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

Feb 13-19 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 13, 2021

Band: Hortzak

Release: Heriotza Ala Hil

Style: Sludge

+2

(+3 if I spoke Spanish)

facebook

Band: Slaves to Fashion

Release: History of Heavy Metal

Style: All of them

+2

website

Feb 14, 2021

Band: SteelForce

Release: The Oracle (EP)

Style: Power, Heavy

+2

facebook

Band: Jens Lötzsch

Release: Destructive Mind

Style: Instrumental

+2

bandcamp

Feb 15, 2021

Band: Christoffear

Release: We All Have Our Daemons

Style: Melodic Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Swamp Thief

Release: I (EP)

Style: Sludge, Southern

+2

(Would be a +3 if full length)

bandcamp

Band: Anal Stabwound

Release: The Visceral Sovereign

Style: Brutal Deth

+2

label bandcamp

Band: Visceral Uprooting

Release: 50​.​39​-​Square​-​Kilometer Mass Grave

Style: Brutal Death, Slam

+2

facebook

Band: Breakhead

Release: Allegiance to Materiality

Style: Death

+2

facebook

Feb 17, 2021

Band: Hizaki

Release: Rusalka (EP)

Style: Instrumental, neo-classical, symphonic

+2

youtube

Feb 18, 2021

Band: Steel Sword

Release: The Steel Sword

Style: Heavy

+2

facebook

Feb 19, 2021

Band: A Night In The Abyss

Release: Begotten (EP)

Style: Symphonic Black/Deathcore

+2

(+3 if it was full length)

bandcamp

Band: Spire

Release: Temple of Khronos

Style: Progressive Black

+2

label bandcamp

Band: The Scalar Process

Release: Coagulative Matter

Style: Progressive/Technical Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Dragon

Release: Arcydzieło zagłady

Style: Thrash, Technical, Death

+3

(anyone speak Polish?)

facebook

Band: Carcolh

Release: The Life and Works of Death

Style: Doom

+2

bandcamp

Band: The Fals

Release: Feuerportal (EP)

Style: Black, Blackened

+2

(maybe +3 if full length)

bandcamp

Band: Ephemerald

Release: Between the Glimpses of Hope

Style: Symphonic/Synthonic Melodic Death, Folk

+2

facebook

Band: Coronary

Release: Sinbad

Style: Traditional

+2

bandcamp

Band: Saprobiontic

Release: Apocalyptic Retribution

Style: Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Embrace of Souls

Release: The Number of Destiny

Style: Symphonic/Synthonic Power

+3

bandcamp

Band: Thron

Release: Pilgrim

Style: Black

+3

facebook

Band: Athanotos

Release: Biogenesis

Style: Technical Death/Deathcore

+2

facebook

Band: Wizard

Release: Metal In My Head

Style: Power, Speed, Heavy, Epic

+2

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

facebook

Band: Dopelord

Release: Reality Dagger (EP)

Style: Stoner, Sludge

+2

bandcamp

Band: Mastord

Release: To Whom Bow Even the Trees

Style: Progressive

+2

facebook

Band: Marco Garau’s Magic Opera

Release: The Golden Pentacle

Style: Symphonic Neoclassical Power

+3

bandcamp

Band: Insect Inside

Release: The First Shining of New Genus

Style: Death, Brutal, Slam

+3

facebook

Band: Angel Martyr

Release: Nothing Louder than Silence

Style: Speed, Heavy

+2

facebook

Band: Malice Divine

Release: Malice Divine

Style: Melodic black/death

+2

bandcamp

Feb 6-12 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 6, 2021

Band: Agggressor

Release: Osculum Infame

Style: Thrash, Groove/thrash

+2

facebook

Feb 10, 2021

Band: Serenity In Murder

Release: Reborn

Style: Symphonic/Synthonic Melodic Death

+2

website

Band: Tragedy In Hope

Release: Sleep Paralysis

Style: Symphonic Black, Black, Post-Black

+3

bandcamp

Band: Simulacrum

Release: Genesis

Style: Progressive

+3

website

Band: Immortal Guardian

Release: Psychosomatic

Style: Progressive Power

+3

website

Band: Abiotic

Release: Ikigai

Style: Technical/progressive death/deathcore

+2

(probably a +3 from many)

bandcamp

Band: Toledo Steel

Release: Heading for the Fire

Style: Heavy

+2

website

Band: Ablaze My Sorrow

Release: Among Ashes and Monoliths

Style: Melodic Death

+3

facebook

Band: Magoth

Release: Inviticus

Style: Black

+3

bandcamp

Band: Rascal

Release: Headed Towards Destruction (EP)

Style: Heavy, Speed

+2

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

bandcamp

Band: Durbin

Release: The Beast Awakens

Style: Heavy

+3

website

Band: Noctambulist

Release: Noctambulist I: Elegieën

Style: Post-Black

+2

facebook

Band: Sur Austru

Release: Obârșie

Style: Atmospheric Death/Folk

+2

facebook

Band: Tortureslave

Release: Tools of Torture

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

bandcamp

Band: Demon King

Release: The Final Tyranny (EP)

Style: Technical Black/Thrash

+2

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

bandcamp

Band: Breath of Wind

Release: Sakura

Style: Epic Symphonic Black

+3

(+2 if you are expecting vocals)

bandcamp

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

Jan 23-29 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

Something I missed

Band: Fate Gear

Release: The Sky Prison

Style: Symphonic, Power

+2

facebook

Jan 25, 2021

Band: Devotion

Release: The Harrowing

Style: Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: Sagenland

Release: Oale groond

Style: Black

+2

facebook

Band: Yoth Iria

Release: As the Flame Withers

Style: Black, melodic

+3

facebook

Jan 26, 2021

Band: Luciferian

Release: Luciferian

Style: Black, Melodic Black

+2

facebook

Jan 27, 2021

Band: Carnivored

Release: Labirin

Style: Death

+2

facebook

Band: Fate Gear

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

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

facebook

Jan 29, 2021

Band: Tribulation

Release: Where the Gloom Becomes Sound

Style: Black/Goth

+2

facebook

Band: Accept

Release: To Mean to Die

Style: Heavy

+3

website

Band: Eximperituserqethhzebibšiptugakkathšulweliarzaxułum

Release: Šahrartu

Style: Death, Technical

+2

bandcamp

Band: Werewolves

Release: What a Time to Be Alive

Style: Death, Brutal Death

+2

bandcamp

Band: Pounder

Release: Breaking the World

Style: Heavy, Speed

+2

bandcamp

Band: Crystal Viper

Release: The Cult

Style: Power, Heavy

+3

website

Band: Malamorte

Release: God Needs Evil

Style: Heavy

+2

facebook

Band: Rezet

Release: Truth in Between

Style: Thrash

+2

website

Band: Stud

Release: War of Power

Style: Heavy

+2

website

Band: Pantokraton

Release: Marching Out of Babylon

Style: Death, Melodic Death

+2

website

Band: Gengis Khan

Release: Colder than Heaven

Style: Heavy, speed

+3

facebook

Band: The Design Abstract

Release: Technotheism

Style: symphonic/synthonic melodic death

+2

facebook

Band: Crowned in Sorrow

Release: In Memoriam

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+2

bandcamp

Band: Storm Seeker

Release: Guns Don’t Cry

Style: Folk

+2

website

Band: Incursion

Release: The Hunter (EP)

Style: Traditional

+2

bandcamp

Band: Michael Schenker Fest

Release: Immortal

Style: Hard Rock, Traditional, Speed

+3

website

Jan 16-22 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

Jan 16, 2021

Band: Ferriterium

Release: Calvaire

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Jan 18, 20201

Band: Hidden Truth

Release: Crisol (EP)

Style: Heavy

+2

facebook

Jan 19, 2021

Band: Bloodkill

Release: Throne of Control

Style: Thrash, Heavy

+2

facebook

Jan 20, 2021

Band: Quell

Release: Turning The Sun To Stone (EP)

Style: Black

+2

bandcamp

Band: The Machinist

Release: I am Void

Style: Industrial Black/Death

+2

bandcamp

Jan 22, 2021

Band: Bestraberto

Release: 2020

Style: Black/Death

+2

label bandcamp

Band: Plagueborne

Release: A Blueprint for Annihilation

Style: Death

+2

facebook

Band: Grima

Release: Rotten Garden

Style: Atmospheric Black

+3

bandcamp

Band: Conviction

Release: Conviction

Style: Doom

+2

facebook

Band: Holy Mother

Release: Face This Burn

Style: Heavy

+2

facebook

Band: Therion

Release: Leviathan

Style: Symphonic

+2

facebook

Band: Asphyx

Release: Necroceros

Style: Death, Death/Doom

+2

facebook

Band: Phantom Elite

Release: Titanium

Style: Symphonic

+3

website

Band: Labÿrinth

Release: Welcome to the Absurd Circus

Style: Progressive Power

+2

facebook

Band: Nervosa

Release: Perpetual Chaos

Style: Thrash, Death/Thrash

+2

website

Band: Ektomorf

Release: Reborn

Style: Groove/Thrash

+2

facebook

Jan 9-15 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

Jan 10, 2021

Band: Bestia Ater

Release: Anno Bestia Chrysallis

Style: Death

+2

bandcamp

Jan 12, 2021

Band: Need

Release: Norchestrion: A Song For The End

Style: Progressive

+3

bandcamp

Jan 15, 2021

Band: Witherfall

Release: The Curse of Autumn

Style: Heavy, Progressive

+2

website

Band: Stass

Release: Songs of Flesh and Decay

Style: Melodic Death, Death

+2

label bandcamp

Band: Fractal Generator

Release: Macrocosmos

Style: Brutal Death

+2

facebook

Band: Fireforce

Release: Rage of War

Style: Power

+3

website

Band: Dread Sovereign

Release: Alchemical Warfare

Style: Doom

+3

bandcamp

Band: Dragony

Release: Viribus Unitis

Style: Power

+3

website

Band: Winterage

Release: The Inheritance of Beauty

Style: Symphonic Power

+2

website