July 10-16 Weekly Metal Recommendations

July 21, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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July 10, 2021

Band: Vanexa

Release: The Last in Black

Style: Traditional, Progressive

+2

July 12, 2021

Band: Sarinvomit

Release: Aweken Ye Impious Hordes of Shaitan

Style: Black

+2

July 14, 2021

Band: Chestcrush

Release: Ydelygmia

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: 矢島舞依

Release: Heretical Soul (EP)

Style: J-Metal

+2

July 15, 2021

Band: To Descend

Release: Exorcism of Hope

Style: Death

+2

Band: Codex Nero

Release: The Great Harvest of Death

Style: black

+2

(the full released version has much better production)

Band: Grin in Fear

Release: Legion

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Vulture Lord

Release: Desecration Rite

Style: Black

+2

July 16, 2021

Band: Vomit Ritual

Release: Callous

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: Vandor

Release: On Moonlit Night

Style: Power

+3

Band: Towards Atlantis Lights

Release: When the Ashes Devoured the Sun

Style: Funeral Doom

+2

Band: Laceration

Release: Demise

Style: Death

+3

Band: Cognitive

Release: Malevolent Thoughts of Hasted Extinction

Style: Technical Death, Deathcore

+2

Band: Calliophis

Release: Liquid Darkness

Style: atmospheric Death/Doom

+3

Band: Space Chaser

Release: Give us Life

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Spiral Grave

Release: Legacy of the Anointed

Style: Doom, Heavy

+3

Band: Big City

Release: Testify X

Style: Traditional, Hard Rock

+2

Band: Vouna

Release: Atropos

Style: Black/Doom

+2

Band: Nothing Sacred

Release: No Gods

Style: Thrash, Groove, Grunge

+2

Band: Ophidian I

Release: Desolate

Style: Technical Death

+2

Band: Resurrection Kings

(former Dio members)

Release: Skygazer

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Wizardthrone

Release: Hypercube Necrodimensions

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death

+3

Band: Powerwolf

Release: Call of the Wild

Style: Synthonic Heavy, Power

+3

July 3-9 Weekly Metal Recommendations

July 13, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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July 6, 2021

Band: Emerald Rage

Release: High King

Style: Traditional, speed, power

+2

July 7, 2021

Band: Dismalìa

Style: Vile Enigma

Style: Gothic

+2

July 9, 2021

Band: Mayhem

Release: Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando (EP)

Style: Black

+2

Band: Night Crowned

Release: Hädanfärd

Style: Melodic Black

+2

(+3 if you speak Swedish)

Band: Kambrium

Release: Synthetic ERA

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death/Power

+2

Band: Sepiroth

Release: Condemned to Suffer

Style: Death

+2

Band: Internal Conflict

Release: A P O R I A

Style: Metal-core

+2

Band: Dialith

Release: Atrophy (EP)

Style: Synthonic

+2

Band: Elderblood

Release: Achrony

Style: Black

+3

Band: Laurenne/Louhimo

Release: The Reckoning

Style: Heavy

+2

(other songs I heard was unfortunately not this good)

Band: Domination Campaign

Release: Onward to Glory

Style: Death

+2

(good but songs all seem very similar)

June 26 - July 2

June 26 - July 2 Weekly Metal Recommendations

July 07, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

Support The Metal!

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

June 26, 2021

Band: Pullverizer

Release: We Have Warned EP (style)

Style: Thrash, groove

+2

Band: Pandemic Outbreak

Release: Skulls Beneath the Cross

Style: Death

+2

June 27, 2021

Band: Wülfskol

Release: Satanik Death Militia (EP)

Style: Black, Death, Crust punk

+2

June 28, 2021

Band: Anam’Kara

Release: Unleashed

Style: Symphonic blackened melodic death

+2

Band: Leif

Release: Gateways

Style: Melodic Black

+2

June 30, 2021

Band: Гробъ

Release: Смирение

Style: Black/Death

+2

July 1, 2021

Band: Vrykolakas

Release: And Vrykolakas Brings Chaos and Destruction

Style: Death

+2

July 2, 2021

Band: Diabolizer

Release: Khalkedonian Death

Style: Death

+2

Band: Lost in Grey

Release: Under the Surface

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: At The Gates

Release: The Nightmare of Being

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Felled

Release: The Intimate Earth

Style: Black/Folk

+2

Band: Mourn the Light

Release: Suffer, Then We’re Gone

Style: Doom, Traditional, Heavy

+3

Band: Supreme Court

Release: Been a While

Style: Heavy, Speed

+2

Band: Queen of Distortion

Release: Checkmate!

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Born of Osiris

Release: Angel or Alien

Style: Synthonic Metal-core

+2

Band: Lord of The Lost

Release: Judas

Style: Gothic/Industrial

+3

June 19-25 Weekly Metal Recommendations

July 01, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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June 19, 2021

Band: Vingador

Release: Renegado

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Dusckmourn

Release: Fallen Kings and Rusted Crowns

Style: Melodic Death, Melodic Black, symphonic, epic

+3

June 20, 2021

Band: Vulture Lord

Release: Desecration Rite

Style: Black

+3

Band: Astyanax

Release: Pathologically Explicit

Style: Brutal Death

+3

June 21, 2021

Band: Voland

Release: Voland III: Царепоклонство - Il culto degli Zar (EP)

Style: Symphonic Black/Folk

+2

Band: Paraphilia

Release: Primordium of Sinister Butchery (EP)

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Band: Burden of Ymir

Release: From Élivágar

Style: Black/Folk

+2

June 23, 2021

Band: Illusion Force

Release: Illusion Paradise

Style: Synthonic/Symphonic Power, J-Power

+3

June 24, 2021

Band: Gergogot

Release: Heading to Eternal

Style: Brutal Death

+2

June 25, 2021

Band: Solus Ex Inferis

Release: Daemones Ceramici

Style: Death

+2

Band: Cathexis

Release: Untethered Abyss

Style: Technical Death

+2

Band: Beleth

Release: Silent Genesis

Style: Death

+2

Band: The Absence

Release: Coffinized

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Pestilence

Release: Exitivm

Style: Death, Symphonic

+4

Band: Requiem

Release: Collapse into Chaos

Style: Death

+3

Band: Urne

Release: Serpent & Spirit

Style: Metalcore, sludge, heavy

+2

Band: Inhumanity Vortex

Release: Reverse Engineering (EP)

Style: Technical Death

+2

Band: Nephren-Ka

Release: From Agony to Transcendence

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Band: Darkthrone

Release: Eternal Hails......

Style: Traditional Black, Black/Doom

+2

Band: 10,000 Years

Release: II

Style: Doom, Sludge

+3

Band: Polemicist

Release: Return of the Sophist

Style: Black

+2

Band: Prayers of Sanity

Release: Doctrine of Misanthropy

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: SkyEye

Release: Soldiers of Light

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Celtian

Release: Sendas de leyenda

Style: Symphonic Folk

+2

Band: Nifrost

Release: Orkja

Style: Black

+3

Band: Suidakra

Release: Resurgence

Style: Symphonic Melodic Death/Folk

+4

Band: Artach

Release: Sworn to Avenge

Style: Traditional Black

+2

Band: Dark Vision

Release: Ianose

Style: Black

+2

Band: Xenos

Release: The Dawn of Ares

Style: Technical Thrash

+2

Band: Stench Collector

Release: Effluviatorium Du Jour (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Hiraes

Release: Solitary

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Shadow Kingdom

Release: Eyes of Pain

Style: Heavy, Thrash

+2

Band: Saratan

Release: Nabatea

Style: Middle-eastern Folk Metal

+2

June 26 - July 2

June 12-18 Weekly Metal Recommendations

June 24, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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June 14, 2021

Band: Reaktion

Release: To Expect Nothing

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Heir Corpse One

Rlease: Fly the Fiendish Skies

Style: Death

+2

Band: Tortharry

Release: Altars of Ignorance

Style: Death

+2

June 15, 2021

Band: DxVxDxDx SxLF

Release: Before The Dawn

Style: Gothic/Black

+2

Band: Abysmal Piss

Release: One With The Rotting

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Band: Nasty Surgeons

Style: A Night in the Morgue

Release: Death

+2

June 16, 2021

Band: Galneryus

Release: Union Gives Strength (EP)

Style: J-Power

+2

Band: Macabre Decay

Release: Into Oblivion

Style: Death

+2

June 18, 2021

Band: Timo Tolkki’s Avalon

Release: The Enigma Birth

Style: Synthonic/Symphonic

+2

Band: Video Nasty

Release: Video Nasty (EP)

Style: Thrash, Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Alustrium

Release: A Monument to Silence

Style: Progressive/technical Death, Blackened Metal-core

+2

Band: Helloween

Release: Helloween

Style: Power

+5,000

Band: Eye of Purgatory

Release: The Lighthouse

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Entierro

Release: El Camazotz (EP)

Style: Heavy

+3

(I normally wont give a +3 for an EP, but they choice in Judas Priest cover earned a bonus point. Normally “Exciter” is seen as the first traditional speed metal song, but “Call of the Priest” came first.)

Band: Crowne

Release: Kings of the North

Style: Power, Heavy

+2

Band: Reinforcer

Release: Prince of the Tribes

Style: Heavy, Power

+3

Band: Fear Factory

Release: Aggression Continuum

Style: Industrial, Groove

+2

(I’m sure it’s good, but I don’t like industrial)

Band: Season of Dreams

Release: Heroes

Style: Symphonic/Synthonic power

+2

Band: Pharaoh

Release: The Powers That Be

Style: Progressive Power

+3

Band: Bloodbeat

Release: Process of Extinction

Style: Death

+3

Band: Blazon Rite

Release: Endless Halls of Golden Totem

Style: Heavy, Traditional

+2

Band: Moanhand

Release Present Serpent

Style: Blackened Sludge, Doom

+2

Band: Lucifer’s Hammer

Release: The Trip

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Ravager

Release: The Third Attack

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: They Kingdom Will Burn

Release: Thy Kingdom Will Burn

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Angelwings

Release: Primordium

Style: Symphonic, Gothic

+2

Band: Chalice of Sin

Release: Chalice of Sin

Style: Symphonic, Heavy

+3

Band: Chronic Hate

Release: Reflection on Ruin (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Seventh Dimension

Release: Black Sky

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: The Day of the Beast

Release: Indisputably Carnivorous

Style: Death/Thrash, Black/Thrash

+3

June 5-11 Weekly Metal Recommendation

June 17, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

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June 5, 2021

Band: Misotheist

Release: Secular Blight

Style: Black/thrash, Black

+2

Band: Dead Heat

Release: World At War

Style: Crossover Thrash, Hardcore

+2

June 7, 2021

Band: Alastor

Release: The Unholy Hordes

Style: Speed, Heavy

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

+2

Band: GraveRipper

Release: Radiant Remains

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

June 8, 2021

Band: Glora Nexus

Release: A Grand Monument to Mortality (EP)

Style: Black, melodic

+2

Band: Heathen Deity

Release: True English Black Metal

Style: black

+2

June 11, 2021

Band: Crypta

Release: Echoes of the Soul

Style: Death, melodic

+3

Band: Hammer King

Release: Hammer King

Style: Heavy

+4

Band: Interloper

Release: Search Party

Style: Progressive, metalcore

+3

Band: This Ending

Release: Needles of Rust

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Exsanguination

Release: Spectral Hymns

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Evil King

Release: The Dark Age

Style: Synthonic Heavy

+2

Band: Metalwings

Release: A Whole New Land

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: Path of Destiny

Release: The Seed of All Evil

Style: Melodic Death, Symphonic

+4

Band: Gorgon

Release: Traditio Satanae

Style: Black

+3

Band: Firienholt

Release: By the Waters of Awakening

Style: Synthonic black

+2

Band: Brother Against Brother

Release: Brother Against Brother

Style: Synthonic heavy, power

+2

Band: Witch Cross

Release: Angel of Death

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Land of Confusion

Release: The Morning Star

Style: Melodic Death, Death

+2

Band: Seum

Release: Winterized

Style: Sludge

+2

Band: Galundo Tenvulance

Release: Tenvulancy

Style: Symphonic Deathcore (EP)

+2

Band: Terra Odium

Release: Ne Plus Ultra

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: InnerSiege

Release: Fury of Ages

Style: Traditional, heavy

+2

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

Band: Go Ahead and Die

Release: Go Ahead and Die

Style: death/thrash, sludge, groove

+2

Band: Narbeleth

Release: Svmma Cvm Nox Arcana

Style: Black

+2

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 15-21 Weekly Metal Recommendations

May 26, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interesting

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

May 15, 2021

Band: GjeldRune

Release: Слово посеет смуту

Style: Folk

+2

Band: Karcinoma

Release: Invictus

Style: Symphonic

+3

Band: Infitar

Release: Inhuman

Style: Death

+3

Band: Killchain

Release: Rottenness

Style: Death

+2

Band: Tvær

Release: Uvaer

Style: Black, atmospheric

+2

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

May 18, 2021

Band: Swamp Terror

Release: Gathered For Carnage (EP)

Style: death

+2

Band: Faeces

Release: Nihilominus

Style: Progressive Death, death/grind, brutal death

+3

May 20, 2021

Band: Guzarat

Release: Algoritma

Style: Death

+2

Band: Chiliasm

Release: Flesh Over Finite (EP)

Style: Technical Death

+2

Band: Great Master

Release: Thy Harbour Inn

Style: Epic Power

+2

Band: Eisenhand

Release: Fires Within

Style: Speed, Traditional

+2

May 21, 2021

Band: Liquid Steel

Release: Mountain of Madness

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Vomitron

Release: RighteousNES

Style: Instrumental

+2

Band: Slithering Decay

Release: Aeons Untold

Style: Death

+2

Band: Havamal

Release: The Shadow Chapter

Style: Synthonic/Symphonic Melodic Death

+3

Band: Conquerors

Release: Stormbringer

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

Band: Hanging Garden

Release: Skeleton Lake

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+2

Band: Hagel

Release: Veneration of the Black Light

Style: Atmospheric Melodic Black/Doom

+2

Band: Majestic Downfall

Release: Aorta

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+3

Band: Herman Frank

Release: Two for a Lie

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Illusory

Release: Crimson Wreath

Style: Traditional, Heavy

+2

Band: Virtue of Decay

Release: Only Now You Fear the Cold (EP)

Style: Black, melodic

+2

Band: Gn0sis

Release: Pro Terra

Style: Instrumental Technical Death, Progressive

+2

Band: Sabhankra

Release: Death To Traitors

Style: Black

Band: Vulture

Release: Dealin’ Death

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Nahaya

Release: Vital Alchemy

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Artaban’s Redemption

Release: Broken Puppets (EP)

Style: Power

+2

Band: Overlloud

Release: Splendor Solis

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Krilloan

Release: Stories of Times Forgotten

Style: Power

+2

Band: Nergard

Release: Eternal White

Style: Symphonic, Power

+3

May 8-14 Weekly Metal Recommendations

May 20, 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 8, 2021

Band: Coral

Release: Cambie para mal

Style: Heavy, Groove

+2

May 8, 2021

Band: Empty Throne

Release: Glossolalia (EP)

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: Devilvvorshipper

Release: The Divine Right of Kings

Style: Black

+2

Band: Eos

Release: The Great Ascension

Style: Black, melodic black

+3

May 12, 2021

Band: Meshum

Release: Enigmatic Existential Essence

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Band: Twitch of the Death Nerve

Release: Beset by False Prophets

Style: Brutal Death

+2

May 14, 2021

Band: Skratte

Release: Akt 1: Ein Feuer entfacht

Style: Black

+2

Band: Tyrant’s Curse

Release: Modern Babylon

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

Band: Against Evil

Release: End of the Line

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: The Ember, The Ash

Release: Fixation

Style: Symphonic Blackened Deathcore

+2

Band: Project: Roenwolfe

Release: Edge of Saturn

Style: Power/Thrash

+3

Band: Siniestro

Release: Vortexx

Style: Melodic Death, blackened

+2

Band: The Very End

Release: Zeitgeist

Style: Melodic Death, Melodic Death/Groove

+3

Band: Vallendusk

Release: Heralds of Strife

Style: Black

+2

Band: The Monolith Deathcult

Release: V3 - Vernedering: Connect the Goddamn Dots

Style: Symphonic Death

+2

Band: Sněť

Release: Mokvání v okovech

Style: Death

+2

Band: Grave Miasma

Release: Abyss of Wrathful Deities

Style: Death, Black/Death

+3

Band: Subterranean Masquerade

Release: Mountain Fever

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Scare of The Sun

Release: Inertia

Style: Melodic Death, Gothic
(Despite Metal Archives using “melodic groove” this style they are labeling as such has nearly nothing to do with groove metal. I do think there is a genre here but their term doesn’t seem appropriate. Maybe Pansy Melodic Death… ok probably not that but this is the style being used by modern In Flames and other melodic death based bands with whiney vocals added into the mix)

+2

Band: Canvas Solaris

Release: Chromosphere

Style: Instrumental Progressive

+2

(get me a good vocalist to go with this and you have a +3)

Band: Nihïlanth

Release: Graceless Planet

Style: Death

+3

Band: Perverted Dexterity

Release: Alacrity for Contemptuous Dissonance

Style: Brutal Death

+2

Band: Apostasy

Release: Death Return

Style: Black, Thrash

+2

Band: Sunbomb

Release: Evil and Devine

Style: Traditional

+3

(as much as I make fun of Stryper, this is actually really good)

Band: Dan Baune's Lost Sanctuary

Release: Lost Sanctuary

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Sommo Inquisitore

Release: Anno Mille

Style: Epic

+2

(+3 is I spoke Italian)

Band: The Bleeding

Release: Rise Into Nothing (EP)

Style: Death/Thrash

+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 24-30 Weekly Metal Recommendations

May 05, 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 24, 2021

Band: Soulglass

Release: Odeth

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: Nuclear Revenge

Release: Dawn of the Primitive Age

Style: Black/Thrash

+3

Band: Surtura

Release: Dawn of Cursed Souls

Style: Death

+2

Band: Thirsty Demon

Release: Unconscious Suicide

Style: Death

+2

April 25, 2021

Band: Hymn Above Traumatic Emotion

Release: 幻葬

Style: Melodic Death, Metalcore

+2

April 28, 2021

Band: Atvm

Release: Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless

Style: Progressive Death

+2

April 29, 2021

Band: Becerus

Release: Homo Homini Brutus

Style: Death

+2

Band: Vietnam Rose

Release: Darkness Side

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death

+2

Band: Hyperomm

Release: In My Own Spaceship

Style: Symphonic/Synthonic Melodic Death

+3

Band: Gojira

Release: Fortitude

Style: Progressive Groove

+3

Band: Dreams in Fragments

Release: When Echoes Fade

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: Bunker 66

Release: Beyond the Help of Prayers

Style: black/thrash

+2

Band: Evile

Release: Hell Unleashed

Style: Thrash

+4

Band: Nekromantheon

Release: Visions of Trismegistos

Style: Death/Thrash

+3

Band: Arched Fire

Release: Remote Control

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Bloody Hell

Release: The Bloodening

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Ungfell

Release: Es Grauet

Style: Black, black/folk

+2

Band: Ewig Frost

Release: Ain’t No Saint

Style: traditional black

+2

Band: Ninkharsag

Release: The Dread March of Solemn Gods

Style: black

+3

Band: Domkraft

Release: Seeds

Style: Doom/Sludge

+2

Band: Yellowtooth

Release: The Burning Illusion

Style: Stoner, Sludge

+2

Band: Feradur

Release: Parakosm (EP)

Style: melodic death

+2

Band: Axewitch

Release: Out of the Ashes into the Fire

Style: traditional

+2

Band: Goregang

Release: Long Live The Grime (EP)

Style: Death, Death/grind

+2

Band: Dyrnwyn

Release: II Culto Del Fuoco

Style: Folk, symphonic melodic death/folk, Symphonic black/folk

+3

Band: Nattverd

Release: Vandring

Style: black

+2

Band: Screaming Banshee

Release: Pierceive

Style: Progressive Death

+2

Band: Lóstregos

Release: Onde Calan os Corazóns, Ruxen as Pedras

Style: Black

+2

Band: Poverty’s No Crime

Release: A Secret to Hide

Style: Progressive

+3

Band: Millennial Reign

Release: Carry The Fire Again (EP)

Style: Synthonic Power

+2

Band: Sorcerer

Release: Dire Prophecy

Style: Heavy, Power/Thrash

+3

Band: Blaze Bayley

Release: War Within Me

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Trauma

Release: Acrimony (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Jeriko

Release: Hasta el Final

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Temtris

Release: Ritual Warfare

Style: Heavy, Power

+3

Band: Hegony

Release: Second Stab - promo 2021

Style: Death

+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

April 10-16 Weekly Metal Recommendations

April 20, 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 11, 2021

Band: Nero Omega

Release: Nero Omega (EP)

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Viscral

Release: Entrance Into Terrifying Imagery

Style: Brutal Death

+2

April 13, 2021

Band: Nephilim Grinder

Release: Spiritual Torment

Style: Brutal Death

+1

April 15, 2021

Band: Kaine

Release: Kaine E.P.

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Social Scream

Release: From Ashes To Hope

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Detritus

Release: Myths

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Legions of War

Release: Dark Dimensions

Style: Blackened Heavy, Black/Thrash

+3

April 16, 2021

Band: Cannibal Corpse

Release: Violence Unimagined

Style: Death

+3

Band: Shadowspawn

Release: The Biology of Disbelief

Style: Death

+3

Band: Liquid Tension Experiment

Release: Liquid Tension Experiment 3

Style: Instrumental Progressive Metal/Rock

+2

Band: Ildaruni

Release: Beyond Unseen Gateways

Style: Epic Black/Folk, Pagan

+3

Band: Deathswarm

Release: Forward Into Oblivion

Style: Death

+2

Band: Aggravator

Release: Unseen Repulsions (EP)

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Dark Horse | White Horse

Release: Dark Horse | White Horse (EP)

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Giotopia

Release: Trinity of Evil

Style: Heavy, Symphonic, Power

+3

Band: Bushido Code

Release: The Ronin

Style: Crossover Thrash

+2

Band: Endseeker

Release: Mount Carcass

Style: Death, Melodic Death

+2

Band: Aran Angmar

Release: Black Cosmic Elements

Style: Black

+3

Band: Betrayal

Release: Disorder Remains

Style: Melodic Death/Black

+2

Band: Icon of Sin

Release: Icon of Sin

Style: Traditional

+3

April 3-9 Weekly Metal Recommendations

April 13, 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 3, 2021

Band: Tower

Release: Uriel

Style: Gothic

+2

Band: Aetherea

Release: Through Infinite Dimensions

Style: Symphonic

+2

April 6, 2021

Band: Tides of Kharon

Release: Titanomachy (EP)

Style: melodic death

+2

April 8, 2021

Band: Inoculation

Release: Celestial Putridity

Style: Death

+3

April 9, 2021

Band: Primal Fear

Release: I Will Be Gone EP

Style: Heavy, acoustic rock

+1

(I didn’t like the song before and as much as I love Tarja I still don’t like it. The rest of the EP isn’t that good either. I only liked two of the songs and they were only mediocre.)

Band: Cathartic Demise

Release: In Absence

Style: Progressive Melodic Death

+2

Band: Horndal

Release: Lake Drinker

Style: Sludge/Groove

+2

Band: Throne

Release: Pestilent Dawn

Style: Black/Death

+3

Band: Sweet Oblivion

Release: Relentless

Style: “melodic heavy metal” (It’s a bit progressive and a bit symphonic)

+3

Band: Wolfchant

Release: Omega : Bestia

Style: Power Metal / Melodic Death

+3

Band: Phlebotomized

Release: Pain, Resistance, Suffering (EP)

Style: Progressive Melodic Death, Progressive Death/Doom

+3

Band: Motorjesus

Release: Hellbreaker

Style: Heavy, Hard Rock

+2

Band: Saille

Release: V

Style: Black, Symphonic Black

+2

Band: Dalriada

Release: Őszelő

Style: Folk

+2

(I don’t speak Hungarian, otherwise it could have a +3)

Band: Goath

Release: III: Shaped By The Unlight

Style: Black/Death, Death

+3

Band: Carnal Savagery

Release: Fiendish

Style: Death

+2

Band: Wheel

Release: Preserved in Time

Style: Doom

+3

Band: Johan Kihlberg’s Impera

Release: Spirit of Alchemy

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: ScreaMachine

Release: ScreaMachine

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Vrademargk

Release: Arrelats

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Stygian Dark

Release: Gorelords of War

Style: Death

+2

Band: The End Machine

Release: Phase 2

Style: Traditional, Hard Rock

+2

March 27 - April 2

March 27 - April 2 Weekly Metal Recommendations

April 07, 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

Some stuff I missed from March 26

Thanks to what I’m assuming was a bad April Fools joke from Metalstorm.net I was unable to check them for something maybe not listed on Metalarchives

Band: Evanescence

Release: Part of Me

Style: Alternative Metal/Rock

+2

Band: Band of Spice

Release: By The Corner Of Tomorrow

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Smith/Kotzen

Release: Smith/Kotzen

Style: Heavy/Hard Rock

+1

March 27, 2021

Band: Haissem

Release: Philosofiend

Style: Melodic Black

+2

March 31, 2021

Band: Grabak

Release: Scion

Style: Black

+2

Band: Obvurt

Release: The Beginning (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Obscure Fate

Release: Raven’s Call (EP)

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Dying Eden

Release: Perish to Exist

Style: Groove, Death/Groove

+2

Band: Scaffold

Release: Codex Gigas

Style: Death

+2

April 1, 2021

Band: Crummer

Release: Deathwards

Style: Death

+2

Band: Wode

Release: Burn In Many Mirrors

Style: Black, Black/Death, Melodic Black

+3

Band: Stormtide

Release: A Throne of Hollow Fire

Style: Symphonic Melodic Death/Folk

+3

April 2, 2021

Band: Sielunvihollinen

Release: Teloituskäsky

Style: Black

+2

Band: Spellforger

Release: Upholders of Evil (EP)

Style: Thrash, Black/Death/Thrash

+3

Band: Evil Drive

Release: Demons Within

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Fossilization

Release: He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten (EP)

Style: Death, Death/Doom

+2

Band: Malacoda

Release: Crawling Chaos (EP)

Style: Heavy, Gothic/Power

+2

Band: Nervous Decay

Release: Nervous Decay

Style: Death

+2

Band: Steel Bearing Hand

Release: Slay In Hell

Style: Death/Thrash, Black/Thrash

+2

Band: Moral Collapse

Release: Moral Collapse

Style: Death

+2

Band: Plaguepreacher

Release: Terracide (EP)

Style: Black

+2

Band: Codex Mortis

Release: What Befalls of Tainted Souls

Style: Black

+3

March 20-27 Weekly Meta Recommendations

April 01, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interest peaked

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

March 20, 2021

Band: Krajiny Hmly

Release: Poza čierne hory

Style: Black, Pagan

+2

Band: Acid Age

Release: Semper Pessimus

Style: Technical Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Thagirion

Release: On The Path of Shattered Bells (EP)

Style: Black

+2

March 21, 2021

Band: Sarkrista

Release: Sworn to Profound Heresy

Style: Black

+2

March 22, 2021

Band: Ataraxia

Release: Pustovnik

Style: Death

+2

(Anyone speak Russian?)

Band: Escoria

Release: Rigor Mortis

Style: Thrash

+2

March 23, 2021

Band: Rubicon

Release: Demonstar

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

Band: Nanga Parbat

Release: Blood, Death And Silence

Style: Melodic Death, Progressive Death

+3

Band: Ireful

Release: The Walls of Madness (EP)

Style: Thrash

+3

March 24, 2021

Band: Hungry Wölf

Release: Forgotten Frozen Lands

Style: Black/Thrash

+2

Band: Arcaneblaze

Release: Spawn of Putrefaction (EP)

Style: Black/Thrash, Black/Speed

+2

March 25, 2021

Band: Mandragora

Release: [d]Æscend

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Baalberith

Release: Manhunt

Style: Death, Black/Death

+3

Band: Gartraada

Release: Embrace of the Cold Barents Sea

Style: We have Amon Amarth at home… melodic death

+2

March 26, 2021

Band: Sanguisugabogg

Release: Tortured Whole

Style: Death

+2

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

Band: Creeping Fear

Release: Hategod Triumph

Style: Death

+2

Band: Witchseeker

Release: Scene of the Wild

Style: Traditional Heavy, Speed

+2

Band: Bloodmores

Release: Too Close To The Sun

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Burn Down Eden

Release: Burn Down Eden

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Ghosts of Atlantis

Release: 3/6/2/4

Style: Symphonic Melodic Death/Groove

+3

Band: Metalite

Release: A Virtual World

Style: Synthonic Power

+2

Band: Silent Winter

Release: Empire of Sins

Style: Power

+2

Band: Paladine

Release: Entering The Abyss

Style: Power

+3

Band: Rapture

Release: Malevolent Demise Incarnation

Style: Death, Death/Thrash

+3

Band: Drakkar

Release: Chaos Lord

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Cryptosis

Release: Bionic Swarm

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Celestial Sanctuary

Release: Soul Diminished

Style: Death

+2

Band: Memoriam

Release: To the End

Style: Death

+1

Band: Necronomicon

Release: The Final Chapter

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: The Stone

Release: Kosturnice

Style: Black

+2

Band: Cambion

Release: Conflagrate the Celestial Refugium

Style: Black/Death, Death

+2

Band: George Tsalkis

Release: Return To Power

Style: Power

+3

Band: Imperia

Release: The Last Horizon

Style: Symphonic/gothic

+2

Band: Little Hole Filled

Release: And The Ants Still March On

Style: Doom, Heavy Rock (Stoner)

+2

Band: Slabber

Release: Apocryphal Diary

Style: Heavy, Thrash, Speed

+2

Band: Distant Past

Release: The Final Stage

Style: Traditional Heavy

+3

Band: The Quill

Release: Earthrise

Style: Heavy, Hard Rock, Bluesy

+3

Band: Beansidhe

Release: Processionaria

Style: Black, Black/Death

+2

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

Band: Images of Eden

Release: Angel Born

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: Obscure Relic

Release: Black Sorcery Devotion

Style: Black

+2

Band: Vollmond

Release: Wolves in Turmoil

Style: Black

+2

(This album is in need of a volume boost)

Band: Electric Crown

Release: Electric Crown

Style: Heavy

+3

March 27 - April 2

March 13-19 Weekly Metal Recommendation

March 24, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interest peaked

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

March 15, 2021

Band: Valtari

Release: Titans Call

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Band: Suppressive Fire

Release: Invasion (EP)

Style: Blackened Thrash

+2

March 16, 2021

Band: Dead Sun

Release: Night Terrors

Style: Death, Melodic Death

+2

March 19, 2021

Band: Cosmic Reaper

Release: Cosmic Reaper

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Methal Kyrios

Release: Síndrome oscuro

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Aversed

Release: Impermanent

Style: Progressive Melodic Death

+2

Band: Fuath

Release: II

Style: atmospheric black

+2

Band: Depths of Hatred

Release: Inheritance

Style: Deathcore

+2

Band: Agent Steel

Release: No Other Gods Before Me

Style: Heavy, Speed, thrash

+2

Band: Magna Mortalis

Release: Procreation of the Plague

Style: Death

+2

Band: Adamantis

Release: Far Flung Realm

Style: Power, Epic

+2

Band: Midnight Odyssey

Release: Biolume Part 2: The Golden Orb

Style: Epic, Atmospheric Black

+2

Band: Mare Cognitum

Release: Solar Paroxysm

Style atmospheric/melodic black

+2

Band: Lunar Shadow

Release: Wish To Leave

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Krabathor

Release: Demonizer / Mortal Memories II

Style: Death/thrash

+2

Band: Hell Poison

Release: Breathing for the Filth

Style: Traditional Black, Traditional, Speed

+3

Band: Martyrium

Release: Lamia Satanica

Style: Symphonic Black

+3

Band: Morost

Release: Forged Entropy

Style: Progressive Black/Death

+2

Band: SnailMAGEDDON

Release: Swansong for a Snail

Style: Epic Black/Folk

+2

Band: Batushka

Relese: Царю Небесный / Carju Niebiesnyj

Style: Epic Black

+2

Band: Sarmat

Release: RS-28

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: Ulthima

Release: Symphony of the Night

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death

+3

Band: Herzel

Release: Le Dernier Rempart

Style: Traditional

+2

(maybe +3 if I spoke French)

March 6-12 Weekly Metal Recommendations

March 16, 2021 by Joe Cearlock in Recommendations

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

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

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+2 - interest peaked

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

March 6, 2021

Band: Vilemass

Release: Gore Weed Distortion

Style: Death

+2

Band: Incinerate

Release: Back to Reality

Style: Death, Death/Thrash

+3

March 8, 2021

Band: Navalm

Release: Cursed Land

Style: Death, Progressive Death

+2

Band: Morvidhen

Release: Morvidhen

Style: Speed

+2

(if you speak Spanish)

March 10, 2021

Band: Writhing Shadows

Release: Perverse Beasts of War (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Lovebites

Release: Glory, Glory, to the World (EP)

Style: J-Power

+3

March 10, 2021

Band: Malist

Release: Karast Relict

Style: Black, Atmospheric

+2

Band: Orden Ogan

Release: Final Days

Style: Melodic Groove, Power

+1

Band: Rise to the Sky

Release: Let Me Drown With You

Style: Melodic Death/Doom

+2

Band: Secret Sphere

Release: Lifeblood

Style: Power, Melodic

+2

Band: Stortregn

Release: Impermanence

Style: Melodic Black/Death

+3

Band: Enforced

Release: Kill Grid

Style: Death/Thrash

+3

Band: Eyehategod

Release: A History of Nomadic Behavior

Style: Sludge

+1

Band: Turbulence

Release: Frontal

Style: Progressive

+2

Band: The Crown

Release: Royal Destroyer

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Thunder Horse

Release: Chosen One

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Sunstorm

Release: Afterlife

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Heart Healer

Release: The Metal Opera by Magnus Karlsson

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: Orecus

Release: The Obliterationist

Style: Death/Groove, Djent

+2

Band: Secret Chord

Release: Aurora

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: Rob Zombie

Release: The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy

Style: Industrial

+1

Feb 27 - March 5

Feb 27 - March 5 Weekly Metal Recommendations

March 11, 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 27, 2021

Band: Chainsword

Release: Blightmarch

Style: Death, Melodic Death

+3

Band: Demonia Mundi

Release: In Grembo Mater…

Style: Epic Symphonic Black, black

+2

(would be +3 but most of it is not english)

Band: Violblast

Release: Lazarus Abandoned

Style: Thrash, Death/Thrash, Black/Thrash, Groove/Thrash

+3

Feb 28, 2021

Band: Verwilderd

Release: Homo Homini Lupus Est

Style: Black/Death

+3

Band: Hellspawn

Release: In Agelessness

Style: Death

+2

Band: Meuchelmord

Release: Mordmelodien

Style: Black

+2

March 1, 2021

Band: This Ending

Release: Needles of Rust

Style: Melodic Death

+3

March 2, 2021

Band: Dead Point

Release: Concept of the Absurd

Style: Death, Grindcore

+2

March 3, 2021

Band: Wirbelwind

Release: Time to Realize (EP)

Style: Melodic Death

+2

March 4, 2021

Band: Gravecarver

Release: Spectral Carnage

Style: Death

+2

March 5, 2021

Band: Exanimis

Release: Marionnettiste

Style: Symphonic Death

+3

Band: Warrior Path

Release: The Mad King

Style: Heavy, Power, Traditional

+4

Band: Beast

Release: Necro Sapiens

Style: Death

+3

Band: Numenor

Release: Draconian Age

Style: Heavy, Blackened Power

+2

Band: Witherfall

Release: The Curse of Autumn

Style: Heavy, Progressive

+3

Band: Kjeld

Release: Ôfstân

Style: Black

+2

Band: Mork

Release: Katedralen

Style: Black

+2

Band: Acid Mammoth

Release: Caravan

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Nightfall

Release: At Night We Prey

Style: Death, Death/Doom, Melodic Black

+3

Band: Thorium

Release: Empires in the Sun

Style: Traditional

+3

Band: Sol Draconi Septem

Release: Hyperion

Style: Atmospheric Black, Experimental Black

+2

Band: :NODFYR:

Release: Eigenheid

Style: Epic, “Pagan”

+2

Band: The Noctambulant

Release: Hellrazor (EP)

Style: Black, Melodic Black

+2

Band: Pustilence

Release: The Birth of the Beginning Before the Inception of the End (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Arsena

Release: Dawn of the Second Sun

Style: Thrash, Progressive Thrash

+2

Band: Messerschmitt

Release: Consumed By Fire

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Dauthuz

Release: Cold

Style: Death

+3

Band: Starscape

Release: Colony

Style: Early Heavy, Epic

+2

Band: Timeless Haunt

Release: Dark For Life

Style: Progressive, Heavy

+2

Band: Rod1313

Release: Dark Clouds

Style: Instrumental, Shred, Progressive

+2

Band: Zaratus

Release: In The Days of Whore

Style: Experimental Black

+2

Band: Wolf King

Release: The Path of Wrath

Style: Blackcore?, Black/Death, Black

+2