so i had some time to go through your list, decided to include some impressions and ratings (0-10)
note: the ratings are based on a one-time listening (ok, ok, with some skimming & repeating too )
(5-6) Royal Thunder -CVI (southern/psychedelic rock)
recommended song: No Good
(8-9) Ancestors - In Dreams And Time
great for patient listeners
weak song: Running In Circles
recommended song: On The Wind
(7) Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension (doom metal)
the spoken passages are used way too often, too monotonous & overlong
weak songs: A Lonely Passage, Call Of The Raven Moon
recommended song: A Fathers Providence
(8-9) Enslaved - RIITIIR (progressive black metal)
simple/effective/interesting
weak songs: RIITIIR, Forsaken
recommended song: Death in the Eyes of Dawn
(6-7) Bound By Entrails - The Stars Bode You Farewell (progressive black metal)
too progressive/dissonant/crammed for their own good, mostly good atmosphere on slower parts
out-of-place songs: Essence of Vagrance, Bemoaning the Lamented
recommended song: Swan Song
(7-8) Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone
good stuff, maybe too uniform/simplistic
weak song: To Stir The Sea
(6) Dissona - Dissona (progressive metal/melodic death)
confused mixture of ideas, feels too forced
recommended song: Inverted Swarm
(3-4) Anhedonist - Netherwards
(6) Skyharbor - Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos (progressive metalcore, djent)
the 'chaos' part doesn't work with the rest and the rest needs polishing (like much of the dragging vocals)
recommended song: Maeva
(3-5) Incoming Cerebral Overdrive - Le Stelle: A Voyage Adrift (hardcore)
Honorable mentions and EPs:
(6-7) Minority Sound - The Explorer (electronic industrial metal aka cyber metal)
catchy stuff, could use some diversity
recommended song: Load Of Destruction
(5) Agalloch - Faustian Echoes [EP]
(7-8) Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I
good, but overlong & overindulgent songs, it gets better after the first 3 songs in terms of excessive aggression
recommended song: Forget Not
(8) Neurotech - Decipher Vol. 1 [EP] (cyber metal)
very enjoyable cyber metal, vol.2 is decent too, less aggressive (more dance/trance oriented)
recommended song: Home
recommended song (from Vol.2 EP): Unconditional
recommended song (from Blue Screen Planet EP): both
recommended song (from Antagonist album): Inject Me Now
reco...just kiddin'
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