April 11-17

If your band is releasing an album let us know!

(As of March 27, I am no longer covering Ep’s although some exceptions might be made)

If you plan to buy any of these albums or anything else please consider using one of our “buy here” links. It helps the site keep going because ads suck.

Because there can be hundreds of releases a month style is noted to help you find something you are interested in. There is also my personal recommendation score ranging between -1 to +3.

-1 - not for me or just bad

+0 - not particularly interesting but not bad

+1 - worth checking out

+2 - interest peaked and may be added to buy list after a listen

+3 going on my buy list

+4 already bought or pre-ordered

April 11, 2020

Band: Rabid Flesh Eaters

Release: R.F.E

Style: thrash/death

+1

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April 12, 2020

Band: Bongtower

Release: Oscillator

Style: Death/Doom Fuzz, psychedelic

+1

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April 13, 2020

Band: Navalm

Release: Beyond The Reality

Style: Progressive Death

+2

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Band: Cemetery Filth

Release: Dominion

Style: Death, brutal

+1

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Band: Vitam Et Mortem

Release: El Rio de la Muerte

Style: Black/Death

+2

(If I spoke Spanish it would be a +3)

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Band: Flittering

Release: Trinitarian

Style: shitty brutal death

-1

(if you are to hipster for anything for decent production and like your death metal sounding as bad as raw black meta… here you go)

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Band: Aveth

Release: Echoes of a Mournful Dawn

Style: depressive black

+0

(not bad if the production didn’t blow)

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Band: Lords of Illusion

Release: The Great Tribulation (digital)

Style: Doom, stoner

+2

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Band: Tombstone Crow

Release: Swingin’ Rotten (EP)

Style: Groove, Groove/thrash

+2

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Band: Odyssean Passage

Release: Hypnogogic Terror (digital)

Style: Progressive instrumental deathcore

-1

(this production sounds like a knife in the ear)

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Band: Shards of Humanity

Release: Cold Logic

Style: Death, Death/Thrash

+2

(Playing sounds awesome, production needs to take at least a decade leap forward.)

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April 14, 2020

Band: Purveyors of Sonic Doom

Release: Mankind is Unkind

Style: Sludge, Doom

+0

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Band: Covid-19

Release: Death World

Style: Death Doom

+0

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Band: Wintershadow

Release: Ethereal Reality Throught Rotten Flesh (digital)

Style: Black

+2

(production aside this is really good)

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April 15, 2020

Band: Morkstien

Release: Tales of Terror (digital)

Style: Black, raw

+0

(This might sound good if it was recorded with a Hello Kitty karaoke machine.)

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Band: Setfire

Release: Spots of Blood (digital)

Style: Groove/thrash

+2

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Band: Sacrificia

Release: Fatalis

Style: Synthonic Black

+2

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Band: Sigiriya

Release: Maiden Mother Crone

Style: Stoner

+2

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Band: Aetherius Obscuritas

Release: Mártír

Style: Black

+1

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Band: Vampire Squid

Release: Reinventin The Eel (digital)

Style: Technical Death / Mathcore

+1

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Band: Alogia

Release: Semendria

Style: Progressive Power

+1

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Band: Schönberg

Release: Baroque Gravity

Style: J-Power

+1

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Band: Nebelwind

Release: Ruinen - Der Verfall des Seins und die Angst vor dem Vergessen

Style: black, depressive, shitty

-1

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Band: Fovitron

Release: Altar of Whispers

Style: Symphonic Black/Death

+1

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April 17, 2020

Band: Trash Heaven

Release: 4 Heads for a Crown

Style: Thrash

+2

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Band: Absolva

Release: Side by Side

Style: Heavy, Thrash, NWOTHM

+1

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Band: Abysmal Dawn

Release: Phylogenesis

Style: Death

+1

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Band: The Black Dahlia Murder

Release: Verminous

Style: Death, Melodic Death

+2

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Band: King Corpse

Release: Sacred Crimson (EP) (Digital)

Style: Sludge

-1

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Band: Ossian

Release: Csak a jót

Style: Heavy

+2

(anyone speak Hungarian?)

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Band: Oranssi Pazuzu

Release: Mestarin kynsi

Style: Progressive Black

+1

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Band: Exlibris

Release: Shadowrise

Style: Power, symphonic, progressive

+2

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Band: Azath

Release: Through a Warren of Shadow

Style: Death (although the production would make you think they are a black metal band)

+1

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Band: Tricoma

Release: Tricoma

Style: Sludge, blackened, stoner

+0

buy here

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Band: Cyado

Release: Mhä's Dogmas Part II : Samsara

Style: death, dejent, electronic

+1

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Band: Titaan

Release: ITIMA

Style: black (good thing he recorded this with a single mic in a bucket)

-1

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Band: Guerra Total

Release: War Is the Pursuit of Death: A Hymnal for the Misanthrope

Style: Black and many variations of black

+1

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Band: Ripped to Shreds

Release: 亂 (Luan)

Style: Death

+2

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Band: Ocean Chief

Release: Den Tredje Dagen

Style: Doom, Sludge, Psychedelic

+0

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Band: Feed Them Death

Release: Panopticism: Belong/Be Lost

Style: grindcore

-1

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Band: The Projectionist

Release: The Stench of Amalthia

Style: black

-1

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Band: Devicious

Release: Phase Three

Style: “melodic heavy metal”…. it means lame ass power metal of heavy metal with no hutzpa

+1

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Band: Soultrap

Release: Feed The Fire

Style: Groove, Heavy

+1

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Band: Khôra

Release: Timaeus

Style: black, atmospheric

+1

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Band: NOMVDIC

Release: Euphoria

Style: Progressive death core

-1

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Band: The Ditch and the Delta

Release: The Ditch and the Delta

Style: Is sludge core a thing… if it is it sucks

-1

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Band: Forward To Eden

Release: Ready To Kill For the Cult

Style: metalcore

+0

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Band: Ignea

Release: The Realms of Fire and Death

Style: Symphonic, melodic death

+2

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Band: Mortician

Release: Titans

Style: blackened heavy/thrash

+1

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Band: Graveir

Release: King of the Silent World

Style: Black

+2

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Band: Venomous Skeleton

Release: Drowning in Circles

Style: black/death

+1

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Band: Bismarck

Release: Oneiromancer

Style: Doom, Stoner

+2

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Band: Funeral Leech

Release: Death Meditation

Style: Death

+2

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Band: Nemus

Release: Stein - Mensch

Style: atmospheric black

+1

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Band: Etherius

Release: Chaos. Order. Renewal. (Digital)

Style: Progressive, instrumental

+0

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Band: Lycantrophilia

Release: Blood Moon Chronicles

Style: Black, death, black/death

+2

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Band: Reptilium

Release: Adrenochromancy (EP)

Style: blackened brutal death, slam

+2

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Band: Zos

Release: Zos

Style: drone

-1

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Band: Asmarae

Release: .. der Himmelskörper ein Geschenk

Style: shitty, gothic, industrial, symphonic

-1

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Band: Decrescent

Release: Sorrow, My Home

Style: Black

+1

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Band: Hellhookah

Release: The Curse

Style: doom, stoner

+0

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Band: Krv

Release: Krv (digital)

Style: Black, black blends

+1

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Band: Abyzz

Release: A Plague Reborn

Style: melodic death

+2

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Band: The Rhubarb

Release: Black Sun (EP)

Style: Doom, stoner

+1

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Band: Kryptaker

Release: Black Death

Style: Heavy

+0

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Band: Xenoglyph

Release: Mytharc

Style: Black

+1

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Band: 7th Abyss

Release: Chains Of Betrayal (digital)

Style: metal-core, melodic death

+2

(I’ll probably bump this to a +3 if there is a physical)

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Band: At the Altar of the Horned God

Release: Through Doors of Moonlight

Style: Black, drone, folk

+0

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Band: Crusher

Release: Unleashed (digital)

Style: Thrash

+2

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Band: Mad Dog

Release: Hell Raising Breed

Style: Heavy, Hard Rock

+2

(anyone speak Spanish)?

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Band: Katastah

Release: 2 (Digital)

Style: Sludge

+1

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Band: Turmion Kätilöt

Release: Global Warning

Style: Industrial

+2

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