Feb 13-19 Weekly Metal Recommendations

Starting this year I will no longer being do a comprehensive list of all releases. 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 - interest peaked

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

Feb 13, 2021

Band: Hortzak

Release: Heriotza Ala Hil

Style: Sludge

+2

(+3 if I spoke Spanish)

facebook

Band: Slaves to Fashion

Release: History of Heavy Metal

Style: All of them

+2

website

Feb 14, 2021

Band: SteelForce

Release: The Oracle (EP)

Style: Power, Heavy

+2

facebook

Band: Jens Lötzsch

Release: Destructive Mind

Style: Instrumental

+2

bandcamp

Feb 15, 2021

Band: Christoffear

Release: We All Have Our Daemons

Style: Melodic Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Swamp Thief

Release: I (EP)

Style: Sludge, Southern

+2

(Would be a +3 if full length)

bandcamp

Band: Anal Stabwound

Release: The Visceral Sovereign

Style: Brutal Deth

+2

label bandcamp

Band: Visceral Uprooting

Release: 50​.​39​-​Square​-​Kilometer Mass Grave

Style: Brutal Death, Slam

+2

facebook

Band: Breakhead

Release: Allegiance to Materiality

Style: Death

+2

facebook

Feb 17, 2021

Band: Hizaki

Release: Rusalka (EP)

Style: Instrumental, neo-classical, symphonic

+2

youtube

Feb 18, 2021

Band: Steel Sword

Release: The Steel Sword

Style: Heavy

+2

facebook

Feb 19, 2021

Band: A Night In The Abyss

Release: Begotten (EP)

Style: Symphonic Black/Deathcore

+2

(+3 if it was full length)

bandcamp

Band: Spire

Release: Temple of Khronos

Style: Progressive Black

+2

label bandcamp

Band: The Scalar Process

Release: Coagulative Matter

Style: Progressive/Technical Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Dragon

Release: Arcydzieło zagłady

Style: Thrash, Technical, Death

+3

(anyone speak Polish?)

facebook

Band: Carcolh

Release: The Life and Works of Death

Style: Doom

+2

bandcamp

Band: The Fals

Release: Feuerportal (EP)

Style: Black, Blackened

+2

(maybe +3 if full length)

bandcamp

Band: Ephemerald

Release: Between the Glimpses of Hope

Style: Symphonic/Synthonic Melodic Death, Folk

+2

facebook

Band: Coronary

Release: Sinbad

Style: Traditional

+2

bandcamp

Band: Saprobiontic

Release: Apocalyptic Retribution

Style: Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Embrace of Souls

Release: The Number of Destiny

Style: Symphonic/Synthonic Power

+3

bandcamp

Band: Thron

Release: Pilgrim

Style: Black

+3

facebook

Band: Athanotos

Release: Biogenesis

Style: Technical Death/Deathcore

+2

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Band: Wizard

Release: Metal In My Head

Style: Power, Speed, Heavy, Epic

+2

(+3 if you don’t mine the pure cheese)

facebook

Band: Dopelord

Release: Reality Dagger (EP)

Style: Stoner, Sludge

+2

bandcamp

Band: Mastord

Release: To Whom Bow Even the Trees

Style: Progressive

+2

facebook

Band: Marco Garau’s Magic Opera

Release: The Golden Pentacle

Style: Symphonic Neoclassical Power

+3

bandcamp

Band: Insect Inside

Release: The First Shining of New Genus

Style: Death, Brutal, Slam

+3

facebook

Band: Angel Martyr

Release: Nothing Louder than Silence

Style: Speed, Heavy

+2

facebook

Band: Malice Divine

Release: Malice Divine

Style: Melodic black/death

+2

bandcamp