New Metal Releases March 20th 2026
Ethereal Darkness - Hanging Garden - Gaerea - Hautajaisyö - Decipher - Diatribes - Empire of Disease - Exodus - Chalice of Suffering - And More...
Good release week with 58. Several doom albums I am looking forward to and a couple that sound promising along with quite a bit of death metal.
Stand outs this week:
Ethereal Darkness - Second album from Belgian melodic death / doom band with atmospheric and black metal influences. The music focuses on the dark side of life including grief and loss.
Hanging Garden - Ninth album from Finnish melodic death / doom band. From the band: “This time we decided to take a more conscious step towards a more bare-bones composition on the new songs, supporting the perhaps darker and maybe even more ferocious side of our music.”
Gaerea - Fifth album from post black metal band out of Portugal
Also looking forward to: Decipher - Empire of Disease - The Holeum - Nifrost - Hollow Woods - Karmian - Graufar - Dragsholm - Delirious Compulsion - Beleghost - In My Dreams
Echoes by Ethereal Darkness
SUBGENRE: Melodic Death / Doom Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Belgium
RECORD LABEL: Independent
FOR FANS OF: Fractal Gates - Hinayana - Swallow the Sun
Isle of Bliss by Hanging Garden
SUBGENRE: Melodic Death / Doom Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Finland
RECORD LABEL: Agonia Records
FOR FANS OF: Swallow the Sun - Daylight Dies - Slumber
Loss by Gaerea
SUBGENRE: Post Black Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Portugal
RECORD LABEL: Century Media Records
FOR FANS OF: Groza - Harakiri for the Sky - Anomalie
Surun paino by Hautajaisyö
SUBGENRE: Death Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Finland
RECORD LABEL: Inverse Records
FOR FANS OF: Glorious Depravity - Godless - Crypta
θελημα (Thelema) by Decipher
SUBGENRE: Blackened Death Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Greece
RECORD LABEL: Transcending Obscurity Records
FOR FANS OF: Burial Hordes - Embrace of Thorns - Teitanblood
Degenerate by Diatribes
SUBGENRE: Death / Thrash Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Brazil
RECORD LABEL: Brutal Records
FOR FANS OF: Ursinne - Benediction - Obituary
While Everything Collapses by Empire of Disease
SUBGENRE: Melodic Death Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Spain
RECORD LABEL: Xtreem Music
FOR FANS OF: Eye of Purgatory - Hypocrisy - Amon Amarth
Goliath by Exodus
SUBGENRE: Thrash Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States
RECORD LABEL: Napalm Records
FOR FANS OF: Overkill - Testament - Death Angel
The Raven Cries Ones Last Time by Chalice of Suffering
SUBGENRE: Funeral Doom Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States
RECORD LABEL: My Kingdom Music
FOR FANS OF: Mournful Congregation - Bell Witch - Doom:VS
Under Haunted Skies by Türböwitch
SUBGENRE: Thrash / Speed Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Hungary
RECORD LABEL: Time to Kill Records
FOR FANS OF: Venthiax - Sarcasm - Metal Church
Ghost Town by Axel Rudi Pell
SUBGENRE: Heavy Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Germany
RECORD LABEL: Steamhammer
FOR FANS OF: Dio - Steeler - Axxis
Ensis by The Holeum
SUBGENRE: Doom Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Spain
RECORD LABEL: Lifeforce Records
FOR FANS OF: Morast - Seraphic Entombment
Astral Voyager Vol. 2 by Kal-El
SUBGENRE: Stoner Doom Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Norway
RECORD LABEL: Majestic Mountain Records
FOR FANS OF: Electric Wizard - Kyuss - Sleep
They Rot Beneath Our Floor by Engorgement
SUBGENRE: Slam
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United Kingdom
RECORD LABEL: Comatose Music
FOR FANS OF: Colpocleisis - Kraanium - Epicardiectomy
Embers of a Dying World by Mystfall
SUBGENRE: Symphonic Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Greece
RECORD LABEL: Scarlet Records
FOR FANS OF: Hartlight - Graveshadow - Epica
Mournbraid by Evermore
SUBGENRE: Power Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Sweden
RECORD LABEL: Scarlet Records
FOR FANS OF: Edguy - Avantasia - Sonata Arctica
Esoterik by Bong-Ra
SUBGENRE: Stoner Doom Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Netherlands
RECORD LABEL: Debemur Morti Productions
FOR FANS OF: Bongripper - Om
Guerre Et Paix by Via Doloris
SUBGENRE: Black Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Norway
RECORD LABEL: Season of Mist
FOR FANS OF: Satyricon - Mork - Petrichor
Psychodelic Darkness by Sign of Evil
SUBGENRE: Blackened Speed Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Chile
RECORD LABEL: Edged Circle Productions
FOR FANS OF: Cult of Horror - Midnight - Witchnight
Sub Janus by Calvana
SUBGENRE: Black Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Italy
RECORD LABEL: Adirondack Black Mass
FOR FANS OF: Lust Hag - Necromantia
Materialism by Magnitudo
SUBGENRE: Sludge / Post Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Italy
RECORD LABEL: Dusktone
FOR FANS OF: Predatory Void - Tel - Chrome Ghost
Liminal Shrines by Gutvoid
SUBGENRE: Death Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Canada
RECORD LABEL: Profound Lore Records
FOR FANS OF: Blood Incantation - Timeghoul - Cosmic Putrefaction
Martyr Incipit by Damnatio Ad Bestias
SUBGENRE: Death Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: France
RECORD LABEL: Witches Brew
FOR FANS OF: Dead Chasm - Disma - Immolation
The Weight of Life by Lord of Confusion
SUBGENRE: Stoner Doom Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Portugal
RECORD LABEL: Morbid and Miserable Records
FOR FANS OF: Windhand - Electric Wizard - Sleep
It Echoes in the Wild by Egregore
SUBGENRE: Blackened Death Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Canada
RECORD LABEL: 20 Buck Spin
FOR FANS OF: Mortuary Drape - Mystifier - Blasphemy
Briseld by Nifrost
SUBGENRE: Folk / Epic Black Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Norway
RECORD LABEL: Dusktone
FOR FANS OF: Windir - Borknagar - Enslaved
Weep, Beloved Earth by Hollow Woods
SUBGENRE: Black Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Finland
RECORD LABEL: Independent
FOR FANS OF: Winterfylleth - Hail Conjurer
Horror Vacui by Karmian
SUBGENRE: Melodic Death Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Italy
RECORD LABEL: Rockshots Records
FOR FANS OF: At the Gates - The Crown - Dark Tranquillity
Via Necropolis by Graufar
SUBGENRE: Blackened Death Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Austria
RECORD LABEL: Independent
FOR FANS OF: Phasma - Prophetic Suffering - Esoctrilihum
Semper Tacui by Inner Vitriol
SUBGENRE: Progressive Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Italy
RECORD LABEL: Independent
FOR FANS OF: Minraud - Sour Wine
From the Bloodlines of Bram by Dragsholm
SUBGENRE: Blackened Death Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States
RECORD LABEL: Independent
FOR FANS OF: Crescent - God Dethroned - Necrophobic
Blestemul din Adânc by Putred
SUBGENRE: Death Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Romania
RECORD LABEL: Awakening Records / Iron Fortress Records
FOR FANS OF: Undergang - Autopsy - Fetid
Subterfuge by Radian
SUBGENRE: Sludge / Doom Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States
RECORD LABEL: Independent
FOR FANS OF: Goosed - Rue - Moanhand
Looking Glass Hymnal Blue by The Silver
SUBGENRE: Post Black Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States
RECORD LABEL: Gilead Media
FOR FANS OF: Ellende - Woods of Desolation - Harakiri for the Sky
Darkness Falls by Deimler
SUBGENRE: Death Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Spain
RECORD LABEL: Awakening Records
FOR FANS OF: Avulsed - Putrevore - Grave
Lady of Lust and Steel by Stainless
SUBGENRE: Heavy / Speed Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States
RECORD LABEL: High Roller Records
FOR FANS OF: Exciter - Motörhead - Crossfire
Endless Beginnings… by Warsenal
SUBGENRE: Thrash / Speed Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Canada
RECORD LABEL: Massacre Records
FOR FANS OF: Razor - Destruction - Havok
Breaking the Catatonic State by Crouch
SUBGENRE: Sludge / Post Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Belgium
RECORD LABEL: Heimlich Manoeuvres
FOR FANS OF: Thou - Graves at Sea
The Consecration of Eternal Impurity by Hell Trepanner
SUBGENRE: Death Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Peru
RECORD LABEL: Awakening Records
FOR FANS OF: Elsinore - Deicide - Glorious Depravity
Nemesis by Frontside
SUBGENRE: Metalcore
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Poland
RECORD LABEL: Mystic Production
FOR FANS OF: Unearth - As I Lay Dying - Upon a Burning Body
Spiritual Atrophy by Cultist
SUBGENRE: Death Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Canada
RECORD LABEL: Awakening Records
FOR FANS OF: Croaked - Coscradh - Katharsis
Ectoplasmic Rape Phenomena by Necrogore
SUBGENRE: Death Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Italy
RECORD LABEL: Awakening Records
FOR FANS OF: Grave - Impaled - Vomitory
Erratum of Dysphoria by Delirious Compulsion
SUBGENRE: Technical Brutal Death Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United Kingdom
RECORD LABEL: Pathologically Explicit Recordings
FOR FANS OF: Deformatory - Cryptopsy - Origin
Diabolical by Skull Altar
SUBGENRE: Death / Thrash Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Finland
RECORD LABEL: Independent
FOR FANS OF: Degraved - Vile Apparition - Messticator
Anthropomorphy Execution by Papa Necrose
SUBGENRE: Death Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Brazil
RECORD LABEL: Awakening Records
FOR FANS OF: Thorn - Putrid - Phobophilic
The Pandemonium by Beleghost
SUBGENRE: Black Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Italy
RECORD LABEL: Independent
FOR FANS OF: Returning - Alda - Ash Borer
Mùthadh II by Liminalanimal
SUBGENRE: Blackened Doom Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United Kingdom
RECORD LABEL: Emanation Archive
FOR FANS OF: Svartmálm - Yith - Altars of Grief
Vermin by Abyssius
SUBGENRE: Technical Death Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Taiwan
RECORD LABEL: Independent
FOR FANS OF: Abysmal Dawn - Anata - Nile
For the Dead by Rötual
SUBGENRE: Death / Doom Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Canada
RECORD LABEL: Independent
FOR FANS OF: Norilsk - Morast - The Fog
Solve et Coagula by Elextrikeel
SUBGENRE: Thrash Metal / Crossover
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Spain
RECORD LABEL: Demons Records
FOR FANS OF: Municipal Waste - Cross Examination - Insanity Alert
From Dust to Dust by Kataphero
SUBGENRE: Melodic Death Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Brazil
RECORD LABEL: Independent
FOR FANS OF: Devenial Verdict - Invisible Control
Numinous by Fadrait
SUBGENRE: Progressive Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States
RECORD LABEL: Independent
FOR FANS OF: Perihelion - Moon Tooth
Wargods of the Underworld by Wolfcross
SUBGENRE: Blackened Thrash Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Sweden
RECORD LABEL: Independent
FOR FANS OF: Nifelheim - Aura Noir - Sabbat
Seduced by a Moonlight Kiss by In My Dreams
SUBGENRE: Blackened Doom / Gothic Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Mexico
RECORD LABEL: Independent
FOR FANS OF: Wilt - Carma
Obsidian Dawn by Igzordium
SUBGENRE: Melodic Death Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States
RECORD LABEL: Independent
FOR FANS OF: Ardent Nova - Paganizer - Eye of Purgatory
What Never Died by Deathwind
SUBGENRE: Death Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Russia
RECORD LABEL: Independent
FOR FANS OF: Bolt Thrower - Frozen Soul - Obituary
The Repentance by Aedelgard
SUBGENRE: Atmospheric Black Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States / Russia
RECORD LABEL: Independent
FOR FANS OF: Thursbane - Felled
The Silence Between Stars by Galvanist
SUBGENRE: Blackened Doom Metal
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States
RECORD LABEL: Independent
FOR FANS OF: Collapsed Vein - Yith - Altars of Grief
Couple really interesting big albums that could be brilliant or …not.
It’s all about Gary and the boys on Friday. Exodus. LFG.