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

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 25 - Oct 1 Weekly Metal Recommendations

October 07, 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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Sep 26, 2021

Band: Enthrallment

Release: Against The Will To Live - Sky Burial

Style: Brutal/Technical Death

+2

Band: Concrete

Release: Ethereal Atrocities

Style: Death

+3

Sep 27, 2021

Band: Erz

Release: Erz

Style: Black

+2

Band: Suffering Sights

Release: When Sanity Becomes Insanity

Style: Death

+2

Sep 28, 2021

Band: Mary’s Blood

Release: Mary’s Blood

Style: J-Metal

+2

Band: The Oriental Sun

Release: The Majestic Phoenix Arises from Centuries of Hibernation

Style: Death

+2

Sep 29, 2021

Band: Mental Torment

Release: Ego:Genesis

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+3

Sep 30, 2021

Band: Aussichtslos

Release: Einsicht

Style: Melodic Black

+2

Oct 1, 2021

Band: Torture of Hypocrisy

Release: Humanufacture

Style: Industrial/Technical Death

+2

Band: Demolizer

Release: Upgrade (EP)

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Enslaved

Release: Caravans to the Outer Worlds (EP)

Style: Progressive Black

+2

Band: Necroticgorebeast

Release: Human Deviance Galore

Style: Brutal Death, Slam

+2

Band: Venefixion

Release: A Sigh From Below

Style: Death

+3

Band: Fear Connection

Release: Progeny of Social Disease

Style: Death

+2

Band: Sadistic Force

Release: Aces Wild

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

Band: Unforged

Release: Eye For an Eye

Style: Groove, Groove/Thrash

+2

Band: Crimson Tower

Release: Aeternal Abyss

Style: Doom

+2

Band: 1000 bone Cylinder Explosion

Release: Bind

Style: Extreme Progressive

Band: KK’s Priest

Release: Sermons of the Sinner

Style: Traditional Metal

+4

Band: Mournful Winter

Release: Mother’s Demise

Style: Melodic Black, Experimental black

+3

Band: Black Rose

Release: Game of Souls

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Kryptos

Release: Force of Danger

Style: Heavy, Speed

+3

Band: Skverna Liniya

Release: В венке из воска (In a Garland of Wax)

Style: Black

+2

Sep 11-17 Weekly Metal Recommendations

September 22, 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 11, 2021

Band: Infected Chaos

Release: Dead Aesthetics

Style: Death, Melodic Death

+2

Sep 15, 2021

Band: Trigger

Release: Back to the Roots

Style: Death

+3

Band: Metalsteel

Release: Forsaken by the Gods

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Dickless Tracy

Release: Grave New World

Style: Death

+2

Band: Ancient Empire

Release: Priest of Stygia

Style: Heavy

+4

Band: Blazon Stone

Release: Damnation

Style: Traditional

+3

(would be +4 if international shipping didn’t suck so much)

Sep 17, 2021

Band: Rage

Release: Resurrection Day

Style: Heavy, Groove

+2

(Not what I was hoping for)

Band: Shadecrown

Release: Solitarian

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+3

Band: Bloodride

Release: Idiocracy

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Carcass

Release: Torn Arteries

Style: Melodic Death

+4

Band: Saturnian Mist

Release: Shamatanic

Style: Black

+3

Band: Eternal Flight

Release: SurVive

Style: Power

+2

Band: Vulvodynia

Release: Praenuntius Infiniti

Style: Deathcore, Brutal Death

+3

Band: Brainstorm

Release: Wall of Skulls

Style: Power

+3

Band: Ghostheart Nebula

Release: Ascension

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+2

Band: Exxperior

Release: Escalating Conflicts

Style: Progressive Thrash

+2

Band: Nýr Gata

Release: Luna Aeterna

Style: Melodic Black, epic, symphonic

+2

Band: Criminal

Release: Sacrificio

Style: Thrash, Groove/Thrash

+2

Band: Anomaly

Release: Planet Storm

Style: Technical Death

+3

Band: Insomnium

Release: Argent Moon (EP)

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Joe Stump

Release: Diabolical Ferocity

Style: Shred, neo-classical

+2

Band: Whyzdom

Release: Of Wonders and Wars

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: Fierce Atmospheres

Release: The Speed of Dreams

Style: Heavy, Progressive

+2

Band: Elias Vilijanen

Release: The Evillusionist

Style: Instrumental

+2

Band: Without God

Release: Siberian Tunes: Purple Clouds

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Words of Farewell

Release: Inner Universe II

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death

+2

Band: The Ascended

Release: The Dark

Style: Metalcore

+2

Band: Apostolica

Release: Haeretica Ecclesia

Style: Epic Synthonic/Symphonic Power

+3

Band: Alien Weaponry

Release: Tangaroa

Style: Groove

+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 10-16 Weekly Metal Recommendations

July 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

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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July 10, 2021

Band: Vanexa

Release: The Last in Black

Style: Traditional, Progressive

+2

July 12, 2021

Band: Sarinvomit

Release: Aweken Ye Impious Hordes of Shaitan

Style: Black

+2

July 14, 2021

Band: Chestcrush

Release: Ydelygmia

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: 矢島舞依

Release: Heretical Soul (EP)

Style: J-Metal

+2

July 15, 2021

Band: To Descend

Release: Exorcism of Hope

Style: Death

+2

Band: Codex Nero

Release: The Great Harvest of Death

Style: black

+2

(the full released version has much better production)

Band: Grin in Fear

Release: Legion

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Vulture Lord

Release: Desecration Rite

Style: Black

+2

July 16, 2021

Band: Vomit Ritual

Release: Callous

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: Vandor

Release: On Moonlit Night

Style: Power

+3

Band: Towards Atlantis Lights

Release: When the Ashes Devoured the Sun

Style: Funeral Doom

+2

Band: Laceration

Release: Demise

Style: Death

+3

Band: Cognitive

Release: Malevolent Thoughts of Hasted Extinction

Style: Technical Death, Deathcore

+2

Band: Calliophis

Release: Liquid Darkness

Style: atmospheric Death/Doom

+3

Band: Space Chaser

Release: Give us Life

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Spiral Grave

Release: Legacy of the Anointed

Style: Doom, Heavy

+3

Band: Big City

Release: Testify X

Style: Traditional, Hard Rock

+2

Band: Vouna

Release: Atropos

Style: Black/Doom

+2

Band: Nothing Sacred

Release: No Gods

Style: Thrash, Groove, Grunge

+2

Band: Ophidian I

Release: Desolate

Style: Technical Death

+2

Band: Resurrection Kings

(former Dio members)

Release: Skygazer

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Wizardthrone

Release: Hypercube Necrodimensions

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death

+3

Band: Powerwolf

Release: Call of the Wild

Style: Synthonic Heavy, Power

+3

June 26 - July 2 Weekly Metal Recommendations

July 07, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

Support The Metal!

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

June 26, 2021

Band: Pullverizer

Release: We Have Warned EP (style)

Style: Thrash, groove

+2

Band: Pandemic Outbreak

Release: Skulls Beneath the Cross

Style: Death

+2

June 27, 2021

Band: Wülfskol

Release: Satanik Death Militia (EP)

Style: Black, Death, Crust punk

+2

June 28, 2021

Band: Anam’Kara

Release: Unleashed

Style: Symphonic blackened melodic death

+2

Band: Leif

Release: Gateways

Style: Melodic Black

+2

June 30, 2021

Band: Гробъ

Release: Смирение

Style: Black/Death

+2

July 1, 2021

Band: Vrykolakas

Release: And Vrykolakas Brings Chaos and Destruction

Style: Death

+2

July 2, 2021

Band: Diabolizer

Release: Khalkedonian Death

Style: Death

+2

Band: Lost in Grey

Release: Under the Surface

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: At The Gates

Release: The Nightmare of Being

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Felled

Release: The Intimate Earth

Style: Black/Folk

+2

Band: Mourn the Light

Release: Suffer, Then We’re Gone

Style: Doom, Traditional, Heavy

+3

Band: Supreme Court

Release: Been a While

Style: Heavy, Speed

+2

Band: Queen of Distortion

Release: Checkmate!

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Born of Osiris

Release: Angel or Alien

Style: Synthonic Metal-core

+2

Band: Lord of The Lost

Release: Judas

Style: Gothic/Industrial

+3

June 12-18 Weekly Metal Recommendations

June 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

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

Support The Metal!

June 14, 2021

Band: Reaktion

Release: To Expect Nothing

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Heir Corpse One

Rlease: Fly the Fiendish Skies

Style: Death

+2

Band: Tortharry

Release: Altars of Ignorance

Style: Death

+2

June 15, 2021

Band: DxVxDxDx SxLF

Release: Before The Dawn

Style: Gothic/Black

+2

Band: Abysmal Piss

Release: One With The Rotting

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Band: Nasty Surgeons

Style: A Night in the Morgue

Release: Death

+2

June 16, 2021

Band: Galneryus

Release: Union Gives Strength (EP)

Style: J-Power

+2

Band: Macabre Decay

Release: Into Oblivion

Style: Death

+2

June 18, 2021

Band: Timo Tolkki’s Avalon

Release: The Enigma Birth

Style: Synthonic/Symphonic

+2

Band: Video Nasty

Release: Video Nasty (EP)

Style: Thrash, Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Alustrium

Release: A Monument to Silence

Style: Progressive/technical Death, Blackened Metal-core

+2

Band: Helloween

Release: Helloween

Style: Power

+5,000

Band: Eye of Purgatory

Release: The Lighthouse

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Entierro

Release: El Camazotz (EP)

Style: Heavy

+3

(I normally wont give a +3 for an EP, but they choice in Judas Priest cover earned a bonus point. Normally “Exciter” is seen as the first traditional speed metal song, but “Call of the Priest” came first.)

Band: Crowne

Release: Kings of the North

Style: Power, Heavy

+2

Band: Reinforcer

Release: Prince of the Tribes

Style: Heavy, Power

+3

Band: Fear Factory

Release: Aggression Continuum

Style: Industrial, Groove

+2

(I’m sure it’s good, but I don’t like industrial)

Band: Season of Dreams

Release: Heroes

Style: Symphonic/Synthonic power

+2

Band: Pharaoh

Release: The Powers That Be

Style: Progressive Power

+3

Band: Bloodbeat

Release: Process of Extinction

Style: Death

+3

Band: Blazon Rite

Release: Endless Halls of Golden Totem

Style: Heavy, Traditional

+2

Band: Moanhand

Release Present Serpent

Style: Blackened Sludge, Doom

+2

Band: Lucifer’s Hammer

Release: The Trip

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Ravager

Release: The Third Attack

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: They Kingdom Will Burn

Release: Thy Kingdom Will Burn

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Angelwings

Release: Primordium

Style: Symphonic, Gothic

+2

Band: Chalice of Sin

Release: Chalice of Sin

Style: Symphonic, Heavy

+3

Band: Chronic Hate

Release: Reflection on Ruin (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Seventh Dimension

Release: Black Sky

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: The Day of the Beast

Release: Indisputably Carnivorous

Style: Death/Thrash, Black/Thrash

+3

June 5-11 Weekly Metal Recommendation

June 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

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

Support The Metal!

June 5, 2021

Band: Misotheist

Release: Secular Blight

Style: Black/thrash, Black

+2

Band: Dead Heat

Release: World At War

Style: Crossover Thrash, Hardcore

+2

June 7, 2021

Band: Alastor

Release: The Unholy Hordes

Style: Speed, Heavy

(Would for sure be a +3 if I knew the language)

+2

Band: GraveRipper

Release: Radiant Remains

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

June 8, 2021

Band: Glora Nexus

Release: A Grand Monument to Mortality (EP)

Style: Black, melodic

+2

Band: Heathen Deity

Release: True English Black Metal

Style: black

+2

June 11, 2021

Band: Crypta

Release: Echoes of the Soul

Style: Death, melodic

+3

Band: Hammer King

Release: Hammer King

Style: Heavy

+4

Band: Interloper

Release: Search Party

Style: Progressive, metalcore

+3

Band: This Ending

Release: Needles of Rust

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Exsanguination

Release: Spectral Hymns

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Evil King

Release: The Dark Age

Style: Synthonic Heavy

+2

Band: Metalwings

Release: A Whole New Land

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: Path of Destiny

Release: The Seed of All Evil

Style: Melodic Death, Symphonic

+4

Band: Gorgon

Release: Traditio Satanae

Style: Black

+3

Band: Firienholt

Release: By the Waters of Awakening

Style: Synthonic black

+2

Band: Brother Against Brother

Release: Brother Against Brother

Style: Synthonic heavy, power

+2

Band: Witch Cross

Release: Angel of Death

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Land of Confusion

Release: The Morning Star

Style: Melodic Death, Death

+2

Band: Seum

Release: Winterized

Style: Sludge

+2

Band: Galundo Tenvulance

Release: Tenvulancy

Style: Symphonic Deathcore (EP)

+2

Band: Terra Odium

Release: Ne Plus Ultra

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: InnerSiege

Release: Fury of Ages

Style: Traditional, heavy

+2

(their music is ok, but their metal memes on facebook are top notch)

Band: Go Ahead and Die

Release: Go Ahead and Die

Style: death/thrash, sludge, groove

+2

Band: Narbeleth

Release: Svmma Cvm Nox Arcana

Style: Black

+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 8-14 Weekly Metal Recommendations

May 20, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

May 8, 2021

Band: Coral

Release: Cambie para mal

Style: Heavy, Groove

+2

May 8, 2021

Band: Empty Throne

Release: Glossolalia (EP)

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: Devilvvorshipper

Release: The Divine Right of Kings

Style: Black

+2

Band: Eos

Release: The Great Ascension

Style: Black, melodic black

+3

May 12, 2021

Band: Meshum

Release: Enigmatic Existential Essence

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Band: Twitch of the Death Nerve

Release: Beset by False Prophets

Style: Brutal Death

+2

May 14, 2021

Band: Skratte

Release: Akt 1: Ein Feuer entfacht

Style: Black

+2

Band: Tyrant’s Curse

Release: Modern Babylon

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

Band: Against Evil

Release: End of the Line

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: The Ember, The Ash

Release: Fixation

Style: Symphonic Blackened Deathcore

+2

Band: Project: Roenwolfe

Release: Edge of Saturn

Style: Power/Thrash

+3

Band: Siniestro

Release: Vortexx

Style: Melodic Death, blackened

+2

Band: The Very End

Release: Zeitgeist

Style: Melodic Death, Melodic Death/Groove

+3

Band: Vallendusk

Release: Heralds of Strife

Style: Black

+2

Band: The Monolith Deathcult

Release: V3 - Vernedering: Connect the Goddamn Dots

Style: Symphonic Death

+2

Band: Sněť

Release: Mokvání v okovech

Style: Death

+2

Band: Grave Miasma

Release: Abyss of Wrathful Deities

Style: Death, Black/Death

+3

Band: Subterranean Masquerade

Release: Mountain Fever

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Scare of The Sun

Release: Inertia

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

+2

Band: Canvas Solaris

Release: Chromosphere

Style: Instrumental Progressive

+2

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

Band: Nihïlanth

Release: Graceless Planet

Style: Death

+3

Band: Perverted Dexterity

Release: Alacrity for Contemptuous Dissonance

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Band: Apostasy

Release: Death Return

Style: Black, Thrash

+2

Band: Sunbomb

Release: Evil and Devine

Style: Traditional

+3

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

Band: Dan Baune's Lost Sanctuary

Release: Lost Sanctuary

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Sommo Inquisitore

Release: Anno Mille

Style: Epic

+2

(+3 is I spoke Italian)

Band: The Bleeding

Release: Rise Into Nothing (EP)

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

April 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 20-27 Weekly Meta Recommendations

April 01, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

Starting this year I will no longer being do a comprehensive list of all releases. If you need even more metal in your life, I get all my info from https://www.metal-archives.com/ from which you can find upcoming releases, and from http://metalstorm.net/home/, from which you can find both upcoming and past releases although it is not as complete of a list compared to metal-archives.)

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interest peaked

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

March 20, 2021

Band: Krajiny Hmly

Release: Poza čierne hory

Style: Black, Pagan

+2

Band: Acid Age

Release: Semper Pessimus

Style: Technical Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Thagirion

Release: On The Path of Shattered Bells (EP)

Style: Black

+2

March 21, 2021

Band: Sarkrista

Release: Sworn to Profound Heresy

Style: Black

+2

March 22, 2021

Band: Ataraxia

Release: Pustovnik

Style: Death

+2

(Anyone speak Russian?)

Band: Escoria

Release: Rigor Mortis

Style: Thrash

+2

March 23, 2021

Band: Rubicon

Release: Demonstar

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

Band: Nanga Parbat

Release: Blood, Death And Silence

Style: Melodic Death, Progressive Death

+3

Band: Ireful

Release: The Walls of Madness (EP)

Style: Thrash

+3

March 24, 2021

Band: Hungry Wölf

Release: Forgotten Frozen Lands

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

Band: Arcaneblaze

Release: Spawn of Putrefaction (EP)

Style: Black/Thrash, Black/Speed

+2

March 25, 2021

Band: Mandragora

Release: [d]Æscend

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Baalberith

Release: Manhunt

Style: Death, Black/Death

+3

Band: Gartraada

Release: Embrace of the Cold Barents Sea

Style: We have Amon Amarth at home… melodic death

+2

March 26, 2021

Band: Sanguisugabogg

Release: Tortured Whole

Style: Death

+2

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

Band: Creeping Fear

Release: Hategod Triumph

Style: Death

+2

Band: Witchseeker

Release: Scene of the Wild

Style: Traditional Heavy, Speed

+2

Band: Bloodmores

Release: Too Close To The Sun

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Burn Down Eden

Release: Burn Down Eden

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Ghosts of Atlantis

Release: 3/6/2/4

Style: Symphonic Melodic Death/Groove

+3

Band: Metalite

Release: A Virtual World

Style: Synthonic Power

+2

Band: Silent Winter

Release: Empire of Sins

Style: Power

+2

Band: Paladine

Release: Entering The Abyss

Style: Power

+3

Band: Rapture

Release: Malevolent Demise Incarnation

Style: Death, Death/Thrash

+3

Band: Drakkar

Release: Chaos Lord

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Cryptosis

Release: Bionic Swarm

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Celestial Sanctuary

Release: Soul Diminished

Style: Death

+2

Band: Memoriam

Release: To the End

Style: Death

+1

Band: Necronomicon

Release: The Final Chapter

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: The Stone

Release: Kosturnice

Style: Black

+2

Band: Cambion

Release: Conflagrate the Celestial Refugium

Style: Black/Death, Death

+2

Band: George Tsalkis

Release: Return To Power

Style: Power

+3

Band: Imperia

Release: The Last Horizon

Style: Symphonic/gothic

+2

Band: Little Hole Filled

Release: And The Ants Still March On

Style: Doom, Heavy Rock (Stoner)

+2

Band: Slabber

Release: Apocryphal Diary

Style: Heavy, Thrash, Speed

+2

Band: Distant Past

Release: The Final Stage

Style: Traditional Heavy

+3

Band: The Quill

Release: Earthrise

Style: Heavy, Hard Rock, Bluesy

+3

Band: Beansidhe

Release: Processionaria

Style: Black, Black/Death

+2

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

Band: Images of Eden

Release: Angel Born

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Obscure Relic

Release: Black Sorcery Devotion

Style: Black

+2

Band: Vollmond

Release: Wolves in Turmoil

Style: Black

+2

(This album is in need of a volume boost)

Band: Electric Crown

Release: Electric Crown

Style: Heavy

+3

March 27 - April 2

March 6-12 Weekly Metal Recommendations

March 16, 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 6, 2021

Band: Vilemass

Release: Gore Weed Distortion

Style: Death

+2

Band: Incinerate

Release: Back to Reality

Style: Death, Death/Thrash

+3

March 8, 2021

Band: Navalm

Release: Cursed Land

Style: Death, Progressive Death

+2

Band: Morvidhen

Release: Morvidhen

Style: Speed

+2

(if you speak Spanish)

March 10, 2021

Band: Writhing Shadows

Release: Perverse Beasts of War (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Lovebites

Release: Glory, Glory, to the World (EP)

Style: J-Power

+3

March 10, 2021

Band: Malist

Release: Karast Relict

Style: Black, Atmospheric

+2

Band: Orden Ogan

Release: Final Days

Style: Melodic Groove, Power

+1

Band: Rise to the Sky

Release: Let Me Drown With You

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+2

Band: Secret Sphere

Release: Lifeblood

Style: Power, Melodic

+2

Band: Stortregn

Release: Impermanence

Style: Melodic Black/Death

+3

Band: Enforced

Release: Kill Grid

Style: Death/Thrash

+3

Band: Eyehategod

Release: A History of Nomadic Behavior

Style: Sludge

+1

Band: Turbulence

Release: Frontal

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: The Crown

Release: Royal Destroyer

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Thunder Horse

Release: Chosen One

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Sunstorm

Release: Afterlife

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Heart Healer

Release: The Metal Opera by Magnus Karlsson

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: Orecus

Release: The Obliterationist

Style: Death/Groove, Djent

+2

Band: Secret Chord

Release: Aurora

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: Rob Zombie

Release: The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy

Style: Industrial

+1

Feb 27 - March 5

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 6-12 Weekly Metal Recommendations

February 17, 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 6, 2021

Band: Agggressor

Release: Osculum Infame

Style: Thrash, Groove/thrash

+2

Feb 10, 2021

Band: Serenity In Murder

Release: Reborn

Style: Symphonic/Synthonic Melodic Death

+2

Band: Tragedy In Hope

Release: Sleep Paralysis

Style: Symphonic Black, Black, Post-Black

+3

Band: Simulacrum

Release: Genesis

Style: Progressive

+3

Band: Immortal Guardian

Release: Psychosomatic

Style: Progressive Power

+3

Band: Abiotic

Release: Ikigai

Style: Technical/progressive death/deathcore

+2

(probably a +3 from many)

Band: Toledo Steel

Release: Heading for the Fire

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Ablaze My Sorrow

Release: Among Ashes and Monoliths

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Magoth

Release: Inviticus

Style: Black

+3

Band: Rascal

Release: Headed Towards Destruction (EP)

Style: Heavy, Speed

+2

(would be a +3 if it was a full album)

Band: Durbin

Release: The Beast Awakens

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Noctambulist

Release: Noctambulist I: Elegieën

Style: Post-Black

+2

Band: Sur Austru

Release: Obârșie

Style: Atmospheric Death/Folk

+2

Band: Tortureslave

Release: Tools of Torture

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Demon King

Release: The Final Tyranny (EP)

Style: Technical Black/Thrash

+2

(would probably be a +3 if it was full length.)

Band: Breath of Wind

Release: Sakura

Style: Epic Symphonic Black

+3

(+2 if you are expecting vocals)

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 16-22 Weekly Metal Recommendations

January 26, 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

Jan 16, 2021

Band: Ferriterium

Release: Calvaire

Style: Black

+2

Jan 18, 20201

Band: Hidden Truth

Release: Crisol (EP)

Style: Heavy

+2

Jan 19, 2021

Band: Bloodkill

Release: Throne of Control

Style: Thrash, Heavy

+2

Jan 20, 2021

Band: Quell

Release: Turning The Sun To Stone (EP)

Style: Black

+2

Band: The Machinist

Release: I am Void

Style: Industrial Black/Death

+2

Jan 22, 2021

Band: Bestraberto

Release: 2020

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: Plagueborne

Release: A Blueprint for Annihilation

Style: Death

+2

Band: Grima

Release: Rotten Garden

Style: Atmospheric Black

+3

Band: Conviction

Release: Conviction

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Holy Mother

Release: Face This Burn

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Therion

Release: Leviathan

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: Asphyx

Release: Necroceros

Style: Death, Death/Doom

+2

Band: Phantom Elite

Release: Titanium

Style: Symphonic

+3

Band: Labÿrinth

Release: Welcome to the Absurd Circus

Style: Progressive Power

+2

Band: Nervosa

Release: Perpetual Chaos

Style: Thrash, Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Ektomorf

Release: Reborn

Style: Groove/Thrash

+2