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

Band: Caestus

Release: The Undoer’s Key

Style: Black

+2

Dec 13, 2021

Band: Diaroe

Release: Willkommen in der Desolation

Style: Brutal Death/Grind

+2

Band: R.O.D.

Release: HateSpeech

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Phobetor

Release: Through Deepest Fears and Darkest Minds

Style: Death

+2

Band: Svartalfar

Release: Geisterwerk

Style: Black

+2

Dec 15, 2021

Band: Necrohunter

Release: Litanies of The Black Occvult

Style: Black/Doom

+2

Band: Cülpado

Release: Romper da Realidade

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Dec 17, 2021

Band: Iron Fate

Release: Crimson Messiah

Style: Traditional, power

+3

Band: Khnvm

Release: Portals to Oblivion

Style: Death

+2

Band: Mega Colossus

Release: Riptime

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Memory Garden

Release: 1349

Style: Doom

+3

Band: Wolftopia

Release: Ways of the Pack

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Age of Athena

Release: Gate to Oblivion

Style: Progressive, Symphonic

+2

Band: On My Command

Release: Prey

Style: Power/Thrash

+2

Band: Serpent Lord

Release: Apocrypha

Style: Progressive Power, Heavy

+2

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

Band: Hedera

Release: Helical

Style: Folk

+2

Band: Tophet

Release: Punishment Battalion 666

Style: Black

+2

Band: Wound

Release: Serpent Crown

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Bangover

Release: Close Encounters of the Thrash Kind (EP)

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Solarus

Release: A Dance with Tragedy

Style: Synthonic

+2

Band: Wicked Sensation

Release: Outbreak

Style: Traditional, synthonic

+2

Aug 14-20 Weekly Metal Recommendations

August 25, 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

Aug 14, 2021

Band: Korrosive

Release: Kaustic Horde

Style: Thrash

+3

Aug 16, 2021

Band: Morning Dwell

Release: The Power Will Go On

Style: Power

+3

Aug 20, 2021

Band: Mentalist

Release: A Journey into the Unknown

Style: Power

+3

Band: Bonehunter

Release: Dark Blood Reincarnation System

Style: Black, Black/Thrash

+3

Band: Warkings

Release: Revolution

Style: Heavy, Power

+3

Band: Wolves in the Throne Room

Release: Primordial Arcana

Style: atmospheric black

+2

Band: Necronautical

Release: Slain in the Spirit

Style: Symphonic Black

+3

Band: Sodom

Release: Bombenhagel (EP)

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Arcane Existence

Release: Colossus

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

+3

Band: Oceanhoarse

Release: Dead Reckoning

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Daemonicus

Release: Eschaton

Style: Death, Melodic Death

+3

Band: Book of Numbers

Release: Magick

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Legions of The Night

Release: Sorrow is the Cure

Style: Power, Heavy

+2

Band: Soul Massacre

Release: Despair Of Human Being

Style: Death

+3

Band: Noutaja

Release: Never Meant to Save Us (EP)

Style: Death

+3

Band: Thomsen

Release: III

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

Band: Massive Fire

Release: The Anunnaki

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: ArkenFire

Release: Trials Through Time

Style: Power

+2

Band: Between The Buried and Me

Release: Colors II

Style: Progressive Metalcore, Progressive Rock

+3

(when did these guys get good?)

May 8-14 Weekly Metal Recommendations

May 20, 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 8, 2021

Band: Coral

Release: Cambie para mal

Style: Heavy, Groove

+2

May 8, 2021

Band: Empty Throne

Release: Glossolalia (EP)

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: Devilvvorshipper

Release: The Divine Right of Kings

Style: Black

+2

Band: Eos

Release: The Great Ascension

Style: Black, melodic black

+3

May 12, 2021

Band: Meshum

Release: Enigmatic Existential Essence

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Band: Twitch of the Death Nerve

Release: Beset by False Prophets

Style: Brutal Death

+2

May 14, 2021

Band: Skratte

Release: Akt 1: Ein Feuer entfacht

Style: Black

+2

Band: Tyrant’s Curse

Release: Modern Babylon

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

Band: Against Evil

Release: End of the Line

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: The Ember, The Ash

Release: Fixation

Style: Symphonic Blackened Deathcore

+2

Band: Project: Roenwolfe

Release: Edge of Saturn

Style: Power/Thrash

+3

Band: Siniestro

Release: Vortexx

Style: Melodic Death, blackened

+2

Band: The Very End

Release: Zeitgeist

Style: Melodic Death, Melodic Death/Groove

+3

Band: Vallendusk

Release: Heralds of Strife

Style: Black

+2

Band: The Monolith Deathcult

Release: V3 - Vernedering: Connect the Goddamn Dots

Style: Symphonic Death

+2

Band: Sněť

Release: Mokvání v okovech

Style: Death

+2

Band: Grave Miasma

Release: Abyss of Wrathful Deities

Style: Death, Black/Death

+3

Band: Subterranean Masquerade

Release: Mountain Fever

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Scare of The Sun

Release: Inertia

Style: Melodic Death, Gothic
(Despite Metal Archives using “melodic groove” this style they are labeling as such has nearly nothing to do with groove metal. I do think there is a genre here but their term doesn’t seem appropriate. Maybe Pansy Melodic Death… ok probably not that but this is the style being used by modern In Flames and other melodic death based bands with whiney vocals added into the mix)

+2

Band: Canvas Solaris

Release: Chromosphere

Style: Instrumental Progressive

+2

(get me a good vocalist to go with this and you have a +3)

Band: Nihïlanth

Release: Graceless Planet

Style: Death

+3

Band: Perverted Dexterity

Release: Alacrity for Contemptuous Dissonance

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Band: Apostasy

Release: Death Return

Style: Black, Thrash

+2

Band: Sunbomb

Release: Evil and Devine

Style: Traditional

+3

(as much as I make fun of Stryper, this is actually really good)

Band: Dan Baune's Lost Sanctuary

Release: Lost Sanctuary

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Sommo Inquisitore

Release: Anno Mille

Style: Epic

+2

(+3 is I spoke Italian)

Band: The Bleeding

Release: Rise Into Nothing (EP)

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

April 24-30 Weekly Metal Recommendations

May 05, 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 24, 2021

Band: Soulglass

Release: Odeth

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: Nuclear Revenge

Release: Dawn of the Primitive Age

Style: Black/Thrash

+3

Band: Surtura

Release: Dawn of Cursed Souls

Style: Death

+2

Band: Thirsty Demon

Release: Unconscious Suicide

Style: Death

+2

April 25, 2021

Band: Hymn Above Traumatic Emotion

Release: 幻葬

Style: Melodic Death, Metalcore

+2

April 28, 2021

Band: Atvm

Release: Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless

Style: Progressive Death

+2

April 29, 2021

Band: Becerus

Release: Homo Homini Brutus

Style: Death

+2

Band: Vietnam Rose

Release: Darkness Side

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death

+2

Band: Hyperomm

Release: In My Own Spaceship

Style: Symphonic/Synthonic Melodic Death

+3

Band: Gojira

Release: Fortitude

Style: Progressive Groove

+3

Band: Dreams in Fragments

Release: When Echoes Fade

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: Bunker 66

Release: Beyond the Help of Prayers

Style: black/thrash

+2

Band: Evile

Release: Hell Unleashed

Style: Thrash

+4

Band: Nekromantheon

Release: Visions of Trismegistos

Style: Death/Thrash

+3

Band: Arched Fire

Release: Remote Control

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Bloody Hell

Release: The Bloodening

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Ungfell

Release: Es Grauet

Style: Black, black/folk

+2

Band: Ewig Frost

Release: Ain’t No Saint

Style: traditional black

+2

Band: Ninkharsag

Release: The Dread March of Solemn Gods

Style: black

+3

Band: Domkraft

Release: Seeds

Style: Doom/Sludge

+2

Band: Yellowtooth

Release: The Burning Illusion

Style: Stoner, Sludge

+2

Band: Feradur

Release: Parakosm (EP)

Style: melodic death

+2

Band: Axewitch

Release: Out of the Ashes into the Fire

Style: traditional

+2

Band: Goregang

Release: Long Live The Grime (EP)

Style: Death, Death/grind

+2

Band: Dyrnwyn

Release: II Culto Del Fuoco

Style: Folk, symphonic melodic death/folk, Symphonic black/folk

+3

Band: Nattverd

Release: Vandring

Style: black

+2

Band: Screaming Banshee

Release: Pierceive

Style: Progressive Death

+2

Band: Lóstregos

Release: Onde Calan os Corazóns, Ruxen as Pedras

Style: Black

+2

Band: Poverty’s No Crime

Release: A Secret to Hide

Style: Progressive

+3

Band: Millennial Reign

Release: Carry The Fire Again (EP)

Style: Synthonic Power

+2

Band: Sorcerer

Release: Dire Prophecy

Style: Heavy, Power/Thrash

+3

Band: Blaze Bayley

Release: War Within Me

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Trauma

Release: Acrimony (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Jeriko

Release: Hasta el Final

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Temtris

Release: Ritual Warfare

Style: Heavy, Power

+3

Band: Hegony

Release: Second Stab - promo 2021

Style: Death

+2