General info
The list is obtained from the database on metal-archives.com. If an entry has been added to the database retroactively after the post, it will show up in the next one. Only album releases are listed here.
Link to the playlist of the singles on Spotify
Symphonic Metal
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Malignea: Malignea - Symphonic Metal (February 28th, 2023) - Single (YouTube): Morte Vermelha
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Lumnia: Humanity Despair - Symphonic Metal (March 3rd, 2023) - Single (YouTube): Queen of night
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Legado de una Tragedia: Aquelarre de sombras - Symphonic Power Metal/Hard Rock (March 10th, 2023) - Single (YouTube): La procesión de las ánimas"
Symphonic Death/Black/Doom metal
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Artefacts: Nephereth - Symphonic Black Metal (February 22nd, 2023) - EP - Single (YouTube): Augur the Age of Darkness
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Bill Clove: Return to Glory - Symphonic/Technical/Melodic Death Metal (March 3rd, 2023) - Single (YouTube): Thorn of the Enemy
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Starer: Coverer - Symphonic Black Metal (March 3rd, 2023) - EP - Single (YouTube): Mountain Song
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Brundarkh: Those Born of Fire & Shadow - Symphonic/Melodic Death Metal (March 6th, 2023) - Single (YouTube): Beneath The Axe Of Gothmog
Recommendations
Nothing interesting for me. RabieS is the best single listed but still not good enough to convince me to listen to the whole album.
Slow week for me, I’ll give a medium rec to Brundarkh if you’re into the harsher stuff, but aside from that not much.
Nothing really interesting over here - maybe try RabieS, but I'd rather wait for Kamelot's album next Friday.
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(Mandatory tag to u/HarlequinValentine for pinning the post)
RabieS is a fairly ordinary Russian symphonic metal band, it's not the first I've heard of that kind and it certainly won't be the last. For me to really enjoy the music, it needs to have something special, something to stand out among the masses. This is not it. I also liked it better before the male rap-style vocals near the end of 'Оборотень' (track #4). It might be the best release on this list, but that's far from high praise. 7/10
Malignea: I don't really like this, but I've heard worse. The female vocalist makes me sleepy. The other parts of the music are better at least in this regard (although, that long guitar solo on the almost-title track 'Maligna' was the weakest one I've heard in quite some time). And I don't understand Portuguese, but I also don't need it to understand that the same line is being repeated a million times in the chorus of a given song. From a purely technical standpoint, I suppose it's fine music. From a listener's perspective, it's hardly enjoyable, if at all. 6/10
Lumnia sounds old, and not in a good way. The instrumental and production values are sub-par for symphonic metal and more appropriate for some other metal subgenres/styles. The female vocals are tolerable, the male vocals less so. She is ever so slightly reminiscent of a young Floor Jansen (e.g. Prison of Desire) when using her operatic high notes or so-called "head voice", so if Floor Jansen is your idea of a great singer (which to me she isn't), you might like this one better than I do. 'Bitter Earth' (track #7) has a second female vocalist whom I like less. The more interesting tracks were 'Violet' (track #6) for the Sirenia-esque, 2000s symphonic gothic sound, and 'Embrace Darkness' (#10) for the guitar riff, but that is not enough for me. Yet again, nothing special overall. 5/10
Legado de una Tragedia should really belong in the death/black/doom section, it's extreme metal and the vocals I find unlistenably awful. Not wasting my time on this full album.
L-Train: whatever this has to do with symphonic metal. I will not spend 20 minutes of my time on it, either.