Feb 20-26 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 20, 2021

Band: Kanonenfieber

Release: Menschenmühle

Style: Melodic Black/Death

+2

bandcamp

Feb 21, 2021

Band: Rocket Rider

Release: Rocket Rider

Style: instrumental, progressive, Synthonic

+2

bandcamp

Band: Wynter Myst

Release: Frore

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Feb 22, 2021

Band: Frustration

Release: Dead City

Style: Southern

+3

bandcamp

Feb 23, 2021

Band: Yaşru

Release: Kar Prensesi

Style: Symphonic Folk/Doom

+2

bandcamp

Band: Varang Nord

Release: Pārķiuņa Uomurs

Style: Folk

+3

facebook

Band: Icewind

Release: Midnight Bloody Dances

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Feb 25, 2021

Band: Innersphere

Release: Omfalos

Style: Melodic Death

+2

facebook

Band: Flaming Wrekage

Release: Cathedral of Bones

Style: Melodic Groove/Thrash

+1

website

Feb 26, 2021

Band: Evergrey

Release: Escape of the Phoenix

Style: lame

+1

facebook

Band: Sinira

Release: The Everlorn

Style: melodic black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Significant Point

Release: Into the Storm

Style: Speed

+3

facebook

Band: Moonspell

Release: Hermitage

Style: Gothic metal/rock

+1

facebook

Band: Melvins

Release: Working With God

Style: Sludge, Alternative Rock.

+1

bandcamp

Band: Epica

Release: Omega

Style: Symphonic

+4

website

Band: Los Males Del Mundo

Release: Descent Towards Death

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Einherjer

Release: North Star

Style: Black, Traditional Black, Viking themed

+3

website

Band: Ominous Ruin

Release: Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone

Style: Progressive/technical Death, Brutal Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Paranorm

Release: Empyrean

Style: Progressive Death/Thrash

+3

bandcamp

Band: Iotunn

Release: Access All Worlds

Style: Progressive, Melodic Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Summoning The Lich

Release: United in Chaos

Style: Deathcore

+2

(+3 if you like Deathcore more than me)

website

Band: Redd Barron

Release: Sands of Time

Style: Traditional

+2

website

Band: Hidden Intent

Release: Dead End Destiny

Style: Thrash, Groove/Thrash

+3

bandcamp

Band: Beyond The Catacombs

Release: Interstellar Burial

Style: Progressive Brutal Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Tyrantti

Release: Orjaplaneetta

Style: Traditional

+2

(probably +3 if you speak Finnish)

facebook

Band: Parasite

Release: Deep Into The Dark

Style: Progressive Death, Deathcore

+2

(This is for sure a +3 if you don’t mind deathcore elements)

facebook

Band: InHuman

Release: InHuman

Style: Symphonic

+2

website

Band: Madred

Release: Overtime

Style: Thrash

+2

facebook

Band: Sister

Release: Vengeance Ignited

Style: “glam metal”

+2

website

Band: Alice Cooper

Release: Detroit Stories

Style: Hard Rock, Rock

+1

website

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

facebook

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