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.)

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

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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

label bandcamp

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

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

Buy Here!

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

Buy Here!

Band: Thundering Herd

Release: The Best Within

Style: Stoner

+1

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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

Buy Here!

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!