Aug 21-27 Weekly Metal Recommendations

If you need even more metal in your life, 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 from our “New Releases” list although I will likely no longer be listing anything below a +2 unless it comes from a very well known band)

-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 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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Aug 21, 2021

Band: 12 Gauge Rampage

Release: Unleash the Rage

Style: Grindcore, Brutal Death

+2

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Band: Thraxas!

Release: Planetary Terrorism (EP)

Style: Groove/Thrash

+2

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Band: Ethereal Sin

Release: Time of Requiem Part. 1

Style: Symphonic Black

+2

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Aug 27, 2021

Band: Ex Deo

Release: The Thirteen Years of Nero

Style: Symphonic Death

+2

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Band: Toxic Ruin

Release: Nightmare Eclipse

Style: Thrash, technical, Death/thrash, black/thrash

+3

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Band: Oxygen Destroyer

Release: Sinister Monstrosities Spawned By the Unfathomable Ignorance of Humankind

Style: Black/Thrash, Death/Thrash

+2

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Band: Nocturnal

Release: Serpent Death

Style: Thrash, Death/Thrash

+3

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Band: Thyrfing

Release: Vanagandr

Style: Symphonic Black/Folk (Viking),

+3

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Band: Hooded Menace

Release: The Tritonus Bell

Style: Death/Doom

+3

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Band: Wormwood

Release: Arkivet

Style: Melodic Black

+3

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Band: Windfaerer

Release: Breathes of Elder Dawns

Style: Melodic Black/folk, progressive

+2

(good but I didn’t like the vocal style)

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Band: Nahtram

Release: Forest of Eternal Dawn

Style: instrumental symphonic

+2

(sounds great, but with out vocals I can’t give it +3, still better as instrumental than with bad vocals)

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Band: Nunslaughter

Release: Red is the Color of Ripping Death

Style: Death

+2

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Band: Dark Arena

Release: Worlds of Horror

Style: Heavy, Progressive

+3

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Band: White Stones

Release: Dancing into Oblivion

Style: extreme progressive

+2

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Band: Lower 13

Release: Embrace the Unknown

Style: Progressive

+1

(good band… I don’t like them)

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Band: Wulfgar

Release: From the Ashes

Style: We have Amon Amarth at home

+3

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Band: Crimson Fire

Release: Another Dimension

Style: Traditional, Power

+3

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Band: Modern Rites

Release: Monuments

Style: Black

+2

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Band: Urdbrunn

Release: Pfade des Seins

Style: melodic black

+2

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Band: Besatt

Release: Supreme and True at Night

Style: Black

+3

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Band: Obscurity

Release: Skogarmaors

Style: Melodic Death, Melodic Black, Also we have Amon Amarth at home, but in German

+2

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Band: Dracyor

Release: Gyöngyvér

Style: Gothic

+2

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