Aug 1-7

August 08, 2020 by Joe Cearlock

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 or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+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

(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)

Aug 1, 2020

Band: Barbarity

Release: The Zymosis

Style: Death

+1

Band: Decaying Remains

Release: Surreal Visions of Horror (EP)

Style: Death

+0

Band: Ea

Release: A Etilla

Style: Atmospheric Doom

+0

Band: Energema

Release: The King of Giants

Style: Power

+0

Band: Kekal

Release: Quantum Resolution

Style: extreme progressive

+1

Band: Mortum

Release: Atlantean Ouroboros

Style: Black

+1

Band: Breethoven

Release: Le Grind Guignol (EP)

Style: symphonic grindcore??????

-1

Band: Metalriff

Release: Under My Skin

Style: thrash, heavy

+2

Band: Certera

Release: Sin filtro

Style: Thrash

+1

Band: Alter Idem

Release: Fragments of Consciousness (EP)

Style: Brutal Technical Death / deathcore

+0

(mixing is abrasive)

Band: Super Satan

Release: Menetekel

Style: Black

+2

Band: Vile Cynic

Release: Agony (EP)

Style: Death/Thrash

+0

Band: Cyber Strike

Release: Salvation of the Wicked (EP)

Style: power/thrash

+2

Aug 2, 2020

Band: Pick Axe Preacher

Release: Extinciton Theory (EP)

Style: groove/thrash

+3

Aug 3, 2020

Band: Adversarius

Release: In Nomine Draconis Inferni

Style: black

+2

Band: Mirai

Release: Makkura (EP)

Style: Black

+2

Band: KiaRa

Release: Storyteller

Style: Symphonic

+1

Aug 5, 2020

Band: Latir

Release: Vertiente (EP)

Style: atmospheric Doom? Gothic?

-1

Band: Feral Lord

Release: Victorious Hellfire

Style: raw black

-1

Band: Jayabaya

Release: Anathema

Style: Progressive Power?

+0

Band: Crystal Lake

Release: Metal-core

-1

Band: Bladecatcher

Release: Eidolon

Style: Extreme Progressive

+1

Aug 6, 2020

Band: Megascavenger

Release: Songs in the Key of Madness

Style: Death

+0

(If you like one song then you will probably like the rest because it’s basically all the same)

Band: Gutrectomy

Release: Slaughter The Innocent (EP)

Style: Brutal Death, slam, deathcore

+0

Band: Hell Gun

Release: Kings of Beyond

Style: Traditional, Speed

+2

Band: Cibola

Release: Synopsis in Four (EP)

Style: Melodic black/death

+1

Aug 7, 2020

Band: Deep Purple

Release: Whoosh!

Style: Rock, Hard Rcok

+1

Band: Scars

Release: Predatory

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Vassafor

Release: To the Death

Style: Black/Death

+0

Band: Nyktophobia

Release: What Lasts Forever

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Onslaught

Release: Generation Antichrist

Style: Thrash, groove thrash

+2

Band: Avatar

Release: Hunter Gatherer

Style: Groove, Melodic Death, alternative

+1

Band: Temple Nightside

Release: Pillars of Damnation

Style: Black/Death

+0

Band: Stillbirth

Release: Revive the Thrown

Style: Brutal Death, Deathcore

+2

Band: Selbst

Release: Relatos De Angustia

Style: Black

+1

Band: Astriferous

Release: The Lower Levels of Sentience (EP)

Style: Death

+1

Band: Messiah

Release: Fatal Grotesque Symbols - Darken Universe (EP)

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Faceless Burial

Style: Speciation

Style: Death

+2

Band: Selenseas

Release: The Outer Limits

Style: Symphonic Traditional

+1

Band: Sanity Control

Release: War on Life

Style: Thrash, crossover

+2

Band: Elimination

Release: Of Gods and Beasts (EP)

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Angel Morgue

Release: In The Morgue of Angels

Style: death

+1

Band: Burn Ritual

Release: The Void

Style: Stoner, Doom

+0

Band: Orbit Culture

Release: Nija

Style: Melodic Death/Groove

+1

Band: Kalt Vindur

Release: …And Nothing Is Endless

Style: Black

+2

Band: Obsecration

Release: Onwards The Mystic Paths of the Dead

Style: Death/Thrash

+1

Band: Gravewürm

Release: Night Creatures

Style: Blackened

+0

Band: Batushka

Release: Раскол / Raskol (EP)

Style: Black/Doom

+1

Band: Drunkroll

Release: Freakingface

Style: Alternative, Groove

+0

Band: Sargeras

Release: Return of the Dancing Whores

Style: Black

+1

Band: Erasy

Release: Some Nice Flowers

Style: Sludge

+2

Band: Canterra

Release: Heartmachine

Style: Gothic

+1

Band: Yargos

Release: The Dancing Mermaid

Style: Progressive

+1

Band: Ghost Avenue

Release: Even Angels Fail

Style: Heavy, traditional

+2

Band: Sacred Serenity

Release: Redefining Like

Style: Progressive Death

+2

Band: Krallice

Release: Mass Cathexis

Style: progressive death, progressive black

+2

Band: Misery Signals

Release: Ultraviolent

Style: Metal-core

+0

Band: Terminal Nation

Release: Holocene Extinction

Style: Death, Hardcore

+0

July 25-31

August 03, 2020 by Joe Cearlock

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 or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+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

(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)

July 25, 2020

Band: Dagor Bragollach

Release: Cosmogony of Yggdrasil

Style: Melodic Black

+2

Band: Hexvoid

Release: The Beckoning of Celestial Tendrils

Style: Black

+0

Band: Black Communion

Release: Miasmic Monstrosity

Style: Black, black/death

+0

Band: Putrefy

Release: Infestation, Oppression, Possession (EP)

Style: Death

+1

July 26, 2020

Band: Paragon Zero

Release: OMASS (EP)

Style: Black, Black/Doom, Melodic Black

+2

July 27, 2020

Band: Valgrind

Release: Condemnation

Style: Death

+3

Band: Cardiac Arrest

Release: The Day That Death Prevailed

Style: Death

+1

Band: Soulrot

Release: Victims of Spiritual Warfare

Style: Death

+1

Band: Draghkar

Release: At the Crossroads of Infinity

Style: Black/Death

+2

July 28, 2020

Band: Horde Casket

Release: Melted Together

Style: Brutal Death

+1

Band: Pagan Deity

Release: Hierofanía (EP)

Style: Melodic Black

+2

July 29, 2020

Band: Shezmu

Release: À travers les lambeaux

Style: Death

+0

Band: Unlucky Morpheus

Release: Unfinished

Style: J-Symphonic

+2

Band: BloodVale

Release: Lobotomy

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Death Vomit

Release: Dominion over Creation

Style: Death

+2

July 30, 2020

Band: Visceral Mass

Release: Visceral Mass (EP)

Style: Death

+2

July 31, 2020

Band: Coltre

Release: Under the Influence (EP)

Style: Traditional (NWOBHM style)

+3

Band: Draconis

Release: Anthems for an Eternal Battles

Style: Black/Death

-1

Band: Imperial Triumphant

Release: Alphaville

Style: Extreme Progressive, Avantgarde

+0

Band: Alcatrazz

Release: Born Innocent

Style: Heavy, neo-classical, power

+3

Band: Deathstorm

Release: For Dread Shall Reign

Style: Death Thrash

+3

Band: Sepulchral Curse

Release: Only Ashes Remain

Style: Blackened Death

+1

Band: Katalepsy

Release: Terra Mortuus Est

Style: Technical Brutal Death, Death/Groove?

+2

Band: High Spirits

Release: Hard to Stop

Style: Traditional, Power, Hard Rock

+2

Band: Dkharmakhaoz

Release: Proclamations ov the Black Suns

Style: Black/Death

+1

Band: Disavowed

Release: Revocation of the Fallen

Style: Technical Brutal Death

+2

Band: Damnation Angels

Release: Fiber of Our Being

Style: Symphonic, Power

+2

Band: False Mutation

Release: Day of Atonement

Style: Death

+1

Band: Stormzone

Release: Ignite The Machine

Style: Heavy, traditional

+1

Band: MrKill

Release: The Day of Reckoning (EP)

Style: Melodic Death

+1

Band: Æpoch

Release: The Scryer (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Band: Omitir

Release: Ode

Style: Black

+1

Band: Pactum

Release: Nigredo

Style: Black

+1

Band: Starblind

Release: Black Bubbling Ooze

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Astral Winter

Release: Perdition II

Style: Atmospheric Black… mostly atmosphere and little black

+1

Band: Veil of Delusions

Release: Untold Dimensions

Style: Melodic Death, melodic groove

+1

Band: Question

Release: Reflections of the Void

Style: Death, Progressive Death

+3

Band: Insight

Release: Neura

Style: Heavy

(playing is great, production isn’t)

+2

Band: Church of the Dead

Release: Church of the Dead

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: Rotten Souls

Release: Malignant Stigmata

Style: Black

+2

Band: Run Ringill

Release: Library of Death

Style: Doom, Folk Doom

+2

Band: Икотка

Release: Заговор

Style: Raw Black

+0

Band: Immorium

Release: This Too Shall Pass

Style: Melodic Death

+3

(These guys deserve the +3 but despite that, there is something about this band I don’t like. I think they are to new school for my taste.)

July 18-24

July 25, 2020 by Joe Cearlock

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 or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+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

(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)

July 18, 2020

Band: Pantheon

Release: Age of Wolves

Style: Blackened Death, Blackened Death/Thrash

+2

July 19, 2020

Band: GoatScrote

Release: We Shall Orgy Upon the Blood of Angels

Style: Grindcore or some crap

+0

July 20, 2020

Band: NIWMONIA

Release: .20-06 (EP)

Style: Black, Blackened

+1

Band: Aura HimiS

Release: Wenn der Regen fällt

Style: Gothic Funeral Death/Doom

+1

Band: Embryectomy

Release: Flamethrower Ecdysis

Style: Slam Death

-1

Band: Helzgloriam

Release: Decapitated Mystics of the Serpent

Style: Symphonic Black

+1

Band: Tholing the Void

Release: Insignificance

Style: Blackened Doom

+1

July 21, 2020

Band: Ice War

Release: Defender, Destroyer

Style: Speed that sounds to punk

+0

Band: Fides Inversa

Release: Historia Nocturna

Style: Black

+1

Band: Asperatus

Release: Sanctified State of Decay (EP)

Style: Death

+2

July 24, 2020

Band: Haken

Release: Virus

Style: Progressive

+1

Band: Judicator

Release: Let There Be Nothing

Style: Progressive Power

+2

Band: Volturyon

Release: Xenogenesis

Style: Death

+2

Band: Defeated Sanity

Release: The Sanguinary Impetus

Style: Progressive Brutal Death

+1

Band: Let Us Prey

Release: Virtues of the Vicious

Style: Progressive Heavy (something along the lines of Nevermore)

+3

Band: Night In Gales

Release: Dawnlight Garden

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Gaerea

Release: Limbo

Style: Black

+2

Band: Primal Fear

Release: Metal Commando

Style: Power, Heavy

+3

(The singles are the weakest tracks I’ve heard)

Band: Stonebirds

Release: Collapse and Fail

Style: Progressive Doom, Sludge, Stoner

+0

bandcamp

Band: Ahtme

Release: Mephitic

Style: Technical Death

+2

Band: Bedsore

Release: Hypnagogic Hallucinations

Style: Progressive Death

+2

Band: Meurtrières

Release: Meurtrières (EP)

Style: Traditional

+1

Band: Valkyrie

Release: Fear

Style: Stoner, Hard Rock

+2

Band: Temple of Dread

Release: World Sacrifice

Style: Death, oldschool

+2

Band: Texas Murder Crew

Release: Everyone's Last Breath (EP)

Style: Brutal Death, Slam

+1

Band: Desolate Entity

Release: Deconstruction

Style: Technical Death, Brutal

+2

Band: Deadlight Sanctuary

Release: Thaumaturgical Rites of the Damned (EP)

Style: Black, Death/doom

+0

Band: Blazing Rust

Release: Line of Danger

Style: Traditional

+1

Band: Buried Realm

Release: Embodiment of the Divine

Style: Technical/Progressive Melodic Death

+2

Band: Satanica

Release: Resurrection of the Devi’s Spirit

Style: Heavy, Power

+1

Band: Angband

Release: IV

Style: Progressive

+0

(I’m just wondering how they got Tim Aymar to do this… it almost helps)

Band: Bastard Priest

Release: Vengeance… of The Damned (EP)

Style: Death

+1

Band: Aulnes

Release: Vivre Dans I’abandon

Style: Death, Sludge

+1

Band: Gernotshagen

Release: Ode Naturae

Style: Black, Folk

+1

Band: Martyrium

Release: Abandon Hope

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: Malsten

Release: The Haunting of Silvåkra Mill

Style: Doom, drone

+1

Band: Verval

Release: Beeldenstorm (EP)

Style: atmospheric black

+1

Band: The Acacia Strain

Release: Slow Decay

Style: Metalcore

-1

July 11-17

July 20, 2020 by Joe Cearlock

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 or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+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

(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)

July 12, 2020

Band: Evilcult

Release: At the Darkest Night

Style: Blackened Speed/Thrash

+2

Band: Malevolent Torture

Release: Tortured Souls

Style: Death

+0

Band: Feeble

Release: Via Oscura

Style: Black

+2

July 13, 2020

Band: Witnershadow

Release: Ethereal Reality Throught Rotten Flesh

Style: Black

+2

July 14, 2020

Band: Formaldehyde

Release: Cemetery Devourment (EP)

Style: Death

+1

July 15, 2020

Band: Skullpture

Release: Reborn In Decay

Style: Death

+2

Band: Podridão

Release: Revering The Unearthed Corpse

Style: Death

+1

Band: Yass-Waddah

Release: This Reality Is Just a Deception

Style: Black, Black/Death

+2

Band: The Dead Sea

Release: The Ceremony of Marrying a Mummy

Style: Gothic/Death

+0

Band: The Light Bringer of Sweden

Release: Rise of the Beast

Style: Power

+2

Band: Induced

Release: Coproporeal

Style: Brutal shit, slam

-1

July 16, 2020

Band: Well of Night

Release: The Lower Planes of Self-Abstraction

Style: Black, Melodic Black

+2

Band: Abysmal Domination

Release: Críptica manipulación omnipresente

Style: Death

+1

July 17, 2020

Band: Jet Jaguar

Release: Endless Nights

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Dark Sarah

Release: Grim

Style: Symphonic

+2

Band: Serene Dark

Release: Enantiodromia

Style: Black/Death, Symphonic Black

+2

Band: Eremit

Release: Desert of Ghouls (EP)

Style: Blackened Doom

+0

Band: U.D.O. & Das Musikkorps der Bundeswehr

Release: We Are One

Style: Heavy, Symphonic

+2

Band: Rumahoy

Release: Time II: Party

Style: Folk, gimicky pirates

+1

Band: Black Hate

Release: Altalith

Style: Technical Black/Death that sounds like it was made by core kids

+0

Band: Khthoniik Cerviiks

Release: Æequiizoiikum

Style: Black/Death

+0

Band: Ysengrin

Release: Initiatio

Style: bad black

-1

Band: Thyrant

Release: Katabasis

Style: Blackened Melodic Doom

+1

Band: Domination Black

Release: Judgement IV

Style: Heavy

+2

Band: Tooms

Release: The Orb Offers Massive Signals

Style: boring as hell Sludge

+0

Band: Väki

Release: Kuolleen maan omaksi

Style: Black

+1

Band: Battle Dagorath

Release: Abyss Horizons

Style: Black

+1

Band: Embr

Release: 1823

Style: Doom, Stoner, Gothic

+1

Band: Dethlehem

Release: Maelstrom of the Emerald Dragon

Style: melodic death, metalcore

+1

Band: Desecrate

Release: Kingdom

Style: melodic Death

+2

Band: Inhalement

Release: Eternally Stoned (EP)

Style: Death

+1

Band: Phobetor

Release: When Life Falls Silent

Style: Death/groove

+1

Band: Oncology

Release: Omniversal Antigenesis

Style: Brutal Death

+1

Band: Mean Streak

Release: Eye of the Storm

Style: Heavy/power

+2

Band: C.I.A Hippie Mind Control

Release: The Inharmonious Soul of Nature

Style: Death, Doom, Blackened, Progressive

+0

Band: Ascendency

Release: Birth of an Eternal Empire (EP)

Style: Black

+0

Band: Bonestorm

Release: The Emptiness of Life and Death

Style: Death

+1

Band: Mystras

Release: Castles Conquered and Reclaimed

Style: Black, recorded with a shoe

-1

Band: Liberatia

Release: Where the Wretched Lie Slain (EP)

Style: Melodic Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Evil Whiplash

Release: Ancient Magical Spells

Style: Blackened Thrash

+1

July 3 - July 10

July 13, 2020 by Joe Cearlock

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 or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+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

(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)

July 5, 2020

Band: Atlantean Sorrow

Release: 2020

Style: Atmospheric Black, Black/Death

+0

July 6, 2020

Band: Skeletal

Release: Bitterness and Burning Hatred

Style: Death

+1

Band: Carnal Misanthropy

Release: Release the Wolf

Style: Black

+1

Band: Uerberos

Release: Stand Over Your Grave

Style: Death, Brutal, Blackened

+3

Band: Eternal Rot

Release: Putridarium

Style: Death/Doom

+1

Band:Rites of Daath

Release: Doom Spirit Emanation

Style: Death/Doom

+0

July 7, 2020

Band: Crowley

Release: Evil Bride

Style: Heavy, obvious Ozzy influence

+1

Band: Decrepid

Release: Endless Sea of Graves

Style: Death

+1

Band: Shinda Saibo No Katamari (死んだ細胞の塊)

Release: Saibogu

Style: Brutal Death, Slam, technical

+2

Band: Nodus Tollens

Release: Melancholic Waters Ablaze With the Fires of Loss

Style: Atmospheric Depressive Black

-1

Band: Crucifixion Vomit

Release: Blasphemy War

Style: Blackened Death

+0

July 8, 2020

Band: Impaler of Pest

Release: Quantum Collapse

Style: Blackened Death

+1

July 10, 1010

Band: Rebel Wizard

Release: Magickal Mystical Indifference

Style: atmospheric black, industrial

+0

Band: Lantern

Release: Dimensions

Style: Death, blackened death

+3

Band: Dawn of Ashes

Release: The Antinomian

Style: Industrial

-1

Band: Ensiferum

Release: Thalassic

Style: Folk

+3

Band: Aseitas

Release: False Peace

Style: Extreme Progressive, death, hardcore

+0

Band: Meridian Dawn

Release: The Fever Syndrome

Style: Melodic Death

+1

Band: Dawn of a Dark Age

Release: La Tavola Osca

Style: experimental Black

+1

Band: Devastator

Release: Baptised in Blasphemy

Style: Blackened Thrash

+2

Band: Wanderer

Release: Awakening Force

Release: Traditional, Speed, Thrash

+2

Band: Battle Dagorath

Release: Abyss Horizons

Style: ambient balck

+0

Band: Bryan Eckermann

Release: The 7th Sin

Style: blackened melodic death

+2

Band: Laetitia In Holocaust

Release: Heritage

Style: black, progressive black

+2

Band: Seventh

Release: Vacarme

Style: Post Black, Black, Black/Death

+1

Band: Kiko Loureiro

Release: Open Source

Style: Progressive Shred

+2

Band: Scourge of Suffering

Release: Scourge of Suffering

Style: Death

+0

Band: Runa

Release: Entrance to the Ancestral Wisdom

Style: Black/Death

+2

Band: Seventh Sign of Heavy

Release: The Woman and the Dragon

Style: Heavy

+1

Band: War Angel

Release: Tales of The Damned

Style: Heavy

-1

Band: Skeleton

Release: Skeleton

Style: Black, Blackened Thrash

+0

June 27- July 2

June 27 - July 2

July 06, 2020 by Joe Cearlock

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 or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+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

(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)

June 27, 2020

Band: Entartung

Release: Maleficae Artes

Style: Black

+2

June 28, 2020

Band: Myrkridia

Release: Termination Entity

Style: Blackened Death, death

+0

Band: Sphæria

Release: Jenseits jeder Dæmmerung

Style: black

+0

June 29, 2020

Band: Sickening Horror

Release: Chaos Revamped

Style: Death

+3

Band: Les Mémoires Fall

Release: The Tree: Yarns of Life

Style: Gothic, Doom

+1

Band: AthanaTheos

Release: Prophetic Era (Or How Yahveh Became the One)

Style: Death

+3

June 30, 2020

Band: Enshadowed

Release: Stare into the Abyss

Style: Black

+2

Band: Paul Wardingham

Release: Day Zero: Rise of the Horde

Style: Progressive Shred

+1

Band: Grace Disgraced

Release: Immortech

Style: Progressive Death

+3

Band: Folklore Negro

Release: Feto Majadero

Style: death, melodic death, death/doom, blackened

+1

Band: K.F.R.

Release: Nihilist

Style: bad Black

-1

Band: Virtual Symmetry

Release: Exoverse

Style: Progressive, symphonic

+2

Band: Save My Name

Release: Дойти до трёх

Style: Symphonic, gothic

+1

Band: Алексеевская Площадь

Release: Оставить след

Style: Heavy

+1

Band: Somniate

Release: The Meyrinkian Slumber

Style: Black

+2

July 1, 2020

Band: Bulletbelt

Release: Warlords

Style: Blackened Thrash

+1

Band: Human Carnage

Release: Ancient Covenant of Obscenity

Style: Brutal Death, blackened

+2

July 2, 2020

Band: Bloodshot

Release: Stay In The Dark

Style: Death

+2

Band: Noctem Aeternus

Release: Landscape of Discord

Style: Atmospheric Black

+3

July 3, 2020

Band: Black Funeral

Release: Scourge of Lamashtu

Style: raw black

+0

Band: Mora Prokaza

Release: By Chance

Style: Black/trap… I heard it and now you must also suffer

+0

Band: Northern Crown

Release: In a Pallid Shadow

Style: Progressive Doom

+1

Band: DDENT

Release: Couvre-sang

Style: Industrial

-1

Band: Poltergeist

Release: Feather of Truth

Style: Thrash

+3

Band: Convocation

Release: Ashes Coalesce'

Style: Funeral Death Doom

(I’m biased and think that funeral doom is the more boring metal every played, if you feel differently then you might like this.)

+0

Band: Soul Grinder

Release: Chronicles of Decay

Style: Death

+2

Band: Bob Katsionis

Release: Amadeus Street Warrior / A 16-bit Fictional Game Soundtrack

Style: Synth, video game

+1

Band: Leather Synn

Release: Warlord (EP)

Style: Traditional

+0

Band: Bog Wizard

Release: From the Mire

Style: Stoner, Doom

+1

Band: Hellbender

Release: American Nightmare

Style: Groove, hardcore

+1

Band: Myridian

Release: Light in the Abyss

Style: melodic death/doom

+1

Band: Terror Machine

Release: Ingen retrett (EP)

Style: Blackened Death

+1

Band: Abominate

Release: A Rotten Mind Becomes Violent

Style: Brutal Death

+0

Band: Iron Driver

Release: Smell of Perdition

Style: Traditional, thrash/speed

+3

Band: KillHammer

Release: Время скверны (Time of Impurity)

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Band: Lunatii

Release: Diskonformism: Anhedonia in Utopia

Style: black, symphonic, melodic

+1

Band: Myopic Empire

Release: The Last Fire

Style: doom

-1

Band: Mortal Ways

Release: Mortal Ways

Style: Death

+1

June 20-26

June 30, 2020 by Joe Cearlock

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 or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+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

(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)

June 20, 2020

Band: Infer

Release: Aeon of Deathless Blight

Style: Black/death

+2

Band: Nexion

Release: Seven Oracles

Style: Black/Death

+1

June 21, 2020

Band: Outlaw

Release: The Fire In My Tomb

Style: Black

+2

Band: Vspolokh

Release: Помре

Style: Black

+1

June 22, 2020

Band: Ofermod

Release: Pentagrammaton

+1

June 23, 2020

Band: Al-Namrood

Release: Wala’at

Style: Black/folk

+0

Band: Purtenance

Release: Buried Incarnation

Style: Death

+1

June 24, 2020

Band: Lantern

Release: Dimensions

Style: Death

+1

Band: Pekla

Release: Boogi with Satan

Style: Heavy, thrash, speed

+2

Band: Aulnes

Release: Vivre dans I’abandon

Style: Sludge, death/grind

+1

Band: Sombre Héritage

Release: Alpha Ursae Minoris

Style: Black

+2

Band: Poltergeist (nope not that one)

Release: Manifesto (EP)

Style: Blackened speed/thrash

+1

June 26, 2020

Band: Falce

Release: Codex Chaos

Style: Synthonic Black, synthonic blackened thrash

+2

Band: Dead Carnage

Release: From Hell for Hate

Style: Death

+2

Band: Dessiderium

Release: Shadow Burn

Style: Progressive Melodic Death

+1

Band: Ahna

Release: Crimson Dawn

Style: Blackened, Death/Thrash

+2

Band: Cirkeln

Release: Kingdoms That No One Remembers

Style: Black, blackened

+1

June 26, 2020

Band: Battle Born

Release: Battle Born (EP)

Style: Symphonic Power

+2

Band: Acherontas

Release: Psychic Death - The Shattering Of Perceptions

Style: Black

+3

Band: Carach Angren

Release: Franckensteina Strataemontanus

Style: symphonic black

+1

Band: Re-Armed

Release: Ignis Aeternum

Style: Melodic Death, symphonic/synthonic

+3

Band: Pyrhon

Release: Abscess Time

Style: Technical Blackened Death

+0

Band: Exocrine

Release: Maelstrom

Style: Technical/progressive Death / deathcore

+1

Band: Ravenlight

Release: Project Genesis

Style: symphonic

+0

(band isn’t bad but mixing sucks)

Band: OHHMS

Release: Close

Style: hipster crap

-1

Band: Goblins Blade

Release: Of Angels and Snakes

Style: Heavy

+1

Band: Pale Divine

Release: Consequence of Time

Style: doom, traditional

+1

Band: Magick Touch

Release: Heads Have Got to Rock'n'Roll

Style: traditional, hard rock

+1

Band: Stygian Crown

Release: Stygian Crown

Style: Doom, epic doom

+3

Band: Fellwarden

Release: Wreathed in Mourncloud

Style: atmospheric black, folk

+2

Band: Thecondontion

Release: Supercontinent

Style: black, death, experimental

+0

Band: Paysage d’Hiver

Release: Im Wald

Style: black

+0

Band: Creature

Release: Ex Cathedra

Style: symphonic progressive black/death

+3

Band: Irae

Release: Lurking in the Depths

Style: raw black

+0

Band: Inexorum

Release: Moonlit Navigation

Style: blackened melodic death, melodic black

+3

Band: Serocs

Release: Vore (EP)

Style: brutal tech death

+2

Band: Voidceremony

Release: Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel

Style: progressive death

+3

Band: Pessimist

Release: Holdout

Style: German Thrash, melodic death

+2

Band: Kenziner

Release Phoenix

Style: Power

+2

Band: Fordomth

Release: Is, Qui Mortem Audit

Style: Black/death, blackened doom

+1

Band: Orfvs

Release: Ceremony of Darkness (EP)

Style: melodic black

+1

Band: Falconer

Release: From a Dying Ember

Style: Folk, Power

+2

Band: Black Knight

Release: Road to Victory

Style: Heavy, Traditional

+3

Band: Ninth Circle

Release: Echo Black

Style: heavy, power

+1

Band: Savage Blood

Release: Downfall

Style: Heavy, Power

+3

Band: Thætas

Release: Shrines To Absurdity

Style: brutal tech death

+2

Band: Dismalimerence

Release: Tome: 1

Style: Progressive atmospheric black

+1

Band: Dauþuz

Release: Grunbenfall 1727 (EP)

Style: atmospheric black, epic

+2

Band: Deadline

Release: Cathedral Point

Style: traditional, power

+1

Band: Gloom

Release: Rider of the Last Light

Style: Black, raw

+1

Band: Sevencrows

Release: Deep Thoughts

Style: progressive, heavy

+3

Band: Anatomy

Release: Perform The Operation

Style: J-Power

+1

Band: Odiosior

Release: Odiosior (EP)

Style: black

+0

(music is ok, production sucks)

Band: Cryfemal

Release: Eterna oscuridad

Style: black

+0

Band: Wasteland Coven

Release: Ruined (EP)

Style: Doom

+2

Band: Shed The Skin

Release: The Forbidden Arts

Style: death

+1

Band: Romuvos

Release: The Baltic Crusade

Style: Folk

+2

Band: Descend

Release: The Deviant

Style: Progressive, melodic death

+1

Band: Unborn Suffer

Release: Commit(ment to) Suicide

Style: Brutal death/grind

-1

Band: Amun

An Absence of Presence (EP)

Style: Black, folk

+0

June 27 - July 2

June 13-19

June 19, 2020 by Joe Cearlock

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 keeps going.

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 or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+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

(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)

June 13, 2020

Band: Decayed Flesh

Release: Eternal Misery

Style: Brutal Death

+1

Band: Divisived

Release: Dismemberment Mutilated

Style: Brutal Death

+1

Band: Beyond Death

Release: Accept Your Fate

Style: Death/Thrash, Melodic Death

+2

Band: Black Cathedral

Release: Requiem of Death

Style: Black

+0

June 15, 2020

Band: Sxuperion

Release: Omniscient Pulse

Style: Black/Death

+0

Band: Fornicus

Release: Sulphuric Omnipotence

Style: Black/Death

+1

Buy here

Band: Greyhawk

Release: Keepers of the Flame

Style: Traditional heavy, power, speed

+3

Buy Here

June 17, 2020

Band: Aversio Humanitatis

Release: Behold The Silent Dwellers

Style: Black, Black/Death

+3

Buy Here

Band: Ysengrin

Release: Initiatio

Style: Blackened Doom?

+0

June 18, 2020

Band: Dominion of Suffering

Release: The Birth of Hateful Existence

Style: Black, Black/death

+1

Band: Pandrador

Release: Ov Rituals, ov Ancestors, ov Destiny

Style: Black/Death

+3

Buy Here!

June 19, 2020

Band: Lamb of God

Release: Lamb of God

Style: Groove, Groove/Thrash

+4

Buy Here!

Band: Atavist

Release: III: Absolution

Style: Funeral doom/sludge

+0

Band: Hail Spirit Noir

Release: Eden in Reverse

Style: Progressive

+1

Buy here

Band: Vampire

Release: Rex

Style: Blackened Thrash

+2

Buy Here

Band: Withering Surface

Release: Meet Your Maker

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Buy Here

Band: Kall

Release: Brand

Style: Black, post black

+1

Band: Vile Creature

Release: Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!

Style: Drone, Sludge

+0

Band: The Rite

Release: Liturgy of the Black

Style: Blackened Doom, Blackened Thrash

+2

Buy here

Band: Eisregen

Release: Leblos

Style: Black, Death, melodic death, symphonic, gothic, what every they feel like

+1

Buy here

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Band: Operus

Release: Score of Nightmares

Style: Symphonic

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Shadowflag

Release: In Asylum Requiem

Style: Black

+1

Buy here

Band: The Bishop of Hexen

Release: The Death Masquerade

Style: Symphonic Black

+1

Buy here

Band: Stench of Evil

Release: Triumph of Perversion

Style: Black

+1

Band: Thesyre

Release: Shift

Style: Blackened Thrash

+1

Buy here

Band: Cro-Mags

Release: In The Beginning

Style: Crossover

+1

Buy here

Band: Dearth

Release: To Crown All Befoulment

Style: Black/Death

+2

Buy Here

Band: Anamnesi

Release: Caurus

Style: Blackened melodic death?

+1

Band: Ivan

Release: Silver Screens

Style: Funeral Death/Doom

+1

Band: Alarum

Release: Circle's End

Style: Progressive thrash, jazz fusion

+2

Buy Here

Band: Insanity

Release: Hymns of the Gods Before

Style: Death

+1

Buy here

Band: Protest the Hero

Release: Palimpsest

Style: Progressive, Progressive Metalcore

+2

Buy Here

Band: Mushroomhead

Release: A Wonderful Life

Style: Alternative

+0

(it’s probably good if you like that sort of thing)

June 6-12

June 15, 2020 by Joe Cearlock

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 or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+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

(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)

June 6, 2020

Band: Eisenhauer

Release: Blessed Be The Hunter

Style: Heavy

+3

Band: Evilcult

Release: At The Darkest Night

Style: blackened speed/thrash

+1

Band: Parkcrest

Release: …And That Blue Will Turn to Read

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Buy Here

Band: Casket Grinder

Release: Fall into Dementia

Style: Death

+1

Band: Into the Cave

Release: The Ritual of the Blind Dead

Style: Death

+1

Band: Mordhell

Release: Graveyard Fuck

Style: Black

+0

Band: Kult Mogił

Release: Torn Away The Remains of Death

Style: Death

+1

Band: Above Aurora

Release: The Shrine of Deterioration

Style: Black

+1

Band: Vaginal Cum

Release: Fuck the Catholic Civilisation

Style: Death/grind

+0

Band Assassination

Release: Seeds of the Master

Style: experimental Black

-1

Music isn’t so bad, but the mixing is horrible

June 7, 2020

Band: Skullhunter’s Diary

Release: Chapter I - The Rise of the Unknown

Style: Blackened Melodic Death, death

+2

Buy here

Band: Vöid

Release: Vöid

Style: raw Black

+0

June 8, 2020

Band: Terrestrial Hospice

Release: Indian Summer Brought Mushroom Clouds

Style: Black

+1

Buy here

Band: Wargrinder

Release: Ironclad Destroyer

Style: Black/Death, death/grind

+1

Band: Throneum

Release: Oh Death... Oh Death... Determinate, Preach and Lead Us Astray...

Style: Black, Black/death

+0

Band: Visions of Disfigurement

Release: Aeons of Misery

Style: Brutal Death, slam

+1

Buy here

Band: Mørknatt

Release: Icarus (EP)

Style: Black

+1

Band: Divine Weep

Release: The Omega Man

Style: Power, heavy

+2

Buy Here

Band: Barbaric Horde

Release: Axe of Superior Savagery

Style: Black/death

-1

Band: Ljosazabojstwa

Release: Głoryja śmierci

Style: Black/death

+1

Band: A Light in the Dark

Release: Insomnia

Style: atmospheric post-Black

+1

June 9, 2020

Band: Bad Whispers

Release: Burn Out

Style: Heavy

+1

Buy here

Band: Ovader

Release: Wtankult

Style: Black

+2

June 10, 2020

Band: Black Goat

Release: Dominion of Fire

Release: Black, blackened heavy

+1

Band: Triage

Release: Triage

Style: Grindcore

+1

Band: Arvalastra

Release: The Key to the Shrine of Putrefaction

Style: black

-1

Band: Hatchets For Hands

Release: Cabaret of Decay

Style: Blackened, melodic death, death, thrash

+2

Buy Here

June 11, 2020

Band: Disamara

Release: Notturna è la quiete

Style: Black

+1

Buy here

Band: Gomorraa

Release: Sordidus Fabellas (Luxuries et Profanus)

Style: Blackened Thrash

+0

June 12, 2020

Band: Michael Angelo Batio

Release: More Machine Than Man

Style: Shred

+2

Buy Here

Band: Madhouse

Release: Braindead

Style: Heavy, Speed

+1

Band: Lord

Release: Chaos Raining

Style: Heavy, Power

+2

Band: A Constant Storm

Release: Lava Empire

Style: Progressive, Black/Death, Alternative

+2

Buy Here

Band: Moonlight Haze

Release: Lunaris

Style: Symphonic, Power, Gothic

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Magnus Karlsson’s Free Fall

Release: We Are The Night

Style: Symphonic, Heavy

+2

Buy Here

Band: Aversion Crown

Release: Hell Will Come for Us All

Style: Deathcore, technical

+2

Buy Here

Band: Paralydium

Release: Worlds Beyond

Style: Progressive

+2

Buy Here

Band: Nemesium

Release: Continua

Style: Death, melodic death

+1

Buy Here

Band: Behold The Arctopus

Release: Hapeleptic Overtrove

Style: avant garde

-1

Band: Valdrin

Release: Effigy of Nightmares

Style: Black

+1

Buy here

Band: Foetal Juice

Release: Gluttony

Style: Death

+2

Buy Here

Band: Angelcrypt

Release: Dawn of the Emperor

Style: Melodic Death

+1

Buy here

Band: Goreworm

Release: Prodigy of Grotesque

Style: Tech Death

+1

Buy here

Band: Living Gate

Release: Deathlust (EP)

Style: Death

+1

Buy here

Band: Curse The Son

Release: Excruciating

Style: Stoner, Doom

+1

Buy here

Band: Obscene

Release: The Inhabitable Dark

Style: Death

+0

Band: Voidian

Release: Through Eyes of the Flame

Style: Doom, Sludge

+2

Band: Lined

Release: Soulsacrifice

Style: Groove/thrash, Melodic death

+1

Band: Volcano Diving Inc

Release: The March of the Lemmings

Style:… just listen

+1

Band: Oracle

Release: Hindsight is 2020

Style: Melodic Black/Death

+2

Buy Here

Band: Ulthar

Release: Providence

Style: Death, black/death?, progressive/technical

+1

Buy here

Band: Lūmenwood

Release: Eldritch Rites (EP)

Style: Progressive

+2

Buy Here

Band: Exit

Release: Traces of Human Existence

Style: Tech Death/Thrash, Metalcore

+0

Band: Smackbound

Release: 20/20

Style: Gothic, Symphonic, Heavy

+2

Buy Here

Band: Antagonist

Release: Gone is the Light

Style: metalcore, groove

+1

Buy here

Band: Usurper

Release: Evilution

Style: Groove/thrash

+1

Buy here

May 30 - June 5

May 30 - June 5

June 09, 2020 by Joe Cearlock

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 or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+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

(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)

May 30, 2020

Band: Conceived By Hate

Release: Putrid Realms of the Occult

Style: Death

+1

Band: October Falls

Release: A Fall of an Epoch

Style: Black, folk

+2

Band: Post Mortal Possession

Release: Catacombs of Bedlam

Style: Death, blackened

+1

Band: Kryptamok

Release: Verisaarna

Style: Black

+1

Buy here

Band: Cloth

Release: Axis Mundi

Style: Black, melodic, doom, blackened

+0

May 31, 2020

Band: Descend into Despair

Release: Opium

Style: Funeral doom

-1

Band: Dreichmere

Release: The Fruit of Barren Fields

Style: Progressive Black, prog death

+1

Buy here

Band: Paezor

Release: Paezor

Style: Black

+2

Buy Here

June 1, 2020

Band: Leprophiliac

Release: Necrosis

Style: Death

+2

Band: Alligator

Release: Direct Heart Massage

Style: Thrash

+2

(couldn’t figure out where to get this or find any links to band pages)

June 2, 2020

Band: The Hallowed Catharsis

Release: Kill Owner (ep)

Style: Progressive/tech Death, Death-core

+1

Buy here

June 4, 2020

Band: Zmey Gorynich

Release: Чёртовы пляски / Devilish Dances

Style: Folk, Deathcore

+1

June 5, 2020

Band: Death Courier

Release: Necrotic Verses

Style: Death

+2

Buy Here

Band: Christless

Release: Diabolical Crew

Style: Black, blackened

+1

Band: Make Them Suffer

Release: How to Survive a Funeral

Style: Metal-core

-1

buy here if you like shit

Band: Front

Release: Antichrist Militia (ep)

Style: Blackened Death/Thrash

+1

Buy here

Band: Sanctifying Ritual

Release: Sanctifying Ritual

Style: Blackened Death

+0

Band: Blight

Release: Temple of Wounds

Style: Black

+2

Buy Here

Band: Naxen

Release: Towards The Tomb of Times

Style: black

+1

Buy here

Band: Fraser Edwards

Release: The Architect

Style: Power, pop punk

+0

Band: 16

Release: Dream Squasher

Style: Sludge, hardcore

-1

Band: Mustasuo

Release: Katharsis

Style: black, hardcore

-1

Band: Avlid

Release: Ond bråd död

Style: Black

+1

Buy here

Band: Azziard

Release: Liber Secondus - Exégèse

Style: Black

+1

Buy here

Band: Witching

Release: Vernal

Style: Black/Sludge

-1

Band: Witches

Release: The Fates

Style: Blackend Thrash

+1

Buy here

Band: Gallower

Release: Behold the Realm of Darkness

Style: Blackened Thrash

+1

Buy here

Band: Hanging Garden

Release: Against The Dying of The Light

Style: Gothic, Industrial, lame

-1

Band: Insaniam

Release: Homo Insecta

Style: black, progressive

+1

Buy here

Band: Denunciation

Release: Garbage Burial

Style: Death (EP)

+1

Band: Bob Blockhead Quartet

Release: Fine Day To Dine

Style: crossover

+0

May 23-29

June 02, 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 or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+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

May 23, 2020

Band: Mournful Winter

Release: Viscus et Os

Style: Black, depressive

+0

May 24, 2020

Band: Inhibitions

Release: Divine Plague

Style: Black

+1

May 25, 2020

Band: Vergeblichkeit

Release: Raum und Zeit, ein Irrtum in dir

Style: Gothic/Black

+1

Band: Sinister Downfall

Release: A Dark Shining Light

Style: Funeral Death/Doom

+0

Band: Sederai Mutilation

Release: Agony of Borneo

Style: Brutal Death

+1

Band: Rannoch

Release: Reflections Upon Darkness

Style: Progressive Death, Djent

+2

Band: Calvana

Release: IɅ

Style: Black

+0

Band: Bocc

Release: A la Forca

Style: Death

+1

Buy here

May 27, 2020

Band: Lacrima Mortis

Release: Posthumous

Style: Death/Doom

+1

Band: Boisson Divine

Release: La Halha

Style: Folk

+2

Buy Here

Band: Murder Rape

Release: Malum Absolutum

Style: Black

+1

Buy here

May 28, 2020

Band: Urkraft

Release: Urkraft

Style: Black

+1

May 29, 2020

Band: Asenblut

Release: Die wilde Jagd

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Sinister

Release: Deformation of the Holy Realm

Style: Death

+2

Buy Here

Band: Northwind

Release: History

Style: Traditional, hard rock

+1

Band: Atavistia

Release: The Winter Way

Style: Symphonic Black, symphonic, folk

+2

Buy Here

Band: Alestorm

Release: Curse of the Crystal Coconut

Style: power/folk, nu

+1

Buy here

Band: Grave Digger

Release: Fields of Blood

Style: Power (maybe some speed or traditional as well)

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Centinex

Release: Death In Pieces

Style: Death

+2

Buy Here

Band: Xibalba

Release: Años en infierno

Style: Death

+1

Buy here

Band: Sorcerer

Release: Lamenting of the Innocent

Style: Doom, epic doom

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Mike LePond's Silent Assassins

Release: Whore of Babylon

Style: Power, Speed, Symphonic

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Mourning Ashes

Release: Chapter IV: Once Remembered

Style: Black/Death

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Decaying

Release: Shells Will Fall

Style: Death, death/doom

+1

Buy here

Band: Task Force Beer

Release: Blastbeat Hangover Commando

Style: Grindcore

+0

Band: Acârash

Release: Descend to Purity

Style: Blackened Doom

+2

Buy Here

Band: Bleed From Within

Release: Fracture

Style: Metalcore, Melodic death/groove

+1

Buy here

Band: Paralysis

Release: Mob Justice

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Shok Paris

Release: Full Metal Jacket

Style: Traditional

+1

Buy here

Band: Stargazery

Release: Constellation

Style: Power

+2

Buy Here

Band: Mountain Witch

Release: Extinct Cults

Style: Doom, stoner

+1

Buy here

Band: Lesser Glow

Release: Nullity

Style: Death/Doom, Sludge, Alternative

+1

Buy here

Band: Ancillotti

Release: Hell on Earth

Style: Heavy, speed

+3

Buy Here!

Band: The Committee

Release: Utopian Deception

Style: Melodic Black

+2

Buy Here

Band: Ancient Curse

Release: The New Prophecy

Style: Progressive Power

+1

Buy here

Band: Violent Hammer

Release: Riders of the Wasteland

Style: Death

+0

Band: Paganizer

Release: The Tower of the Morbid

Style: Death

+2

Buy Here

Band: Entorx

Release: Faceless Insanity

Style: Progressive Death

+1

Buy here

Band: Trotoar

Release: No Salvation

Style: Traditional, NWOTHM

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Eyeless In Gaza

Release: Act I: The Protagonist

Style: Funeral Death/Doom

+0

Band: Weresoul

Release: Weresoul

Style: Black, blackened, folk?

+1

Band: Yfel 1710

Release: Willa wisielców

Style: Black

+0

Buy here

May 30 June - 5

May 16-22

May 25, 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 or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+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

May 16, 2020

Band: Ortro

Release: Scisma (EP)

Style: Black

+1

May 19, 2020

Band: Shadow In The Darkness

Release: Erstwhile Befell

Style: Technical Death

+1

Buy here

Band: Dearth

Release: To Crown All Befoulment

Style: brutal black/death

+2

May 20, 2020

Band: Olhava

Release: Ladoga

Style: Atmospheric black, blackgaze, ambient, post-black

+1

Buy here

Band: Vermilia

Release: Keskeneräisiä tarinoita

Style: Black/Folk, Pagan

+1

Band: Mnemocide

Release: Feeding the Vultures

Style: Death

+1

Band: Arida Vortex

Release: Riders of Steel

Style: Power Metal, epic

+2

Buy Here

Band: Дрыгва

Release: Вайдэлот

Style: Folk

+1

Buy here

Band: Blodiga Skald

Release: Folk, Symphonic folk

+1

Buy here

Band: Mausoleum of Death

Release: Behind The Veil (EP)

Style: Death

+0

May 21, 2020

Band: Astral Sleep

Release: Astral Doom Musick

Style: Doom, Death/Doom

+2

Buy Here

Band: Promised Grief

Release: Ascension

Style: Gothic, Doom, death/doom

+1

Buy here

May 22, 2020

Band: Killitorous

Release: The Afterparty

Style: Brutal Tech Death

+0

Band: Putrid Offal

Release: Sicknesses Obsessions

Style: Death, grind

+1

Buy here

Band: Revenge

Release: Strike.Smother.Dehumanize

Style: grindcore

-1

Band: Sabiendas

Release: Repulsive Transgression

Style: Death

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Hexenbrett

Release: Zweite Beschwörung: Ein Kind zu töten

Style: Black, epic, blackened

+1

Buy here

Band: Amer

Release: Unverheilt (EP)

Style: Sludge, Post, hardcore punk

+0

Band: Plague Years

Release: Circle of Darkness

Style: Death/thrash

+1

Buy here

Band: Master Massive

Release: Black Feathers On Their Graves

Style: Progressive, traditional, doom

+1

Buy here

Band: Temnein

Release: Tales: Of Humanity and Greed

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Buy Here

Band: Oz

Release: Forced Commandments

Style: Traditional

+2

Buy Here

Band: Cosmic Putrefaction

Release: The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers

Style: Death

+0

Band: Caligula’s Horse

Release: Rise Radiant

Style: Progressive

+0

Band: Wolftooth

Release: Valhalla

Style: traditional/heavy, doom, stoner

+2

Buy Here

Band: Old Man Gloom

Release: Seminar IX: Darkness of Being

and

Seminar VIII: Light of Meaning

Style: sludge, ambient noise

+0

Buy here and here

Band: Pile of Priests

Release: Pile of Priests

Style: Melodic Death, technical/progressive

+1

Buy here

Band: Esoctrilihum

Release: Eternity of Shaog

Style: black/death, progressive

+0

Band: Commando

Release: Rites of Damnation (EP)

Style: Blackened, speed, heavy

+1

Buy here

Band: Fairyland

Release: Osyrhianta

Style: Symphonic Power

+1

Buy here

Band: [Evertrapped]

Release: The Last Extinction

Style: Melodic Death, melodic groove

+1

Buy here

Band: Sodomisery

Release: The Great Demise

Style: Blackened Melodic Death, black/death

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Ruadh

Release: The Rock of the Clyde

Style: atmospheric blackened folk, pagan

+2

Buy Here

Band: From Hell

Release: Rats and Ravens

Style: Progressive Death/Thrash

+2

Buy Here

Band: The Order

Release: Supreme Hypocrisy

Style: Heavy

+2

Buy Here

Band: Árstíðir lífsins

Release: Saga á tveim tungum II: Eigi fjǫll né firðir

Style: Black, folk

+0

Band: Mad Hatter

Release: Pieces of Reality

Style: Power

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Expunged

Release: Expunged (EP)

Style: Death

+2

Buy Here

Band: Feral Light

Release: Life Vapor

Style: black

+1

Buy here

Band: Dark Paramount

Release: Adhuc Perversa

Style: black

+0

Band: Basement Torture Killings

Release: Lessons in Murder

Style: Grindcore, death

+0

Band: Venator

Release: Paradiser (EP)

Style: Traditional

+1

Band: Féleth

Release: Depravity

Style: death, death/thrash

+1

Band: Chepang

Release: Chatta

Style: grindcrome

-1

Band: Dark Divinity

Release: Messianic (EP)

Style: Melodic Death

+1

Band: Criogenesi

Release: The Human Parasite (EP)

Style: Death

+1

Band: Kaliya

Release: Born to See, Bred to Hate, Led to Destroy

Style: grind, death/grind

+1

Buy here

Band: Her Chariot Awaits

Release: Her Chariot Awaits

Style: Heavy, alternative

+1

Buy here

Band: Bait

Release: Revelation Of The Pure

Style: black, hardcore

+0

Band: Henry Kane

Release: Age of the Idiot

Style: Death, Black, grind

+1

Buy here

Band: Unreqvited

Release: Empathica

Style: symphonic black, post-black, atmospheric

+1

May 9-15

May 18, 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 or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+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

May 10, 2020

Band: Pagan Throne

Release: Our Blackest Roots

Style: Symphonic Black

+2

Band: Esophagus

Release: Defeated By Their Inferiority

Style: Slam death

-1

May 11, 2020

Band: Putrid Pile

Release: Revel in Lunacy

Style: brutal death

+1

May 13, 2020

Band: VokodloK

Release: Orcle’s Fury

Style: Black

+1

Buy here

May 15, 2020

Band: Ara

Release: Jurisprudence

Style: Death

+1

Band: Val Tvoar

Release: Today is Tomorrow’s Yesterday

Style: stoner

+1

Buy here

Band: Devangelic

Release: Ersetu

Style: brutal death

+2

Buy Here

Band: Shrapnel

Release: Palace for the Insane

+2

Buy Here

Band: Iku-Turso

Release: Pakana

Style: Black

+2

Buy Here

Band: Course of Fate

Release: Mindweaver

Style: Progressive metal/rock

+0

Band: Ashtar

Release: Kaikuja

Style: Black

+0

Band: Voodoo Gods

Release: The Divinity of Blood

Style: Death/thrash

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Horn

Release: Mohngang

Style: Black, folk

+2

Buy Here

Band: Old Corpse Road

Release: On Ghastly Shores Lays the Wreckage of Our Lore

Style: Black, atmospheric, folk

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Tyrant

Release: Hearafter

Style: Doom, traditional

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Paradise Lost

Release: Obsidian

Style: Gothic, Death/doom

+3

Buy Here!

Band: In the Company of Serpents

Release: LUX

Style: Sludge, doom/doom

+2

Band: Firewind

Release: Firewind

Style: Heavy

+3

Buy Here!

Band: River of Souls

Release: Usurper

Style: Death Doom, melodic

+1

Buy here

Band: Kayleth

Release: 2020 Back to Earth

Style: Stoner Rock/Metal

+0

Band: Bitterness

Release: Dead World Order

Style: thrash

+2

Buy Here

Band: Heron

Release: Time Immemorial

Style: Sludge

+1

Buy here

Band: Ravenscry

Release: 100

Style: Gothic

+0

Band: Okkultokrati

Release: La ilden lyse

Style: Blackened, crust

+0

Band: Exgenesis

Release: Solve Et Coagula

Style: melodic blackened death doom?

+1

Band: Tithe

Release: Penance

Style: blackened grind, death

+0

Band: Contamination

Release: Traumatic Recollections

Style: Death/Thrash

+2

Buy here

Band: Tokyo Blade

Release: Dark Revolution

Style: (I’ve only heard one song on the album and it is rock formerly this band played NWOBHM style traditional metal.

+1

Buy here

Band: Sinisthra

Release: The Broad and Beaten Way

Style: Gothic rock/metal

+0

Band: Yarr

Release: Die Stadtpark Chroniken

Style: Folk

+1

Buy here

Band: Asofy

Release: Amusia

Style: Progressive blackened doom, ambient

-1

Band: Burial Vault

Release: Left Unburied (EP)

Style: Melodic Death

+2

Buy Here

Band: Abramelin

Release: Never Enough Snuff

Style: Death

+2

Buy Here

Band: S-Tool

Release: Exitus

Style: Groove

+0

Band: Syphilic

Release: Empty Nest

Style: Brutal Death

+0

Band: Neige Morte

Release: IIII

Style: Shit (extreme blend of noise)

-1

May 2 - 8

May 11, 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 or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+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

May 2, 2020

Band: Mike Litoris Complot

Release: The Six Whoresmen

Style: death grind

-1

May 4, 2020

Band: Wysdom Given

Release: Into the Night (EP)

Style: heavy

+2

Buy Here

Band: Cryptic Shift

Release: Visitations From Enceladus

Style: Progressive Death, tech death, thrash

+1

Buy here

Band: Dangerous Project

Release: Cosmic Vision

Style: Neo-classical metal/hard rock

+2

Buy Here

May 5, 2020

Band: Aposento

Release: Conjuring the New Apocalypse

Style: Death

+1

Buy here

Band: Mean Messiah

Release: Divine Technology

Style: Groove, Industrial

+1

Band: Wastewalker

Release: Lowborn

Style: technical death/thrash, metal-core

+3

Band: Theosophy

Release: Towers of Dark Pantheon

Style: Black

+2

Buy Here

Band: Moaning Silence

Release: A Waltz into Darkness

Style: Gothic

+1

Band: The Last Seed

Release: Revenant

Style: Black

+2

Band: Winterblut

Release: Monotot

Style: Raw black

-1

Band: Iron Attack!

Release: Little Daybreaker

Style: J-Power, speed

+3

(it would be on my buy list If I could find a place to get their cd’s that don’t cost way to much)

May 6, 2020

Band: Exortta

Release: Tempus

Style: Death/Doom, gothic (based on the one song I heard

+1

May 8, 2020

Band: …And Oceans

Release: Cosmic Word Mother

Style: Symphonic Black, Black/Death

+3

Band: Axel Rudi Pell

Release: Sign of the Times

Style: traditional, power, hard rock

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Xpus

Release: In Umbra Mortis Sedent

Style: Death

+1

Buy here

Band: Green Carnation

Release: Leaves of Yesteryear

Style: Progressive, gothic, melodic doom

+1

Buy here

Band: Noctu

Release: Gelidae Mortis Imago

Style: Funeral Doom, atmospheric

-1

Band: Winterfylleth

Release: The Reckoning Dawn

Style: Black

+2

Buy Here

Band: Forming the Void

Release: Reverie

Style: Doom, Stoner

+2

Buy Here

Band: Forgotten Tomb

Release: Nihilistic Estrangement

Style: Post-black

+0

Band: Mekong Delta

Release: Tales of a Future Past

Style: Progressive

+1

Buy here

Band: Secrets of the Moon

Release: Black House

Style: Goth Rock/Metal

-1

Band: Sojourner

Release: Premonitions

Style: Atmospheric Gothic Black

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Naglfar

Release: Cerecloth

Style: Black

+1

Buy here

Band: Burial

Release: Satanic Upheaval

Style: Black

+2

Buy Here

Band: Basalt

Release: Silêncio Como Respiração

Style: Blackened Sludge?

+0

Band: The Arbiter

Release: My Messenger

Style: Death/doom

+2

Buy Here

Band: Rising Sunset

Release: De Mysterium Tenebris

Style: Gothic symphonic black

+1

Band: With The End In Mind

Release: Tides of Fire

Style: ambient, black, post-black, drone

+0

Band: Drought

Release: Trimurti

Style: Progressive Black

+1

Buy here

Band: Goden

Release: Beyond Darkness

Style: Blackened Doom?

+2

Buy Here

Band: KŁY

Release: Wyrzyny

Style: Black, atmospheric

+0

Band: Grave Circles

Release: Tome II

Style: Black, progressive black

+2

Buy Here

Band: Biesy

Release: Transsatanizm

Style: Black/Death, industrial?

+0

Band: Vredensdal

Release: The Tyrant Shade

Release: Black, thrash influenced

+3

Buy Here

Band: Odraza

Release: Rzeczom

Style: Black, progressive

+1

Band: Blacklab

Release: Abyss

Style: Doom, Stoner

+0

April 25 - May 1

April 25 - May 1

May 04, 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 or not that good

+1 - worth checking out if you like the style

+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 25, 2020

Band: Eclipse Of The Sun

Release: Brave Never World

Style: Doom, death/doom, gothic

+2

Band: Wintereve

Release: October Dark

Style: Gothic

+1

Buy here

Band: Rages of Sin

Release: Divergence

Style: I’ve been seeing this style called melodic groove

+0

April 27, 2020

Band: Kurnugia

Release: Forlorn and Forsaken

Style: Death

+2

Band: Funeralopolis

Release: …Of Deceit and Utter Madness

Style: Death

+1

Band: In Tenebriz

Release: Bitter Wine of Summer

Style: melodic black, atmospheric black

+1

Band: Pyre

Release: Chained to Ossuaries

Style: Death, old school

+2

Band: Nero or the Fall of Rome

Release: Beneath the Swaying Fronds of Elysian Fields

Style: Blackened Doom

+1

Buy here

April 28, 2020

Band: Irreparable

Release: Transfixion (EP) (physicals are delayed but will be available through bandcamp when they can be)

Style: Gothic/Black, darkwave

+1

Buy here

Band: Fathomless Misery

Release: Uncreation of False Devotions

Style: depressive black, ambient

-1

Band: Atkins / May Project

Release: The Final Cut

Style: Traditional, heavy

+1

Buy here

April 29, 2020

Band: Abduction

Release: Jehanne

Style: Progressive Black

+2

(+3 if you speak french)

Buy Here

Band: Black Trillium

Release: The Fatal Shore

Style: Doom, Death/doom

+1

Buy here

Band: Unlucky Morpheus

Release: 瀧夜叉姫 (EP)

Style: J-symphonic, J-power, melodic death

+2

April 30, 2020

Band: Korvak

Release: Korvak

Style: Death/thrash

+1

Buy here

Band: Head of the Demon

Release: Deadly Black Doom

Style: Black/Doom

+1

Buy here

Band: From the Vastland

Release: The Haft Khan

Style: black

+2

Band: Emmeleia

Release: I

Style: atmospheric black, drone

+0

Band: Order of Orias

Release: Inverse

Style: Black

+1

Buy here

Band: Cosmic Burial

Release: Impakt

Style: atmospheric black, instrumental

+0

Band: Karmacipher

Release: Introspectrum

Style: Brutal Death, progressive/technical

+1

Band: Hail Conjurer

Release: Carnal Light

Style: black

-1

Band: Throneum

Release: Oh Death... Oh Death... Determinate, Preach and Lead Us Astray...

Style: black, black/death

-1

Band: Czort

Release: Apostoł

Style: melodic black

+2

(+3 if I spoke Polish)

Buy Here!

Band: Slagmark

Release: Purging Sacred Soils

Style: Black

+2

May 1

Band: Black Pestilence

Release: Hail the Flesh

Style: Black with some punk influence

+1

Buy here

Band: Desert Storm

Release: Omens

Style: Sludge, Southern, Alt rock?

+1

Buy here

Band: Ante-Inferno

Release: Fane

Style: Atmospheric black

+1

Buy here

Band: Havok

Release: V

Style: Thrash, NWOTM

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Aether Realm

Release: Redneck Vikings from Hell

Style: Melodic Death Folk, goth?

+1

Buy here

Band: Graveyard Ghoul

Release: The Dissolution of Flesh (EP)

Style: Death, old school

+1

Band: Vader

Release: Solitude in Madness

Style: Death, brutal, old school

+3

Buy Here!

website

Band: Armnatt

Release: Dense Fog

Style: Black

+0

Band: Shatter Brain

Release: Pitchfork Justice

Style: groove, groove/thrash

+0

Band: Fluids

Release: Ignorance Exalted (EP)

Style: Death grind

-1

Band: Irdorath

Release: The Final Sin

Style: Black, some thrash elements

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Alkymist

Release: Sanctuary

Style: Doom, Death/doom, something lame

+2

Buy Here

Band: Kampen

Release: Монолитов сказ

Style: raw black

+1

Band: Hyems

Release: Anatomie des Scheiterns

Style: black

+1

Buy here

Band: From Eden To Exile

Release: Age of Fire (EP)

Style: Groove, Groove/thrash, death, core

+1

Buy here

Band: Septure

Release: Betrayed & Exiled

Style: Traditional, doom

+1

Band: Golden Ashes

Release: In the Lugubrious Silence of Eternal Night

Style: symphonic black noise

+0

Band: Fatigue

Release: III

Style: Blackened Doom

+2

Buy Here

Band: Messial

Release: Ellipses I: Anthroplanetary Expansion

Style: Funeral Death/doom

+0

Band: Keverra

Release: Keverra

Style: Sludge, blackened, doom

+1

Band: Tombstoner

Release: Decent to Madness

Style: Death, groove/thrash?

+1

Band: Vera Lux

Release: Aus dem Nichts

Style: folk

+1

Buy here

Heresiarkhes Cross.Blood.Corpse.jpg

Band: Heresiarkhes

Release: Cross.Blood.Corpse

Style: black

+1

Band: Vacantfield

Release: Idle (EP)

Style: progressive black

+0

Band: Moravius

Release: Wind from Silesian Land

Style: power

+1

Band: Ealdor Bana

Release: Tear Out Thine Eye

Style: Black

+0

Band: Whinlatter

Release: Duddon Valley (EP)

Style: Black

+1

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

bandcamp

Band: Astarium

Release: Hyperborea

Style: Synthonic black

+1

Band: Moontower

Release: Crimson Harvest

Style: Heavy, doom

+1

Buy here

Band: Arida Vortex

Release: Riders of Steel

Style: Power

+1

Buy here

Band: Deliquesce

Release: Engineered Frailty (EP) (digital)

Style: brutal death

+1

Band: Immortal Orchestra

Release: Graveyard Earth (EP) (digital)

Style: Symphonic, symphonic black

+1

Buy here

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

Buy here

Band: SevenSins

Release: Legends of Kazakhstan

Style: Black/death

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Burgerkill

Release: Killchestra

Style: Metalcore

+2

Buy Here!

April 20, 2020

Band: Till the End

Release: Radiant Blast

Style: melodic death

+1

Band: Chaos Catharsis

Release: Renaissance Psychotique

Style: Death

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Shitfucker

Release: Sex With Dead Body

Style: Black, Punk

+1

Band: Meth Leppard

Release: Woke

Style: grindcore

+1

Buy here

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

Buy Here!

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

Buy here

Band: Hämatom

Release: #FCKCRN (EP)

Style: Heavy

+2

Buy Here!

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

Buy Here!

Band: Elffor

Release: Unholy Throne of Doom

Style: atmospheric black, synthonic

+1

Band: Aeons In Solitude

Release: Mourning Cloak

Style: Gothic, Doom

+2

Buy Here!

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

Buy Here!

Band: I Am Destruction

Release: Nascency

Style: Death, Deathcore

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Abrupt Demise

Release: The Pleasure to Kill and Grind

+1

Buy here

Band: Barishi

Release: Old Smoke

Style: Progressive, death

+1

Buy here

Band: Unmerciful

Release: Wrath Encompassed

Style: Brutal Death

+1

Buy here

Band: Elephant Tree

Release: Habits

Style: Stoner metal/rock

+0

Band: King Witch

Release: Body of Light

Style: Doom

+1

Buy here

Band: Warlust

Release: Unearthing Shattered Philosophies

Style: Black, black/thrash

+1

Buy here

Band: Xpus

Release: In Umbra Mortis Sedent

Style: Death

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Sandstorm

Release: Time to Strike

Style: Traditional, NWOTHM

+1

Buy here

Band: Wolves Den

Release: Miserere

Style: black/death

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Trick or Treat

Release: The Legend of the XII Saints

Style: Power

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Winter Deluge

Release: Degradation Renewal

Style: Black

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Chugger

Release: Of Man and Machine

Style: Melodic Death, Groove

+1

Buy here

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

Buy Here

Band: Nyrst

Release: Orsök

Style: Black

+1

Buy here

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

Buy Here!

Band: Blaze of Sorrow

Release: Absentia

Style: Black, atmospheric

+1

Buy here

Band: Engutturalment Cephaloslamectomy

Release: Glam Not Slam

Style: Slam death

+1

Buy here

Band: Malist

Release: To Mantle The Rising Sun

Style: atmospheric black, melodic

+2

Buy Here

Band: Together to the Stars

Release: As We Wither

Style: post-black

+1

Buy here

Band: Voices of Ruin

Release: Path to Immortality

Style: Melodic Death

+3

Buy Here!

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.)

Buy Here!

Band: Warbringer

Release: Weapons of Tomorrow

Style: Thrash

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Sölicitör

Release: Spectral Devastation

Style: Thrash, heavy, speed

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Two Face Sinner

Release: Spiritual Nemesis

Style: Black/Death

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Light Dweller

Release: Hominal

Style: Black/Death

+1

Buy here

Band: Expunged

Release: Expunged (EP)

Style: Death

+1

Band: Witchskull

Release: A Driftwood Cross

Style: Stoner Rock/Metal

+2

Buy here

Band: Hegemony

Release: Enthroned by Persecution

Style: Death

+0

Band: Blind To Faith

Release: Unstoppable War

Style: grindcore, hardcore punk, sludge

+1

Buy here

Band: Wallop

Release: Alps on Fire

Style: Traditional, NWOTHM

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Celtic Hills

Release: Blood over Intents

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

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Arrest

Release: Reincarnation

Style: power, epic, heavy

+0

Band: Werewolves

Release: The Dead Are Screaming

Style: Death, black, thrash

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Hraun

Release: Black Molten Essence

Style: Progressive, doom, goth, death, black

+1

Buy here

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

Buy Here!

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

Buy here

Band: Blizzen

Release: World in Chains

Style: Traditional, heavy, speed

+2

Buy here

Band: Cloven Hoof

Release: Age of Steel

Style: traditional, power

+3

Buy Here!

Band: The Wizar’d

Release: Subterranean Exile

Style: heavy, traditional, epic, doom?

+3

Buy Here

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

Buy here

Band: Fange

Release: Pudeur

Style: Sludge, Death, industrial

+0

Band: Embodiment

Release: Palingenesis

Style: tech death, deathcore

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Imperial Savagery

Release: Lashing The Feral Swine

Style: death, Brutal Death

+2

Buy Here

Band: Karras

Release: None More Heretic

Style: sludge, death

+1

Buy here

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

Buy Here

Band: Bythos

Release: The Womb of Zero

Style: Black, Melodic Death

+2

Buy Here

April 25 - May 1

April 11-17

April 20, 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 11, 2020

Band: Rabid Flesh Eaters

Release: R.F.E

Style: thrash/death

+1

Buy here

April 12, 2020

Band: Bongtower

Release: Oscillator

Style: Death/Doom Fuzz, psychedelic

+1

Buy here

April 13, 2020

Band: Navalm

Release: Beyond The Reality

Style: Progressive Death

+2

Band: Cemetery Filth

Release: Dominion

Style: Death, brutal

+1

Buy here

Band: Vitam Et Mortem

Release: El Rio de la Muerte

Style: Black/Death

+2

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

Buy Here!

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)

Buy here

Band: Aveth

Release: Echoes of a Mournful Dawn

Style: depressive black

+0

(not bad if the production didn’t blow)

Band: Lords of Illusion

Release: The Great Tribulation (digital)

Style: Doom, stoner

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Tombstone Crow

Release: Swingin’ Rotten (EP)

Style: Groove, Groove/thrash

+2

Band: Odyssean Passage

Release: Hypnogogic Terror (digital)

Style: Progressive instrumental deathcore

-1

(this production sounds like a knife in the ear)

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.)

April 14, 2020

Band: Purveyors of Sonic Doom

Release: Mankind is Unkind

Style: Sludge, Doom

+0

Band: Covid-19

Release: Death World

Style: Death Doom

+0

Band: Wintershadow

Release: Ethereal Reality Throught Rotten Flesh (digital)

Style: Black

+2

(production aside this is really good)

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.)

Band: Setfire

Release: Spots of Blood (digital)

Style: Groove/thrash

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Sacrificia

Release: Fatalis

Style: Synthonic Black

+2

Band: Sigiriya

Release: Maiden Mother Crone

Style: Stoner

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Aetherius Obscuritas

Release: Mártír

Style: Black

+1

Band: Vampire Squid

Release: Reinventin The Eel (digital)

Style: Technical Death / Mathcore

+1

Band: Alogia

Release: Semendria

Style: Progressive Power

+1

Band: Schönberg

Release: Baroque Gravity

Style: J-Power

+1

Band: Nebelwind

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

Style: black, depressive, shitty

-1

Band: Fovitron

Release: Altar of Whispers

Style: Symphonic Black/Death

+1

Buy here

April 17, 2020

Band: Trash Heaven

Release: 4 Heads for a Crown

Style: Thrash

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Absolva

Release: Side by Side

Style: Heavy, Thrash, NWOTHM

+1

Buy here

Band: Abysmal Dawn

Release: Phylogenesis

Style: Death

+1

Buy here

Band: The Black Dahlia Murder

Release: Verminous

Style: Death, Melodic Death

+2

Buy Here!

Band: King Corpse

Release: Sacred Crimson (EP) (Digital)

Style: Sludge

-1

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

Buy here

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

Buy here

Band: Tricoma

Release: Tricoma

Style: Sludge, blackened, stoner

+0

Band: Cyado

Release: Mhä's Dogmas Part II : Samsara

Style: death, dejent, electronic

+1

Band: Titaan

Release: ITIMA

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

-1

Band: Guerra Total

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

Style: Black and many variations of black

+1

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

Band: Feed Them Death

Release: Panopticism: Belong/Be Lost

Style: grindcore

-1

Band: The Projectionist

Release: The Stench of Amalthia

Style: black

-1

Band: Devicious

Release: Phase Three

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

+1

Band: Soultrap

Release: Feed The Fire

Style: Groove, Heavy

+1

Buy here

Band: Khôra

Release: Timaeus

Style: black, atmospheric

+1

Buy here

Band: NOMVDIC

Release: Euphoria

Style: Progressive death core

-1

Band: The Ditch and the Delta

Release: The Ditch and the Delta

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

-1

Band: Forward To Eden

Release: Ready To Kill For the Cult

Style: metalcore

+0

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

Buy here

Band: Graveir

Release: King of the Silent World

Style: Black

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Venomous Skeleton

Release: Drowning in Circles

Style: black/death

+1

Buy here

Band: Bismarck

Release: Oneiromancer

Style: Doom, Stoner

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Funeral Leech

Release: Death Meditation

Style: Death

+2

Band: Nemus

Release: Stein - Mensch

Style: atmospheric black

+1

Buy here

Band: Etherius

Release: Chaos. Order. Renewal. (Digital)

Style: Progressive, instrumental

+0

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

Band: Zos

Release: Zos

Style: drone

-1

Band: Asmarae

Release: .. der Himmelskörper ein Geschenk

Style: shitty, gothic, industrial, symphonic

-1

Band: Decrescent

Release: Sorrow, My Home

Style: Black

+1

Buy here

Band: Hellhookah

Release: The Curse

Style: doom, stoner

+0

Band: Krv

Release: Krv (digital)

Style: Black, black blends

+1

Buy here

Band: Abyzz

Release: A Plague Reborn

Style: melodic death

+2

Buy Here!

Band: The Rhubarb

Release: Black Sun (EP)

Style: Doom, stoner

+1

Buy here

Band: Kryptaker

Release: Black Death

Style: Heavy

+0

Band: Xenoglyph

Release: Mytharc

Style: Black

+1

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

Buy Here!

Band: Mad Dog

Release: Hell Raising Breed

Style: Heavy, Hard Rock

+2

(anyone speak Spanish)?

Buy Here!

Band: Katastah

Release: 2 (Digital)

Style: Sludge

+1

Band: Turmion Kätilöt

Release: Global Warning

Style: Industrial

+2

Buy Here!

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

bandcamp

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

Buy Here!

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

Buy Here!

April 7, 2020

Band: Grim Fate

Release: Perished In Torment

Style: Death

+1

Band: Lebenssucht

Release: -273,15°C

Style: Black

+1

Buy here

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

Buy here

Band: Molasses Barge

Release: A Grayer Dawn

Style: Doom

+1

Buy here

Band: Cordyceps

Release: Betrayal

Style: Brutal Death

+1

Buy here

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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

Buy Here!

Band: Akurion

Release: Come Forth To Me

Style: technical black/death

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Apocryphus

Release: Eternal Suffering

Style: Death

+1

Buy here

Band: Like Rats

Release: Death Monolith

Style: Death

+2

Buy Here!

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

Buy here

Band: Pathological Sadism

Release: Realms of the Abominable Putrefaction

Style: Brutal Death, Slam

+1

Buy here

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

Buy here

Band: Calligram

Release: The Eye Is The First Circle

Style: Black, hardcore?

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Megatherium

Release: GOD

Style: Doom, Stoner

+0

Band: Wolfheart

Release: Wolves of Karelia

Style: Synthonic Melodic Death,

+2

Buy Here!

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

Buy Here!

Band: High Priestess

Release: Casting the Circle

Style: Doom, psychedelic

+1

Buy here

Band: Mornir

Release: Dämmerstund

Style: Blackened Melodic Death Folk

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Drain

Release: California Cursed

Style: Crossover thrash, hardcore

+1

Buy here

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

Buy here

Band: Close the Hatch

Release: Modern Witchcraft

Style: Doom, post

+0

Band: Puncture Wound

Release: Complete Carnage of Coagulating Cacophonous Corpses

Style: Death

+2

Buy Here!

Band: This White Mountain

Release: Finality

Style: Atmospheric Black, depressive

+1

Buy here

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

Buy here

Band: Traveler

Release: Termination Shock

Style: Heavy, NWOTHM

+2

Buy Here!

April 1-3

April 05, 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 1, 2020

Band: Häxanu

Release: Snare of All Salvation

Style: Black

+2

Band: Steel Mage

Release: The Uprising of Hatred (EP)

Style: Thrash

+1

Buy here

Band: Carnal Savagery

Release: Grotesque Macabre

Style: Death

+1

Buy Here

Band: Kaatayra

Release: Só Quem Viu o Relâmpago à Sua Direita Sabe

Style: Melodic acoustic black

+1

Band: The Abyss Order

Release: Infected Black Window

Style: Black

+1

Buy Here

Band: Cronenberg

Release: Gorehammer

Style: Death

+1

Buy here

Band: Nawabs of Destruction

Release: Rising Vengeance

Style: Melodic Death, Death/Doom

+2

Band: Némesis

Release: The Beginning of the End (EP)

Style: Death/Thrash

+1

Band: Mofo

Release: Sick and Insane

Style: Thrash

+1

Buy here

April 2, 2020

Band: Fury

Release: Burn Out (digital)

Style: Heavy, Thrash

+2

Band: MoonSun

Release: Escapalace (digital)

Style: Symphonic

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Oracle

Release: Sign of the Hourglass (Digital)

Style: Power

(I can’t give an unbiased rating of this band because the vocalist is along time friend of mine whom I’ve played in several bands with.)

Buy Here!

Band: Ad Infinitum

Release: Chapter I: Monarchy

Style: Symphonic

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Fiume Nero

Release: Lovecraft cap. 1

Style: Black

+0

buy here

Band: Wretched Empires

Release: Bloom (EP)

Style: Black, atmospheric

+1

Band: Ars-Infame

Release: Urizen’s Peste (EP) (Digital)

Style: Black

+0

Band: Gnaw Their Tongues

Release: I speak the truth, yet with every word thousands die

Style: noise, drone, black

-1

Band: Förgjord

Release: Laulu kuolemasta

Style: Black, raw

+1

Band: Reducer

Release: Reducer

Style: Thrash

+1

Band: Witches of Doom

Release: Funeral Radio

Style: Doom

+2

Buy here!

Band: Shodan

Release: Death, Rule Over Us

Style: Black/Death

+1

Buy here

Band: Clear Sky Nailstorm

Release: The Deep Dark Black

Style: Thrash

+2

Buy Here!

Band: WVRM

Release: Coloney Collapse

Style: Death/grind

-1

Band: Drakonis

Release: Blessed by Embers

Style: Black

+2

Buy Here!

Band: So Much For The Sun

Release: Face The Dark

Style: Doom, Sludge, Fuzz

+2

Band: Depravation

Release: III: Odor Mortis

Style: Black

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Live Burial

Release: Unending Futility

Style: death/doom, old school death

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Svartkonst

Release: Black Waves

Style: Swedish Black/death

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Beggar

Release: Compelled To Repeat

Style: Sludge

+2

Buy here

Band: Testament

Release: Titans of Creation

Style: Thrash

+4

Buy Here!

Band: Aara

Release: En Ergô Einai

Style: Atmospheric Black

+1

Buy here

Band: Dynazty

Release: The Dark Delight

Style: Power, Heavy

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Bonfire

Release: Fistful of Fire

Style: Heavy, Power

+3

Buy Here!

Band: Manam

Release: Ouroboros

Style: Symphonic Melodic Death, symphonic power

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Lady Beast

Release: The Vulture’s Amulet

Style: Heavy, NWOTHM

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Conception

Release: State of Deception

Style: Progressive Power

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Weed Demon

Release: Crater Maker

Style: Death/Doom, stoner, sludge

+1

Buy here

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Band: Loviatar

Release: Lightless

Style: Doom, Stoner

+1

Buy here

Band: The Project Hate MCMXCIX

Release: Purgatory

Style???

(i can’t find it anywhere but spotify which I don’t have an account for)

Band: Skum

Release: Molitva

Style: Death, melodic (Swedish sound)

+2

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Band: Instigator

Release: Necessary Evil (digital)

Style: thrash

+1

Band: Nietzu

Release: Memoriam Sanguinis

Style: black, post-black

-1

Band: Miles To Perdition

Release: 2084

Style: Melodic Death

+1

Buy here

Band: Dog Chasing Sun

Release: Fire Walks With Me

Style: Doom, stoner, instrumental

+0

Band: Dark Passage

Release: The Legacy of Blood

Style: heavy

+1

Buy here

Band: Ande

Release: Vossenkuil

Style: atmospheric black

+0

Band: Palace

Release: Reject the System

Style: Heavy

+2

Buy here

Band: Methwitch

Release: Indwell

Style: Shit, complete shit, noise

-1

Band: Duivel

Release: Tirades uit de hel

Style: Black… shit

-1

Band: Necromorbid

Release: Sathanarchrist Assaulter

Style: Black/Death

+0

Band: 3eesus

Release: 3eesus

Style: Stoner

+1

Band: Zolle

Release: Macello

Style: Stoner, rock, sludge, weird

+1

Band Throat Breach

Release: Humiliating Distortion

Style: Grindcore, Death/grind

+1

Band: Slave Hands

Release: No More Feelings

Style: Sludge

+0

bandcamp

Band: Halén

Release: Idleness

Style: Power

+2

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Band: Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

Release: Viscerals

Style: Doom, stoner, (but for some reason it sounds like Perry Farrell singing except for a different song that sounded more like Henry Rollins)

+1

Buy here

Band: Nightmourn

Release: Wither Into Insignificance

Style: depressive black metal, atmospheric, synth

-1

What is really depressing is that someone can still consider this black metal

Band: Crashkill

Release: Consumed by Biomechanics

Style: Thrash, Crossover?

+1

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Band: Hevius

Release: Millénaire

Style: Heavy, power?

+1

Buy here

March 28-31

April 01, 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

March 28, 2020

Band: SnakeeyeS

Release: Evil Must Die

Style: Power

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Calea Dreaming

Release: Red Cedar Falls

Style: atmospheric post-black

+1

Buy Here

Band: Maha Pralaya

Release: Death & Dissolution

Style: Black/Death

+1

bandcamp

Band: In The Mist

Release: Au son des crânes qui se brisent

Style: Black

+0

Band: Halvar

Release: Ancestral Communication

Style: Blackened Death/Thrash

+2

Buy here!

Band: E.F.6.

Release: The Sound of Meat

Style: Grindcore

+0

(I’m not a grindcore fan)

Band: Creative Waste

Release: Condemned

Style: Death/grind

+1

Buy Here

Band: Dakesis

Release: Fractures

Style: Symphonic

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Nighttrain

Release: Hell Central

Style: Heavy

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Santuario Diaboliko

Release: Flesh Disintegrate Assembly

Style: Black

+1

Band: Mortal Peril

Releasel: Digital Idol

Style: Thrash

+3

(this is digital only at the moment so I’ll be waiting for a physical release)

Buy Here!

Band: Мастер

Release: Мастер времени

Style: Thrash, Heavy

+1

(good luck finding this, I don’t speak Russian)

Band: Deforment

Release: Cenizas de un Falso Dios

Style: Black/thrash

+1

Buy Here

March 29, 2020

Band: Soular

Release: As We Fall Into The Sun

Style: Progressive Doom

+1

March 30, 2020

Band: Dawn of Ouroboros

Release: The Art of Morphology

Style: Progressive Black, atmospheric, black/death, post-black

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Nostalgie Depression

Release: Fractals of Reality

Style: depressive black

+0

Band: Jenner

Release: The Test of Time (EP)

Style: Thrash

+2

Band: Skull Crusher

Release: Messiah (EP)

Style: Death

+3

bandcamp

Band: And Swords Will Sing Again

Release: The Eternal Wanderer

Style: Black, atmospheric

+1

Band: Asgrauw

Release: IJsval

Style: Black

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Verminlord

Release: Ennui

Style: Black

+0

Band: Aeon Aphelion

Release: Blind Descent (EP)

Style: Doom

+1

March 31, 2020

Band: Xaemora

Release: At Dusk of Existence (EP)

Style: Black, symphonic

(I can’t give an unbiased rating for this band because I’ve known the front man for many years… Great band check them out)

Buy Here!

Band: Scenic Lucid Decay

Release: Until The Worms Come Back (digital)

Style: Brutal Death

+1

Buy Here

Band: Corpselium

Release: Horror Vault

Style: Atmospheric Funeral Doom?

-1

buy here

Band: Memory Driven

Release: L'Inondation

Style: Progressive Doom

+1

Band: Coffin Curse

Release: Ceased to Be

Style: Death

+1

Buy Here

Band: Words of Farewell

Release: Inner Universe (EP)

Style: Melodic Death

+1

Buy here

Band: Lux Absentia

Release: Worship Nothing

Style: Black

+1

Band: Regurgitated Divinity

Release: Blessed by the Goatchrist

Style: Brutal Death

+1

Buy Here!

Band: Thrashera

Release: Não Gosto!

Style: speed, blackened

+1

Band: Decaying Purity

Release: Mass Extinction of the Providential Ones

Style: Death

+2

Buy Here!

Band: Raw

Release: Languish

Style: Brutal Death, Slam

+0

Band: Varulv

Release: Kerker, Todt und Teyfl

(I missed the cd release, it’s now on vinyl as well)

Style: Black

+1

Buy Here

Band: Fishslaughter

Release: Abuelo

Style: acoustic black, folk

+2

(interesting)

Band: Chotzä

Release: Tüüfuswärk

Style: black

+1

Band: Blade of Surtr

Release: Legendarium (digital)

Style: Black

+3

(I’ll wait for the physical, but this is good)

Buy Here!

Band: Intrepid

Release: Unused Imaginative Capacity

Style: Death

+2

(production is lacking, but this is awesome

Buy Here!