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

Feb 15-21

February 21, 2020 by Joe Cearlock

If your band is releasing an album or EP let us know!

If you plan to buy any of these albums or anything else please consider using one of our “buy here” links. It helps the site keep going because ads suck.

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 but not bad

+1 - worth checking out

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

+3 going on my buy list

February 15, 2020

Band: Beholder

Release: Ancien Monde (EP)

Style: Black, Blackened

+1

Band: Hush

Release: The Void In Her Mind (EP)

Style: Brutal Death, Deathcore?, noise

-1

Buy Here!

Band: Marblebog

Release: Kietien

Style: boring Atmospheric black metal and zombie gurgling

+0

Band: The Order of Chaos

Release: Maniacal

Style: Thrash, Heavy, elements of melodic death and maybe metal-core

+1

Band: Pulver Drive

Release: Interdependence

Style: Sludge, Stoner

+1

Buy Here!

February 17, 2020

Band: Cenestenia

Release: Die…Just Die

Style: Shitty black metal

-1

Band: Vesperian Sorrow

Release: Regenesis Creation MMXIX

Style: Synthonic Black

+1

Band: Ecatonia

Release: From the Oracles (EP)

Style: Black, Blackened doom

+1

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Band: Nemesis

Release: The War is On

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Buy Here!

February 18, 2020

Band: Age of Fire

Release: Shades of Shadows

Style: Heavy

+1

Buy Here!

February 20, 2020

Band: Vetur

Release: Vist (digital)

Style: Black

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Veins

Release: Of Your Meaningless Existence (digital)

Style: Black, post balck

+1

Band: Carcinogen Daily

Release: Legba (EP)

Style: Doom, Sludge, Stoner

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Xathrites

Release: Hope is a Mental Illness

Style: depressive black metal that doesn’t suck (rare indeed)

+1

Band: Throne of Evil

Release: Orator

Style: Black

+2

Band: Saturnalia Temple

Release: Gravity

Style: Blackened doom

+1

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Band: Kevlar Skin

Release: Necroroid

Style: Brutal Death

+1

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Band: Skyforest

Release: A New Dawn

Style: Atmospheric black, post black

+1

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Band: Thundering Herd

Release: The Best Within

Style: Stoner

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Nawaharjan

Release: Lokabrenna

Style: Black

+0

Buy Here!

Band: Spidkilz

Release: Threads are Breaking

Style: Speed, Thrash, Power

+1

Band: Eldritch Rites

Release: Hell and Doom and Days Long Gone

Style: doom

+0

February 21, 2020

Band: Demons & Wizards

Release: III

Style: heavy power

+3

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Band: Maquahuitl

Release: At the Alter of Mictlampa (digital)

Style: Black

+0

Band: Noctriulm

Release: Un

Style: Post black

+1

Band: Ifreann

Release: Desecration (EP)

Style: Thrash, metalcore

+1

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Band: Duoxini

Release: Sins of Society (EP) (digital)

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Urfeind

Release: Þurisabloþa (digital)

Style: Black

+0

Band: Knight of the Round

Release: Seven

Style: Instrumental, Progressive

+1

Buy Here!

Band: The Devil’s Sermon

Release: Rydwany ognia (EP)

Style: Black

+0

Band: Vivisect

Release: Vivisect (EP)

Style: Death

+1

Band: Saarkoth

Release: Follow the Cult (EP) (Digital)

Style: Black

+0

Buy Here!

Band: Deliverance

Release: Holocaust 26: 1-46

Style: Post Black, Black, Sludge

+1

Buy Here!

Band: We Sell The Dead

Release: Black Sleep

Style: Traditional, Hard rock (for fans of Dio)

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Lost Society

Release: No Absolution

Style: Groove, thrash

+0

Buy Here!

Band: Wicked Asylum

Release: Out of the Mist

Style: Heavy

+0

Buy Here!

Band: Scalpture

Release: Eisenzeit

Style: Death

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Carnal Tomb

Release: Descend (EP)

Style: Death

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Xenobiotic

Release: Mordrake

Style: Technical Death, Deathcore

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Schizogen

Release: Spawn of Almighty Essence

Style: Technical brutal death

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Invocation

Release: Attunement of Death (EP)

Style: Death, Blackened death

+1

Band: Secret Rule

Release: Against

Style: Symphonic, Heavy

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Necrobode

Release: Sob o Feitiço do Necrobode

Style: Black, Blackened Death

+0

Band: Verikalpa

Release: Tuoppitanssi

Style: Folk, melodic death

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Binary Code

Release: Memento Mori

Style: Progressive, hipster crap

+0

not even a Jeff Loomis guest solo can make me interested in this

Band: Throne of Iron

Release: Adventure One

Style: Traditional

+1

Band: On Thorns I Lay

Release: Threnos

Style: Melodic Doom, Black/Death

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Primeval Mass

Release: Nine Altars

Style: Blackened Thrash

+2… +3?

Band: Ian Parry

Release: In Flagrante Delicto

Style: synth, progressive

+0

Buy Here!

Band: Raspberry Bulbs

Release: Before the Age of Mirrors

Style: black?, hardcore punk

-1

Buy Here!

Band: Gateway to Selfdestruction

Release: Death My Salvation

Style: Depressive Black

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Hex A.D.

Release: Astro Tongue in the Electric Garden

Style: Progressive, Rock, Doom

+2

Buy Here!

Band: TerrifianT

Release: TerrifianT

Style: Traditional

+2

Buy Here!

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Band: Ceti

Release: Oczy martwych miast

Style: Traditional, Power

+2

(would be +3 if I spoke Polish)

Band: Slaughter Messiah

Release: Cursed to the Pyre

Style: Black/Thrash/Death

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Mimorium

Release: Blood of Qayin

Style: Black

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Lowrider

Release: Refractions

Style: Stoner

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Pleonexia

Release: Virtute e canoscenza

Style: Traditional, Power

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Roadrash

Release: Roadrash (EP) (digital)

Style: Speed

+0

Band: Heathen Foray

Release: Weltenwandel

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Depravation

Release: III: Odor Mortis

Style: Black

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Fractured Insanity

Release: Massive Human Failure

Style: Death

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Victims (Wictims?)

Release: Lorn Echoes

Style: Deathcore…. shit

+0

Personally it’s a -1 but if you like deathcore then maybe you will think otherwise

Band: Home Reared Meat

Release: Redneck Rumble

Style: Death, deathcore?

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Funeral Cult

Release: Possession Done (EP)

Style: Doom, black/death

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Antipope

Release: Apostle of Infinite Joy

Style: Melodic Black?, Progressive

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Sortout

Release: Conquer from Within

Style: Metalcore, Melodic Death

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Simplefast

Release: Eternal

Style: Heavy

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Sentient Divide

Release: Haunted by Cruelty

Style: Death

+1

Band: Molten Chains

Release: In the Antechamber Below

Style: Traditional, heavy

+0

Buy Here!

Band: Ozzy

Release: Ordinary Man

Style: Heavy

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Malamorte

Release: God Needs Evil

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Necroroots

Release: Distorted Visions of Death

Style: Black

+1

Buy Here!

Band: The Mystic Forest

Release: Ancient Woods

Style: the least metal thing I’ve heard called metal, atmospheric black, symphonic, ambient

+1

Band: Grimmoon

Release: Identitites ov What We Call God

Style: bad, black, shitty

-1

Band: Xerces

Release: Schizophrenia from a Neurocognitive Perspective Probing the Impenetrable Darkness

Style: Black, bad

+1

I couldn’t find any band pages and I don’t speak French

Feb 8-14

February 10, 2020 by Joe Cearlock

If your band is releasing an album or EP let us know!

If you plan to buy any of these albums or anything else please consider using one of our “buy here” links. It helps the site keep going because ads suck.

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 but not bad

+1 - worth checking out

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

+3 going on my buy list

February 10, 2020

Band: C.I.A. Hippie Mind Control

Release: Special Purpose

Style: is doom grind a thing… what ever it is, it’s bad

-1

February 13, 2020

Band: Murder Castle

Release: The Black Widow (digital)

Style: doom, hardcore

-1

Band: Karnivore

Release: Dödsriket

Style: Death, melodic thrash

+1

February 14, 2020

Band: Anvil

Release: Legal at Last

Style: Traditional

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Seven Spires

Release: Emerald Seas

Style: Symphonic

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Necrowretch

Release: The Ones From Hell

Style: Black

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Blaze of Perdition

Release: The Harrowing of Hearts

Style: Black

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Holycide

Release: Fist to Face

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Diabulus In Musica

Release: Euphonic Entropy

Style: Symphonic

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Ensnared

Release: Inimicus Generis Humani

Style: Black

+1

Band: Godthrymm

Release: Reflections

Style: Doom

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Turia

Release: Degan van Licht

Style: Atmospheric Black

+1

Band: Psychotic Waltz

Release: The God-Shaped Void

Style: Progressive

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Ihsahn

Release: Telemak (EP)

Style: Progressive Black

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Kreator

Release: London Apocalypticon - Live at the Roundhouse

Style: Thrash

Buy Here!

Band: Angellore

Release: Rien ne devait mourir

Style: Gothic? Atmospheric Black?

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Olórin

Release: The Wretched (EP)

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Suum

Release: Cryptomass

Style: Doom

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Menace Hour

Release: Chains of Desire

Style: Traditional

+0

Band: Blissful Stream

Release: When The Wolves Start to Circle

Style: speed, blackened

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Plague

Release: Portraits of Mind

Style: Death

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Dzö-nga

Release: Thunder in the Mountains

Style: Atmospheric Black, folk

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Vástígr

Release: Aura Aeternitatis

Style: Atmospheric Black

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Faustian Pact

Release: Outojen tornien varjoissa

Style: Atmospheric Black

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Lifetaker

Release: Night Intruder

Style: Grindcore, Black, Death

+1

Band: Hot Hell Room

Release: Stasis

Style: heavy

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Cirkeln

Release: Stormlander (EP)

Style: Black

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Abated Mass of Flesh

Release: Not Burned (EP)

Style: Brutal Death

+0

Buy Here!

Band: Tanin’iver

Release: Pyrrhic

Style: Black

+0

Band: Hallucinator

Release: Another Cruel Dimension

Style: Blackened Thrash

-1

Band: Phantom Druid

Release: Death & Destiny

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Frayle

Release: 1692

Style: Doom

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Hellforce

Release: The Eternal Night

Style: Death, melodic death

+0

Band: Skumstrike

Release: Execution Void

Style: black, hardcore punk,

+0

Band: Enslavement

Release: Filth

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Mecalimb

Release: Collector of Souls (EP)

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Buy Here!

Feb 1-7

February 01, 2020 by Joe Cearlock

Releases from smaller bands are sometimes not known as soon. Typically releases will be listed 1 week in advanced. Larger releases or ones provided to us may be listed sooner than others.

If your band is releasing an album or EP let us know!

If you plan to buy any of these albums or anything else please consider using one of our “buy here” links. It helps the site keep going because ads suck.

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 but not bad

+1 - worth checking out

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

+3 going on my buy list

February 1, 2020

Band: Yaldabaoth

Release: Remphan

Style: black

-1

Band: Chaotic Sanity

Release: Worship (EP)

Style: black, doom

+1

Buy Here!

Band: El Abismo

Release: El árbol negro

Style: melodic black

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Chicosis

Release: Satánica

Style: Industrial, Death

+0

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Band: Central Disposal

Release: Critical Decadence

Style: Thrash

+0

February 2, 2020

Band: Lucifuge

Release: The One Great Curse

Style: black, thrash

+2

Band: Summon

Release: Helios (EP)

Style: Death, Black

+0

February 3, 2020

Band: Arbynth

Release: A Place of Buried Light

Style: melodic death, progressive

+1

Band: 罪號人 Zygote

Release: 罪獄門 Gate of Hell

Style: heavy, traditional

+0

February 5, 2020

Band: Nightfear

Release: Apocalypse

Style: Power

+1

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Band: F-60

Release: Gefangen im Wahnsinn

Style: gothic

+0

Band: Warrior Within

Release: In Light Act II (EP)

Style: Thrash, heavy

-1

Buy Here!

Band: Itnuveth

Release: Enuma Elish

Style: Epic Black

+1

Band: Ygg

Release: The Last Scald

Style: black

+2

Band: Ergholae Somptator

Release: Eau Ardente

Style: black

+2

Band: Norrhem

Release: Koitos

Style: black, melodic, pagan, folk, atmospheric

+2

February 6, 2020

Band: Schwermut

Release: Schwermut

Style: black

+1

Buy Here!

February 7, 2020

Band: Aesmah

Release: Walking off the Horizon

Style: Melodic Death Metal

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Depraved

Release: Raped Innocence

Style: Death / Grind

+2

Buy Here!

Band: The Spirit

Release: Cosmic Terror

Style: Black, melodic death

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Karg

Release: Traktat

Style: atmospheric black, melodic death

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Sepultura

Release: Quadra

Style: thrash, groove/thrash (back to a similar sound as Chaos A.D. and before hopefully it’s not just for the singles)

+3

Buy Here!

Band: VxPxOxAxAxWxAxMxC (Vaginal Penetration of an Amelus with a Musty Carrot)

Release: Austrian Dukes of Derangement

Style: grindcore

-1

Buy Here!

(or perhaps something else)

Band: Aeonian Sorrow

Release: A Life Without (EP)

Style: Funeral Doom, gothic

+0

Buy Here!

Band: Delain

Release: Apocalypse & Chill

Style: Gothic, Symphonic

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Svart Crown

Release: Wolves Among The Ashes

Style: Technical Brutal Death, black/death

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Thoren

Release: Gwarth II

Style: Technical Progressive instrumental noise

+0

Band: Ironflame

Release: Blood Red Victory

Style: Power, traditional

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Sylosis

Release: Cycle of Suffering

Style: thrash, melodic death, metalcore (to me this is a core band and I’m not a fan, They aren’t bad at what they do I just don’t like it)

-1

Buy Here!

Band: Serpent Noir

Release: Death Clan OD

Style: Black?

+0

Band: God Dethroned

Release: Illuminati

Style: Blackened Death

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Gorvent

Release: Fate

Style: Death, Slam, boring

-1

Buy Here!

Band: Warped Cross

Release: Rumbling Chapel

Style: Sludge, Doom, stoner

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Edgeflame

Release: Bludgeon the Incarnated

Style: Thrash

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Kanseil

Release: Cant Del Corlo (EP)

Style: Folk

+0

Buy Here!

Band: Assassin

Release: Bestia Immundis

Style: Thrash

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Total Annihilation

Release: …On Chains of Doom

Style: Thrash (old school)

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Tómarúm

Release: Wounds Ever Expanding (EP)

Style: Progressive black, technical blackened thrash

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Machinations of Fate

Release: Machinations of Fate

Style: Progressive Death

+2

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Band: Horresque

Release: Chasms Pt. 1 - Avarice and Retribution

Style: Black

+0

Band: Operose

Release: Oceans of Starlight

Style: Symphonic

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Sophist

Release: Dissolution

Style: Black, noise

-1

Buy Here!

(that is if you like being sonicly stabbed in the ear)

Band: Marabbecca

Release: Tales of Desolation (EP)

Style: Black

+1

Band: Revoltons

Release: Underwater Bells Pt.2: October 9th 1963 Act.I

Style: Power

+1

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Band: Napalm Death

Release: Logic Ravaged by Brute Force

Style: hardcore, grindcore?

+0

Buy Here!

Band: Goblinsmoker

Release: A Thorn In Haze, a World Ablaze (EP)

Style: Doom, Sludge

+0

Buy Here!

Band: Witch

Release: Salem’s Rise (released in 85 vinyl only, now on cd)

Style: Traditional

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Erancnoir

Release: Berglicht

Style: atmospheric black

+0

Band: Ensireal

Release: The History of the Golden Henchmen

Style: Progressive, Melodic Death?

+1

Band: Hypervenom

Release: Gorgon (EP)

Style: Sludge, doom, instrumental

+0

Band: Resington

Release: Bare The Mark

Style: Groove / Thrash

+1

Band: Helenes

Release: My Inferno (EP)

Style: black? let’s face it depressive black metal is the modern emo… at least the music is better than emo.

+0