April 4-10

April 13, 2020 by Joe Cearlock

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 3, 2020

Band: Necrocracy

Release: Decay

Style: Black

+1

Band: Luctus

Release: Užribis

Style: Black/death

+1

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Band: Inferit

Release: Diverge in the Absence of Light

Style: Black, Black/Death, Black/thrash

+2

Band: Hohenstein

Release: Weisser Hirsch

Style: Black

+1

Band: Deus Mori

Release: Umbra Mortis (digital) (EP)

Style: Black

+1

Band: Galactic Mechanics

Release: The Ominous Quadrant (EP) (digital)

Style: progressive/technical Death

+1

Band: BLVVME

Release: BLVVME (digital)

Style: Doom, Drone, Black

+0

April 5, 2020

Band: The Black Sanctuary

Release: Darkness

Style: Black

+0

Band: WILCZYCA

Release: Horda

Style: Black

-1

Band: Ur Tid

Release: Withering Dead Life

Style: Black

+2

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April 6, 2020

Band: Prognathe

Release: Homo Eructus

Style: Grindcore

+1

(I don’t actually like grindcore but as far as grind goes this is pretty good)

Band: Drüben

Release: Det alværnende (digital)

Style: Black

+0

Band: Validor

Release: In Blood In Battle

Style: Power, Heavy, Thrash, Speed, epic

+2

Band: Amillennial

Release: Scene of a Broken World

Style: Heavy, thrash, something shitty

+0

Band: Congeria

Release: In Maledicta Congessi…

Style: Shit, black

-1

Band: Daeth Daemon

Release: The Skeleton Spectre (EP)

Release: old school death

+3

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April 7, 2020

Band: Grim Fate

Release: Perished In Torment

Style: Death

+1

Band: Lebenssucht

Release: -273,15°C

Style: Black

+1

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Band: Mass Murder

Release: Extreme Extinction

Style: Brutal Death

+1

Band: Burden of Ymir

Release: The Third Half

Style: Black, Folk

+1

Band: Hereticae

Release: Ecos do Atlântico

Style: Black/Death

+1

Band: Chagrin

Release: World of Promises

Style: atmospheric post-black

+0

April 8, 2020

Band: Gates of Tyrant

Release: Vortex Towards Death

Style: Black

+1

Band: Gloom

Release: Awake

Style: Gothic

+2

Band: Porenut

Release: Postnihilera

Style: Black

+0

Band: Nordicwinter

Release: Requiem (digital)

Style: Black, depressive

+2

Band: Wartooth

Release: Programmed Dichotomy

Style: Thrash

+3

April 10, 2020

Band: Benighted

Release: Obscene Repressed

Style: Brutal Death / grind

+1

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Band: Molasses Barge

Release: A Grayer Dawn

Style: Doom

+1

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Band: Cordyceps

Release: Betrayal

Style: Brutal Death

+1

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Band: Wayward Dawn

Release: Heaven Lies

Style: Death

+2

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Band: Vast Souls

Release: Voice of the Burned

Style: atmospheric black

+2

Band: Nightwish

Release: Human. :||: Nature.

Style: Symphonic, folk

+4

(note that technically I did order pre-order this however this is as least excited I’ve been for a Nightwish release and if they were an unknown band I don’t know if this would get more than a +2)

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Band: Symbolik

Release: Emergence

Style: Technical melodic death, symphonic

+3

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Band: Akurion

Release: Come Forth To Me

Style: technical black/death

+2

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Band: Apocryphus

Release: Eternal Suffering

Style: Death

+1

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Band: Like Rats

Release: Death Monolith

Style: Death

+2

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Band: Lord Vigo

Release: Danse De Noir

Style: Epic Doom

+3

Band: Curse Upon a Prayer

Release: Infidel

Style: Black

+2

Band: Gangrenectomy

Release: Cannibalistic Criteria of the Mantis

Style: Brutal/Slam Death

+0

Band: Putrefied Cadaver

Release: Wretched Times

Style: Brutal Death

+2

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Band: Fallen Arise

Release: Enigma

Style: Gothic, Symphonic

+1

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Band: Pathological Sadism

Release: Realms of the Abominable Putrefaction

Style: Brutal Death, Slam

+1

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Band: Caustic Wound

Release: Death Posture

Style: death/grind

+2

(if I liked grind more I would totally give this a +3, it’s really good but grindcore is among my least favorite genres)

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Band: Graveyard Symposium

Release: The Repulsive Abomination

Style: Death

+1

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Band: Calligram

Release: The Eye Is The First Circle

Style: Black, hardcore?

+2

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Band: Megatherium

Release: GOD

Style: Doom, Stoner

+0

Band: Wolfheart

Release: Wolves of Karelia

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death,

+2

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Band: Metal Church

Release: From the Vault

(technically this is a compilation, it has a few new tracks along with some old B-sides and some live stuff.)

Style: Heavy/Power/Thrash

+2

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Band: High Priestess

Release: Casting the Circle

Style: Doom, psychedelic

+1

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Band: Mornir

Release: Dämmerstund

Style: Blackened Melodic Death Folk

+2

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Band: Drain

Release: California Cursed

Style: Crossover thrash, hardcore

+1

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Band: Across The Swarm

Release: Projections

Style: Death

+1

Band: Anaxagor

Release: Anaxagor

Release: Death/Thrash (sounds like some Haunted style stuff)

+1

Band: Curse

Release: The Awakening…and the Old (EP)

Style: Black, black/thrash

+1

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Band: Close the Hatch

Release: Modern Witchcraft

Style: Doom, post

+0

Band: Puncture Wound

Release: Complete Carnage of Coagulating Cacophonous Corpses

Style: Death

+2

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Band: This White Mountain

Release: Finality

Style: Atmospheric Black, depressive

+1

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Band: Blazon Rite

Release: Dulce Bellum Inexpertis (EP)

Style: Traditional

+1

Band: Eternal Armageddon

Release: In Light In Dark In Hate

Style: Blackened Thrash

+1

Band: Ritual Dictates

Release: Give In To Despair

Style: Black, Death, Thrash (little bit of everything)

+1

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Band: Traveler

Release: Termination Shock

Style: Heavy, NWOTHM

+2

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