Here are all the new releases for April 6th to 12th. Releases reflect proposed North American scheduling, if available. Expect to see most of these albums on shelves or distros on Fridays.
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New Releases 4/6/25 – 4/12/25
Karçaz — The Sound That Echoes Through the Underworld | Independent | Black Metal | Brazil (Belo Horizonte)
The sole member of Karçaz, Profanus Damasus, was born in 2005. His youth gives The Sound That Echoes Through the Underworld, which isn’t even his debut album, by the way, its edge. It also ties it to black metal’s past as the music of angry teens striking iron in search of identity. While this record isn’t game-changing–it’s iterative of first-wave black metal laced with early developments of the Norwegian scene–it’s glorious in its own right thanks to the scuffed vocal production, the prickly guitars, and the dissected bass twangs.
–Colin Dempsey
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Fryktelig Støy — Incandescent | I, Voidhanger Records | Black Metal + Doom Metal | Australia (Victoria)
The one-woman act Fryktelig Støy finds the common haunted ground between black metal and doom metal. In her case, the former is occultish and charred while the latter is richly atmospheric. Errant guitar fuzz and overdubbed vocals, not dissimilar from Anna von Hausswolf’s, take the reigns to great effect on Incandescent. It’s both mesmerizing and uncomfortable.
–Colin Dempsey
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Final Dose — Under the Eternal Shadow | Wolves of Hades | Black Metal | United Kingdom (London)
Final Dose writes that they are a “black metal punk” band, and while they likely are in mentality, don’t let that fool you–these guys are resolutely black metal. Under the Eternal Shadow basks beneath Darkthrone, taking the boot-stomping beats of A Blaze in the Northern Sky into more rudimentary, but highly infectious, directions. It’s as if they sentence technicality to the gulag and sing “long live 4/4 time and spiked bracelets.”
–Colin Dempsey
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The Infernal Deceit — The True Harmful Black | Personal Records | Black Metal + Death Metal | Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Albums like The True Harmful Black bring Gary Holt’s wise words to mind. The riffs here are bountiful. They descend from dark blue and purple castles of old, armed with the solos and finesse of melodic death metal’s peak era. Is the record more than just riffs? Of course, but it’s hard to talk over them when tracks like “Schwarz” roll up.
–Colin Dempsey
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In the Woods… — Otra | Prophecy Productions | Heavy Metal + Doom Metal | Norway (Kristiansand)
From Colin Dempsey’s premiere:
These are weighty songs, heavy with multi-layered arrangements dangling from their necks. The progressive and doom tinges of the previous records have been supplanted by traditional heavy metal, albeit distilled by In the Woods…’s trademark gloom. Riffs and passages are never just mighty, they are downcast, as if living with guilt.
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Neptunian Maximalism — Le Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu (LSDSI) | I, Voidhanger Records | Avant-garde Metal | Belgium (Brussels)
From Colin Dempsey’s premiere:
The track’s improvisation is a means to express spirituality and surrealism. Combining these two creates a trance-like experience that’s based on intuition. Although free jazz is in Neptunian Maximalism’s blood, they turn inwards and away from jazz’s pageantry. The title spells it out–layers of guitars act independently of one another to weave a cohesive piece in which no singular actor dominates. The catch is that it appears in disarray and discordance unless you forcefully ingest the track as a whole.
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Putrid Offal — Obliterated Life | Time to Kill Records | Death Metal + Grindcore | France (Valenciennes)
As if to prove that age is just a number, Putrid Offal delivers their third record since 1990. Obliterated Life moves at a frenetic pace and only makes detours for sticky breakdowns. Fair warning; the grooves they lay down will worm their way into your subconscious.
–Colin Dempsey
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Gabestok — Alle Dør I Fremtiden | Crypt of the Wizard | Black Metal + Punk | Denmark
Another unhinged volume of delightfully reckless black metal — packing in wild falsetto vocals and a sense of drug-laced grandeur, this is just fun start to finish.
–Ted Nubel
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Håndgemeng — Satanic Panic Attack | Ripple Music | Heavy Metal + Doom Metal | Norway
Inspired by the pearl-clutching movement in the 1980s and 1990s, here Håndgemeng attempt to create the music people should have been afraid of. On “The Cauldron Born,” Dokken-esque riffs meet blast beats and screams in a maximalist package that aims to shock and thrill, and elsewhere the band’s traditional doom inspirations bring in low-end menace.
–Ted Nubel
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Messa — The Spin | Metal Blade Records | Doom Metal + Rock | Italy
Messa’s new album only somewhat lingers in the realm of doom metal, preferring to branch out into the Italian group’s expansive own world that steps outside of conventions. Except for the vocals — always a trademark standout — there’s honestly more Tony Martin-era Sabbath-isms here than anything close to traditional doom metal.
–Ted Nubel
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Slough Feg — Traveller Supplement 1: The Ephemeral Glades | Cruz del Sur Music | Heavy Metal | United States (San Francisco, California)
I won’t pretend to understand how this fits into the lore of the original Traveller album (it’s billed as a continuation of sorts), but musically this EP is an excellent follow-up to the classic album, packing in insane dual-guitar heavy metal always ready to blast off on a bizarre tangent.
–Ted Nubel
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