The BEST METAL Albums of FEBRUARY are F**KING INSANE! 

Last month had some very good metal releases. The new Job for a Cowboy is currently my favorite of the year. I also really liked the new Spectral Voice, Chelsea Wolfe, Ihsahn, Borknagar, and Hulder albums as well.

Another great vid.....I have "discovered" so many albums and bands through your content, all I can say is thank you for some great, varied work!

Oh man! The Borknagar and Ihsahn are on my best of list 2024 so far. Man there's a number of other albums it sounds like I need to hop on! As always thanks for the monthly list here!

Thank you guys, fockin' heavy sound for the weekend.

I just want to say a resounding THANK YOU for what you guys are doing here. You're undeniably one of my very favorite channels because you cover the bands and albums people need to hear, and unearthing gems I might not find out about anywhere else. This month was fucking STACKED, and Spectral Voice, Job for a Cowboy, and Chelsea Wolfe are all early AOTY contenders

Borknagar-Fall They Came From Visions-The Twilight Robes. I'm probably getting some new favorites after checking out some of the albums, highlighted in this video, that escaped my attention (the Romovus, Obsidian tongue and Necrowretch releases). Great work guys, as always!!!

You guys always give me my fix on melo death and death doom. Many bands here to check out, thanks guys.

Well played guys, another awesome show! My favourite album of the month is Borknagars Fall. The more I spin it the more I love it. Sooo many differente colours, textures and layers that I hear something new everytime... Gotta give Romuvos - Spirits, Obsidian Tongue - The Stone Hearts and Hulder - Verses In Oath a spin. Keep on Rockin and keep it Metal 🤘🖤🤘

I have enjoyed every album on your list! You guys have Awesome taste in Metal👍🤘🤘

Very nice list. Just listened to chapel of disease again today. It’s infectious. Really like the Necrowretch. That’s my favourite of the month. Job really surprised me. I was not a fan, but now am. Thanks for putting together. Will check out the couple I have not heard…

Faves...Hand of Kalliach, Borknagar, Job for a Cowboy. But Necrowretch is my fave this month. Blew me away. Demonic and Melodic at the same time. I dont know how you guys and other channels review so many albums. I cant keep up. Im still enjoying my 2023 faves.

as always thanks for these videos my dudes

Ihsahn S/T and The Obsessed Gilded Sorrow are probably my favourite February releases. But I still need to jam a bunch of the albums you guys brought up.

All great picks! My favorites of February, in no particular order, include: Borknagar "Fall" Ihsahn "Ihsahn" Job For A Cowboy "Moon Healer" Far Beyond "The End Of The Road" Hand Of Kalliach "Corryvreckan" Thy Shining Curse "Theurgia" and my biggest surprise so far this year would be the debut album by Ad Nihilum "An Escape For The Guilty"

Now I'm off to check out Bipolar Architecture because it sounds like my kind of thing. This is one of the reasons I love these videos, I've genuinely discovered awesome bands because of you guys.

Thumbs up for that sweet fuggin Novembre shirt 👍

Love the Spectral Voice album, they along with Fossilization, Burial, and Void Rot are really carving out a great scene of atmospheric death doom that just crushes.

Job for a Cowboys is easily my fav of the year so far. Great stuff guys. Cheers

These month’s best lists are fantastic, so much audio homework! Varied and original stuff every time.

Chapel of Disease and JFAC were very bigly anticipated albums for me for February, and both of them met or exceeded my monthly metal needs ! Ihsahn, Persefone, Romuvos, Hannes Grossman, Borknagar and Bipolar Architecture were great as well !

Sick stuff. I hadn't heard of Bipolar Architecture but I'm going to have to check that album out. Here are my favorites of February. 1. Job for a Cowboy - Moon Healer (progressive death metal/technical death metal) 2. Necrowretch - Swords of Dajjal (melodic black metal/melodic death metal) 3. Ihsahn - Ihsahn (progressive metal/symphonic black metal) 4. They Came from Visions - The Twilight Robes (atmospheric black metal/melodic black metal/dark folk) 5. Griffon - De Republica (melodic black metal/pagan black metal) 6. Hulder - Verses In Oath (melodic black metal/atmospheric death metal) 7. Keres - Homo Homini Lupus (blackened death metal f.f.o. Hath, Wake) 8. Farsot - Life Promised Death (post-black metal) 9. Aeonist - Votum Silentii (atmospheric black metal/dungeon synth) 10. Praise the Plague - Suffocating in the Current of Time (atmospheric post-black metal)

You guys do a great job. I know how difficult it is to review music, and ...yeah. Youse guys do it really really ...good.😂 cheers

Lots of overlap, my Feb favs: Job For A Cowboy - moon healer Chelsea Wolfe - she reaches out to she reaches out to she Bipolar Architecture - metaphysicize Inferious - salt your earth Atoll - inhuman implant

Borknagar and Chapel Of Disease are faves, and i really enjoy the new Chainsword album Born Triumphant, and Stygian Crown -Funeral For A King

Have you heard the new Suldusk? It, with Job for a Cowboy, were the standouts for me this month. (I have 3 more albums from your list on vinyl though, keeping the pace up! RIP wallet!)

I really think Ihsahn, Borknagar and Job For A Cowboy won the month for me! I knew what I was getting myself into when I spun Chapel of Disease’s new record because I really loved their 2018 album. Necrowretch impressed me! And I also loved the debut EP of German traditional heavy metal band Writhen Hilt called Ancient Sword Cult that should appeal to fans of the NWOTHM (bands like Eternal Champion and Megaton Sword) and the new two-song EP by Dutch atmospheric/melodic black metal band Morvigor that has crazy dynamics!

Morbid Saint - Swallowed By Hell came out in February and is my pick for best thrash metal album of 2024.

Hell yeah truth is there are some really killer stuff coming out this year aye ....Hails 🤝🤘😤😏🤣

Thx for this new video as always some great discoveries! Borknagar is just amazing they really pushed themselves very far, what a fucking journey this album is!

Kind of surprised you didn't mention Counting Hour's The Wishing Tomb. It has all those doomy vibes that just makes ya feel warm and fuzzy on the inside.

Hard to believe Farsot didn't make your list.

How to make watching the forge mates more metal? Drink a nice cup of tea with a cherry Bakewell on the side, delightful. Have a good weekend both 🤘

…well, another set of albums to get. I’m always looking forward to these lists because they differ from most other reviewers (in a good way)!

Bipolar architecture was really really good ❤ Borknagar and jfac also amazing. Oh and chapel of disease. Great stuff

So much better than Banger its not even close - glad to have stumbled across you.

Borknagar! Wow. What a great listen

Ihsahn was great, but I'll have to add to my list bands like Axiomatic Dematerialization album. Then there was LVME and Hasturian Vigil. Some others aswell, but I can't keep up with all these albums 😂

I'm with you regarding Chapel of Disease, Spectral Voice, Necrowretch, Ihsahn and Borknagar.. 👌 ..though I wish Chapel of Disease would have dropped the death metal vocals completely; I just don't think they fit the way their sound has evolved since the last album... the sparse use of clean vocals felt a bit 'anemic' too, I thought? To me, though, the most interesting album of february was definitly Stygian Crown 'Funeral for a King'; trad./epic doom with Bolt Thrower-like crusching riffs and awesome, sonorous female vocals courtesy of the amazing Melissa Pinion... 👌👌

Necrowretch really suprised me too. I streamed it randomly at work, and all about 10 minutes in i found myself really focused on the lyrics, which I seldom ever do. I was all "Fuck, I think this dude means what he's singing about", which you could say about maybe 1 in 100 extreme metal bands surveyed. Believeable occult vibes.

February was also a very good month for me for new albums as well. My list of eleven - 1. Litosth - "Cesariana" . 2. Asarhaddon - "Besenken". 3. Solbrud - IIII. 4. Demiurgo - "Dark Feeling". 5. Baltum - "Aeturnum Vale". 6. Ûngrûn - "Itjinge Tonei Barre Scil". 7. Zweilicht - "The Aphotic Embrace". 8. Twilight Svn - "Stigmata Children". 9. Eternal Storm - "A Giant About To Fall. 10. :Inferno 9: - "Verba Vana". 11. Ad Unum Omnes - "Shattered Bones". 12. Borknagar - "Fall". Litosth, Ad Unum Omnes, Ûngrûn, Zweilicht, Asarhaddon and Twilight Svn where my highlights for this month, especially Twilight Svn with their debut EP.

Just curious, did yall listen to the Counting Hours release? I ask because I saw Rapture comparisons and I know Ben is a big fan of that band.

Echoes of Eternity by Hannes Grossmann blows my mind.

Did you guys not hear the absolutely STUNNING album from Eternal Storm-A Giant Bound To Fall? Released February 16. My cohost for the Harsh Vocals podcast and I can’t stop raving about this album. I know it’s early in the year but this album is one of those records that will stick with you the entire year. If you haven’t heard, please please please check it out. It really deserves to be talked about a LOT more.

my little top of the month 1. Borknagar - Fall A majestic and complex, emotional release of anger and beauty that makes you want to take up a sword and battle for the glory of Odin! It’s one of ICS Vortex’s absolute best performance. I’m literally addicted to this album. 2. Job for a Cowboy - Moon Healer Wow… this might end up being my n.1, even at the end of the year! That 10 years of waiting was completely worth it! Absolutely everything is perfect: the song writing, the production, every instrument is played masterfully. Instant progressive death metal classic! 3. Ihsahn - Ihsahn This is art! Not confined in any particular box, Ihsahn takes us on a journey in his genius mind. It combines beautiful orchestrations with progressive black metal and avant garde. It’s two disc (one metal and one orchestral), which gives it an infinite re-listenability. 4. Traveler - Prequel To Madness This is pure, extra fun, modern heavy metal! This Calgary based band offers us their third album and it’s everything you could wish for! Soaring high vocals, dual guitars harmonizing shredding solos, catchy as fuck choruses, extremely fast and energetic drumming and a huge bass sound to tie everything together. Best modern heavy metal I’ve heard in a long time, if ever! 5. Chapel of Disease - Echoes of Light Ever wonder what prog rock mixed with heavy metal and growled vocals would sound like? Well, you don’t have to wonder anymore! Chapel of Disease truly outdid themselves here. It’s complex yet catchy, dark yet full of light, aggressive yet sometimes, beautiful and tranquil and it simply… Rocks! 6. Hulder - Verses In Oath The queen of medieval darkness, Marliese Beeuwsaert aka Hulder, is back with her second album! It’s a masterful mix of haunting atmospheres, fierce and raw brutality and a touch of melody interwoven everywhere in the album. This album will propel her into the all time best of black metal. 7. Vorga - Beyond The Palest Star This is probably what the interstellar void feels like. This album feels grandiose, peaceful but, at times, hectic and aggressive! It’s the perfect blend of atmosphere, melody and raw aggressivity! Such a great month for black metal! Also, the cover art in insane! Magnificent work by Adam Burke. 8. Spectral Voice - Sparagmos This IS death/doom! It’s crushingly slow and oppressive mixed with faster bits and pieces sprinkled everywhere all with this sublime atmosphere. You always have a sense of dread, waiting to see what lies beyond the next corner! Masterful work! 9. Hand Of Kalliach - Corryvreckan This married couple from Scotland created something truly unique here. While not being the first time I’ve heard the combination of melodic death and folk metal, It’s the first time I’ve heard this much care and attention given to atmosphere. It’s an album that touches your soul with its contrasts. 10. Necrowretch - Swords of Dajjal Boy oh boy! This is, without a doubt, the best blackened death I’ve heard for some time, and it’s from France of all places! The sheer amount of talent on here is inspirating! Every riff, every drum beat is super tight and sound clean, but raw and brutal at the same time.

The Bruins check 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭

Great picks guys, I'll need to check that Bipolar Architecture album out. These were my favs of the month. 15. Nercrowetch - The Sword Dajjal (Black/Death Metal, France) 14. Borknagar - Fall (Viking/Folk/Black Metal, Norway) 13. Job for a Cowboy - Moon Healer (Progressive Death Metal, USA) 12. Dwarrowdelf - The Fallen Leaves (Atmospheric Black Metal, UK) 11. Morta Skuld - Creation Undone (Death Metal, USA) 10. Ad Nihilum - An Escape for the Guilty (Atmospheric Blackened Death Doom, Switzerland) 9. Chapel of Disease - Echoes of Light (Progressive Death Metal/Hard Rock, Germany) 8. Hulder - Verses in Oath (Black Metal, USA) 7. Praise the Plague - Suffocating in the Current of Time (Blackened Doom/Sludge, Germany) 6. Ihsahn - Self Titled (Progressive Extreme Metal, Norway) 5. Spectral Voice - Sparagmos (Death Doom. USA) 4. Striker - Ultrapower (Traditional Heavy/Power Metal, Canada) 3. Wandering Oak - Resilience (Progressive Black/Folk/Heavy Metal, USA) 2. Solbrud - IIII (Atmospheric Black Metal, Denmark) 1. Eternal Storm - A Giant Bound to Fall (Progressive Melodic Death Metal, Spain)

Necrowretch won it for me. Obsessed.

My favorite february release was ‘Vægtløs’ with their debut album ‘Aftryk’. Emotional and atmospheric, gets better and better with repeated listens.

These are my top 15th of February: 1º - Borknagar - Fall 2º - Morta Skuld - Creation Undone 3º - Ihsahn - Ihsahn 4º - Romuvos - Spirits 5º - Chapel Of Disease - Echoes of Light 6º - Necrowretch - Swords Of Dajjal 7º - Darkest Hour - Perpetual Terminal 8º - Ponte Del Diavolo - Fire Blades From The Tomb 9º - Hulder - Verses In Oath 10º - Nemedian Chronicles - The Savage Sword 11º - Toxikull - Under The Southern Light 12º - They Came from Visions - The Twilight Robes 13º - Counting Hours - The Wishing Tomb 14º - Blaze Bayley - Circle Of Stone 15º - Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project

No Counting Hours new album in your list, little suprised. Job for a Cowboy, Ihsahn and Borknagar are super good

My favorite of February is Solbrud-llll. You have to take your time to listen to this album, but it is worth it

Borknagar is on a roll!

Throne of Thorns - Parallel Converging Worlds Iron Curtain - Savage Dawn Traveler - Prequel to Madness Rifforia - Axeorcism Full Assault - Dying World

Keres - homo homini lupus one of my favs

Darkest Hour and Inferious put out bangers of records too

JFAC is the biggest surprise so far. Cynic bass influence is great.

Bipolar architect Borknagar 🎸🔥🔥🔥🤘

Borknagar's Fall is a masterpiece ❤

Monkey3 - Welcome to the Machine is a journey

Surprised that Counting Hours was not mentioned, especially when namedropping Rapture... if you missed it, check it out!

My list: 1) Ihsahn - S/T (Symphonic Progressive Metal with Black Metal elements) 2) Spectral Voice - Sparagmos (Death-Doom) 3) Morcolac - Drawbridge To Citadel Of No More Dawn (Melodic Black Metal) 4) Eternal Storm - A Giant Bound To Fall (Progressive Melodic Death Metal) 5) Hannes Grossmann - Echoes Of Eternity (Progressive Death Metal) 6) Necrowretch - Swords Of Degial (Blackened Death Metal) 7) Wandering Oak - Resilience (Progressive Folk Metal) 8) Chapel Of Disease - Echoes Of Light (Progressive Heavy Metal with Death Metal elements) 9) Unassuprechlichen Kulten - Haäxon Sabaoth (Death Metal) 10) Solbrud - III (Atmospheric Black Metal) 11) Borknagar - Fall (Progressive Black Metal) 12) Theophonos - Ashes In The Huron River (Black Metal) 13) They Came From Visions - The Twilight Robes (Atmospheric Black Metal with Folk elements) 14) Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer (Technical Death Metal) 15) Traveler - Prequel To Madness (Heavy Metal) 16) Far Beyond - The End Of My Road (Symphonic Melodic Death Metal) 17) Contaminated - Celebratory Beheading (Death Metal) 18) Stygian Crown - Funeral For A King (Epic Doom Metal) 19) Griffon - De Republica (Melodic Black Metal) 20) The Obsessed - Gilded Sorrow (Traditional Doom Metal)

Almost forgot, BOARHAMMER-II: Chemgnosi & METH- Shame. Big month!

Can’t get into JFAC talented band but it feels very flat I found myself bored. Mad props to them for their skills and I’m glad their fans dig them but not my thing. For me Farsot - Life Promised Death, Stiriah - Portal, Darkspace - II, Profane Existence- Scour & Ihsahn - S/T are my tops.

Check out Toadliquor, legendary sludge band who just released a new album after 25 years of nothing

I love both Stars Ablaze, but especially Unraveling. Imo. the whole album is a masterpiece, so I disagree on it being front loaded

Yes to Borknagar! I'm a big fan of Spectral Voice's debut but so far I'm not that impressed by the new one

Fucking Moon Healer was a massive surprise. Since when did I like JFAC?

I will tell you the exact best part of the latest Hulder. On the title track Verses in Oath, she screams “This is the end!” I’m here to tell you verily this day, ladies and gentleman, that that shit fucking RULES.

Those necrowretch riffs are disgusting. Did you guys call Green Carnation black metal? I haven't listened to some of their earlier work so I'm not sure if I'm missing something. Cool band btw...got to catch them at ProgPower.

Cleebull shayshidt

Planet Terror

as always thanks for these videos my dudes