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

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.)

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

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

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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

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

Buy Here!

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

Buy Here!

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

Jan 1 - 24

January 24, 2020 by Joe Cearlock

This was initially started with a different format. You can see Jan 1-24 2020 below

Jan 1 - 24, 2020