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 20-26 Weekly Metal Recommendation

December 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, 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

Nov 24, 2021

Band: Grand Finale

Release: Everything Has an End (EP)

Style: Synthonic J-Power

+2

Nov 24, 2021

Band: Forbidden Omen

Release: Ancestral Rituals

Style: Death

+2

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)

Nov 26, 2021

Band: Rhapsody of Fire

Release: Glory for Salvation

Style: Epic Symphonic/Synthonic Power

+2

Band: Proscriptor McGovern’s Apsû

Release: Proscriptor McGovern’s Apsû

Style: Technical Black/Thrash

+3

Band: Imperialist

Release: Zenith

Style: Black

+3

Band: Morgul Blade

Release: Fell Sorcery Abounds

Style: Epic, Blackened Traditional, Folk

+3

Eternity’s End

Release: Embers of War

Style: Power

+4

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.)

Band: Godhead Machinery

Release: Monotheistic Enslavement

Style: Black

+2

Band: Fortress

Release: Don’t Spare The Wicked

Style: Synthonic Speed, Synthonic Traditional

+3

Band: Infernal Hate

Release: The Order of the Black Kestrel

Style: Death

+3

Band: Victory

Release: Gods of Tomorrow

Style: Speed, Traditional, Hard Rock

+3

Band: Hitten

Release: Triumph And Tragedy

Style: Traditional, speed

+2

Band: Alien Force

Release: We Meet Again

Style: Traditional, Hard Rock

+2

Band: Lock Up

Release: The Dregs Of Hades

Style: Death/Grind

+3

Band: Hollow

Release: Tower

Style: Progressive Power

+2

Band: Hypocrisy

Release: Worship

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Opera Diabolicus

Release: Death on a Pale Horse

Style: Progressive, Gothic, Symphonic

+3

Band: Eternal Evil

Release: The Warriors Awakening Brings the Unholy Slaughter

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

Band: Servant

Release: Blessed By the Light of a Thousand Stars

Style: Black

+3

Band: Hunters Moon

Release: The Great Pandemonium

Style: Black

+2

Band: Fleischer

Release: Knochenhauer

Style: Blackened Thrash

+2

Band: Titan

Release: Palingenesia

Style: Traditional

(Accept for people who speak French)

+2

Band: Temptation’s Wings

Release: Marauders of the Killing Moon

Style: Heavy, Doom

+2

Band: Thunder and Lightning

Release: F.E.A.R.

Style: Power

+2

Band: The Noctambulant

Release: Hellrazor (EP)

Style: Black, melodic black

+2

Nov 13-19 Weekly Metal Recommendations

November 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, 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

Nov 15, 2021

Band: Shiningstar

Release: Destiny

Style: Extreme Synthonic/Symphonic

+2

Band: Goaten

Release: Crimson Moonlight (EP)

Style: Heavy, Speed

+2

Band: Ibuki

Release: Storm of Emotion

Style: J-Power, Synthonic

+2

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)

Nov 18, 2021

Band: Synapse

Release: Singularities

Style: Progressive rock/metal

+2

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

Band: The Temple

Release: The Temple

Style: Black/Death

+2

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)

Band: Khemmis

Release: Deceiver

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Temperance

Release: Diamanti

Style: Synthonic/Symphonic Power

+2

Band: Aephanemer

Release: A Dream of Wilderness

Style: Symphonic Blackened Neo-classical

+2

Band: E Force

Release: Mindbinder

Style: Traditional Black, Black/Thrash

+1

Band: Abscession

Release: Rot of Ages

Style: Death

+2

Band: Exodus

Release: Persona Non Grata

Style: Thrash, Groove/Thrash

+4

Band: Galaxy

Release: On The Shore of Life

Style: Traditional

+2

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

Band: Swallow the Sun

Release: Moonflowers

Style: sleepy time music

+ZZZZZZZZZ

Band: Obscura

Release: A Valediction

Style: Technical Death

+3

Band: Godless

Release: States of Chaos

Style: Death

+2

(almost +3)

Band: W.E.B.

Release: Colosseum

Style: Symphonic/Gothic Black

+3

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)

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.)

Band: Nightland

Release: The Great Nothing

Style: Blackened Symphonic Melodic Death

+2

Band: Stormkeep

Release: Tales of Othertime

Style: Synthonic Black

+2

Band: Stranguliatorius

Release: Doctor’s Orders: Do Not Touch!

Style: Death

+2

Band: ADX

Release: Etranges Visions

Style: Speed, Heavy

+2

Band: Hellspike

Release: Dynasties of Decay

Style: Speed, Thrash

+2

Band: Home Style Surgery

Release: Brain Drill Poetry

Style: Progressive Thrash

+2

Band: In Aevum Agere

Release: Emperor of Hell - Canto XXXIV

Style: Heavy, Doom

+3

Band: Our Common Sense

Release: Harbinger of Calamity

Style: Heavy Rock, Sludge

+2

Nov 6-12 Weekly Metal Recommendations

November 17, 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 6, 2021

Band: Announce The Apocalypse

Release: Nefarious Means

Style: Melodic Death/Thrash, Death

+3

Nov 8, 2021

Band: Healing Harm

Release: Shapes of Alienation

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Nov 9, 2021

Band: Ültra Raptör

Release: Tyrants

Style: Speed

+2

Nov 10, 2021

Band: Black Soul Horde

Release: Horrors From The Void

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Serpent Lord

Release: Apocrypha

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Isengrim

Release: Maailmantappaja

Style: Black

+2

(maybe +3 if I spoke Finnish)

Nov 12, 2021

Band: Monument of Misanthropy

Release: Unterweger

Style: Death, Brutal Death

+2

Band: Knights of the Realm

Release: Knights of the Realm

Style: Traditional, Speed

+3

Band: L.A. Guns

Release: Checkered Past

Style: Hard Rock

+2

Band: Bonded

Release: Into Blackness

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Insania

Release: V (Praeparatus Supervivet)

Style: Power

+3

Band: Unleashed

Release: No Sign of Life

Style: Death, Death/Thrash

+3

Band: Creature

Release: Eloge De L’Ombre

Style: Progressive Back

+2

Band: Belore

Release: Artefacts

Style: Epic Symphonic Black/Folk

+3

Band: Cân Bardd

Release: Devoured By The Oak

Style: Epic Symphonic Black/Folk

+3

Band: Northtale

Release: Eternal Flame

Style: Power

+3

Band: Sijjin

Release: Sumerian Promises

Style: Death

+2

Band: Apostle of Solitude

Release: Until The Darkness Goes

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Vomit the Soul

Release: Cold

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Band: Phantom Druid

Release: The Downward Slope (EP)

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Obscura Qalma

Release: Apotheosis

Style: Epic Symphonic Black/Death

+2

Band: Tower

Release: Shock to the System

Style: Traditional, Speed

+3

Band: 200 Stab Wounds

Release: Slave to the Scalpel

Style: Death

+2

Band: Tormentor

Release: Crown of Shame (EP)

Style: Heavy, Thrash

+2

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

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

March 13-19 Weekly Metal Recommendation

March 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

March 15, 2021

Band: Valtari

Release: Titans Call

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Suppressive Fire

Release: Invasion (EP)

Style: Blackened Thrash

+2

March 16, 2021

Band: Dead Sun

Release: Night Terrors

Style: Death, Melodic Death

+2

March 19, 2021

Band: Cosmic Reaper

Release: Cosmic Reaper

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Methal Kyrios

Release: Síndrome oscuro

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Aversed

Release: Impermanent

Style: Progressive Melodic Death

+2

Band: Fuath

Release: II

Style: atmospheric black

+2

Band: Depths of Hatred

Release: Inheritance

Style: Deathcore

+2

Band: Agent Steel

Release: No Other Gods Before Me

Style: Heavy, Speed, thrash

+2

Band: Magna Mortalis

Release: Procreation of the Plague

Style: Death

+2

Band: Adamantis

Release: Far Flung Realm

Style: Power, Epic

+2

Band: Midnight Odyssey

Release: Biolume Part 2: The Golden Orb

Style: Epic, Atmospheric Black

+2

Band: Mare Cognitum

Release: Solar Paroxysm

Style atmospheric/melodic black

+2

Band: Lunar Shadow

Release: Wish To Leave

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Krabathor

Release: Demonizer / Mortal Memories II

Style: Death/thrash

+2

Band: Hell Poison

Release: Breathing for the Filth

Style: Traditional Black, Traditional, Speed

+3

Band: Martyrium

Release: Lamia Satanica

Style: Symphonic Black

+3

Band: Morost

Release: Forged Entropy

Style: Progressive Black/Death

+2

Band: SnailMAGEDDON

Release: Swansong for a Snail

Style: Epic Black/Folk

+2

Band: Batushka

Relese: Царю Небесный / Carju Niebiesnyj

Style: Epic Black

+2

Band: Sarmat

Release: RS-28

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: Ulthima

Release: Symphony of the Night

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death

+3

Band: Herzel

Release: Le Dernier Rempart

Style: Traditional

+2

(maybe +3 if I spoke French)