Dec 4-10 Weekly Metal Recommendations

December 16, 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 4, 2021

Band: Severe Punishment

Release: And Death Spoke to Them (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Dec 10, 2021

Band: Ethereal Shroud

Release: Trisagion

Style: Atmospheric Black

+2

Band: Otargos

Release: Fleshborer Soulflayer

Style: Black

+2

Band: Malignatn Altar

Release: Realms of Exquisite Morbidity

Style: Death

+2

Band: Pyrexia

Release: Gravitas Maximus

Style: Brutal Death/Groove

+3

Band: Psilocybe Larvae

Release: Where Silence Dwells

Style: Melodic Death, Gothic, Post Metal

+2

Band: Fading Aeon

Release: The Voices Within

Style: Epic Melodic Death

+2

Band: The Murder of My Sweet

Release: A Gentleman's Legacy

Style: Progressive, Alternative

+2

Band: Phrenelith

Release: Chimaera

Style: Raw Death

+2

Band: Restless Spirit

Release: Blood of the Old Gods

Style: Doom, Traditional, Heavy Rock “Stoner”

+2

Band: Conjuring

Release: Universus

Style: Black, drone

+2

Band: Gore Brigade

Release: Gore Brigade (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Eminez

Release: Diabolical Warfare

Style: Atmospheric Black, Black/Death

+2

Band: Insanis

Release: Kvlt Ov Fire (EP)

Style: Traditional Black, Black/Speed

+2

Band: Thirty Fates

Release: Circus Black

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

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)

Band: Sgàile

Release: Ideals & Morality

Style: Progressive, Post-metal

+2

Band: Destillat

Release: Under Black Horizons

Style: Melodic Black/Death

+2

Band: Asgard

Release: Leuchtenstadt

Style: Black

+2

Oct 23-29 Weekly Metal Recommendations

November 04, 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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Oct 24, 2021

Band: Iron Attack!

Release: Maze of Graduation

Style: J-Power

+2

Oct 26, 2021

Band: StormDeath

Release: Call of the Panzer Goat

Style: Thrash

+2

Oct 29, 2021

Band: Running Wild

Release: Blood on Blood

Style: Traditional, Speed

+2

Band: First Fragment

Release: Gloire Eternelle

Style: Neo-classical Tech Death

+2

Band: Archspire

Release: Bleed the Future

Style: Tech Death

+3

Band: Lucifer

Release: Lucifer IV

Style: Traditional, Doom

+2

Band: Be’Lakor

Release: Coherence

Style: Melodic Death

+3

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)

Band: Count Raven

Release: The Sixth Storm

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Ophis

Release: Spew Fourth Odium

Style: Death/doom

+3

Band: Doedsvangr

Release: Satan Ov Suns

Style: Black

+2

Band: Whitechaple

Release: Kin

Style: Deathcore

+2

Band: Mastodon

Release: Hushed Grim

Style: Progressive rock/metal

+2

Band: Begat The Nephilim

Release: II: The Grand Procession

Style: technical Melodic death

+3

Band: Thulcandra

Release: A Dying Wish

Style: Melodic Black

+3

Band: Death SS

Release: X

Style: Heavy, goth rock

+2

Band: Monolord

Release: Your Time To Shine

Style: Doom, Stoner

+2

Band: Voidhra

Release: Sorrow Guides Us All

Style: Black

+2

Band: Burial

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

Style: Black/Death, Death/Doom

+3

Band: Elimination

Release: Echoes of the Abyss

Style: Heavy, Thrash

+3

Band: Existance

Release: Wolf Attack

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Grand Cadaver

Release: Into The Maw of Death

Style: Death

+3

Band: Split Heaven

Release: Electric Spell

Style: Traditional, speed, Heavy

+3

Band: Sunless

Release: Ylem

Style: Progressive Death

+2

Band: Sylvan Awe

Release: Transcend

Style: Black

+2

April 17-23 Weekly Metal Recommendations

April 27, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in 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

April 17, 2021

Band: Fleshtorture

Release: Grotesca Doctrina De La Perversidad

Style: Death

+2

Band: Shrine ov Absurd

Release: Monotony

Style: Black

+2

Band: Angrrsth

Release: Donikąd

Style: Black

+2

April 19, 2021

Band: Black Locvst

Release: Forest

Style: Progressive Black/Death

+3

Band: Plague of The Fallen

Release: Bleeding and Vehement (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Malformity

Release: Monumental Ruin

Style: Death

+2

Band: Obsolete

Release: Animate//Isolate

Style: Technical Death/Thrash

+3

Band: Krabathor

Release: Demonizer / Mortal Memories II

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

April 20, 2021

Band: Serpent Sermon

Release: The Saurian Hymns

Style: Symphonic Black

+3

Band: Sylvatica

Release Ashes and Snow

Style: Symphonic melodic death/folk

+3

April 21, 2021

Band: Archemoron

Release: Flagellum I

Style: Black

+3

Band: Feanor

Release: Power of the Chosen One

Style: Epic

+2

April 22, 2021

Band: Disciples of Death

Release: Progressive Entrapment

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Demonized Priest

Release: Necromantic Rituals

Style: Traditional Black

+2

April 23, 2021

Band: Vexillum

Release: When Good Men Go to War

Style: Epic Power/Folk

+3

Band: Cold Cell

Release: The Greater Evil

Style: Black

+3

Band: Helslave

Release: From The Sulphur Depths

Style: Death

+2

Band: Frozen Crown

Release: Winterbane

Style: Power

+3

Band: Dead World Reclamation

Release: Aura of Iniquity

Style: Technical Melodic Death, symphonic death

+3

Band: Crypts of Despair

Release: All Light Swallowed

Style: Death, Black/Death

+2

Band: Old Forest

Release: Mournfall

Style: Gothic Black/Doom

+2

Band: Minas Morgul

Release: Heimkehr

Style: synthonic black

+2

Band: My Refuge

Release: The Anger is Never Over

Style: Progressive Power

+2

Band: Nightfyre

Release: Shattered Lands (EP)

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Odal

Release: Welten Mutter

Style: Black, Pagan

+2

Band: Bodom After Midnight

Release: Paint the Sky with Blood (EP)

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death

+2

Band: Blackbriar

Release: The Cause of Shipwreck

Style: Symphonic/Alternative

+2

March 27 - April 2 Weekly Metal Recommendations

April 07, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in 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

Some stuff I missed from March 26

Thanks to what I’m assuming was a bad April Fools joke from Metalstorm.net I was unable to check them for something maybe not listed on Metalarchives

Band: Evanescence

Release: Part of Me

Style: Alternative Metal/Rock

+2

Band: Band of Spice

Release: By The Corner Of Tomorrow

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Smith/Kotzen

Release: Smith/Kotzen

Style: Heavy/Hard Rock

+1

March 27, 2021

Band: Haissem

Release: Philosofiend

Style: Melodic Black

+2

March 31, 2021

Band: Grabak

Release: Scion

Style: Black

+2

Band: Obvurt

Release: The Beginning (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Obscure Fate

Release: Raven’s Call (EP)

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Dying Eden

Release: Perish to Exist

Style: Groove, Death/Groove

+2

Band: Scaffold

Release: Codex Gigas

Style: Death

+2

April 1, 2021

Band: Crummer

Release: Deathwards

Style: Death

+2

Band: Wode

Release: Burn In Many Mirrors

Style: Black, Black/Death, Melodic Black

+3

Band: Stormtide

Release: A Throne of Hollow Fire

Style: Symphonic Melodic Death/Folk

+3

April 2, 2021

Band: Sielunvihollinen

Release: Teloituskäsky

Style: Black

+2

Band: Spellforger

Release: Upholders of Evil (EP)

Style: Thrash, Black/Death/Thrash

+3

Band: Evil Drive

Release: Demons Within

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Fossilization

Release: He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten (EP)

Style: Death, Death/Doom

+2

Band: Malacoda

Release: Crawling Chaos (EP)

Style: Heavy, Gothic/Power

+2

Band: Nervous Decay

Release: Nervous Decay

Style: Death

+2

Band: Steel Bearing Hand

Release: Slay In Hell

Style: Death/Thrash, Black/Thrash

+2

Band: Moral Collapse

Release: Moral Collapse

Style: Death

+2

Band: Plaguepreacher

Release: Terracide (EP)

Style: Black

+2

Band: Codex Mortis

Release: What Befalls of Tainted Souls

Style: Black

+3