April 18-24

April 27, 2020 by Joe Cearlock

If your band is releasing an album let us know!

(As of March 27, I am no longer covering all Ep’s)
(As of April 20, I am no longer covering digital only releases. Cassettes don’t count; This isn’t 1984)

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 18, 2020

Band: Aspidium

Release: Harmagedon

Style: black

+0

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Band: Astarium

Release: Hyperborea

Style: Synthonic black

+1

Band: Moontower

Release: Crimson Harvest

Style: Heavy, doom

+1

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Band: Arida Vortex

Release: Riders of Steel

Style: Power

+1

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Band: Deliquesce

Release: Engineered Frailty (EP) (digital)

Style: brutal death

+1

Band: Immortal Orchestra

Release: Graveyard Earth (EP) (digital)

Style: Symphonic, symphonic black

+1

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Band: Gasbrand

Release: Of Death and Despair (EP)

Style: black

+1

Band: Lifeless

Release: Faceless Name (digital)

Style: black, depressive, shitty

-1

Band: Misterus

Release: Daydream II (digital)

Style: shitty black, blackgaze

-1

Band: Ealdor Bana

Release: Tear Out Thine Eye (EP)

Style: raw black

+0

April 19, 2020

Band: Vølus

Release: Festering Anti-Cosmic Wound (digital)

Style: Black, noise, black/death

-1

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Band: SevenSins

Release: Legends of Kazakhstan

Style: Black/death

+2

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Band: Burgerkill

Release: Killchestra

Style: Metalcore

+2

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April 20, 2020

Band: Till the End

Release: Radiant Blast

Style: melodic death

+1

Band: Chaos Catharsis

Release: Renaissance Psychotique

Style: Death

+2

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Band: Shitfucker

Release: Sex With Dead Body

Style: Black, Punk

+1

Band: Meth Leppard

Release: Woke

Style: grindcore

+1

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Band: Lament

Release: Visions and a Giant of Nebula

Style: atmospheric black, post-black/rock, blackgaze

+2

Band: Seeds of Iblis

Release: Morbid Muhammad

Style: black

+0

Band: Terrestrial Hospice

Release: Indian Summer Brought Mushroom Clouds

Style: black

+2

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Band: Suicide in Rainy Woods

Release: Threnody

Style: black, depressive

+1

Band: Abduction

Release: Killer Holidays on Planet Earth

Style: Thrash, crossover

+1

April 21, 2020

Band: Hyperion

Release: Into the Maelstrom

Style: heavy, thrash

+1

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Band: Hämatom

Release: #FCKCRN (EP)

Style: Heavy

+2

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Band: Skarz

Release: What Remains

Style: Death/thrash, old school

+3

Band: Nihternnes

Release: Dunharrow (physicals might be delayed)

Style: Progressive black, folk

+3

April 22, 2020

Band: Allegiance Reign

Release: Ei Ei O

Style: Symphonic Power

+2

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Band: Elffor

Release: Unholy Throne of Doom

Style: atmospheric black, synthonic

+1

Band: Aeons In Solitude

Release: Mourning Cloak

Style: Gothic, Doom

+2

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April 23, 2020

Band: Helioss

Release: Devenir le soleil

Style: Symphonic black/death

+3

Band: Mørketida

Release: Traveler of Untouched Voids (EP)

Style: black

+1

April 24, 2020

Band: Marrowfields

Release: Metamorphoses

Style: Doom

+3

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Band: I Am Destruction

Release: Nascency

Style: Death, Deathcore

+2

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Band: Abrupt Demise

Release: The Pleasure to Kill and Grind

+1

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Band: Barishi

Release: Old Smoke

Style: Progressive, death

+1

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Band: Unmerciful

Release: Wrath Encompassed

Style: Brutal Death

+1

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Band: Elephant Tree

Release: Habits

Style: Stoner metal/rock

+0

Band: King Witch

Release: Body of Light

Style: Doom

+1

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Band: Warlust

Release: Unearthing Shattered Philosophies

Style: Black, black/thrash

+1

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Band: Xpus

Release: In Umbra Mortis Sedent

Style: Death

+2

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Band: Sandstorm

Release: Time to Strike

Style: Traditional, NWOTHM

+1

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Band: Wolves Den

Release: Miserere

Style: black/death

+2

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Band: Trick or Treat

Release: The Legend of the XII Saints

Style: Power

+2

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Band: Winter Deluge

Release: Degradation Renewal

Style: Black

+2

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Band: Chugger

Release: Of Man and Machine

Style: Melodic Death, Groove

+1

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Band: Dark Forest

Release: Oak, Ash & Thorn

Style: Traditional

+2

Band: Malevolence

Release: The Other Side (EP)

Style: Some kind of hardcore shit

-1

Band: Cirith Ungol

Release: Forever Black

Style: Heavy, traditional, almost doom

+2

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Band: Nyrst

Release: Orsök

Style: Black

+1

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Band: Dämmerfarben

Release: Des Herbstes Trauerhymnen MMXX

Style: folk, atmospheric black

+2

Band: Bâ'a

Release: Deus qui non mentitur

Style: Black, atmospheric black

+2

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Band: Blaze of Sorrow

Release: Absentia

Style: Black, atmospheric

+1

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Band: Engutturalment Cephaloslamectomy

Release: Glam Not Slam

Style: Slam death

+1

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Band: Malist

Release: To Mantle The Rising Sun

Style: atmospheric black, melodic

+2

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Band: Together to the Stars

Release: As We Wither

Style: post-black

+1

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Band: Voices of Ruin

Release: Path to Immortality

Style: Melodic Death

+3

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Band: Trivium

Release: What the Dead Men Say

Style: metal-core, melodic groove

+2

(I’ve listened to most of the album and it is extremely good but I’m not the biggest metal-core fan. If you however are then this is a +3 for sure.)

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Band: Warbringer

Release: Weapons of Tomorrow

Style: Thrash

+3

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Band: Sölicitör

Release: Spectral Devastation

Style: Thrash, heavy, speed

+3

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Band: Two Face Sinner

Release: Spiritual Nemesis

Style: Black/Death

+2

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Band: Light Dweller

Release: Hominal

Style: Black/Death

+1

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Band: Expunged

Release: Expunged (EP)

Style: Death

+1

Band: Witchskull

Release: A Driftwood Cross

Style: Stoner Rock/Metal

+2

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Band: Hegemony

Release: Enthroned by Persecution

Style: Death

+0

Band: Blind To Faith

Release: Unstoppable War

Style: grindcore, hardcore punk, sludge

+1

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Band: Wallop

Release: Alps on Fire

Style: Traditional, NWOTHM

+3

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Band: Celtic Hills

Release: Blood over Intents

Style: Melodic Death, Power (reminds me of Grave Digger)

+2

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Band: Arrest

Release: Reincarnation

Style: power, epic, heavy

+0

Band: Werewolves

Release: The Dead Are Screaming

Style: Death, black, thrash

+2

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Band: Hraun

Release: Black Molten Essence

Style: Progressive, doom, goth, death, black

+1

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Band: Divine Chaos

Release: The Way to Oblivion

Style: Thrash, groove/thrash

+3

Band: Golden Light

Release: Sacred Colour of the Source of Light

Style: Black

+0

Band: Sinistral King

Release: Serpent Uncoiling

Style: Black/Death

+2

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Band: Setoml

Release: Reincarnation (Перевтілення)

Style: Black/Death, melodic black?

+2

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Band: Angel Grinder

Release: Confession of the Damned

Style: Death

+1

Band: Ulcerate

Release: Stare Into Death And Be Still

Style: Black/Death, progressive, brutal death

+2

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Band: Road Warrior

Release: Mach II

Style: Traditional, Speed

+1

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Band: Blizzen

Release: World in Chains

Style: Traditional, heavy, speed

+2

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Band: Cloven Hoof

Release: Age of Steel

Style: traditional, power

+3

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Band: The Wizar’d

Release: Subterranean Exile

Style: heavy, traditional, epic, doom?

+3

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Band: Bezwering

Release: Aan de wormen overgeleverd

+2

(If I spoke Dutch I would probably put this at +3)

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Band: Chronus

Release: Idols

Style: Heavy?…. they are basically Ghost

+1

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Band: Fange

Release: Pudeur

Style: Sludge, Death, industrial

+0

Band: Embodiment

Release: Palingenesis

Style: tech death, deathcore

+2

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Band: Imperial Savagery

Release: Lashing The Feral Swine

Style: death, Brutal Death

+2

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Band: Karras

Release: None More Heretic

Style: sludge, death

+1

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Band: Katatonia

Release: City Burials

Style: Progress, barely metal at all and I wasn’t going to put it on here.

-1

Band: Reek

Release: Death is Something There Between Us

Style: Death n roll

+1

Band: The Spirit Cabinet

Release: Bloodlines

Style: Heavy, Doom, blackened

+2

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Band: Bythos

Release: The Womb of Zero

Style: Black, Melodic Death

+2

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April 25 - May 1