April Metal Album Releases
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January Releases
February Releases
March Releases
/// Note: the genres come from Encyclopedia Metallum when available. Categorization is not always accurate. ///
/// There are more releases than what's listed here, but if I couldn't find a preview or promo track on YT, soundcloud, or bandcamp, the release was dropped from the list ///
It's not "metal", but shout-out to our very own @Randbo who released a first EP on bandcamp this month.
https://xrandbox.bandcamp.com/album/center-of-interest-ep
Forum thread
Here's the list of April releases:
Black/Pagan/Folk/Viking
Haxen - Haxen - 4/1/16 (Black Metal)
Krigsgrav - Waves of Degradation - 4/1/16 (Melodic Black Metal)
Moonsorrow - Jumalten aika - 4/1/16 (Folk/Pagan/Black Metal)
Depicting Abysm - Passage - 4/1/16 (Atmospheric Black Metal)
Vetten Äpärät - Syntyi talven kyynelistä - 4/1/16 (Folk Metal)
Frozen Mist - The Tenalach Prophecy - 4/2/16 (Pagan Black Metal)
Negative Voice - Cold Redrafted - 4/4/16 (Melodic Black Metal)
VII Batallón de la Muerte - Semper Patriae Servire Praesto - 4/7/16 (Black Metal)
Bog of the Infidel - Asleep in the Arms of Suicide - 4/8/16 (Black Metal)
Cretura - Fall of the Seventh Golden Star - 4/8/16 (Symphonic Black Metal)
Alkerdeel - Lede - 4/15/16 (Raw Sludge/Black Metal)
Howls of Ebb - Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows - 4/15/16 (Black/Death Metal)
SIG:AR:TYR - Northen - 4/15/16 (Dark Ambient/Acoustic/Folk Metal)
Sheidim - Shrines of the Void - 4/15/16 (Black/Death Metal)
Woman is the Earth - Torch of Our Final Night - 4/15/16 (Black Metal)
Deathpass - Gospel of the Serpent - 4/20/16 (Black Metal)
Nocturnal Awakening - Nocturnal Awakening - 4/20/16 (Raw Black Metal)
Darkend - The Canticle of Shadows - 4/25/16 (Symphonic Black Metal)
Korgonthurus - Vuohen siunaus - 4/27/16 (Black Metal)
Bloody Blasphemy - Total Death Celebration - 4/28/16 (Black Metal)
Darkestrah - Turan - 4/29/16 (Epic Black Metal with Folk Influences)
Mistur - In Memoriam - 4/29/16 (Folk/Viking/Black Metal)
Plebeian Grandstand - False Highs, True Lows - 4/29/16 (Avant-garde Black Metal/Mathcore/Powerviolence)
Schammasch - Triangle - 4/29/16 (Avant-garde/Black Metal)
Svarttjern - Dødsskrik - 4/29/16 (Black Metal)
Vidargängr - A World That Has to Be Opposed - 4/29/16 (Black Metal)
Eternal Alchemist - Demon Summoning - 4/30/16 (Black Metal)
Gevurahel - N.A.S. Parte I - 4/30/16 (Black Metal)
Ithaqua - The Black Mass Sabbath Pulse - 4/30/16 (Black Metal)
Death
Battlesword - Banners of Destruction - 4/1/16 (Melodic Death Metal)
Novembre - URSA - 4/1/16 (Progressive Gothic/Doom/Death Metal)
Embalmer - Emanations from the Crypt - 4/1/16 (Death Metal)
Interment - Scent of the Buried - 4/1/16 (Death Metal)
Path of Destiny - Dreams in Splendid Black - 4/1/16 (Symphonic Death/Black Metal)
Somnus Aeternus - Somnus Aeternus - 4/1/16 (Doom/Death/Gothic Metal)
Clawhammer Abortion - Slaughter Campaign - 4/5/16 (Death Metal)
Bloodred - Nemesis - 4/8/16 (Blackened Death Metal)
Geryon - The Wound and the Bow - 4/8/16 (Death Metal)
Inherit Disease - Ephemeral - 4/8/16 (Technical Brutal Death Metal)
Burning Hatred - Carnage - 4/9/16 (Death Metal)
Talamyus - Honour Is Our Code, Death Is the Reward - 4/12/16 (Melodic Death/Thrash Metal)
Dark Oath - When Fire Engulfs the Earth - 4/15/16 (Epic Melodic Death Metal)
Fractured Insanity - Man Made Hell - 4/15/16 (Technical Brutal Death Metal)
Inactive Messiah - Dark Masterpiece - 4/15/16 (Melodic Death Metal)
Murder Made God - Enslaved - 4/15/16 (Technical/Brutal Death Metal)
Omophagia - In the Name of Chaos - 4/15/16 (Death Metal)
The Zenith Passage - Solipsist - 4/15/16 (Technical Death Metal)
Decimated Humans - Dismantling the Decomposed Entities - 4/16/16 (Brutal Death Metal)
Live Burial - Forced Back to Life - 4/18/16 (Death/Doom Metal)
Ferium - Behind the Black Eyes - 4/21/16 (Death Metal/Metalcore)
Aborted - Retrogore - 4/22/16 (Death Metal)
Autokrator - The Obedience to Authority - 4/22/16 (Death/Drone/Doom Metal)
October Tide - Winged Waltz - 4/22/16 (Melodic Doom/Death Metal)
Reptilian - Perennial Void Traverse - 4/22/16 (Death Metal)
This Ending - Garden of Death - 4/22/16 (Melodic Death Metal)
Zealotry - The Last Witness - 4/22/16 (Death Metal)
Abnormality - Mechanisms of Omniscience - 4/29/16 (Technical/Brutal Death Metal)
Fallujah - Dreamless - 4/29/16 (Progressive/Technical Death Metal/Deathcore)
Graveyard - ...for Thine Is the Darkness - 4/29/16 (Death Metal)
Slaughterday - Laws of the Occult - 4/29/16 (Death Metal)
Thrash/Groove
Game Over - Crimes Against Reality - 4/1/16 (Thrash Metal)
VHS - Screaming Mad Gore - 4/1/16 (Death/Thrash Metal)
Desaster - The Oath of an Iron Ritual - 4/8/16 (Black/Thrash Metal)
Insulter - Crypts of Satan - 4/8/16 (Thrash/Black/Death Metal)
Ragehammer - The Hammer Doctrine - 4/8/16 (Black/Thrash Metal)
Elvaron - Ghost of a Blood Tie - 4/11/16 (Progressive Thrash Metal)
Beholder - Reflections - 4/12/16 (Power/Thrash Metal)
Barbarian - Cult of the Empty Grave - 4/15/16 (Speed/Thrash/Black Metal)
Hemotoxin - Biological Enslavement - 4/15/16 (Progressive Death/Thrash Metal)
Braindamage - The Downfall - 4/18/16 (Progressive Thrash Metal)
Incite - Oppression - 4/22/15 (Thrash/Groove Metal)
Occult Burial - Hideous Obscure - 4/25/16 (Black/Thrash Metal)
Woslom - A Near Life Experience - 4/25/16 (Thrash Metal)
Clear Sky Nailstorm - The Inner Abyss - 4/29/16 (Melodic Thrash Metal)
Discharge - End of Days - 4/29/16 (Hardcore Punk, Heavy/Thrash Metal)
Minotaur - Beast of Nations - 4/29/16 (Thrash Metal)
Organic Illusion - The Linear Chaos - 4/29/16 (Groove Metal)
Power/Prog/Symphonic/Gothic
Beyond God - A Moment of Black - 4/1/16 (Symphonic Metal)
Ghosthill - I.C.E. - 4/1/16 (Power Metal)
Thunderstone - Apocalypse Again - 4/1/16 (Power Metal)
Ihsahn - Arktis. - 4/8/16 (Extreme Progressive Metal)
Cirrha Niva - Out of the Freakshow - 4/14/16 (Progressive/Gothic Metal)
Inner Blast - Prophecy - 4/15/16 (Gothic Metal)
The Silent Rage - The Deadliest Scourge - 4/15/16 (Melodic Power Metal)
The Foreshadowing - Seven Heads Ten Horns - 4/22/16 (Gothic/Doom Metal)
Haken - Affinity - 4/29/16 (Progressive Metal)
Stoner/Doom/Sludge
Bossk - Audio Noir - 4/1/16 (Atmospheric Sludge Metal)
Graves at Sea - The Curse that Is - 4/1/16 (Sludge/Doom Metal)
Victorian Whore Dogs - Afternoonified - 4/1/16 (Sludge Metal)
Cabeza de Caballo - Dölmenn - 4/4/16 (Stoner/Doom Metal)
Sourvein - Aquatic Occult - 4/7/16 (Sludge/Doom Metal)
Boss Keloid - Herb Your Enthusiasm - 4/8/16 (Sludge Metal)
Eyes Front North - From Shape to Name - 4/8/16 (Sludge Metal/Post-Hardcore)
Sinistro - Semente - 4/8/16 (Sludge/Doom/Post-Metal)
Sunnata - Zorya - 4/11/16 (Stoner/Sludge Metal)
Black Rainbows - Stellar Prophecy - 4/15/16 (Psychedelic/Stoner Metal)
Blizaro - Cornucopia della morte - 4/15/16 (Progressive Rock/Doom Metal)
Mantar - Ode to the Flame - 4/15/16 (Sludge Metal)
Boudain - Way of the Hoof - 4/20/16 (Stoner/Doom Metal)
Verdun - The Eternal Drift's Canticles - 4/20/16 (Sludge/Doom Metal)
Beastwars - The Death of All Things - 4/22/16 (Sludge/Stoner Metal)
Tombstoned - II - 4/22/16 (Psychedelic Stoner/Doom Metal)
Candlemass - Behind the Wall of Doom (Compilation Album) - 4/28/16 (Epic Doom Metal)
Witchthroat Serpent - Sang-Dragon - 4/30/16 (Stoner/Doom Metal)
Misc
Undead Viking Mafia - No Trials for Traitors - 4/12/16 (Southern Metal)
Crematory - Monument - 4/15/16 (Industrial/Gothic Metal)
L'Esprit du Clan - Chapitre VI - 4/15/16 (Metalcore)
Diamond Head - Diamond Head - 4/22/16 (NWOBHM, Hard rock)
Germ - Escape - 4/29/16 (Post-Black Metal/Shoegaze/Electronica)