Oct 30 - Nov 5 Weekly Metal 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

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Band: Physiology of Darkness

Release: Satanic Liturgy

Style: Gothic/atmospheric Black/Death

+2

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Band: Demonologist

Release: I curse, I dance

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

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Band: Ruttenskalle

Release: Skin’em Alive

Style: Death

+2

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Band: Voorhees

Release: Chapter Two & a Half (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Dawnbreaker

Release: Ad Majorem Dei Glorium

Style: Black

+2

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Band: Krusifire

Release: We Bring The Metal Vol. 2

Style: Thrash

+2

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Band: Frightful

Release: Spectral Creator

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

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Nov 1, 2021

Band: Demonztrator

Release: Sinister Forces of Hatred

Style: Thrash

+2

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Band: Death Has Spoken

Release: Call of the Abyss

Style: Black/Doom, Death/Doom

+2

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Band: Mental Devastation

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

Style: Technical Thrash

+3

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Band: Xiphea

Release: Witchcraft

Style: Symphonic

+2

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Band: Thraxas!

Release: Planetary Terrorism (EP)

Style: Groove/Thrash

+2

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Band: Brygmus

Release: Vitiate

Style: Sludge, Death/Doom

+2

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Nov 2, 2021

Band: Cerberus Attack

Release: Abyss Of Lost Souls

Style: Thrash

+2

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Nov 4, 2021

Band: Shock Wave

Release: Force Ethics

Style: Thrash

+1

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Nov 5, 2021

Band: Bornhom

Release: Apotheosis

Style: Black, melodic black

+2

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Band: Poppy Seed Grinder

Release: Faceless Atrocities

Style: Death

+2

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Band: The Night Eternal

Release: Moonlit Cross

Style: Traditional

+3

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Band: Omnium Gatherum

Release: Origin

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death

+2

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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.)

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Band: Frozen Shield

Release: Ínia

Style: Symphonic Melodic Death/Folk

+3

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Band: Saratoga

Release: XXX

Style: Power

+2

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Band: Bryan Eckermann

Release: Plague Bringers

Style: Blackened Melodic Death

+2

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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.)

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Band: AfterTime

Release: Infinite Legacy (EP)

Style: Symphonic

+2

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Band: Thola

Release: Somewhere

Style: Power/Thrash

+3

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Band: Bad Butler

Release: Badtime Stories

Style: Speed, Power, Traditional

+2

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Band: Serpentor

Release: Sacerdote del Horror

Style: Thrash

+2

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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.)

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July 3-9 Weekly Metal 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 6, 2021

Band: Emerald Rage

Release: High King

Style: Traditional, speed, power

+2

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July 7, 2021

Band: Dismalìa

Style: Vile Enigma

Style: Gothic

+2

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July 9, 2021

Band: Mayhem

Release: Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando (EP)

Style: Black

+2

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Band: Night Crowned

Release: Hädanfärd

Style: Melodic Black

+2

(+3 if you speak Swedish)

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Band: Kambrium

Release: Synthetic ERA

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death/Power

+2

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Band: Sepiroth

Release: Condemned to Suffer

Style: Death

+2

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Band: Internal Conflict

Release: A P O R I A

Style: Metal-core

+2

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Band: Dialith

Release: Atrophy (EP)

Style: Synthonic

+2

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Band: Elderblood

Release: Achrony

Style: Black

+3

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Band: Laurenne/Louhimo

Release: The Reckoning

Style: Heavy

+2

(other songs I heard was unfortunately not this good)

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Band: Domination Campaign

Release: Onward to Glory

Style: Death

+2

(good but songs all seem very similar)

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June 26 - July 2 Weekly Metal 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

June 26, 2021

Band: Pullverizer

Release: We Have Warned EP (style)

Style: Thrash, groove

+2

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Band: Pandemic Outbreak

Release: Skulls Beneath the Cross

Style: Death

+2

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June 27, 2021

Band: Wülfskol

Release: Satanik Death Militia (EP)

Style: Black, Death, Crust punk

+2

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June 28, 2021

Band: Anam’Kara

Release: Unleashed

Style: Symphonic blackened melodic death

+2

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Band: Leif

Release: Gateways

Style: Melodic Black

+2

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June 30, 2021

Band: Гробъ

Release: Смирение

Style: Black/Death

+2

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July 1, 2021

Band: Vrykolakas

Release: And Vrykolakas Brings Chaos and Destruction

Style: Death

+2

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July 2, 2021

Band: Diabolizer

Release: Khalkedonian Death

Style: Death

+2

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Band: Lost in Grey

Release: Under the Surface

Style: Symphonic

+2

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Band: At The Gates

Release: The Nightmare of Being

Style: Melodic Death

+3

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Band: Felled

Release: The Intimate Earth

Style: Black/Folk

+2

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Band: Mourn the Light

Release: Suffer, Then We’re Gone

Style: Doom, Traditional, Heavy

+3

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Band: Supreme Court

Release: Been a While

Style: Heavy, Speed

+2

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Band: Queen of Distortion

Release: Checkmate!

Style: Traditional

+2

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Band: Born of Osiris

Release: Angel or Alien

Style: Synthonic Metal-core

+2

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Band: Lord of The Lost

Release: Judas

Style: Gothic/Industrial

+3

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June 19-25 Weekly Metal 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

June 19, 2021

Band: Vingador

Release: Renegado

Style: Thrash

+2

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Band: Dusckmourn

Release: Fallen Kings and Rusted Crowns

Style: Melodic Death, Melodic Black, symphonic, epic

+3

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June 20, 2021

Band: Vulture Lord

Release: Desecration Rite

Style: Black

+3

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Band: Astyanax

Release: Pathologically Explicit

Style: Brutal Death

+3

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June 21, 2021

Band: Voland

Release: Voland III: Царепоклонство - Il culto degli Zar (EP)

Style: Symphonic Black/Folk

+2

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Band: Paraphilia

Release: Primordium of Sinister Butchery (EP)

Style: Brutal Death

+2

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Band: Burden of Ymir

Release: From Élivágar

Style: Black/Folk

+2

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June 23, 2021

Band: Illusion Force

Release: Illusion Paradise

Style: Synthonic/Symphonic Power, J-Power

+3

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June 24, 2021

Band: Gergogot

Release: Heading to Eternal

Style: Brutal Death

+2

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June 25, 2021

Band: Solus Ex Inferis

Release: Daemones Ceramici

Style: Death

+2

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Band: Cathexis

Release: Untethered Abyss

Style: Technical Death

+2

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Band: Beleth

Release: Silent Genesis

Style: Death

+2

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Band: The Absence

Release: Coffinized

Style: Melodic Death

+3

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Band: Pestilence

Release: Exitivm

Style: Death, Symphonic

+4

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Band: Requiem

Release: Collapse into Chaos

Style: Death

+3

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Band: Urne

Release: Serpent & Spirit

Style: Metalcore, sludge, heavy

+2

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Band: Inhumanity Vortex

Release: Reverse Engineering (EP)

Style: Technical Death

+2

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Band: Nephren-Ka

Release: From Agony to Transcendence

Style: Brutal Death

+2

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Band: Darkthrone

Release: Eternal Hails......

Style: Traditional Black, Black/Doom

+2

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Band: 10,000 Years

Release: II

Style: Doom, Sludge

+3

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Band: Polemicist

Release: Return of the Sophist

Style: Black

+2

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Band: Prayers of Sanity

Release: Doctrine of Misanthropy

Style: Thrash

+2

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Band: SkyEye

Release: Soldiers of Light

Style: Heavy

+3

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Band: Celtian

Release: Sendas de leyenda

Style: Symphonic Folk

+2

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Band: Nifrost

Release: Orkja

Style: Black

+3

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Band: Suidakra

Release: Resurgence

Style: Symphonic Melodic Death/Folk

+4

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Band: Artach

Release: Sworn to Avenge

Style: Traditional Black

+2

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Band: Dark Vision

Release: Ianose

Style: Black

+2

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Band: Xenos

Release: The Dawn of Ares

Style: Technical Thrash

+2

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Band: Stench Collector

Release: Effluviatorium Du Jour (EP)

Style: Death

+2

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Band: Hiraes

Release: Solitary

Style: Melodic Death

+3

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Band: Shadow Kingdom

Release: Eyes of Pain

Style: Heavy, Thrash

+2

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Band: Saratan

Release: Nabatea

Style: Middle-eastern Folk Metal

+2

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Jan 31 - Feb 5 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

Feb 1, 2021

Band: R.I.P.

Release: As Good As Dead (EP)

Style: Death

+2

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Band: Saber

Release: Without Warning

Style: Heavy

+3

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Band: Corpse Worship

Release: Horror Chronicles

Style: Death

+2

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Feb 2, 2021

Band: Sintax

Release: Nano3000

Style: Groove/Thrash

+2

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Feb, 3, 2021

Band: Cross Vein

Release: Life of Veins

Style: J-Power

+2

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Feb 5, 2021

Band: Product of Hate

Release: You Brought This War

Style: Metalcore, Groove/Thrash

+2

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Band: Kalidia

Release: Lies' Device (2021)

Style: Synthonic Power

+3

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Band: Angelus Apatrida

Release: Angelus Apatrida

Style: Thrash, Groove/Thrash

+2

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Band: Incursed

Release: Baskavigin

Style: Melodic Death/Folk

+3

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Band: Korpiklaani

Release: Jylhä

Style: Folk

+2

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Band: Basilica

Release: Basilica

Style: Death/Thrash-core

+3

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Band: Maestitium

Release: Tale of the Endless (EP)

Style: Melodic Death, Symphonic Melodic Death

+3

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Band: Terrordome

Release: Strait Outta Smogtown

Style: Thrash, Crossover

+2

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Band: Todd La Torre

Release: Rejoice in the Suffering

Style: Thrash, Heavy

+3

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