April 3-9 Weekly Metal 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

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Band: Aetherea

Release: Through Infinite Dimensions

Style: Symphonic

+2

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April 6, 2021

Band: Tides of Kharon

Release: Titanomachy (EP)

Style: melodic death

+2

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April 8, 2021

Band: Inoculation

Release: Celestial Putridity

Style: Death

+3

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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.)

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Band: Cathartic Demise

Release: In Absence

Style: Progressive Melodic Death

+2

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Band: Horndal

Release: Lake Drinker

Style: Sludge/Groove

+2

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Band: Throne

Release: Pestilent Dawn

Style: Black/Death

+3

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Band: Sweet Oblivion

Release: Relentless

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

+3

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Band: Wolfchant

Release: Omega : Bestia

Style: Power Metal / Melodic Death

+3

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Band: Phlebotomized

Release: Pain, Resistance, Suffering (EP)

Style: Progressive Melodic Death, Progressive Death/Doom

+3

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Band: Motorjesus

Release: Hellbreaker

Style: Heavy, Hard Rock

+2

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Band: Saille

Release: V

Style: Black, Symphonic Black

+2

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Band: Dalriada

Release: Őszelő

Style: Folk

+2

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

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Band: Goath

Release: III: Shaped By The Unlight

Style: Black/Death, Death

+3

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Band: Carnal Savagery

Release: Fiendish

Style: Death

+2

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Band: Wheel

Release: Preserved in Time

Style: Doom

+3

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Band: Johan Kihlberg’s Impera

Release: Spirit of Alchemy

Style: Traditional

+2

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Band: ScreaMachine

Release: ScreaMachine

Style: Heavy

+3

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Band: Vrademargk

Release: Arrelats

Style: Melodic Death

+2

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Band: Stygian Dark

Release: Gorelords of War

Style: Death

+2

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Band: The End Machine

Release: Phase 2

Style: Traditional, Hard Rock

+2

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March 27 - April 2 Weekly Metal 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

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Band: Band of Spice

Release: By The Corner Of Tomorrow

Style: Heavy

+3

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Band: Smith/Kotzen

Release: Smith/Kotzen

Style: Heavy/Hard Rock

+1

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March 27, 2021

Band: Haissem

Release: Philosofiend

Style: Melodic Black

+2

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March 31, 2021

Band: Grabak

Release: Scion

Style: Black

+2

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Band: Obvurt

Release: The Beginning (EP)

Style: Death

+2

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Band: Obscure Fate

Release: Raven’s Call (EP)

Style: Melodic Death

+2

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Band: Dying Eden

Release: Perish to Exist

Style: Groove, Death/Groove

+2

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Band: Scaffold

Release: Codex Gigas

Style: Death

+2

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April 1, 2021

Band: Crummer

Release: Deathwards

Style: Death

+2

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Band: Wode

Release: Burn In Many Mirrors

Style: Black, Black/Death, Melodic Black

+3

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Band: Stormtide

Release: A Throne of Hollow Fire

Style: Symphonic Melodic Death/Folk

+3

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April 2, 2021

Band: Sielunvihollinen

Release: Teloituskäsky

Style: Black

+2

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Band: Spellforger

Release: Upholders of Evil (EP)

Style: Thrash, Black/Death/Thrash

+3

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Band: Evil Drive

Release: Demons Within

Style: Melodic Death

+3

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Band: Fossilization

Release: He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten (EP)

Style: Death, Death/Doom

+2

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Band: Malacoda

Release: Crawling Chaos (EP)

Style: Heavy, Gothic/Power

+2

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Band: Nervous Decay

Release: Nervous Decay

Style: Death

+2

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Band: Steel Bearing Hand

Release: Slay In Hell

Style: Death/Thrash, Black/Thrash

+2

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Band: Moral Collapse

Release: Moral Collapse

Style: Death

+2

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Band: Plaguepreacher

Release: Terracide (EP)

Style: Black

+2

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Band: Codex Mortis

Release: What Befalls of Tainted Souls

Style: Black

+3

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