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

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 1-7 Weekly Metal Recommendations

May 12, 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 1, 2021

Band: Ravian

Release: Kingsmen From Afar

Style: Symphonic Power

+2

Band: Rift Giant

Release: Cataclysm

Style: Doom/Sludge/Stoner

+2

Band: Misfire

Release: Sympathy for the Ignorant

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Dark Seal

Release: Stvoření světa

Style: atmospheric Black

+2

(maybe +3 if I spoke the language)

May 3, 2021

Band: Hanternoz

Release: Au Fleuve de Loire

Style: Black/Folk

+2

Band: Tower

Release: Uriel

Style: Gothic

+2

Band: Gargoyle

Release: Hail to the Necrodoom

Style: Black, Doom

+2

May 4, 2021

Band: Melabstra

Release: El fruto de la discordia

Style: Synthonic Black

+2

Band: Ice Howl

Release: Erhan’s Quest

Style: Instrumental Heavy

+2

May 5, 2021

Band: Outlaw

Release: Death Miasma (EP)

Style: melodic black

+2

Band: Auld

Release: …of Petrichor and I (EP)

Style: black, black/folk

+2

May 6, 2021

Band: Disembodiment

Release: Mutated Chaos (EP)

Style: Death, Death/grind

+2

May 7, 2021

Band: Lord Vampyr

Release: The Vampire’s Legacy

Style: Gothic/Black

+2

Band: Out of Hand

Release: Exility

Style: Death/Thrash, Black/Death

+2

Band: Seth

Release: La Morsure du Christ

Style: Synthonic Black

+2

Band: Nordjevel

Release: Fenriir (EP)

Style: Black

+2

Band: Wormlight

Release: Nightmother

Style: blackmetal

+2

Band: Vokonis

Release: Odyssey

Style: Stoner, Progressive

+2

Band: Solstice

Release: Casting The Die

Style: Thrash

+2

(it’s ok but but I’d prefer either of the other front men)

Band: Marius Danielsen's Legend of Valley Doom

Release: Marius Danielsen's Legend of Valley Doom Part 3

Style: epic power

+3

Band: Kryptik Mutation

Release: Pulled From the Pit

Style: Death

+2

Band: Artillery

Release: X

Style: Thrash, Heavy

+4

Band: In Asymmetry

Release: Ashes of Dead Worlds

Style: Technical Death

+2

Band: Reality Grey

Release: Beneath This Crown

Style: Technical Melodic Death

+2

Band: J. D. Overdrive

Release: Funeral Celebration

Style: Southern, Stoner, Sludge

+2

Band: Steel Fox

Release: Red Snow

Style: Traditional Speed

+3

Band: Moon Coven

Release: Slumber Wood

Style: Doom, Psychedelic rock

+3

Band: Nightshadow

Release: Strike Them Dead

Style: Power, Traditional Speed, Heavy

+3

Band: Bretus

Release: Magharia

Style: Doom, Heavy Rock (Stoner)

+2

Band: Nordic Frost

Release: Sovereign (EP)

Style: Black, Melodic Black

+2

Band: Sonic Haven

Release: Vagabond

Style: Power

+3

Band: Ghost Iris

Release: Comatose

Style: Metalcore, Djent

+3

(I’m normally not a fan of this sort of thing, but something about it got my attention.)

Band: Robin McAuley

Release: Standing on the Edge

Style: Traditional, Rock

+2

Feb 27 - March 5 Weekly Metal Recommendations

March 11, 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 27, 2021

Band: Chainsword

Release: Blightmarch

Style: Death, Melodic Death

+3

Band: Demonia Mundi

Release: In Grembo Mater…

Style: Epic Symphonic Black, black

+2

(would be +3 but most of it is not english)

Band: Violblast

Release: Lazarus Abandoned

Style: Thrash, Death/Thrash, Black/Thrash, Groove/Thrash

+3

Feb 28, 2021

Band: Verwilderd

Release: Homo Homini Lupus Est

Style: Black/Death

+3

Band: Hellspawn

Release: In Agelessness

Style: Death

+2

Band: Meuchelmord

Release: Mordmelodien

Style: Black

+2

March 1, 2021

Band: This Ending

Release: Needles of Rust

Style: Melodic Death

+3

March 2, 2021

Band: Dead Point

Release: Concept of the Absurd

Style: Death, Grindcore

+2

March 3, 2021

Band: Wirbelwind

Release: Time to Realize (EP)

Style: Melodic Death

+2

March 4, 2021

Band: Gravecarver

Release: Spectral Carnage

Style: Death

+2

March 5, 2021

Band: Exanimis

Release: Marionnettiste

Style: Symphonic Death

+3

Band: Warrior Path

Release: The Mad King

Style: Heavy, Power, Traditional

+4

Band: Beast

Release: Necro Sapiens

Style: Death

+3

Band: Numenor

Release: Draconian Age

Style: Heavy, Blackened Power

+2

Band: Witherfall

Release: The Curse of Autumn

Style: Heavy, Progressive

+3

Band: Kjeld

Release: Ôfstân

Style: Black

+2

Band: Mork

Release: Katedralen

Style: Black

+2

Band: Acid Mammoth

Release: Caravan

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Nightfall

Release: At Night We Prey

Style: Death, Death/Doom, Melodic Black

+3

Band: Thorium

Release: Empires in the Sun

Style: Traditional

+3

Band: Sol Draconi Septem

Release: Hyperion

Style: Atmospheric Black, Experimental Black

+2

Band: :NODFYR:

Release: Eigenheid

Style: Epic, “Pagan”

+2

Band: The Noctambulant

Release: Hellrazor (EP)

Style: Black, Melodic Black

+2

Band: Pustilence

Release: The Birth of the Beginning Before the Inception of the End (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Arsena

Release: Dawn of the Second Sun

Style: Thrash, Progressive Thrash

+2

Band: Messerschmitt

Release: Consumed By Fire

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Dauthuz

Release: Cold

Style: Death

+3

Band: Starscape

Release: Colony

Style: Early Heavy, Epic

+2

Band: Timeless Haunt

Release: Dark For Life

Style: Progressive, Heavy

+2

Band: Rod1313

Release: Dark Clouds

Style: Instrumental, Shred, Progressive

+2

Band: Zaratus

Release: In The Days of Whore

Style: Experimental Black

+2

Band: Wolf King

Release: The Path of Wrath

Style: Blackcore?, Black/Death, Black

+2