New Album Recommendations 2022

You know the drill.
Post recs or anticipated recs of metal releases of the year 2022.

This is gonna be really good. Japanese folk-influenced black/doom

Weebs

Nice riffy black metal that is riffy.
Nothing oh so groundbreaking, but it's really catchy. Reminds me of Nachtmystium (or whatever you spell it)

^Love the riffs, very tasty melodies.

Here's some staff I liked that I'm not gonna review:

Murky and bassy dissonant black metal by the same guy behind Salqiu/Anthropomorphic Soul:

Quite intriging experimental raw black metal. I remember the other EP also being good yet not so weird as this one. Kinda sounds like old raw obscure lofi dsbm bands like Klevelta or Manierisme:

Powerful instrumental post/sludge/doom. Though the second half drags on a bit too much. Opening track and The Virtues are my highlights.

^The Thumos record is interesting - getting Midnight Odyssey vibes from it, perhaps? It's quite blackened, but in an atmospheric/symphonic way, whilst also being sludgy/post-y in other ways

Progressive raw black metal:

Extremely weird dm, I'm absolutely loving it, might as well be my aoty so far.

Written by Roman Doez on 17.02.2022 at 11:25

Extremely weird dm, I'm absolutely loving it, might as well be my aoty so far.

This is cool!

New Candina:

My quest for weird dm has only just started, here is another really cool release

Chinese folk/black metal. Good stuff

Straightforward brutal death/grindcore, but I'm gonna share just because of the epic cover:

Dissonant black metal / spoken word? (if it makes any sense)

Anyone up for some blackgaze from Portugal?

Brass metal with trombone and trumpet.
The bass-heaviness kinda reminds me of Kundalini Apocalypse, which is good

Also some pretty messed up dissonant black/turkish folk:

New GBK is great

Brilliant little EP, loved it

Awesome old school death metal from France
It's the band's first full length release. They're not (yet) on Metal Storm!
Hard to pick a song to show you guys because they're all great! I went with the title track here, but if you're interested you should check out the rest of the album, especially "03. Eternal" and "08. Dead" if you're looking for death metal à la Autopsy.



Edit: Disfuneral are now on MS!

Some pretty sweet thrash:

Evil and occult doom.

Mix of free jazz and gorenoise??? I don't know what the fuck this is but I absolutely love it. Made by Matt Stephens from Effluence, so it's obviously very good.

Written by nikarg on 17.06.2022 at 09:52

Evil and occult doom.

Oh shit! Once again I find through you some unique obscure doom - and this time not from Australia but from Austria! I wasn't first convinced, but now I realize this vocalist is pretty awesome He sounds like a possessed ghoul (like Mayhem's Attila kind of). I love the evil laughs and the witch-vocals thrown in makes for a great creepy Halloween atmosphere. I've put this under the band suggestions - so it'll hopefully soon grace this website. Plus, as this appears to be the band's debut, we can hope for more doom to come!

Written by F3ynman on 21.06.2022 at 19:25

Once again I find through you some unique obscure doom

Honestly, I posted this hoping you'd see it

And, since we're at it, here is another little doom goodie from Deceiver of Lucifer's Fall with some leads from Invocator. It is more '70s proto-doom sounding, with some bluesy lead guitars; something like Reverend Bizarre meets Cirith Ungol. Not as good as the debut (which is phenomenal), but still very much worth checking out. Tracks #2 and #6 are fantastic.

Written by nikarg on 21.06.2022 at 21:37

And, since we're at it, here is another little doom goodie from Deceiver of Lucifer's Fall with some leads from Invocator. It is more '70s proto-doom sounding, with some bluesy lead guitars; something like Reverend Bizarre meets Cirith Ungol. Not as good as the debut (which is phenomenal), but still very much worth checking out. Tracks #2 and #6 are fantastic.

Yo! How long have you been keeping this from me? You know I love that singer!
Keep the recommendations coming, my man

On September this Post-Metal band is releasing their first studio album. 10 tracks of pure adrenaline and energy. https://www.lestsel.com