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

Nov 27 - Dec 3 Weekly Metal Recommendations

December 08, 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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Nov 27, 2021

Band: Ukronakh

Release: Stonewounds

Style: Black/Death

+2

Nov 30, 2021

Band: Svardenvyrd

Release: Scarred Lands

Style: Black, melodic

+2

Band: Oathean

Release: The Endless Pain and Darkness

Style: Symphonic Black

+2

Dec 1, 2021

Band: Blackhearth

Release: The Wrath of God

Style: Heavy

+2

Dec 3, 2021

Band: Gomorran

Release: Exerts from the Dark Age (EP)

Style: Melodic Black/Death

+2

Band: Unanimated

Release: Victory in Blood

Style: Black, Melodic Black/Death

+2

Band: Wolftooth

Release: Blood & Iron

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Volbeat

Release: Servant of the Mind

Style: Heavy

+1

Band: Ofermod

Release: Mysterium Iniquitatis

Style: Black

+2

Band: Cutterred Flesh

Release: Sharing is Caring

Style: Brutal Death

+3

Band: Manimal

Release: Armageddon

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Coronatus

Release: Atmosphere

Style: Symphonic, Folk

+2

Band: Redemptor

Release: Agonia

Style: Death

+2

Band: Dormant Ordeal

Release: The Grand Scheme of Things

Style: Black/Death, technical death

+3

Band: Custard

Release: Imperium Rapax

Style: Power

+3

Band: Once Upon The End

Release: The Next Chapter

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Nekromant

Release: Temple of Hall

Style: Traditional, Power, Doom

+2

Band: Erdling

Release: Helheim

Style: Synthonic

+2

(probably +3 if you speak German)

Sep 25 - Oct 1 Weekly Metal Recommendations

October 07, 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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Sep 26, 2021

Band: Enthrallment

Release: Against The Will To Live - Sky Burial

Style: Brutal/Technical Death

+2

Band: Concrete

Release: Ethereal Atrocities

Style: Death

+3

Sep 27, 2021

Band: Erz

Release: Erz

Style: Black

+2

Band: Suffering Sights

Release: When Sanity Becomes Insanity

Style: Death

+2

Sep 28, 2021

Band: Mary’s Blood

Release: Mary’s Blood

Style: J-Metal

+2

Band: The Oriental Sun

Release: The Majestic Phoenix Arises from Centuries of Hibernation

Style: Death

+2

Sep 29, 2021

Band: Mental Torment

Release: Ego:Genesis

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+3

Sep 30, 2021

Band: Aussichtslos

Release: Einsicht

Style: Melodic Black

+2

Oct 1, 2021

Band: Torture of Hypocrisy

Release: Humanufacture

Style: Industrial/Technical Death

+2

Band: Demolizer

Release: Upgrade (EP)

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Enslaved

Release: Caravans to the Outer Worlds (EP)

Style: Progressive Black

+2

Band: Necroticgorebeast

Release: Human Deviance Galore

Style: Brutal Death, Slam

+2

Band: Venefixion

Release: A Sigh From Below

Style: Death

+3

Band: Fear Connection

Release: Progeny of Social Disease

Style: Death

+2

Band: Sadistic Force

Release: Aces Wild

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

Band: Unforged

Release: Eye For an Eye

Style: Groove, Groove/Thrash

+2

Band: Crimson Tower

Release: Aeternal Abyss

Style: Doom

+2

Band: 1000 bone Cylinder Explosion

Release: Bind

Style: Extreme Progressive

Band: KK’s Priest

Release: Sermons of the Sinner

Style: Traditional Metal

+4

Band: Mournful Winter

Release: Mother’s Demise

Style: Melodic Black, Experimental black

+3

Band: Black Rose

Release: Game of Souls

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Kryptos

Release: Force of Danger

Style: Heavy, Speed

+3

Band: Skverna Liniya

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

Style: Black

+2

Sep 11-17 Weekly Metal Recommendations

September 22, 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

+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

Sep 15, 2021

Band: Trigger

Release: Back to the Roots

Style: Death

+3

Band: Metalsteel

Release: Forsaken by the Gods

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Dickless Tracy

Release: Grave New World

Style: Death

+2

Band: Ancient Empire

Release: Priest of Stygia

Style: Heavy

+4

Band: Blazon Stone

Release: Damnation

Style: Traditional

+3

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

Sep 17, 2021

Band: Rage

Release: Resurrection Day

Style: Heavy, Groove

+2

(Not what I was hoping for)

Band: Shadecrown

Release: Solitarian

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+3

Band: Bloodride

Release: Idiocracy

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Carcass

Release: Torn Arteries

Style: Melodic Death

+4

Band: Saturnian Mist

Release: Shamatanic

Style: Black

+3

Band: Eternal Flight

Release: SurVive

Style: Power

+2

Band: Vulvodynia

Release: Praenuntius Infiniti

Style: Deathcore, Brutal Death

+3

Band: Brainstorm

Release: Wall of Skulls

Style: Power

+3

Band: Ghostheart Nebula

Release: Ascension

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+2

Band: Exxperior

Release: Escalating Conflicts

Style: Progressive Thrash

+2

Band: Nýr Gata

Release: Luna Aeterna

Style: Melodic Black, epic, symphonic

+2

Band: Criminal

Release: Sacrificio

Style: Thrash, Groove/Thrash

+2

Band: Anomaly

Release: Planet Storm

Style: Technical Death

+3

Band: Insomnium

Release: Argent Moon (EP)

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Joe Stump

Release: Diabolical Ferocity

Style: Shred, neo-classical

+2

Band: Whyzdom

Release: Of Wonders and Wars

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: Fierce Atmospheres

Release: The Speed of Dreams

Style: Heavy, Progressive

+2

Band: Elias Vilijanen

Release: The Evillusionist

Style: Instrumental

+2

Band: Without God

Release: Siberian Tunes: Purple Clouds

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Words of Farewell

Release: Inner Universe II

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death

+2

Band: The Ascended

Release: The Dark

Style: Metalcore

+2

Band: Apostolica

Release: Haeretica Ecclesia

Style: Epic Synthonic/Symphonic Power

+3

Band: Alien Weaponry

Release: Tangaroa

Style: Groove

+2

Sep 4-10 Weekly Metal Recommendations

September 15, 2021 by Joe Cearlock

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

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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)

Sep 8, 2021

Band: Vell’z Fire

Release: The Last Stand

Style: Heavy

+2

Sep 9, 2021

Band: Darchitect

Release: The Visiting

Style: Progressive Death/Thrash

+3

Sep 10, 2021

Band: Journey Into Darkness

Release: Infinite Universe Infinite Death

Style: Symphonic/Synthonic Black/Death

+2

Band: Daily Insanity

Release: Chronicles of War

Style: German Thrash

+2

Band: Runespell

Release: Verses in Regicide

Style: Black

+2

Band: Mägo de Oz

Release: Bandera negra

Style: Power/Folk

+3

(to bad I don’t speak Spanish)

Band: Inferi

Release: Vile Genesis

Style: Technical Melodic Death

+2

Band: Subfire

Release: Define the Sinner

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Lvcifyre

Release: The Broken Seal

Style: Death

+2

Band: Hladomrak

Release: Archaic Sacrifice

Style: Black

+2

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

Band: Black Mass

Release: Feast at the Forbidden Tree

Style: Blackened Speed, Thrash

+3

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)

Band: Aborted

Release: Maniacult

Style: Death, Brutal Death, Grindcore

+2

Band: Sober Truth

Release: Laissez Faire, Lucifer!

Style: Groove

+2

Band: Hunted

Release: Deliver Us

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Existem

Release: Searching For Clarity (EP)

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Devcord

Release: Godisnowhere

Style: Progressive Death

+2

Band: Between Worlds

Release: Between Worlds

Style: Heavy, Progressive Power

+3

Band: Stíny plamenů

Release: Jediný poskvrněný přítok

Style: Black

+2

Band: Letzte Instanz

Release: Ehrenwort

Style: Symphonic, Gothic

+2

Band: Anette Olzon

Release: Strong

Style: Symphonic, Power

+2

July 24-30 Weekly Metal Recommendations

August 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

+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

July 26, 2021

Band: Hexorcist

Release: Evil Reaping Death

Style: Death

+2

Band: Grieving

Release: Songs for the Weary

Style: Doom, Stoner

+2

July 27, 2021

Band: Digimortal

Release: Гравитация

Style: Industrial

+2

July 30, 2021

Band: Comorbidity

Release: Dead, Infected Everywhere

Style: Death

+1

Band: Scarlet Valse

Release: Apocalypsis

Style: J-Power

+2

Band: Loudstorm

Release: Metal Battleroyal

Style: Heavy, Traditional, J-Power

+2

July 30, 2021

Band: Ingested

Release: The Surreption II

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Band: Netherbird

Release: Arete

Style: Melodic Black

+2

Band: Loch Vostok

Release: Opus Ferox - The Great Escape

Style: Progressive

+3

Band: BlackSword

Release: Alive Again

Style: Heavy, Power

+3

Band: Dee Snider

Release: Leave a Scar

Style: Heavy

+2

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)

Band: Murge

Release: Murge

Style: Death

+2

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.)

Band: PPTA

Release: Bleeding For a Living

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Existence: Void

Release: Anatman

Style: Black

+2

Band: Wolfstavar

Release: Im Schatten der Götter

Style: Folk

+2

Band: Shrieking Demons

Release: Diabolical Regurgitations (EP)

Style: Death

+2

July 31 - Aug 6

June 19-25 Weekly Metal Recommendations

July 01, 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

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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June 19, 2021

Band: Vingador

Release: Renegado

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Dusckmourn

Release: Fallen Kings and Rusted Crowns

Style: Melodic Death, Melodic Black, symphonic, epic

+3

June 20, 2021

Band: Vulture Lord

Release: Desecration Rite

Style: Black

+3

Band: Astyanax

Release: Pathologically Explicit

Style: Brutal Death

+3

June 21, 2021

Band: Voland

Release: Voland III: Царепоклонство - Il culto degli Zar (EP)

Style: Symphonic Black/Folk

+2

Band: Paraphilia

Release: Primordium of Sinister Butchery (EP)

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Band: Burden of Ymir

Release: From Élivágar

Style: Black/Folk

+2

June 23, 2021

Band: Illusion Force

Release: Illusion Paradise

Style: Synthonic/Symphonic Power, J-Power

+3

June 24, 2021

Band: Gergogot

Release: Heading to Eternal

Style: Brutal Death

+2

June 25, 2021

Band: Solus Ex Inferis

Release: Daemones Ceramici

Style: Death

+2

Band: Cathexis

Release: Untethered Abyss

Style: Technical Death

+2

Band: Beleth

Release: Silent Genesis

Style: Death

+2

Band: The Absence

Release: Coffinized

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Pestilence

Release: Exitivm

Style: Death, Symphonic

+4

Band: Requiem

Release: Collapse into Chaos

Style: Death

+3

Band: Urne

Release: Serpent & Spirit

Style: Metalcore, sludge, heavy

+2

Band: Inhumanity Vortex

Release: Reverse Engineering (EP)

Style: Technical Death

+2

Band: Nephren-Ka

Release: From Agony to Transcendence

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Band: Darkthrone

Release: Eternal Hails......

Style: Traditional Black, Black/Doom

+2

Band: 10,000 Years

Release: II

Style: Doom, Sludge

+3

Band: Polemicist

Release: Return of the Sophist

Style: Black

+2

Band: Prayers of Sanity

Release: Doctrine of Misanthropy

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: SkyEye

Release: Soldiers of Light

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Celtian

Release: Sendas de leyenda

Style: Symphonic Folk

+2

Band: Nifrost

Release: Orkja

Style: Black

+3

Band: Suidakra

Release: Resurgence

Style: Symphonic Melodic Death/Folk

+4

Band: Artach

Release: Sworn to Avenge

Style: Traditional Black

+2

Band: Dark Vision

Release: Ianose

Style: Black

+2

Band: Xenos

Release: The Dawn of Ares

Style: Technical Thrash

+2

Band: Stench Collector

Release: Effluviatorium Du Jour (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Hiraes

Release: Solitary

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Shadow Kingdom

Release: Eyes of Pain

Style: Heavy, Thrash

+2

Band: Saratan

Release: Nabatea

Style: Middle-eastern Folk Metal

+2

June 26 - July 2

June 12-18 Weekly Metal Recommendations

June 24, 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

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

Support The Metal!

June 14, 2021

Band: Reaktion

Release: To Expect Nothing

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Heir Corpse One

Rlease: Fly the Fiendish Skies

Style: Death

+2

Band: Tortharry

Release: Altars of Ignorance

Style: Death

+2

June 15, 2021

Band: DxVxDxDx SxLF

Release: Before The Dawn

Style: Gothic/Black

+2

Band: Abysmal Piss

Release: One With The Rotting

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Band: Nasty Surgeons

Style: A Night in the Morgue

Release: Death

+2

June 16, 2021

Band: Galneryus

Release: Union Gives Strength (EP)

Style: J-Power

+2

Band: Macabre Decay

Release: Into Oblivion

Style: Death

+2

June 18, 2021

Band: Timo Tolkki’s Avalon

Release: The Enigma Birth

Style: Synthonic/Symphonic

+2

Band: Video Nasty

Release: Video Nasty (EP)

Style: Thrash, Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Alustrium

Release: A Monument to Silence

Style: Progressive/technical Death, Blackened Metal-core

+2

Band: Helloween

Release: Helloween

Style: Power

+5,000

Band: Eye of Purgatory

Release: The Lighthouse

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Entierro

Release: El Camazotz (EP)

Style: Heavy

+3

(I normally wont give a +3 for an EP, but they choice in Judas Priest cover earned a bonus point. Normally “Exciter” is seen as the first traditional speed metal song, but “Call of the Priest” came first.)

Band: Crowne

Release: Kings of the North

Style: Power, Heavy

+2

Band: Reinforcer

Release: Prince of the Tribes

Style: Heavy, Power

+3

Band: Fear Factory

Release: Aggression Continuum

Style: Industrial, Groove

+2

(I’m sure it’s good, but I don’t like industrial)

Band: Season of Dreams

Release: Heroes

Style: Symphonic/Synthonic power

+2

Band: Pharaoh

Release: The Powers That Be

Style: Progressive Power

+3

Band: Bloodbeat

Release: Process of Extinction

Style: Death

+3

Band: Blazon Rite

Release: Endless Halls of Golden Totem

Style: Heavy, Traditional

+2

Band: Moanhand

Release Present Serpent

Style: Blackened Sludge, Doom

+2

Band: Lucifer’s Hammer

Release: The Trip

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Ravager

Release: The Third Attack

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: They Kingdom Will Burn

Release: Thy Kingdom Will Burn

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Angelwings

Release: Primordium

Style: Symphonic, Gothic

+2

Band: Chalice of Sin

Release: Chalice of Sin

Style: Symphonic, Heavy

+3

Band: Chronic Hate

Release: Reflection on Ruin (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Seventh Dimension

Release: Black Sky

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: The Day of the Beast

Release: Indisputably Carnivorous

Style: Death/Thrash, Black/Thrash

+3

May 29 - June 4 Weekly Metal Recommendations

June 10, 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

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

May 29, 2021

Band: Goat Rider

Release: Tsundere

Style: Traditional Black

+2

May 30, 2021

Band: Gasoline Guns

Release: Motor Cult

Style: Traditional, Speed, Heavy

+3

Band: Bunker 66

Release: Beyond the Help of Prayers

Style: Black/Thrash

+3

Band: Orbital Element

Release: Celestials Damage

Style: Progressive Death

+2

May 31, 2021

Band: Dusk Lurker

Release: Whispers From The Blood Moon (EP)

Style: Black

+2

Band: Sarmat

Release: RS-28

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: Goats of Doom

Release: Shiva

Style: Black

+2

June 1, 2021

Band: Yalbadaoth

Release: Expunging The Earth (EP)

Style: Black/Death

+2

(probably +3 if it was full release)

Band: Typhonian

Release: The Cosmic Pendulum of Time (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Hannes Grossmann

Release: To Where The Light Retreats

Style: Technical Melodic Death, Progressive Death

+3

June 2, 2021

Band: Crypt Crawler

Release: Future Usurper

Style: Death

+3

Band: Starlight Ritual

Release: Sealed in Starlight

Style: Traditional, Hard Rock

+2

June 3, 2021

Band: Secret Rule

Release: Mea Culpa

Style: Synthonic

+2

Band: Mepharis

Release: Eternal Night

Style: Melodic Death

+2

June 4, 2021

Band: Red Fang

Release: Arrows

Style: Stoner

+2

(honestly I kinda forgot to pay attention to the music… the video was cool though.)

Band: Flotsam and Jetsam

Release: Blood in the Water

Style: Heavy, Thrash, Power

+4

Band: Ossaert

Release: Pelgrimsoord

Style: Black, Melodic Black

+2

Band: Van Canto

Release: To the Power of Eight

Style: A Capella, Power

(in a post apocalyptic future where electricity no longer exists, Van Canto became the most prolific metal band)

+2

(+3 if you you can listen with out snickering)

Band: Infest

Release: Psychosis

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: With All My Hate

Release: Impaired Existence

Style: Death, Brutal Death

+2

Band: Octohawk

Release: Animist

Style: Progressive Sludge

+2

Band: Overwrought

Release: …And the Abyss Stares Back

Style: Black, melodic

+2

Band: Boss Keloid

Release: Family the Smiling Thrush

Style: Progressive Sludge, Grunge

(Am I the only one who thinks they sound like progressive heavy metal Pearl Jam?)

+3

Band: Ancient Wisdom

Release: A Celebration in Honor of Death

Style: atmospheric Black, epic, synthonic

+3

Band: Plaguestorm

Release: Purifying Fire

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Myronath

Release: Djevelkraft

Style: Black

+2

Band: Desaster

Release: Churches Without Saints

Style: Black

+2

Band: Gaia Epicus

Release: Seventh Rising

Style: Power

+2

Band: Inhuman Condition

Release: Rat°God

Style: Death

+3

Band: Ashen Earth

Release: Oceans Above

Style: Death

+2

Band: Soul Grinder

Release: Lifeless Obsession (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Also Atreyu have a new album out, but they play crap.

May 22-28 Weekly Metal Recommendations

June 03, 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

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

May 22, 2021

Band: Requiem of Malediction

Release: The First Adversarial Manifesto (EP)

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: Gospel

Release: The Spell

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

May 23, 2021

Band: Catharsis Fatalis

Release: Disappointment & Disgust (EP)

Style: Black

+2

(a full length would have gotten it +3)

Facelift Deformation

Release: Path to Retribution (EP)

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Band: Hemorragia Cefálica

Release: Kingdom of Tyranny

Style: Brutal Death

+2

May 24, 2021

Band: Deathgoat

Release: Regurgitated into Existence

Style: Death

+2

Band: Black Flare

Release: Black Flare

Style: Heavy

+2

May 25, 2021

Band: Seven Doors

Release: The Gates of Hell (EP)

Style: Death

+2

(I’m ready for a full length, this is good)

Band: Graveborn

Release: Transmigrator

Style: Melodic Deathcore

+3

Band: Pačess

Release: Poupě

Style: melodic Black

+2

(really good, but I don’t speak the language, +3 if you do)

May 26, 2021

Band: Birdflesh

Release: All The Miseries (EP)

Style: grindcore

+2

Band: Rachel Mother Goose

Release: Synra Bansho

Style: power

+2

(assuming that this is not the final quality this may be a +3 but current quality sucks, and I’m guessing that is only for the teaser)

Band: Savanah

Release: Olympus Mons

Style: Doom, Stoner

+2

Band: Silver Talon

Release: Decadence and Decay

Style: Power, Progressive Power

+3

Band: Unfathomable Ruination

Release: Decennium Ruinae (EP)

Style: Technical Brutal Death

+2

Band: Cross Vault

Release: As Strangers We Depart

Style: Doom

+3

Band: Heavy Sentence

Release: Bang to Rights

Style: Traditional

+3

Band: King of Asgard

Release: Svartrviðr

Style: Epic Melodic Death, Epic Black

+3

Band: Noctule

Release: Wretched Abyss

Style: Melodic Black

+3

Band: Parish

Release: God’s Right Hand (EP)

Style: Doom

+3

Band: Mental Cruelty

Release: A Hill to Die Upon

Style: Symphonic Blackened Brutal Deathcore

+3

(I’m not the biggest deathcore or brutal death fan, but these guys are good and doing something unique. Personally they aren’t going on my buy list, but they are deserving for anyone who likes these styles more than I do.)

Band: Sadistik Forest

Release: Obscure Old Remains (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Burning Witches

Release: The Witch of the North

Style: Heavy, Power

+3

(I wasn’t super impressed with the last release, but this one seems like the band is writing better)

Band: Bloodbound

Release: Creatures of the Dark Realm

Style: Synthonic, Power

+3

Band: Stormruler

Release: Under the Burning Eclipse

Style: Black

+3

Band: Khandra

Release: All Occupied by Sole Death

Style: Black

+3

Band: Ghastly

Release: Mercurial Passages

Style: Death, Black/Death

+2

Band: The Vicious Head of Society

Release: Extinction Level Event

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Thronum Vrondor

Release: Dies Tenebrosa Sicut Nox

Style: Black

+3

Band: Wardrum

Release: Mavericks

Style: Power, Heavy

+3

(The only reason I haven’t already ordered this is because the shipping is ridiculous to get it to the US.)

Band: Ill Tidings

Release: Signal Tenebris

Style: black, melodic black

+3

Band: Riexhumation

Release: The Final Revelation of Abaddon

Style: Death

+2

Band: Holosade

Release: Anastasis

Style: Heavy, Thrash

+2

(music is great…. vocals not so much)

Band: Praecantator

Release: Obelisk (EP)

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: Angstskríg

Release: Skyggespil

Style: Black

+2

Band: Hellryder

Release: The Devil Is a Gambler

Style: Heavy, Groove

+3

Band: Reject the Sickness

Release: While Our World Dissolves

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Tanzwut

Release: Die Tanzwut kehrt zurück

Style: Industrial/Folk

+2

Band: Dödsrit

Release: Mortal Coil (EP)

Style: Black, Crust punk

+2

May 15-21 Weekly Metal Recommendations

May 26, 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

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

May 15, 2021

Band: GjeldRune

Release: Слово посеет смуту

Style: Folk

+2

Band: Karcinoma

Release: Invictus

Style: Symphonic

+3

Band: Infitar

Release: Inhuman

Style: Death

+3

Band: Killchain

Release: Rottenness

Style: Death

+2

Band: Tvær

Release: Uvaer

Style: Black, atmospheric

+2

(Sorry, but if you want +3 You actually have to give your songs titles, I’m guessing there aren’t any actual lyrics either, who the hell can tell.)

May 18, 2021

Band: Swamp Terror

Release: Gathered For Carnage (EP)

Style: death

+2

Band: Faeces

Release: Nihilominus

Style: Progressive Death, death/grind, brutal death

+3

May 20, 2021

Band: Guzarat

Release: Algoritma

Style: Death

+2

Band: Chiliasm

Release: Flesh Over Finite (EP)

Style: Technical Death

+2

Band: Great Master

Release: Thy Harbour Inn

Style: Epic Power

+2

Band: Eisenhand

Release: Fires Within

Style: Speed, Traditional

+2

May 21, 2021

Band: Liquid Steel

Release: Mountain of Madness

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Vomitron

Release: RighteousNES

Style: Instrumental

+2

Band: Slithering Decay

Release: Aeons Untold

Style: Death

+2

Band: Havamal

Release: The Shadow Chapter

Style: Synthonic/Symphonic Melodic Death

+3

Band: Conquerors

Release: Stormbringer

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

Band: Hanging Garden

Release: Skeleton Lake

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+2

Band: Hagel

Release: Veneration of the Black Light

Style: Atmospheric Melodic Black/Doom

+2

Band: Majestic Downfall

Release: Aorta

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+3

Band: Herman Frank

Release: Two for a Lie

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Illusory

Release: Crimson Wreath

Style: Traditional, Heavy

+2

Band: Virtue of Decay

Release: Only Now You Fear the Cold (EP)

Style: Black, melodic

+2

Band: Gn0sis

Release: Pro Terra

Style: Instrumental Technical Death, Progressive

+2

Band: Sabhankra

Release: Death To Traitors

Style: Black

Band: Vulture

Release: Dealin’ Death

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Nahaya

Release: Vital Alchemy

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Artaban’s Redemption

Release: Broken Puppets (EP)

Style: Power

+2

Band: Overlloud

Release: Splendor Solis

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Krilloan

Release: Stories of Times Forgotten

Style: Power

+2

Band: Nergard

Release: Eternal White

Style: Symphonic, Power

+3

Feb 20-26 Weekly Metal Recommendations

March 03, 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

Feb 20, 2021

Band: Kanonenfieber

Release: Menschenmühle

Style: Melodic Black/Death

+2

Feb 21, 2021

Band: Rocket Rider

Release: Rocket Rider

Style: instrumental, progressive, Synthonic

+2

Band: Wynter Myst

Release: Frore

Style: Black

+2

Feb 22, 2021

Band: Frustration

Release: Dead City

Style: Southern

+3

Feb 23, 2021

Band: Yaşru

Release: Kar Prensesi

Style: Symphonic Folk/Doom

+2

Band: Varang Nord

Release: Pārķiuņa Uomurs

Style: Folk

+3

Band: Icewind

Release: Midnight Bloody Dances

Style: Black

+2

Feb 25, 2021

Band: Innersphere

Release: Omfalos

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Flaming Wrekage

Release: Cathedral of Bones

Style: Melodic Groove/Thrash

+1

Feb 26, 2021

Band: Evergrey

Release: Escape of the Phoenix

Style: lame

+1

Band: Sinira

Release: The Everlorn

Style: melodic black

+2

Band: Significant Point

Release: Into the Storm

Style: Speed

+3

Band: Moonspell

Release: Hermitage

Style: Gothic metal/rock

+1

Band: Melvins

Release: Working With God

Style: Sludge, Alternative Rock.

+1

Band: Epica

Release: Omega

Style: Symphonic

+4

Band: Los Males Del Mundo

Release: Descent Towards Death

Style: Black

+2

Band: Einherjer

Release: North Star

Style: Black, Traditional Black, Viking themed

+3

Band: Ominous Ruin

Release: Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone

Style: Progressive/technical Death, Brutal Death

+3

Band: Paranorm

Release: Empyrean

Style: Progressive Death/Thrash

+3

Band: Iotunn

Release: Access All Worlds

Style: Progressive, Melodic Death

+3

Band: Summoning The Lich

Release: United in Chaos

Style: Deathcore

+2

(+3 if you like Deathcore more than me)

Band: Redd Barron

Release: Sands of Time

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Hidden Intent

Release: Dead End Destiny

Style: Thrash, Groove/Thrash

+3

Band: Beyond The Catacombs

Release: Interstellar Burial

Style: Progressive Brutal Death

+2

Band: Tyrantti

Release: Orjaplaneetta

Style: Traditional

+2

(probably +3 if you speak Finnish)

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)

Band: InHuman

Release: InHuman

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: Madred

Release: Overtime

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Sister

Release: Vengeance Ignited

Style: “glam metal”

+2

Band: Alice Cooper

Release: Detroit Stories

Style: Hard Rock, Rock

+1

Feb 27 - March 5

Feb 13-19 Weekly Metal Recommendations

February 24, 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

Feb 13, 2021

Band: Hortzak

Release: Heriotza Ala Hil

Style: Sludge

+2

(+3 if I spoke Spanish)

Band: Slaves to Fashion

Release: History of Heavy Metal

Style: All of them

+2

Feb 14, 2021

Band: SteelForce

Release: The Oracle (EP)

Style: Power, Heavy

+2

Band: Jens Lötzsch

Release: Destructive Mind

Style: Instrumental

+2

Feb 15, 2021

Band: Christoffear

Release: We All Have Our Daemons

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Swamp Thief

Release: I (EP)

Style: Sludge, Southern

+2

(Would be a +3 if full length)

Band: Anal Stabwound

Release: The Visceral Sovereign

Style: Brutal Deth

+2

Band: Visceral Uprooting

Release: 50.39-Square-Kilometer Mass Grave

Style: Brutal Death, Slam

+2

Band: Breakhead

Release: Allegiance to Materiality

Style: Death

+2

Feb 17, 2021

Band: Hizaki

Release: Rusalka (EP)

Style: Instrumental, neo-classical, symphonic

+2

Feb 18, 2021

Band: Steel Sword

Release: The Steel Sword

Style: Heavy

+2

Feb 19, 2021

Band: A Night In The Abyss

Release: Begotten (EP)

Style: Symphonic Black/Deathcore

+2

(+3 if it was full length)

Band: Spire

Release: Temple of Khronos

Style: Progressive Black

+2

Band: The Scalar Process

Release: Coagulative Matter

Style: Progressive/Technical Death

+2

Band: Dragon

Release: Arcydzieło zagłady

Style: Thrash, Technical, Death

+3

(anyone speak Polish?)

Band: Carcolh

Release: The Life and Works of Death

Style: Doom

+2

Band: The Fals

Release: Feuerportal (EP)

Style: Black, Blackened

+2

(maybe +3 if full length)

Band: Ephemerald

Release: Between the Glimpses of Hope

Style: Symphonic/Synthonic Melodic Death, Folk

+2

Band: Coronary

Release: Sinbad

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Saprobiontic

Release: Apocalyptic Retribution

Style: Death

+3

Band: Embrace of Souls

Release: The Number of Destiny

Style: Symphonic/Synthonic Power

+3

Band: Thron

Release: Pilgrim

Style: Black

+3

Band: Athanotos

Release: Biogenesis

Style: Technical Death/Deathcore

+2

Band: Wizard

Release: Metal In My Head

Style: Power, Speed, Heavy, Epic

+2

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

Band: Dopelord

Release: Reality Dagger (EP)

Style: Stoner, Sludge

+2

Band: Mastord

Release: To Whom Bow Even the Trees

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Marco Garau’s Magic Opera

Release: The Golden Pentacle

Style: Symphonic Neoclassical Power

+3

Band: Insect Inside

Release: The First Shining of New Genus

Style: Death, Brutal, Slam

+3

Band: Angel Martyr

Release: Nothing Louder than Silence

Style: Speed, Heavy

+2

Band: Malice Divine

Release: Malice Divine

Style: Melodic black/death

+2

Jan 23-29 Weekly Metal Recommendations

February 03, 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

Something I missed

Band: Fate Gear

Release: The Sky Prison

Style: Symphonic, Power

+2

Jan 25, 2021

Band: Devotion

Release: The Harrowing

Style: Death

+3

Band: Sagenland

Release: Oale groond

Style: Black

+2

Band: Yoth Iria

Release: As the Flame Withers

Style: Black, melodic

+3

Jan 26, 2021

Band: Luciferian

Release: Luciferian

Style: Black, Melodic Black

+2

Jan 27, 2021

Band: Carnivored

Release: Labirin

Style: Death

+2

Band: Fate Gear

Release: Scars in My Life (English edition) (EP)

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

Jan 29, 2021

Band: Tribulation

Release: Where the Gloom Becomes Sound

Style: Black/Goth

+2

Band: Accept

Release: To Mean to Die

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Eximperituserqethhzebibšiptugakkathšulweliarzaxułum

Release: Šahrartu

Style: Death, Technical

+2

Band: Werewolves

Release: What a Time to Be Alive

Style: Death, Brutal Death

+2

Band: Pounder

Release: Breaking the World

Style: Heavy, Speed

+2

Band: Crystal Viper

Release: The Cult

Style: Power, Heavy

+3

Band: Malamorte

Release: God Needs Evil

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Rezet

Release: Truth in Between

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Stud

Release: War of Power

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Pantokraton

Release: Marching Out of Babylon

Style: Death, Melodic Death

+2

Band: Gengis Khan

Release: Colder than Heaven

Style: Heavy, speed

+3

Band: The Design Abstract

Release: Technotheism

Style: symphonic/synthonic melodic death

+2

Band: Crowned in Sorrow

Release: In Memoriam

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+2

Band: Storm Seeker

Release: Guns Don’t Cry

Style: Folk

+2

Band: Incursion

Release: The Hunter (EP)

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Michael Schenker Fest

Release: Immortal

Style: Hard Rock, Traditional, Speed

+3

Jan 23 - Feb - 5

Jan 9-15 Weekly Metal Recommendations

January 20, 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

Jan 10, 2021

Band: Bestia Ater

Release: Anno Bestia Chrysallis

Style: Death

+2

Jan 12, 2021

Band: Need

Release: Norchestrion: A Song For The End

Style: Progressive

+3

Jan 15, 2021

Band: Witherfall

Release: The Curse of Autumn

Style: Heavy, Progressive

+2

Band: Stass

Release: Songs of Flesh and Decay

Style: Melodic Death, Death

+2

Band: Fractal Generator

Release: Macrocosmos

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Band: Fireforce

Release: Rage of War

Style: Power

+3

Band: Dread Sovereign

Release: Alchemical Warfare

Style: Doom

+3

Band: Dragony

Release: Viribus Unitis

Style: Power

+3

Band: Winterage

Release: The Inheritance of Beauty

Style: Symphonic Power

+2