Nov 27 - Dec 3 Weekly Metal Recommendations

December 08, 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 27, 2021

Band: Ukronakh

Release: Stonewounds

Style: Black/Death

+2

Nov 30, 2021

Band: Svardenvyrd

Release: Scarred Lands

Style: Black, melodic

+2

Band: Oathean

Release: The Endless Pain and Darkness

Style: Symphonic Black

+2

Dec 1, 2021

Band: Blackhearth

Release: The Wrath of God

Style: Heavy

+2

Dec 3, 2021

Band: Gomorran

Release: Exerts from the Dark Age (EP)

Style: Melodic Black/Death

+2

Band: Unanimated

Release: Victory in Blood

Style: Black, Melodic Black/Death

+2

Band: Wolftooth

Release: Blood & Iron

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Volbeat

Release: Servant of the Mind

Style: Heavy

+1

Band: Ofermod

Release: Mysterium Iniquitatis

Style: Black

+2

Band: Cutterred Flesh

Release: Sharing is Caring

Style: Brutal Death

+3

Band: Manimal

Release: Armageddon

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Coronatus

Release: Atmosphere

Style: Symphonic, Folk

+2

Band: Redemptor

Release: Agonia

Style: Death

+2

Band: Dormant Ordeal

Release: The Grand Scheme of Things

Style: Black/Death, technical death

+3

Band: Custard

Release: Imperium Rapax

Style: Power

+3

Band: Once Upon The End

Release: The Next Chapter

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Nekromant

Release: Temple of Hall

Style: Traditional, Power, Doom

+2

Band: Erdling

Release: Helheim

Style: Synthonic

+2

(probably +3 if you speak German)

Nov 20-26 Weekly Metal Recommendation

December 03, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

If you need even more metal in your life, I get all my info from https://www.metal-archives.com/ from which you can find upcoming releases, and from http://metalstorm.net/home/, from which you can find both upcoming and past releases although it is not as complete of a list compared to metal-archives.)

(I’m still using the rating system from our “New Releases” list although I will likely no longer be listing anything below a +2 unless it comes from a very well known band)

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style, 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 21, 20221

Band: Cień

Release: Redemption

Style: Black

+2

Nov 24, 2021

Band: Grand Finale

Release: Everything Has an End (EP)

Style: Synthonic J-Power

+2

Nov 24, 2021

Band: Forbidden Omen

Release: Ancestral Rituals

Style: Death

+2

Band: K Amon K

Release: Arca Ende Aeterna

Style: Black

+1 (+2)

(+2 if you speak French… unless the lyrics suck I guess, I don’t speak it, but figure it would help)

Nov 26, 2021

Band: Rhapsody of Fire

Release: Glory for Salvation

Style: Epic Symphonic/Synthonic Power

+2

Band: Proscriptor McGovern’s Apsû

Release: Proscriptor McGovern’s Apsû

Style: Technical Black/Thrash

+3

Band: Imperialist

Release: Zenith

Style: Black

+3

Band: Morgul Blade

Release: Fell Sorcery Abounds

Style: Epic, Blackened Traditional, Folk

+3

Eternity’s End

Release: Embers of War

Style: Power

+4

Band: Black Label Society

Release: Doom Crew Inc.

Style: Heavy

+2 (+4)

(I did pre order this one because I’m a huge Fan of most things Zakk touches, however so far what I heard is pretty laid back and nothing immediately exciting me, so +4 for me but maybe probably only a +3 or +2 generally.)

Band: Godhead Machinery

Release: Monotheistic Enslavement

Style: Black

+2

Band: Fortress

Release: Don’t Spare The Wicked

Style: Synthonic Speed, Synthonic Traditional

+3

Band: Infernal Hate

Release: The Order of the Black Kestrel

Style: Death

+3

Band: Victory

Release: Gods of Tomorrow

Style: Speed, Traditional, Hard Rock

+3

Band: Hitten

Release: Triumph And Tragedy

Style: Traditional, speed

+2

Band: Alien Force

Release: We Meet Again

Style: Traditional, Hard Rock

+2

Band: Lock Up

Release: The Dregs Of Hades

Style: Death/Grind

+3

Band: Hollow

Release: Tower

Style: Progressive Power

+2

Band: Hypocrisy

Release: Worship

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Opera Diabolicus

Release: Death on a Pale Horse

Style: Progressive, Gothic, Symphonic

+3

Band: Eternal Evil

Release: The Warriors Awakening Brings the Unholy Slaughter

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

Band: Servant

Release: Blessed By the Light of a Thousand Stars

Style: Black

+3

Band: Hunters Moon

Release: The Great Pandemonium

Style: Black

+2

Band: Fleischer

Release: Knochenhauer

Style: Blackened Thrash

+2

Band: Titan

Release: Palingenesia

Style: Traditional

(Accept for people who speak French)

+2

Band: Temptation’s Wings

Release: Marauders of the Killing Moon

Style: Heavy, Doom

+2

Band: Thunder and Lightning

Release: F.E.A.R.

Style: Power

+2

Band: The Noctambulant

Release: Hellrazor (EP)

Style: Black, melodic black

+2

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 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 11-17 Weekly Metal Recommendations

September 22, 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 11, 2021

Band: Infected Chaos

Release: Dead Aesthetics

Style: Death, Melodic Death

+2

Sep 15, 2021

Band: Trigger

Release: Back to the Roots

Style: Death

+3

Band: Metalsteel

Release: Forsaken by the Gods

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Dickless Tracy

Release: Grave New World

Style: Death

+2

Band: Ancient Empire

Release: Priest of Stygia

Style: Heavy

+4

Band: Blazon Stone

Release: Damnation

Style: Traditional

+3

(would be +4 if international shipping didn’t suck so much)

Sep 17, 2021

Band: Rage

Release: Resurrection Day

Style: Heavy, Groove

+2

(Not what I was hoping for)

Band: Shadecrown

Release: Solitarian

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+3

Band: Bloodride

Release: Idiocracy

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Carcass

Release: Torn Arteries

Style: Melodic Death

+4

Band: Saturnian Mist

Release: Shamatanic

Style: Black

+3

Band: Eternal Flight

Release: SurVive

Style: Power

+2

Band: Vulvodynia

Release: Praenuntius Infiniti

Style: Deathcore, Brutal Death

+3

Band: Brainstorm

Release: Wall of Skulls

Style: Power

+3

Band: Ghostheart Nebula

Release: Ascension

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+2

Band: Exxperior

Release: Escalating Conflicts

Style: Progressive Thrash

+2

Band: Nýr Gata

Release: Luna Aeterna

Style: Melodic Black, epic, symphonic

+2

Band: Criminal

Release: Sacrificio

Style: Thrash, Groove/Thrash

+2

Band: Anomaly

Release: Planet Storm

Style: Technical Death

+3

Band: Insomnium

Release: Argent Moon (EP)

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Joe Stump

Release: Diabolical Ferocity

Style: Shred, neo-classical

+2

Band: Whyzdom

Release: Of Wonders and Wars

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: Fierce Atmospheres

Release: The Speed of Dreams

Style: Heavy, Progressive

+2

Band: Elias Vilijanen

Release: The Evillusionist

Style: Instrumental

+2

Band: Without God

Release: Siberian Tunes: Purple Clouds

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Words of Farewell

Release: Inner Universe II

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death

+2

Band: The Ascended

Release: The Dark

Style: Metalcore

+2

Band: Apostolica

Release: Haeretica Ecclesia

Style: Epic Synthonic/Symphonic Power

+3

Band: Alien Weaponry

Release: Tangaroa

Style: Groove

+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 21-27 Weekly Metal Recommendations

September 02, 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 21, 2021

Band: 12 Gauge Rampage

Release: Unleash the Rage

Style: Grindcore, Brutal Death

+2

Band: Thraxas!

Release: Planetary Terrorism (EP)

Style: Groove/Thrash

+2

Band: Ethereal Sin

Release: Time of Requiem Part. 1

Style: Symphonic Black

+2

Aug 27, 2021

Band: Ex Deo

Release: The Thirteen Years of Nero

Style: Symphonic Death

+2

Band: Toxic Ruin

Release: Nightmare Eclipse

Style: Thrash, technical, Death/thrash, black/thrash

+3

Band: Oxygen Destroyer

Release: Sinister Monstrosities Spawned By the Unfathomable Ignorance of Humankind

Style: Black/Thrash, Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Nocturnal

Release: Serpent Death

Style: Thrash, Death/Thrash

+3

Band: Thyrfing

Release: Vanagandr

Style: Symphonic Black/Folk (Viking),

+3

Band: Hooded Menace

Release: The Tritonus Bell

Style: Death/Doom

+3

Band: Wormwood

Release: Arkivet

Style: Melodic Black

+3

Band: Windfaerer

Release: Breathes of Elder Dawns

Style: Melodic Black/folk, progressive

+2

(good but I didn’t like the vocal style)

Band: Nahtram

Release: Forest of Eternal Dawn

Style: instrumental symphonic

+2

(sounds great, but with out vocals I can’t give it +3, still better as instrumental than with bad vocals)

Band: Nunslaughter

Release: Red is the Color of Ripping Death

Style: Death

+2

Band: Dark Arena

Release: Worlds of Horror

Style: Heavy, Progressive

+3

Band: White Stones

Release: Dancing into Oblivion

Style: extreme progressive

+2

Band: Lower 13

Release: Embrace the Unknown

Style: Progressive

+1

(good band… I don’t like them)

Band: Wulfgar

Release: From the Ashes

Style: We have Amon Amarth at home

+3

Band: Crimson Fire

Release: Another Dimension

Style: Traditional, Power

+3

Band: Modern Rites

Release: Monuments

Style: Black

+2

Band: Urdbrunn

Release: Pfade des Seins

Style: melodic black

+2

Band: Besatt

Release: Supreme and True at Night

Style: Black

+3

Band: Obscurity

Release: Skogarmaors

Style: Melodic Death, Melodic Black, Also we have Amon Amarth at home, but in German

+2

Band: Dracyor

Release: Gyöngyvér

Style: Gothic

+2

Aug 14-20 Weekly Metal Recommendations

August 25, 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

Aug 14, 2021

Band: Korrosive

Release: Kaustic Horde

Style: Thrash

+3

Aug 16, 2021

Band: Morning Dwell

Release: The Power Will Go On

Style: Power

+3

Aug 20, 2021

Band: Mentalist

Release: A Journey into the Unknown

Style: Power

+3

Band: Bonehunter

Release: Dark Blood Reincarnation System

Style: Black, Black/Thrash

+3

Band: Warkings

Release: Revolution

Style: Heavy, Power

+3

Band: Wolves in the Throne Room

Release: Primordial Arcana

Style: atmospheric black

+2

Band: Necronautical

Release: Slain in the Spirit

Style: Symphonic Black

+3

Band: Sodom

Release: Bombenhagel (EP)

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Arcane Existence

Release: Colossus

Style: Melodic Black/death, synthonic/symphonic, progressive

+3

Band: Oceanhoarse

Release: Dead Reckoning

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Daemonicus

Release: Eschaton

Style: Death, Melodic Death

+3

Band: Book of Numbers

Release: Magick

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Legions of The Night

Release: Sorrow is the Cure

Style: Power, Heavy

+2

Band: Soul Massacre

Release: Despair Of Human Being

Style: Death

+3

Band: Noutaja

Release: Never Meant to Save Us (EP)

Style: Death

+3

Band: Thomsen

Release: III

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

Band: Massive Fire

Release: The Anunnaki

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: ArkenFire

Release: Trials Through Time

Style: Power

+2

Band: Between The Buried and Me

Release: Colors II

Style: Progressive Metalcore, Progressive Rock

+3

(when did these guys get good?)

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

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

July 10-16 Weekly Metal Recommendations

July 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

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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July 10, 2021

Band: Vanexa

Release: The Last in Black

Style: Traditional, Progressive

+2

July 12, 2021

Band: Sarinvomit

Release: Aweken Ye Impious Hordes of Shaitan

Style: Black

+2

July 14, 2021

Band: Chestcrush

Release: Ydelygmia

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: 矢島舞依

Release: Heretical Soul (EP)

Style: J-Metal

+2

July 15, 2021

Band: To Descend

Release: Exorcism of Hope

Style: Death

+2

Band: Codex Nero

Release: The Great Harvest of Death

Style: black

+2

(the full released version has much better production)

Band: Grin in Fear

Release: Legion

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Vulture Lord

Release: Desecration Rite

Style: Black

+2

July 16, 2021

Band: Vomit Ritual

Release: Callous

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: Vandor

Release: On Moonlit Night

Style: Power

+3

Band: Towards Atlantis Lights

Release: When the Ashes Devoured the Sun

Style: Funeral Doom

+2

Band: Laceration

Release: Demise

Style: Death

+3

Band: Cognitive

Release: Malevolent Thoughts of Hasted Extinction

Style: Technical Death, Deathcore

+2

Band: Calliophis

Release: Liquid Darkness

Style: atmospheric Death/Doom

+3

Band: Space Chaser

Release: Give us Life

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Spiral Grave

Release: Legacy of the Anointed

Style: Doom, Heavy

+3

Band: Big City

Release: Testify X

Style: Traditional, Hard Rock

+2

Band: Vouna

Release: Atropos

Style: Black/Doom

+2

Band: Nothing Sacred

Release: No Gods

Style: Thrash, Groove, Grunge

+2

Band: Ophidian I

Release: Desolate

Style: Technical Death

+2

Band: Resurrection Kings

(former Dio members)

Release: Skygazer

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Wizardthrone

Release: Hypercube Necrodimensions

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death

+3

Band: Powerwolf

Release: Call of the Wild

Style: Synthonic Heavy, Power

+3

June 26 - July 2 Weekly Metal Recommendations

July 07, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

Support The Metal!

If you need even more metal in your life, I get all my info from https://www.metal-archives.com/ from which you can find upcoming releases, and from http://metalstorm.net/home/, from which you can find both upcoming and past releases although it is not as complete of a list compared to metal-archives.)

(I’m still using the rating system from our “New Releases” list although I will likely no longer be listing anything below a +2 unless it comes from a very well known band)

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

June 26, 2021

Band: Pullverizer

Release: We Have Warned EP (style)

Style: Thrash, groove

+2

Band: Pandemic Outbreak

Release: Skulls Beneath the Cross

Style: Death

+2

June 27, 2021

Band: Wülfskol

Release: Satanik Death Militia (EP)

Style: Black, Death, Crust punk

+2

June 28, 2021

Band: Anam’Kara

Release: Unleashed

Style: Symphonic blackened melodic death

+2

Band: Leif

Release: Gateways

Style: Melodic Black

+2

June 30, 2021

Band: Гробъ

Release: Смирение

Style: Black/Death

+2

July 1, 2021

Band: Vrykolakas

Release: And Vrykolakas Brings Chaos and Destruction

Style: Death

+2

July 2, 2021

Band: Diabolizer

Release: Khalkedonian Death

Style: Death

+2

Band: Lost in Grey

Release: Under the Surface

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: At The Gates

Release: The Nightmare of Being

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Felled

Release: The Intimate Earth

Style: Black/Folk

+2

Band: Mourn the Light

Release: Suffer, Then We’re Gone

Style: Doom, Traditional, Heavy

+3

Band: Supreme Court

Release: Been a While

Style: Heavy, Speed

+2

Band: Queen of Distortion

Release: Checkmate!

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Born of Osiris

Release: Angel or Alien

Style: Synthonic Metal-core

+2

Band: Lord of The Lost

Release: Judas

Style: Gothic/Industrial

+3

June 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

Support The Metal!

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

Support The Metal!

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