Nov 13-19 Weekly Metal Recommendations

November 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, 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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Nov 14, 2021

Band: Bestial Invasion

Release: Divine Comedy: Inferno

Style: Epic Technical Thrash

+2

Nov 15, 2021

Band: Shiningstar

Release: Destiny

Style: Extreme Synthonic/Symphonic

+2

Band: Goaten

Release: Crimson Moonlight (EP)

Style: Heavy, Speed

+2

Band: Ibuki

Release: Storm of Emotion

Style: J-Power, Synthonic

+2

Band: Fugatta

Release: The Darkest Planet

Style: Synthonic Power

+2

(maybe only +1, I didn’t care for the vocalist, but musically they were solid)

Nov 18, 2021

Band: Synapse

Release: Singularities

Style: Progressive rock/metal

+2

(sounds good but nothing I haven’t already heard from Dream Theater)

Band: The Temple

Release: The Temple

Style: Black/Death

+2

Nov 19, 2021

Band: Tardigrada

Release: Vom Bruch bis zur Freiheit

Style: atmospheric Black

+3

(+3 if you don’t mind that it isn’t in English)

Band: Khemmis

Release: Deceiver

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Temperance

Release: Diamanti

Style: Synthonic/Symphonic Power

+2

Band: Aephanemer

Release: A Dream of Wilderness

Style: Symphonic Blackened Neo-classical

+2

Band: E Force

Release: Mindbinder

Style: Traditional Black, Black/Thrash

+1

Band: Abscession

Release: Rot of Ages

Style: Death

+2

Band: Exodus

Release: Persona Non Grata

Style: Thrash, Groove/Thrash

+4

Band: Galaxy

Release: On The Shore of Life

Style: Traditional

+2

(music is awesome, vocals are sometimes good but mostly missing the mark)

Band: Swallow the Sun

Release: Moonflowers

Style: sleepy time music

+ZZZZZZZZZ

Band: Obscura

Release: A Valediction

Style: Technical Death

+3

Band: Godless

Release: States of Chaos

Style: Death

+2

(almost +3)

Band: W.E.B.

Release: Colosseum

Style: Symphonic/Gothic Black

+3

Band: Dream Unending

Release: Tide Turns Eternal

Style: sleepy time music (melodic death/doom)

+ZZZZZ

(it’s actually relaxing except I don’t want my metal to be relaxing)

Band: The Lurking Fear

Release: Death, Madness, Horror, Decay

Style: Death

+1

(It’s almost At the Gates… but it’s not nor is it as good, which is disappointing since I’m a sucker for Lovecraftian themes.)

Band: Nightland

Release: The Great Nothing

Style: Blackened Symphonic Melodic Death

+2

Band: Stormkeep

Release: Tales of Othertime

Style: Synthonic Black

+2

Band: Stranguliatorius

Release: Doctor’s Orders: Do Not Touch!

Style: Death

+2

Band: ADX

Release: Etranges Visions

Style: Speed, Heavy

+2

Band: Hellspike

Release: Dynasties of Decay

Style: Speed, Thrash

+2

Band: Home Style Surgery

Release: Brain Drill Poetry

Style: Progressive Thrash

+2

Band: In Aevum Agere

Release: Emperor of Hell - Canto XXXIV

Style: Heavy, Doom

+3

Band: Our Common Sense

Release: Harbinger of Calamity

Style: Heavy Rock, Sludge

+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.)

July 17-23 Weekly Metal Recommendations

July 27, 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 17, 2021

Band: Scumeater

Release: Sonic Slaughter

Style: Grindcore, Death/Grind

+2

July 21, 2021

Band: Vistery

Release: Doomfall

Style: Death

+2

July 22, 2021

Band: Luminous Veil

Release: Vespers for the Loom and Lain

Style: Atmospheric/Symphonic Black

+2

July 23, 2021

Band: Wings of Destiny

Release: Memento Mori

Style: Symphonic Power, Heavy

+2

Band: Planet of the Dead

Release: Pilgrims

Style: Sludge

+2

Band: Godslave

Release: Positive Aggressive

Style: thrash

+2

Band: Fulci

Release: Exhumed Information

Style: Death

+3

Band: Flame, Dear Flame

Release: Aegis

Style: Doom, Heavy Rock

+2

Band: Eradicator

Release: Influence Denied

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Craven Idol

Release: Forked Tongues

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

Band: Caedere

Release: Eighty Years' War (Dutch War of Independence)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Hexenklad

Release: Heathenheart

Style: Melodic Black/folk

+3

Band: Yngwie Malmsteen

Release: Parabellum

Style: Heavy, neo-classical, shred

+1

Band: Heavy Water

Release: Red Brick City

Style: Hard Rock, Heavy

+2

Band: Kryptan

Release: Kryptan (EP)

Style: Black

+2

Band: Rebellion

Release: We Are the People

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

June 19-25 Weekly Metal Recommendations

July 01, 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 19, 2021

Band: Vingador

Release: Renegado

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Dusckmourn

Release: Fallen Kings and Rusted Crowns

Style: Melodic Death, Melodic Black, symphonic, epic

+3

June 20, 2021

Band: Vulture Lord

Release: Desecration Rite

Style: Black

+3

Band: Astyanax

Release: Pathologically Explicit

Style: Brutal Death

+3

June 21, 2021

Band: Voland

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

Style: Symphonic Black/Folk

+2

Band: Paraphilia

Release: Primordium of Sinister Butchery (EP)

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Band: Burden of Ymir

Release: From Élivágar

Style: Black/Folk

+2

June 23, 2021

Band: Illusion Force

Release: Illusion Paradise

Style: Synthonic/Symphonic Power, J-Power

+3

June 24, 2021

Band: Gergogot

Release: Heading to Eternal

Style: Brutal Death

+2

June 25, 2021

Band: Solus Ex Inferis

Release: Daemones Ceramici

Style: Death

+2

Band: Cathexis

Release: Untethered Abyss

Style: Technical Death

+2

Band: Beleth

Release: Silent Genesis

Style: Death

+2

Band: The Absence

Release: Coffinized

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Pestilence

Release: Exitivm

Style: Death, Symphonic

+4

Band: Requiem

Release: Collapse into Chaos

Style: Death

+3

Band: Urne

Release: Serpent & Spirit

Style: Metalcore, sludge, heavy

+2

Band: Inhumanity Vortex

Release: Reverse Engineering (EP)

Style: Technical Death

+2

Band: Nephren-Ka

Release: From Agony to Transcendence

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Band: Darkthrone

Release: Eternal Hails......

Style: Traditional Black, Black/Doom

+2

Band: 10,000 Years

Release: II

Style: Doom, Sludge

+3

Band: Polemicist

Release: Return of the Sophist

Style: Black

+2

Band: Prayers of Sanity

Release: Doctrine of Misanthropy

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: SkyEye

Release: Soldiers of Light

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Celtian

Release: Sendas de leyenda

Style: Symphonic Folk

+2

Band: Nifrost

Release: Orkja

Style: Black

+3

Band: Suidakra

Release: Resurgence

Style: Symphonic Melodic Death/Folk

+4

Band: Artach

Release: Sworn to Avenge

Style: Traditional Black

+2

Band: Dark Vision

Release: Ianose

Style: Black

+2

Band: Xenos

Release: The Dawn of Ares

Style: Technical Thrash

+2

Band: Stench Collector

Release: Effluviatorium Du Jour (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Hiraes

Release: Solitary

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Shadow Kingdom

Release: Eyes of Pain

Style: Heavy, Thrash

+2

Band: Saratan

Release: Nabatea

Style: Middle-eastern Folk Metal

+2

June 26 - July 2

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

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

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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 29 - June 4 Weekly Metal Recommendations

June 10, 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 29, 2021

Band: Goat Rider

Release: Tsundere

Style: Traditional Black

+2

May 30, 2021

Band: Gasoline Guns

Release: Motor Cult

Style: Traditional, Speed, Heavy

+3

Band: Bunker 66

Release: Beyond the Help of Prayers

Style: Black/Thrash

+3

Band: Orbital Element

Release: Celestials Damage

Style: Progressive Death

+2

May 31, 2021

Band: Dusk Lurker

Release: Whispers From The Blood Moon (EP)

Style: Black

+2

Band: Sarmat

Release: RS-28

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: Goats of Doom

Release: Shiva

Style: Black

+2

June 1, 2021

Band: Yalbadaoth

Release: Expunging The Earth (EP)

Style: Black/Death

+2

(probably +3 if it was full release)

Band: Typhonian

Release: The Cosmic Pendulum of Time (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Hannes Grossmann

Release: To Where The Light Retreats

Style: Technical Melodic Death, Progressive Death

+3

June 2, 2021

Band: Crypt Crawler

Release: Future Usurper

Style: Death

+3

Band: Starlight Ritual

Release: Sealed in Starlight

Style: Traditional, Hard Rock

+2

June 3, 2021

Band: Secret Rule

Release: Mea Culpa

Style: Synthonic

+2

Band: Mepharis

Release: Eternal Night

Style: Melodic Death

+2

June 4, 2021

Band: Red Fang

Release: Arrows

Style: Stoner

+2

(honestly I kinda forgot to pay attention to the music… the video was cool though.)

Band: Flotsam and Jetsam

Release: Blood in the Water

Style: Heavy, Thrash, Power

+4

Band: Ossaert

Release: Pelgrimsoord

Style: Black, Melodic Black

+2

Band: Van Canto

Release: To the Power of Eight

Style: A Capella, Power

(in a post apocalyptic future where electricity no longer exists, Van Canto became the most prolific metal band)

+2

(+3 if you you can listen with out snickering)

Band: Infest

Release: Psychosis

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: With All My Hate

Release: Impaired Existence

Style: Death, Brutal Death

+2

Band: Octohawk

Release: Animist

Style: Progressive Sludge

+2

Band: Overwrought

Release: …And the Abyss Stares Back

Style: Black, melodic

+2

Band: Boss Keloid

Release: Family the Smiling Thrush

Style: Progressive Sludge, Grunge

(Am I the only one who thinks they sound like progressive heavy metal Pearl Jam?)

+3

Band: Ancient Wisdom

Release: A Celebration in Honor of Death

Style: atmospheric Black, epic, synthonic

+3

Band: Plaguestorm

Release: Purifying Fire

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Myronath

Release: Djevelkraft

Style: Black

+2

Band: Desaster

Release: Churches Without Saints

Style: Black

+2

Band: Gaia Epicus

Release: Seventh Rising

Style: Power

+2

Band: Inhuman Condition

Release: Rat°God

Style: Death

+3

Band: Ashen Earth

Release: Oceans Above

Style: Death

+2

Band: Soul Grinder

Release: Lifeless Obsession (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Also Atreyu have a new album out, but they play crap.

May 1-7 Weekly Metal Recommendations

May 12, 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 1, 2021

Band: Ravian

Release: Kingsmen From Afar

Style: Symphonic Power

+2

Band: Rift Giant

Release: Cataclysm

Style: Doom/Sludge/Stoner

+2

Band: Misfire

Release: Sympathy for the Ignorant

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Dark Seal

Release: Stvoření světa

Style: atmospheric Black

+2

(maybe +3 if I spoke the language)

May 3, 2021

Band: Hanternoz

Release: Au Fleuve de Loire

Style: Black/Folk

+2

Band: Tower

Release: Uriel

Style: Gothic

+2

Band: Gargoyle

Release: Hail to the Necrodoom

Style: Black, Doom

+2

May 4, 2021

Band: Melabstra

Release: El fruto de la discordia

Style: Synthonic Black

+2

Band: Ice Howl

Release: Erhan’s Quest

Style: Instrumental Heavy

+2

May 5, 2021

Band: Outlaw

Release: Death Miasma (EP)

Style: melodic black

+2

Band: Auld

Release: …of Petrichor and I (EP)

Style: black, black/folk

+2

May 6, 2021

Band: Disembodiment

Release: Mutated Chaos (EP)

Style: Death, Death/grind

+2

May 7, 2021

Band: Lord Vampyr

Release: The Vampire’s Legacy

Style: Gothic/Black

+2

Band: Out of Hand

Release: Exility

Style: Death/Thrash, Black/Death

+2

Band: Seth

Release: La Morsure du Christ

Style: Synthonic Black

+2

Band: Nordjevel

Release: Fenriir (EP)

Style: Black

+2

Band: Wormlight

Release: Nightmother

Style: blackmetal

+2

Band: Vokonis

Release: Odyssey

Style: Stoner, Progressive

+2

Band: Solstice

Release: Casting The Die

Style: Thrash

+2

(it’s ok but but I’d prefer either of the other front men)

Band: Marius Danielsen's Legend of Valley Doom

Release: Marius Danielsen's Legend of Valley Doom Part 3

Style: epic power

+3

Band: Kryptik Mutation

Release: Pulled From the Pit

Style: Death

+2

Band: Artillery

Release: X

Style: Thrash, Heavy

+4

Band: In Asymmetry

Release: Ashes of Dead Worlds

Style: Technical Death

+2

Band: Reality Grey

Release: Beneath This Crown

Style: Technical Melodic Death

+2

Band: J. D. Overdrive

Release: Funeral Celebration

Style: Southern, Stoner, Sludge

+2

Band: Steel Fox

Release: Red Snow

Style: Traditional Speed

+3

Band: Moon Coven

Release: Slumber Wood

Style: Doom, Psychedelic rock

+3

Band: Nightshadow

Release: Strike Them Dead

Style: Power, Traditional Speed, Heavy

+3

Band: Bretus

Release: Magharia

Style: Doom, Heavy Rock (Stoner)

+2

Band: Nordic Frost

Release: Sovereign (EP)

Style: Black, Melodic Black

+2

Band: Sonic Haven

Release: Vagabond

Style: Power

+3

Band: Ghost Iris

Release: Comatose

Style: Metalcore, Djent

+3

(I’m normally not a fan of this sort of thing, but something about it got my attention.)

Band: Robin McAuley

Release: Standing on the Edge

Style: Traditional, Rock

+2

April 24-30 Weekly Metal Recommendations

May 05, 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 24, 2021

Band: Soulglass

Release: Odeth

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: Nuclear Revenge

Release: Dawn of the Primitive Age

Style: Black/Thrash

+3

Band: Surtura

Release: Dawn of Cursed Souls

Style: Death

+2

Band: Thirsty Demon

Release: Unconscious Suicide

Style: Death

+2

April 25, 2021

Band: Hymn Above Traumatic Emotion

Release: 幻葬

Style: Melodic Death, Metalcore

+2

April 28, 2021

Band: Atvm

Release: Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless

Style: Progressive Death

+2

April 29, 2021

Band: Becerus

Release: Homo Homini Brutus

Style: Death

+2

Band: Vietnam Rose

Release: Darkness Side

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death

+2

Band: Hyperomm

Release: In My Own Spaceship

Style: Symphonic/Synthonic Melodic Death

+3

Band: Gojira

Release: Fortitude

Style: Progressive Groove

+3

Band: Dreams in Fragments

Release: When Echoes Fade

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: Bunker 66

Release: Beyond the Help of Prayers

Style: black/thrash

+2

Band: Evile

Release: Hell Unleashed

Style: Thrash

+4

Band: Nekromantheon

Release: Visions of Trismegistos

Style: Death/Thrash

+3

Band: Arched Fire

Release: Remote Control

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Bloody Hell

Release: The Bloodening

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Ungfell

Release: Es Grauet

Style: Black, black/folk

+2

Band: Ewig Frost

Release: Ain’t No Saint

Style: traditional black

+2

Band: Ninkharsag

Release: The Dread March of Solemn Gods

Style: black

+3

Band: Domkraft

Release: Seeds

Style: Doom/Sludge

+2

Band: Yellowtooth

Release: The Burning Illusion

Style: Stoner, Sludge

+2

Band: Feradur

Release: Parakosm (EP)

Style: melodic death

+2

Band: Axewitch

Release: Out of the Ashes into the Fire

Style: traditional

+2

Band: Goregang

Release: Long Live The Grime (EP)

Style: Death, Death/grind

+2

Band: Dyrnwyn

Release: II Culto Del Fuoco

Style: Folk, symphonic melodic death/folk, Symphonic black/folk

+3

Band: Nattverd

Release: Vandring

Style: black

+2

Band: Screaming Banshee

Release: Pierceive

Style: Progressive Death

+2

Band: Lóstregos

Release: Onde Calan os Corazóns, Ruxen as Pedras

Style: Black

+2

Band: Poverty’s No Crime

Release: A Secret to Hide

Style: Progressive

+3

Band: Millennial Reign

Release: Carry The Fire Again (EP)

Style: Synthonic Power

+2

Band: Sorcerer

Release: Dire Prophecy

Style: Heavy, Power/Thrash

+3

Band: Blaze Bayley

Release: War Within Me

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Trauma

Release: Acrimony (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Jeriko

Release: Hasta el Final

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Temtris

Release: Ritual Warfare

Style: Heavy, Power

+3

Band: Hegony

Release: Second Stab - promo 2021

Style: Death

+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 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