal...To Advance with the Fury of a Raging Lion

Style: Heavy, pop punk

+0

Band: Malicious

Release: Deranged Hexes

Style: death

+0

Band: Curimus

Release: Garden of Eden

Style: Death, Death/Groove

+1

Band: Auðn

Release: Vökudraumsins fangi

Style: atmospheric Black

+2

Band: Begrafven

Release: Dödsriket

Style: black

+1

Band: Junior Bruce

Release: Pray For Death

Style: Sludge

+1

Band: Tyranno

Release: March of Death

Style: Traditional Black, black/thrash

+1

Band: Possessor

Release: Damn The Light

Style: Sludge

+1

Band: John Petrucci

Release: Terminal Velocity

Style: Progressive, Shred

+2

Band: Mr. Bungle

Release: The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo

Style: Thrash

+1

Band: Cynabare Urne

Release: Obsidian Daggers and Cinnabar Skulls

Style: Death

+1

Band: Funeral Harvest

Release: Funeral Harvest (EP)

Style: black

+0

Band: Them

Release: Return to Hemmersmoor

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Carcass

Release: Despicable (EP)

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Give us the album already!

Band: Sun of Grey

Release: Outerworld

Style: Doom, Stoner

+1

Band: Occult Burial

Release: Burning Eerie Lore

Style: Traditional Black, Black/Thrash

+1

Band: Dead Sleep

Release: Naked Tyrant

Style: Thrash

+1

Band: Mors Subita

Release: Extinction Era

Style: Melodic Death

+1

Band: Scardust

Release: Strangers

Style: Progressive Symphonic

+2

Band: Stälker

Release: Black Majik Terror

Style: Thrash, Heavy

+3

Band: Hypnos

Release: The Blackcrow

Style: Death

+2

Band: Svartsyn

Release: Requiem

Style: Black

+1

Band: Insidious Disease

Release: After Death

Style: Death

+3

Band: Sarcator

Release: Sarcator

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Antzaat

Release: For You Men Who Gaze into the Sun

Style: Black

+2

Band: Subconscious

Release: The Inevitable

Style: Progressive Death/thrash

+1

Band: Glacier

Release: The Passing of Time

Style: Traditional, progressive traditional

+3

Band: Evocatus

Release: Path To Tartarus

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Evildead

Release: United States of Anarchy

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Thrust

Release: The Helm of Awe

Style: Heavy

+0

Band: Arkheron Thodol

Release: Rituals of the Sovereign Heart

Style: Atmospheric Black

+1

Band: The Kryptik

Release: Behold Fortress Inferno (EP)

Style: Symphonic Black

+2

Band: Niviane

Release: The Ruthless Divine

Style: Power

+1

Band: Corners of Sanctuary

Release: Heroes Never Die

Style: Heavy

+0

Band: Anime Torment

Release: Void Terror (EP)

Style: death

+1

Band: Ba’al

Release: Ellipsism

Style: Atmospheric Post-Black

+1

Band: Deep River Acolytes

Release: Alchemia Aeterna

Style: Doom, Heavy Rock, Stoner Rock

+0

Band: Grafvitnir

Release: Death’s Wings Widespread

Style: Black

+0

Band: Botanist

Release: Photosynthesis

Style: Post-black, experimental

+1

Band: Bleeding Out

Release: Lifelong Death Fantasy

Style: Grindcore

+0

Band: Sorcier Des Glaces

Release: Un Monde de Glace et de Sang

Style: Black

+2

Oct 17-23

October 27, 2020 by Joe Cearlock in New Releases

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

(As of March 27, I am no longer covering all Ep’s)
(As of April 20, I am no longer covering digital only releases. Cassettes don’t count; This isn’t 1984)

Oct 17, 2020

Band: Draconis Infernum

Release: Blood of Inconophile (EP)

Style: black

+1

Band: Occult Hand Order

Release: The Chained The Burned The wounded (EP)

Style: Psychedelic Doom

+1

Band: The Worst Case Scenario

Release: Drowning in Insanity

Style: Brutal Death, Death-core

+2

Band: Vulvanic

Release: Ripper’s Secret

Style: Raw Black

-1

Oct 18, 2020

Band: Halter

Release: The Principles of Human Being

Style: Death/Doom

+1

Band: Padus

Release: La lèngua del leòn

Style: Doom

+0

Oct 19, 2020

Band: Thrashwall

Release: Thrashwall

Style Thrash

+3

Oct 20, 2020

Band: Black March

Release: Gloria in Ruinam (EP)

Style: Black

+2

Band: Erebos

Release: Upon The Northern Shores

Style: Atmospheric/Symphonic Black

+2

Band: Defecto

Release: Duality

Style: Groove, Progressive, Alternative

+1

Oct 21, 2020

Band: Umbra Vitae

Release: Shadow of Life

Style: Death

+0

Oct 22, 2020

Band: Invincible Force

Release: Decomposed Sacramentum

Style: Death, black?, thrash?

+2

Band: Incognosci

Release: A Biography of Madness

Style: Brutal Death

+1

Band: Winterfog

Release: Storm of the Frozen Blood (EP)

Style: Black

+1

Oct 23, 2020

Band: Steve Blower

Release: The Prophecy

Style: Heavy, Traditional

+1

Band: Undeath

Release: Lesions of a Different Kind

Style: Death

+1

Band: Pallbearer

Release: Forgotten Days

Style: Doom

+3

Band: Dehuman Reign

Release: Descending Upon The Oblivious

Style: Death

+3

Band: Leave’s Eyes

Release: The Last Viking

Style: Symphonic, Gothic, Folk

+2

Band: Mors Principium Est

Release: Seven

Style: Symphonic Melodic Death

+2

Band: Mörk Gryning

Release: Hinsides vrede

Style: Black, melodic

+3

Band Coexistence

Release: Collateral Dimension

Style: Progressive Death

+2

Band: Armored Saint

Release: Punching the Sky

Style: Heavy Metal

+3

Band: Black Fate

Release: Ithaca

Style: Progressive, symphonic, power

+3

Band: Melodius Deite

Release: Elysium

Style: Progressive, Power

+2

Band: Solitary

Release: The Truth Behind The Lies

Style: Thrash, Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Thanatopsis

Release: Initiation

Style: Death/Thrash, technical death/thrash

+2

Band: Atlases

Release: Woe Portrait

Style: Melodic Death/Doom, post?

+1

Band: Kevel

Release: Mutatis Mutandis

Style: Black, progressive sludge

+1

Band: Prometheus

Release: Resonant Echoes From Cosmos of Old

Style: Black/Death, Blackened Death/Doom

+2

Band: Demonical

Release: World Domination

Style: Swedish Death, Melodic Death, Death

+3

Band: Old Mother Hell

Release: Lord of Demise

Style: Traditional Heavy, Epic, Doom

+2

Band: Admantis

Release: Far Flung Realm

Style: Power

+2

Band: Anthea

Release: Illusion

Style: Symphonic, Symphonic Power

+2

Band: Song of Anhubis

Release: Reversed Reflection

Style: Gothic

+1

Band: Shaark

Release: Deathonation

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Uncle Woe

Release: Phantomescence

Style: Doom

+0

(this could be decent if it had some production)

Band: Celestial Season

Release: The Secret Teachings

Style: Death/Doom

+0

Band: Epitimia

Release: Allusion

Style: Black, post

+0

Band: Griffon

Release: Ὸ θεὀς ὸ βασιλεὐς

Style: Black, melodic black, Progressive Black

+2

Band: White Walls

Release: Grandeur

Style: Progressive

+1

Band: Skeleton Pit

Release: Lust To Lynch

Style: Thrash

+1

Band: Vessel of Light

Release: Last Ride

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Ethereal Credence

Release: The Dawn of the Arriving Age

Style: Black

+1

Band: Путь (Pathway)

Release: Юдоль скорби (The Vale of Sorrow) (EP)

Style: atmospheric black

+1

Band: One Day In Pain

Release: Imperial Fire

Style: Death

+2

Band: Wyrmwoods

Release: Gamma

Style: Atmospheric Black

+1

Band: Kosmovorous

Release: Glorification Sermons (EP)

Style: Black

+2

Band: Warwind

Release: Unleashed

Style: Black

+1

Band: Wintermoon

Release: Heartfire (EP)

Style: Black

+0

Band: Rusty Eye

Release: Dissecting Shadows

Style: Heavy

+0

Band: Circle of Ouroborus

Release: Viimeinen juoksu

Style: experimental black

+0

Band: Sevendust

Release: Blood & Stone

Style: Alternative

+1

Oct 10-16

October 19, 2020 by Joe Cearlock in New Releases

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

(As of March 27, I am no longer covering all Ep’s)
(As of April 20, I am no longer covering digital only releases. Cassettes don’t count; This isn’t 1984)

Oct 10, 2020

Band: Grausamkeit

Release: FCK God (EP)

Style: Black

+0

Band: Odium Humani Generis

Release: Przeddzień

Style: Black

+1

Band: Drengskapur

Release: Was der Morast verschlang

Style: Black

+1

Band: Sil Khannaz

Release: Intravena Tantiks

Style: melodic Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Zaklon

Release: Zychod

Style: Black

+1

Oct 11, 2020

Band: Iron Attack!

Release: Perfume of Silence

Style: J-Power

+2

Band: Gallu Xul

Release: Emissaries of the Underworld

Style: Death

+2

Oct 13, 2020

Band: Alleyway

Release: After Dark

Style: Traditional, Speed

+1

Band: Arsebreed

Release: Butoh

Style: Technical Brutal Death

+1

Band: Griverion

Release: The Call of the Noose

Style: Depressive Black

+0

Band: Striges

Release: Verum Veterum

Style: Black

+1

Oct 14, 2020

Band: Cadaver Putrefacto

Release: Ritual de exsanguinación

Style: Death

+1

Band: Signs of Omnicide

Release: Interplanetary Harvest

Style: Brutal Death, Deathcore

+0

Band: Fetor

Release: Downwards to Distress

Style: Brutal Death

+0

Oct 15, 2020

Band: Constant Nausea

Release: Niech Będzie Chwała

Style: Black

-1

Band: Sviatibor

Release: Secrets of the Land

Style: Atmospheric Black, folk

+2

Band: Bathe

Release: A Field Guide to Dead Birds

Style: Sludge, Black/Doom, noise

-1

Band: Atrexial

Release: Gargantuan

Style: Black

+1

Band: Inbreeding Sick

Release: Human Remains Garden (EP)

Style: Brutal Death

-1

Band: Sickle of Dust

Release: To the Shores of Sunrise

Style: Atmospheric Black

+2

Band: The Noise Bastards

Release: No Mas Dios

Style: Death, Black/Death or Death/Grind

+1

Oct 16, 2020

Band: Leprosy

Release: Obnoxious Futuristic Vision

Style: Death, Death/Thrash

+3

Band: Perennial Quest

Release: Perennial Quest (EP)

Style: Power

+2

Band: Arkan

Release: Lila H

Style: Melodic Death

+1

Band: WoeFul Echo

Release: Dampening Existence

Style: Black

+0

Band: Netherblade

Release: Reborn

Style: Thrash

+1

Band: Oblivion Beach

Release: Cold River Spell

Style: Doom, Gothic

+1

Band: Furies

Release: Fortune’s Gate

Style: Heavy, Traditional

+3

Band: Altar of Gore

Release: Obscure & Obscene Gods

Style: Death

+0

Band: Odax

Release: The King is dead

Style: Traditional, Epic

+1

Band: La Mer

Release: Fear Nothing (EP)

Style: Atmospheric Black, post-black

+1

Band: Spirit Adrift

Release: Enlightened in Eternity

Style: Traditional, Doom

+2

Band: Teeth of Lamb

Release: Soul Gutter

Style: Thrash, shred

+1

Band: False Gods

Release: No Symmetry… Only Disillusion

Style: Sludge

+2

Band: Bihargam

Release: Ove Tenebrae

Style: Black

+2

Band: Kraken Duumvirate

Release: The Stars Below, The Seas Above

Style: Atmospheric Black/Doom

+1

Band: Act of Creation

Release: The Uncertain Light

Style: Melodic Death, Gothic

+3

Band: Nightstryke

Release: Storm of Steel

Style: Traditional

+3

Band: Aphonic Threnody

Release: The Great Hatred

Style: Funeral Death/Doom

+1

Band: Infera Bruo

Release: Rites of the Nameless

Style: Black, Progressive black

+3

Band: Goratory

Release: Sour Grapes

Style: Technical Brutal Death

+1

Band: Benediction

Release: Scriptures

Style: Death

+3

Band: Chaos Divine

Release: Legacies

Style: Progressive, Alternative

+1

Band: Wayfarer

Release: A Romance With Violence

Style: Progressive Black

+1

Oct 3-9

October 12, 2020 by Joe Cearlock in New Releases

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

(As of March 27, I am no longer covering all Ep’s)
(As of April 20, I am no longer covering digital only releases. Cassettes don’t count; This isn’t 1984)

Oct 3, 2020

Band: Origin’Hell

Release: Realm of Necromass

Style: Death, Death/Thrash, Blackened Death

+1

Band: Projekt Nebelkrähe

Release: Deutsches Requiem

Style: Black

+0

Band: Swarmageddon

Release: Inhuman

Style: Progressive/Technical Melodic Death

+2

Band: Malignant Curiosity

Release: The Portal

Style: Progressive Symphonic Melodic Death Folk

+2

Oct 4, 2020

Band: Prosternatur

Release: Mortuus et sepultus

Style: Black

+0

Band: Blasfeme

Release: Iniquity in Salvation

Style: Black

+1

Oct 6, 2020

Band: Vhäldemar

Release: Strait to Hell

Style: Power

+2

Band: Life Expectancy

Release: Divergence (EP)

Style: hardcore punk, black, curst, crossover

-1

Band: Helion Prime

Release: Question Everything

Style: Power, Symphonic Heavy

+3

Band: Rabid Beast

Release: Rabid Beast (EP)

Style: Thrash

+1

Band: Protokult

Release: Transcending The Ruins

Style: Folk, Blackened Thrash, heavy, speed, epic

+2

Band: Immortal Rites

Release: Bhatara Api

Style: Black/Death

+1

Band: DeathEpoch

Release: Abysmal Invocation

Style: Blackened Grindcore, industrial

-1

Oct 7, 2020

Band: DGM

Release: Tragic Separation

Style: Progressive Power, Progressive Hard Rock

+3

Band: Vicious Circle

Release: Unearthed Precision (EP)

Style: Tech Death/groove

+3

Oct 8, 2020

Band: Wallfahrer

Release: Lightbringer-Leidbringer

Style: Black

+2

Band: Hail The Void

Release: Hail the Void

Style: Doom, Stoner Rock

+1

Oct 9, 2020

Band: Hellripper

Release: The Affair of the Poisons

Style: Blackened Speed, Blackened Thrash

+3

Band: Rise to the Sky

Release: Death Will Not Keep Us Apart

Style: Atmospheric Death/Doom

+2

Band: Fortress Under Siege

Release: Atlantis

Style: Progressive, power

+3

Band: R.I.P.

Release: Dead End

Style: Doom, traditional

+0

Band: Necrophobic

Release: Dawn of the Damned

Style: Black

+3

Band: Gianluca Ferro

Release: Cosmic Dead Ringers

Style: Instrumental Progressive Shred

+2

Band: The Unguided

Release: Father Shadow

Style: Melodic Groove/Core

-1

Band: Inferi

Release: Of Sunless Realms (EP)

Style: Technical Melodic Death

+2

Band: Wreck-Defy

Release: Powers That Be

Style: Thrash, Speed

+1

Band: Furnace

Release: Dark Vistas

Style: Death, Melodic Death

+1

Band: Johansson & Speckmann

Release: The Germs of Circumstance

Style: Death

+0

Band: Repuked

Release: Dawn of Reintoxication

Style: Death

+2

Band: Neck Cemetery

Release: Born in a Coffin

Style: Heavy

+1

Band: Incinerate

Release: Sacrilegivm

Style: Brutal Death

+1

Band: Disrupted

Release: Pure Death

Style: Death

+3

Band: Yatra

Release: All Is Lost

Style: Blackened Doom

+1

Band: Invernoir

Release: The Void and the Unbearable Loss

Style: Gothic, Melodic Death/Doom

+2

Band: Isenmore

Release: Shiedbrother

Style: Blackened Folk

+2

Band: Shardana

Release: Milli Annos

Style: Blackened Folk, Blackened Heavy

+2

Band: Purification

Release: Perfect Doctrine

Style: Gothic, Doom, Traditional

+0

Band: Kira

Release: Peccatum et Blasphemia

Release: Black/Death

+0

Band: Hexer

Release: Realm of The Feathered Serpent

Style: Blackened Doom, Sludge

+1

Band: Legendarium

Release: Reign in Repose

Style: Traditional, Punk

-1

Band: Reason

Release: The Divine Rest

Style: Melodic Death/Doom, Gothic

+1

Band: In Cauda Venenum

Release: G.O.H.E.

Style: Atmospheric Blackgaze

+0

Band: Embryonic Cells

Release: Decline

Style: Melodic Black/Death

+2

Band: Ion of Chios

Release: _reHUManize_

Style: Progressive metal, progressive rock

+1

Band: The Troops of Doom

Release: The Rise of Heresy (EP)

Style: Death/Thrash

+1

Band: Mexican Ape-lord

Release: Survival Cannibalism

Style: Heavy, Thrash

+1

Band: Empress

Release: Premonition

Style: Stoner

+1

Band: Ascension of The Watchers

Release: Apocrypha

Style: Gothic

+1

Band: Daughter Chaos

Release: Daughter Chaos (EP)

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Sep 26 - Oct 2

October 06, 2020 by Joe Cearlock in New Releases

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

(As of March 27, I am no longer covering all Ep’s)
(As of April 20, I am no longer covering digital only releases. Cassettes don’t count; This isn’t 1984)

Sep 26, 2020

Band: Hateful

Release: Set Forever On Me

Style: Technical Death

+3

Band: IA

Release: Initiation

Style: Progressive, Groove, Doom

+2

Band: Dogbane

Release: Neptune’s Ballroom (EP)

Style: Doom, Traditional

+0

Sep 27, 2020

Band: Undead Breed

Release: Demons to Some… Angels to Others…

Style: Gothic Melodic Death

+0

Sep 28, 2020

Band: Samma’s Equinox

Release: Tulikehrät

Style: Raw Black

+0

Band: Arcadian Temple

Release: Arcadian Temple

Style: Doom, Traditional

+1

Band: Cyanide Grenade

Release: Kind of Virus

Style: Death/thrash

+3

Sep 29, 2020

Band: Into Oblivion

Release: Winds of Serpentine Ascension (EP)

Style: Black/Death

+1

Sep 30, 2020

Band: MSW

Release: Obliviosus

Style: Funeral Doom, Black

+1

Band: Night League

Release: Night League

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Eerie

Release: End of an Era

Style: Black

+1

Band: Häxenzijrkell

Release: Die Nachtseite

Style: Black/Doom

+0

Band: Nubivagant

Release: Roaring Eye

Style: Atmospheric Black, (mostly clean vocals), Epic/Black

+3

Band: Harpago

Release: Paraíso Perdido

Style: Thrash

+1

(music is good, production sucks)

Band: Coprocephalic Mutation

Release: D.3.1.4. (EP)

Style: Brutal Death, Slam

-1

Band: Drahg

Release: Drahg (EP)

Style: Raw Black

-1

Band: Temple of Decay

Release: Last Manifestation of Life (EP)

Style: Black/Death/Thrash

+1

Band: Rerthro

Release: 飞鸟颂︱The Bird’s Song

Style: Atmospheric Black, symphonic

+2

Band: Those Who Bring The Torture

Release: Dark Chapters

Style: Swedish Death

+3

Band: Serpent Column

Release: Kathodos

Style: Progressive Black

+2

Band: Skáphe

Release: Skáphe³

Style: Progressive Black

+2

Band: Alex Mele

Release: Alien Doppelgänger

Style: Heavy, Hard Rock

+1

Band: Project Alcazar

Release: Lost in Centralia

Style: Instrumental Progressive Shred

+2

Band: Disintegration

Release: Prahara

Style: Brutal Death

+3

Oct 1, 2020

Band: Destroyers

Release: Dziewięć kręgów zła

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: The Erkonauts

Release: I Want it to End

Style: Progressive

+1

Band: Of The Same Kind

Release: Dinner is Ready

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Band: Umbilicus Necis

Release: Confine Astratto

Style: Black, Post-Black

+1

Band: Zoldier Noiz

Release: Earth Lethal Zone

Style: Black Thrash, Death Thrash

+0

Band: Gallows Hymn

Release: The Age of Decadence

Style: Melodic Death/Folk

+2

Band: Aquila

Release: Jewel of the Empire’s Crown (EP)

Style: Metal-core

+2

Band: Rezn

Release: Chaotic Divine

Style: Doom, Psychedelic

+2

Band: Demvr

Release: Revolt of the Angels

Style: Blackened Death Doom

+0

Band: The Crooked Whispers

Release: Satanic Melodies

Style: Blackened Doom

+1

Oct 2, 2020

Band: Bliss of Flesh

Release: Tyrant

Style: Black/Death, melodic

+2

Band: Herbstschatten

Release: Abschaum

Style: Black

+2

Band: Devildriver

Release: Dealing with Demons, Volume I

Style: Melodic Death/Groove, Groove

+1

Band: Ivory Moon

Release: Lunar Gateway

Style: Power, Symphonic

+2

Band: Iron Angel

Release: Emerald Eyes

Style: Speed, Power, thrash

+3

Band: Trident

Release: North

Style: Black

+3

Band: Enslaved

Release: Utgard

Style: progressive black

+2

Band: Sumac

Release: May You Be Held

Style: Avantgarde Death/Doom, Sludge

-1

Band: Nightmare

Release: Aeternam

Style: Heavy, Power/Thrash

+3

Band: Sarcoptes

Release: Plague Hymns (EP)

Style: Blackened Thrash

+2

Band: Isengard

Release: Vårjevndøgn

Style: Heavy, Doom, hardcore punk, folk (collection of old stuff from Fenriz of Darkthrone)

+2

Band: Amiensus

Release: Abreaction

Style: Progressive Black, Post-black

+1

Band: Anaal Nathraken

Release: Endarkenment

Style: Extreme, industrial, black, death/grind

+3

Band: Arroganz

Release: Morsus

Style: Black/Death

+1

Band: Nachtblut

Release: Vanitas

Style: Gothic, Gothic Black

+2

Band: Harmonize

Release: Warrior In The Night

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

Band: MyGrain

Release: V

Style: Progressive Melodic Death

+2

Band: Synthetic

Release: Clepsydra: Time Against Infinity

Style: Progressive Melodic Death

+2

Band: Six Feet Under

Release: Nightmares of the Decomposed

Style: Death… I guess

-1

Band: Gorephilia

Release: In the Eye of Nothing

Style: Death

+2

Band: The Sound That Ends Creation

Style: Technical Grindcore… isn’t that an oxymoron

-1

(I’d rather listen to the new Six Feet Under)

Band: Vanik

Release: III

Style: Blackened, Speed, Crossover

+1

Band: Ascian

Release: Elysion

Style: Doom, Blackened Death/Doom

+1

Band: Iternia

Release: Between Good and Evil

Style: Symphonic, Power, Progressive

+2

Band: BleedSkin

Release: Blood Reign

Style: Death

+2

Band: Frailty

Release: Tumši Ūdeņi

Style: Melodic Death, Death/Doom

+3

( I recommend it but probably wont actually get it because I don’t speak Latvian)

Band: Beleth’s Curse

Release: Beleth's Curse III

Style: Black

+0

Band: Blindgänger

Release: Vier

Style: Heavy, hardcore punk

+1

Band: Yovel

Release: Forthcoming Humanity

Style: Black

+1

(metal archives says they write about anti-capitalisms… I’m guessing they don’t want people to buy their album them. They should share it for free.)

Band: Sorrowful Life

Release: Far Away From This World

Style: Black, depressive, atmospheric

+1

Band: Thirteenth Sign

Release: Ashes of A Treacherous Silence

Style: Melodic Death, Groove/Thrash

+2

Band: Amaranthe

Release: Manifest

Style: Alternative, Power

+2

Band: Persefone

Release: Truth Inside the Shades 2020 (rerecording of first album)

Style: Progressive Melodic Death

+2

Sep 19-25

September 29, 2020 by Joe Cearlock in New Releases

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

(As of March 27, I am no longer covering all Ep’s)
(As of April 20, I am no longer covering digital only releases. Cassettes don’t count; This isn’t 1984)

Something I missed

Band: Iscariota

Release: Legenda

Style: Heavy

+2

Sep 19, 2020

Band: Putrescence

Release: Prophecies To The Unknown (EP)

Style: Death

+1

Sep 20, 2020

Band: Eerie

Release: End of an Era

Style: Symphonic Black

+1

Band: Eskapism

Release: Reminiscence (EP)

Style: Atmospheric Black

+2

Band: Blazon Rite

Release: Dulce Bellum Inexpertis (EP)

Style: Traditional

+3

Sep 21, 2020

Band: Lalssu

Release: The Elements

Style: Black, ambient, melodic

+1

Sep 22, 2020

Band: Ossuary Anex

Release: Obscurantism Apogee

Style: Brutal Death

+1

Band: 13th Temple

Release: Sol Mortuus

Style: raw black, drone

+0

Sep 23, 2020

Band: Mysthicon

Release: Silva - Oculis - Corvi

Style: Black/Death, Death/Doom

+1

Band: Shrouded Serenity

Release: The Somnambulist

Style: Experimental, Progressive

+0

bandcamp

Sep 24, 2020

Band: Cenobite

Release: Dark Dimension

Style: Death

+2

Band: Proscription

Release: Conduit

Style: Blackened Death

+2

Sep 25, 2020

Band: Sacred Outcry

Release: Damned For All Time

Style: Epic, Traditional, Power, symphonic, speed

+3

Band: Ayreon

Release: Transitus

Style: Progressive metal/rock

+0

Band: Uada

Release: Djinn

Style: melodic black, melodic death

+2

Band: Marche Funèbre

Release: Eiderlicht

Style: Melodic Death/Doom, Doom

+2

Band: The Ocean Collective

Release: Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic

Style: Progressive

+1

Band: Infesticide

Release: Envenoming Wounds

Style: Death

+0

Band: Transcendence

Release: Towards Obscurities Beyond

Style: Blackened Death

+2

Band: Morta Skuld

Release: Suffer for Nothing

Style: Death

+2

Band: Hittman

Release: Destroy all Humans

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Kataklysm

Release: Unconquered

Style: Melodic Death/Groove

+2

Band: Crystal Spiders

Release: Molt

Style: Doom, Stoner Rock

+1

Band: Hexx

Release: Entangled in Sin

Style: Heavy, Thrash

+3

Band: Bloodred

Release: The Raven’s Shadow

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Hexxecutor

Release: Beyond Any Human Conception of Knowledge…

Style: Blackened Thrash

+3

Band: Early Moods

Release: Spellbound (EP)

Style: Doom

+1

Band: Blackevil

Release: Forever Baptised in Eternal Fire

Style: Blackened Thrash

+1

Band: Crépuscule d'Hiver

Release: Par-Delà Noireglaces et Brumes-Sinistres

Style: atmospheric black

+2

Band: Sapiency

Release: For Those Who Never Rest

Style: Melodic Death/Groove

-1

Band: Indoctrinate

Release: Antilogos: Arcane Transmutation in the Temple of Flesh

Style: Black/Death

+0

Band: Vous Autres

Release: Sel de pierre

Style: Blackened Sludge, atmospheric

+0

Band: Torch

Release: Reignited

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Miasmal Sabbath

Release: Ominous Radiance

Style: Black

+1

Band: Scordatura

Release: Mass Failure

Style: Brutal Death

+3

Band: Lethian Dreams

Release: A Shadow of Memories

Style: atmospheric Doom, gothic

+1

Band: AfterTime

Release: The Farthest Shore

Style: Symphonic

+3

Band: Chrome Waves

Release: Where We Live

Style: post-black

+3

Band: Memoira

Release: Carnival of Creation

Style: Symphonic, Gothic

+3

Band: Kat

Release: The Last Convoy

Style: Heavy, Speed

+2

Band: Obsidian Kingdom

Release: Meat Machine

Style: Progressive, Post

+1

Band: Onirik

Release: The Fire Cult Beyond Eternity

Style: Black

-1

Band: Lik

Release: Misanthropic Breed

Style: Death, Melodic Death

+3

Band: Byfist

Release: In The End

Style: Heavy, Power

+3

Band: Attick Demons

Release: Daytime Stories... Nightmare Tales

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Emyn Muil

Release: Afar Angathfark

Style: Ambient Epic Black

+1

Band: Dwarrowdelf

Release: Evenstar

Style: Epic Black, atmospheric

+2

Band: Skeletoon

Release: Nemesis

Style: Power, Heavy

(other songs are all in English)

+2

Band: Teratolith

Release: Eclipse

Style: Ambient, Death, Black

+0

Band: Hate Unbound

Release: Darkness Becomes All

Style: Death/Groove

+3

Band: Madrost

Release: Charring The Rotting Earth

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Lonewolf

Release: Division Hades

Style: Heavy, Speed, Power

+3

Band: Skyboren Reveries

Release: Utterly Away

Style: atmospheric black, Melodic Blackened Funeral Doom, post black. ambient

+2

Band: Annexation

Release: Inherent Brutality

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Crypt Walk

Release: Rot Gut Prophecies

Style: Grindcore

-1

Band: Mindwars

Release: The Fourth Turning

Style: Thrash

+1

Band: Hrom

Release: Legends of Powerheart: Part II

Style: Power

+3

Band: Dystopia

Release: Geen Weg Uit

Style: Post-black, black

+1

Band: Just Before Dawn

Release: An Army at Dawn

Style: Death, Melodic Death

+3

Band: Akral Necrosis

Release: The Greater Absence

Style: Black

+2

Band: Beyond Helvete

Release: MMXX

Style: black, DSBM

-1

Band: Reternity

Release: A Test of Shadows

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Typhus

Release: Mass Produced Perfection

Style: Thrash, tech thrash

+3

Band: Rising Murder

Release: Aire Pestilente (EP)

Style: Death, Black/Death

+1

Band: The Reticent

Release: The Oubliette

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Renunciation

Release: The Terminal Archetype (EP)

Style: Black/Death, Technical Thrash

+3

Band: Scream3Days

Release: Rhesus Negative

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Hecate Enthroned

Release: Embrace of the Godless Aeon

Style: Symphonic Black

+3

Band: Elmsfire

Release: Wings of Reckoning

Style: Heavy, traditional

+2

Band: Annihilus

Release: Ghanima

Style: Raw Black

+0

Band: Morwinyon

Release: Pristine

Style: Atmospheric Black

+1

Band: Athon

Release: Athon

Style: Sludge

+2

Band: Strugglehead

Release: When Silence Fades

Style: Heavy, Thrash

+1

Band: Death Device

Release: Human Parasites

Style: Melodic Death

+1

Band: Orkhys

Release: Awakening (EP)

Style: Symphonic, Folk

+2

(if this was a longer release it would easily get +3)

Band: Haiden

Release: II

Style: Progressive, instrumental

+1

Band: Phantom Spire

Release: Heart of Black, Blood of Gold (EP)

Style: Raw Black Synth

-1

Band: Deftones

Release: Ohms

Style: Nu, Alternative

-1

Sep 12-18

September 21, 2020 by Joe Cearlock in New Releases

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

(As of March 27, I am no longer covering all Ep’s)
(As of April 20, I am no longer covering digital only releases. Cassettes don’t count; This isn’t 1984)

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Sep 12, 2020

Band: Frowning

Release: Death Requiem

Style: Funeral Doom

+1

Band: Dogma

Release: Mallevs Maleficarvm

Style: Gothic, Doom

+2

Band: Proselytism

Release: Blood of the Deceivers

Style: black/thrash

+0

Band: Exitium

Release: N.W.O. (EP)

Style: Crossover thrash

+0

(give these kids a couple years and I think they might surprise us, there’s potential)

Sep 13, 2020

Band: Human Barbecue

Release: Bloodstained Altars

Style: Brutal Death, Slam

+2

(I’d be impressed if the drummer was a person))

Band: Xalpen

Release: Sawken Xo’on

Style: Raw Black

+0

Band: Everlight

Release: Momentum

Style: Progressive, Alternative, Symphonic

+1

Band: Sunnudagr

Release: Le Silence

Style: Black

+2

Sep 14, 2020

Band: Höwler

Release: No More Circus!

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Cropsy Maniac

Release: Cult of Cropsy

Style: Death, Grindcore

+1

Band: Bloodswamp

Release: Daylight Illuminates a Miserable World

Style: post-black, blackgaze, doom

+1

Sep 15, 2020

Band: Hræ

Release: Þar sem skepnur reika

Style: Black, experimental

-1

Band: Intellect Devourer

Release: Demons of the Skull

Style: Death

+2

Band: Illkynja

Release: Sæti Sálarinnar

Style: Black, experimental

-1

Band: Novae Militiae

Release: Topheth

Style: Black

+1

Band: 死んだ細胞の塊 (SHINDA SAIBO NO KATAMARI)

Release: Ostriched Existence (EP)

Style: Technical Brutal Death

+1

Band: Deathgang

Release: …An End To Ill Omens

Style: Stoner

+0

Band: Khors

Release: Where the Word Acquires Eternity

Style: Black, atmospheric black

+3

Band: Radamanthys

Release: The War Within

Style: Melodic Death

+1

Band: Hilotz

Release: Aske

Style: Thrash

+1

Sep 16, 2020

Band: Eternal Winter

Release: Archaic Lore Enshrined: Songs of Savage Swords & Dark Mysticism

Style: Heavy

+0

Band: Melt4

Release: Battles (EP)

Style: Japanese Metallica (Thrash)

+2

Band: Ordinul Negru

Release: Ordinul Negru (EP)

Style: Black

+1

Sep 17, 2020

Band: For Ruin

Release: Elapse (EP)

Style: Blackened Melodic Death

+0

(This would be immensely better if the drums were programmed.)

Band: Mørkt Tre

Release: Земля забута богом і людьми

Style: Black

+1

Band: Neuronspoiler

Release: Spoiled for Choice

Style: Traditional Heavy

+1

Sep 18, 2020

Band: Dynfari

Release: Myrkurs er þörf

Style: Black, atmospheric

+2

Band: Plague Years

Release: Circle of Darkness

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Finntroll

Release: Vredesvävd

Style: Blackened Folk

+2

Band: Heathen

Release: Empire of the Blind

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: The Infernal Sea

Release: Negotium Crucis

Style: Black

+1

Band: Carnation

Release: Where Death Lies

Style: Death, Melodic Death

+3

Band: Derek Sherinian

Release: The Phoenix

Style: Progressive rock/metal, jazz

+1

Band: Raven

Release: Metal City

Style: Traditional, speed

+3

Band: Napalm Death

Release: Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism

Style: Death/grind, Industrial rock

+0

Band: Hiidenhauta

Release: Riivin

Style: Black, symphonic black, black/doom

+1

Band: Sunken

Release: Livslede

Style: atmospheric black

+2

Band: Varg

Release: Zeichen

Style: Blackened Melodic Death, pagan

+3

Band: Ancst

Release: Summits of Despondency

Style: Blackened Metalcore

+0

Band: Gore Grave

Release: Grave of Gore (EP)

Style: Brutal Death

+1

Band: Sinsid

Release: Enter The Gates

Style: traditional, epic

+2

Band: Evoke

Release: Seeds of Death

Style: Blackened Thrash

+3

Band: Memories of Old

Release: The Zeramin Game

Style: Synthonic Power

+3

Band: Naisian

Release: Metal

Style: atmospheric Sludge

+1

Band: Liquid Flesh

Release: Chair Liquide

Style: Death

+2

Band: Krosis

Release: Mount of Sacrifice Redux

Style: Progressive, Death, deathcore

+1

Band: AraPacis

Release: Déjà Hard

Style: Early Heavy, Hard Rock, progressive rock

+0

Band: Ragehammer

Release: Into Certain Death

Style: Black/Thrash

+1

Band: Maahes

Release: Reincarnation

Style: Black

+2

Band: Raven Throne

Release: Viartannie (Chroniki Źmiainaj Ciemry) [The Return (The Chronicles of the Serpent Darkness)]

Style: Black, atmospheric black

+1

Band: Fires in the Distance

Release: Echoes From Deep November

Style: melodic death/doom

+2

Band: Unrelenting Torment

Release: Unrelenting Torment

Style: Black

+1

Band: Ettinskjalf

Release: Intrmental

Style: atmospheric black

+2

Band: Thorn

Release: The Encompassing Nothing (EP)

Style: death

+1

Band: Now or Never (NoN)

Release: III

Style: Heavy

+1

Band: Fit For a King

Release: The Path

Style: Metalcore

-1

Band: Fawn Limbs

Release: Sleeper Vessels

Style: noise

-1

Band: Panzerballett

Release: Planet Z

Style: progressive metal jazz fusion

+2

Band: Cross Bringer

Release: The Sings of Spiritual Delusion

Style: Black, Blackened hardcore

+1

Sep 5 - 11

September 13, 2020 by Joe Cearlock in New Releases

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

(As of March 27, I am no longer covering all Ep’s)
(As of April 20, I am no longer covering digital only releases. Cassettes don’t count; This isn’t 1984)

Sep 5, 2020

Band: Burial Remains

Release: Spawn of Chaos

Style: Death

+1

Sep 6, 2020

Band: Apallic Decay

Release: Return of the Unhallowed (EP)

Style: Blackened Death, Blackend Thrash

+2

Sep 8, 2020

Band: Raventale

Style: Planetarium II

Style: melodic black, melodic blackened doom

+2

Band: Slund

Release: Slund ‘Em All

Style: Grindcore

+0

Sep 9, 2020

Band: Körgull the Exterminator

Release: Sharpen Your Pikes

Style: Black

+1

Sep 10, 2020

Band Sale Freux

Release: Le dernier corbeau du monde

Style: Black

+1

Band: Anarkhon

Release: Phantasmagorical Personification of the Death Temple

Style: Death

+1

Black Gangrene Productions · VOID PRAYER "L'appel Du Vide" LP/CD/TAPE (Co-release with Altare Prods)

Band: Void Prayer

Release: The Grandiose Return to the Void

Style: Black

+2

Sep 11, 2020

Band: Mortis Mutilati

Release: The Fate of Flight 800

Style: Black

+1

Band: Winter’s Verge

Release: The Ballad of James Tig

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: Dark Rites

Release: The Dark Hymns

Style: Melodic Death

+1

Band: Jupiterian

Release: Protosapien

Style: Death/Doom

+1

Band: Skeletal Remains

Release: The Entombment of Chaos

Style: Death

+3

Band: Darkened

Release: Kingdom of Decay

Style: Death

+3

Band: Theotoxin

Release: Fragment : Erhabenheit

Style: Black

+2

Band: Messiah

Release: Fracmont

Style: Death

+2

Band: Night

Release: High Tides - Distant Skies

Style: traditional, hard rock

+3

Band: Slit Your Gods

Release: Dogmatic Convictions of Human Decrepitude (EP)

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Band: Neuromoral Dissonace

Release: My Wisdom, My Grief

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Band: Demolizer

Release: Thrashmageddon

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Void Rot

Release: Descending Pillars

Style: Death/Doom

+1

Band: Ordinace

Release: In Purge There is no Remission

Style: Black

+1

Band: Lifvsleda

Release: Det Besegrade Lifvet

Style: Black

+2

Band: Spectrum of Delusion

Release: Neoconception

Style: Technical Death, progressive death, brutal

+2

Band: Soulwound

Release: The Suffering

Style: Death/Thrash, Death

+2

Band: Ihsahn

Release: Pharos (EP)

Style: Progressive rock, progressive black

+1

Band: Aborted Fetus

Release: The Ancient Spirits of Decay

Style: Brutal Death

+1

Band: Sinsid

Release: Enter The Gates

Style: Heavy, Epic

+2

Band: Crown of Glory

Release: Ad Infinitum

Style: synthonic heavy

+2

Band: Dephosphorus

Release: Sublimation

Style: extreme

+0

Band: Canedy

Release: Warrior

Style: Heavy

+1

Band: Dead Quiet

Release: Truth and Ruin

Style: Heavy, hard rock (has a very Sabbath and Deep Purple feel but unfortunately the vocals don’t)

+2

Band: Asenheim

Release: Der Geist des Waldes

Style: Black

+1

Band: Voluptas

Release: Towards the Great White Nothing

Style: Black

+0

Band: Calarook

Release: Surrender or Die

Style: Folk

+1

Band: Isiulusions

Release: Follow the Flo

Style: Black, melodic black

+1

Band: Proselytism

Release: Blood of the Deceivers

Style: Black

+1

Band: Valhalla Bound

Release: Force of Violence

Style: raw black

-1

Band: Tomorrow’s Rain

Release: Hollow

Style: Gothic, death/doom

+2

Aug 29 - Sep 4

September 06, 2020 by Joe Cearlock in New Releases

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

(As of March 27, I am no longer covering all Ep’s)
(As of April 20, I am no longer covering digital only releases. Cassettes don’t count; This isn’t 1984)

Aug 30, 2020

Band: Cranial Contamination

Release: Into the Warp

Style: Brutal Death, Slam

+1

Band: Necrokinesis

Release: Necrokinesis

Style: Death/Thrash

+3

(metal archives has this listed as a cd release, but I haven’t found a physical version yet)

Aug 31, 2020

Band: Cultum Interitum

Release: Poison of Being

Style: Black/Death

+0

Band: Drama Noir

Release: A Necromancy Lore

Style: Gothic Black/Death

+3

Band: Zed Destructive

Release: Corroded by Darkness

Style: Death, Progressive Death, Black/Death, Melodic Death

+3

Band: Cancerfaust

Release: Let the Earth Tremble

Style: Death

+1

Band: Kommando Baphomet

Release: Under the Deathsign

Style: indiscernible Black/Death

-1

Band: WILCZYCA

Release: Horda

Style: Black, Blackened Death

+0

Band: Ejecutor

Release: Metal Venenoso

Style: Death/Thrash

+1

Band: Eurynomos

Release: From the Valley of Hades

Style: Blackened Speed

+2

Band: Revenge

Release: Trust in Metal

Style: Traditional, speed, thrash

+2

Band: Atotoztli

Release: A Virgin to Sacrifice for Appeasal of Thunder God Tlaloc (EP)

Style: Black

+0

Band: Dumal

Release: The Confessor

Style: Black

+2

Band: Shiver

Release: Hitintills

Style: Doom

+1

Sep 1, 2020

Band: Yarek Ovich

Release: Introversion

Style: melodic black, depressive

+3

Band: Thurisaz

Release: Re-Incentive

Style: Symphonic Black, melodic, gothic

+3

Band: Autumnia

Release: …And Your Autumnia

Style: Gothic

+1

Band: Morhörr

Release: Pach Krvi (EP)

Style: Blackened Heavy, Thrash

+1

Band: Cyclops Cataract

Release: Swallow the World (EP)

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: Hoak

Release: Only Here For The Violence (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Irredemption

Release: Eternal Mutilation of Saturn

Style: Death

+1

Band: Incinerated

Release: Stellar Abomination

Style: Death

+1

Band: Horripilant

Release: Embrace The Obsession (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Incremate

Release: Mortal Domain

Style: Death

+3

Band: Lunar Chalice

Release: Medieval Cults of Heresy

Style: Black (EP)

+1

label bandcamp

Band: Depression

Release: Ära der Finsternis

Style: Death/Grind

+1

Band: 3 Minutes of Hate

Release: Animal Instinct

Style: Metalcore, Deathcore

+1

Band: Death Nöize

Release: Rites, Curses and Spells

Style: Black

+0

Sep 2, 2020

Band: Ildskær

Release: Den rædsomste nat

Style: Black

+1

Sep 4, 2020

Band: Desolator

Release: Sermon of Apathy

Style: Death

+2

Band: Black Sun

Release: Silent Enemy (EP)

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

Band: Oceans of Slumber

Release: Oceans of Slumber

Style: Progressive, Progressive Rock

+1

Band: Katavasia

Release: Magnus Venator

Style: melodic black, Black

+3

Band: Airforce

Release: Strike Hard

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Persekutor

Release: Permanent Winter

Style: Blackened

+2

Band: Meslamtaea

Release: Geketend in de schaduw van het leven (EP)

Style: atmospheric Black

+2

Band: Stryper

Release: Even The Devil Believes

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Vacant Eyes

Release: A Somber Preclusion of Being

Style: Funeral Death/Doom, Melodic Death

+3

Band: Across The Swarm

Release: Projections (EP)

Style: Death, Brutal, groove

+2

Band: Lèpoka

Release: El baile de los caídos

Style: Folk

+2

Band: Mephistophelian

Release: Anotos

Style: Technical Brutal Death

+3

Band: Cult of Lilith

Release: Mara

Style: Technical Death Metal

+2

Band: Comaniac

Release: Holodox

Style: Thrash, Technical

+2

Band: Legendry

Release: Heavy Metal Adventure (EP)

Style: Epic

+0

Band: Idolatria

Release: Tetrabestiarchy

Style: Black

+1

Band: Foretoken

Release: Ruin

Style: Symphonic Melodic Death, Blackened

+2

Band: Hell in the Club

Release: Hell of Fame

Style: Hard Rock, heavy metal

+0

Band: Rising Steel

Release: Fight Them All

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Martwa Aura

Release: Morbus Animus

Style: Black

+2

Band: Noumena

Release: Anima

Style: gothic melodic death

+2

Band: Skullsmasher

Release: Advanced Disco Theory (EP)

Style: grindcore

+0

Band: Wings of Destiny

Release: Ballads

Style: Power

+2

Band: Luxy Serpent

Release: Mortal Moon

Style: Epic

+1

Band: Antares

Release: Portal (EP)

Style: Black, atmospheric, synth

+1

Band: Symphony of Heaven

Release: The Ascension of Extinction

Style: Black, black/death

+1

Band: Cannibal Accident

Release: Shotgun Selfie (EP)

Style: Death, grindcore

+1

Band: Curse of Denial

Release: Coming For Your Soul

Style: Death, Death/Thrash, Blackened

+3

Band: Morgurth

Release: … and Then There Shall be Silence

Style: Black

+1

Band: Omega Diatribe

Release: Metanoia

Style: Groove, Djent

-1

Band: Zenobia

Release: VI

Style: Heavy

+1

Band: Haunt

Release: Triumph

Style: heavy

+1

Band: Toehider

Release: I LIKE IT!

Style: Progressive rock and metal, Pop, synth… someone listens to a lot of Queen

+1

Aug 22-28

September 01, 2020 by Joe Cearlock in New Releases

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

(As of March 27, I am no longer covering all Ep’s)
(As of April 20, I am no longer covering digital only releases. Cassettes don’t count; This isn’t 1984)

Aug 21, 2020 (I missed a few last week)

Band: Railhazer

Release: Where Sky and Mountain Speak

Style: Sludge

+2

Band: Skullthrone

Release: XIII Years of Chaos

Style: Black

+1

Band: Durbatuluk

Release: Aus anderen Augen

Style: Black

+0

Band: Tryblith

Release: A New Aeon

Style: Black

+0

Aug 22, 2020

Band: Conception

Release: Sate of Deception

Style: Progressive

+2

Aug 23, 2020

Band: Nihil Obstat

Release: Antimatter

Style: Death

+0

Band: Strontium

Release: Истина (Truth) (EP)

Style: Gothic

+1

Aug 24, 2020

Band: Garth Arum

Release: The Fireflowers Tale

Style: Symphonic Progressive Melodic Death

+1

Band: Funeral Desekrator

Release: Goat Calling Ritual

Style: Black

+0

Band: Bosques

Release: Bosques Antigous

Style: Bladk

+0

Aug 26, 2020

Band: Anelas

Release: Time To Change

Style: Power

+1

Band: Hell Freezes Over

Release: Hellraiser

Style: Heavy

+1

Band: 薔薇の宮殿

Release: 魔王伝

Style: Symphonic J-Power

+1

Aug 27, 2020

Band: Inception

Release: Hell on Earth

Style: Heavy

+1

Aug 28, 2020

Band: Apocryphus

Release: Eternal Suffering

Style: Death

+2

Band: Neus

Release: Death Nova Upon The Barren Harvest (EP)

Style: Death

+0

Band: Gorgatron

Release: Pathogenic Automation

Style: Death

+3

Band: Necrot

Release: Mortal

Style: Death

+3

Band: Poema Arcanvs

Release: Stardust Solitude

Style: Doom, Death/Doom

+2

Band: Soulcaster

Release: Maelstrom of Death and Steel (EP)

Style: Heavy

+1

Band: Ominous Scriptures

Release: The Fall of the Celestial Throne

Style: Death

+1

Band: Manticora

Release: To Live to Kill to Live

Style: Progressive Power

+2

Band: Svederna

Release: Härd

Style: Black

+2

(I’d probably bump it to a +3 if I spoke Swedish.)

Band: Spirit of Rebellion

Release: Time for Global Refusal

Style: Death

+2

Band: Nonexist

Release: Like The Fearless Hunter

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Vanishing Point

Release: Dead Elysium

Style: Progressive, Symphonic

+2

Band: From The Depth

Release: Moments

Style: Power

+3

Band: Panzerfaust

Release: The Suns of Perdition - Chapter II: Render Unto Eden

Style: Black

+2

Band: Válvera

Release: Cycle of Disaster

Style: Groove, Thrash

+1

Band: SVNTH

Release: Spring in Blue

Style: Post-Black

+1

Band: Cultus Profano

Release: Accursed Possession

Style: Black

+1

Band: Human Impurity

Release: Bingkai Sejarah Merajah

Style: Brutal Death

+0

Band: Hinayana

Release: Death of the Cosmic (EP)

Style: melodic death/doom

+2

Band: Nuclear Warfare

Release: Lobotomy

Style: Thrash, Crossover

+1

Band: Crafting The Conspiracy

Release: The Cosmic Key Part II (EP)

Style: Deathcore

+2

Band: Frostvore

Release: Drowned by Blood

Style: Death

+2

Band: Psychosomatic

Release: The Invisible Prison

Style: Thrash, Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Bloodjob

Release: Sick Concept Humanity

Style: Brutal Death

+1

Band: Silius

Release: Worship to Extinction

Style: Thrash, Groove

+1

Band: Metallica

Release: S&M2

Style: Symphonic Metal

+2

Band: Pig Destroyer

Release: The Octagonal Stairway (EP)

Style: grindcore

-1

Band: Veritas

Release: Threads of Fatality

Style: Progressive

+0

Band: The Projectionist

Release: Under the Cruel Glow of Terror (EP)

Style: Black

-1

On vocals, the famous Donald Duck… and he is pissed.

Band: Law of Contagion

Release: Woeful Litanies from the Nether Realms

Style: Black

+0

Band: Wills Dissolve

Release: Echoes (Since there is only one song that’s 30 minutes I don’t know if it’s an album or a single)

Style: Progressive

+1

Band: Over The Voids…

Release: Hadal

Style: Black

+1

Band: Juodvarnis

Release: Nerimo Dienos

Style: progressive black

+1

Band: Luna’s Call

Release: Void

Style: Progressive, Progressive Death

+2

Band: Since the Death

Release: The Black Must Come Out

Style: Black/Death, Progressive Death

+0

Band: Ovnev

Release: Transpiration

Style: atmospheric black

+0

Band: Déhà

Release: A fleur de peau - III - A Fire That Does Not Burn

Style: depressive black, gothic black

+3

Band: Arcanum Sanctum

Release: Ad Astra

Style: Gothic melodic death, progressive melodic death

+2

Band: Silentium

Release: Motiva

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: Assimilation

Release: Tainting The Purity

Style: Death

+0

Band: Entropy

Release: Forced Convergence

Style: Groove, thrash

+1

Band: Hymn

Release: Breach Us

Style: Sludge

+0

Band: Mentalist

Release: Freedom of Speech

Style: Power

+1

Band: Ominous Resurrection

Release: Judgement

Style: shitty black metal… actually it’s just noise that sounds like my computer crashing at the same time that my car wont start.

-1

Band: Skaldr

Release: Scythe of Our Errors

Style: black

+2

Band: Narcissistic Necrosis

Style: The Art of Deformity

Style: Brutal Death

+1

Band: Aleynmord

Release: The Blinding Light

Style: atmospheric black

+1

(I love how the vocals sound like King Diamond fell down a long well.)

Band: Abhorrent Castigation

Release: On the Shores of Hell (EP)

Style: Brutal Death

+1

Band: Churchacide

Release: Abhorrent Others (EP)

Style: death, black… I don’t know but it sucks

-1

Aug 15-21

August 24, 2020 by Joe Cearlock in New Releases

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

(As of March 27, I am no longer covering all Ep’s)
(As of April 20, I am no longer covering digital only releases. Cassettes don’t count; This isn’t 1984)

Aug 15, 2020

Band: Traumatic Noise

Release: Abyss of the Masses

Style: Death

+2

Band: Prison of Mirrors

Release: De Ritualibus et Sacrificiis ad Serviendum Abysso

Style: Black, drone/doom

+1

Band: Katastah

Release: II

Style: Sludge

+0

Band: Blasphemous Putrefaction

Release: Prelude To Perversion

Style: Death

+0

Band: Great Cold Emptiness

Release: Death Gifted a Bouquet

Style: Post Black, atmospheric black, Blackened Funeral Doom

+1

Band: Pagan Rites

Release: Absurd End of the World

Style: Black/Death

+0

Band: Amateur Podiatry

Release: Pedicurious

Style: Grindcore, Slam

+0

Band: Chanid

Release: In Hoc Signo Vinces (EP)

Style: Black

+2

Band: Nebula Orionis

Release: Riffgate (EP)

Style: Gothic Industrial

+0

Band: Machine Screw

Release: Machine Screw

Style: Sludge

-1

Aug 16, 2020

Band: Pharmacist

Release: Medical Renditions of Grinding Decomposition

Style: Death, sounds like Carcass believe it or not

+1

Band: Volshebnik

Release: To Inflame the Path to Perdition

Style: Black

+0

Aug 17, 2020

Band: Pointed Mutation

Release: Engineering the Unhuman (EP)

Style: Death/Groove

+2

Band: Shrapnel Storm

Release: Shrapnel Storm

Style: Death, Death Thrash

+2

Band: Crust

Release: ...and a Dirge Becomes an Anthem

Style: Death/Doom, Blackened Doom

+2

Aug 18, 2020

Band: Midgard

Release: Tales of Kreia

Style: Melodic Death, Folk

+2

Band: Deimler

Release: Zero One (EP)

Style: Death

+1

Aug 19, 2020

Band: Gravewitch

Release: The Summoning

Style: Black, Blackened

+2

Band: Silver Knife

Release: Unyielding / Unseeing

Style: Black-gaze, post black

+1

Aug 20, 2020

Band: Burnt Offering

Release: Жатва (Harvest)

Style: Black

+1

Band: V.D.H (Valle de Hinom)

Release: V.D.H

Style: Gothic?

+0

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Band: Siege Colum

Release: Darkside Legions

Style: Death

+0

Band: Benighted Illusion

Release: Benighted Illusion

Style: Blackened Doom

-1

Band: Beyond The Gates

Release: CrimsonWind

Style: Symphonic Power

+1

Aug 21, 2020

Band: Mercyless

Release: The Mother of All Plagues

Style: Death

+2

Band: Ages

Release: Uncrown

Style: melodic black, Atmospheric black

+2

Band: Cytotoxin

Release: Nuclearth

Style: Technical Brutal Death

+2

Band: Assignment

Release: Reflections

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Unleash The Archers

Release: Abyss

Style: Power

+3

Band: Repulsive Vision

Release: Necrovictology

Style: Death

+2

Band: Vicious Rumors

Release: Celebration Decay

Style: Heavy, Thrash

+3

Band: Reasons Behind

Release: Project: M.I.S.T.

Style: Gothic

+2

Band: Recorruptor

Release: Th Funeral Corridor

Style: Black/Deathcore

+1

Band: Expander

Release: Neuropunk Boostergang

Style: I don’t know, some kinda metal/punk crossover. It’s like a slightly more metal crust punk

+0

Band: Precambrian

Release: Tectonics (it’s really more EP sized)

Style: Black, grind

+1

Band: Humavoid

Release: Lidless

Style: Extreme Progressive

+0

Band: Voracious Scourge

Release: In Death

Style: Death, Progressive Death

+2

Band: Jesus Wept

Release: Apartheid Redux

Style: Death

+2

Band: Flame

Release: Ignis Spiritus (EP)

Style: Black

+2

Band: Veonity

Release: Sorrows

Style: Power

+3

Band: Incantation

Release: Sect of Vile Divinities

Style: Death

+2

Band: Mad Max

Release: Stormchild Rising

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Töxik Death

Release: Sepulchal Demons

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

Band: God’s Bastard

Release: Last Standing Village (EP)

Style: Black

+2

Band: Verikyyneleet

Release: Ilman Kuolemaa

Style: Black

+1

Band: Ars Magna Umbrae

Release: Apotheosis

Style: Black

+0

Band: Atamentus

Release: Stygian

Style: Funeral Doom, drone

-1

Band: Astringency

Release: Of Vacant Planes

Style: Melodic Death

+1

Band: Burden of Ymir

Release: The Third Half

Style: Black, folk

+1

Band: Solar System

Release: Synchronicita

Style: Heavy

+1

Band: Winterhearth

Release: Riverbed Empire

Style: Black

+0

Band: Natura Aeternum

Release: Will-o'-the-wisp

Style: atmospheric gothic black

+1

Band: Emotion Killer

Release: Tragic Life In A Modern World (EP)

Style: Mixed

+0

Band: Self-hypnosis

Release: Contagion Of Despair

Style: Progressive Industrial

+0

Aug 8-14

August 17, 2020 by Joe Cearlock in New Releases

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

(As of March 27, I am no longer covering all Ep’s)
(As of April 20, I am no longer covering digital only releases. Cassettes don’t count; This isn’t 1984)

Aug 8, 2020

Band: Sibireal

Release: Blood Color Sky

Style: Black/Thrash

-1

Band: Perverse Rites

Release: Witch Slut Haunt (EP)

Style: Blackened Death

+2

Aug 11, 2020

Band: Arrogant Destruktor

Release: No Fucking Mercy

Style: Black, blackened

+1

Band: Sadistic Drive

Release: Anthropophagy

Style: Death

+1

Aug 12, 2020

Band: Within Destruction

Release: Yōkai

Style: Deathcore, Nu-metal

-1

(This is the worst music combination I’ve heard since hip-hop mixed with country)

Aug 13, 2020

Band: Verwulf Tyrant

Release: Zeal (EP)

Style: raw Black

-1

Aug 14, 2020

Band: Haunt

Release: Flash Back

Style: Traditional, NWOTHM

+1

Band: Terra Atlantica

Release: Age of Steam

Style: Power

+2

Band: Ingested

Release: Where Only Gods May Tread

Style: Brutal Death, Death-core

+1

Band: Awake By Design

Release: Awake By Design

Style: Symphonic, progressive, power

+3

Band: Warkings

Release: Revenge

Style: Power

+3

Band: Nug

Release: Alter Ego

Style: Extreme Progressive

+2

Band: Caustic

Release: Caustic Death (EP)

Style: Crossover Thrash

+0

Band: Primitive Man

Release: Immersion

Style: Death/Doom, Sludge

-1

Band: Cancer

Release: Opioid

Style: Depressive Black

+1

Band: Votov

Release: I.X.X.I.

Style: Death

+2

Band: Havukruunu

Release: Uinuos syömein sota

Style: Black, pagan

+3

Band: Visceral Violation

Release: Carnival Cannibal

Style: Death

+1

Band: Ton

Release: Ashes Where They Stood

Style: technical Deathcore

+0

Band: Mosh-pit Justice

Release: The Fifth of Doom

Style: thrash, power/thrash

+1

Band: Ov Shadows

Release: I djävulens avbild

Style: Black

+1

Band: Virus

Release: Evilution Apocalypse

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Atræ Bilis

Release: Divinihility (EP)

Style: Technical Death, brutal

+1

Band: Piranha

Release: Arise From the Shadows

Style: Death/thrash

+1

Band: Pigsty

Release: Pig Blood

Style: Death, Death/grind

+2

Band: Incarnate Deity

Release: Theodicy

Style: Symphonic Black/Death

+2