Nov 13-19 Weekly Metal Recommendations

November 24, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

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

+2 - worth checking out or interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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Nov 14, 2021

Band: Bestial Invasion

Release: Divine Comedy: Inferno

Style: Epic Technical Thrash

+2

Nov 15, 2021

Band: Shiningstar

Release: Destiny

Style: Extreme Synthonic/Symphonic

+2

Band: Goaten

Release: Crimson Moonlight (EP)

Style: Heavy, Speed

+2

Band: Ibuki

Release: Storm of Emotion

Style: J-Power, Synthonic

+2

Band: Fugatta

Release: The Darkest Planet

Style: Synthonic Power

+2

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

Nov 18, 2021

Band: Synapse

Release: Singularities

Style: Progressive rock/metal

+2

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

Band: The Temple

Release: The Temple

Style: Black/Death

+2

Nov 19, 2021

Band: Tardigrada

Release: Vom Bruch bis zur Freiheit

Style: atmospheric Black

+3

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

Band: Khemmis

Release: Deceiver

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Temperance

Release: Diamanti

Style: Synthonic/Symphonic Power

+2

Band: Aephanemer

Release: A Dream of Wilderness

Style: Symphonic Blackened Neo-classical

+2

Band: E Force

Release: Mindbinder

Style: Traditional Black, Black/Thrash

+1

Band: Abscession

Release: Rot of Ages

Style: Death

+2

Band: Exodus

Release: Persona Non Grata

Style: Thrash, Groove/Thrash

+4

Band: Galaxy

Release: On The Shore of Life

Style: Traditional

+2

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

Band: Swallow the Sun

Release: Moonflowers

Style: sleepy time music

+ZZZZZZZZZ

Band: Obscura

Release: A Valediction

Style: Technical Death

+3

Band: Godless

Release: States of Chaos

Style: Death

+2

(almost +3)

Band: W.E.B.

Release: Colosseum

Style: Symphonic/Gothic Black

+3

Band: Dream Unending

Release: Tide Turns Eternal

Style: sleepy time music (melodic death/doom)

+ZZZZZ

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

Band: The Lurking Fear

Release: Death, Madness, Horror, Decay

Style: Death

+1

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

Band: Nightland

Release: The Great Nothing

Style: Blackened Symphonic Melodic Death

+2

Band: Stormkeep

Release: Tales of Othertime

Style: Synthonic Black

+2

Band: Stranguliatorius

Release: Doctor’s Orders: Do Not Touch!

Style: Death

+2

Band: ADX

Release: Etranges Visions

Style: Speed, Heavy

+2

Band: Hellspike

Release: Dynasties of Decay

Style: Speed, Thrash

+2

Band: Home Style Surgery

Release: Brain Drill Poetry

Style: Progressive Thrash

+2

Band: In Aevum Agere

Release: Emperor of Hell - Canto XXXIV

Style: Heavy, Doom

+3

Band: Our Common Sense

Release: Harbinger of Calamity

Style: Heavy Rock, Sludge

+2

Oct 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

Sep 25 - Oct 1 Weekly Metal Recommendations

October 07, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

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

+2 - worth checking out or interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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Sep 26, 2021

Band: Enthrallment

Release: Against The Will To Live - Sky Burial

Style: Brutal/Technical Death

+2

Band: Concrete

Release: Ethereal Atrocities

Style: Death

+3

Sep 27, 2021

Band: Erz

Release: Erz

Style: Black

+2

Band: Suffering Sights

Release: When Sanity Becomes Insanity

Style: Death

+2

Sep 28, 2021

Band: Mary’s Blood

Release: Mary’s Blood

Style: J-Metal

+2

Band: The Oriental Sun

Release: The Majestic Phoenix Arises from Centuries of Hibernation

Style: Death

+2

Sep 29, 2021

Band: Mental Torment

Release: Ego:Genesis

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+3

Sep 30, 2021

Band: Aussichtslos

Release: Einsicht

Style: Melodic Black

+2

Oct 1, 2021

Band: Torture of Hypocrisy

Release: Humanufacture

Style: Industrial/Technical Death

+2

Band: Demolizer

Release: Upgrade (EP)

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Enslaved

Release: Caravans to the Outer Worlds (EP)

Style: Progressive Black

+2

Band: Necroticgorebeast

Release: Human Deviance Galore

Style: Brutal Death, Slam

+2

Band: Venefixion

Release: A Sigh From Below

Style: Death

+3

Band: Fear Connection

Release: Progeny of Social Disease

Style: Death

+2

Band: Sadistic Force

Release: Aces Wild

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

Band: Unforged

Release: Eye For an Eye

Style: Groove, Groove/Thrash

+2

Band: Crimson Tower

Release: Aeternal Abyss

Style: Doom

+2

Band: 1000 bone Cylinder Explosion

Release: Bind

Style: Extreme Progressive

Band: KK’s Priest

Release: Sermons of the Sinner

Style: Traditional Metal

+4

Band: Mournful Winter

Release: Mother’s Demise

Style: Melodic Black, Experimental black

+3

Band: Black Rose

Release: Game of Souls

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Kryptos

Release: Force of Danger

Style: Heavy, Speed

+3

Band: Skverna Liniya

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

Style: Black

+2

Sep 18-24 Weekly Metal Recommendations

September 29, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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Sep 18, 2021

Band: As the Sun Falls

Release: Last Days of Light

Style: melodic Death

+3

Sep 20, 2021

Band: Energema

Release: Promised Land

Style: Power

+2

Band: Fatal Solution

Release: Fatal Solution

Style: Thrash

+1

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

Sep 22, 2021

Band: Orbstruct

Release: Deimos Falling

Style: Death

+2

Band: ShadowStrike

Release: Fables & Folklore

Style: symphonic Power

+2

Band: Hellhound

Release: Warrior of Rising Sun

Style: Heavy

+2

Sep 24, 2021

Band: Wraith

Release: Undo the Chains

Style: Blackened Thrash

+3

Band: The Ossuary

Release: Oltretomba

Style: doom

+2

Band: A Pale Horse Named Death

Release: Infernum in Terra

Style: Doom/Gothic

+2

Band: Paradox

Release: Heresy II: End of a Legend

Style: Thrash

+4

Dream Ocean

Release: The Missing Stone

Style: Symphonic, Progressive

+2

Band: Virial

Release: Transhumanism

Style: Progressive/technical Death

+3

Band: Orbit Culture

Release: Shaman (EP)

Style: Death/Groove

+2

Band: Rivers of Nihil

Release: The Work

Style: Progressive Death

+2

Band: Cognizance

Release: Upheaval

Style: Technical Death

+2

Band: Stagewar

Release: Danger to Ourselves

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Ars Moriendi

Release: Le Silence Déraisonnable du Ciel

Style: Melodic Black

+2

Band: Unto Others

Release: Strength

Style: Heavy, Gothic

+3

Band: Sceptor

Release: Rise to the Light

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Iskandr

Release: Vergezicht

Style: Black

+2

Band: Surturs Lohe

Release: Wielandstahl

Style: Epic Black/Folk (Viking, pagan)

+2

(+3 if you speak German)

Band: Axxelerator

Release: Heads or Tails

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Withering Soul

Release: Last Contact

Style: Black

+2

Sep 4-10 Weekly Metal Recommendations

September 15, 2021 by Joe Cearlock

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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Sep 6, 2021

Band: Giant of the Mountain

Release: Mountain’s Blood (EP)

Style: Progressive Black/Death

+2

(probably +3 if it was full length)

Sep 8, 2021

Band: Vell’z Fire

Release: The Last Stand

Style: Heavy

+2

Sep 9, 2021

Band: Darchitect

Release: The Visiting

Style: Progressive Death/Thrash

+3

Sep 10, 2021

Band: Journey Into Darkness

Release: Infinite Universe Infinite Death

Style: Symphonic/Synthonic Black/Death

+2

Band: Daily Insanity

Release: Chronicles of War

Style: German Thrash

+2

Band: Runespell

Release: Verses in Regicide

Style: Black

+2

Band: Mägo de Oz

Release: Bandera negra

Style: Power/Folk

+3

(to bad I don’t speak Spanish)

Band: Inferi

Release: Vile Genesis

Style: Technical Melodic Death

+2

Band: Subfire

Release: Define the Sinner

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Lvcifyre

Release: The Broken Seal

Style: Death

+2

Band: Hladomrak

Release: Archaic Sacrifice

Style: Black

+2

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

Band: Black Mass

Release: Feast at the Forbidden Tree

Style: Blackened Speed, Thrash

+3

Band: Seven Spires

Release: Gods of Debauchery

Style: Symphonic Melodic Death

+4

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

Band: Aborted

Release: Maniacult

Style: Death, Brutal Death, Grindcore

+2

Band: Sober Truth

Release: Laissez Faire, Lucifer!

Style: Groove

+2

Band: Hunted

Release: Deliver Us

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Existem

Release: Searching For Clarity (EP)

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Devcord

Release: Godisnowhere

Style: Progressive Death

+2

Band: Between Worlds

Release: Between Worlds

Style: Heavy, Progressive Power

+3

Band: Stíny plamenů

Release: Jediný poskvrněný přítok

Style: Black

+2

Band: Letzte Instanz

Release: Ehrenwort

Style: Symphonic, Gothic

+2

Band: Anette Olzon

Release: Strong

Style: Symphonic, Power

+2

Aug 7-13 Weekly Metal Recommendations

August 18, 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 11, 2021

Band: Saeko

Release: Holy We Are Alone

Style: Heavy, Power

+3

Band: Xfears

Release: The First

Style: Progressive Heavy

+4

(They had me at the nevermore cover)

Aug 13, 2021

Band: Act of Denial

Release: Negative

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Prestige

Release: Reveal the Ravage

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Chamber of Unlight

Release: Realm of the Night

Style: Black

+2

Band: Ænigmatum

Release: Deconsecrate

Style: Progressive Black/Death

+3

Band: Alchemy of Flesh

Release: Ageless Abominations

Style: Death

+3

Band: Fleshbore

Release: Embers Gathering

Style: Technical Death

+2

Band: Burial in the Sky

Release: The Consumed Self

Style: Progressive/Technical Death

+2

Band: Killing

Release: Face the Madness

Style: Thrash

+3

July 31 - Aug 6

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

SUPPORT THE METAL!

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 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

Support The Metal!

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

May 29 - June 4 Weekly Metal Recommendations

June 10, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

May 29, 2021

Band: Goat Rider

Release: Tsundere

Style: Traditional Black

+2

May 30, 2021

Band: Gasoline Guns

Release: Motor Cult

Style: Traditional, Speed, Heavy

+3

Band: Bunker 66

Release: Beyond the Help of Prayers

Style: Black/Thrash

+3

Band: Orbital Element

Release: Celestials Damage

Style: Progressive Death

+2

May 31, 2021

Band: Dusk Lurker

Release: Whispers From The Blood Moon (EP)

Style: Black

+2

Band: Sarmat

Release: RS-28

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: Goats of Doom

Release: Shiva

Style: Black

+2

June 1, 2021

Band: Yalbadaoth

Release: Expunging The Earth (EP)

Style: Black/Death

+2

(probably +3 if it was full release)

Band: Typhonian

Release: The Cosmic Pendulum of Time (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Hannes Grossmann

Release: To Where The Light Retreats

Style: Technical Melodic Death, Progressive Death

+3

June 2, 2021

Band: Crypt Crawler

Release: Future Usurper

Style: Death

+3

Band: Starlight Ritual

Release: Sealed in Starlight

Style: Traditional, Hard Rock

+2

June 3, 2021

Band: Secret Rule

Release: Mea Culpa

Style: Synthonic

+2

Band: Mepharis

Release: Eternal Night

Style: Melodic Death

+2

June 4, 2021

Band: Red Fang

Release: Arrows

Style: Stoner

+2

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

Band: Flotsam and Jetsam

Release: Blood in the Water

Style: Heavy, Thrash, Power

+4

Band: Ossaert

Release: Pelgrimsoord

Style: Black, Melodic Black

+2

Band: Van Canto

Release: To the Power of Eight

Style: A Capella, Power

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

+2

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

Band: Infest

Release: Psychosis

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: With All My Hate

Release: Impaired Existence

Style: Death, Brutal Death

+2

Band: Octohawk

Release: Animist

Style: Progressive Sludge

+2

Band: Overwrought

Release: …And the Abyss Stares Back

Style: Black, melodic

+2

Band: Boss Keloid

Release: Family the Smiling Thrush

Style: Progressive Sludge, Grunge

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

+3

Band: Ancient Wisdom

Release: A Celebration in Honor of Death

Style: atmospheric Black, epic, synthonic

+3

Band: Plaguestorm

Release: Purifying Fire

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Myronath

Release: Djevelkraft

Style: Black

+2

Band: Desaster

Release: Churches Without Saints

Style: Black

+2

Band: Gaia Epicus

Release: Seventh Rising

Style: Power

+2

Band: Inhuman Condition

Release: Rat°God

Style: Death

+3

Band: Ashen Earth

Release: Oceans Above

Style: Death

+2

Band: Soul Grinder

Release: Lifeless Obsession (EP)

Style: Death

+2

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

May 22-28 Weekly Metal Recommendations

June 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

+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

Band: Gospel

Release: The Spell

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

May 23, 2021

Band: Catharsis Fatalis

Release: Disappointment & Disgust (EP)

Style: Black

+2

(a full length would have gotten it +3)

Facelift Deformation

Release: Path to Retribution (EP)

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Band: Hemorragia Cefálica

Release: Kingdom of Tyranny

Style: Brutal Death

+2

May 24, 2021

Band: Deathgoat

Release: Regurgitated into Existence

Style: Death

+2

Band: Black Flare

Release: Black Flare

Style: Heavy

+2

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)

Band: Graveborn

Release: Transmigrator

Style: Melodic Deathcore

+3

Band: Pačess

Release: Poupě

Style: melodic Black

+2

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

May 26, 2021

Band: Birdflesh

Release: All The Miseries (EP)

Style: grindcore

+2

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)

Band: Savanah

Release: Olympus Mons

Style: Doom, Stoner

+2

Band: Silver Talon

Release: Decadence and Decay

Style: Power, Progressive Power

+3

Band: Unfathomable Ruination

Release: Decennium Ruinae (EP)

Style: Technical Brutal Death

+2

Band: Cross Vault

Release: As Strangers We Depart

Style: Doom

+3

Band: Heavy Sentence

Release: Bang to Rights

Style: Traditional

+3

Band: King of Asgard

Release: Svartrviðr

Style: Epic Melodic Death, Epic Black

+3

Band: Noctule

Release: Wretched Abyss

Style: Melodic Black

+3

Band: Parish

Release: God’s Right Hand (EP)

Style: Doom

+3

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.)

Band: Sadistik Forest

Release: Obscure Old Remains (EP)

Style: Death

+2

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)

Band: Bloodbound

Release: Creatures of the Dark Realm

Style: Synthonic, Power

+3

Band: Stormruler

Release: Under the Burning Eclipse

Style: Black

+3

Band: Khandra

Release: All Occupied by Sole Death

Style: Black

+3

Band: Ghastly

Release: Mercurial Passages

Style: Death, Black/Death

+2

Band: The Vicious Head of Society

Release: Extinction Level Event

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Thronum Vrondor

Release: Dies Tenebrosa Sicut Nox

Style: Black

+3

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.)

Band: Ill Tidings

Release: Signal Tenebris

Style: black, melodic black

+3

Band: Riexhumation

Release: The Final Revelation of Abaddon

Style: Death

+2

Band: Holosade

Release: Anastasis

Style: Heavy, Thrash

+2

(music is great…. vocals not so much)

Band: Praecantator

Release: Obelisk (EP)

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: Angstskríg

Release: Skyggespil

Style: Black

+2

Band: Hellryder

Release: The Devil Is a Gambler

Style: Heavy, Groove

+3

Band: Reject the Sickness

Release: While Our World Dissolves

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Tanzwut

Release: Die Tanzwut kehrt zurück

Style: Industrial/Folk

+2

Band: Dödsrit

Release: Mortal Coil (EP)

Style: Black, Crust punk

+2

May 1-7 Weekly Metal Recommendations

May 12, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

May 1, 2021

Band: Ravian

Release: Kingsmen From Afar

Style: Symphonic Power

+2

Band: Rift Giant

Release: Cataclysm

Style: Doom/Sludge/Stoner

+2

Band: Misfire

Release: Sympathy for the Ignorant

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Dark Seal

Release: Stvoření světa

Style: atmospheric Black

+2

(maybe +3 if I spoke the language)

May 3, 2021

Band: Hanternoz

Release: Au Fleuve de Loire

Style: Black/Folk

+2

Band: Tower

Release: Uriel

Style: Gothic

+2

Band: Gargoyle

Release: Hail to the Necrodoom

Style: Black, Doom

+2

May 4, 2021

Band: Melabstra

Release: El fruto de la discordia

Style: Synthonic Black

+2

Band: Ice Howl

Release: Erhan’s Quest

Style: Instrumental Heavy

+2

May 5, 2021

Band: Outlaw

Release: Death Miasma (EP)

Style: melodic black

+2

Band: Auld

Release: …of Petrichor and I (EP)

Style: black, black/folk

+2

May 6, 2021

Band: Disembodiment

Release: Mutated Chaos (EP)

Style: Death, Death/grind

+2

May 7, 2021

Band: Lord Vampyr

Release: The Vampire’s Legacy

Style: Gothic/Black

+2

Band: Out of Hand

Release: Exility

Style: Death/Thrash, Black/Death

+2

Band: Seth

Release: La Morsure du Christ

Style: Synthonic Black

+2

Band: Nordjevel

Release: Fenriir (EP)

Style: Black

+2

Band: Wormlight

Release: Nightmother

Style: blackmetal

+2

Band: Vokonis

Release: Odyssey

Style: Stoner, Progressive

+2

Band: Solstice

Release: Casting The Die

Style: Thrash

+2

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

Band: Marius Danielsen's Legend of Valley Doom

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

Style: epic power

+3

Band: Kryptik Mutation

Release: Pulled From the Pit

Style: Death

+2

Band: Artillery

Release: X

Style: Thrash, Heavy

+4

Band: In Asymmetry

Release: Ashes of Dead Worlds

Style: Technical Death

+2

Band: Reality Grey

Release: Beneath This Crown

Style: Technical Melodic Death

+2

Band: J. D. Overdrive

Release: Funeral Celebration

Style: Southern, Stoner, Sludge

+2

Band: Steel Fox

Release: Red Snow

Style: Traditional Speed

+3

Band: Moon Coven

Release: Slumber Wood

Style: Doom, Psychedelic rock

+3

Band: Nightshadow

Release: Strike Them Dead

Style: Power, Traditional Speed, Heavy

+3

Band: Bretus

Release: Magharia

Style: Doom, Heavy Rock (Stoner)

+2

Band: Nordic Frost

Release: Sovereign (EP)

Style: Black, Melodic Black

+2

Band: Sonic Haven

Release: Vagabond

Style: Power

+3

Band: Ghost Iris

Release: Comatose

Style: Metalcore, Djent

+3

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

Band: Robin McAuley

Release: Standing on the Edge

Style: Traditional, Rock

+2

April 17-23 Weekly Metal Recommendations

April 27, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interest peaked

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

April 17, 2021

Band: Fleshtorture

Release: Grotesca Doctrina De La Perversidad

Style: Death

+2

Band: Shrine ov Absurd

Release: Monotony

Style: Black

+2

Band: Angrrsth

Release: Donikąd

Style: Black

+2

April 19, 2021

Band: Black Locvst

Release: Forest

Style: Progressive Black/Death

+3

Band: Plague of The Fallen

Release: Bleeding and Vehement (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Malformity

Release: Monumental Ruin

Style: Death

+2

Band: Obsolete

Release: Animate//Isolate

Style: Technical Death/Thrash

+3

Band: Krabathor

Release: Demonizer / Mortal Memories II

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

April 20, 2021

Band: Serpent Sermon

Release: The Saurian Hymns

Style: Symphonic Black

+3

Band: Sylvatica

Release Ashes and Snow

Style: Symphonic melodic death/folk

+3

April 21, 2021

Band: Archemoron

Release: Flagellum I

Style: Black

+3

Band: Feanor

Release: Power of the Chosen One

Style: Epic

+2

April 22, 2021

Band: Disciples of Death

Release: Progressive Entrapment

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Demonized Priest

Release: Necromantic Rituals

Style: Traditional Black

+2

April 23, 2021

Band: Vexillum

Release: When Good Men Go to War

Style: Epic Power/Folk

+3

Band: Cold Cell

Release: The Greater Evil

Style: Black

+3

Band: Helslave

Release: From The Sulphur Depths

Style: Death

+2

Band: Frozen Crown

Release: Winterbane

Style: Power

+3

Band: Dead World Reclamation

Release: Aura of Iniquity

Style: Technical Melodic Death, symphonic death

+3

Band: Crypts of Despair

Release: All Light Swallowed

Style: Death, Black/Death

+2

Band: Old Forest

Release: Mournfall

Style: Gothic Black/Doom

+2

Band: Minas Morgul

Release: Heimkehr

Style: synthonic black

+2

Band: My Refuge

Release: The Anger is Never Over

Style: Progressive Power

+2

Band: Nightfyre

Release: Shattered Lands (EP)

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Odal

Release: Welten Mutter

Style: Black, Pagan

+2

Band: Bodom After Midnight

Release: Paint the Sky with Blood (EP)

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death

+2

Band: Blackbriar

Release: The Cause of Shipwreck

Style: Symphonic/Alternative

+2

Feb 6-12 Weekly Metal Recommendations

February 17, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interest peaked

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

Feb 6, 2021

Band: Agggressor

Release: Osculum Infame

Style: Thrash, Groove/thrash

+2

Feb 10, 2021

Band: Serenity In Murder

Release: Reborn

Style: Symphonic/Synthonic Melodic Death

+2

Band: Tragedy In Hope

Release: Sleep Paralysis

Style: Symphonic Black, Black, Post-Black

+3

Band: Simulacrum

Release: Genesis

Style: Progressive

+3

Band: Immortal Guardian

Release: Psychosomatic

Style: Progressive Power

+3

Band: Abiotic

Release: Ikigai

Style: Technical/progressive death/deathcore

+2

(probably a +3 from many)

Band: Toledo Steel

Release: Heading for the Fire

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Ablaze My Sorrow

Release: Among Ashes and Monoliths

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Magoth

Release: Inviticus

Style: Black

+3

Band: Rascal

Release: Headed Towards Destruction (EP)

Style: Heavy, Speed

+2

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

Band: Durbin

Release: The Beast Awakens

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Noctambulist

Release: Noctambulist I: Elegieën

Style: Post-Black

+2

Band: Sur Austru

Release: Obârșie

Style: Atmospheric Death/Folk

+2

Band: Tortureslave

Release: Tools of Torture

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Demon King

Release: The Final Tyranny (EP)

Style: Technical Black/Thrash

+2

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

Band: Breath of Wind

Release: Sakura

Style: Epic Symphonic Black

+3

(+2 if you are expecting vocals)

Jan 23-29 Weekly Metal Recommendations

February 03, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interest peaked

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

Something I missed

Band: Fate Gear

Release: The Sky Prison

Style: Symphonic, Power

+2

Jan 25, 2021

Band: Devotion

Release: The Harrowing

Style: Death

+3

Band: Sagenland

Release: Oale groond

Style: Black

+2

Band: Yoth Iria

Release: As the Flame Withers

Style: Black, melodic

+3

Jan 26, 2021

Band: Luciferian

Release: Luciferian

Style: Black, Melodic Black

+2

Jan 27, 2021

Band: Carnivored

Release: Labirin

Style: Death

+2

Band: Fate Gear

Release: Scars in My Life (English edition) (EP)

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

Jan 29, 2021

Band: Tribulation

Release: Where the Gloom Becomes Sound

Style: Black/Goth

+2

Band: Accept

Release: To Mean to Die

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Eximperituserqethhzebibšiptugakkathšulweliarzaxułum

Release: Šahrartu

Style: Death, Technical

+2

Band: Werewolves

Release: What a Time to Be Alive

Style: Death, Brutal Death

+2

Band: Pounder

Release: Breaking the World

Style: Heavy, Speed

+2

Band: Crystal Viper

Release: The Cult

Style: Power, Heavy

+3

Band: Malamorte

Release: God Needs Evil

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Rezet

Release: Truth in Between

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Stud

Release: War of Power

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Pantokraton

Release: Marching Out of Babylon

Style: Death, Melodic Death

+2

Band: Gengis Khan

Release: Colder than Heaven

Style: Heavy, speed

+3

Band: The Design Abstract

Release: Technotheism

Style: symphonic/synthonic melodic death

+2

Band: Crowned in Sorrow

Release: In Memoriam

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+2

Band: Storm Seeker

Release: Guns Don’t Cry

Style: Folk

+2

Band: Incursion

Release: The Hunter (EP)

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Michael Schenker Fest

Release: Immortal

Style: Hard Rock, Traditional, Speed

+3

Jan 23 - Feb - 5