|| May 2017 Metal Album Releases
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/// Note: the genres come from Encyclopedia Metallum when available. Genre classifications are not always accurate. ///
Black, Pagan, Folk, Viking
Zmrok - Achviara - 5/1/17 (Black)
Cloak - Succumb - 5/5/17 (Black/Death)
Demoniciduth - Enemy of Satan - 5/5/17 (Death/Black)
Infinitas - Civitas Interitus - 5/5/17 (Folk/Heavy)
Slægt - Domus Mysterium - 5/5/17 (Black/Heavy)
The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia - 5/5/17 (Atmospheric Black/Doom)
Opus Diaboli - Black Light of Destruction - 5/10/17 (Black)
Ajattara - Lupaus - 5/12/17 (Black/Groove)
Akroma - Apocalypse [Requiem] - 5/12/17 (Symphonic Progressive Black)
White Ward - Futility Report - 5/12/17 (Post-Black)
Desire for Sorrow - Visions - 5/13/17 (Melodic Black)
Mountains Crave - As We Were When We Were Not - 5/13/17 (Black)
Pure - J'aurais dû - 5/13/17 (Raw Black)
Highland - Loyal to the Nightsky - 5/15/17 (Black)
Somnium Nox - Terra Inanis - 5/15/17 (Atmospheric Black)
AlNamrood - Enkar - 5/16/17 (Black/Thrash)
Nargaroth - Era of Threnody - 5/16/17 (Black)
Cult of Erinyes - Tiberivs - 5/17/17 (Black)
Au-Dessus - End of Chapter - 5/19/17 (Post-Black)
Dødsengel - Interequinox - 5/19/17 (Black)
F41.0 - Bürde - 5/19/17 (Atmospheric Black)
Plagis - Blood and Chaos - 5/20/17 (Black)
Todesstrafe - The Northern Hammer Returns - 5/23/17 (Black)
Norse - The Divine Light of a New Sun - 5/25/17 (Blackened Death)
Tahazu - Black Prophecies ov a Sick Species - 5/25/17 (Black)
Alestorm - No Grave but the Sea - 5/26/17 (Folk/Power)
Emyn Muil - Elenion Ancalima - 5/26/17 (Epic Black)
Jordablod - Upon My Cremation Pyre - 5/26/17 (Black)
Khashm - Asmodeus Rising - 5/26/17 (Black)
Nocte Obducta - Totholz (Ein Raunen aus dem Klammwald) - 5/26/17 (Avant-garde Black)
Sunken - Departure - 5/26/17 (Atmospheric Black)
Цар Стангра - Небесният ковач - 5/26/17 (Black)
Sorrow Plagues - Homecoming - 5/27/17 (Atmospheric Black)
Death
Appalling - Secrets of the Adept - 5/5/17 (Death/Black)
Call of Charon - Long Forgotten Memories - 5/5/17 (Deathcore/Metalcore)
Cerebral Extinction - Necro Parasite Anomaly - 5/5/17 (Brutal Death)
Freiheit - Безумие. Ненависть. Смерть. - 5/5/17 (Black/Death)
ghUSa - Öswedeme - 5/5/17 (Death)
God Dethroned - The World Ablaze - 5/5/17 (Blackened Death)
Gravil - No More Forgiveness - 5/5/17 (Melodic Death)
Hate - Tremendum - 5/5/17 (Death)
Murderline - Evil Has No Shape - 5/5/17 (Death)
Integral - Resilience - 5/5/17 (Technical Death/Deathcore)
Morfin - Consumed by Evil - 5/5/17 (Thrash, Death)
Scrotoctomy - Born to Eviscerate - 5/5/17 (Brutal Death)
Spoil Engine - Stormsleeper - 5/5/17 (Melodic Death/Metalcore)
Tengger Cavalry - Die on My Ride - 5/5/17 (Melodic Death/Folk)
The Monolith Deathcult - Versus 1 - 5/5/17 (Atmospheric Death w/ Electronic influences)
Pictura Poesis - Miseriae Mundi - 5/6/17 (Symphonic Death)
Amentia - Scourge - 5/8/17 (Technical Brutal Death)
Diphenylchloroarsine - Post Apocalyptic Human Annihilation - 5/10/17 (Brutal Death)
Antropofagus - M.O.R.T.E. - Methods of Resurrection Through Evisceration - 5/12/17 (Brutal Death)
Ensnared - Dysangelium - 5/12/17 (Death)
Kin Beneath Chorus - Invia - 5/12/17 (Death Metal/Metalcore)
Magnacult - Infinitum - 5/12/17 (Death/Groove/Metalcore)
Incontinence - Prey for Us - 5/15/17 (Death)
Interminable Corruptions - Xenodimensional Conflux - 5/15/17 (Brutal Death)
Plague Throat - The Human Paradox - 5/15/17 (Death)
Divine Element - Thaurachs of Borsu - 5/19/17 (Melodic Death/Black)
Lo-Ruhamah - Anointing - 5/19/17 (Death/Black w/ Post-Rock Influences)
Red Moon Architect - Return of the Black Butterflies - 5/19/17 (Melodic Death/Doom)
Soul Demise - Thin Red Line - 5/19/17 (Melodic Death)
Unbowed - Through Endless Tides - 5/19/17 (Melodic Death, Metalcore)
Gathering Darkness - The Heat of a Dying Sun - 5/22/17 (Brutal Death)
Soulskinner - Descent to Abaddon - 5/22/17 (Death)
Abuse - Nothing Is Safe - 5/26/17 (Brutal Death/Grindcore)
Figure of Six - Welcome to the Freak Show - 5/26/17 (Melodic Death/Metalcore)
In Reverence - The Selected Breed - 5/26/17 (Atmospheric Death)
Lost Dreams - Exhale - 5/26/17 (Melodic Death)
Narthraal - Screaming from the Grave - 5/26/17 (Death)
Suffering Hour - In Passing Ascension - 5/26/17 (Blackened Death)
Trinity Site - After the Sun - 5/26/17 (Melodic Death)
Thrash, Groove, Speed
Distillator - Summoning the Malicious - 5/1/17 (Thrash)
Evil - 邪悪を讃えよ (Rites of Evil) - 5/1/17 (Thrash/Black/Speed)
Skinlepsy - Dissolved - 5/1/17 (Thrash)
Eruption - Cloaks of Oblivion - 5/2/17 (Thrash/Power)
Elbereth - Karma - 5/2/17 (Thrash)
Arakara - Shadow of Violence - 5/5/17 (Thrash)
Dead Season - Prophecies - 5/5/17 (Thrash)
Hero's Last Rite - Wasted Prayer - 5/5/17 (Thrash)
Zombie Lake - The Dawn of Horror - 5/5/17 (Thrash)
Mirrors of Obsidian - From One Form - 5/10/17 (Progressive/Groove)
Sinorma - Love like... - 5/11/17 (Groove)
Heavy Justice - And So We Fall... - 5/12/17 (Heavy/Thrash)
Voice of Ruin - Purge and Purify - 5/12/17 (Thrash/Groove/Deathcore)
Expander - Endless Computer - 5/16/17 (Crossover/Thrash)
The Bleeding - Rites of Absolution - 5/19/17 (Death/Thrash)
Hexhammer - Hexhammer - 5/24/17 (Black/Speed/Punk)
Ancient Dome - The Void Unending - 5/26/17 (Thrash)
Contorsion - United Zombie Nations - 5/26/17 (Thrash)
Days of Grace - Logos - 5/26/17 (Thrash/Thrashcore)
W.I.L.D. - Purgatorius - 5/26/17 (Thrash/Death)
Warfare - Evo - 5/26/17 (Speed/NWOBHM)
Smackfactor - Use Once and Destroy - 5/27/17 (Technical Groove, Metalcore)
Power, Prog, Symphonic, Gothic
Burning Shadows - Truth in Legend - 5/5/17 (Power/Heavy)
Eisregen - Fleischfilm - 5/5/17 (Gothic/Black/Death)
Echotime - Side - 5/5/17 (Progressive)
Slagduster - Deadweight - 5/5/17 (Progressive)
Sacred Oath - Twelve Bells - 5/12/17 (Power/Thrash)
Voyager - Ghost Mile - 5/12/17 (Melodic Progressive)
Kaledon - Carnagus - Emperor of the Darkness - 5/15/17 (Power)
Харизма - Бьёмся за небо - 5/15/17 (Melodic Power)
Custard - A Realm of Tales - 5/19/17 (Power)
DragonForce - Reaching into Infinity - 5/19/17 (Power)
Mastercastle - Wine of Heaven - 5/19/17 (Power)
Shivered - Journey to Fade - 5/20/17 (Gothic Metal/Rock)
Soulspell - The Second Big Bang - 5/25/17 (Melodic Power)
A Hero for the World - West to East, Pt. I: Frontier Vigilante (Power Edition) - 5/26/17 (Power)
Dream Evil - Six - 5/26/17 (Heavy/Power)
Ravage - Return of Spectral Rider - 5/26/17 (Power/Speed)
Rhapsody of Fire - Legendary Years - 5/26/17 (Symphonic Power)
Wind Rose - Stonehymn - 5/26/17 (Progressive/Power)
Stoner, Doom, Sludge, Drone
Gurt - Skullossus - 5/1/17 (Sludge)
Mudbath - Brine Pool - 5/2/17 (Stoner/Sludge/Doom)
Drug Honkey - Cloak of Skies - 5/5/17 (Experimental Death/Doom)
Lying Figures - The Abstract Escape - 5/7/17 (Doom/Death)
Apocalypse Orchestra - The End Is Nigh - 5/12/17 (Folk/Doom)
Hibagọn - Polyposmic - 5/12/17 (Stoner/Doom)
Merchant - Beneath - 5/12/17 (Sludge/Doom)
Samsara Blues Experiment - One with the Universe - 5/12/17 (Stoner/Doom)
Summoner - Beyond the Realm of Light - 5/12/17 (Stoner/Doom)
Beastmaker - Inside the Skull - 5/19/17 (Doom)
Below - Upon a Pale Horse - 5/19/17 (Epic Doom)
Harvestman - Music for Megaliths - 5/19/17 (Folk/Drone/Sludge/Ambient)
Loss - Horizonless - 5/19/17 (Death/Doom)
Old Season - Beyond the Black - 5/19/17 (Epic Heavy/Doom)
Soijl - As the Sun Sets on Life - 5/22/17 (Melodic Doom/Death)
Blackout - The Horse - 5/25/17 (Stoner/Doom)
Avatarium - Hurricanes and Halos - 5/26/17 (Doom)
Below the Sun - Alien World - 5/26/17 (Progressive Doom)
Norska - Too Many Winters - 5/26/17 (Sludge/Doom)
Cold Insight - Further Nowhere - 5/28/17 (Atmospheric Melodic Doom/Death)
Misc
Bleed Again - Momentum - 5/1/17 (Metalcore)
Oniku - Way to Live - 5/1/17 (Goregrind/Grindcore)
Excalibur - Humo negro - 5/3/17 (Heavy)
Nagaarum - Homo Maleficus - 5/3/17 (Experimental Doom/Dark Ambient/Black)
Andy James - Exodus - 5/5/17 (Heavy/Shred)
Helker - Firesoul - 5/5/17 (Heavy)
Oxbow - Thin Black Duke - 5/5/17 (Stoner/Doom, Avant-garde)
Viscera/// - 3 | Release Yourself Through Desperate - 5/517 (Psychedelic/Drone/Groove Metal/Post-Hardcore)
Kobra and the Lotus - Prevail I - 5/12/17 (Heavy)
Sabbath Assembly - Rites of Passage - 5/12/17 (Psychedelic Rock, Doom)
Black Hawk - The End of the World - 5/19/17 (Heavy)
Malevolence - Self Supremacy - 5/19/17 (Metalcore)
Simplefast - Apocalypse - 5/19/17 (Heavy)
After Dusk - The Character of Physical Law - 5/23/17 (Heavy/Thrash)
Danzig - Black Laden Crown - 5/26/17 (Heavy Metal w/ Doom/Rock influences)
Legionnaire - Dawn of Genesis - 5/26/17 (Heavy)
Tytan - Justice:Served! - 5/26/17 (NWOBHM, Heavy)
Nightpröwler - Unholy Rawness - 5/27/17 (Heavy/Punk)
