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

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

June 26 - July 2 Weekly Metal Recommendations

July 07, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

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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

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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

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

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

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

Jan 1-8 Weekly Metal Recommendations

January 13, 2021 by Joe Cearlock

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 1, 2021

Band: Mechina

Release: Siege

Style: Symphonic Industrial

+2

Jan 7, 2021

Band: Pestilent Age

Release: Unwavering Futility (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Jan 8, 2021

Band: Viral

Release: Viral

Style: Heavy, Traditional, Speed

+3

Band: Midnight Spell

Release: Sky Destroyer

Style: Traditional, Heavy, Speed

+2

Band: Militia

Release: And The Gods Made War

Style: Heavy, Speed, Thrash

+2

Band: Frozen Soul

Release: Crypt of Ice

Style: Death

+3