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

Nov 6-12 Weekly Metal Recommendations

November 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, 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 6, 2021

Band: Announce The Apocalypse

Release: Nefarious Means

Style: Melodic Death/Thrash, Death

+3

Nov 8, 2021

Band: Healing Harm

Release: Shapes of Alienation

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Nov 9, 2021

Band: Ültra Raptör

Release: Tyrants

Style: Speed

+2

Nov 10, 2021

Band: Black Soul Horde

Release: Horrors From The Void

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Serpent Lord

Release: Apocrypha

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Isengrim

Release: Maailmantappaja

Style: Black

+2

(maybe +3 if I spoke Finnish)

Nov 12, 2021

Band: Monument of Misanthropy

Release: Unterweger

Style: Death, Brutal Death

+2

Band: Knights of the Realm

Release: Knights of the Realm

Style: Traditional, Speed

+3

Band: L.A. Guns

Release: Checkered Past

Style: Hard Rock

+2

Band: Bonded

Release: Into Blackness

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Insania

Release: V (Praeparatus Supervivet)

Style: Power

+3

Band: Unleashed

Release: No Sign of Life

Style: Death, Death/Thrash

+3

Band: Creature

Release: Eloge De L’Ombre

Style: Progressive Back

+2

Band: Belore

Release: Artefacts

Style: Epic Symphonic Black/Folk

+3

Band: Cân Bardd

Release: Devoured By The Oak

Style: Epic Symphonic Black/Folk

+3

Band: Northtale

Release: Eternal Flame

Style: Power

+3

Band: Sijjin

Release: Sumerian Promises

Style: Death

+2

Band: Apostle of Solitude

Release: Until The Darkness Goes

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Vomit the Soul

Release: Cold

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Band: Phantom Druid

Release: The Downward Slope (EP)

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Obscura Qalma

Release: Apotheosis

Style: Epic Symphonic Black/Death

+2

Band: Tower

Release: Shock to the System

Style: Traditional, Speed

+3

Band: 200 Stab Wounds

Release: Slave to the Scalpel

Style: Death

+2

Band: Tormentor

Release: Crown of Shame (EP)

Style: Heavy, Thrash

+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.)

Oct 23-29 Weekly Metal Recommendations

November 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, 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 24, 2021

Band: Iron Attack!

Release: Maze of Graduation

Style: J-Power

+2

Oct 26, 2021

Band: StormDeath

Release: Call of the Panzer Goat

Style: Thrash

+2

Oct 29, 2021

Band: Running Wild

Release: Blood on Blood

Style: Traditional, Speed

+2

Band: First Fragment

Release: Gloire Eternelle

Style: Neo-classical Tech Death

+2

Band: Archspire

Release: Bleed the Future

Style: Tech Death

+3

Band: Lucifer

Release: Lucifer IV

Style: Traditional, Doom

+2

Band: Be’Lakor

Release: Coherence

Style: Melodic Death

+3

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)

Band: Count Raven

Release: The Sixth Storm

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Ophis

Release: Spew Fourth Odium

Style: Death/doom

+3

Band: Doedsvangr

Release: Satan Ov Suns

Style: Black

+2

Band: Whitechaple

Release: Kin

Style: Deathcore

+2

Band: Mastodon

Release: Hushed Grim

Style: Progressive rock/metal

+2

Band: Begat The Nephilim

Release: II: The Grand Procession

Style: technical Melodic death

+3

Band: Thulcandra

Release: A Dying Wish

Style: Melodic Black

+3

Band: Death SS

Release: X

Style: Heavy, goth rock

+2

Band: Monolord

Release: Your Time To Shine

Style: Doom, Stoner

+2

Band: Voidhra

Release: Sorrow Guides Us All

Style: Black

+2

Band: Burial

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

Style: Black/Death, Death/Doom

+3

Band: Elimination

Release: Echoes of the Abyss

Style: Heavy, Thrash

+3

Band: Existance

Release: Wolf Attack

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Grand Cadaver

Release: Into The Maw of Death

Style: Death

+3

Band: Split Heaven

Release: Electric Spell

Style: Traditional, speed, Heavy

+3

Band: Sunless

Release: Ylem

Style: Progressive Death

+2

Band: Sylvan Awe

Release: Transcend

Style: Black

+2

Oct 16-22 Weekly Metal Recommendations

October 28, 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 16, 2021

Band: Altesia

Release: Embryo

Style: Progressive

+2

Oct 19, 2021

Band: Spirit Adrift

Release: Forge Your Future (EP)

Style: Traditional

+2

(sounds good but I will rarely give an EP +3 because of so few tracks)

Oct 20, 2021

Band: Primeval Well

Release: Primeval Well

Style: Raw Black, Southern Black

+2

(This has to be the first time I’ve heard blue grass combined with black metal. I’m interested for sure. Unfortunately I’m not Trv Kvlt and don’t care much for raw black metal. I’d love to here with done with a cleaner production.)

Oct 21, 2021

Band: Tripulante

Release: Lickan Antaw

Style: Heavy, Power, Speed, Synthonic

+2

Oct 22, 2021

Band: Cradle of Filth

Release: Existence Is Futile

Style: Extreme Symphonic

+4

Band: Thirteen Bled Promises

Release: Foundation (EP)

Style: Technical Black/Death

+2

Band: Evil Spell

Release: Padre Vostro

Style: Traditional Black, Black/Thrash

+2

Band: Dream Theater

Release: A View from the Top of the World

Style: Progressive

+3

Band: Necrofier

Release: Prophecies of Eternal Darkness

Style: Melodic Black

+3

Band: Phantom Fire

Release: The Bust of Beelzebub

Style: Black

+2

Band: Ravenous

Release: Hubris

Style: Power

+2

Band: Knife

Release: Knife

Style: Black/Thrash, Traditional Black

+3

Band: U.D.O.

Release: Game Over

Style: Traditional

+3

Band: Green Lung

Release: Black Harvest

Style: Traditional, Doom, Early, Stoner

+3

Band: Toledo Steel

Release: Heading For the Fire

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Seven Sisters

Release: Shadow of the Fallen Star Pt. 1

Style: Progressive, Heavy, Traditional

+3

Band: Burning Point

Release: Arsonist Of The Soul

Style: Power

+3

Band: Shadowland

Release: The Necromancer’s Castle

Style: Speed, Traditional

+3

Band: Hand of Kalliach

Release: Samhainn

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Worm

Release: Foreverglade

Style: Death/Doom

+2

Band: The Sonic Overlords

Release: Last Days of Babylon

Style: Doom

+3

Band: Scarecrow

Release: Scarecrow II

Style: Early Doom, hard blues rock

+2

Band: Draconicon

Release: Dark Side of Magic

Style: Symphonic Power

+2

( I wouldn’t be surprised if this band gets big in the next couple years)

Band: Bloodred Hourglass

Release: Your Highness

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: 1914

Release: Where Fear and Weapons Meet

Style: Symphonic Black

+3

Band: LIVLØS

Release: And Then There Were None

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Zornheym

Release: The Zornheim Sleep Experiment

Style: Melodic/Symphonic Black, Black/Power

+3

Band: Massacre

Release: Resurgence

Style: Death

+3

Band: Slapdown

Release: Fundamentally Wicked

Style: Death

+2

Band: Cognos

Release: Cognos

Style: Progressive, Progressive Death

+2

Band: Catalyst Crime

Release: Catalyst Crime

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: Red to Grey

Release: Balance of Power

Style: Thrash

+2

Oct 2-15 Weekly Metal Recommendations

October 21, 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 2, 2021

Band: Sythera

Release: Frozen Rose

Style: Synthonic Power

+2

Band: Cranial Decay

Release: Ov The Darkest Magic

Style: Death

+2

Band: Imaginature

Release: Imaginature

Style: Symphonic, Progressive, Power

+3

Band: Stormgrey

Release: DNA of Chaos

Style: Death

+3

Oct 3, 2021

Band: Empty Life

Release: Demons

Style: Black, atmospheric

+3

Oct 4, 2021

Band: In Vain

Release: All Hope is Gone

Style: Power/Thrash

+3

Oct 5, 2021

Band: Vomit Bag Squad

Release: Tales From The Bag

Style: Thrash, crossover

+2

Oct 8, 2021

Band: Black Sites

Release: Untrue

Style: Progressive, Heavy

+2

Band: Blood Red Throne

Release: Imperial Congregation

Style: Death

+2

Band: The Breathing Process

Release: Labyrinthian

Style: Symphonic Black/Death

+2

Band: Creeping Death

Release: The Edge of Existence

Style: Death

+2

Band: ATRÆ BILIS

Release: Apexapien

Style: Death

+2

Band: Trivium

Release: In the Court of the Dragon

Style: Heavy, Metal-core

+1

Band: Voidfallen

Release: The Atlas of Spiritual Apocalypse

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death

+2

Band: Toward the Throne

Release: Vowed to Decline

Style: Atmospheric Melodic Black/Death

+2

Band: Desalmado

Release: Mass Mental Devolution

Style: Death

+2

Band: Gus. G

Release: Quantum Leap

Style: Instrumental

+2

Band: Naraka

Release: In Tenebris

Style: Black/Death

+2

Oct 15, 2021

Band: Hate

Release: Rugia

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: Lords of Black

Release: Alchemy of Souls Part II

Style: Power, Progressive

+2

Band: Leverage

Release: Above the Beyond

Style: Traditional, Early, Symphonic/synthonic

+3

Band: Destinity

Release: In Continuum

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Alcatrazz

Release: V

Style: Speed

+2

Band: Avdagata

Release: Damnatio Cursus (EP)

Style: Melodic Black, Synthonic/Symphonic Black

+2

Band: The Agonist

Release: Days Before The World Wept (EP)

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Necromantia

Release: To the Depths We Descend…

Style: Black

+3

Band: Extreme Cold Winter

Release: World Exit

Style: Death/Doom

+2

(+3 if you are into Death/Doom, it’s not one of my favorite genres)

Band: Aeon

Release: God Ends Here

Style: Death

+3

Band: Misanthur

Release: Ephemeris

Style: Black/Doom

+2

Band: Deviant Process

Release: Nurture

Style: Progressive Death

+2

Band: Autumn’s Grief

Release: The Dead Don’t Smile

Style: Symphonic/Gothic

+2

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

Sep 18-24 Weekly Metal Recommendations

September 29, 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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Sep 18, 2021

Band: As the Sun Falls

Release: Last Days of Light

Style: melodic Death

+3

Sep 20, 2021

Band: Energema

Release: Promised Land

Style: Power

+2

Band: Fatal Solution

Release: Fatal Solution

Style: Thrash

+1

(would be better with a better mix, vocals are to loud)

Sep 22, 2021

Band: Orbstruct

Release: Deimos Falling

Style: Death

+2

Band: ShadowStrike

Release: Fables & Folklore

Style: symphonic Power

+2

Band: Hellhound

Release: Warrior of Rising Sun

Style: Heavy

+2

Sep 24, 2021

Band: Wraith

Release: Undo the Chains

Style: Blackened Thrash

+3

Band: The Ossuary

Release: Oltretomba

Style: doom

+2

Band: A Pale Horse Named Death

Release: Infernum in Terra

Style: Doom/Gothic

+2

Band: Paradox

Release: Heresy II: End of a Legend

Style: Thrash

+4

Dream Ocean

Release: The Missing Stone

Style: Symphonic, Progressive

+2

Band: Virial

Release: Transhumanism

Style: Progressive/technical Death

+3

Band: Orbit Culture

Release: Shaman (EP)

Style: Death/Groove

+2

Band: Rivers of Nihil

Release: The Work

Style: Progressive Death

+2

Band: Cognizance

Release: Upheaval

Style: Technical Death

+2

Band: Stagewar

Release: Danger to Ourselves

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Ars Moriendi

Release: Le Silence Déraisonnable du Ciel

Style: Melodic Black

+2

Band: Unto Others

Release: Strength

Style: Heavy, Gothic

+3

Band: Sceptor

Release: Rise to the Light

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Iskandr

Release: Vergezicht

Style: Black

+2

Band: Surturs Lohe

Release: Wielandstahl

Style: Epic Black/Folk (Viking, pagan)

+2

(+3 if you speak German)

Band: Axxelerator

Release: Heads or Tails

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Withering Soul

Release: Last Contact

Style: Black

+2

Sep 4-10 Weekly Metal Recommendations

September 15, 2021 by Joe Cearlock

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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Sep 6, 2021

Band: Giant of the Mountain

Release: Mountain’s Blood (EP)

Style: Progressive Black/Death

+2

(probably +3 if it was full length)

Sep 8, 2021

Band: Vell’z Fire

Release: The Last Stand

Style: Heavy

+2

Sep 9, 2021

Band: Darchitect

Release: The Visiting

Style: Progressive Death/Thrash

+3

Sep 10, 2021

Band: Journey Into Darkness

Release: Infinite Universe Infinite Death

Style: Symphonic/Synthonic Black/Death

+2

Band: Daily Insanity

Release: Chronicles of War

Style: German Thrash

+2

Band: Runespell

Release: Verses in Regicide

Style: Black

+2

Band: Mägo de Oz

Release: Bandera negra

Style: Power/Folk

+3

(to bad I don’t speak Spanish)

Band: Inferi

Release: Vile Genesis

Style: Technical Melodic Death

+2

Band: Subfire

Release: Define the Sinner

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Lvcifyre

Release: The Broken Seal

Style: Death

+2

Band: Hladomrak

Release: Archaic Sacrifice

Style: Black

+2

(+3 for those speak Swedish or don’t care about language)

Band: Black Mass

Release: Feast at the Forbidden Tree

Style: Blackened Speed, Thrash

+3

Band: Seven Spires

Release: Gods of Debauchery

Style: Symphonic Melodic Death

+4

(I ordered this immediately after hearing this song, if the rest of the album is 10% as good, it will be a great album)

Band: Aborted

Release: Maniacult

Style: Death, Brutal Death, Grindcore

+2

Band: Sober Truth

Release: Laissez Faire, Lucifer!

Style: Groove

+2

Band: Hunted

Release: Deliver Us

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Existem

Release: Searching For Clarity (EP)

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Devcord

Release: Godisnowhere

Style: Progressive Death

+2

Band: Between Worlds

Release: Between Worlds

Style: Heavy, Progressive Power

+3

Band: Stíny plamenů

Release: Jediný poskvrněný přítok

Style: Black

+2

Band: Letzte Instanz

Release: Ehrenwort

Style: Symphonic, Gothic

+2

Band: Anette Olzon

Release: Strong

Style: Symphonic, Power

+2

Aug 28 - Sep 3 Weekly Metal Recommendations

September 09, 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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Aug 28, 2001

Band: Temple of Gorgon

Release: Throats of Lie

Style: Black

+2

Band: Mortifilia

Release: The Great Inferno

Style: Melodic Death

+1

Band: Offence

Release: You’ll Never Rest In Peace

Style: Death

+1

Aug 29, 2021

Band: The Maledict

Release: Remembrance

Style: Death/Doom

+2

Sep 1, 2021

Band: BlightMass

Release: Harbinger of Lucidity

Style: Death

+2

Band: Vilú

Release: Üden Vilú

Style: Death

+2

Sep 3, 2021

Band: Bloodphemy

Release: Blood Sacrifice

Style: Death

+2

Band: Malison

Release: Death's Embrace

Style: Heavy, Speed

+2

Band: Deformatory

Release: Inversion of the Unseen Horizon

Style: Technical Death

+2

Band: Nattmaran

Release: The Lurking Evil

Style: Blackened Speed

+2

Band: Apallic

Release: Edge of Desolation

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Rise to the Sky

Release: Per Aspera Ad Astra

Style: melodic death/doom, atmospheric

+3

Band: Iron Maiden

Release: Senjutsu

Style: Traditional, hard rock, progressive, synthonic

+4

Band: Portrait

Release: At One with None

Style: Traditional

+3

Band: Wharflurch

Release: Psychedelic Realms ov Hell

Style: Death

+3

Band: Necrosexual

Release: Seeds of Seduction (EP)

Style: Crossover thrash

+2

Band: Apophis

Release: Excess

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Carnifex

Release: Graveside Confessions

Style: Deathcore, Black/Deathcore

+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

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 15-21 Weekly Metal Recommendations

May 26, 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 15, 2021

Band: GjeldRune

Release: Слово посеет смуту

Style: Folk

+2

Band: Karcinoma

Release: Invictus

Style: Symphonic

+3

Band: Infitar

Release: Inhuman

Style: Death

+3

Band: Killchain

Release: Rottenness

Style: Death

+2

Band: Tvær

Release: Uvaer

Style: Black, atmospheric

+2

(Sorry, but if you want +3 You actually have to give your songs titles, I’m guessing there aren’t any actual lyrics either, who the hell can tell.)

May 18, 2021

Band: Swamp Terror

Release: Gathered For Carnage (EP)

Style: death

+2

Band: Faeces

Release: Nihilominus

Style: Progressive Death, death/grind, brutal death

+3

May 20, 2021

Band: Guzarat

Release: Algoritma

Style: Death

+2

Band: Chiliasm

Release: Flesh Over Finite (EP)

Style: Technical Death

+2

Band: Great Master

Release: Thy Harbour Inn

Style: Epic Power

+2

Band: Eisenhand

Release: Fires Within

Style: Speed, Traditional

+2

May 21, 2021

Band: Liquid Steel

Release: Mountain of Madness

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Vomitron

Release: RighteousNES

Style: Instrumental

+2

Band: Slithering Decay

Release: Aeons Untold

Style: Death

+2

Band: Havamal

Release: The Shadow Chapter

Style: Synthonic/Symphonic Melodic Death

+3

Band: Conquerors

Release: Stormbringer

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

Band: Hanging Garden

Release: Skeleton Lake

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+2

Band: Hagel

Release: Veneration of the Black Light

Style: Atmospheric Melodic Black/Doom

+2

Band: Majestic Downfall

Release: Aorta

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+3

Band: Herman Frank

Release: Two for a Lie

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Illusory

Release: Crimson Wreath

Style: Traditional, Heavy

+2

Band: Virtue of Decay

Release: Only Now You Fear the Cold (EP)

Style: Black, melodic

+2

Band: Gn0sis

Release: Pro Terra

Style: Instrumental Technical Death, Progressive

+2

Band: Sabhankra

Release: Death To Traitors

Style: Black

Band: Vulture

Release: Dealin’ Death

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Nahaya

Release: Vital Alchemy

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Artaban’s Redemption

Release: Broken Puppets (EP)

Style: Power

+2

Band: Overlloud

Release: Splendor Solis

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Krilloan

Release: Stories of Times Forgotten

Style: Power

+2

Band: Nergard

Release: Eternal White

Style: Symphonic, Power

+3

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

March 20-27 Weekly Meta Recommendations

April 01, 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 20, 2021

Band: Krajiny Hmly

Release: Poza čierne hory

Style: Black, Pagan

+2

Band: Acid Age

Release: Semper Pessimus

Style: Technical Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Thagirion

Release: On The Path of Shattered Bells (EP)

Style: Black

+2

March 21, 2021

Band: Sarkrista

Release: Sworn to Profound Heresy

Style: Black

+2

March 22, 2021

Band: Ataraxia

Release: Pustovnik

Style: Death

+2

(Anyone speak Russian?)

Band: Escoria

Release: Rigor Mortis

Style: Thrash

+2

March 23, 2021

Band: Rubicon

Release: Demonstar

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

Band: Nanga Parbat

Release: Blood, Death And Silence

Style: Melodic Death, Progressive Death

+3

Band: Ireful

Release: The Walls of Madness (EP)

Style: Thrash

+3

March 24, 2021

Band: Hungry Wölf

Release: Forgotten Frozen Lands

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

Band: Arcaneblaze

Release: Spawn of Putrefaction (EP)

Style: Black/Thrash, Black/Speed

+2

March 25, 2021

Band: Mandragora

Release: [d]Æscend

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Baalberith

Release: Manhunt

Style: Death, Black/Death

+3

Band: Gartraada

Release: Embrace of the Cold Barents Sea

Style: We have Amon Amarth at home… melodic death

+2

March 26, 2021

Band: Sanguisugabogg

Release: Tortured Whole

Style: Death

+2

(I’d give it give it a +3 if some of the concepts weren’t so fucked up, but enjoy your weird shit)

Band: Creeping Fear

Release: Hategod Triumph

Style: Death

+2

Band: Witchseeker

Release: Scene of the Wild

Style: Traditional Heavy, Speed

+2

Band: Bloodmores

Release: Too Close To The Sun

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Burn Down Eden

Release: Burn Down Eden

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Ghosts of Atlantis

Release: 3/6/2/4

Style: Symphonic Melodic Death/Groove

+3

Band: Metalite

Release: A Virtual World

Style: Synthonic Power

+2

Band: Silent Winter

Release: Empire of Sins

Style: Power

+2

Band: Paladine

Release: Entering The Abyss

Style: Power

+3

Band: Rapture

Release: Malevolent Demise Incarnation

Style: Death, Death/Thrash

+3

Band: Drakkar

Release: Chaos Lord

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Cryptosis

Release: Bionic Swarm

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Celestial Sanctuary

Release: Soul Diminished

Style: Death

+2

Band: Memoriam

Release: To the End

Style: Death

+1

Band: Necronomicon

Release: The Final Chapter

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: The Stone

Release: Kosturnice

Style: Black

+2

Band: Cambion

Release: Conflagrate the Celestial Refugium

Style: Black/Death, Death

+2

Band: George Tsalkis

Release: Return To Power

Style: Power

+3

Band: Imperia

Release: The Last Horizon

Style: Symphonic/gothic

+2

Band: Little Hole Filled

Release: And The Ants Still March On

Style: Doom, Heavy Rock (Stoner)

+2

Band: Slabber

Release: Apocryphal Diary

Style: Heavy, Thrash, Speed

+2

Band: Distant Past

Release: The Final Stage

Style: Traditional Heavy

+3

Band: The Quill

Release: Earthrise

Style: Heavy, Hard Rock, Bluesy

+3

Band: Beansidhe

Release: Processionaria

Style: Black, Black/Death

+2

(probably would get +3 if I spoke what ever language it is)

Band: Images of Eden

Release: Angel Born

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Obscure Relic

Release: Black Sorcery Devotion

Style: Black

+2

Band: Vollmond

Release: Wolves in Turmoil

Style: Black

+2

(This album is in need of a volume boost)

Band: Electric Crown

Release: Electric Crown

Style: Heavy

+3

March 27 - April 2

March 13-19 Weekly Metal Recommendation

March 24, 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 15, 2021

Band: Valtari

Release: Titans Call

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Suppressive Fire

Release: Invasion (EP)

Style: Blackened Thrash

+2

March 16, 2021

Band: Dead Sun

Release: Night Terrors

Style: Death, Melodic Death

+2

March 19, 2021

Band: Cosmic Reaper

Release: Cosmic Reaper

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Methal Kyrios

Release: Síndrome oscuro

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Aversed

Release: Impermanent

Style: Progressive Melodic Death

+2

Band: Fuath

Release: II

Style: atmospheric black

+2

Band: Depths of Hatred

Release: Inheritance

Style: Deathcore

+2

Band: Agent Steel

Release: No Other Gods Before Me

Style: Heavy, Speed, thrash

+2

Band: Magna Mortalis

Release: Procreation of the Plague

Style: Death

+2

Band: Adamantis

Release: Far Flung Realm

Style: Power, Epic

+2

Band: Midnight Odyssey

Release: Biolume Part 2: The Golden Orb

Style: Epic, Atmospheric Black

+2

Band: Mare Cognitum

Release: Solar Paroxysm

Style atmospheric/melodic black

+2

Band: Lunar Shadow

Release: Wish To Leave

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Krabathor

Release: Demonizer / Mortal Memories II

Style: Death/thrash

+2

Band: Hell Poison

Release: Breathing for the Filth

Style: Traditional Black, Traditional, Speed

+3

Band: Martyrium

Release: Lamia Satanica

Style: Symphonic Black

+3

Band: Morost

Release: Forged Entropy

Style: Progressive Black/Death

+2

Band: SnailMAGEDDON

Release: Swansong for a Snail

Style: Epic Black/Folk

+2

Band: Batushka

Relese: Царю Небесный / Carju Niebiesnyj

Style: Epic Black

+2

Band: Sarmat

Release: RS-28

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: Ulthima

Release: Symphony of the Night

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death

+3

Band: Herzel

Release: Le Dernier Rempart

Style: Traditional

+2

(maybe +3 if I spoke French)

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

Feb 13-19 Weekly Metal Recommendations

February 24, 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 13, 2021

Band: Hortzak

Release: Heriotza Ala Hil

Style: Sludge

+2

(+3 if I spoke Spanish)

Band: Slaves to Fashion

Release: History of Heavy Metal

Style: All of them

+2

Feb 14, 2021

Band: SteelForce

Release: The Oracle (EP)

Style: Power, Heavy

+2

Band: Jens Lötzsch

Release: Destructive Mind

Style: Instrumental

+2

Feb 15, 2021

Band: Christoffear

Release: We All Have Our Daemons

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Swamp Thief

Release: I (EP)

Style: Sludge, Southern

+2

(Would be a +3 if full length)

Band: Anal Stabwound

Release: The Visceral Sovereign

Style: Brutal Deth

+2

Band: Visceral Uprooting

Release: 50.39-Square-Kilometer Mass Grave

Style: Brutal Death, Slam

+2

Band: Breakhead

Release: Allegiance to Materiality

Style: Death

+2

Feb 17, 2021

Band: Hizaki

Release: Rusalka (EP)

Style: Instrumental, neo-classical, symphonic

+2

Feb 18, 2021

Band: Steel Sword

Release: The Steel Sword

Style: Heavy

+2

Feb 19, 2021

Band: A Night In The Abyss

Release: Begotten (EP)

Style: Symphonic Black/Deathcore

+2

(+3 if it was full length)

Band: Spire

Release: Temple of Khronos

Style: Progressive Black

+2

Band: The Scalar Process

Release: Coagulative Matter

Style: Progressive/Technical Death

+2

Band: Dragon

Release: Arcydzieło zagłady

Style: Thrash, Technical, Death

+3

(anyone speak Polish?)

Band: Carcolh

Release: The Life and Works of Death

Style: Doom

+2

Band: The Fals

Release: Feuerportal (EP)

Style: Black, Blackened

+2

(maybe +3 if full length)

Band: Ephemerald

Release: Between the Glimpses of Hope

Style: Symphonic/Synthonic Melodic Death, Folk

+2

Band: Coronary

Release: Sinbad

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Saprobiontic

Release: Apocalyptic Retribution

Style: Death

+3

Band: Embrace of Souls

Release: The Number of Destiny

Style: Symphonic/Synthonic Power

+3

Band: Thron

Release: Pilgrim

Style: Black

+3

Band: Athanotos

Release: Biogenesis

Style: Technical Death/Deathcore

+2

Band: Wizard

Release: Metal In My Head

Style: Power, Speed, Heavy, Epic

+2

(+3 if you don’t mine the pure cheese)

Band: Dopelord

Release: Reality Dagger (EP)

Style: Stoner, Sludge

+2

Band: Mastord

Release: To Whom Bow Even the Trees

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Marco Garau’s Magic Opera

Release: The Golden Pentacle

Style: Symphonic Neoclassical Power

+3

Band: Insect Inside

Release: The First Shining of New Genus

Style: Death, Brutal, Slam

+3

Band: Angel Martyr

Release: Nothing Louder than Silence

Style: Speed, Heavy

+2

Band: Malice Divine

Release: Malice Divine

Style: Melodic black/death

+2

Feb 6-12 Weekly Metal Recommendations

February 17, 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 6, 2021

Band: Agggressor

Release: Osculum Infame

Style: Thrash, Groove/thrash

+2

Feb 10, 2021

Band: Serenity In Murder

Release: Reborn

Style: Symphonic/Synthonic Melodic Death

+2

Band: Tragedy In Hope

Release: Sleep Paralysis

Style: Symphonic Black, Black, Post-Black

+3

Band: Simulacrum

Release: Genesis

Style: Progressive

+3

Band: Immortal Guardian

Release: Psychosomatic

Style: Progressive Power

+3

Band: Abiotic

Release: Ikigai

Style: Technical/progressive death/deathcore

+2

(probably a +3 from many)

Band: Toledo Steel

Release: Heading for the Fire

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Ablaze My Sorrow

Release: Among Ashes and Monoliths

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Magoth

Release: Inviticus

Style: Black

+3

Band: Rascal

Release: Headed Towards Destruction (EP)

Style: Heavy, Speed

+2

(would be a +3 if it was a full album)

Band: Durbin

Release: The Beast Awakens

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Noctambulist

Release: Noctambulist I: Elegieën

Style: Post-Black

+2

Band: Sur Austru

Release: Obârșie

Style: Atmospheric Death/Folk

+2

Band: Tortureslave

Release: Tools of Torture

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Demon King

Release: The Final Tyranny (EP)

Style: Technical Black/Thrash

+2

(would probably be a +3 if it was full length.)

Band: Breath of Wind

Release: Sakura

Style: Epic Symphonic Black

+3

(+2 if you are expecting vocals)