New & Noteworthy, Metal Insider’s weekly column highlights some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week, we’re catching up with April 15th through March 18th 2022’s releases, which features new music from Darkher, Animals As Leaders, Undeath, Dark Funeral, and more. For previous releases you can read here, and don’t forget to check out Metal by Numbers. Be sure to follow us on Spotify to get this month’s New & Noteworthy Playlist, updated every Friday with the newest metal releases.
April 15:
Abstracted, Atma Conflux (M-Theory Audio)
Adamantis, The Daemon’s Strain
Aeon of Awareness, Wairua
Alunah, Strange Machine (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Analepsy, Quiescence
Anubis, Eternal Youth, Eternal Night
Atoll, Prepuce
Axel Rudi Pell, Lost XXIII (SPV/Steamhammer)
Crisix, Full HD
Darkher, The Buried Storm (Prophecy)
DeVicious, Black Heart (Pride & Joy)
Incandescence, Le coeur de l’homme
Manegarm, Ynglingaättens Öde (Napalm)
Monuments, In Stasis (Century Media)
Nazareth, Surviving The Law (Frontiers)
Nonsun, Blood & Spirit
Obsidian Shrine, Bloodshed Under the Black Star
Poison Rose, Little Bang Theory (Frontiers)
Quemasantos, Quemasantos
Ronnie Romero, Raised On Radio (Frontiers)
Semblant, Vermilion Eclipse (Frontiers)
Silent Vanity, Acoustic Wisdom
Sleepless, Host Desecration
Solus ex Inferis, Exogenesis
Stone Broken, Revelation (Spinefarm)
These Arms Are Snakes, Duct Tape & Shivering Crows (Suicide Squeeze)
Unbenign, Unbenign
Viande, L’abîme dévore les âmes
April 8:
Abysmalist, Vile Possession
Acidez, In Punk We Thrash
Angel Nation, Antares (Inner Wound)
Atlantis Chronicles, Nera
Bellgrave, Back as King
Bjorn Riis, Everything To Everyone (Karisma)
Black Swan, Generation Mind (Frontiers)
Blood Torrent, Void Universe
Chloranthy, Solace in the Arms of Thy Beauty
Decasia, An Endless Feast For Hyenas (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Destruction, Diabolical (Napalm)
Diminished Empires, The Dawn of Failure
Egor Lappo, Naturealism
Envy Of None, Envy Of None (Kscope)
First Signal, Closer To The Edge (Frontiers)
Fortune, Level Ground (Frontiers)
From Those Ashes, Contagion
Hallas, Isle Of Wisdom (Napalm)
Health, DISCO4 :: PART II (Loma Vista)
Heidra, To Hell or Kingdom Come
Incite, Wake Up Dead (Atomic Fire)
Inglorious, MMXXI Live At The Phoenix (Frontiers)
Kaamos Warriors, Spirit from the Void
Linda Lindas, Growing Up (Epitaph)
Lux Incerta, Dark Odyssey (Klonosphere/Season Of Mist)
Marrasmieli, Martaiden mailta
Mors Principium Est, Liberate The Unborn Humanity (AFM)
Mortal Hatred, Odyssey
Pact, God Only Knows
Papa Roach, Ego Trip (New Noize)
Quasimodo, Cancer City
Rejuvenation, Crystalline
Saints ‘n’ Sinners, Rise of the Alchemist
Saphath, Ascension of the Dark Prophet
Terzij de Horde, In One of These, I Am Your Enemy
This White Mountain, The Final Sorrow
Tome of the Unreplenished, Earthbound
Tool, Fear Inoculum Vinyl Re-Release (RCA)
Treat, The Endgame (Frontiers)
Truth Decayed, Faded Visions I
Vermörd, Nostalgic Predictions
Winter in Eden, Social Fake
April 1:
Aldo Nova, The Life And Times Of Eddie Gage (Self)
Ancient Settlers, Our Last Eclipse
Bhleg, Fäghring (Nordvis)
Black Death Cult, Diaspora (Profound Lore)
Carpenter Brut, Leather Terror (Universal)
Centinex, The Pestilence (Agonia)
Coffin Nail, Years of Lead
Corpseweed, Griefscapes
Dreamtale, Everlasting Flame
Empyrean Eclipse, The Grandeur of Despair
Evil Invaders, Shattering Reflection (Napalm)
Firmament, The Ætheric Pathway
Golgothan Remains, Adorned in Ruin
Grillfeast, Kamikazonauts
The Hellacopters, Eyes Of Oblivion (Nuclear Blast)
I Klatus, Targeted
Kublai Khan TX, Lowest Form Of Animal (Rise)
Lifvsleda, Sepulkral Dedikation
Lords Of The Trident, The Offering (Self)
Meshuggah, Immutable (Atomic Fire)
Misfire, Sympathy For The Ignorant (MNRK Heavy)
My Hollow, Fighting the Monsters
Nekrodeus, Asbest
Nekrogoblikon, The Fundamental Slimes And Humours (Self)
Ouranos, Voir la lumière
Pattern-Seeking Animals, Only Passing Through (InsideOut)
Priests of Prometheus, Hazardous Cycle
Purgatory, Apotheosis of Anti Light
Ramp, Insidiously
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Unlimited Love (Warner)
Satan, Earth Infernal (Metal Blade)
The Spirit, Of Clarity and Galactic Structures
Trick or Treat, Creepy Symphonies
Violet Blend, Demons (Eclipse)
Wolf, Shadowland (Century Media)
March 25:
Abbath, Dread Reaver (Season Of Mist)
Absent In Body, Plague God (Relapse)
Animals As Leaders, Parrhesia (Sumerian)
Architects, For Those That Wish To Exist At Abbey Road (Epitaph)
Astral Tomb, Soulgazer
BillyBio, Leaders And Liars (AFM)
Bomber, Nocturnal Creatures (Napalm)
Capricorn, For The Restless (Wild Kingdom)
Carnage of Children, Darkness Within
Carnareum, Ikaros
Confidential, Devil Inside
Crystal Viper, The Last Axeman (Listenable)
Danas Rising, Morgengrauen
Desolate Shrine, Fires of the Dying World
Devoid of Life, Embracing Emptiness
Dreamer, Tahta Hitam
Emissary, The Wretched Masquerade
Falls of Rauros, Key to a Vanishing Future
Falamh, Aeons Effigy
Father Befouled, Crowned in Veneficum
Grand Harvest, Consummatum Est
Hardcore Superstar, Abrakadabra (Self)
Heltekvad, Morgenrødens Helvedesherre
Ignite, Ignite (Century Media)
Incite, Wake Up Dead
Keops, Road to Perdition
Killing Joke, Lord Of Chaos (Spinefarm)
Kvaen, The Great Below
Lost Tribes of the Moon, Chapter II: Tales of Strife, Destiny, and Despair
Luzifer, Iron Shackles
Machine Gun Kelly, Mainstream Sellout (Bad Boy/Interscope)
Michael Romeo, War Of The Worlds, Part 2 (InsideOut)
Mind Imperium, Nemesis
Mortify, Fragments at the Edge of Sorrow
MWWB, The Harvest (New Heavy Sounds)
Necrom, All Paths Are Left Here…
The Nest, Her True Nature
Night Demon, Year Of The Demon (Century Media)
NightWraith, Offering
Nite, Voices Of The Kronian Moon (Season Of Mist)
Olm, Omstændigheder
Placebo, Never Let Me Go (Rise)
Reckless Love, Turborider (AFM)
Redshark, Digital Race
Scorn, Winds of Torment
Shards of a Lost World, Parafer
Soul Glo, Diaspora Problems (Epitaph)
Spiral Skies, Death Is but a Door
Superdeathflame, Dead Is Dead
Svartsot, Kumbi (Mighty)
Thanateros, On Fragile Wings
Vinegar Hill, Earthbound
Virocracy, Ecophagia
Wasted, The Haunted House
Witchpit, The Weight Of Death (Heavy Psych Sounds)
March 18:
Aeviterne, The Ailing Facade (Profound Lore)
Agathodaimon, The Seven (Napalm)
Aktarum, Trollvengers (Art Gates Records)
Black Fucking Cancer, Procreate Inverse
Catacomb, Back to Unknown Kadath
Chip Z’Nuff, Perfectly Imperfect (Frontiers)
Corporate Death, IV (Rapture Records)
Cult of the Night, Dance of the Witches (Unsigned)
Dark Funeral, We Are The Apocalypse (Century Media)
Divided by Design, Irretraceable Steps (Unsigned)
Eric Wagner, In The Lonely Light Of Mourning (Cruz Del Sur)
Extinction A.D., Culture of Violence (Unique Leader Records)
Final Cry, The Ever-Rest (MDD Records)
FM, Thirteen (Frontiers)
Friends Of Hell, Friends Of Hell (Rise Above)
Frostmoon Eclipse, Rustworn (Immortal Frost Productions)
Gauntlet Rule, The Plague Court (Target Records)
Grave Noise, Roots of Damnation (Art Gates Records)
Hellfrost And Fire, Fire, Frost And Hell (Transcending Obscurity)
Hell In The Club, Kamikaze 10 Years In The Slums (Frontiers)
Hell Militia, Hollow Void (Season Of Mist)
Hot Water Music, Feel The Void (Equal Vision)
Hyperia, Silhouettes of Horror
The L.I.F.E. Project, Big F.O.U.R. (Blood Blast)
Manigance, Le bal des ombres
Matriphagy, Prelude to Evisceration
Moonlight Haze, Animus (Scarlet)
Mount Saturn, O, Great Moon
Night Crowned, Rebirth of the Old
Playgrounded, The Death of Death
Powergame, Slaying Gods
Robert Rodrigo, Brainstorming
Shewolf, Shewolf (Frontiers)
Shining Black, Postcards From The End Of The World (Frontiers)
Slaegt, Goddess (Century Media)
Stabbing Westward, Chasing Ghosts (COP International)
Steelballs, The Neverending Fire
Suffer in Silence, Obscurity
Trench, Encased In Chrome (New Damage)
Tyr, A Night At The Nordic House (Metal Blade)
Without Waves, Comedian (Prosthetic)
Zwaard, Bloed en wijn
