Top Pick
Undeath – More Insane (death metal)
This is the best Cannibal Corpse album since Evisceration Plague (2009).*
*I know there are a lot of Torture fans out there; I am not one of them. A Skeletal Domain (2014) and Red Before Black (2017) were pretty good though.
Release Roundup
Abramelin – Sins of the Father (death metal)
Aera – Phantast (black metal)
Aether Void – Of Rage and Grief (thrashy power metal)
Allt – From The New World (progressive metalcore, djent)
Ana Argan List – Irrbloss (black metal)
Ancient Malignity – Dehumanization Dawn (death metal)
Anomy – Shifting Colors (alt metal, goth doom)
Arottenbit – You Don’t Know What Chiptune Is (chiptune)
Asarhaddon – Era (post black-metal)
Ashtar – The Return Of The Frozen Souls (black metal, melodoom)
Askeesi – The Roots of a Sacred Tree (black metal)
Balance and Composure – With You in Spirit (alt rock)
The Barbarians Of California – And Now I’m Just Gnashing My Teeth (sludge)
Bile Caster – Writing Between Birth And Death (deathy sludge-doom)
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere (progressive death metal)
Bobbie Dazzle – Fandabidozi (glam/indie-rock)
Bye Bye Tsunami – Eating (noise)
Catharsis – M-VIII B.C. (death metal)
Chain Code – Synthetic Outcomes (weird prog-rock)
Colin Stetson – Hold Your Breath (soundtrack)
Cosmic Putrefaction – Emerald Fires atop the Farewell Mountains (brutal prog-death)
Could Seed – The Drop Crisis (post rock)
Corpsefucking Art – Tomatized (death metal)
Cryogenical Excision – Cryogenic Crowd Control (slamming burtal death)
Cult Of Scarecrow – In Nomine Filiorum (doom metal)
D-A-D – Speed Of Darkness (hard rock)
Dehumanize – Superbia Falsum Deum Creat (brutal death metal)
Devenial Verdict – Blessing Of Despair (progressive death metal, doom)
Dolchstoß/Prehistoric War Cult – Black Winds of Fire and Steel (shitty black/death metal)
Doomraiser – Cold Grave Marble (doom metal)
Dreadmask – Thy Prime Dread (melodeath)
Drug Church – Prude (post-hardcore, punk)
Earthburner – Permanent Dawn (death metal)
Edén – Alma de libertad (melodic/heavy metal)
The Electric Mud – Ashes And Bone (stoner rock)
Endpyre – Elemental (progressive alt-groove)
Eraser – Harmony Dies (grindcore)
Everything Dies – Survivalist (post-black metal, DSBM)
Eye Of The Golem – Nigredo (sludgy post metal)
Feldspar – Old City, New Ruins (punk, hardcore)
Fervents – Plastic Snake Factory (indie-punk)
Fever333 – Darker White (please stop/reform letlive.)
The Gates – …of The River Styx (occult metal)
Gates Open – Black Clouds Over The World (blackened death metal)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD (ambient post-rock)
Greenwitch – Forced Out of Existence (brutal death metal)
Häxenzijrkell – Portal (black metal)
Hermano – When The Moon Was High… (stoner metal)
High Reeper – Renewed By Death (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Hild – Thrash på svenska (blackened death metal/thrash)
Human Impact – Gone Dark (alt/noise rock)
I Ya Toyah – Drama (metalish electro-pop)
Ignominous – Dawn With No Light (black metal)
Inconvenience - S I L E N C E (modern/melodic metalcore)
Infern – Turn of the Tide (death metal)
Invictus – Despair (blackened death metal)
Kevin Hufnagel – Dusting For My Fingerprints (chill acoustic)
Life Abuse – Systemization (hardcore punk)
Light Of The Morning Star – Wings In The Night Sky (black metal)
Lightning Strikes Across the Sky – Death Reissue (depressive prog rock)
Livlos – The Crescent King (blackened death metal, melodeath)
Lords of the Trident – V.G.E.P. (heavy/power metal)
Lowen – Do Not Go To War With The Demons Of Mazandaran (doomy prog-metal)
Mammoth Caravan – Frostbitten Galaxy (progressive sludge-metal)
Maranatha – Songs of Condemnation and Sorrow (deathy sludge metal)
Mardom – Dead Soul Age (black metal)
Maul – In The Jaws Of Bereavement (Six Feet Under-core)
Mexican Standoff – Raiders Of The Dutch Rudder (shitty rock)
Mood Hoover – Love and Loss (funeral doom)
Mother Of Millions – Magna Mater (prog metal, djent)
The Mountain King – Stoma (weird post metal)
The New Roses – Attracted To Danger (hard rock)
Nick Llerandi – They Swam With Shooting Stars (instrumental prog metal, jazz shred)
Nicola Lori – Urban Vision (chill prog)
Nubivagant – The Blame Dagger (blackened doom)
Oneiros – Ruminations (black/ened death metal)
Phyllomedusa – Zoogamete Symphony (noise slam)
Qoya – Karma (post-goth)
The Reveal – Hieroglyphics (progressive alt-rock)
Rivendell – Fangorn: Poems of Mountains and Forests (black metal, hobbit bullshit)
Ruckwater – Bored Machine (stoner doom)
Ruff Majik – Moth Eater (alt rock)
Scattered Guts – Human Entropy (thrash metal)
Siege – Alpha & Omega (brutal death metal)
Sinistro – Vertice (prog/post-doom)
Slowhole – Slowhole (noise-sludge, Posession-core)
Snakebite Sermon – The Coffin and the Cross (stoner rock, sludge)
Somberspawn – Invocate (blackened death metal)
Sonolith – III (doom metal)
Sørgelig – Φθορά (black metal)
Soror Dolorosa – Mond (post-punk, goth rock/pop)
Stepfather Fred – Rubicon (hard rock/metal)
Sugar Horse – Grand Scheme of Things (post-rock/metal, goth-gaze)
Sylosis – The Path (groove thrash)
Synlakross – Mental Parasites (alt/death metal)
Synphobia – Shades (prog metal)
Temple Of Dread – God Of The Godless (death metal)
Texas Hippie Coalition – Gunsmoke (southern/stoner metal)
Thrasherwolf – Inside The Sickened Mind (thrash)
Torena – No Control (hardcore)
Torn From Existence – Hearken The Darkened Skies (black metal)
Town Of Lake – Lilac (experimental/post something)
Transport League – We Are Satan’s People (groove metal)
Trash Boat - Heaven Can Wait (post-hardcore, metalcore)
Tripper – Faceless (hardcore)
Utflod – Efterdonn (crusty black-metal/grind)
Valletta – Summer (progressive/blackish melodeath, “buttgaze”)
Wind Rose – Trollslayer (folky power metal)
Wolves’ Winter – The Medivm (black metal)
Worm Hero – Prewormer (weird/blackened grindcore)
Yrden – The Frigid Beauty (post-back, doom)