Release Round Up - April 10th, 2026
Every week there is a tidal wave of new music released unto the world. Each Friday we'll round up some of the best new music available, some we've reviewed, some we haven't, but all worth checking out!
Theres a lot of new heavy music hitting the airwaves this week, everything from black metal, death metal, gothic metal, Stoner rock, doom, thrash metal and even some of your traditional heavy metal!
Here's what we think you should check out today!
ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Floridian deathcore outfit Bodysnatcher release 'Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home' via MNRK heavy.
"Those just wanting to have your face ripped-off by the utter inhuman musical brutality of three lads called Kyle and one called Chris, are in for a good time."
Read out full review here.
Lincolnshire sludge trio Mild release debut album 'Boss'.
"a good feel of how fearsome the band will be in a live setting"
Read our full review here.
From Germany's industrial heartland spawns Resurrected and new album 'Perpetual', released via Testimony Records.
"for those who have acquired the taste for this breed of rotteness it will doubtless leave a grin plastered on your mug that you could measure in miles."
Read our full review here.
The Melvins and Napalm Death team up to release 'Savage Imperial Death March' via Ipecac Recordings.
"this collaboration is a breath of fresh air and could prove to be one of the most important records of the year."
Read our full review here.
New York death metal legends Immolation prepare to unleash 'Descent' via Nuclear Blast.
"equally violent, atmospheric, vast and malevolent."
Read our full review here.
Central Arkansas-based, cyber-industrial x metal quartet Levels release 'This Will Make You Feel Again' via Sharptone Records.
"Levels take you on an emotional journey, tinged with dark industrial noise"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Black Oak County - Misprint (Mighty Music)
Blush Puppy - here You Dream [EP] (Venn Records)
Broadside - Nowhere, At Last (Thriller Records)
DA - DA (Independent)
Degreed - Curtain Calls (Frontiers Music SRL)
Fighter V - Deja Vu (Frontiers Music SRL)
God - Chronicles of Gnowt Vol. 1 (Rocket Recordings)
Our Nameless Boy - Throns [EP] (Independent)
Sidebürns - Beer Füeled Bastard (Independent)
Sweet - Reincarnation (Metalville)
The Lords of Altomont - Forever Loaded (Heavy Psych Sounds)
The Neptune Power Federation - Mondo Tomorrow (Cruz Del Sur Music)
The Sideshows - The Sideshows (European Phonographic)
Heavy Metal
Negaatio - Mieleni Murtama (Inverse Records)
Warhog - Ethereal Journey (Iron Tusk Productions)
Black Metal
Chronicler of Ardul - Sounds of Ardul (Independent)
Doedsvangr - Within The Flesh (Soulseller Records)
Sicarius - Nex (Adirondack Black Mass)
Silaera - An Aberration of the Void (Independent)
Tarask - Sitra Ahra (Antiq)
Throwing Bricks & Ontaard - Something To Lose (Independent)
Uada - Interwoven (Eisenwald Records)
Urluk - Memories in Fade (Pest Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Battlegrave - Enslavement (Independent)
Damnation Aeon - In Flame We trust (Eclectic Productions)
Gore Force V - Annus Porcus Oinkus (Independent)
Inferi - Heaven Wept (The Artisan Era)
Melechesh - Sentinels of Shamash [EP] (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Riket - 2026 (Black Lion Records)
Sectarian Defacement - Hostile Consuming Rapture (Grave Island Records)
The Machinist - Towers (Independent)
Vomitory - In Death Throes (Metal Blade Records)
Worship The Sacrifice - Veil of Revelations [EP] (Independent)
Deathcore
bleak. - It's All Bleak (Prime Collective)
Obey The Kraken - Apocrypha [EP] (Seek and Strike)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Goatpsalm - Beneath (Aesthetic Death)
Masheena - Let The Spiders In (Majestic Mountain Records / Ripple Music)
Nick Oliveri - N.O. Hits At All Vol. 10 (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Slow Draw - Burnt Counters (Independent)
Suncraft - Welcome To The Coven (All Good Clean Records)
Ten East / Soft Sun - Tirned to Stone Chapter 10 [SPLIT ALBUM} (Ripple Music)
Truckfighters - Masterflow (Fuzzorama Records)
Waste A Saint - ...And It's Evergreen (All Good Clean Records)
Witch Ripper - Through The Hourglass (Magnetic Eye Records)
Industrial
Demonologists w/ Vainoras - Plantae Arcanvs (Aesthetic Death)
Lord of the Lost - OPVS NOIR Vol. 3 (Napalm Records)
Metalcore
As Everything Unfolds - Did You Ask To Be Set Free? (Century Media Records)
Frontside - Nemesis (Massacre Records)
The Mechanist - Synthetic Sun (Independent)
Prog Rock / Metal
Long Distance Calling - The Phantm Void (earMUSIC)
Mines - Nous [EP] (Independent)
Poly-Math - Something Deeply Hidden (The Lasers Edge)
Voidchaser - Interstellar I (Independent)
Punk
Exploding Head Syndrome - Age of Deviation (Vestkyst Records)
I Am The Avalanche - The Horror Show (Rude / Equal Vision Records)
Stepmother - Absurdus Manifestus (Tee Pee Records)
... and the rest!
Amulets - Rem(a)inders (Pelagice Records) Drone/Experimental
Cave Dweller - Showing Teeth (Aesthetic Death) Neo-Folk
Dimwind - The Carrion Waltz (Independent) Post-Metal
Love Rarely - Pain Travels (Big Scary Monsters) Post-Punk/Math-Rock
Nukem - The Grave Remains (Redefining Darkness Records) Thrash Metal
Octo - Idyll (Mörtel Sounds) Noise Rock
Repetita Iuvant - 3+2 (Argonauta Records) Post-Rock
