Deicide
Banished By Sin
Reigning Phoenix Music
Been around a LONG time, and putting out great classic death metal that sounds, yeah, like Deicide.

Accept
Humanoid
Napalm Records
One of those bands that is their own genre… Accept! classic metal, solid stuff!

SiX BY SiX
Beyond Shadowland
Inside Out Music
April 26
Ian Crichton (Saga), Nigel Glockler (Saxon) and Robert Berry (3.2), good prog pedigree here, it’s got a nice up beat and more hard rockin’ sound… cool stuff!!

Dvne
Voidkind
Metal Blade
Release date: Friday, April 19th 2024
A little doom, some light black metal undertones, some stoner and melodic technical stuff happening too

CONQUEST
PARADOX
DARK STAR RECORDS
Classic metal with a little heavier edge, cool stuff.

Squidhammer (single)
DIRT TAN
Self Released
Solid groovin’ metal with a little deathy vibe

METAL WARRIOR (single)
SCREAM LOVE
TSDC RECORDS
Femaled fronted classic hard rock/metal

Back From Zero
Five
Independent
catchy classic hard rockin’ metal. nice grooves and fun sounds

Life’s Question
Life’s Question – EP
(Flatspot)
This is kind of a metalcore, hardcore ish thing with a bit of groove and melody

RivetSkull (single)
”Eyes of a Fallen Angel”
Absence of Time
(Self-Released)
Good ol classic metal with a little hint of power metal

Lee Aaron
Tattoo Me
Metalville Records
Bluesy classic hard rock female vox

Zillion (single)
“War Inside of Me” ft. Pop Evil
(Potluck Lunch Records)
Modern pop-ish metal, electronic-ey, nu-metal-ish, still heavy-ish catchy stuff.

Vesperian Sorrow
Awaken the Greylight
Black Lion Records
26 April 2024
Symphonic melodic death, great epic feel, a mix of a blackened and classic death metal to keep it heavy

CLEARXCUT
Age of Grief
Lifeforce
April 26
A kind of death/metalcore thing… decent stuff

TOMBSTONER
Rot Stink Rip
Redefining Darkness Records
26 April 2024
Classic brutal and groovin’ death metal

Devotion
Astral Catacombs
Memento Mori
22 April 2024
Death metal with a kind of sludgey groove

Coffin Curse
The Continuous Nothing
Memento Mori
22 April 2024
Death metal with a little technicality and a bit of a gore/grind flavor. cool stuff

Freeways
Dark Sky Sanctuary
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 26/04/2024
Classic metal, a bit of a doomy vibe, an old school doomy prog if you will

DEATHWYTCH
Death Wytch
Moribund Records
26 April 2024
Lo-fi melodic-ish avant garde black metal with a very unique vocal sound, this is um, different.

HACAVITZ
Muerte
Moribund Records
26 April 2024
Raw down tempo black metal

WAR GRAVE
WAR GRAVE EP
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: APRIL 26th 2024
Comes across as a little thrashy, but overall a kind of power-metalish (vox) classic metal. cool

Transatlantic
Title: Live at Morsefest 2022: The Absolute Whirlwind
InsideOut
April 26
As a Mike Portnoy fanboy, anything is gold, and seeing this band perform this latest album live was amazing and to have a live version now too… great stuff! (prog hard rockin’ stuff)

OU
蘇醒 II: Frailty
Inside Out Music
April 26
pronunciation: “O” – Chinese prog metal band… album co-produced, mixed and featuring Devin Townsend on a track, really is prog-metally! hah technical, and has a bit of that Devin wall of sound style and has some laid back more ambient selections too

Ear Danger
Release Title: Minotaur
Label: Headbangers Records and Big Bad Wolf Records
Release Date: April 22, 2024
Classic metal, kind of a local band sound from the 90’s neat stuff.

Darkness
Blood On Canvas
Massacre Records
26 April 2024
German thrash! Nice catchy and heavy gritty sound

ETHEREAL FLAMES
Album: Myths And Legends Of Our Land
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: April 23rd, 2024
Symphonic Power Metal… a nice edge to it,

NIGHT SHALL DRAPE US
Lunatic Choir
Season of Mist: Underground Activists
26 April 2024
A sort of wall of sound of classic black metal

BLACK TUSK
The Way Forward
Season of Mist
26 April 2024
In your face and groovin’ hard/metalcore

Korpituli
Release Title: Pohjola
Label: Korpituli Productions
Release Date: April 19, 2024
This is a melodic symphonic black metal type thing. A little bit of an Amorphis/Moonspell/Katatonia-ish sound.

ANTICHRIST SIEGE MACHINE
Vengeance of Eternal Fire
Profound Lore
19 April 2024
Raw blackended death, fast and furious

Floodfall
Unbroken
Wormholedeath
April 19, 2024
Melodic classic power/prog metal. PRetty straightforward, a little pop-metalish

Satanic North
Satanic North
Reaper Entertainment
Release date: Friday, April 19th 2024
Blackened death/thrashy… heavy, cold and harsh, yet a bit catchy and to the point. cool stuff!

Impending Annihilation
Idiopathic Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head
Gore House Productions
19 April 2024
Super fast technical brutal death metal, just two super fast tracks here. DAMN crazy fast heavy… almost like a brutal blackened death Dragonforce lol

FLUIDS
Reduced Capabilities (CD, LP, TAPE)
Hells Headbangers
12 April 2024
Brutal fast short death metal… a little grindy and a chugga cugga low end

NOCTURNA
Of Sorcery And Darkness
Scarlet Records
19 April 2024
Epic symphonic power metal ish sounding stuff. Nice grooves, clean and operattic female vox

Mutually Assured Destruction
Hexer
Creator-Destructor
Release date: Friday, April 12th 2024
Low end groovin’ doomy stoner type metal Reminds me a little of Down or CoC

Necrot
Lifeless Birth
Tankcrimes
Release date: Friday, April 12th 2024
Brutal death metal with a groove

Blaze Of Perdition
Upharsin
Metal Blade
Release date: Friday, April 19th 2024
A classic sounding black metal

Sons Of Ra
Tropic Of Cancer
Self Released
Release date: Friday, April 19th 2024
PRogressive hard rock instrumental type stuff with some horns too!

Atræ Bilis
Aumicide
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, April 19th 2024
Brutal and technical death metal with some big groove.

Caeli Concept
Lunaison
Wormholedeath
April 19
A little experimental, melodic but with a little heavier edge too

Disillusion
Back to Times of Splendor (20th Anniversary Edition)
Metal Blade Records
26 April 2024
20th anniversary of this prog/technical death band, in searching back in my records, I did play this when it came out… and totally forgot, kind of cool to become reaquanted… cool stuff.

Sundowner
Lysergic Ritual
Self-Released
20 April 2024
Down tempo doom ish sludge with black metal style vox.