Release Round Up - April 3rd, 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
American heavy metal icons Corrosion of Conformity unleash double album 'Good God / Baad Man' via Nuclear Blast.
"an album that signals the return of one of metal’s much-loved bands."
Read out full review here.
Nervosa unleashes another round of fury on their new album 'Slave Machine' released via Napalm Records.
"sharper and more intense, with more impressive guitar work from Kotina."
Read out full review here.
The most intriguing band name and album title of the year. Onchocerciasis Esophagogastroduodenoscopy release 'Fugue Gnawed from the Scabbed God Cerebrum' via Gore House Productions.
"a crazy, heady mixture of the heavy and the ridiculous, but at least it’s never boring!"
Read our full review here.
Crème Flesh are licensed to blast, brutalize on new album 'For Your Ass Only', released via Comatose Music.
"sometimes a few fun slams is all you need for a good time."
Read our full review here.
Green Carnation reach crushing new highs on 'A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis' released via Season of Mist.
"another stunning piece of progressive metal goodness."
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
E.T.C - Tuyo (L'islet Records)
ForeignWolf - Merely Mortal (Independent)
Jarboe - Sightings (Consouling Sounds)
Masca - love Letters (Cold Hard Bangers)
Michael Sweet - The Master Plan (Frontiers Music SRL)
The Fuse - In Posterity (Independent)
Heavy Metal
Chariots Overdrive - The End of Antiquity (Gates of Hell Records)
Northophere - Full Send [EP] (Independent)
Obey The Sun - Desert Ritual (Eclipse Records)
Thunderor - Bleed For It (Boonsdale Records)
Visions of Terror - The Dark Triad (Arson Theory)
Black Metal
Bloody Valkyria - Requiem: Reveries of the Dying (Northern Silence Productions)
Death Dies - Maledicti In Aeternvm (My Kingdom Music)
Forlorn Citadel - An Oath Undone (Northern Silence Productions)
Kroyer - Towering Iron (Independent)
Malauriu - The Third Nail (Adirondack Black Mass)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Anasarca - Achlys (Selfmadegod Records)
Apolaustic - No Plenitude Without Suffering (Transcending Obscurity records)
Cenotafio - La Escisión Acausal: Por La Vía Inversa Hacia La Descarnación (Demoniac Productions)
Evilean - Exhumation Evilean [EP] (Independent)
Exhumation / Funeral Chant - Sacred Path: Temple of Death [SPLIT ALBUM] (Carbonized Records)
Graveborn - Metempsychosis (Independent)
Relic - Crown of Flies (Independent)
SolNegre - Anthems For The Grand Collapse (Meuse Music Records)
Splendidula - Absentia (Argonauta Records)
Towering - The Oblation of Man (Dolorem Records)
Unearthly Rites - Tortural Symphony Of The Flesh (Svart Records)
Vanir - Wyrd (Mighty Music)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Akem Manah - Threnodies (Black Lion Records)
Commitment - Fear Of (Get Better Records)
Deathbird Earth - Objective Consciousness (SRA Records)
Sunn O))) - Sunn O))) (Sub Pop)
Zanjeer - Seher-e-Maqhoor (Neon Nile Records)
Punk
Palmar De Troya - III (Reptillian Records)
Poison Ruin - Hymns from the Hills (Relapse Records)
Thrash Metal
Slaamaskin - Endevendt (Independent)
Toxic Shock - Future Is Calling (This Charming Man Records)
... and the rest!
A Place To Buy Strangers - Rare & Deadly (Dedstrange) [Noise Rock/Post-Punk]
Chainfight - EP II (Inhuman Assault Productions) [Hardcore]
Dust - Thoughts of a Falling Man (Rockshots Records) [Metalcore]
No Terror In The Bang - Existence (Klonosphere Records) [Progressive Metal]
Orathania - Echo of Freedom (Archivist Records) [Folk Metal]
Rats Will Feast - An Evocation (Time To Kill Records) [Post-Hardcore]
Void of Light - Asymmetries (Ripcord Records) [Post-Metal]
