Ben's Forum Replies
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy from the 10th to the 15th of May, 2025.
1. Ador Dorath (FALLEN, NORTH)
2. Aphotic / Dusk (FALLEN)
3. Child Saint (FALLEN, GUARDIANS)
4. Intaglio (FALLEN)
5. Trollmann av Ildtoppberg (FALLEN)
6. Absent Element (GATEWAY)
7. Agents of Man (GATEWAY, REVOLUTION)
8. Burn Season (GATEWAY)
9. InMe (GATEWAY)
10. This Is Menace (GATEWAY, REVOLUTION, SPHERE)
11. Audiovision (GUARDIANS)
12. Avian (GUARDIANS)
13. Idmon's Aegis (GUARDIANS)
14. Majestic Vanguard (GUARDIANS)
15. Mech (GUARDIANS, SPHERE)
16. Absorbed (HORDE, INFINITE)
17. Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus / Despised Icon (HORDE, REVOLUTION)
18. Coram Lethe (HORDE, INFINITE)
19. Cyanosis (HORDE)
20. Dawn of Decay (HORDE) - requested by Miles Long
21. Devoured Decapitation (HORDE)
22. Negligent Collateral Collapse (HORDE)
23. Pillory (HORDE)
24. Red Death, The (HORDE, REVOLUTION)
25. Sanitys Dawn (HORDE)
26. Skarp (HORDE)
27. Traumatic (SWE) (HORDE) - requested by Miles Long
28. Utopia (HORDE, INFINITE)
29. Whore (HORDE)
30. Fragile Vastness (INFINITE)
31. Linear Sphere (INFINITE)
32. Absonus Noctis (NORTH)
33. Abusus (NORTH)
34. Black Death Ritual (NORTH)
35. Draugurz (NORTH)
36. Empaligon (NORTH)
37. Extinction (NORTH)
38. Frost Like Ashes (NORTH)
39. Genocidal Rites (NORTH)
40. Ithdabquth Qliphoth (NORTH)
41. Serpentes (NORTH)
42. Taunusheim (NORTH)
43. Thronar (NORTH)
44. Typhus (NORTH)
45. Zuriaake / Yngizarm (NORTH)
46. Totem (PIT)
47. Banner, The (REVOLUTION)
48. Constrito (REVOLUTION)
49. Flesh and Blood Robot (REVOLUTION)
50. heavenscoldhands (REVOLUTION)
51. Hell Within (REVOLUTION)
52. Vessels Cast From Crippled Hands / Destroyer Destroyer (REVOLUTION)
53. xTyrantx (REVOLUTION)
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy from the 2nd to the 9th of May, 2025.
1. Another Messiah (FALLEN)
2. Eternal (GBR) (FALLEN)
3. Obiat (FALLEN, INFINITE)
4. Opia (FALLEN)
5. Chaoseum (GATEWAY, REVOLUTION) - requested by Andi
6. Gizmachi (GATEWAY, INFINITE, PIT, REVOLUTION)
7. Miocene (GATEWAY, INFINITE)
8. On a Dead Machine (GATEWAY)
9. Resorte (GATEWAY)
10. Skizoo (GATEWAY)
11. TOL (GATEWAY)
12. Tracktor Bowling (GATEWAY)
13. Dark Illusion (GUARDIANS)
14. Domain (GER) (GUARDIANS)
15. King Leoric (GUARDIANS)
16. Minibosses (GUARDIANS)
17. Anhedonia (HORDE)
18. Antagony (HORDE, REVOLUTION)
19. BLOXECTOMY (HORDE)
20. Brain Dead (HORDE, PIT)
21. Coffincraft (HORDE) - requested by Sonny
22. Dismal Divinity (HORDE)
23. Dream Is Dead, The (HORDE, REVOLUTION)
24. Drown Retarded Children (HORDE, INFINITE)
25. Everything Falls Together (HORDE)
26. Exorbitant Prices Must Diminish (HORDE)
27. Exulcerate (HORDE)
28. Infernal Poetry (HORDE, INFINITE)
29. Necroccultus (HORDE)
30. Realized (HORDE)
31. Rellik (HORDE)
32. Rise (HORDE)
33. Throb of Offal (HORDE)
34. Ton (HORDE)
35. Wrath of Logarius (HORDE, NORTH)
36. Danefae (INFINITE)
37. Ordo Draconis (INFINITE, NORTH)
38. UI-70 & Demetori (INFINITE)
39. When Day Descends (INFINITE)
40. Absolutus (NORTH)
41. Allfather (CAN) (NORTH)
42. Black Circle (NORTH)
43. Marrow of Man (NORTH)
44. Nightbringer / Temple of Not (NORTH)
45. Robounoishi (NORTH)
46. Torturium (NORTH)
47. Werewolf (NORTH)
48. Winter of Apokalypse (NORTH)
49. Wraithlord (NORTH)
50. Dart (PIT)
51. Warfield (PIT)
52. Durendal (REVOLUTION)
53. Esoteric, The (REVOLUTION)
54. Grace Gale (REVOLUTION)
55. LARCɆNIA ROɆ (REVOLUTION)
56. Testswitch Isolator (REVOLUTION)
57. Cyanotic (SPHERE)
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy from the 24th of April to the 1st of May, 2025.
1. Ad Vitam Aeternam (FALLEN)
2. Autumnia (FALLEN)
3. Avec Tristesse (FALLEN, NORTH)
4. Idle Heirs (FALLEN, INFINITE)
5. Noosebomb (FALLEN)
6. Otesanek (FALLEN)
7. Rigor Sardonicous (FALLEN)
8. Brik (GATEWAY)
9. Cast Iron Hike (GATEWAY)
10. Chine (GATEWAY, REVOLUTION)
11. Cradle of Thorns (GATEWAY)
12. Masquerade (GATEWAY, GUARDIANS)
13. Argus (FL-USA) (GUARDIANS)
14. Blacklist (GUARDIANS)
15. Chamber Mage (GUARDIANS)
16. Dead Calm (GUARDIANS)
17. Anal Stench (HORDE)
18. Aversed (HORDE, INFINITE)
19. Changeling (HORDE, INFINITE)
20. Chaosbreed (HORDE)
21. Deathbound (HORDE)
22. Excrementory Grindfuckers (HORDE)
23. Fair Wind (HORDE)
24. Felgrave (HORDE, INFINITE, NORTH)
25. Hara-Kari Kitty (HORDE)
26. Hedon Cries (HORDE)
27. In Memorian (HORDE, NORTH)
28. Indungeon (HORDE, PIT)
29. Kamaedzitca (HORDE, INFINITE, NORTH)
30. Krhoma Death (HORDE)
31. Malamor (HORDE)
32. Pyorrhoea (HORDE)
33. Rompeprop / Tu Carne (HORDE)
34. Shadows Land (HORDE)
35. Benthos (INFINITE)
36. Dissocia (INFINITE)
37. Mind Key (INFINITE)
38. Project: Failing Flesh (INFINITE, PIT, SPHERE)
39. Tim Donahue (INFINITE)
40. Beneath Moonlight (NORTH)
41. Blodulv (NORTH)
42. Grand Alchemist (NORTH)
43. Malleus Maleficarum (NORTH)
44. Taake / Amok (NORTH)
45. Vider (NORTH)
46. Zoe (PIT)
47. Burn It Down (REVOLUTION)
48. Midwinter (REVOLUTION)
49. Nevea Tears (REVOLUTION)
50. Thousand Falling Skies, A (REVOLUTION)
51. Klute (SPHERE)
52. Scorngrain (SPHERE)
53. Tetsuya Shibata / Satoshi Ise / Masato Kouda (SPHERE)
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy from the 18th to the 23rd of April, 2025.
1. Guts Club (FALLEN)
2. Lotus Thief / Forlesen (FALLEN)
3. Rosary (FALLEN)
4. Woe Unto Me (FALLEN)
5. Darkmatter (GATEWAY)
6. Magnolia Park (GATEWAY)
7. Dogma (GUARDIANS)
8. Zeicrydeus (GUARDIANS)
9. Impurity (SWE) (HORDE)
10. Miroed (HORDE)
11. Oculus (HORDE)
12. Aran Angmar (NORTH)
13. Ayyur (NORTH)
14. Bloody Vengeance (NORTH)
15. Dan Meyer (NORTH)
16. Final Dose (NORTH)
17. Misanthropic Darkwoods (NORTH) - requested by Vinny
18. Pregnant Light, A / Культура курения [Kultura Kureniya] (NORTH)
19. Ritualmord (NORTH)
20. Sammale (NORTH)
21. Tiefstand / Lichtblick / Sadness / Enki / Sorrowful Life / Winter Willow (NORTH)
22. Unholy Craft (NORTH)
23. Atonement (PIT)
24. Void (USA) (PIT)
25. Denouement. (REVOLUTION)
26. Dreaming Maria (REVOLUTION)
27. Harmonys Demise (REVOLUTION)
28. Long.way.down. (REVOLUTION)
29. starsfadingoutquietly (REVOLUTION)
30. Horskh (SPHERE)
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy from the 12th to the 17th of April, 2025.
1. Ensoph (FALLEN, GUARDIANS, INFINITE, SPHERE)
2. Icon & the Black Roses (FALLEN, GATEWAY)
3. Mat Ball (FALLEN)
4. Necare (FALLEN)
5. NFD (FALLEN)
6. Ocean Chief (FALLEN)
7. Vancouver (FALLEN)
8. Victor Griffin (FALLEN, GUARDIANS)
9. Weed Demon (FALLEN)
10. 16Stitch (GATEWAY)
11. Die So Fluid (GATEWAY)
12. Glixen (GATEWAY)
13. Kagerou (GATEWAY)
14. Killpretty (GATEWAY)
15. Kitchen Knife Conspiracy (GATEWAY, HORDE, PIT)
16. Suns of the Tundra (GATEWAY, INFINITE)
17. Dreamaker (GUARDIANS)
18. Hellfueled (GUARDIANS)
19. Jenner (GUARDIANS, PIT)
20. Painmuseum (GUARDIANS, PIT)
21. Saurom Lamderth (GUARDIANS, NORTH)
22. Serpent Rider (GUARDIANS)
23. Stravaganzza (GUARDIANS)
24. Wicked, The (GUARDIANS, INFINITE, NORTH, SPHERE)
25. Wotan (GUARDIANS)
26. Demonic Sacrifice (HORDE)
27. Dr. Shrinker (HORDE, PIT)
28. Ingurgitate (HORDE)
29. Maggut (HORDE)
30. Melektaus (HORDE)
31. Mortalized (HORDE)
32. Naphobia (HORDE)
33. Offal Stench (HORDE)
34. Pillars of Cacophony (HORDE)
35. Procreation (HORDE)
36. Sayyadina (HORDE)
37. Selefice (HORDE)
38. Terror Corpse (HORDE)
39. Thorazine (HORDE)
40. Throneum (HORDE, NORTH)
41. Snooze (INFINITE)
42. Bloodaxe (NORTH)
43. Diamond Eyed Princess (NORTH)
44. Slavland (NORTH)
45. Straightout (NORTH, REVOLUTION)
46. Veles / Legion (NORTH)
47. Flesh Made Sin (PIT)
48. 78 Days After Death (REVOLUTION)
49. Invocation of Nehek (REVOLUTION)
50. Minor Times, The (REVOLUTION)
51. Thumbscrew (REVOLUTION)
52. Until the End (REVOLUTION)
53. Valeska Suratt / Fishing With Explosives (REVOLUTION)
54. Words Like Shards (REVOLUTION)
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy from the 5th to the 11th of April, 2025.
1. DoomThrone (FALLEN)
2. Earth / KK Null (FALLEN)
3. Mizmor & Hell (FALLEN)
4. Paragon of Beauty (FALLEN)
5. Sidewinder (FALLEN)
6. Candy 66 (GATEWAY)
7. Enhancer (GATEWAY)
8. Slot (GATEWAY)
9. Tribal Ink (GATEWAY)
10. Wreckage, The (GATEWAY)
11. Gun Barrel (GUARDIANS)
12. Karelia (GUARDIANS)
13. Lethal X (GUARDIANS) - requested by Morpheus
14. Morax (GUARDIANS)
15. Obnoxious Youth (GUARDIANS)
16. Death Squad (HORDE)
17. Evemaster (HORDE)
18. Intervalle Bizzare / Malignancy (HORDE)
19. Phoenix Bodies / Enkephalin (HORDE)
20. Trocar (HORDE)
21. Visceral Explosion (HORDE)
22. Labyrinthine Heirs (INFINITE)
23. Violent Silence (INFINITE)
24. Atomic Goatcrime (NORTH)
25. Ene (NORTH) - requested by Vinny
26. Frosthymn (NORTH) - requested by Vinny
27. Kir (NORTH)
28. Kohlrabenschwarz (NORTH)
29. Onyxblade (NORTH)
30. Uhka (NORTH)
31. Vindalf (NORTH)
32. Xificurk (NORTH)
33. Brood, The (PIT)
34. Dunwich Ritual (PIT)
35. IR8 vs. Sexoturica (PIT)
36. Krixhjälters, The (PIT)
37. Daysend (REVOLUTION)
38. Freya (REVOLUTION)
39. Long Goodbye (REVOLUTION)
I've been trying to evaluate how I feel about this discussion. It's difficult, because I can't say that I'm enjoying it all that much, but at the same time it feels like an important conversation. When I think about it further though, it's not particularly original, as I feel like it's a discussion that's been had many times on this site before. Maybe I need to spend more time reading other discussions similar to it before I can truly grasp its quality. Hmmmm... has anyone put together the top 100 discussions of all time? That would super helpful, although given I didn't particularly enjoy this one all that much, it might not be worth the dedication, no matter how worthy the cause is. But then what if a discussion is really good, but it's not on a topic that interests me very much. Should I rate it down due to its content even though it's actually a fantastically thought out and executed discussion? This makes me think that perhaps there is no right or wrong way to judge the quality of a discussion. Maybe, just maybe, it would be best to let everyone rate discussions however they choose to, as what they think about any given discussion isn't really impacted by what someone else thinks.
For fans of Depression, Mass Confusion & Iron Sheiks.
3.5/5
Sometimes I have to laugh at metal in general. "Anyone into Depression and Mass Confusion will likely find a lot to enjoy in Spastics Inflicting Carnage". No wonder the rest of the world's population thinks we're a bit weird.
Ben, the Wampyric Rites EP Wandering the Dark Corridors of Oblivion has ended up in the releases page for A Wake in Providence. Could you please fix that? Thanks.
Fixed. Thanks Andi.
Ben, please add Ved Buens Ende.....'s 1994 "Those Who Caress the Pale" release.I don't know. When I feel like it. Perhaps a please, or some other sign of gratitude?
Looks like a pretty clear "please" in my request there Ben. Or were you perhaps expecting capital letters?
I accept gifts. Call it bribery if you will.
Ben, please add Ved Buens Ende.....'s 1994 "Those Who Caress the Pale" release.It's considered a demo (see Metal Archives), albeit an important one. I've always planned to start adding demos that have CD or vinyl versions at some point, so this one will definitely fit that bill.
Will add to the list for next week.
When will this be happening Ben?
I don't know. When I feel like it. Perhaps a please, or some other sign of gratitude?
To be honest I thought I'd done it. Will sort this week.
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy from the 28th of March to the 4th of April, 2025.
1. Doomicidal (FALLEN) - requested by Sonny
2. Dove (FALLEN)
3. Lone Madman, The (FALLEN) - requested by Sonny
4. Merchant (FALLEN) - requested by Sonny
5. Subetroth (FALLEN) - requested by Sonny
6. Switchblade (FALLEN, INFINITE)
7. Hora Zulú (GATEWAY)
8. Hotwire (GATEWAY)
9. Hurt (GATEWAY)
10. Yaksa (GATEWAY)
11. Gaia Epicus (GUARDIANS)
12. Guardians of the Flame (GUARDIANS)
13. Mercury Tide (GUARDIANS)
14. Seventh Avenue (GUARDIANS)
15. Arsedestroyer / Gore Beyond Necropsy / 肉奴隷 [Nikudorei] (HORDE)
16. Blinded by Faith (HORDE, NORTH)
17. Bowel Stew (HORDE)
18. Caustic Phlegm (HORDE)
19. Compos Mentis (HORDE)
20. Corpsefucking Art (HORDE)
21. Drowning (HORDE)
22. Fleshless (HORDE)
23. Incapacity (HORDE, PIT)
24. Labrat (HORDE, REVOLUTION)
25. Neuro-Visceral Exhumation (HORDE)
26. Saproffago (HORDE)
27. Ulcerrhoea (HORDE)
28. Wake, The (HORDE)
29. Hortus Animae (INFINITE, NORTH)
30. Invent Animate & Silent Planet (INFINITE, REVOLUTION)
31. Bloodhammer (NORTH)
32. Darkness (GBR) (NORTH)
33. Frostkrieg (NORTH)
34. Heldentum (NORTH)
35. Ibex Throne (NORTH)
36. Lust (NORTH)
37. Morte Incandescente (NORTH)
38. Ravendust (NORTH) - requested by Morpheus
39. Sword of Darkness (NORTH)
40. Tarihan (NORTH)
41. ∀NTI FEMINISM (PIT)
42. Watch Them Die (PIT ,REVOLUTION)
43. Azshara (REVOLUTION)
44. Bridge to Solace (REVOLUTION)
45. Figure Four (REVOLUTION)
46. Forever Is Forgotten (REVOLUTION)
47. Jealousy Issue, A (REVOLUTION)
48. Of Eden (REVOLUTION)
49. There for Tomorrow (REVOLUTION) - requested by Andi
50. Warspawn (REVOLUTION)
51. Wings of Scarlet (REVOLUTION)
52. Jerk (SPHERE)
Hi, I was going to relisten to the Manowar episode but no episodes are listenable on Apple Podcasts or elsewhere. If they have been taken down are they on YouTube or will they be sadly lost to the sands of time? That would be very tragic.
They're not entirely lost. I have all the episodes as MP3 files. In fact, you can get access to them here...
Ben, please add The Wreckage.
I can't see this band / EP considered as metal anywhere apart from your vote on RYM. How confident are you with that assessment Andi?
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy from the 22nd to the 27th of March, 2025.
1. Gonga (FALLEN, GATEWAY)
2. Guiltless (FALLEN, INFINITE)
3. Melvins & Napalm Death (FALLEN)
4. Stone Wings (FALLEN)
5. Sunrot / Body Void (FALLEN)
6. Wendykurk (FALLEN, GATEWAY)
7. 41 Down (GATEWAY)
8. As Ashes Fall (GATEWAY, REVOLUTION)
9. Chances (GATEWAY, REVOLUTION)
10. Gore. (GATEWAY, REVOLUTION)
11. Stoopi (GATEWAY, REVOLUTION)
12. Holland (USA) (GUARDIANS)
13. Orphan Gypsy (GUARDIANS)
14. Prehistoria (GUARDIANS, PIT)
15. Van Helsing's Curse (GUARDIANS)
16. Corpus Offal (HORDE)
17. Embalming Theatre (HORDE)
18. Fearer (HORDE)
19. JISEI (HORDE, REVOLUTION)
20. Mortum (HORDE)
21. Neuropsychosis (HORDE)
22. Andromida (INFINITE, REVOLUTION, SPHERE)
23. Pathogenic (INFINITE, REVOLUTION)
24. Renewer (INFINITE)
25. Tiktaalika (INFINITE, PIT)
26. Demonslaught 666 (NORTH, PIT)
27. Dhishti (NORTH)
28. Forgot (NORTH)
29. Lord (FRA) (NORTH)
30. Pâlefroid (NORTH)
31. Tyranni (NORTH)
32. Dresden (PIT)
33. Flower (PIT)
34. Mononc' Serge & Anonymus (PIT)
35. Raimundos (PIT)
36. Built Upon Frustration (REVOLUTION)
37. Cast from Eden (REVOLUTION)
38. Catalyst (USA) (REVOLUTION)
39. Coma Eternal (REVOLUTION)
40. Dispensing of False Halos (REVOLUTION)
41. Embodiment 12:14 (REVOLUTION)
42. For Her I Can Be a Hero (REVOLUTION)
43. Hamartia (REVOLUTION)
44. Rev3rent (REVOLUTION)
45. Slamwich (REVOLUTION)
46. Youtragedy (REVOLUTION)
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy from the 14th to the 21st of March, 2025.
1. Aarni / Umbra Nihil (FALLEN, INFINITE)
2. Body, The & Intensive Care (FALLEN, SPHERE)
3. Cream Abdul Babar (FALLEN)
4. Affliction (PIT)
5. Disrup (GATEWAY)
6. Dragpipe (GATEWAY)
7. Dreadlock Pussy (GATEWAY)
8. Headstrong (GATEWAY)
9. Lollipop Lust Kill (GATEWAY)
10. Mad at Gravity (GATEWAY)
11. Noise Therapy (GATEWAY)
12. Sinergia (GATEWAY)
13. Sinisstar (GATEWAY, SPHERE)
14. Soul Embraced (GATEWAY, HORDE, REVOLUTION)
15. Still Breathing (GATEWAY, REVOLUTION)
16. Stutterfly (GATEWAY)
17. Absolute Steel (GUARDIANS)
18. Arcana XXII (GUARDIANS)
19. Chinchilla (GUARDIANS)
20. Sacred (GUARDIANS)
21. Seraphim (GUARDIANS)
22. Valley's Eve (GUARDIANS, INFINITE)
23. Absolute Defiance (HORDE)
24. Celestial Scourge (HORDE)
25. Cephalic Carnage / Anal Blast (HORDE)
26. Crown of Madness (HORDE)
27. Divine Souls (HORDE)
28. Engorged (HORDE, PIT)
29. Eternal Gray (HORDE)
30. Frogg (HORDE, INFINITE)
31. Mincing Fury and Guttural Clamour of Queer Decay (HORDE, REVOLUTION)
32. Misery Index / Commit Suicide (HORDE)
33. Obscurant (HORDE)
34. Obscureviolence (HORDE, NORTH)
35. Shrine of Denial (HORDE)
36. Tu Carne (HORDE)
37. Unquintessence (HORDE, NORTH)
38. Black Narcissus (INFINITE)
39. Shepherds of Cassini (INFINITE)
40. Soaring (INFINITE, NORTH)
41. Endrøm (NORTH)
42. Heresiarh (NORTH)
43. Leegte (NORTH)
44. Minas Morgul (NORTH)
45. Debustrol (PIT)
46. Stress Test (PIT)
47. Take Offense (PIT)
48. Think of Misery (PIT)
49. As I Lay Dying / American Tragedy (REVOLUTION)
50. Falling Cycle (REVOLUTION)
51. For the Love Of (REVOLUTION)
Ben, please add Ved Buens Ende.....'s 1994 "Those Who Caress the Pale" release.
It's considered a demo (see Metal Archives), albeit an important one. I've always planned to start adding demos that have CD or vinyl versions at some point, so this one will definitely fit that bill.
Will add to the list for next week.
Starting at the beginning, so with some stuff that has sat there for ten or eleven years, this could be quite interesting and may well lead to Ben having to add a large number of obscure bands and releases to the site!
Bring it on!
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy from the 8th to the 13th of March, 2025.
1. Lord Agheros (FALLEN, GUARDIANS, NORTH)
2. Ritual Ascension (FALLEN)
3. 22 Even (GATEWAY)
4. Aisling (GATEWAY)
5. Bushido (GATEWAY, PIT)
6. Coinmonster (GATEWAY, INFINITE)
7. Design 19 (GATEWAY)
8. HeadDrop (GATEWAY)
9. Headplate (GATEWAY)
10. Helio (GATEWAY)
11. League of Distortion (GATEWAY)
12. Number One Son (GATEWAY)
13. Trillion Barnacle Lapse, A (GATEWAY)
14. Black Sword Thunder Attack (GUARDIANS)
15. Holy Pain (GUARDIANS, PIT) - requested by Morpheus
16. Iron Sheiks (GUARDIANS, PIT) - requested by Daniel
17. Messiah's Kiss (GUARDIANS)
18. Pathos (GUARDIANS, INFINITE, PIT)
19. Redeemer (GUARDIANS, PIT) - requested by Daniel
20. Zandelle (GUARDIANS)
21. Audio Kollaps (HORDE, PIT)
22. Bane (HORDE)
23. Destroy! (HORDE)
24. Fallen Prophets, The (HORDE)
25. Incarrion (HORDE)
26. Metaphobic (HORDE)
27. Putrilage (HORDE)
28. Ruinous Power (HORDE, NORTH)
29. Senseless Apocalypse (HORDE)
30. Storm Death (HORDE)
31. Utopia Banished (HORDE)
32. Sleep Paralysis (INFINITE, NORTH)
33. Smiqra (INFINITE, PIT)
34. Aklash (NORTH)
35. Blood Storm (NORTH, PIT)
36. Enevelde (NORTH)
37. Geistlicht (NORTH)
38. Magogaio / Sadness (NORTH)
39. Primigenium (NORTH)
40. Void of Hope (NORTH)
41. Worthless (NORTH)
42. 50 Caliber (REVOLUTION)
43. Anah Aevia (REVOLUTION)
44. Crucifiction (REVOLUTION)
45. Defamed (REVOLUTION)
46. Embraced (USA) (REVOLUTION)
47. Failsafe Device, The (REVOLUTION)
48. Human Timebomb, The (REVOLUTION)
49. Pain of Truth / Sunami (REVOLUTION)
50. Pridian (REVOLUTION) - requested by Andi
51. Second to None (REVOLUTION)
52. Suicide Note (REVOLUTION)
53. Akira Yamaoka / Sota Fujimori (SPHERE)
I've spent a lot of time with Abandon's The Dead End album from 2009 over the past couple of weeks. I've had to devote a lot of time, because the album is 106 minutes long! I'm certainly glad I've put the effort in though, as this is really great Funeral Doom release that's very reminiscent of Worship and Skepticism. I note that the release is labelled Sludge Metal first and foremost, but I'm afraid that makes me even more confused as to what Sludge Metal actually is. Are hardcore-style vocals really enough to turn what is very obviously a Funeral Doom release into a Sludge Metal release?
Anyway, if you haven't checked this one out Sonny, I'd be shocked if you didn't dig it. Make sure you have plenty of time to give it a few spins though!
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy from the 27th of February to the 7th of March, 2025.
1. Cell Press (FALLEN)
2. Chalice (AUS) (FALLEN)
3. Rabies Caste (FALLEN, GATEWAY)
4. Addiction (GATEWAY)
5. ameokama (GATEWAY)
6. BBY GOYARD (GATEWAY)
7. Defenestration (GATEWAY)
8. Flybanger (GATEWAY)
9. Ghoulspoon (GATEWAY)
10. Psycho Synner (GATEWAY, SPHERE)
11. Spike 1000 (GATEWAY)
12. Strain Theory (GATEWAY)
13. Marauder (GUARDIANS)
14. Scimitar (GUARDIANS, NORTH)
15. Shadowland (GUARDIANS)
16. Becerus (HORDE)
17. Bowel Erosion (HORDE)
18. Brainspit (HORDE)
19. Corpsefucking Art / Goretrade (HORDE)
20. Extinguished (HORDE)
21. Golem of Gore (HORDE)
22. Infectology (HORDE)
23. Intolerance (HORDE)
24. Last Days of Humanity / Stoma (HORDE)
25. Lutharo (HORDE)
26. Lylat Continuum, The (HORDE, INFINITE)
27. Volatile Ways (HORDE, REVOLUTION)
28. ALMO (INFINITE)
29. Grorr (INFINITE)
30. Adversam (NORTH)
31. Eschatology (NORTH)
32. Fell Omen (NORTH)
33. Gallows (NORTH)
34. Goat Piss (NORTH)
35. Grief Garden (NORTH)
36. Hunters Moon (NORTH)
37. Isafjord / Nest (NORTH)
38. Izrod (NORTH)
39. Kryptan (NORTH)
40. rehtaF ruO (NORTH)
41. RüYYn (NORTH)
42. Trollheims Grott (NORTH)
43. Clinic (PIT)
44. Confess (PIT)
45. Grove Street (PIT)
46. Mental Devastation (PIT)
47. Jiluka (REVOLUTION)
48. Myproof (REVOLUTION) - requested by Andi
49. Trench (REVOLUTION)
It does seem like you're letting him get to you too much, considering how much you've written about it. Making a topic about it on another forum is letting him get to you, even if it isn't as much as it could be. No idea what he said, but if it's any indication based on his review, he seems to be so pretentious that he misses his point to go off to use big words and then lose track of where his sentence was supposed to go. Frankly, the topic made me think it was much more serious than random asshole on the internet who apparently doesn't read reviews. Don't take that the wrong way, I'm just pointing out that angry asshat who randomly crapped in your PMs is not something you should dedicate any amount of time to.
There's a lot of irony in the fact that my response to someone telling me how I should think about something gets a response telling me how I should feel about something.
I'm certainly not taking it personally Sonny. It makes me more sad than angry.
What's bewildering to me though is that my review actually includes the following:
"The beliefs and actions of the man responsible for it have been mentioned many times over and questions are continually raised regarding the morality of supporting such an individual, even if this support only takes the form of praise for his art rather than his personal philosophies. I’ll leave those discussions for another time (there’s one in the forums right now) and assume that anyone reading this is sensible enough to in turn assume that all the superlatives below are to be associated with Varg’s music alone and in no way suggest that I admire his racist existence, nor his morbid habits that include arson and murder."
I've requested for him to be banned, but I don't think it has happened... yet.
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy from the 21st to the 26th of February, 2025.
1. Můra (FALLEN, HORDE)
2. Stinking Lizaveta (FALLEN)
3. Today Is the Day / Metatron (FALLEN, INFINITE)
4. Veil of Conspiracy (FALLEN, INFINITE)
5. Bionic Jive (GATEWAY)
6. Halfgain (GATEWAY)
7. Superheist (GATEWAY)
8. Vacant Stare (GATEWAY)
9. Agora (GUARDIANS, INFINITE)
10. Antithesis (GUARDIANS, INFINITE, PIT)
11. Elettra Storm (GUARDIANS)
12. Hesperia (GUARDIANS, NORTH)
13. Ufych Sormeer (GUARDIANS, NORTH)
14. Virtuocity (GUARDIANS)
15. Bubba (HORDE)
16. Continuum of Xul (HORDE)
17. Enter My Silence (HORDE)
18. Mesrine (HORDE)
19. Omnicidal Instinct (HORDE)
20. Retromorphosis (HORDE)
21. Vacant Moley (HORDE, INFINITE)
22. Voracious Contempt (HORDE)
23. Lunar (INFINITE)
24. Bloody Valkyria (NORTH)
25. Horror on Black Hills (NORTH) - requested by Morpheus
26. Mysterivm Xarxes (NORTH)
27. Regnum Noricum (NORTH)
28. Skaldr (NORTH)
29. Uruk-Hai (NORTH)
30. Eradicator (PIT) - requested by Morpheus
31. Sadistic Hannibal (PIT) - requested by Morpheus
32. Church Tongue (REVOLUTION)
33. Told Not to Worry (REVOLUTION)
No need to worry about this one. Ben & I have no intention of incorporating something like this. It seems completely absurd to be adding artists to the US power metal genre when they're from Italy & equally ridiculous to NOT add an Italian artist to US power metal when they sound exactly like the US acts that make up the subgenre.
What he said!
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy from the 15th to the 20th of February, 2025.
1. All Souls' Day (FALLEN, GUARDIANS)
2. Deadform (FALLEN)
3. Depression (GER) (FALLEN, HORDE)
4. Dismal (FALLEN, GUARDIANS)
5. Jade / Sanctuarium (FALLEN, HORDE)
6. Operator Generator (FALLEN)
7. Skar (FALLEN)
8. [minus] (GATEWAY)
9. Fixation (GATEWAY)
10. Folder (GATEWAY)
11. Gazzoleen (GATEWAY)
12. Hospital (GATEWAY)
13. Lacey Sturm (GATEWAY)
14. Rekiem (GATEWAY)
15. Shun (GATEWAY)
16. Agony Bag (GUARDIANS)
17. Reign of Terror, The (GUARDIANS)
18. Abuse (CAN) (HORDE)
19. Ancient Gods (HORDE)
20. Apathemy (HORDE, REVOLUTION)
21. Castleumbra (HORDE)
22. Cock and Ball Torture / Last Days of Humanity (HORDE)
23. Corpsevomit (HORDE)
24. Dying Remains (HORDE)
25. Fleshtized (HORDE)
26. Guttural Disgorge (HORDE)
27. Moondark (HORDE)
28. Persecution (HORDE, PIT) - requested by Daniel
29. Putrid Stu & Disfiguring the Goddess (HORDE)
30. Scrotum Grinder (HORDE, REVOLUTION)
31. Shrieking Demons (HORDE)
32. Slug Gore (HORDE)
33. Synaptic (HORDE, INFINITE)
34. Ars Moriendi (INFINITE, NORTH)
35. Beneath a Steel Sky (INFINITE)
36. Christian Necromancy (INFINITE, NORTH)
37. Exterior Palnet (INFINITE, NORTH)
38. Zero Absolu (INFINITE, NORTH)
39. Ardente (NORTH)
40. Tjaktjadálvve (NORTH)
41. Black Uniforms (PIT)
42. Kuvalda (PIT)
43. Aria (USA) (REVOLUTION)
44. Eso-Charis (REVOLUTION)
45. In Dying Days (REVOLUTION)
46. Knife in the Dark A / Heavens Die (REVOLUTION)
47. Nientara (REVOLUTION)
48. Peacemaker (REVOLUTION)
49. Plague Thy Child (REVOLUTION)
50. Saved by Grace (REVOLUTION)
51. Dave Navarro (SPHERE)
52. Oblivion Machine (SPHERE) - requested by Andi
Hi Ben, could you add Horror on Black Hills?
This one's a bit challenging, as there are no genre votes (or reviews) on RYM for any of their releases. Metal-Archives has the band listed as Blackened Death Metal, so I don't think I have enough information to categorise the band's releases. I don't suppose you've heard any of them Morpheus?
I have heard the debut, I'm not sure if I'd say death metal, but I would say black metal.
OK, well we'll go with that for now. Thanks.
Hi Ben, could you add Horror on Black Hills?
This one's a bit challenging, as there are no genre votes (or reviews) on RYM for any of their releases. Metal-Archives has the band listed as Blackened Death Metal, so I don't think I have enough information to categorise the band's releases. I don't suppose you've heard any of them Morpheus?
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy from the 8th to the 14th of February, 2025.
1. Asunder / Like Flies on Flesh (FALLEN, HORDE)
2. Empiria (FALLEN)
3. Membrane (FALLEN, INFINITE)
4. Rain Fell Within (FALLEN, GUARDIANS)
5. Bender (GATEWAY)
6. Floater (GATEWAY, INFINITE)
7. Liquid Gang (GATEWAY)
8. precettö (GATEWAY, INFINITE, SPHERE)
9. Sunk Loto (GATEWAY)
10. Tokusatsu (GATEWAY)
11. VUKOVI (GATEWAY)
12. Watcha (GATEWAY)
13. Workhorse Movement, The (GATEWAY)
14. Zemeth (GUARDIANS, HORDE)
15. Ages Gone (HORDE, INFINITE)
16. Cock and Ball Torture / Libido Airbag (HORDE)
17. Cosmophage (HORDE)
18. Endless Loss (HORDE)
19. Exuviate (HORDE)
20. Infernalivm (HORDE)
21. Luck Wont Save You (HORDE, INFINITE, REVOLUTION)
22. Melancholy Pessimism (HORDE)
23. Mephitic Corpse (HORDE)
24. Tenebrarum (HORDE)
25. Unhallowed Deliverance (HORDE, REVOLUTION)
26. Antropoceno (INFINITE, NORTH)
27. Digital Ruin (INFINITE)
28. Gnostician (INFINITE, REVOLUTION)
29. Akerbeltz (NORTH)
30. Black Countess (NORTH)
31. Grand Demise of Civilization (NORTH) - requested by Karl
32. Necrofrost (NORTH)
33. Nightside (NORTH) - requested by Karl
34. Ossilegium (NORTH) - requested by Karl
35. Scitalis (NORTH)
36. Thornspawn (NORTH)
37. Ukhu Pacha (NORTH)
38. Ariadne's Thread (REVOLUTION)
39. athousandangelsandseven (REVOLUTION)
40. Born Under Saturn (REVOLUTION)
41. Point of No Return (REVOLUTION)
42. Grand Theft Audio (SPHERE)
I haven't listened to Spiritual Healing for a while, but I think my Death list would be as follows. They're all at least 4 stars though, with Human and Symbolic being top tier for me.
01. Human
02. Symbolic
03. Individual Thought Patterns
04. Leprosy
05. Spiritual Healing
06. Scream Bloody Gore
07. The Sound of Perseverance
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy from the 1st to the 7th of February, 2025.
1. Allan (FALLEN, GATEWAY)
2. Bewitched (CHL) (FALLEN, GUARDIANS, NORTH)
3. Black Pegasus (FALLEN, INFINITE, REVOLUTION)
4. Ire (FALLEN, REVOLUTION)
5. John the Baptist (FALLEN)
6. Poema Arcanus (FALLEN)
7. Ursular (FALLEN)
8. Shabutie (GATEWAY)
9. Shortie (GATEWAY)
10. Swift (GATEWAY)
11. Virgos Merlot (GATEWAY)
12. Dragonknight (GUARDIANS)
13. Dunwich (GUARDIANS, INFINITE)
14. Powergod (GUARDIANS, PIT)
15. Anthropophagus Depravity (HORDE)
16. Discordant Meditation (HORDE)
17. Disfigured (HORDE)
18. Hatewave (HORDE)
19. In Thy Dreams (HORDE)
20. Insalubrity / Excrescence / Anal Stabwound / Theurgy (HORDE)
21. Legion (BEL) (HORDE, REVOLUTION)
22. Moaning Wind (HORDE)
23. Negative Prayer (HORDE, PIT)
24. Pentagoria (HORDE)
25. Scythe (HORDE, NORTH)
26. Typhoid (HORDE)
27. Vassago (HORDE, NORTH)
28. Aaru (INFINITE)
29. Consortium Project (INFINITE)
30. Sore Plexus (INFINITE, PIT)
31. Entrails (CZE) (NORTH)
32. Harvst (NORTH)
33. Rossomahaar (NORTH)
34. Sacrilegious Impalement (NORTH)
35. Stellar Forest (NORTH)
36. Vampyric (NORTH)
37. Zaratustra (NORTH)
38. Piass, The (PIT)
39. Pitboss 2000 (PIT)
40. Ashlar (REVOLUTION)
41. Disembodied / Brother's Keeper (REVOLUTION)
42. Driven (REVOLUTION)
43. Dyingrace (REVOLUTION)
44. Killtheslavemaster (REVOLUTION)
45. Spirit of Youth (REVOLUTION)
46. Stahlhammer (SPHERE)
Now that I have a spreadsheet with many hundreds of releases ranked by rating, when I'm attempting to rate a one track release (such as Meshuggah's I which I just did recently), I simply look at the list and assess where I feel it should sit. Would I be comfortable with it sitting higher than Bolt Thrower's For Victory, Slayer's Hell Awaits and Lykathea Aflame's Elvenefris, but lower than My Dying Bride's The Angel and the Dark River, Megadeth's Peace Sells and Kreator's Pleasure to Kill? Yes, I do feel comfortable with that, so I give it a rating that falls between.
It's not a perfect process, but then there really isn't one. It's the one that I enjoy using and feel happiest with the results.
It's an average track rating Rexorcist (that also takes into account the length of each track).
As for Daniel's comment that it's extremely difficult for a release to achieve a 5 star rating using our technique, that's very true. It's for this reason that I tinkered with mine a bit. For me, any release that scores a 4.60 or higher gets 5 stars (I've also made it easier to get 3 stars and less). When I wasn't doing that, I found that about 90% of releases I was checking out were getting between 3.5 and 4.5, which wasn't a particularly good use of the 5 star rating spectrum. I now have a wider spectrum of ratings, but it results in Daniel and I not agreeing on what albums are rated, despite us pretty much giving them the same decimal score (I think I rated one of Sepultura's releases 5 stars and he gave it 4.5, but when we were comparing notes we found we had exactly the same track ratings).
Daniel's correct. I use the exact same technique. It has been extremely helpful in my latest attempt to finally put together a list of my top 50 metal albums of all time, as it allows me to rank them quite precisely. As Daniel mentioned, things can be massaged when I'm not entirely comfortable where a release sits, but for the most part it works pretty well. I still have another 250 releases to thoroughly listen to and rank before I'll have covered all the releases I know will be around the 4.5 to 5.0 rating, along with a stack of releases I've never heard before but that I feel have a possibility to achieving such a rating.
I plan to unveil my top 50 at some point, so won't display any of that just yet (no spoilers!), but to give you an idea, here are the releases currently ranking 100 to 120 on my list. It's all completely subjective of course.
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy from the 24th to the 31st of January, 2025.
1. Inner Shrine (FALLEN, NORTH)
2. Onirophagus (FALLEN, HORDE)
3. TOŃ (FALLEN)
4. Climb, The (GATEWAY)
5. Downface (GATEWAY)
6. Challenger (GUARDIANS)
7. Crimson Storm (GUARDIANS, PIT)
8. Interceptor (GUARDIANS, PIT)
9. Proud Existence (GUARDIANS)
10. Salário Mínimo (GUARDIANS)
11. Active Shooter (HORDE)
12. Aurora (HORDE)
13. Damnation Lust (HORDE, NORTH)
14. Decollation (HORDE)
15. End of One (HORDE, REVOLUTION)
16. Fleshbore (HORDE)
17. Goatamentise (HORDE, REVOLUTION)
18. Hierarchies (HORDE, INFINITE)
19. Kraanium / Existential Dissipation (HORDE)
20. Sarcator (HORDE, NORTH, PIT)
21. Untervoid (HORDE, NORTH)
22. Advent Horizon (INFINITE)
23. Anomaly (INFINITE)
24. Cunabula (INFINITE)
25. Datûra (INFINITE)
26. Uulliata Digir (INFINITE)
27. Castrum (NORTH)
28. Fire Magic (NORTH)
29. Ha Lela (NORTH)
30. home is in your arms (NORTH)
31. Izumo (NORTH)
32. Liar of Golgotha (NORTH)
33. Sacrilegium / North (NORTH)
34. Thlipsis (NORTH)
35. Twilight Ophera (NORTH)
36. Venedae (NORTH)
37. Acutor (PIT)
38. Axetasy (PIT)
39. Incubus/Spectral Birth (PIT) - submitted by Daniel
40. Death of James Dean (REVOLUTION)
41. Witness Chamber (REVOLUTION)
42. Hate Dept. (SPHERE)
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy from the 17th to the 23rd of January, 2025.
1. Amarok (FALLEN)
2. Cryptal Echoes (FALLEN) - requested by Sonny
3. Slowhole (FALLEN)
4. Soulstorm (FALLEN, HORDE, SPHERE)
5. Both Worlds (GATEWAY)
6. Clown (GATEWAY)
7. Liquid Jesus (GATEWAY)
8. Psycho Motel (GATEWAY)
9. Seeded Crown (GATEWAY)
10. Leah (GUARDIANS)
11. Algophobia (HORDE)
12. Blood of Christ (HORDE)
13. Droÿs (HORDE, PIT)
14. Exuvial (HORDE)
15. Fermento (HORDE)
16. Leprosy (HORDE, PIT)
17. Neurosis (COL) (HORDE, PIT)
18. Oak, Ash & Thorn (HORDE)
19. Obtruncation (HORDE)
20. Path of Debris (HORDE)
21. Sthygma (HORDE)
22. Swelling Repulsion (HORDE)
23. Terra Builder (HORDE)
24. Torchia (HORDE)
25. Defocus (INFINITE, REVOLUTION)
26. Eniac Requiem (INFINITE)
27. Kettle Cadaver (INFINITE)
28. Quiet Room, The (INFINITE)
29. Angstloch (NORTH)
30. Hrtkos (NORTH)
31. Morke (NORTH)
32. Necromaniac (NORTH, PIT)
33. No Sun Rises (NORTH)
34. Rose Dying in the Rain, A / Moongazer (NORTH)
35. Wuldorgast (NORTH)
36. Ktulu (PIT)
37. Necropolis (PIT)
38. Torque (PIT)
39. Beneath the Remains (REVOLUTION)
40. Clique (REVOLUTION)
41. defdot (REVOLUTION)
42. Sektor (REVOLUTION)
43. Slavearc (REVOLUTION)
44. Hellsau (SPHERE)
To be clear, I’ll still be adding releases to the site and doing all the general admin stuff I do. The site will continue indefinitely.
I was fairly obsessed with them as a teenager but, as Daniel stated, they quickly turned into a parody of themselves. We saw them live about a decade back and they were underwhelming.
I guess I should check out their later releases which do appear to have received a better reception.
I'm sure I've heard a track or two with dinosaur themes over the years, but can't recall which ones. A quick search of Metal-Archives returns the below though.
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy from the 10th to the 16th of January, 2025.
1. Czerń (FALLEN, HORDE)
2. Ghold (FALLEN) - requested by Sonny
3. Horsehunter (FALLEN) - requested by Sonny
4. HVØSCH (FALLEN, INFINITE, NORTH) - requested by Sonny
5. Insanity Reigns Supreme (FALLEN, HORDE) - requested by Sonny
6. Moon Wizard (FALLEN)
7. Cheem (GATEWAY)
8. Dark Divine (GATEWAY) - requested by Andi
9. Smash Into Pieces (GATEWAY)
10. E.S.T. (GUARDIANS, PIT)
11. Exises (GUARDIANS, INFINITE)
12. Fortress (MO-USA) (GUARDIANS)
13. Hammer Witch (GUARDIANS)
14. Have Mercy (GUARDIANS, PIT)
15. Protean Shield (GUARDIANS)
16. Stygian Shore (GUARDIANS)
17. Valor (GUARDIANS, PIT)
18. Coltcrusher (HORDE)
19. Conglaciation (HORDE)
20. Forcefed Horsehead (HORDE)
21. Laparotomy (HORDE)
22. Mutagenic Host (HORDE)
23. NECKBREAKKER (HORDE)
24. Nogothula (HORDE)
25. Thanatophobia (HORDE)
26. Am I in Trouble? (INFINITE, NORTH)
27. Resuscitate (INFINITE)
28. Angel (NORTH)
29. Empyrean Grace (NORTH)
30. Kommodus / Celestial Sword (NORTH)
31. Meluniblis (NORTH)
32. Oculi Melancholiarum (NORTH)
33. Within Thy Wounds (NORTH)
34. Firewalker (PIT)
35. Redrum (PIT)
36. Torn Flesh (PIT)
37. Deadlights (REVOLUTION)
38. Klak (REVOLUTION)
39. One Morning Left (REVOLUTION)
Many of you might disagree but I think the wonderfully grim black metal vocals that appear across the majority of the latest Oranssi Pazuzu album are enough to drag it into avant-garde black metal territory, despite the music clearly having been divorced from black metal a long time ago now. That puts "Muuntautuja" in front in the race for my The North Release of the Year too.
Hmmm... the age old question. I thought the general consensus was that vocals alone don't contribute to genre selection. If an album has black metal "music" with clean vocals, it's still black metal. If an album has pop "music" with black metal vocals, it's still just pop. To move away from this logic creates all sorts of bad genre choices, particularly as death and black metal vocals appear across all sorts of subgenres these days.
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy from the 1st to the 9th of January, 2025.
1. Axioma (FALLEN, INFINITE, NORTH)
2. Beurre (FALLEN)
3. O Zorn! (FALLEN)
4. Pillar of Light (FALLEN, INFINITE)
5. Any Given Sin (GATEWAY) - requested by Andi
6. Barbarians of California, The (GATEWAY, PIT)
7. Catch Your Breath (GATEWAY)
8. E-an-na (GATEWAY, NORTH)
9. Icon for Hire (GATEWAY)
10. Seasons After (GATEWAY) - requested by Andi
11. Sleep Theory (GATEWAY)
12. Bashed In (HORDE)
13. Daedalean Complex (HORDE, SPHERE) - requested by Andi
14. Gorenette Coleman (HORDE)
15. Into the Ashes (HORDE)
16. Larval Therapy (HORDE)
17. Morgue Breath (HORDE)
18. Crystalline Thunderbolts Pierce the Sacred Mountain (INFINITE, NORTH)
19. Observers (INFINITE)
20. Balwezo Westijiz (NORTH) - requested by Vinny
21. Fir (NORTH) - requested by Vinny
22. Gravenoire (NORTH)
23. Muhammad Pedophile (NORTH)
24. Sadness / Soulless (NORTH)
25. Udåd (NORTH)
26. Uprising (NORTH)
27. Vaurien (NORTH)
28. Death Crusade (PIT)
29. Soundsurgery (PIT, SPHERE) - requested by Daniel
30. Blood Runs Cold (REVOLUTION)
31. Earth Groans (REVOLUTION)
32. Erase Them (REVOLUTION)
33. Fallen God (REVOLUTION)
34. Serling (REVOLUTION)
35. Shockpoint (REVOLUTION)
January 2025
1. Djevel - Bespottelsen (from Natt til ende, 2024)
2. Kvist - Min lekam er meg blott en byrde (from For kunsten maa vi evig vike, 1996) [Submitted by Karl]
3. Doedsmaghird - Death of Time (from Omniverse Consciousness, 2024)
4. Havukruunu - Tavastland (from Tavastland, 2024)
5. Slaughter Lord - Taste of Blood (from Taste of Blood, 1987) [Submitted by Daniel]
6. Primeval Well - Ghost Fires Burn Light in Our Eyes (from Talkin' in Tongues with Mountain Spirits, 2021) [Submitted by Vinny]
7. Deus Mortem - W serce płomiennej gnozy (from Thanatos, 2024)
8. Ungfell - S Alpeglüeh (from De Ghörnt, 2024)
9. Nachtmystium - Survivor's Remorese (from Blight Privilege, 2024)
10. Thorns - Underneath the Universe 2 (from Thorns, 2001)
11. Polemicist - The Ambition and the Wrath (from Polemicist, 2024) [Submitted by Karl]
12. Drudkh - Wind of the Night Forests (from Autumn Aurora, 2004)
13. Bathory - Crosstitution (from Requiem, 1994) [Submitted by Daniel]
14. Horn - Dagetostaon (from Daudswiärk, 2024) [Submitted by Vinny]
15. An Axis of Perdition - I Am Odium (from Apertures, 2024)
16. Malignant Eternal - Tårnet (from Tårnet, 1995) [Submitted by Karl]
17. Immortal - In My Kingdom Cold (from Sons of Northern Darkness, 2002)
18. Bríi - Enlutados (from Camaradagem póstuma, 2024)
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy from the 13th to the 31st of December, 2024.
1. Codespeaker (FALLEN, INFINITE)
2. Offernat (FALLEN)
3. Regere Sinister (FALLEN, NORTH)
4. Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol (FALLEN, GATEWAY)
5. Spiral Staircase (MA-USA) (FALLEN, INFINITE)
6. Trollcave (FALLEN)
7. Witchorious (FALLEN)
8. Wretched Blessing (FALLEN, HORDE)
9. Uchikubi Gokumon Doukoukai (GATEWAY)
10. Flamekeeper (GUARDIANS)
11. Avtotheism (HORDE)
12. Feral Forms (HORDE, NORTH)
13. Misanthropy (HORDE)
14. Ritual Fog (HORDE)
15. Sarcophagum (HORDE)
16. Sickening (HORDE)
17. Vomitrocious (HORDE)
18. Machukha (INFINITE)
19. Wist (INFINITE, NORTH)
20. Blasfeme (NORTH)
21. Incipient Chaos (NORTH)
22. Servant (NORTH)
23. Theigns and Thralls (NORTH) - requested by Morpheus
24. Lifeless Dark (PIT)
25. Mass Confusion (PIT) - requested by Daniel
26. S.I.C. (PIT) - requested by Daniel
27. beforeyouleave / Septemberistheonlytimeidontthinkofyou (REVOLUTION)
28. Discontent (REVOLUTION)
29. Inertia (REVOLUTION)
30. xEDENISGONEx (REVOLUTION)
I hope everyone is enjoying the festive season!
I've been away with the family for the past week, so haven't added any new bands / releases. Given the time of year, I'll be adding new releases and requests only for the next two weeks, starting tomorrow.
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy from the 6th to the 12th of December, 2024.
1. The Evil (FALLEN)
2. Irhagar (FALLEN, INFINITE)
3. Shallow North Dakota (FALLEN, GATEWAY)
4. Unkirk (FALLEN) - requested by Sonny
5. 20 Dead Flower Children (GATEWAY, SPHERE)
6. Section 8 (GATEWAY, PIT, REVOLUTION)
7. Self Deception (GATEWAY) - requested by Andi
8. Buzzard (GUARDIANS)
9. Gloomy Reflections (GUARDIANS)
10. Iorio - Flavio (GUARDIANS)
11. Bludgeoned (HORDE)
12. Dehydrated (HORDE)
13. Excess of Cruelty (HORDE)
14. Field Dressed (HORDE)
15. Greenwitch (HORDE)
16. Groin (HORDE)
17. Meat Spreader (HORDE)
18. Necrotum (HORDE)
19. Repuked (HORDE)
20. Scordatura (HORDE)
21. Strigoi (CHL) (HORDE, NORTH, PIT)
22. Twink Obliterator (HORDE, REVOLUTION)
23. Unnatural (HORDE)
24. Besra (INFINITE)
25. Laudare (INFINITE)
26. Pathogen (INFINITE)
27. Beyond Man (NORTH)
28. Blinding Sun (NORTH)
29. Cage of Creation (NORTH)
30. Daedalia (NORTH)
31. Fleckentarn (NORTH)
32. Heavenfield (NORTH)
33. Hidden Mothers (NORTH)
34. Legion of Doom (NORTH)
35. Nemorous (NORTH)
36. Northern Solitude (NORTH)
37. Pale Riders, The (NORTH)
38. A Rose Dying in the Rain (NORTH)
39. Faüst (PIT)
40. beforeyouleave (REVOLUTION)
41. Neglect (REVOLUTION)
42. NJ Bloodline (REVOLUTION)
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy from the 28th of November to the 5th of December, 2024.
1. Aberrator (FALLEN, HORDE)
2. Neolithic (FALLEN)
3. Sabaoth (FALLEN, NORTH)
4. Wellington (FALLEN)
5. Amira Elfeky (GATEWAY)
6. Lodestar (GATEWAY)
7. LVCAS (GATEWAY)
8. Blizard (GUARDIANS)
9. Brothers Grimm (GUARDIANS, INFINITE, PIT)
10. Overload (GUARDIANS)
11. Vavel (GUARDIANS)
12. Corpse (HORDE)
13. Damnable (HORDE)
14. Desecration (HORDE)
15. Gutless (HORDE)
16. Hell-Born (HORDE, NORTH)
17. Indecent Excision (HORDE)
18. Iniquitous Savagery (HORDE)
19. Killengod (HORDE)
20. Neural Indent / Gorenette Coleman (HORDE)
21. Scabbard (HORDE)
22. Shredded Corpse (HORDE)
23. Tlön (HORDE, NORTH)
24. Ubiquity (HORDE, INFINITE)
25. Blindead 23 (INFINITE)
26. Múr (INFINITE)
27. Angizia / Amestigon (NORTH)
28. Grave Heresy (NORTH)
29. Hell Is Other People (NORTH)
30. Ragnarok (GBR) (NORTH)
31. Wolves' Winter (NORTH)
32. Callous (REVOLUTION) - requested by Daniel
33. Miserere (REVOLUTION)
34. Opal in Sky (REVOLUTION)
35. Slugfest (REVOLUTION)
36. victimblamed (REVOLUTION)
37. Christian Death (SPHERE)
To date, I haven't been adding 7 inch vinyl releases, mostly due to the huge amount that have no covers and no ratings on RYM. It's also unclear as to whether many of them are considered to be singles or EPs. Once I finish adding all metal albums and non-7 inch EPs with 50 or more votes from all years, I'll look a bit further into them.