Deafheaven
Lonely People With Power
Roadrunner
I never really understood what makes this band more “mainstream” than other black metal bands, but so far on this listen through this seems like standard classic black metal.

Warfield
With The Old Breed
Napalm
German thrash, classic fast gritty thrash.. Cool stuff!

Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs
Death Hilarious
Missing Piece Records
Kinda grungy doomish punky

Gutter Creek
Alive & Well
Independent
Just straightforward metal.

Meshuggah
Immutable The Indelible Edition
Reigning Phoenix Music
Remaster/reissue of their last album. Um, not sure why, maybe to have something “new” for their tour this year?

FIRSTBORNE (single)
WAKE UP
M-THEORY AUDIO
Chris Adler / James Lomenzo new band… a kind of thrashy heavier sound with a solid groove.

Smith/Kotzen
Black Light/White Noise
BMG
Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen back for some classic hard rock metal-ish stuff, with a bit of a bluesy vibe and groove

Stretcher
Information Overdose
Independent
Some classic ish metal, a bit of a groove metal thing.

Amenra
De Toorn & With Fang And Claw EPS
Relapse
Two separate two song EPs… De Toorn has two 12+min tracks of mostly post-metal type stuff, the other are shorter tracks, and doomy post metal type stuff.

Calva Louise
”WTF”
Edge of the Abyss
Mascot
Modern electronic-ish metalcore – female fronted

TUNDRA
ETERNAL
LABEL: ROTTWEILER RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: APRIL 4th 2025
Kind of a screamo-ish deathcore

UNBOUNDED TERROR
SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN HUMANITY
LABEL: XTREEM MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: APRIL 1st 2025
Meaty brutal and groovin’ death metal. Great stuff!

Aldaaron
Par-delà les cimes
Ordre du Givre / Paragon Records (co-release)
4 April 2025
Classic black metal

Godless
Album (EP): Genesis of Decay
Self Released
Release date: April 4th, 2025
Brutal and a bit technical death metal, pushing a smidge into blackened death… a bit of a morbid angel groove

Belnejoum
Dark Tales of Zarathustra
Antiq
4 April 2025
Epic symphonic blackened death

Chronepsis
Weight of Eternity
Self-released
4 April 2025
Techy blackened death

Flagg
Diabolical Bloodlust
Purity Through Fire
4 April 2025
Fast old school melodic black metal

Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro
Unholy Anarchy Records
28 March 2025
Melodic blackened death metal

Bloody Valkyria
Release Title: In Our Home, Across The Fog
Label: Northern Silence Productions
Release Date: April 4, 2025
Melodic and Epic Black Metal

Tyrmfar
Symbiosis EP
Wormholedeath
March 28
Black/Death Metal, fast, technical but with a little room to breathe with some groovin’.

BlackLight
Future Belongs To
Wormholedeath
March 21
Progressive Metal, but mostly a bit chill like a porcupine tree type thing

Teitanblood
From the Visceral Abyss
NoEvDia
28 March 2025
Wall of sound of black metal

WRATH OF LOGARIUS
Crown of Mortis
Season of Mist
4 April 2025
Fast and brutal death metal pushing into the black metal arena

Hate
Iphigenia – radio single
Metal Blade Records
2 May 2025
Single, heavy, straightforward death metal.