Easter is right around the corner, and you can finally spend your hard-earned dineros on overpriced molded chocolate to your heart’s content — we won’t judge. Alternatively, here’s some music for your consideration. Wait a second… How did all that exquisite metal get in there? Don’t give me that look! As always, please feel free to use the comment section to request reviews, let us know us what we missed, link to photos of your home-cooked rabbit stew (or plant-based equivalents) and/or tell everyone what you’re hyped for.
Ancient Death – Ego Dissolution
Genre: Death Metal / Death Doom / Prog
Label: Profound Lore
Beirut – A Study of Losses
Genre: Indie Pop / Indie Folk
Label: Pompeii
Charles Mingus – In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts
Genre: Post-Bop / Avant-Garde Jazz
Label: Resonance
Crypts of Despair – We Belong in the Grave
Genre: Deathcore / Death Metal
Label: Transcending Obscurity
Dormant Ordeal – Tooth and Nail
Genre: Death Metal / Black Metal
Label: Willowtip
Iron Lung – Adapting // Crawling
Genre: Powerviolence
Label: Self-released
Julien Baker & TORRES – Send a Prayer My Way
Genre: Singer-Songwriter / Indie Rock
Label: Matador
Karg – Marodeur
Genre: Blackgaze / Atmospheric Black Metal
Label: AOP
Lik – Necro
Genre: Death Metal
Label: Metal Blade
Lucy Railton – Blue Veil
Genre: Electroacoustic / Reductionism
Label: Ideologic Organ
Mayday Parade – Sweet
Genre: Emo-Pop / Pop Punk
Label: Self-released
Melvins – Thunderball
Genre: Sludge Metal / Experimental Rock
Label: Ipecac
Neil Young – Coastal
Genre: Singer-Songwriter / Folk Rock
Label: Reprise
Ostraca – Eventualities
Genre: Screamo / Emoviolence / Post-Metal
Label: Persistent Vision
PainKiller – The Great God Pan
Genre: Free Jazz / Illbient
Label: Tzadik
quicky, quickly – I Heard That Noise
Genre: Indie Pop / Indie Folk
Label: Ghostly
Red Moon Architect – October Decay
Genre: Death Doom Metal / Funeral Doom / Gothic Metal
Label: Noble Demon
Serpentes – Desert Psalms
Genre: Black Metal
Label: Norma Evangelium Diaboli
Superheaven – Superheaven
Genre: Alternative Rock / Post-Grunge
Label: Self-Released
TK From Ling Tosite Sigure – Whose Blue
Genre: Post-Hardcore / Art Rock / Shimokita-kei
Label: Sony Music Associated
Tribunal – In Penitence and Ruin
Genre: Doom Metal / Gothic Metal
Label: 20 Buck Spin
Tunde Adebimpe – Thee Black Boltz
Genre: Art Pop
Label: Sub Pop
Wiz Khalifa – Kush & OJ 2
Genre: Pop Rap / Cloud Rap / Trap
Label: Self-released