I’m back, back in the New Yo… finish that lyric and tell me who it is. But yea, I’m baaaack and I know you missed me. What? No? Fine. FINE. Kidding of course, but anyway, damn what a few week stretch here of new releases! Holy shitballs! And this week is no exception with a new one from Darkthrone (this makes Chris veeeeery happy), new deathgrind from ACxDC, new stompin’ death metal from Tombstoner, and new extreme from Full of Hell. And there’s more, a TON more so dig in and enjoy all this week has to offer. Don’t forget about that new Whores album that dropped, I guarantee you’ll be seeing that one come up here in these pages several times throughout the year. I could go on and on with stuff that dropped just in April but I won’t and will instead let you get busy here. DO IT.

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Darkthrone – It Beckons Us All (Peaceville) – darkthrone

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ACxDC – G.O.A.T. (Prosthetic) – deathgrind

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Tombstoner – Rot Stink Rip (Redefining Darkness Records) – death metal

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Full of Hell – Coagulated Bliss (Closed Casket Activities) – extreme

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Also on tap:

Accept – Humanoid (Napalm Records) – heavy metal

ACOD – Versets Noirs (Hammerheart) – metal

All Are To Return – III (Tartarus Records) – extreme noise

Alwanzatar – Engsyre (Apollon Records Prog) – dance folk

Amiensus – Reclamation: Part 1 (M-Theory Audio) – progressive black metal

ARÐ – Untouched By Fire (Prophecy) 0 doom

AWOL – Tear ‘Em To Bits (Flatspot Records) – hardcore

Barbarian Swords – Fetid (Base Record Production) – extreme

Baron – Beneath the Blazing Abyss (Transcending Obscurity Records) – death doom

Beholder – Dualisme (Avantgarde Music) – black metal

Bestial Colony – Sordid Decay (Morbid and Miserable) – thrash / black / death

Beyond the Pale – Monument in Time (Self) – death/thrash

Black Tusk – The Way Forward (Season of Mist) – metal

Blessed Black – Seasons Vol. 2 (Self) – doom

Child – S/T, reissue (Heavy Psych Sounds) – psych blues rock

Child – I, reissue (Heavy Psych Sounds) – psych blues rock

Coffin Curse – The Continuous Nothing (Memento Mori) – death metal

Daudaro – Eyoimörkin (Darkwoods) – black metal

Deicide – Banished By Sin (Reigning Phoenix) – death metal

Devotion – Astral Catacombs (Memento Mori) – death metal

Disillusion – Back to Times of Splendor, 20th Anniversary Edition (Metal Blade Records) – progressive metal

Distorta – A Devil In The Dust (Wormholedeath Records) – death groove

Dolmen Gate – Gateways Of Eternity (No Remorse Records) – heavy metal

Draghkar / Helcaraxë – A Glorious Call in the Terrible Darkness (Nameless Grave Records) – death metal

Draugnim – Verum Malum (Naturmacht) – black metal

Ear Danger – Minotaur (Headbangers Records / Big Bad Wolf Records) – heavy metal

Ethereal Flames – Myths And Legends Of Our Land (Sliptrick Records) – symphonic power metal

Evil Will Bless – Uriel Spake Plainly (Self) – black metal

Exhumation – Master’s Personae (Pulverised Records) – death metal

FerreTT – Glamdemic (Moribund Rockers) – hair

Fluisteraars – Manifestaties van de Ontworteling (Eisenwald) – dark ambient

Freeways – Dark Sky Sanctuary (Dying Victims Productions) – hard rock

Glassing – The Other Side of The Mirror (Pelagic) – post-metal

Harvestman – Triptych: Part One (Neurot) – psych / ambient

Inter Arma – New Heaven (Relapse) – metal

King of None – In the Realm (Argonauta Records) – stoner rock

Lachlan R. Dale – Shrines (Art As Catharsis) – ambient

Lady Beast – Lady Beast II, Vinyl Reissue (Dying Victims) – metal

Lethe – Alienation (Dark Essence Records) – dark electronic metal

Malevich – Trembling and Dowsed (Roman numeral) – black / hardcore

Miruthan – Cult of the Dead, EP (Self) – metal

Morgul Blade – Heavy Metal Wraiths (No Remorse Records) – heavy metal

Obscurial – Heretic (Violence In The Veins / Memento Mori / Necrolatry Records) – death metal

Pagan Altar – Judgement of the Dead (Dying Victims Productions) – doom

Pagan Altar – The Time Lord (Dying Victims Productions) – doom

Pestilence – Levels of Perception (Agonia) – death / thrash

Prime Evil – Evilution X (CDN Records) – extreme metal

Selias – Headshot (Self) – modern melodic metal

Snow Trail – Abandoned Capsule (Eleven Records) – post punk

Speed Limit – The Broken Record – Chorus Sound Tapes (NRT-Records) – heavy metal

Stormborn – Zenith (Rockshots Records) – power metal

Thalia – The River Of Books (Rockshots Records) – prog rock

The 69 Eyes – Death of Darkness (Atomic Fire) – metal

The Idoru – Undertow (Black Star Foundation) – post-hardcore

The Incantus – S/T (Independent) – pagan 

The Lumberjack Feedback – The Stronghold (Argonauta Records) – post metal

Tigguo Cobauc – A Fountain of Anguish Is Gone (Independent) – black metal

Tygers of Pan Tang – Live Blood (Mighty Music) – metal

Vesperian Sorrow – Awaken the Greylight (Black Lion Records) – symphonic black metal

Vøidwomb – Spiritual Apotheosis (Avantgarde Music) – black metal

Vrykolakas – Nocturnal Dominion of Death (Paragon Records / Satanath Records / Iron, Blood & Death Corp / Futhark Records) – death metal

War Grave – S/T (Self) – heavy metal

Wretched Blessing – S/T (Self) – death/black/punk

Wingless – Ascension (Selfmadegod Records) – death/doom

Zelenaya – Folk Songs (Self) – doomy folky goodness

— Josh