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

Ad Blockers may block embedded music. We do not run ads on The Metal.

Oct 31, 2021

Band: Under Cold Sun

Release: Devotion

Style: Thrash

+3

facebook

Band: Physiology of Darkness

Release: Satanic Liturgy

Style: Gothic/atmospheric Black/Death

+2

facebook

Band: Demonologist

Release: I curse, I dance

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

facebook

Band: Ruttenskalle

Release: Skin’em Alive

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Voorhees

Release: Chapter Two & a Half (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Dawnbreaker

Release: Ad Majorem Dei Glorium

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Krusifire

Release: We Bring The Metal Vol. 2

Style: Thrash

+2

bandcamp

Band: Frightful

Release: Spectral Creator

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

facebook

Nov 1, 2021

Band: Demonztrator

Release: Sinister Forces of Hatred

Style: Thrash

+2

facebook

Band: Death Has Spoken

Release: Call of the Abyss

Style: Black/Doom, Death/Doom

+2

bandcamp

Band: Mental Devastation

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

Style: Technical Thrash

+3

facebook

Band: Xiphea

Release: Witchcraft

Style: Symphonic

+2

facebook

Band: Thraxas!

Release: Planetary Terrorism (EP)

Style: Groove/Thrash

+2

linktree

Band: Brygmus

Release: Vitiate

Style: Sludge, Death/Doom

+2

bandcamp

Nov 2, 2021

Band: Cerberus Attack

Release: Abyss Of Lost Souls

Style: Thrash

+2

facebook

Nov 4, 2021

Band: Shock Wave

Release: Force Ethics

Style: Thrash

+1

facebook

Nov 5, 2021

Band: Bornhom

Release: Apotheosis

Style: Black, melodic black

+2

website

Band: Poppy Seed Grinder

Release: Faceless Atrocities

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: The Night Eternal

Release: Moonlit Cross

Style: Traditional

+3

facebook

Band: Omnium Gatherum

Release: Origin

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death

+2

website

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.)

website

Band: Frozen Shield

Release: Ínia

Style: Symphonic Melodic Death/Folk

+3

facebook

Band: Saratoga

Release: XXX

Style: Power

+2

facebook

Band: Bryan Eckermann

Release: Plague Bringers

Style: Blackened Melodic Death

+2

bandcamp

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.)

facebook

Band: AfterTime

Release: Infinite Legacy (EP)

Style: Symphonic

+2

website

Band: Thola

Release: Somewhere

Style: Power/Thrash

+3

website

Band: Bad Butler

Release: Badtime Stories

Style: Speed, Power, Traditional

+2

facebook

Band: Serpentor

Release: Sacerdote del Horror

Style: Thrash

+2

facebook

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.)

website

Oct 23-29 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

Ad Blockers may block embedded music. We do not run ads on The Metal.

Oct 24, 2021

Band: Iron Attack!

Release: Maze of Graduation

Style: J-Power

+2

website

Oct 26, 2021

Band: StormDeath

Release: Call of the Panzer Goat

Style: Thrash

+2

facebook

Oct 29, 2021

Band: Running Wild

Release: Blood on Blood

Style: Traditional, Speed

+2

website

Band: First Fragment

Release: Gloire Eternelle

Style: Neo-classical Tech Death

+2

facebook

Band: Archspire

Release: Bleed the Future

Style: Tech Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Lucifer

Release: Lucifer IV

Style: Traditional, Doom

+2

facebook

Band: Be’Lakor

Release: Coherence

Style: Melodic Death

+3

website

Band: Ad Infinitum

Release: Chapter II: Legacy

Style: Symphonic Alternative

+2

(vocals and melodies are good, backing music is bland and leaves a lot to be desired)

website

Band: Count Raven

Release: The Sixth Storm

Style: Doom

+2

facebook

Band: Ophis

Release: Spew Fourth Odium

Style: Death/doom

+3

bandcamp

Band: Doedsvangr

Release: Satan Ov Suns

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Whitechaple

Release: Kin

Style: Deathcore

+2

website

Band: Mastodon

Release: Hushed Grim

Style: Progressive rock/metal

+2

website

Band: Begat The Nephilim

Release: II: The Grand Procession

Style: technical Melodic death

+3

facebook

Band: Thulcandra

Release: A Dying Wish

Style: Melodic Black

+3

website

Band: Death SS

Release: X

Style: Heavy, goth rock

+2

facebook

Band: Monolord

Release: Your Time To Shine

Style: Doom, Stoner

+2

bandcamp

Band: Voidhra

Release: Sorrow Guides Us All

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Burial

Release: Inner Gateways To The Slumbering Equilibrium At The Center of Cosmos

Style: Black/Death, Death/Doom

+3

label bandcamp

Band: Elimination

Release: Echoes of the Abyss

Style: Heavy, Thrash

+3

bandcamp

Band: Existance

Release: Wolf Attack

Style: Heavy

+3

website

Band: Grand Cadaver

Release: Into The Maw of Death

Style: Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Split Heaven

Release: Electric Spell

Style: Traditional, speed, Heavy

+3

website

Band: Sunless

Release: Ylem

Style: Progressive Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Sylvan Awe

Release: Transcend

Style: Black

+2

facebook

Sep 25 - Oct 1 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

Ad Blockers may block embedded music. We do not run ads on The Metal.

Sep 26, 2021

Band: Enthrallment

Release: Against The Will To Live - Sky Burial

Style: Brutal/Technical Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Concrete

Release: Ethereal Atrocities

Style: Death

+3

label bandcamp

Sep 27, 2021

Band: Erz

Release: Erz

Style: Black

+2

facebook

Band: Suffering Sights

Release: When Sanity Becomes Insanity

Style: Death

+2

label bandcamp

Sep 28, 2021

Band: Mary’s Blood

Release: Mary’s Blood

Style: J-Metal

+2

label website

Band: The Oriental Sun

Release: The Majestic Phoenix Arises from Centuries of Hibernation

Style: Death

+2

label bandcamp

Sep 29, 2021

Band: Mental Torment

Release: Ego:Genesis

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+3

facebook

Sep 30, 2021

Band: Aussichtslos

Release: Einsicht

Style: Melodic Black

+2

bandcamp

Oct 1, 2021

Band: Torture of Hypocrisy

Release: Humanufacture

Style: Industrial/Technical Death

+2

facebook

Band: Demolizer

Release: Upgrade (EP)

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

facebook

Band: Enslaved

Release: Caravans to the Outer Worlds (EP)

Style: Progressive Black

+2

website

Band: Necroticgorebeast

Release: Human Deviance Galore

Style: Brutal Death, Slam

+2

facebook

Band: Venefixion

Release: A Sigh From Below

Style: Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Fear Connection

Release: Progeny of Social Disease

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Sadistic Force

Release: Aces Wild

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

bandcamp

Band: Unforged

Release: Eye For an Eye

Style: Groove, Groove/Thrash

+2

website

Band: Crimson Tower

Release: Aeternal Abyss

Style: Doom

+2

bandcamp

Band: 1000 bone Cylinder Explosion

Release: Bind

Style: Extreme Progressive

Band: KK’s Priest

Release: Sermons of the Sinner

Style: Traditional Metal

+4

website

Band: Mournful Winter

Release: Mother’s Demise

Style: Melodic Black, Experimental black

+3

bandcamp

Band: Black Rose

Release: Game of Souls

Style: Heavy

+3

website

Band: Kryptos

Release: Force of Danger

Style: Heavy, Speed

+3

facebook

Band: Skverna Liniya

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

Style: Black

+2

facebook