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

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)

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

Oct 30 - Nov 5 Weekly Metal Recommendations

November 11, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

If you need even more metal in your life, I get all my info from https://www.metal-archives.com/ from which you can find upcoming releases, and from http://metalstorm.net/home/, from which you can find both upcoming and past releases although it is not as complete of a list compared to metal-archives.)

(I’m still using the rating system from our “New Releases” list although I will likely no longer be listing anything below a +2 unless it comes from a very well known band)

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style, but maybe for everyone

+2 - worth checking out or interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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Oct 31, 2021

Band: Under Cold Sun

Release: Devotion

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Physiology of Darkness

Release: Satanic Liturgy

Style: Gothic/atmospheric Black/Death

+2

Band: Demonologist

Release: I curse, I dance

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

Band: Ruttenskalle

Release: Skin’em Alive

Style: Death

+2

Band: Voorhees

Release: Chapter Two & a Half (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Dawnbreaker

Release: Ad Majorem Dei Glorium

Style: Black

+2

Band: Krusifire

Release: We Bring The Metal Vol. 2

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Frightful

Release: Spectral Creator

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

Nov 1, 2021

Band: Demonztrator

Release: Sinister Forces of Hatred

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Death Has Spoken

Release: Call of the Abyss

Style: Black/Doom, Death/Doom

+2

Band: Mental Devastation

Release: The Delusional Mystery Of The Self (part I)

Style: Technical Thrash

+3

Band: Xiphea

Release: Witchcraft

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: Thraxas!

Release: Planetary Terrorism (EP)

Style: Groove/Thrash

+2

Band: Brygmus

Release: Vitiate

Style: Sludge, Death/Doom

+2

Nov 2, 2021

Band: Cerberus Attack

Release: Abyss Of Lost Souls

Style: Thrash

+2

Nov 4, 2021

Band: Shock Wave

Release: Force Ethics

Style: Thrash

+1

Nov 5, 2021

Band: Bornhom

Release: Apotheosis

Style: Black, melodic black

+2

Band: Poppy Seed Grinder

Release: Faceless Atrocities

Style: Death

+2

Band: The Night Eternal

Release: Moonlit Cross

Style: Traditional

+3

Band: Omnium Gatherum

Release: Origin

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death

+2

Band: Diablo Swing Orchestra

Release: Swagger & Stroll Down the Rabbit Hole

Style: let’s just call it experimental

-1

(I can’t say I would ever listen to this, it’s as jumpy and weird as System of a Down, however I’m putting it on the list because it is certainly one of the most unique bands I’ve heard in a long time.)

Band: Frozen Shield

Release: Ínia

Style: Symphonic Melodic Death/Folk

+3

Band: Saratoga

Release: XXX

Style: Power

+2

Band: Bryan Eckermann

Release: Plague Bringers

Style: Blackened Melodic Death

+2

Band: The Three Tremors

Release: Guardian of the Void

Style: Heavy, Traditional

+0

(cool concept, but it kinds sucks. 1. the production sucks and it sounds like things aren’t even in time including guitar leads and some vocal parts. 2. Ripper is by far the better singer here to the point that the other guys doing offer anything other than less good similar vocals. Something like this would be better with vocal styles that are more different from each other.)

Band: AfterTime

Release: Infinite Legacy (EP)

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: Thola

Release: Somewhere

Style: Power/Thrash

+3

Band: Bad Butler

Release: Badtime Stories

Style: Speed, Power, Traditional

+2

Band: Serpentor

Release: Sacerdote del Horror

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Bullet For My Valentine

Release: Bullet For My Valentine

Style: Metalcore

+2

(This surprised me, they used to by the whiniest of whiny metalcore bands, but now they are 80% less whiney. I’m still not going to listen to this, but if you are a fan of metalcore, I think they’ve come a long way toward being less angsty bitches.)

Sep 18-24 Weekly Metal Recommendations

September 29, 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 18, 2021

Band: As the Sun Falls

Release: Last Days of Light

Style: melodic Death

+3

Sep 20, 2021

Band: Energema

Release: Promised Land

Style: Power

+2

Band: Fatal Solution

Release: Fatal Solution

Style: Thrash

+1

(would be better with a better mix, vocals are to loud)

Sep 22, 2021

Band: Orbstruct

Release: Deimos Falling

Style: Death

+2

Band: ShadowStrike

Release: Fables & Folklore

Style: symphonic Power

+2

Band: Hellhound

Release: Warrior of Rising Sun

Style: Heavy

+2

Sep 24, 2021

Band: Wraith

Release: Undo the Chains

Style: Blackened Thrash

+3

Band: The Ossuary

Release: Oltretomba

Style: doom

+2

Band: A Pale Horse Named Death

Release: Infernum in Terra

Style: Doom/Gothic

+2

Band: Paradox

Release: Heresy II: End of a Legend

Style: Thrash

+4

Dream Ocean

Release: The Missing Stone

Style: Symphonic, Progressive

+2

Band: Virial

Release: Transhumanism

Style: Progressive/technical Death

+3

Band: Orbit Culture

Release: Shaman (EP)

Style: Death/Groove

+2

Band: Rivers of Nihil

Release: The Work

Style: Progressive Death

+2

Band: Cognizance

Release: Upheaval

Style: Technical Death

+2

Band: Stagewar

Release: Danger to Ourselves

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Ars Moriendi

Release: Le Silence Déraisonnable du Ciel

Style: Melodic Black

+2

Band: Unto Others

Release: Strength

Style: Heavy, Gothic

+3

Band: Sceptor

Release: Rise to the Light

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Iskandr

Release: Vergezicht

Style: Black

+2

Band: Surturs Lohe

Release: Wielandstahl

Style: Epic Black/Folk (Viking, pagan)

+2

(+3 if you speak German)

Band: Axxelerator

Release: Heads or Tails

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Withering Soul

Release: Last Contact

Style: Black

+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

July 17-23 Weekly Metal Recommendations

July 27, 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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July 17, 2021

Band: Scumeater

Release: Sonic Slaughter

Style: Grindcore, Death/Grind

+2

July 21, 2021

Band: Vistery

Release: Doomfall

Style: Death

+2

July 22, 2021

Band: Luminous Veil

Release: Vespers for the Loom and Lain

Style: Atmospheric/Symphonic Black

+2

July 23, 2021

Band: Wings of Destiny

Release: Memento Mori

Style: Symphonic Power, Heavy

+2

Band: Planet of the Dead

Release: Pilgrims

Style: Sludge

+2

Band: Godslave

Release: Positive Aggressive

Style: thrash

+2

Band: Fulci

Release: Exhumed Information

Style: Death

+3

Band: Flame, Dear Flame

Release: Aegis

Style: Doom, Heavy Rock

+2

Band: Eradicator

Release: Influence Denied

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Craven Idol

Release: Forked Tongues

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

Band: Caedere

Release: Eighty Years' War (Dutch War of Independence)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Hexenklad

Release: Heathenheart

Style: Melodic Black/folk

+3

Band: Yngwie Malmsteen

Release: Parabellum

Style: Heavy, neo-classical, shred

+1

Band: Heavy Water

Release: Red Brick City

Style: Hard Rock, Heavy

+2

Band: Kryptan

Release: Kryptan (EP)

Style: Black

+2

Band: Rebellion

Release: We Are the People

Style: Heavy, Power

+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

Support The Metal!

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 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

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

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

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 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