Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.
It’s been six years since Doro’s last studio album, so she decided to come back full force with a double album. You really got to hand it to Doro for sticking it out in the metal scene for nearly 40 years. Metal had admittedly been a male dominated scene, so much so that the term “female fronted metal” is still lobbed around as subgenre every now and again. Thankfully, that label seems to be tapering off for the most part now that women have become more visible in the metal scene. Doro is one of the people that made that happen. I mean, metal was still so young when the 1980’s came around, but Doro was right up there leaving her mark alongside the giants that you all know and love. There’s a few other debuts that came along for the ride as you’ll see below.
Notable Debuts:
Doro, Forever Warriors, Forever United (Nuclear Blast)
Debut #166
670 sold
Doro’s thirteenth studio album is also a double album.
Annisokay, Arms (SharpTone)
500 sold
This is the band’s fourth studio album.
Innumerable Forms, Punishment In Flesh (Profound Lore)
460 sold
This is the band’s debut full-length.
Black Tusk,
Primitive Man and Unearthly Trance, Split(Relapse)
340 sold
Both bands released studio albums last year, and now they’ve released a split.
Trappist, Ancient Brewing Tactics (Relapse)
340 sold
This is the debut album from the beer-centric band.
Forming the Void, Relic (Black Bow)
180 sold
This is the band’s third studio album.
Exocrine, Molten Giant (Unique Leader)
170 sold
This is French band’s third studio album.
Moonspell, Lisboa Under the Spell (Napalm)
160 sold
This is the band’s newest live album.
Carnation, Chapel Of Abhorrence (Season Of Mist)
150 sold
This is the band’s debut album.
Notable Sales:
Greta Van Fleet, From the Fires EP (Lava)
#33 (from 39)
2,925 sold
A 3% boost with over 130,000 sold.
Five Finger Death Punch, And Justice For None (Prospect Park)
#34 (from 25)
2,900 sold
A 18% drop.
Halestorm, Vicious (Atlantic)
#41 (from 33)
2,650 sold
A 20% drop with just under 40k sold.
Shinedown,
Godsmack, When Legends Rise (BMG)
#60 (from 55)
1,825 sold
A 11% drop.
Five Finger Death Punch, A Decade Of Destruction(Prospect Park)
#65 (from 72)
1,650 sold
A drop of 9%.
Bad Wolves, Disobey (Eleven Seven)
#81 (from 93)
1,400 sold
This sold about the same as last week.
Ghost, Prequelle (Loma Vista)
#104 (from 96)
1,125 sold
A 17% drop.
Rise Against, 
Bullet For My Valentine,
A Perfect Circle, Eat The Elephant (BMG)
#162 (from 188)
680 sold
A 3% boost.
Dee Snider, For The Love Of Metal (Napalm)
#163 (from 153)
670 sold
A drop of 19%.
Soreption, Monument Of The End (Sumerian)
#165 (first entry)
670 sold
This has had an interesting trajectory: after debuting two weeks ago, it dropped off last week, then reappeared this week with more than double the sales of week one.
Dave Grohl, Play (Roswell)
#172 (from 14)
640 sold
A 90% drop.
Nine Inch Nails, Bad Witch (The Null Corporation)
#176 (from 142)
640 sold
Over 40,000 sold.
Greta Van Fleet, Black Smoke Rising EP(Republic)
#200 (from 200)
560 sold
This had been clinging to the bottom of the charts two weeks straight.
Erra,
Primal Fear, Apocalypse (Frontiers)
390 sold
A 69% drop in week two.
Powerwolf, The Sacrament Of Sin (Napalm)
240 sold
A 4% boost.
Awake At Last,
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Polygondwanaland (Blood Music)
160 sold
A 62% boost back up, because you can’t keep a lizard wizard down.
Psychostick, Do (Self-Released)
160 sold
This pops up after dropping off last week.
Michael Romeo, War Of The Words Pt. 1 (Music Theories)
160 sold
A 5% boost.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Flying Microtonal Banana (ATO)
140 sold
A 30% boost back up.
Immortal, Northern Chaos Gods (Nuclear Blast)
140 sold
A drop of 15%.
