Dec 11-17 Weekly Metal Recommendations

December 21, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in 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, but maybe for everyone

+2 - worth checking out or interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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Dec 12, 2021

Band: Mavorim

Release: Non Omnis Moriar

Style: Black/Folk

+2

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Band: Caestus

Release: The Undoer’s Key

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Dec 13, 2021

Band: Diaroe

Release: Willkommen in der Desolation

Style: Brutal Death/Grind

+2

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Band: R.O.D.

Release: HateSpeech

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

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Band: Phobetor

Release: Through Deepest Fears and Darkest Minds

Style: Death

+2

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Band: Svartalfar

Release: Geisterwerk

Style: Black

+2

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Dec 15, 2021

Band: Necrohunter

Release: Litanies of The Black Occvult

Style: Black/Doom

+2

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Band: Cülpado

Release: Romper da Realidade

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

bandcamp

Dec 17, 2021

Band: Iron Fate

Release: Crimson Messiah

Style: Traditional, power

+3

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Band: Khnvm

Release: Portals to Oblivion

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Mega Colossus

Release: Riptime

Style: Thrash

+3

bandcamp

Band: Memory Garden

Release: 1349

Style: Doom

+3

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Band: Wolftopia

Release: Ways of the Pack

Style: Melodic Death

+2

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Band: Age of Athena

Release: Gate to Oblivion

Style: Progressive, Symphonic

+2

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Band: On My Command

Release: Prey

Style: Power/Thrash

+2

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Band: Serpent Lord

Release: Apocrypha

Style: Progressive Power, Heavy

+2

(this is barely a +2, those drums sound like shit, everything else is good)

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Band: Hedera

Release: Helical

Style: Folk

+2

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Band: Tophet

Release: Punishment Battalion 666

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Wound

Release: Serpent Crown

Style: Melodic Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Bangover

Release: Close Encounters of the Thrash Kind (EP)

Style: Thrash

+2

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Band: Solarus

Release: A Dance with Tragedy

Style: Synthonic

+2

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Band: Wicked Sensation

Release: Outbreak

Style: Traditional, synthonic

+2

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Dec 4-10

Dec 18-31

Dec 4-10 Weekly Metal Recommendations

December 16, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

(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, but maybe for everyone

+2 - worth checking out or interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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Dec 4, 2021

Band: Severe Punishment

Release: And Death Spoke to Them (EP)

Style: Death

+2

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Dec 10, 2021

Band: Ethereal Shroud

Release: Trisagion

Style: Atmospheric Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Otargos

Release: Fleshborer Soulflayer

Style: Black

+2

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Band: Malignatn Altar

Release: Realms of Exquisite Morbidity

Style: Death

+2

label bandcamp

Band: Pyrexia

Release: Gravitas Maximus

Style: Brutal Death/Groove

+3

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Band: Psilocybe Larvae

Release: Where Silence Dwells

Style: Melodic Death, Gothic, Post Metal

+2

bandcamp

Band: Fading Aeon

Release: The Voices Within

Style: Epic Melodic Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: The Murder of My Sweet

Release: A Gentleman's Legacy

Style: Progressive, Alternative

+2

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Band: Phrenelith

Release: Chimaera

Style: Raw Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Restless Spirit

Release: Blood of the Old Gods

Style: Doom, Traditional, Heavy Rock “Stoner”

+2

bandcamp

Band: Conjuring

Release: Universus

Style: Black, drone

+2

label bandcamp

Band: Gore Brigade

Release: Gore Brigade (EP)

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Eminez

Release: Diabolical Warfare

Style: Atmospheric Black, Black/Death

+2

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Band: Insanis

Release: Kvlt Ov Fire (EP)

Style: Traditional Black, Black/Speed

+2

bandcamp

Band: Thirty Fates

Release: Circus Black

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

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Band: Séptimo Ángel

Release: Teoría del caos

Style: Power, neo-classical

+2

(I think I'd like this a lot if I had any idea what they were saying)

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Band: Sgàile

Release: Ideals & Morality

Style: Progressive, Post-metal

+2

bandcamp

Band: Destillat

Release: Under Black Horizons

Style: Melodic Black/Death

+2

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Band: Asgard

Release: Leuchtenstadt

Style: Black

+2

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Nov 27 - Dec 3

Dec 11-17

Nov 27 - Dec 3 Weekly Metal Recommendations

December 08, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

(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, but maybe for everyone

+2 - worth checking out or interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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Nov 27, 2021

Band: Ukronakh

Release: Stonewounds

Style: Black/Death

+2

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Nov 30, 2021

Band: Svardenvyrd

Release: Scarred Lands

Style: Black, melodic

+2

bandcamp

Band: Oathean

Release: The Endless Pain and Darkness

Style: Symphonic Black

+2

bandcamp

Dec 1, 2021

Band: Blackhearth

Release: The Wrath of God

Style: Heavy

+2

bandcamp

Dec 3, 2021

Band: Gomorran

Release: Exerts from the Dark Age (EP)

Style: Melodic Black/Death

+2

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Band: Unanimated

Release: Victory in Blood

Style: Black, Melodic Black/Death

+2

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Band: Wolftooth

Release: Blood & Iron

Style: Heavy

+3

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Band: Volbeat

Release: Servant of the Mind

Style: Heavy

+1

website

Band: Ofermod

Release: Mysterium Iniquitatis

Style: Black

+2

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Band: Cutterred Flesh

Release: Sharing is Caring

Style: Brutal Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Manimal

Release: Armageddon

Style: Heavy

+3

website

Band: Coronatus

Release: Atmosphere

Style: Symphonic, Folk

+2

website

Band: Redemptor

Release: Agonia

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Dormant Ordeal

Release: The Grand Scheme of Things

Style: Black/Death, technical death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Custard

Release: Imperium Rapax

Style: Power

+3

label website

Band: Once Upon The End

Release: The Next Chapter

Style: Melodic Death

+2

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Band: Nekromant

Release: Temple of Hall

Style: Traditional, Power, Doom

+2

bandcamp

Band: Erdling

Release: Helheim

Style: Synthonic

+2

(probably +3 if you speak German)

bandcamp

Nov 20-26

Dec 4-10

Nov 20-26 Weekly Metal Recommendation

December 03, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

(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, but maybe for everyone

+2 - worth checking out or interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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Nov 21, 20221

Band: Cień

Release: Redemption

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Nov 24, 2021

Band: Grand Finale

Release: Everything Has an End (EP)

Style: Synthonic J-Power

+2

website

Nov 24, 2021

Band: Forbidden Omen

Release: Ancestral Rituals

Style: Death

+2

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Band: K Amon K

Release: Arca Ende Aeterna

Style: Black

+1 (+2)

(+2 if you speak French… unless the lyrics suck I guess, I don’t speak it, but figure it would help)

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Nov 26, 2021

Band: Rhapsody of Fire

Release: Glory for Salvation

Style: Epic Symphonic/Synthonic Power

+2

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Band: Proscriptor McGovern’s Apsû

Release: Proscriptor McGovern’s Apsû

Style: Technical Black/Thrash

+3

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Band: Imperialist

Release: Zenith

Style: Black

+3

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Band: Morgul Blade

Release: Fell Sorcery Abounds

Style: Epic, Blackened Traditional, Folk

+3

bandcamp

Eternity’s End

Release: Embers of War

Style: Power

+4

bandcamp

Band: Black Label Society

Release: Doom Crew Inc.

Style: Heavy

+2 (+4)

(I did pre order this one because I’m a huge Fan of most things Zakk touches, however so far what I heard is pretty laid back and nothing immediately exciting me, so +4 for me but maybe probably only a +3 or +2 generally.)

website

Band: Godhead Machinery

Release: Monotheistic Enslavement

Style: Black

+2

website

Band: Fortress

Release: Don’t Spare The Wicked

Style: Synthonic Speed, Synthonic Traditional

+3

bandcamp

Band: Infernal Hate

Release: The Order of the Black Kestrel

Style: Death

+3

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Band: Victory

Release: Gods of Tomorrow

Style: Speed, Traditional, Hard Rock

+3

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Band: Hitten

Release: Triumph And Tragedy

Style: Traditional, speed

+2

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Band: Alien Force

Release: We Meet Again

Style: Traditional, Hard Rock

+2

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Band: Lock Up

Release: The Dregs Of Hades

Style: Death/Grind

+3

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Band: Hollow

Release: Tower

Style: Progressive Power

+2

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Band: Hypocrisy

Release: Worship

Style: Melodic Death

+3

website

Band: Opera Diabolicus

Release: Death on a Pale Horse

Style: Progressive, Gothic, Symphonic

+3

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Band: Eternal Evil

Release: The Warriors Awakening Brings the Unholy Slaughter

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

bandcamp

Band: Servant

Release: Blessed By the Light of a Thousand Stars

Style: Black

+3

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Band: Hunters Moon

Release: The Great Pandemonium

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Fleischer

Release: Knochenhauer

Style: Blackened Thrash

+2

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Band: Titan

Release: Palingenesia

Style: Traditional

(Accept for people who speak French)

+2

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Band: Temptation’s Wings

Release: Marauders of the Killing Moon

Style: Heavy, Doom

+2

bandcamp

Band: Thunder and Lightning

Release: F.E.A.R.

Style: Power

+2

bandcamp

Band: The Noctambulant

Release: Hellrazor (EP)

Style: Black, melodic black

+2

bandcamp

Nov 13-19

Nov 27 - Dec 3

Nov 13-19 Weekly Metal Recommendations

November 24, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

(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, but maybe for everyone

+2 - worth checking out or interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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Nov 14, 2021

Band: Bestial Invasion

Release: Divine Comedy: Inferno

Style: Epic Technical Thrash

+2

bandcamp

Nov 15, 2021

Band: Shiningstar

Release: Destiny

Style: Extreme Synthonic/Symphonic

+2

linktree

Band: Goaten

Release: Crimson Moonlight (EP)

Style: Heavy, Speed

+2

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Band: Ibuki

Release: Storm of Emotion

Style: J-Power, Synthonic

+2

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Band: Fugatta

Release: The Darkest Planet

Style: Synthonic Power

+2

(maybe only +1, I didn’t care for the vocalist, but musically they were solid)

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Nov 18, 2021

Band: Synapse

Release: Singularities

Style: Progressive rock/metal

+2

(sounds good but nothing I haven’t already heard from Dream Theater)

bandcamp

Band: The Temple

Release: The Temple

Style: Black/Death

+2

bandcamp

Nov 19, 2021

Band: Tardigrada

Release: Vom Bruch bis zur Freiheit

Style: atmospheric Black

+3

(+3 if you don’t mind that it isn’t in English)

bandcamp

Band: Khemmis

Release: Deceiver

Style: Doom

+2

website

Band: Temperance

Release: Diamanti

Style: Synthonic/Symphonic Power

+2

website

Band: Aephanemer

Release: A Dream of Wilderness

Style: Symphonic Blackened Neo-classical

+2

website

Band: E Force

Release: Mindbinder

Style: Traditional Black, Black/Thrash

+1

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Band: Abscession

Release: Rot of Ages

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Exodus

Release: Persona Non Grata

Style: Thrash, Groove/Thrash

+4

website

Band: Galaxy

Release: On The Shore of Life

Style: Traditional

+2

(music is awesome, vocals are sometimes good but mostly missing the mark)

bandcamp

Band: Swallow the Sun

Release: Moonflowers

Style: sleepy time music

+ZZZZZZZZZ

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Band: Obscura

Release: A Valediction

Style: Technical Death

+3

website

Band: Godless

Release: States of Chaos

Style: Death

+2

(almost +3)

bandcamp

Band: W.E.B.

Release: Colosseum

Style: Symphonic/Gothic Black

+3

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Band: Dream Unending

Release: Tide Turns Eternal

Style: sleepy time music (melodic death/doom)

+ZZZZZ

(it’s actually relaxing except I don’t want my metal to be relaxing)

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Band: The Lurking Fear

Release: Death, Madness, Horror, Decay

Style: Death

+1

(It’s almost At the Gates… but it’s not nor is it as good, which is disappointing since I’m a sucker for Lovecraftian themes.)

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Band: Nightland

Release: The Great Nothing

Style: Blackened Symphonic Melodic Death

+2

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Band: Stormkeep

Release: Tales of Othertime

Style: Synthonic Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Stranguliatorius

Release: Doctor’s Orders: Do Not Touch!

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: ADX

Release: Etranges Visions

Style: Speed, Heavy

+2

website

Band: Hellspike

Release: Dynasties of Decay

Style: Speed, Thrash

+2

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Band: Home Style Surgery

Release: Brain Drill Poetry

Style: Progressive Thrash

+2

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Band: In Aevum Agere

Release: Emperor of Hell - Canto XXXIV

Style: Heavy, Doom

+3

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Band: Our Common Sense

Release: Harbinger of Calamity

Style: Heavy Rock, Sludge

+2

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Nov 6-12

Nov 20-26

Nov 6-12 Weekly Metal Recommendations

November 17, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

(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, but maybe for everyone

+2 - worth checking out or interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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Nov 6, 2021

Band: Announce The Apocalypse

Release: Nefarious Means

Style: Melodic Death/Thrash, Death

+3

bandcamp

Nov 8, 2021

Band: Healing Harm

Release: Shapes of Alienation

Style: Melodic Death

+2

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Nov 9, 2021

Band: Ültra Raptör

Release: Tyrants

Style: Speed

+2

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Nov 10, 2021

Band: Black Soul Horde

Release: Horrors From The Void

Style: Heavy

+3

bandcamp

Band: Serpent Lord

Release: Apocrypha

Style: Progressive

+2

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Band: Isengrim

Release: Maailmantappaja

Style: Black

+2

(maybe +3 if I spoke Finnish)

bandcamp

Nov 12, 2021

Band: Monument of Misanthropy

Release: Unterweger

Style: Death, Brutal Death

+2

linktree

Band: Knights of the Realm

Release: Knights of the Realm

Style: Traditional, Speed

+3

website

Band: L.A. Guns

Release: Checkered Past

Style: Hard Rock

+2

website

Band: Bonded

Release: Into Blackness

Style: Thrash

+3

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Band: Insania

Release: V (Praeparatus Supervivet)

Style: Power

+3

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Band: Unleashed

Release: No Sign of Life

Style: Death, Death/Thrash

+3

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Band: Creature

Release: Eloge De L’Ombre

Style: Progressive Back

+2

label bandcamp

Band: Belore

Release: Artefacts

Style: Epic Symphonic Black/Folk

+3

bandcamp

Band: Cân Bardd

Release: Devoured By The Oak

Style: Epic Symphonic Black/Folk

+3

bandcamp

Band: Northtale

Release: Eternal Flame

Style: Power

+3

website

Band: Sijjin

Release: Sumerian Promises

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Apostle of Solitude

Release: Until The Darkness Goes

Style: Doom

+2

bandcamp

Band: Vomit the Soul

Release: Cold

Style: Brutal Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Phantom Druid

Release: The Downward Slope (EP)

Style: Doom

+2

bandcamp

Band: Obscura Qalma

Release: Apotheosis

Style: Epic Symphonic Black/Death

+2

website

Band: Tower

Release: Shock to the System

Style: Traditional, Speed

+3

linktree

Band: 200 Stab Wounds

Release: Slave to the Scalpel

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Tormentor

Release: Crown of Shame (EP)

Style: Heavy, Thrash

+2

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Oct 30 - Nov 5

Oct 30 - Nov 5 Weekly Metal Recommendations

November 11, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

(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, but maybe for everyone

+2 - worth checking out or interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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Oct 31, 2021

Band: Under Cold Sun

Release: Devotion

Style: Thrash

+3

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Band: Physiology of Darkness

Release: Satanic Liturgy

Style: Gothic/atmospheric Black/Death

+2

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Band: Demonologist

Release: I curse, I dance

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

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Band: Ruttenskalle

Release: Skin’em Alive

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Voorhees

Release: Chapter Two & a Half (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Dawnbreaker

Release: Ad Majorem Dei Glorium

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Krusifire

Release: We Bring The Metal Vol. 2

Style: Thrash

+2

bandcamp

Band: Frightful

Release: Spectral Creator

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

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Nov 1, 2021

Band: Demonztrator

Release: Sinister Forces of Hatred

Style: Thrash

+2

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Band: Death Has Spoken

Release: Call of the Abyss

Style: Black/Doom, Death/Doom

+2

bandcamp

Band: Mental Devastation

Release: The Delusional Mystery Of The Self (part I)

Style: Technical Thrash

+3

facebook

Band: Xiphea

Release: Witchcraft

Style: Symphonic

+2

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Band: Thraxas!

Release: Planetary Terrorism (EP)

Style: Groove/Thrash

+2

linktree

Band: Brygmus

Release: Vitiate

Style: Sludge, Death/Doom

+2

bandcamp

Nov 2, 2021

Band: Cerberus Attack

Release: Abyss Of Lost Souls

Style: Thrash

+2

facebook

Nov 4, 2021

Band: Shock Wave

Release: Force Ethics

Style: Thrash

+1

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Nov 5, 2021

Band: Bornhom

Release: Apotheosis

Style: Black, melodic black

+2

website

Band: Poppy Seed Grinder

Release: Faceless Atrocities

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: The Night Eternal

Release: Moonlit Cross

Style: Traditional

+3

facebook

Band: Omnium Gatherum

Release: Origin

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death

+2

website

Band: Diablo Swing Orchestra

Release: Swagger & Stroll Down the Rabbit Hole

Style: let’s just call it experimental

-1

(I can’t say I would ever listen to this, it’s as jumpy and weird as System of a Down, however I’m putting it on the list because it is certainly one of the most unique bands I’ve heard in a long time.)

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Band: Frozen Shield

Release: Ínia

Style: Symphonic Melodic Death/Folk

+3

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Band: Saratoga

Release: XXX

Style: Power

+2

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Band: Bryan Eckermann

Release: Plague Bringers

Style: Blackened Melodic Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: The Three Tremors

Release: Guardian of the Void

Style: Heavy, Traditional

+0

(cool concept, but it kinds sucks. 1. the production sucks and it sounds like things aren’t even in time including guitar leads and some vocal parts. 2. Ripper is by far the better singer here to the point that the other guys doing offer anything other than less good similar vocals. Something like this would be better with vocal styles that are more different from each other.)

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Band: AfterTime

Release: Infinite Legacy (EP)

Style: Symphonic

+2

website

Band: Thola

Release: Somewhere

Style: Power/Thrash

+3

website

Band: Bad Butler

Release: Badtime Stories

Style: Speed, Power, Traditional

+2

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Band: Serpentor

Release: Sacerdote del Horror

Style: Thrash

+2

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Band: Bullet For My Valentine

Release: Bullet For My Valentine

Style: Metalcore

+2

(This surprised me, they used to by the whiniest of whiny metalcore bands, but now they are 80% less whiney. I’m still not going to listen to this, but if you are a fan of metalcore, I think they’ve come a long way toward being less angsty bitches.)

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Oct 23-29

Nov 6-12

Oct 23-29 Weekly Metal Recommendations

November 04, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

(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, but maybe for everyone

+2 - worth checking out or interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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Oct 24, 2021

Band: Iron Attack!

Release: Maze of Graduation

Style: J-Power

+2

website

Oct 26, 2021

Band: StormDeath

Release: Call of the Panzer Goat

Style: Thrash

+2

facebook

Oct 29, 2021

Band: Running Wild

Release: Blood on Blood

Style: Traditional, Speed

+2

website

Band: First Fragment

Release: Gloire Eternelle

Style: Neo-classical Tech Death

+2

facebook

Band: Archspire

Release: Bleed the Future

Style: Tech Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Lucifer

Release: Lucifer IV

Style: Traditional, Doom

+2

facebook

Band: Be’Lakor

Release: Coherence

Style: Melodic Death

+3

website

Band: Ad Infinitum

Release: Chapter II: Legacy

Style: Symphonic Alternative

+2

(vocals and melodies are good, backing music is bland and leaves a lot to be desired)

website

Band: Count Raven

Release: The Sixth Storm

Style: Doom

+2

facebook

Band: Ophis

Release: Spew Fourth Odium

Style: Death/doom

+3

bandcamp

Band: Doedsvangr

Release: Satan Ov Suns

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Whitechaple

Release: Kin

Style: Deathcore

+2

website

Band: Mastodon

Release: Hushed Grim

Style: Progressive rock/metal

+2

website

Band: Begat The Nephilim

Release: II: The Grand Procession

Style: technical Melodic death

+3

facebook

Band: Thulcandra

Release: A Dying Wish

Style: Melodic Black

+3

website

Band: Death SS

Release: X

Style: Heavy, goth rock

+2

facebook

Band: Monolord

Release: Your Time To Shine

Style: Doom, Stoner

+2

bandcamp

Band: Voidhra

Release: Sorrow Guides Us All

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Burial

Release: Inner Gateways To The Slumbering Equilibrium At The Center of Cosmos

Style: Black/Death, Death/Doom

+3

label bandcamp

Band: Elimination

Release: Echoes of the Abyss

Style: Heavy, Thrash

+3

bandcamp

Band: Existance

Release: Wolf Attack

Style: Heavy

+3

website

Band: Grand Cadaver

Release: Into The Maw of Death

Style: Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Split Heaven

Release: Electric Spell

Style: Traditional, speed, Heavy

+3

website

Band: Sunless

Release: Ylem

Style: Progressive Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Sylvan Awe

Release: Transcend

Style: Black

+2

facebook

Oct 16-22

Oct 30 - Nov 5

Oct 16-22 Weekly Metal Recommendations

October 28, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

(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, but maybe for everyone

+2 - worth checking out or interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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Oct 16, 2021

Band: Altesia

Release: Embryo

Style: Progressive

+2

bandcamp

Oct 19, 2021

Band: Spirit Adrift

Release: Forge Your Future (EP)

Style: Traditional

+2

(sounds good but I will rarely give an EP +3 because of so few tracks)

website

Oct 20, 2021

Band: Primeval Well

Release: Primeval Well

Style: Raw Black, Southern Black

+2

(This has to be the first time I’ve heard blue grass combined with black metal. I’m interested for sure. Unfortunately I’m not Trv Kvlt and don’t care much for raw black metal. I’d love to here with done with a cleaner production.)

bandcamp

Oct 21, 2021

Band: Tripulante

Release: Lickan Antaw

Style: Heavy, Power, Speed, Synthonic

+2

facebook

Oct 22, 2021

Band: Cradle of Filth

Release: Existence Is Futile

Style: Extreme Symphonic

+4

website

Band: Thirteen Bled Promises

Release: Foundation (EP)

Style: Technical Black/Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Evil Spell

Release: Padre Vostro

Style: Traditional Black, Black/Thrash

+2

facebook

Band: Dream Theater

Release: A View from the Top of the World

Style: Progressive

+3

website

Band: Necrofier

Release: Prophecies of Eternal Darkness

Style: Melodic Black

+3

bandcamp

Band: Phantom Fire

Release: The Bust of Beelzebub

Style: Black

+2

facebook

Band: Ravenous

Release: Hubris

Style: Power

+2

website

Band: Knife

Release: Knife

Style: Black/Thrash, Traditional Black

+3

website

Band: U.D.O.

Release: Game Over

Style: Traditional

+3

website

Band: Green Lung

Release: Black Harvest

Style: Traditional, Doom, Early, Stoner

+3

bandcamp

Band: Toledo Steel

Release: Heading For the Fire

Style: Traditional

+2

linktree

Band: Seven Sisters

Release: Shadow of the Fallen Star Pt. 1

Style: Progressive, Heavy, Traditional

+3

bandcamp

Band: Burning Point

Release: Arsonist Of The Soul

Style: Power

+3

facebook

Band: Shadowland

Release: The Necromancer’s Castle

Style: Speed, Traditional

+3

bandcamp

Band: Hand of Kalliach

Release: Samhainn

Style: Melodic Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Worm

Release: Foreverglade

Style: Death/Doom

+2

label bandcamp

Band: The Sonic Overlords

Release: Last Days of Babylon

Style: Doom

+3

bandcamp

Band: Scarecrow

Release: Scarecrow II

Style: Early Doom, hard blues rock

+2

bandcamp

Band: Draconicon

Release: Dark Side of Magic

Style: Symphonic Power

+2

( I wouldn’t be surprised if this band gets big in the next couple years)

website

Band: Bloodred Hourglass

Release: Your Highness

Style: Melodic Death

+2

facebook

Band: 1914

Release: Where Fear and Weapons Meet

Style: Symphonic Black

+3

bandcamp

Band: LIVLØS

Release: And Then There Were None

Style: Melodic Death

+2

website

Band: Zornheym

Release: The Zornheim Sleep Experiment

Style: Melodic/Symphonic Black, Black/Power

+3

bandcamp

Band: Massacre

Release: Resurgence

Style: Death

+3

facebook

Band: Slapdown

Release: Fundamentally Wicked

Style: Death

+2

facebook

Band: Cognos

Release: Cognos

Style: Progressive, Progressive Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Catalyst Crime

Release: Catalyst Crime

Style: Symphonic

+2

website

Band: Red to Grey

Release: Balance of Power

Style: Thrash

+2

website

Oct 2-15

Oct 23-29

Oct 2-15 Weekly Metal Recommendations

October 21, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

(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, but maybe for everyone

+2 - worth checking out or interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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Oct 2, 2021

Band: Sythera

Release: Frozen Rose

Style: Synthonic Power

+2

bandcamp

Band: Cranial Decay

Release: Ov The Darkest Magic

Style: Death

+2

label bandcamp

Band: Imaginature

Release: Imaginature

Style: Symphonic, Progressive, Power

+3

bandcamp

Band: Stormgrey

Release: DNA of Chaos

Style: Death

+3

facebook

Oct 3, 2021

Band: Empty Life

Release: Demons

Style: Black, atmospheric

+3

bandcamp

Oct 4, 2021

Band: In Vain

Release: All Hope is Gone

Style: Power/Thrash

+3

facebook

Oct 5, 2021

Band: Vomit Bag Squad

Release: Tales From The Bag

Style: Thrash, crossover

+2

bandcamp

Oct 8, 2021

Band: Black Sites

Release: Untrue

Style: Progressive, Heavy

+2

bandcamp

Band: Blood Red Throne

Release: Imperial Congregation

Style: Death

+2

website

Band: The Breathing Process

Release: Labyrinthian

Style: Symphonic Black/Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Creeping Death

Release: The Edge of Existence

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: ATRÆ BILIS

Release: Apexapien

Style: Death

+2

facebook

Band: Trivium

Release: In the Court of the Dragon

Style: Heavy, Metal-core

+1

website

Band: Voidfallen

Release: The Atlas of Spiritual Apocalypse

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Toward the Throne

Release: Vowed to Decline

Style: Atmospheric Melodic Black/Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Desalmado

Release: Mass Mental Devolution

Style: Death

+2

facebook

Band: Gus. G

Release: Quantum Leap

Style: Instrumental

+2

website

Band: Naraka

Release: In Tenebris

Style: Black/Death

+2

website

Oct 15, 2021

Band: Hate

Release: Rugia

Style: Black/Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Lords of Black

Release: Alchemy of Souls Part II

Style: Power, Progressive

+2

website

Band: Leverage

Release: Above the Beyond

Style: Traditional, Early, Symphonic/synthonic

+3

facebook

Band: Destinity

Release: In Continuum

Style: Melodic Death

+3

facebook

Band: Alcatrazz

Release: V

Style: Speed

+2

facebook

Band: Avdagata

Release: Damnatio Cursus (EP)

Style: Melodic Black, Synthonic/Symphonic Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: The Agonist

Release: Days Before The World Wept (EP)

Style: Melodic Death

+2

facebook

Band: Necromantia

Release: To the Depths We Descend…

Style: Black

+3

bandcamp

Band: Extreme Cold Winter

Release: World Exit

Style: Death/Doom

+2

(+3 if you are into Death/Doom, it’s not one of my favorite genres)

bandcamp

Band: Aeon

Release: God Ends Here

Style: Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Misanthur

Release: Ephemeris

Style: Black/Doom

+2

facebook

Band: Deviant Process

Release: Nurture

Style: Progressive Death

+2

facebook

Band: Autumn’s Grief

Release: The Dead Don’t Smile

Style: Symphonic/Gothic

+2

facebook

Sep 25 - Oct 1

Oct 16-22

Sep 25 - Oct 1 Weekly Metal Recommendations

October 07, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

(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, but maybe for everyone

+2 - worth checking out or interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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Sep 26, 2021

Band: Enthrallment

Release: Against The Will To Live - Sky Burial

Style: Brutal/Technical Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Concrete

Release: Ethereal Atrocities

Style: Death

+3

label bandcamp

Sep 27, 2021

Band: Erz

Release: Erz

Style: Black

+2

facebook

Band: Suffering Sights

Release: When Sanity Becomes Insanity

Style: Death

+2

label bandcamp

Sep 28, 2021

Band: Mary’s Blood

Release: Mary’s Blood

Style: J-Metal

+2

label website

Band: The Oriental Sun

Release: The Majestic Phoenix Arises from Centuries of Hibernation

Style: Death

+2

label bandcamp

Sep 29, 2021

Band: Mental Torment

Release: Ego:Genesis

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+3

facebook

Sep 30, 2021

Band: Aussichtslos

Release: Einsicht

Style: Melodic Black

+2

bandcamp

Oct 1, 2021

Band: Torture of Hypocrisy

Release: Humanufacture

Style: Industrial/Technical Death

+2

facebook

Band: Demolizer

Release: Upgrade (EP)

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

facebook

Band: Enslaved

Release: Caravans to the Outer Worlds (EP)

Style: Progressive Black

+2

website

Band: Necroticgorebeast

Release: Human Deviance Galore

Style: Brutal Death, Slam

+2

facebook

Band: Venefixion

Release: A Sigh From Below

Style: Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Fear Connection

Release: Progeny of Social Disease

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Sadistic Force

Release: Aces Wild

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

bandcamp

Band: Unforged

Release: Eye For an Eye

Style: Groove, Groove/Thrash

+2

website

Band: Crimson Tower

Release: Aeternal Abyss

Style: Doom

+2

bandcamp

Band: 1000 bone Cylinder Explosion

Release: Bind

Style: Extreme Progressive

Band: KK’s Priest

Release: Sermons of the Sinner

Style: Traditional Metal

+4

website

Band: Mournful Winter

Release: Mother’s Demise

Style: Melodic Black, Experimental black

+3

bandcamp

Band: Black Rose

Release: Game of Souls

Style: Heavy

+3

website

Band: Kryptos

Release: Force of Danger

Style: Heavy, Speed

+3

facebook

Band: Skverna Liniya

Release: В венке из воска (In a Garland of Wax)

Style: Black

+2

facebook

Sep 18-24

Oct 2-15

Sep 18-24 Weekly Metal Recommendations

September 29, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

(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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Sep 18, 2021

Band: As the Sun Falls

Release: Last Days of Light

Style: melodic Death

+3

website

Sep 20, 2021

Band: Energema

Release: Promised Land

Style: Power

+2

facebook

Band: Fatal Solution

Release: Fatal Solution

Style: Thrash

+1

(would be better with a better mix, vocals are to loud)

facebook

Sep 22, 2021

Band: Orbstruct

Release: Deimos Falling

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: ShadowStrike

Release: Fables & Folklore

Style: symphonic Power

+2

bandcamp

Band: Hellhound

Release: Warrior of Rising Sun

Style: Heavy

+2

facebook

Sep 24, 2021

Band: Wraith

Release: Undo the Chains

Style: Blackened Thrash

+3

bandcamp

Band: The Ossuary

Release: Oltretomba

Style: doom

+2

facebook

Band: A Pale Horse Named Death

Release: Infernum in Terra

Style: Doom/Gothic

+2

website

Band: Paradox

Release: Heresy II: End of a Legend

Style: Thrash

+4

facebook

Dream Ocean

Release: The Missing Stone

Style: Symphonic, Progressive

+2

website

Band: Virial

Release: Transhumanism

Style: Progressive/technical Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Orbit Culture

Release: Shaman (EP)

Style: Death/Groove

+2

bandcamp

Band: Rivers of Nihil

Release: The Work

Style: Progressive Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Cognizance

Release: Upheaval

Style: Technical Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Stagewar

Release: Danger to Ourselves

Style: Thrash

+2

facebook

Band: Ars Moriendi

Release: Le Silence Déraisonnable du Ciel

Style: Melodic Black

+2

facebook

Band: Unto Others

Release: Strength

Style: Heavy, Gothic

+3

website

Band: Sceptor

Release: Rise to the Light

Style: Heavy

+3

facebook

Band: Iskandr

Release: Vergezicht

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Surturs Lohe

Release: Wielandstahl

Style: Epic Black/Folk (Viking, pagan)

+2

(+3 if you speak German)

facebook

Band: Axxelerator

Release: Heads or Tails

Style: Thrash

+2

facebook

Band: Withering Soul

Release: Last Contact

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Sep 11-17

Sep 25 - Oct 1

Sep 11-17 Weekly Metal Recommendations

September 22, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

(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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Sep 11, 2021

Band: Infected Chaos

Release: Dead Aesthetics

Style: Death, Melodic Death

+2

bandcamp

Sep 15, 2021

Band: Trigger

Release: Back to the Roots

Style: Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Metalsteel

Release: Forsaken by the Gods

Style: Heavy

+2

facebook

Band: Dickless Tracy

Release: Grave New World

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Ancient Empire

Release: Priest of Stygia

Style: Heavy

+4

bandcamp

Band: Blazon Stone

Release: Damnation

Style: Traditional

+3

(would be +4 if international shipping didn’t suck so much)

bandcamp

Sep 17, 2021

Band: Rage

Release: Resurrection Day

Style: Heavy, Groove

+2

(Not what I was hoping for)

website

Band: Shadecrown

Release: Solitarian

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+3

facebook

Band: Bloodride

Release: Idiocracy

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

website

Band: Carcass

Release: Torn Arteries

Style: Melodic Death

+4

facebook

Band: Saturnian Mist

Release: Shamatanic

Style: Black

+3

facebook

Band: Eternal Flight

Release: SurVive

Style: Power

+2

facebook

Band: Vulvodynia

Release: Praenuntius Infiniti

Style: Deathcore, Brutal Death

+3

facebook

Band: Brainstorm

Release: Wall of Skulls

Style: Power

+3

facebook

Band: Ghostheart Nebula

Release: Ascension

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+2

facebook

Band: Exxperior

Release: Escalating Conflicts

Style: Progressive Thrash

+2

bandcamp

Band: Nýr Gata

Release: Luna Aeterna

Style: Melodic Black, epic, symphonic

+2

bandcamp

Band: Criminal

Release: Sacrificio

Style: Thrash, Groove/Thrash

+2

facebook

Band: Anomaly

Release: Planet Storm

Style: Technical Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Insomnium

Release: Argent Moon (EP)

Style: Melodic Death

+2

website

Band: Joe Stump

Release: Diabolical Ferocity

Style: Shred, neo-classical

+2

website

Band: Whyzdom

Release: Of Wonders and Wars

Style: Symphonic

+2

website

Band: Fierce Atmospheres

Release: The Speed of Dreams

Style: Heavy, Progressive

+2

bandcamp

Band: Elias Vilijanen

Release: The Evillusionist

Style: Instrumental

+2

website

Band: Without God

Release: Siberian Tunes: Purple Clouds

Style: Doom

+2

facebook

Band: Words of Farewell

Release: Inner Universe II

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death

+2

facebook

Band: The Ascended

Release: The Dark

Style: Metalcore

+2

facebook

Band: Apostolica

Release: Haeretica Ecclesia

Style: Epic Synthonic/Symphonic Power

+3

website

Band: Alien Weaponry

Release: Tangaroa

Style: Groove

+2

website

Sep 4-10

Sep 18-24

Sep 4-10 Weekly Metal Recommendations

September 15, 2021 by Joe Cearlock

(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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Sep 6, 2021

Band: Giant of the Mountain

Release: Mountain’s Blood (EP)

Style: Progressive Black/Death

+2

(probably +3 if it was full length)

bandcamp

Sep 8, 2021

Band: Vell’z Fire

Release: The Last Stand

Style: Heavy

+2

facebook

Sep 9, 2021

Band: Darchitect

Release: The Visiting

Style: Progressive Death/Thrash

+3

facebook

Sep 10, 2021

Band: Journey Into Darkness

Release: Infinite Universe Infinite Death

Style: Symphonic/Synthonic Black/Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Daily Insanity

Release: Chronicles of War

Style: German Thrash

+2

website

Band: Runespell

Release: Verses in Regicide

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Mägo de Oz

Release: Bandera negra

Style: Power/Folk

+3

(to bad I don’t speak Spanish)

website

Band: Inferi

Release: Vile Genesis

Style: Technical Melodic Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Subfire

Release: Define the Sinner

Style: Heavy

+2

bandcamp

Band: Lvcifyre

Release: The Broken Seal

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Hladomrak

Release: Archaic Sacrifice

Style: Black

+2

(+3 for those speak Swedish or don’t care about language)

facebook

Band: Black Mass

Release: Feast at the Forbidden Tree

Style: Blackened Speed, Thrash

+3

bandcamp

Band: Seven Spires

Release: Gods of Debauchery

Style: Symphonic Melodic Death

+4

(I ordered this immediately after hearing this song, if the rest of the album is 10% as good, it will be a great album)

website

Band: Aborted

Release: Maniacult

Style: Death, Brutal Death, Grindcore

+2

website

Band: Sober Truth

Release: Laissez Faire, Lucifer!

Style: Groove

+2

website

Band: Hunted

Release: Deliver Us

Style: Progressive

+2

facebook

Band: Existem

Release: Searching For Clarity (EP)

Style: Progressive

+2

bandcamp

Band: Devcord

Release: Godisnowhere

Style: Progressive Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Between Worlds

Release: Between Worlds

Style: Heavy, Progressive Power

+3

facebook

Band: Stíny plamenů

Release: Jediný poskvrněný přítok

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Letzte Instanz

Release: Ehrenwort

Style: Symphonic, Gothic

+2

website

Band: Anette Olzon

Release: Strong

Style: Symphonic, Power

+2

facebook

Aug 28 - Sep 3

Sep 11-17

Aug 28 - Sep 3 Weekly Metal Recommendations

September 09, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

(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 28, 2001

Band: Temple of Gorgon

Release: Throats of Lie

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Mortifilia

Release: The Great Inferno

Style: Melodic Death

+1

facebook

Band: Offence

Release: You’ll Never Rest In Peace

Style: Death

+1

facebook

Aug 29, 2021

Band: The Maledict

Release: Remembrance

Style: Death/Doom

+2

bandcamp

Sep 1, 2021

Band: BlightMass

Release: Harbinger of Lucidity

Style: Death

+2

website

Band: Vilú

Release: Üden Vilú

Style: Death

+2

facebook

Sep 3, 2021

Band: Bloodphemy

Release: Blood Sacrifice

Style: Death

+2

website

Band: Malison

Release: Death's Embrace

Style: Heavy, Speed

+2

bandcamp

Band: Deformatory

Release: Inversion of the Unseen Horizon

Style: Technical Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Nattmaran

Release: The Lurking Evil

Style: Blackened Speed

+2

bandcamp

Band: Apallic

Release: Edge of Desolation

Style: Melodic Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Rise to the Sky

Release: Per Aspera Ad Astra

Style: melodic death/doom, atmospheric

+3

bandcamp

Band: Iron Maiden

Release: Senjutsu

Style: Traditional, hard rock, progressive, synthonic

+4

website

Band: Portrait

Release: At One with None

Style: Traditional

+3

facebook

Band: Wharflurch

Release: Psychedelic Realms ov Hell

Style: Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Necrosexual

Release: Seeds of Seduction (EP)

Style: Crossover thrash

+2

bandcamp

Band: Apophis

Release: Excess

Style: Melodic Death

+3

facebook

Band: Carnifex

Release: Graveside Confessions

Style: Deathcore, Black/Deathcore

+2

website

Aug 21-27

Sep 4-10

Aug 21-27 Weekly Metal Recommendations

September 02, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

(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

facebook

Band: Thraxas!

Release: Planetary Terrorism (EP)

Style: Groove/Thrash

+2

linktree

Band: Ethereal Sin

Release: Time of Requiem Part. 1

Style: Symphonic Black

+2

facebook

Aug 27, 2021

Band: Ex Deo

Release: The Thirteen Years of Nero

Style: Symphonic Death

+2

facebook

Band: Toxic Ruin

Release: Nightmare Eclipse

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

+3

bandcamp

Band: Oxygen Destroyer

Release: Sinister Monstrosities Spawned By the Unfathomable Ignorance of Humankind

Style: Black/Thrash, Death/Thrash

+2

bandcamp

Band: Nocturnal

Release: Serpent Death

Style: Thrash, Death/Thrash

+3

facebook

Band: Thyrfing

Release: Vanagandr

Style: Symphonic Black/Folk (Viking),

+3

facebook

Band: Hooded Menace

Release: The Tritonus Bell

Style: Death/Doom

+3

bandcamp

Band: Wormwood

Release: Arkivet

Style: Melodic Black

+3

bandcamp

Band: Windfaerer

Release: Breathes of Elder Dawns

Style: Melodic Black/folk, progressive

+2

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

bandcamp

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)

bandcamp

Band: Nunslaughter

Release: Red is the Color of Ripping Death

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Dark Arena

Release: Worlds of Horror

Style: Heavy, Progressive

+3

label website

Band: White Stones

Release: Dancing into Oblivion

Style: extreme progressive

+2

facebook

Band: Lower 13

Release: Embrace the Unknown

Style: Progressive

+1

(good band… I don’t like them)

facebook

Band: Wulfgar

Release: From the Ashes

Style: We have Amon Amarth at home

+3

facebook

Band: Crimson Fire

Release: Another Dimension

Style: Traditional, Power

+3

facebook

Band: Modern Rites

Release: Monuments

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Urdbrunn

Release: Pfade des Seins

Style: melodic black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Besatt

Release: Supreme and True at Night

Style: Black

+3

bandcamp

Band: Obscurity

Release: Skogarmaors

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

+2

website

Band: Dracyor

Release: Gyöngyvér

Style: Gothic

+2

facebook

Aug 14-20

Aug 28 - Sep 3

Aug 14-20 Weekly Metal Recommendations

August 25, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

(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

Aug 14, 2021

Band: Korrosive

Release: Kaustic Horde

Style: Thrash

+3

bandcamp

Aug 16, 2021

Band: Morning Dwell

Release: The Power Will Go On

Style: Power

+3

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Aug 20, 2021

Band: Mentalist

Release: A Journey into the Unknown

Style: Power

+3

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Band: Bonehunter

Release: Dark Blood Reincarnation System

Style: Black, Black/Thrash

+3

bandcamp

Band: Warkings

Release: Revolution

Style: Heavy, Power

+3

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Band: Wolves in the Throne Room

Release: Primordial Arcana

Style: atmospheric black

+2

website

Band: Necronautical

Release: Slain in the Spirit

Style: Symphonic Black

+3

bandcamp

Band: Sodom

Release: Bombenhagel (EP)

Style: Thrash

+2

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Band: Arcane Existence

Release: Colossus

Style: Melodic Black/death, synthonic/symphonic, progressive

+3

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Band: Oceanhoarse

Release: Dead Reckoning

Style: Heavy

+2

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Band: Daemonicus

Release: Eschaton

Style: Death, Melodic Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Book of Numbers

Release: Magick

Style: Heavy

+2

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Band: Legions of The Night

Release: Sorrow is the Cure

Style: Power, Heavy

+2

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Band: Soul Massacre

Release: Despair Of Human Being

Style: Death

+3

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Band: Noutaja

Release: Never Meant to Save Us (EP)

Style: Death

+3

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Band: Thomsen

Release: III

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

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Band: Massive Fire

Release: The Anunnaki

Style: Heavy

+2

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Band: ArkenFire

Release: Trials Through Time

Style: Power

+2

bandcamp

Band: Between The Buried and Me

Release: Colors II

Style: Progressive Metalcore, Progressive Rock

+3

(when did these guys get good?)

website

Aug 7-13

Aug 21-27

July 31 - Aug 6 Weekly Metal Recommendations

August 10, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

(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

Aug 2, 2021

Band: Killer Souls

Release: Reckoning

Style: Thrash

+2

bandcamp

Aug 6, 2021

Band: 苦楽 (NINGEN ISU)

Release: 人間椅子 (KURAKU)

Style: Heavy

+2

website

Band: Handle with Hate

Release: Erebus Rises

Style: Death

+2

website

Aug 6, 2021

Band: Ashen

Release: Godless Oath (EP)

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Baxaxaxa

Release: Catacomb Cult

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Groza

Release: The Redemptive End

Style: black, melodic black

+3

bandcamp

Band: Agrypnie

Release: Metamorphosis

Style: Post-black, progressive black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Ursus

Release: Garra de ACero

Style: Thrash

+2

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Band: Trance

Release: Metal Forces

Style: Traditional

+3

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July 24-30

Aug 7-13

July 24-30 Weekly Metal Recommendations

August 04, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

(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

July 25, 2021

Band: Nightpröwler

Release: Rock N’ Roll Uproaring Blasphemy

Style: Traditional Black, Speed

+2

bandcamp

July 26, 2021

Band: Hexorcist

Release: Evil Reaping Death

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Grieving

Release: Songs for the Weary

Style: Doom, Stoner

+2

bandcamp

July 27, 2021

Band: Digimortal

Release: Гравитация

Style: Industrial

+2

facebook

July 30, 2021

Band: Comorbidity

Release: Dead, Infected Everywhere

Style: Death

+1

bandcamp

Band: Scarlet Valse

Release: Apocalypsis

Style: J-Power

+2

website

Band: Loudstorm

Release: Metal Battleroyal

Style: Heavy, Traditional, J-Power

+2

facebook

July 30, 2021

Band: Ingested

Release: The Surreption II

Style: Brutal Death

+2

website

Band: Netherbird

Release: Arete

Style: Melodic Black

+2

website

Band: Loch Vostok

Release: Opus Ferox - The Great Escape

Style: Progressive

+3

website

Band: BlackSword

Release: Alive Again

Style: Heavy, Power

+3

bandcamp

Band: Dee Snider

Release: Leave a Scar

Style: Heavy

+2

website

Band: Tombstoner

Release: Victims of Vile Torture

Style: Death

+2

(I wanted to give it +3, but I wasn’t fan of all the vocals)

bandcamp

Band: Murge

Release: Murge

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Fate’s Hand

Release: Fate’s Hand (EP)

Style: Heavy

+3

(coincidentally, my first band was also named Fate’s Hand… we were not this good.)

label bandcamp

Band: PPTA

Release: Bleeding For a Living

Style: Thrash

+2

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Band: Existence: Void

Release: Anatman

Style: Black

+2

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Band: Wolfstavar

Release: Im Schatten der Götter

Style: Folk

+2

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Band: Shrieking Demons

Release: Diabolical Regurgitations (EP)

Style: Death

+2

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July 17-23

July 31 - Aug 6

July 17-23 Weekly Metal Recommendations

July 27, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

(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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