April 10-16 Weekly Metal Recommendations

April 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

April 11, 2021

Band: Nero Omega

Release: Nero Omega (EP)

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Viscral

Release: Entrance Into Terrifying Imagery

Style: Brutal Death

+2

April 13, 2021

Band: Nephilim Grinder

Release: Spiritual Torment

Style: Brutal Death

+1

April 15, 2021

Band: Kaine

Release: Kaine E.P.

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Social Scream

Release: From Ashes To Hope

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Detritus

Release: Myths

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Legions of War

Release: Dark Dimensions

Style: Blackened Heavy, Black/Thrash

+3

April 16, 2021

Band: Cannibal Corpse

Release: Violence Unimagined

Style: Death

+3

Band: Shadowspawn

Release: The Biology of Disbelief

Style: Death

+3

Band: Liquid Tension Experiment

Release: Liquid Tension Experiment 3

Style: Instrumental Progressive Metal/Rock

+2

Band: Ildaruni

Release: Beyond Unseen Gateways

Style: Epic Black/Folk, Pagan

+3

Band: Deathswarm

Release: Forward Into Oblivion

Style: Death

+2

Band: Aggravator

Release: Unseen Repulsions (EP)

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Dark Horse | White Horse

Release: Dark Horse | White Horse (EP)

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Giotopia

Release: Trinity of Evil

Style: Heavy, Symphonic, Power

+3

Band: Bushido Code

Release: The Ronin

Style: Crossover Thrash

+2

Band: Endseeker

Release: Mount Carcass

Style: Death, Melodic Death

+2

Band: Aran Angmar

Release: Black Cosmic Elements

Style: Black

+3

Band: Betrayal

Release: Disorder Remains

Style: Melodic Death/Black

+2

Band: Icon of Sin

Release: Icon of Sin

Style: Traditional

+3

April 3-9 Weekly Metal Recommendations

April 13, 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 3, 2021

Band: Tower

Release: Uriel

Style: Gothic

+2

Band: Aetherea

Release: Through Infinite Dimensions

Style: Symphonic

+2

April 6, 2021

Band: Tides of Kharon

Release: Titanomachy (EP)

Style: melodic death

+2

April 8, 2021

Band: Inoculation

Release: Celestial Putridity

Style: Death

+3

April 9, 2021

Band: Primal Fear

Release: I Will Be Gone EP

Style: Heavy, acoustic rock

+1

(I didn’t like the song before and as much as I love Tarja I still don’t like it. The rest of the EP isn’t that good either. I only liked two of the songs and they were only mediocre.)

Band: Cathartic Demise

Release: In Absence

Style: Progressive Melodic Death

+2

Band: Horndal

Release: Lake Drinker

Style: Sludge/Groove

+2

Band: Throne

Release: Pestilent Dawn

Style: Black/Death

+3

Band: Sweet Oblivion

Release: Relentless

Style: “melodic heavy metal” (It’s a bit progressive and a bit symphonic)

+3

Band: Wolfchant

Release: Omega : Bestia

Style: Power Metal / Melodic Death

+3

Band: Phlebotomized

Release: Pain, Resistance, Suffering (EP)

Style: Progressive Melodic Death, Progressive Death/Doom

+3

Band: Motorjesus

Release: Hellbreaker

Style: Heavy, Hard Rock

+2

Band: Saille

Release: V

Style: Black, Symphonic Black

+2

Band: Dalriada

Release: Őszelő

Style: Folk

+2

(I don’t speak Hungarian, otherwise it could have a +3)

Band: Goath

Release: III: Shaped By The Unlight

Style: Black/Death, Death

+3

Band: Carnal Savagery

Release: Fiendish

Style: Death

+2

Band: Wheel

Release: Preserved in Time

Style: Doom

+3

Band: Johan Kihlberg’s Impera

Release: Spirit of Alchemy

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: ScreaMachine

Release: ScreaMachine

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Vrademargk

Release: Arrelats

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Stygian Dark

Release: Gorelords of War

Style: Death

+2

Band: The End Machine

Release: Phase 2

Style: Traditional, Hard Rock

+2

March 27 - April 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

March 20-27 Weekly Meta Recommendations

April 01, 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

March 20, 2021

Band: Krajiny Hmly

Release: Poza čierne hory

Style: Black, Pagan

+2

Band: Acid Age

Release: Semper Pessimus

Style: Technical Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Thagirion

Release: On The Path of Shattered Bells (EP)

Style: Black

+2

March 21, 2021

Band: Sarkrista

Release: Sworn to Profound Heresy

Style: Black

+2

March 22, 2021

Band: Ataraxia

Release: Pustovnik

Style: Death

+2

(Anyone speak Russian?)

Band: Escoria

Release: Rigor Mortis

Style: Thrash

+2

March 23, 2021

Band: Rubicon

Release: Demonstar

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

Band: Nanga Parbat

Release: Blood, Death And Silence

Style: Melodic Death, Progressive Death

+3

Band: Ireful

Release: The Walls of Madness (EP)

Style: Thrash

+3

March 24, 2021

Band: Hungry Wölf

Release: Forgotten Frozen Lands

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

Band: Arcaneblaze

Release: Spawn of Putrefaction (EP)

Style: Black/Thrash, Black/Speed

+2

March 25, 2021

Band: Mandragora

Release: [d]Æscend

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Baalberith

Release: Manhunt

Style: Death, Black/Death

+3

Band: Gartraada

Release: Embrace of the Cold Barents Sea

Style: We have Amon Amarth at home… melodic death

+2

March 26, 2021

Band: Sanguisugabogg

Release: Tortured Whole

Style: Death

+2

(I’d give it give it a +3 if some of the concepts weren’t so fucked up, but enjoy your weird shit)

Band: Creeping Fear

Release: Hategod Triumph

Style: Death

+2

Band: Witchseeker

Release: Scene of the Wild

Style: Traditional Heavy, Speed

+2

Band: Bloodmores

Release: Too Close To The Sun

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Burn Down Eden

Release: Burn Down Eden

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Ghosts of Atlantis

Release: 3/6/2/4

Style: Symphonic Melodic Death/Groove

+3

Band: Metalite

Release: A Virtual World

Style: Synthonic Power

+2

Band: Silent Winter

Release: Empire of Sins

Style: Power

+2

Band: Paladine

Release: Entering The Abyss

Style: Power

+3

Band: Rapture

Release: Malevolent Demise Incarnation

Style: Death, Death/Thrash

+3

Band: Drakkar

Release: Chaos Lord

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Cryptosis

Release: Bionic Swarm

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Celestial Sanctuary

Release: Soul Diminished

Style: Death

+2

Band: Memoriam

Release: To the End

Style: Death

+1

Band: Necronomicon

Release: The Final Chapter

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: The Stone

Release: Kosturnice

Style: Black

+2

Band: Cambion

Release: Conflagrate the Celestial Refugium

Style: Black/Death, Death

+2

Band: George Tsalkis

Release: Return To Power

Style: Power

+3

Band: Imperia

Release: The Last Horizon

Style: Symphonic/gothic

+2

Band: Little Hole Filled

Release: And The Ants Still March On

Style: Doom, Heavy Rock (Stoner)

+2

Band: Slabber

Release: Apocryphal Diary

Style: Heavy, Thrash, Speed

+2

Band: Distant Past

Release: The Final Stage

Style: Traditional Heavy

+3

Band: The Quill

Release: Earthrise

Style: Heavy, Hard Rock, Bluesy

+3

Band: Beansidhe

Release: Processionaria

Style: Black, Black/Death

+2

(probably would get +3 if I spoke what ever language it is)

Band: Images of Eden

Release: Angel Born

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Obscure Relic

Release: Black Sorcery Devotion

Style: Black

+2

Band: Vollmond

Release: Wolves in Turmoil

Style: Black

+2

(This album is in need of a volume boost)

Band: Electric Crown

Release: Electric Crown

Style: Heavy

+3

March 27 - April 2

Jan 31 - Feb 5 Weekly Metal Recommendations

February 10, 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 1, 2021

Band: R.I.P.

Release: As Good As Dead (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Saber

Release: Without Warning

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Corpse Worship

Release: Horror Chronicles

Style: Death

+2

Feb 2, 2021

Band: Sintax

Release: Nano3000

Style: Groove/Thrash

+2

Feb, 3, 2021

Band: Cross Vein

Release: Life of Veins

Style: J-Power

+2

Feb 5, 2021

Band: Product of Hate

Release: You Brought This War

Style: Metalcore, Groove/Thrash

+2

Band: Kalidia

Release: Lies' Device (2021)

Style: Synthonic Power

+3

Band: Angelus Apatrida

Release: Angelus Apatrida

Style: Thrash, Groove/Thrash

+2

Band: Incursed

Release: Baskavigin

Style: Melodic Death/Folk

+3

Band: Korpiklaani

Release: Jylhä

Style: Folk

+2

Band: Basilica

Release: Basilica

Style: Death/Thrash-core

+3

Band: Maestitium

Release: Tale of the Endless (EP)

Style: Melodic Death, Symphonic Melodic Death

+3

Band: Terrordome

Release: Strait Outta Smogtown

Style: Thrash, Crossover

+2

Band: Todd La Torre

Release: Rejoice in the Suffering

Style: Thrash, Heavy

+3

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