The floodgates have opened, and the spring rush of new releases is hitting full force. There’s way more metal coming out this week than I could ever hope to listen to, so I’ve just picked one I know is going to be a good time. I leave the rest to you; find something you like and share it with the group.

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Lady Beast – The Vulture’s Amulet (Reaper Metal Productions) [Heavy Metal]
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Odds are pretty good you already know what to expect from Lady Beast; they’ve been around for quite some time now. The Vulture’s Amulet is certainly more of that, but it’s a little cleaner and a little tighter than everything preceding it. While it doesn’t break any new ground, it’s a good time if you’re down for some trad metal with a touch of Motörhead and Iron Maiden in the music. Hard to go wrong with this one. 4/3/20 (Spear)

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Aara – En Ergô Einai (Debemur Morti Productions) [Black Metal]
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Abigail / Vulcan Tyrant – split (Narcoleptica Productions) [Black/Speed Metal]
Stream (Vulcan Tyrant)

Aeon Aphelion – Blind Descent (Independent) [Death Metal]
Stream

Antipathic – Covered with Rust (Independent) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Inexorable Hierarchy”

The Bathtub Marys – Racketeering Scheme (Independent) [Punk]

Blade of Surtr – Legendarium (Independent) [Black Metal]

Bonfire – Fistful of Fire (AFM Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Rock’n’Roll Survivors”

Clear Sky Nailstorm – The Deep Dark Black (Kernkraftritter Records) [Thrash]
Listen to “Kill It With Fire”

Conception – State of Deception (Independent) [Power Prog]
Listen to “Waywardly Broken”

Dark Fount – 幽浮林澗之霧 (Pest Productions) [Black Metal]
Stream

The Dark Prison Massacre – Secret of Black Silk Stockings (Brutal Mind) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Conviction”

Dawn of Ouroboros – The Art of Morphology (Naturmacht Productions) [Post-Black/Death Metal]
Stream

Depravation – III: Odor Mortis (Lifeforce Records) [Black Metal]
Listen

Destroyer of Light – Generational Warfare (Independent) [Doom]
Stream

Drakonis – Blessed by Embers (Hostile Media) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Threnody”

Dynazty – The Dark Delight (AFM Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Presence of Mind”

Falling Giants/Grodek – Highwayman at the Vesper (split- Independent) [Sludge/Doom]
Stream/Stream

Fishslaughter – Abuelo (Independent) [True Aquatic Black Metal]
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Frozen Moon – Legend of East Dan II (Pest Productions) [Folk/Black Metal]
Stream

Gwendydd – Human Nature (Independent) [Metalcore]
Stream

Halén – Idleness (Independent) [Power Metal]
Preview

Hallowed Hands – Bleeding Pixels (Blue Bedroom Records) […Deathcore?]
Stream

High Inquisitor Woe – Black Sun Goddess (Headbangers Records) [Doom]
Listen to “Black Sun Goddess”

Iceaxe – Lone Climber on the Longest Ridge (Nauseating Whiff Records) [Black Metal]
Stream

Inferit – Diverge in the Absence of Light (Wolfmond Production) [Black Metal]
Stream

Intrepid – Unused Imaginative Capacity (Independent) [Death Metal]
Stream

Jenner – The Test of Time (Inferno Records) [Thrash]
Stream

Live Burial – Unending Futility (Transcending Obscurity) [Death Metal]
Listen

Loviatar – Lightless (Prosthetic Records) [Doom]
Listen to “Cave In”
Review

Manam – Ouroboros (Rockshots Records) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Storm”

Monumentum Damnati – In the Tomb of a Forgotten King (Satanath Records) [Death Doom]
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Natanas – Terminus (Independent) [lolbuttz]
Stream

Nawabs of Destruction – Rising Vengeance (Pathologically Explicit) [Tech Death]
Stream

Nightmourn – Wither into Insignificance (Independent) [DSBM]
Listen to “Consumed by Darkness”

NyreDolk – Indebrændt (Strange Aeons Records) [Black Metal]
Preview

Pale Mare – Pale Mare (EP II) (Seeing Red Records) [Sludge]
Listen

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Viscerals (Rocket Recordings) [Doom]
Listen

Raw – Languish (Brutal Mind) [Brutal Death Metal]
Stream

Rektal Tuşe – Aklen Muaf (Independent) [Grindcore]
Stream

Ripper – Paranormal Waves (Independent) [Prog Death Thrash]
Listen to “Paranormal Waves”

Shodan – Death, Rule over Us (Deformeathing Production) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Fuel to Grandeur”

Slave Hands – No More Feelings (Dry Cough/Gate of Deliria/Minor Obscure/Sewer Prison) [Sludge]
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Solium – Urwerk (Old Temple) [Black Metal]
Listen to “From the Womb of Death”

So Much for the Sun – Face the Dark (Independent) [Sludge/Doom]
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Svartkonst – Black Waves (Independent) [Blackened Death Metal]
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Testament – Titans of Creation (Nuclear Blast) [Thrash]
Listen to “Night of the Witch,” “Children of the Next Level”

Thrashera – Não Gosto! (Hellprod Records) [Thrash/Speed Metal]
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Throat Breach – Humiliating Distortion (Desert Wastelands Productions) [Deathgrind]
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Unholy Craft – It Is the Time of the Christian Fall (Independent) [Black Metal, probably]
Listen to “Intro”

Verminlord – Ennui (Independent) [Black Metal]
Stream

Weed Demon – Crater Maker (Independent) [Stoner Doom]
Listen

Witches of Doom – Funeral Radio (My Kingdom Music) [Doom]
Listen to “Coma Moonlight”

WVRM – Colony Collapse (Prosthetic Records) [Grindcore]
Listen

Yak / Auld Ridge – split (Independent) [Black Metal]
Stream

Zolle – Macello (Subsound Records) [Sludge]
Listen to “S’offre”

Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments!