Dec 11-17 Weekly Metal Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style, but maybe for everyone

+2 - worth checking out or interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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Dec 12, 2021

Band: Mavorim

Release: Non Omnis Moriar

Style: Black/Folk

+2

facebook

Band: Caestus

Release: The Undoer’s Key

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Dec 13, 2021

Band: Diaroe

Release: Willkommen in der Desolation

Style: Brutal Death/Grind

+2

bandcamp

Band: R.O.D.

Release: HateSpeech

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

facebook

Band: Phobetor

Release: Through Deepest Fears and Darkest Minds

Style: Death

+2

facebook

Band: Svartalfar

Release: Geisterwerk

Style: Black

+2

facebook

Dec 15, 2021

Band: Necrohunter

Release: Litanies of The Black Occvult

Style: Black/Doom

+2

facebook

Band: Cülpado

Release: Romper da Realidade

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

bandcamp

Dec 17, 2021

Band: Iron Fate

Release: Crimson Messiah

Style: Traditional, power

+3

facebook

Band: Khnvm

Release: Portals to Oblivion

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Mega Colossus

Release: Riptime

Style: Thrash

+3

bandcamp

Band: Memory Garden

Release: 1349

Style: Doom

+3

facebook

Band: Wolftopia

Release: Ways of the Pack

Style: Melodic Death

+2

facebook

Band: Age of Athena

Release: Gate to Oblivion

Style: Progressive, Symphonic

+2

facebook

Band: On My Command

Release: Prey

Style: Power/Thrash

+2

bandcamp

Band: Serpent Lord

Release: Apocrypha

Style: Progressive Power, Heavy

+2

(this is barely a +2, those drums sound like shit, everything else is good)

facebook

Band: Hedera

Release: Helical

Style: Folk

+2

facebook

Band: Tophet

Release: Punishment Battalion 666

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Wound

Release: Serpent Crown

Style: Melodic Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Bangover

Release: Close Encounters of the Thrash Kind (EP)

Style: Thrash

+2

facebook

Band: Solarus

Release: A Dance with Tragedy

Style: Synthonic

+2

facebook

Band: Wicked Sensation

Release: Outbreak

Style: Traditional, synthonic

+2

facebook

Nov 27 - Dec 3 Weekly Metal Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style, but maybe for everyone

+2 - worth checking out or interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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Nov 27, 2021

Band: Ukronakh

Release: Stonewounds

Style: Black/Death

+2

facebook

Nov 30, 2021

Band: Svardenvyrd

Release: Scarred Lands

Style: Black, melodic

+2

bandcamp

Band: Oathean

Release: The Endless Pain and Darkness

Style: Symphonic Black

+2

bandcamp

Dec 1, 2021

Band: Blackhearth

Release: The Wrath of God

Style: Heavy

+2

bandcamp

Dec 3, 2021

Band: Gomorran

Release: Exerts from the Dark Age (EP)

Style: Melodic Black/Death

+2

facebook

Band: Unanimated

Release: Victory in Blood

Style: Black, Melodic Black/Death

+2

facebook

Band: Wolftooth

Release: Blood & Iron

Style: Heavy

+3

facebook

Band: Volbeat

Release: Servant of the Mind

Style: Heavy

+1

website

Band: Ofermod

Release: Mysterium Iniquitatis

Style: Black

+2

facebook

Band: Cutterred Flesh

Release: Sharing is Caring

Style: Brutal Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Manimal

Release: Armageddon

Style: Heavy

+3

website

Band: Coronatus

Release: Atmosphere

Style: Symphonic, Folk

+2

website

Band: Redemptor

Release: Agonia

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Dormant Ordeal

Release: The Grand Scheme of Things

Style: Black/Death, technical death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Custard

Release: Imperium Rapax

Style: Power

+3

label website

Band: Once Upon The End

Release: The Next Chapter

Style: Melodic Death

+2

facebook

Band: Nekromant

Release: Temple of Hall

Style: Traditional, Power, Doom

+2

bandcamp

Band: Erdling

Release: Helheim

Style: Synthonic

+2

(probably +3 if you speak German)

bandcamp

Nov 13-19 Weekly Metal Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style, but maybe for everyone

+2 - worth checking out or interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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Nov 14, 2021

Band: Bestial Invasion

Release: Divine Comedy: Inferno

Style: Epic Technical Thrash

+2

bandcamp

Nov 15, 2021

Band: Shiningstar

Release: Destiny

Style: Extreme Synthonic/Symphonic

+2

linktree

Band: Goaten

Release: Crimson Moonlight (EP)

Style: Heavy, Speed

+2

facebook

Band: Ibuki

Release: Storm of Emotion

Style: J-Power, Synthonic

+2

facebook

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)

facebook

Nov 18, 2021

Band: Synapse

Release: Singularities

Style: Progressive rock/metal

+2

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

bandcamp

Band: The Temple

Release: The Temple

Style: Black/Death

+2

bandcamp

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)

bandcamp

Band: Khemmis

Release: Deceiver

Style: Doom

+2

website

Band: Temperance

Release: Diamanti

Style: Synthonic/Symphonic Power

+2

website

Band: Aephanemer

Release: A Dream of Wilderness

Style: Symphonic Blackened Neo-classical

+2

website

Band: E Force

Release: Mindbinder

Style: Traditional Black, Black/Thrash

+1

facebook

Band: Abscession

Release: Rot of Ages

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Exodus

Release: Persona Non Grata

Style: Thrash, Groove/Thrash

+4

website

Band: Galaxy

Release: On The Shore of Life

Style: Traditional

+2

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

bandcamp

Band: Swallow the Sun

Release: Moonflowers

Style: sleepy time music

+ZZZZZZZZZ

facebook

Band: Obscura

Release: A Valediction

Style: Technical Death

+3

website

Band: Godless

Release: States of Chaos

Style: Death

+2

(almost +3)

bandcamp

Band: W.E.B.

Release: Colosseum

Style: Symphonic/Gothic Black

+3

facebook

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)

label bandcamp

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.)

facebook

Band: Nightland

Release: The Great Nothing

Style: Blackened Symphonic Melodic Death

+2

facebook

Band: Stormkeep

Release: Tales of Othertime

Style: Synthonic Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Stranguliatorius

Release: Doctor’s Orders: Do Not Touch!

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: ADX

Release: Etranges Visions

Style: Speed, Heavy

+2

website

Band: Hellspike

Release: Dynasties of Decay

Style: Speed, Thrash

+2

facebook

Band: Home Style Surgery

Release: Brain Drill Poetry

Style: Progressive Thrash

+2

facebook

Band: In Aevum Agere

Release: Emperor of Hell - Canto XXXIV

Style: Heavy, Doom

+3

facebook

Band: Our Common Sense

Release: Harbinger of Calamity

Style: Heavy Rock, Sludge

+2

facebook

July 10-16 Weekly Metal Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

July 10, 2021

Band: Vanexa

Release: The Last in Black

Style: Traditional, Progressive

+2

facebook

July 12, 2021

Band: Sarinvomit

Release: Aweken Ye Impious Hordes of Shaitan

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

July 14, 2021

Band: Chestcrush

Release: Ydelygmia

Style: Black/Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: 矢島舞依

Release: Heretical Soul (EP)

Style: J-Metal

+2

website

July 15, 2021

Band: To Descend

Release: Exorcism of Hope

Style: Death

+2

label bandcamp

Band: Codex Nero

Release: The Great Harvest of Death

Style: black

+2

(the full released version has much better production)

facebook

Band: Grin in Fear

Release: Legion

Style: Melodic Death

+2

website

Band: Vulture Lord

Release: Desecration Rite

Style: Black

+2

facebook

July 16, 2021

Band: Vomit Ritual

Release: Callous

Style: Black/Death

+2

facebook

Band: Vandor

Release: On Moonlit Night

Style: Power

+3

Band: Towards Atlantis Lights

Release: When the Ashes Devoured the Sun

Style: Funeral Doom

+2

facebook

Band: Laceration

Release: Demise

Style: Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Cognitive

Release: Malevolent Thoughts of Hasted Extinction

Style: Technical Death, Deathcore

+2

label bandcamp

Band: Calliophis

Release: Liquid Darkness

Style: atmospheric Death/Doom

+3

bandcamp

Band: Space Chaser

Release: Give us Life

Style: Thrash

+3

facebook

Band: Spiral Grave

Release: Legacy of the Anointed

Style: Doom, Heavy

+3

facebook

Band: Big City

Release: Testify X

Style: Traditional, Hard Rock

+2

facebook

Band: Vouna

Release: Atropos

Style: Black/Doom

+2

bandcamp

Band: Nothing Sacred

Release: No Gods

Style: Thrash, Groove, Grunge

+2

facebook

Band: Ophidian I

Release: Desolate

Style: Technical Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Resurrection Kings

(former Dio members)

Release: Skygazer

Style: Traditional

+2

facebook

Band: Wizardthrone

Release: Hypercube Necrodimensions

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death

+3

facebook

Band: Powerwolf

Release: Call of the Wild

Style: Synthonic Heavy, Power

+3

facebook

July 3-9 Weekly Metal Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

July 6, 2021

Band: Emerald Rage

Release: High King

Style: Traditional, speed, power

+2

facebook

July 7, 2021

Band: Dismalìa

Style: Vile Enigma

Style: Gothic

+2

bandcamp

July 9, 2021

Band: Mayhem

Release: Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando (EP)

Style: Black

+2

website

Band: Night Crowned

Release: Hädanfärd

Style: Melodic Black

+2

(+3 if you speak Swedish)

facebook

Band: Kambrium

Release: Synthetic ERA

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death/Power

+2

website

Band: Sepiroth

Release: Condemned to Suffer

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Internal Conflict

Release: A P O R I A

Style: Metal-core

+2

facebook

Band: Dialith

Release: Atrophy (EP)

Style: Synthonic

+2

facebook

Band: Elderblood

Release: Achrony

Style: Black

+3

bandcamp

Band: Laurenne/Louhimo

Release: The Reckoning

Style: Heavy

+2

(other songs I heard was unfortunately not this good)

website

Band: Domination Campaign

Release: Onward to Glory

Style: Death

+2

(good but songs all seem very similar)

bandcamp

June 26 - July 2 Weekly Metal Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

June 26, 2021

Band: Pullverizer

Release: We Have Warned EP (style)

Style: Thrash, groove

+2

facebook

Band: Pandemic Outbreak

Release: Skulls Beneath the Cross

Style: Death

+2

label bandcamp

June 27, 2021

Band: Wülfskol

Release: Satanik Death Militia (EP)

Style: Black, Death, Crust punk

+2

label bandcamp

June 28, 2021

Band: Anam’Kara

Release: Unleashed

Style: Symphonic blackened melodic death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Leif

Release: Gateways

Style: Melodic Black

+2

bandcamp

June 30, 2021

Band: Гробъ

Release: Смирение

Style: Black/Death

+2

bandcamp

July 1, 2021

Band: Vrykolakas

Release: And Vrykolakas Brings Chaos and Destruction

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

July 2, 2021

Band: Diabolizer

Release: Khalkedonian Death

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Lost in Grey

Release: Under the Surface

Style: Symphonic

+2

website

Band: At The Gates

Release: The Nightmare of Being

Style: Melodic Death

+3

website

Band: Felled

Release: The Intimate Earth

Style: Black/Folk

+2

bandcamp

Band: Mourn the Light

Release: Suffer, Then We’re Gone

Style: Doom, Traditional, Heavy

+3

bandcamp

Band: Supreme Court

Release: Been a While

Style: Heavy, Speed

+2

facebook

Band: Queen of Distortion

Release: Checkmate!

Style: Traditional

+2

bandcamp

Band: Born of Osiris

Release: Angel or Alien

Style: Synthonic Metal-core

+2

facebook

Band: Lord of The Lost

Release: Judas

Style: Gothic/Industrial

+3

website

June 5-11 Weekly Metal Recommendation

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 5, 2021

Band: Misotheist

Release: Secular Blight

Style: Black/thrash, Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Dead Heat

Release: World At War

Style: Crossover Thrash, Hardcore

+2

facebook

June 7, 2021

Band: Alastor

Release: The Unholy Hordes

Style: Speed, Heavy

(Would for sure be a +3 if I knew the language)

+2

facebook

Band: GraveRipper

Release: Radiant Remains

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

bandcamp

June 8, 2021

Band: Glora Nexus

Release: A Grand Monument to Mortality (EP)

Style: Black, melodic

+2

facebook

Band: Heathen Deity

Release: True English Black Metal

Style: black

+2

bandcamp

June 11, 2021

Band: Crypta

Release: Echoes of the Soul

Style: Death, melodic

+3

website

Band: Hammer King

Release: Hammer King

Style: Heavy

+4

facebook

Band: Interloper

Release: Search Party

Style: Progressive, metalcore

+3

facebook

Band: This Ending

Release: Needles of Rust

Style: Melodic Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Exsanguination

Release: Spectral Hymns

Style: Melodic Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Evil King

Release: The Dark Age

Style: Synthonic Heavy

+2

bandcamp

Band: Metalwings

Release: A Whole New Land

Style: Symphonic

+2

website

Band: Path of Destiny

Release: The Seed of All Evil

Style: Melodic Death, Symphonic

+4

facebook

Band: Gorgon

Release: Traditio Satanae

Style: Black

+3

facebook

Band: Firienholt

Release: By the Waters of Awakening

Style: Synthonic black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Brother Against Brother

Release: Brother Against Brother

Style: Synthonic heavy, power

+2

facebook

Band: Witch Cross

Release: Angel of Death

Style: Traditional

+2

facebook

Band: Land of Confusion

Release: The Morning Star

Style: Melodic Death, Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Seum

Release: Winterized

Style: Sludge

+2

bandcamp

Band: Galundo Tenvulance

Release: Tenvulancy

Style: Symphonic Deathcore (EP)

+2

bandcamp

Band: Terra Odium

Release: Ne Plus Ultra

Style: Progressive

+2

website

Band: InnerSiege

Release: Fury of Ages

Style: Traditional, heavy

+2

(their music is ok, but their metal memes on facebook are top notch)

facebook

Band: Go Ahead and Die

Release: Go Ahead and Die

Style: death/thrash, sludge, groove

+2

facebook

Band: Narbeleth

Release: Svmma Cvm Nox Arcana

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

May 29 - June 4 Weekly Metal Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

May 29, 2021

Band: Goat Rider

Release: Tsundere

Style: Traditional Black

+2

facebook

May 30, 2021

Band: Gasoline Guns

Release: Motor Cult

Style: Traditional, Speed, Heavy

+3

bandcamp

Band: Bunker 66

Release: Beyond the Help of Prayers

Style: Black/Thrash

+3

bandcamp

Band: Orbital Element

Release: Celestials Damage

Style: Progressive Death

+2

label bandcamp

May 31, 2021

Band: Dusk Lurker

Release: Whispers From The Blood Moon (EP)

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Sarmat

Release: RS-28

Style: Black/Death

+2

facebook

Band: Goats of Doom

Release: Shiva

Style: Black

+2

facebook

June 1, 2021

Band: Yalbadaoth

Release: Expunging The Earth (EP)

Style: Black/Death

+2

(probably +3 if it was full release)

label bandcamp

Band: Typhonian

Release: The Cosmic Pendulum of Time (EP)

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Hannes Grossmann

Release: To Where The Light Retreats

Style: Technical Melodic Death, Progressive Death

+3

bandcamp

June 2, 2021

Band: Crypt Crawler

Release: Future Usurper

Style: Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Starlight Ritual

Release: Sealed in Starlight

Style: Traditional, Hard Rock

+2

bandcamp

June 3, 2021

Band: Secret Rule

Release: Mea Culpa

Style: Synthonic

+2

facebook

Band: Mepharis

Release: Eternal Night

Style: Melodic Death

+2

bandcamp

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.)

website

Band: Flotsam and Jetsam

Release: Blood in the Water

Style: Heavy, Thrash, Power

+4

facebook

Band: Ossaert

Release: Pelgrimsoord

Style: Black, Melodic Black

+2

facebook

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)

website

Band: Infest

Release: Psychosis

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

bandcamp

Band: With All My Hate

Release: Impaired Existence

Style: Death, Brutal Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Octohawk

Release: Animist

Style: Progressive Sludge

+2

bandcamp

Band: Overwrought

Release: …And the Abyss Stares Back

Style: Black, melodic

+2

bandcamp

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

bandcamp

Band: Ancient Wisdom

Release: A Celebration in Honor of Death

Style: atmospheric Black, epic, synthonic

+3

facebook

Band: Plaguestorm

Release: Purifying Fire

Style: Melodic Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Myronath

Release: Djevelkraft

Style: Black

+2

facebook

Band: Desaster

Release: Churches Without Saints

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Gaia Epicus

Release: Seventh Rising

Style: Power

+2

bandcamp

Band: Inhuman Condition

Release: Rat°God

Style: Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Ashen Earth

Release: Oceans Above

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Soul Grinder

Release: Lifeless Obsession (EP)

Style: Death

+2

facebook

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

May 22-28 Weekly Metal Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

May 22, 2021

Band: Requiem of Malediction

Release: The First Adversarial Manifesto (EP)

Style: Black/Death

+2

facebook

Band: Gospel

Release: The Spell

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

bandcamp

May 23, 2021

Band: Catharsis Fatalis

Release: Disappointment & Disgust (EP)

Style: Black

+2

(a full length would have gotten it +3)

bandcamp

Facelift Deformation

Release: Path to Retribution (EP)

Style: Brutal Death

+2

facebook

Band: Hemorragia Cefálica

Release: Kingdom of Tyranny

Style: Brutal Death

+2

facebook

May 24, 2021

Band: Deathgoat

Release: Regurgitated into Existence

Style: Death

+2

facebook

Band: Black Flare

Release: Black Flare

Style: Heavy

+2

label website

May 25, 2021

Band: Seven Doors

Release: The Gates of Hell (EP)

Style: Death

+2

(I’m ready for a full length, this is good)

facebook

Band: Graveborn

Release: Transmigrator

Style: Melodic Deathcore

+3

bandcamp

Band: Pačess

Release: Poupě

Style: melodic Black

+2

(really good, but I don’t speak the language, +3 if you do)

bandcamp

May 26, 2021

Band: Birdflesh

Release: All The Miseries (EP)

Style: grindcore

+2

facebook

Band: Rachel Mother Goose

Release: Synra Bansho

Style: power

+2

(assuming that this is not the final quality this may be a +3 but current quality sucks, and I’m guessing that is only for the teaser)

facebook

Band: Savanah

Release: Olympus Mons

Style: Doom, Stoner

+2

bandcamp

Band: Silver Talon

Release: Decadence and Decay

Style: Power, Progressive Power

+3

bandcamp

Band: Unfathomable Ruination

Release: Decennium Ruinae (EP)

Style: Technical Brutal Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Cross Vault

Release: As Strangers We Depart

Style: Doom

+3

bandcamp

Band: Heavy Sentence

Release: Bang to Rights

Style: Traditional

+3

facebook

Band: King of Asgard

Release: Svartrviðr

Style: Epic Melodic Death, Epic Black

+3

facebook

Band: Noctule

Release: Wretched Abyss

Style: Melodic Black

+3

bandcamp

Band: Parish

Release: God’s Right Hand (EP)

Style: Doom

+3

facebook

Band: Mental Cruelty

Release: A Hill to Die Upon

Style: Symphonic Blackened Brutal Deathcore

+3

(I’m not the biggest deathcore or brutal death fan, but these guys are good and doing something unique. Personally they aren’t going on my buy list, but they are deserving for anyone who likes these styles more than I do.)

website

Band: Sadistik Forest

Release: Obscure Old Remains (EP)

Style: Death

+2

facebook

Band: Burning Witches

Release: The Witch of the North

Style: Heavy, Power

+3

(I wasn’t super impressed with the last release, but this one seems like the band is writing better)

website

Band: Bloodbound

Release: Creatures of the Dark Realm

Style: Synthonic, Power

+3

facebook

Band: Stormruler

Release: Under the Burning Eclipse

Style: Black

+3

facebook

Band: Khandra

Release: All Occupied by Sole Death

Style: Black

+3

bandcamp

Band: Ghastly

Release: Mercurial Passages

Style: Death, Black/Death

+2

facebook

Band: The Vicious Head of Society

Release: Extinction Level Event

Style: Progressive

+2

facebook

Band: Thronum Vrondor

Release: Dies Tenebrosa Sicut Nox

Style: Black

+3

facebook

Band: Wardrum

Release: Mavericks

Style: Power, Heavy

+3

(The only reason I haven’t already ordered this is because the shipping is ridiculous to get it to the US.)

website

Band: Ill Tidings

Release: Signal Tenebris

Style: black, melodic black

+3

facebook

Band: Riexhumation

Release: The Final Revelation of Abaddon

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Holosade

Release: Anastasis

Style: Heavy, Thrash

+2

(music is great…. vocals not so much)

facebook

Band: Praecantator

Release: Obelisk (EP)

Style: Black/Death

+2

facebook

Band: Angstskríg

Release: Skyggespil

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Hellryder

Release: The Devil Is a Gambler

Style: Heavy, Groove

+3

website

Band: Reject the Sickness

Release: While Our World Dissolves

Style: Melodic Death

+2

website

Band: Tanzwut

Release: Die Tanzwut kehrt zurück

Style: Industrial/Folk

+2

facebook

Band: Dödsrit

Release: Mortal Coil (EP)

Style: Black, Crust punk

+2

bandcamp

May 15-21 Weekly Metal Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

May 15, 2021

Band: GjeldRune

Release: Слово посеет смуту

Style: Folk

+2

facebook

Band: Karcinoma

Release: Invictus

Style: Symphonic

+3

VK

Band: Infitar

Release: Inhuman

Style: Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Killchain

Release: Rottenness

Style: Death

+2

facebook

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.)

bandcamp

May 18, 2021

Band: Swamp Terror

Release: Gathered For Carnage (EP)

Style: death

+2

facebook

Band: Faeces

Release: Nihilominus

Style: Progressive Death, death/grind, brutal death

+3

facebook

May 20, 2021

Band: Guzarat

Release: Algoritma

Style: Death

+2

label bandcamp

Band: Chiliasm

Release: Flesh Over Finite (EP)

Style: Technical Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Great Master

Release: Thy Harbour Inn

Style: Epic Power

+2

website

Band: Eisenhand

Release: Fires Within

Style: Speed, Traditional

+2

label bandcamp

May 21, 2021

Band: Liquid Steel

Release: Mountain of Madness

Style: Traditional

+2

facebook

Band: Vomitron

Release: RighteousNES

Style: Instrumental

+2

bandcamp

Band: Slithering Decay

Release: Aeons Untold

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Havamal

Release: The Shadow Chapter

Style: Synthonic/Symphonic Melodic Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Conquerors

Release: Stormbringer

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

facebook

Band: Hanging Garden

Release: Skeleton Lake

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+2

bandcamp

Band: Hagel

Release: Veneration of the Black Light

Style: Atmospheric Melodic Black/Doom

+2

label bandcamp

Band: Majestic Downfall

Release: Aorta

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+3

bandcamp

Band: Herman Frank

Release: Two for a Lie

Style: Heavy

+2

facebook

Band: Illusory

Release: Crimson Wreath

Style: Traditional, Heavy

+2

website

Band: Virtue of Decay

Release: Only Now You Fear the Cold (EP)

Style: Black, melodic

+2

facebook

Band: Gn0sis

Release: Pro Terra

Style: Instrumental Technical Death, Progressive

+2

bandcamp

Band: Sabhankra

Release: Death To Traitors

Style: Black

Band: Vulture

Release: Dealin’ Death

Style: Thrash

+3

bandcamp

Band: Nahaya

Release: Vital Alchemy

Style: Melodic Death

+3

facebook

Band: Artaban’s Redemption

Release: Broken Puppets (EP)

Style: Power

+2

facebook

Band: Overlloud

Release: Splendor Solis

Style: Heavy

+2

facebook

Band: Krilloan

Release: Stories of Times Forgotten

Style: Power

+2

bandcamp

Band: Nergard

Release: Eternal White

Style: Symphonic, Power

+3

website

May 1-7 Weekly Metal Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

May 1, 2021

Band: Ravian

Release: Kingsmen From Afar

Style: Symphonic Power

+2

facebook

Band: Rift Giant

Release: Cataclysm

Style: Doom/Sludge/Stoner

+2

facebook

Band: Misfire

Release: Sympathy for the Ignorant

Style: Thrash

+2

facebook

Band: Dark Seal

Release: Stvoření světa

Style: atmospheric Black

+2

(maybe +3 if I spoke the language)

bandcamp

May 3, 2021

Band: Hanternoz

Release: Au Fleuve de Loire

Style: Black/Folk

+2

bandcamp

Band: Tower

Release: Uriel

Style: Gothic

+2

facebook

Band: Gargoyle

Release: Hail to the Necrodoom

Style: Black, Doom

+2

facebook

May 4, 2021

Band: Melabstra

Release: El fruto de la discordia

Style: Synthonic Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Ice Howl

Release: Erhan’s Quest

Style: Instrumental Heavy

+2

Bandcamp

May 5, 2021

Band: Outlaw

Release: Death Miasma (EP)

Style: melodic black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Auld

Release: …of Petrichor and I (EP)

Style: black, black/folk

+2

bandcamp

May 6, 2021

Band: Disembodiment

Release: Mutated Chaos (EP)

Style: Death, Death/grind

+2

label bandcamp

May 7, 2021

Band: Lord Vampyr

Release: The Vampire’s Legacy

Style: Gothic/Black

+2

facebook

Band: Out of Hand

Release: Exility

Style: Death/Thrash, Black/Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Seth

Release: La Morsure du Christ

Style: Synthonic Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Nordjevel

Release: Fenriir (EP)

Style: Black

+2

facebook

Band: Wormlight

Release: Nightmother

Style: blackmetal

+2

facebook

Band: Vokonis

Release: Odyssey

Style: Stoner, Progressive

+2

bandcamp

Band: Solstice

Release: Casting The Die

Style: Thrash

+2

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

facebook

Band: Marius Danielsen's Legend of Valley Doom

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

Style: epic power

+3

facebook

Band: Kryptik Mutation

Release: Pulled From the Pit

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Artillery

Release: X

Style: Thrash, Heavy

+4

facebook

Band: In Asymmetry

Release: Ashes of Dead Worlds

Style: Technical Death

+2

facebook

Band: Reality Grey

Release: Beneath This Crown

Style: Technical Melodic Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: J. D. Overdrive

Release: Funeral Celebration

Style: Southern, Stoner, Sludge

+2

facebook

Band: Steel Fox

Release: Red Snow

Style: Traditional Speed

+3

facebook

Band: Moon Coven

Release: Slumber Wood

Style: Doom, Psychedelic rock

+3

bandcamp

Band: Nightshadow

Release: Strike Them Dead

Style: Power, Traditional Speed, Heavy

+3

facebook

Band: Bretus

Release: Magharia

Style: Doom, Heavy Rock (Stoner)

+2

bandcamp

Band: Nordic Frost

Release: Sovereign (EP)

Style: Black, Melodic Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Sonic Haven

Release: Vagabond

Style: Power

+3

facebook

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.)

bandcamp

Band: Robin McAuley

Release: Standing on the Edge

Style: Traditional, Rock

+2

facebook

April 17-23 Weekly Metal Recommendations

Starting this year I will no longer being do a comprehensive list of all releases. If you need even more metal in your life, I get all my info from https://www.metal-archives.com/ from which you can find upcoming releases, and from http://metalstorm.net/home/, from which you can find both upcoming and past releases although it is not as complete of a list compared to metal-archives.)

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interest peaked

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

April 17, 2021

Band: Fleshtorture

Release: Grotesca Doctrina De La Perversidad

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Shrine ov Absurd

Release: Monotony

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Angrrsth

Release: Donikąd

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

April 19, 2021

Band: Black Locvst

Release: Forest

Style: Progressive Black/Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Plague of The Fallen

Release: Bleeding and Vehement (EP)

Style: Death

+2

facebook

Band: Malformity

Release: Monumental Ruin

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Obsolete

Release: Animate//Isolate

Style: Technical Death/Thrash

+3

label bandcamp

Band: Krabathor

Release: Demonizer / Mortal Memories II

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

facebook

April 20, 2021

Band: Serpent Sermon

Release: The Saurian Hymns

Style: Symphonic Black

+3

bandcamp

Band: Sylvatica

Release Ashes and Snow

Style: Symphonic melodic death/folk

+3

facebook

April 21, 2021

Band: Archemoron

Release: Flagellum I

Style: Black

+3

facebook

Band: Feanor

Release: Power of the Chosen One

Style: Epic

+2

website

April 22, 2021

Band: Disciples of Death

Release: Progressive Entrapment

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

facebook

Band: Demonized Priest

Release: Necromantic Rituals

Style: Traditional Black

+2

facebook

April 23, 2021

Band: Vexillum

Release: When Good Men Go to War

Style: Epic Power/Folk

+3

website

Band: Cold Cell

Release: The Greater Evil

Style: Black

+3

bandcamp

Band: Helslave

Release: From The Sulphur Depths

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Frozen Crown

Release: Winterbane

Style: Power

+3

facebook

Band: Dead World Reclamation

Release: Aura of Iniquity

Style: Technical Melodic Death, symphonic death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Crypts of Despair

Release: All Light Swallowed

Style: Death, Black/Death

+2

facebook

Band: Old Forest

Release: Mournfall

Style: Gothic Black/Doom

+2

facebook

Band: Minas Morgul

Release: Heimkehr

Style: synthonic black

+2

facebook

Band: My Refuge

Release: The Anger is Never Over

Style: Progressive Power

+2

facebook

Band: Nightfyre

Release: Shattered Lands (EP)

Style: Traditional

+2

label bandcamp

Band: Odal

Release: Welten Mutter

Style: Black, Pagan

+2

bandcamp

Band: Bodom After Midnight

Release: Paint the Sky with Blood (EP)

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death

+2

facebook

Band: Blackbriar

Release: The Cause of Shipwreck

Style: Symphonic/Alternative

+2

website

March 20-27 Weekly Meta 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

bandcamp

Band: Acid Age

Release: Semper Pessimus

Style: Technical Death/Thrash

+2

bandcamp

Band: Thagirion

Release: On The Path of Shattered Bells (EP)

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

March 21, 2021

Band: Sarkrista

Release: Sworn to Profound Heresy

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

March 22, 2021

Band: Ataraxia

Release: Pustovnik

Style: Death

+2

(Anyone speak Russian?)

bandcamp

Band: Escoria

Release: Rigor Mortis

Style: Thrash

+2

facebook

March 23, 2021

Band: Rubicon

Release: Demonstar

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

facebook

Band: Nanga Parbat

Release: Blood, Death And Silence

Style: Melodic Death, Progressive Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Ireful

Release: The Walls of Madness (EP)

Style: Thrash

+3

bandcamp

March 24, 2021

Band: Hungry Wölf

Release: Forgotten Frozen Lands

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

label bandcamp

Band: Arcaneblaze

Release: Spawn of Putrefaction (EP)

Style: Black/Thrash, Black/Speed

+2

label bandcamp

March 25, 2021

Band: Mandragora

Release: [d​]​Æscend

Style: Melodic Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Baalberith

Release: Manhunt

Style: Death, Black/Death

+3

facebook

Band: Gartraada

Release: Embrace of the Cold Barents Sea

Style: We have Amon Amarth at home… melodic death

+2

label bandcamp

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)

facebook

Band: Creeping Fear

Release: Hategod Triumph

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Witchseeker

Release: Scene of the Wild

Style: Traditional Heavy, Speed

+2

bandcamp

Band: Bloodmores

Release: Too Close To The Sun

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

bandcamp

Band: Burn Down Eden

Release: Burn Down Eden

Style: Melodic Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Ghosts of Atlantis

Release: 3/6/2/4

Style: Symphonic Melodic Death/Groove

+3

website

Band: Metalite

Release: A Virtual World

Style: Synthonic Power

+2

website

Band: Silent Winter

Release: Empire of Sins

Style: Power

+2

bandcamp

Band: Paladine

Release: Entering The Abyss

Style: Power

+3

bandcamp

Band: Rapture

Release: Malevolent Demise Incarnation

Style: Death, Death/Thrash

+3

label bandcamp

Band: Drakkar

Release: Chaos Lord

Style: Heavy

+2

bandcamp

Band: Cryptosis

Release: Bionic Swarm

Style: Thrash

+3

website

Band: Celestial Sanctuary

Release: Soul Diminished

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Memoriam

Release: To the End

Style: Death

+1

label website

Band: Necronomicon

Release: The Final Chapter

Style: Thrash

+2

website

Band: The Stone

Release: Kosturnice

Style: Black

+2

label bandcamp

Band: Cambion

Release: Conflagrate the Celestial Refugium

Style: Black/Death, Death

+2

facebook

Band: George Tsalkis

Release: Return To Power

Style: Power

+3

label bandcamp

Band: Imperia

Release: The Last Horizon

Style: Symphonic/gothic

+2

website

Band: Little Hole Filled

Release: And The Ants Still March On

Style: Doom, Heavy Rock (Stoner)

+2

bandcamp

Band: Slabber

Release: Apocryphal Diary

Style: Heavy, Thrash, Speed

+2

facebook

Band: Distant Past

Release: The Final Stage

Style: Traditional Heavy

+3

facebook

Band: The Quill

Release: Earthrise

Style: Heavy, Hard Rock, Bluesy

+3

website

Band: Beansidhe

Release: Processionaria

Style: Black, Black/Death

+2

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

bandcamp

Band: Images of Eden

Release: Angel Born

Style: Progressive

+2

facebook

Band: Obscure Relic

Release: Black Sorcery Devotion

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Vollmond

Release: Wolves in Turmoil

Style: Black

+2

(This album is in need of a volume boost)

bandcamp

Band: Electric Crown

Release: Electric Crown

Style: Heavy

+3

bandcamp

March 13-19 Weekly Metal Recommendation

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

bandcamp

Band: Suppressive Fire

Release: Invasion (EP)

Style: Blackened Thrash

+2

bandcamp

March 16, 2021

Band: Dead Sun

Release: Night Terrors

Style: Death, Melodic Death

+2

label bandcamp

March 19, 2021

Band: Cosmic Reaper

Release: Cosmic Reaper

Style: Doom

+2

label bandcamp

Band: Methal Kyrios

Release: Síndrome oscuro

Style: Thrash

+2

facebook

Band: Aversed

Release: Impermanent

Style: Progressive Melodic Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Fuath

Release: II

Style: atmospheric black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Depths of Hatred

Release: Inheritance

Style: Deathcore

+2

bandcamp

Band: Agent Steel

Release: No Other Gods Before Me

Style: Heavy, Speed, thrash

+2

website

Band: Magna Mortalis

Release: Procreation of the Plague

Style: Death

+2

facebook

Band: Adamantis

Release: Far Flung Realm

Style: Power, Epic

+2

bandcamp

Band: Midnight Odyssey

Release: Biolume Part 2: The Golden Orb

Style: Epic, Atmospheric Black

+2

website

Band: Mare Cognitum

Release: Solar Paroxysm

Style atmospheric/melodic black

+2

facebook

Band: Lunar Shadow

Release: Wish To Leave

Style: Heavy

+2

bandcamp

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

bandcamp

Band: Martyrium

Release: Lamia Satanica

Style: Symphonic Black

+3

facebook

Band: Morost

Release: Forged Entropy

Style: Progressive Black/Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: SnailMAGEDDON

Release: Swansong for a Snail

Style: Epic Black/Folk

+2

bandcamp

Band: Batushka

Relese: Царю Небесный / Carju Niebiesnyj

Style: Epic Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Sarmat

Release: RS-28

Style: Black/Death

+2

facebook

Band: Ulthima

Release: Symphony of the Night

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Herzel

Release: Le Dernier Rempart

Style: Traditional

+2

(maybe +3 if I spoke French)

bandcamp

Feb 20-26 Weekly Metal Recommendations

Starting this year I will no longer being do a comprehensive list of all releases. If you need even more metal in your life, I get all my info from https://www.metal-archives.com/ from which you can find upcoming releases, and from http://metalstorm.net/home/, from which you can find both upcoming and past releases although it is not as complete of a list compared to metal-archives.)

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interest peaked

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

Feb 20, 2021

Band: Kanonenfieber

Release: Menschenmühle

Style: Melodic Black/Death

+2

bandcamp

Feb 21, 2021

Band: Rocket Rider

Release: Rocket Rider

Style: instrumental, progressive, Synthonic

+2

bandcamp

Band: Wynter Myst

Release: Frore

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Feb 22, 2021

Band: Frustration

Release: Dead City

Style: Southern

+3

bandcamp

Feb 23, 2021

Band: Yaşru

Release: Kar Prensesi

Style: Symphonic Folk/Doom

+2

bandcamp

Band: Varang Nord

Release: Pārķiuņa Uomurs

Style: Folk

+3

facebook

Band: Icewind

Release: Midnight Bloody Dances

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Feb 25, 2021

Band: Innersphere

Release: Omfalos

Style: Melodic Death

+2

facebook

Band: Flaming Wrekage

Release: Cathedral of Bones

Style: Melodic Groove/Thrash

+1

website

Feb 26, 2021

Band: Evergrey

Release: Escape of the Phoenix

Style: lame

+1

facebook

Band: Sinira

Release: The Everlorn

Style: melodic black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Significant Point

Release: Into the Storm

Style: Speed

+3

facebook

Band: Moonspell

Release: Hermitage

Style: Gothic metal/rock

+1

facebook

Band: Melvins

Release: Working With God

Style: Sludge, Alternative Rock.

+1

bandcamp

Band: Epica

Release: Omega

Style: Symphonic

+4

website

Band: Los Males Del Mundo

Release: Descent Towards Death

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: Einherjer

Release: North Star

Style: Black, Traditional Black, Viking themed

+3

website

Band: Ominous Ruin

Release: Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone

Style: Progressive/technical Death, Brutal Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Paranorm

Release: Empyrean

Style: Progressive Death/Thrash

+3

bandcamp

Band: Iotunn

Release: Access All Worlds

Style: Progressive, Melodic Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Summoning The Lich

Release: United in Chaos

Style: Deathcore

+2

(+3 if you like Deathcore more than me)

website

Band: Redd Barron

Release: Sands of Time

Style: Traditional

+2

website

Band: Hidden Intent

Release: Dead End Destiny

Style: Thrash, Groove/Thrash

+3

bandcamp

Band: Beyond The Catacombs

Release: Interstellar Burial

Style: Progressive Brutal Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Tyrantti

Release: Orjaplaneetta

Style: Traditional

+2

(probably +3 if you speak Finnish)

facebook

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)

facebook

Band: InHuman

Release: InHuman

Style: Symphonic

+2

website

Band: Madred

Release: Overtime

Style: Thrash

+2

facebook

Band: Sister

Release: Vengeance Ignited

Style: “glam metal”

+2

website

Band: Alice Cooper

Release: Detroit Stories

Style: Hard Rock, Rock

+1

website

Jan 31 - Feb 5 Weekly Metal Recommendations

Starting this year I will no longer being do a comprehensive list of all releases. If you need even more metal in your life, I get all my info from https://www.metal-archives.com/ from which you can find upcoming releases, and from http://metalstorm.net/home/, from which you can find both upcoming and past releases although it is not as complete of a list compared to metal-archives.)

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interest peaked

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

Feb 1, 2021

Band: R.I.P.

Release: As Good As Dead (EP)

Style: Death

+2

label bandcamp

Band: Saber

Release: Without Warning

Style: Heavy

+3

bandcamp

Band: Corpse Worship

Release: Horror Chronicles

Style: Death

+2

label bandcamp

Feb 2, 2021

Band: Sintax

Release: Nano3000

Style: Groove/Thrash

+2

facebook

Feb, 3, 2021

Band: Cross Vein

Release: Life of Veins

Style: J-Power

+2

website

Feb 5, 2021

Band: Product of Hate

Release: You Brought This War

Style: Metalcore, Groove/Thrash

+2

facebook

Band: Kalidia

Release: Lies' Device (2021)

Style: Synthonic Power

+3

website

Band: Angelus Apatrida

Release: Angelus Apatrida

Style: Thrash, Groove/Thrash

+2

website

Band: Incursed

Release: Baskavigin

Style: Melodic Death/Folk

+3

bandcamp

Band: Korpiklaani

Release: Jylhä

Style: Folk

+2

website

Band: Basilica

Release: Basilica

Style: Death/Thrash-core

+3

facebook

Band: Maestitium

Release: Tale of the Endless (EP)

Style: Melodic Death, Symphonic Melodic Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Terrordome

Release: Strait Outta Smogtown

Style: Thrash, Crossover

+2

bandcamp

Band: Todd La Torre

Release: Rejoice in the Suffering

Style: Thrash, Heavy

+3

label website