MY TOP 20 FOR APRIL 2022

A very solid month, with tons of new albums and some very good albums that will go straight into my AOTY list. Some of my all-time favorite bands released fantastic music. Well, my list below includes more or less the obvious. Not surprisingly. Naturally, my shortlist was much longer, but I had to pick the best of the best and just stop at a certain point.  I noticed the trend that my lists are becoming more and more mainstream, but I just pick what I really like and listen to the most over the month.

My album of the month changed quickly in the last days of the month when Skull Fist just got over Evil Invaders. Both albums are absolutely amazing and their importance is undoubtful because such albums just keep the true metal alive and well. Then we have Meshuggah and Watain of course... The freight train that is pushing the musical boundaries and the lawless darkness delivering fire after fire. I must that Meshuggah's new album is definitely much more accessible than before though.

So here it comes, my top favorite releases of April'22 and then some honorable mentions. Enjoy!

SKULL FIST - Paid In Full
Release Date: 22 April 



EVIL INVADERS - Shattering Reflection
Release Date: 1 April


MESHUGGAH - Immutable
Release Date: 1 April

WATAIN - The Agony and Ecstasy of Watain
Release Date: 29 April
AŪKELS - Ebwaidilīsnā
Release Date: 20 April

VANUM - Legend
Release Date: 22 April

CORPSESSED - Succumb to Rot
Release Date: 22 April

UNDEATH - It's time...To Rise From the Grave
Release Date: 22 April


THE HELLACOPTERS - Eyes of Oblivion
Release Date: 1 April


EGREGORE - The World of His Law
Release Date: 15 April

INCANDESCENCE - Le Coeur de l'Homme
Release Date: 15 April



VIANDE - L'abime dévore les âmes
Release Date: 15 April



SCALPTURE - Feldwärts
Release Date: 15 April



VIMUR - Transcendental Violence
Release Date: 2 April


CONCILVM - A Monument in Darkness 
Release Date: 6 April


ULTHA - All That Hass Never Been True
Release Date: 1 April

SENTIENT HORROR - Rise of Gore
Release Date: 22 April


LUX INCERTA - Dark Odyssey
Release Date: 8 April

RAMMSTEIN - Zeit
Release Date: 29 April

GOLGOTHAN REMAINS - Adorned in Ruin
Release Date: 1 April







THE MANDATORY HONORABLE MENTIONS that were so close...

NO/MAS - Consume/Deny/Repent

CELESTIAL SEASON - Mysterium I

PHARMACIST - Flourishing Extremities On Unspoiled Mental Grounds

BHLEG - Faghring

ABYSMALIST  - Vile Possession

MIZMOR & THOU - Myopia

THOS  ÆLLA - Sempiternal Mobocracies

SEER - Vol.7 

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LIFVSLEDA - Sepulkral Dedikation

SVET - The Truth

NEGATIVE PLANE - The Pact

DISCHORDIA - Tryptich

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FREJA - Tides

DISFUNERAL - Blood Red Tentacle

STATIC ABYSS - Labyrinth of Veins

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