May 1-7 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

May 1, 2021

Band: Ravian

Release: Kingsmen From Afar

Style: Symphonic Power

+2

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Band: Rift Giant

Release: Cataclysm

Style: Doom/Sludge/Stoner

+2

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Band: Misfire

Release: Sympathy for the Ignorant

Style: Thrash

+2

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Band: Dark Seal

Release: Stvoření světa

Style: atmospheric Black

+2

(maybe +3 if I spoke the language)

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May 3, 2021

Band: Hanternoz

Release: Au Fleuve de Loire

Style: Black/Folk

+2

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Band: Tower

Release: Uriel

Style: Gothic

+2

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Band: Gargoyle

Release: Hail to the Necrodoom

Style: Black, Doom

+2

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May 4, 2021

Band: Melabstra

Release: El fruto de la discordia

Style: Synthonic Black

+2

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Band: Ice Howl

Release: Erhan’s Quest

Style: Instrumental Heavy

+2

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May 5, 2021

Band: Outlaw

Release: Death Miasma (EP)

Style: melodic black

+2

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Band: Auld

Release: …of Petrichor and I (EP)

Style: black, black/folk

+2

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May 6, 2021

Band: Disembodiment

Release: Mutated Chaos (EP)

Style: Death, Death/grind

+2

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May 7, 2021

Band: Lord Vampyr

Release: The Vampire’s Legacy

Style: Gothic/Black

+2

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Band: Out of Hand

Release: Exility

Style: Death/Thrash, Black/Death

+2

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Band: Seth

Release: La Morsure du Christ

Style: Synthonic Black

+2

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Band: Nordjevel

Release: Fenriir (EP)

Style: Black

+2

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Band: Wormlight

Release: Nightmother

Style: blackmetal

+2

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Band: Vokonis

Release: Odyssey

Style: Stoner, Progressive

+2

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Band: Solstice

Release: Casting The Die

Style: Thrash

+2

(it’s ok but but I’d prefer either of the other front men)

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Band: Marius Danielsen's Legend of Valley Doom

Release: Marius Danielsen's Legend of Valley Doom Part 3

Style: epic power

+3

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Band: Kryptik Mutation

Release: Pulled From the Pit

Style: Death

+2

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Band: Artillery

Release: X

Style: Thrash, Heavy

+4

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Band: In Asymmetry

Release: Ashes of Dead Worlds

Style: Technical Death

+2

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Band: Reality Grey

Release: Beneath This Crown

Style: Technical Melodic Death

+2

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Band: J. D. Overdrive

Release: Funeral Celebration

Style: Southern, Stoner, Sludge

+2

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Band: Steel Fox

Release: Red Snow

Style: Traditional Speed

+3

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Band: Moon Coven

Release: Slumber Wood

Style: Doom, Psychedelic rock

+3

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Band: Nightshadow

Release: Strike Them Dead

Style: Power, Traditional Speed, Heavy

+3

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Band: Bretus

Release: Magharia

Style: Doom, Heavy Rock (Stoner)

+2

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Band: Nordic Frost

Release: Sovereign (EP)

Style: Black, Melodic Black

+2

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Band: Sonic Haven

Release: Vagabond

Style: Power

+3

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Band: Ghost Iris

Release: Comatose

Style: Metalcore, Djent

+3

(I’m normally not a fan of this sort of thing, but something about it got my attention.)

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Band: Robin McAuley

Release: Standing on the Edge

Style: Traditional, Rock

+2

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