The Best New Metal Albums of February 2023 | Exhibition, Wretched Fate, OAK, Ulthar, Owl

[@matthewmach1515]

As one of the people that has been vocal about my recent disappointment with Bloodbath, I appreciate the Wretched Fate suggestion. Also, with Oak and last months Ahab record, I'm hoping that this year will be good for Funeral Doom.

[@mordy2v]

All the albums this month are hitting it out of the park with the cover art.

[@theartofheavymetal]

That's true! It's going to be a very good year!

[@TheForeboding]

And might be generated by AI.

[@theartofheavymetal]

@@TheForeboding No way! Skadvaldur, Ian Miller, Zbigniew Bielak, Timon Kokott, Chris Corona... not just real humans (allegedly) but some of the best, especially Bielak he's hitting a peak in the last year!

[@bolachas31]

Exhibition cover is the poster for monsters of rock 1991 ,just replacing the SG( ACDC headlining) for a axe

[@pantheonlr4423]

@@theartofheavymetal check out our new album Empire in Ruin

[@nickpardon8617]

Fully agree with Wretched Fate. If you're a fan of Bloodbath's The Fathomless Mastery, just buy this album. It's the perfect continuation of that style (and their previous album Fleshletting is damn good as well) As for releases that weren't mentioned, Bodyfarm is releasing "Ultimate Abomination" on 23th February.

[@allenvrabac4827]

Tried to dig them but can't shake the shitty vocals. Great instrumentals though.

[@nicholasroberson8350]

Really vibing with Carnal Heresy and The Last Laugh. Ulthar seems like a maybe for me, gotta check out more. Great picks for the month!

[@comicsmisexplained]

Two Ulthar albums. Absolutely bonkers in the best way

[@mstrasser]

the guitarist in Oak is also the guitarist, now singer, in Gaerea so another reason to check it out (said from a funeral doom non-fan). the first snippet of the track they released wasn't as snow and doom-y as the video so I'm hopeful

[@sidsagar7028]

actually the singer/guitarist in oak is the guitarist in gaerea

[@mstrasser]

@@sidsagar7028 i thought he moved to vocals only last year after Mirage came out where he was guitarist. The singer who was on Mirage has left

[@sidsagar7028]

from what i could read online ruben is still on vocals for gaerea

[@mstrasser]

@@sidsagar7028 metal archives says different so who knows! problem playing behind veils! regarderss, there's a band connection so we all win!

[@sidsagar7028]

@@mstrasser ah i see they updated. well that is a win for sure

[@NiklasMX]

To all Death and Thrash Metal fans our there...I can highly recommend you LEPER COLONY! Amazing debut album with Marc Grewe / ex-Morgoth on vocals!

[@nobertgrzlytrudel]

Yeap Great🫠

[@earthrot666]

As someone who actually thinks Survival of the Sickest is Bloodbath's best, that wretched fate fucking slays pre-ordering that ish immediately! Thanks dude!

[@andrewjohnson9157]

MITHRIDATUM on Willowtip deserves a listen!

[@james.angel333]

Megaton Sword Feb 24th

[@Krigloch]

Love the first Wretched Fate album. So it was quite easy to preorder the new one. So stoked!

[@Orangeokie7]

Right after you played Wretched Fate, I immediately thought "this is Bloodbath!"

[@kernanandrews3374]

Exhibition sounds totally up my street! Definitely going to check it out. Thanks for highlighting!

[@plastilina2010]

Thanks for the OAK recommendation, as soon as I heard it I knew I needed to listen to it. Thanks for giving me my Bell Witch fix until their next album

[@RongBipper420]

Stoked for all these releases. Also Might & Power by Megaton Sword releases on the 24th 🤘🏾

[@VIGLounge]

I'm really excited for Carnosus. I have to shout out some releases that came out already: Dysmal: Gates To Apperception, Mithridatum: Harrowing, Black Water Sunset: Engraved Spectral Aeons and the amazingly-named The Faith Hills Have Eyes and their album The equally amazingly-named the Rifth Element. In terms of future releases in February I want to shout out Cadaver Shrine: Benighted Desecration (Blayne... it's death/doom) and The Abbey: World of Sin

[@JustinK417]

I can’t believe it takes a show from Canada for me to find out about a band from Minneapolis my home town . Thank you so much I picked up the album at Electric Fetus in Minneapolis love it. Also Oak and Owl on their Band camp page. My wife doesn’t like me watching Metal Monthly because I already spend a lot of money on music. Lol 😂

[@kuzgunsovalyesi]

Hey bangers, check out the new album by Kaptan Kadavra, a turkish death-grindcore band. Edit: Also Turkey is currently going through a huge earthquake disaster. Every bit of help towards the earthquake relief is appreciated!

[@chkchrycla]

HELLRIPPER!

[@jaycianfrini77]

Nice one! Some great stuff to look forward to. Anthropic, also from Buffalo, is putting out a ripping album very soon. Killer grindcore!

[@metalyuppie]

Ulthar's previous albums are absolutely killer. Looking forward to these. Never heard Oak, also definitely have to check that out.

[@stopgodestroy]

Thanks for the shout out! -Clint (Owl)

[@thomasgonzales2253]

Your enthusiasm got me to go purchased the Exhibition - Last Laugh vinyl; luckily still a few copies left!?

[@roguekantian5605]

Looking forward to both Ulthar releases. It's not every day that a band spoils us with not one, but two albums in the same year, and they're spoiling us twice in one day. Curious to see how well they can manage the long-form song format.

[@ScottOrKaze]

Would love to see more Crossover and Hardcore mentions. There are some amazing hardcore bands blending thrash and death metal with their sound. Hardcore is so heavy right now, it would be awesome to see a few more mentions like Exhibition in future

[@zenoslime]

it's hard to believe they've completely passed over bands like cloud rat...!

[@florianmeyer83]

Thanks a lot for Exhibition! That record is amazing and so much fun

[@labskausistliebe2792]

Hardly missing Megaton Sword and Air Raid in this Metal Monthly. Check them, if you like heavy and epic Metal.

[@s1perry]

New Megaton Sword and Air Raid? Thanks for the heads up!

[@labskausistliebe2792]

@@s1perry 24 Feb.

[@christianalvis5686]

Thank Satan, for Metal Monthly is finally here!

[@mochunk]

I've curbed a ton of vinyl purchasing in the last few years as I was running out of room and money. But two Ulthar records at once from 20buckspin, I pre-ordered those the hour they were announced weeks ago. Oak seems promising as a Bell Witch fan.

[@campkilldavy]

Hey, Wretched Fate - Gorguts called... They want their album cover back. 😡 Also you sound like Bloodbath, but that's a good thing too.

[@wretchedfateband]

Now that you mention it I definitely see the resemblance, "Considered Dead" was not one of the references however. "Butchered At Birth" was the main inspiration, perhaps even "Gallery Of Suicide, and the aesthetic was inspired by the High Lord Wolnir bonfire of Dark Souls 3. On top of that it's tightly connected to the song" Harlots For Suffering"! /Adrian

[@MetalPersonJ]

No mention of Lovebites? Fail.

[@metalpractor5150]

Ulthar is awesome. Good call Blayne

[@themightydecibel-heavymeta7130]

Best albums this month imo: MORPHETIK - Proclamation of War (thrash) and BODYFARM - Ultimate Abomination (death). Both kick serious ass!!!

[@madcapsules4479]

Oh damn, love that Ian Miller art on Ulthar ablums...

[@Smonserratm]

I'm looking forward to the new Megaton Sword and Haunt albums. Although I don't know when the latter comes out.

[@timwinroth9479]

Vvilderness - Path

[@igor3618]

I love the way Blayne says Newcollar Blast

[@Bodybuildingberserkir]

What a fuckin month bois ….bogg, carnosus, hellripper, in flames….glooshin all around all month long

[@davidyoung2577]

It really pleased me that Hellripper was under the ‘bigger’ release albums. Love the goat 🐐🤘🏻

[@cletusc.r829]

Ya'll need to check horrors of reality by void, pretty fucking awesome thrash metal the album just went out on Feb 1

[@nisseheim4996]

Great to see OAK getting some love. If the comment section like the sound of an anarchist band making quality black metal inspired by the book of Revelations then it's worth checking out Trespasser - Αποκάλυψισ. It came out last week, is bloody stellar, and proceeds go to Rojava.

[@NbleSavage]

Instant hit with Exhibition 🔥🤘🔥🤘

[@turtleonspeed6673]

great picks this month

[@michaelbarry9038]

Memoriam- Rise to power Feb 3 Bodyfarm- Ultimate Abomination Feb 24

[@radiosant]

What’s the flag on the back wall beneath Darkthrone?

[@drawshot]

Really eager to hear the new stuff from Ulthar.

[@salva0922]

You forgot to mention Lovebites new album. I know the channel doesn't touch power metal a lot but they are so good

[@CosmicMetallMusic9919]

I love this!

[@Fastnbulbous1969]

This is Oakland band Owl's third album, their first in 9 years. They were never a prog band. From the snippet you played, they're still not a prog band. Heavy stoner psych with maybe just a touch of proto-metal and prog influence, but not full-on 70s prog like, for example, San Diego's Astra/Birth. Glad you covered them, but why the patronizing treatment? They're likely the only band of this batch I will end up listening to regularly long after their release dates.

[@animangiac6312]

Exhibition sounds great, and the cover is so classic.

[@paulturgeon5803]

Oak, good stuff. I like my wood hard with peaks and valleys. 😉🤘

[@ulvhedner]

Oh, shit, nice hat there bud! ❤‍🔥

[@davidbidwell4091]

This channel would be nothing without Blayne. The man cracks me up almost as much as I crack myself up.

[@AnEvolvingApe]

My taste is quite different from Blayne's a lot of the time but he is a treasure to the metal community.

[@drxsmetalhippie]

Insomnium and (a promising so far) In Flames album this month. Good month for melodic death metal.

[@NonceKillaz]

Ah Portuguese Funeral Doom, my favourite form of Portuguese music.

[@metalpractor5150]

Conjureth’s new album was Jan 23rd It’s an excellent album.

[@kevanbeazer1913]

A part of me really hope Blayne will pick Necrowolf Essoterror for one of his underground picks for March but I know it's unlikely. They're a great local band from slc Utah everyone check them out

[@MIKELiscrazy]

Big ups to Ulthar this month! Anyone into Grindcore should check out the album “We Live As Ghosts” by CHOPCHOPCHOPCHOPCHOPCHOPCHOP

[@chachorolas923]

BLAIR IN THE LAIR!!!

[@alejandrotapia4749]

Ok I just going to check today 22/02 but mate I really wish a much more better month than January FFS!!

[@KleineKassiopeia]

At least for me this is a bit of a light metal monthly. Nothing that really peaked my interest. Really exited about the Hellripper and Insomnium records though.

[@jdbradford5661]

Wasn't expecting to see a triple b release on here love the diversity

[@danielreamer8382]

I’m all about the new Oak album I have their last album and I can’t wait to get this one

[@Dismal-future]

HOLY SHIT ...EXHIBITION ROCKS! Too bad triple b doesn't offer a cd...WTF. I'm an old school metalhead who started in 1984 with Powerslave and I miss badass guitar solos too.

[@gabrielbucio9424]

Venomous Concept

[@html_rulez_d00d]

Nice shirt!

[@jamescaldow5608]

YO check out A Day Of Sorrow by Druids Of Eld, From one of the live guitarists of Be'Lakor

[@pantheonlr4423]

Thank you for your support 🤘🤘🔥🔥 follow us on our KZbin

[@robofurious]

cool antichrist siege machine background

[@Deftik]

Unleash the archers, huh 🤔🤔 🤘🤘

[@brunomaldonado253]

Oak , love it🇵🇹

[@sebastianspicher6970]

No love for Megaton Sword's Might & Power on the 24th 😱?

[@eyetyrant8835]

Dude oak is so good

[@marcusaurelius2328]

Sumerlands 😍

[@eclatshwartzbaumcybertune2063]

Oh! I thought you said wretched FACE 😂😂😂

[@pantheonlr4423]

Oops. Sorry thought we were in this episode 🤘😂🤘

[@johannesrichter2927]

Nice flag on the Shirt, Blain

[@RPRsChannel]

*_This is the 4th or 5th release of 'Goatlord'? WTF is going on?_*

[@Minmataro718]

Great fucking shirt.

[@paulfaulkner2855]

Sorry Blayne but that shirt is looking a size small. Maybe next time try a large instead of a medium or small. Season of Mist releasing another long as fuck funeral doom record is not enticing, they need to take a lesson from 20 buck spin because they've been killing it. Dream Unending was the best album last year and the Worm EP was a killer.

[@fred-ericschulz7736]

Shame on you Blayne, How could you not cover BlackMetal this Month :P ProHint: try Razörschriek - Black Magic out since feb the second

[@jamesgwarrior1981]

The ones I truly look forward to the most 🤘🏽🤎

[@ronniebby3148]

The reccs from last month were great, also that Heavy Sentence EP is banging. It's not an album but I know you did put them at your top the other year. As far as metal goes, this year is starting heavy!

[@davestevenson9257]

No better metal reviewer.

[@kevinm5957]

Guitar players “ showins off” 😂

[@Psyborgasm]

Except you missed 7 h. Target - yantra creating

[@white0ne1]

Blayne's eyes are looking a little baked.

[@andrefernandes5100]

Portugal 🇵🇹🤘

[@alejandrotapia4749]

Well...no another month full of well good stuff that's it sooo far from September October and November 22 those were great months for under metal world

[@Wargutz666]

Flub - Dream Worlds. Feb 10th. 2023. On The Artisan Era. 🤘🙂🤘

[@ChaosandComics]

Um

[@BobbyPVZ]

OAK🇵🇹💢

[@kevindillon9060]

AVATAR!!!

[@propanekid686]

Metal seems so stale anymore

[@michaelelwell1331]

New to funeral doom I have only got in to ahab but Is basically funeral doom like death doom

[@spirocorbett3839]

get a shirt that fits.

[@Volunteerfan8082]

these metal monthly episodes are getting worse and worse, the only band I would even listen to on this list is Hellripper, you can have the rest.... what about the new Just Before Dawn album??? Better than any of this crap..

[@YetiLearnsMusic]

Ok

[@goldengrill769]

Honestly, yeah, I wouldn't blame Banger for this though. I kinda feel too old for music or something I am stoked for In Flames though but hearing underground metal just does nothing for me anymore.

[@YetiLearnsMusic]

So y’all are the problem ?

[@PapaMetal47]

I'm not sure I would put it that way, but I do agree with you. I wasn't impressed with any of these selections. I love Blayne and I love the show and this is by no way a critique on Metal Monthly or Banger.

[@Hellenicheavymetal]

The episodes arent getting worse. They're just hitting many of the popular band releases as well as the most anticipated. Also the year has just begun.

[@lostcauseforkl]

That Owl seems ok