MY TOP LIST OF APRIL 2026

 


April 2026 was a hectic month again. Too many new releases dropped, and the list here demonstrates it. I am not comfortable with having 36 albums here. It means I can't decide properly, or the month was mediocre and they were equally bad without having a distinctive leaders...

My album of the month, naturally, is HAJDUK - Хвърковата чета. No doubt. I think it is also my BM album of the year (I know it's early). I am in direct contact with Belgun. Then, Reeking Aura - an absolute and addictive death metal banger. Then the rest, in more or less particular order, and always depending on the mood. There are quite good albums there, very enjoyable and very underground. I think I'll take some of the names to the AOTY list; others will stay in April 2026 only, for liking them in this very moment. Let's mention here for the sake of nostalgia - the last Spirit Adrift and the last At The Gates. Sad.

I don't want to write brief reviews on each and every record. Let me save this time and leave it to you to be curious and check everything that you haven't listened. Many years ago, I discovered new music by digging and getting recommendations. I wish this time to return...

Here is my extensive list of newly released albums in April 2026 without too many words or bells and whistles.





HAJDUK - Хвърковата чета (Bandcamp)
REEKING AURA - On the Promise of the Moon (Bandcamp)
UADA - Interwoven (Bandcamp)
NERVOSA - Slave Machine (Bandcamp)
POISON RUÏN - Hymns From The Hills (Bandcamp)
CENOTAFIO - La Escisión Acausal: Por La Vía Inversa Hacia La Descarnación (Bandcamp)

PURE WRATH - Bleak Days Ahead (Bandcamp)
SPIRIT ADRIFT - Infinite Illumination (Bandcamp)
ARCHAIC OATH - Determined To Death And Beyond (Bandcamp)
DRUDKH - Thaw (Bandcamp)
ARCHSPIRE - Too Fast To Die (Bandcamp)
FELLWINTER - Fellwinter (YouTube)

VOLCANDRA - Beyond The Will Of Mortals (Bandcamp)
AVERSIO HUMANITATIS - To Become the Endless Static (Bandcamp)
AT THE GATES - The Dissonant Void (Bandcamp)
CRIMSON GLORY - Chasing The Hydra (Spotify)
ULTHA - A Light So Dim (Bandcamp)
VOMITORY - In Death Throes (Bandcamp)

RIVERFLAME - Lunar Crusades (Bandcamp)
NORTHERN GRAVES - Derelict Heart (Bandcamp)
INFERI - Heaven Wept (Bandcamp)
ORDH - Blind In Abyssal Realms (Bandcamp)
SKAPHOS - The Descent (Bandcamp)
HROB - Brána Chladu

IGNOBLETH - Manor of Primitive Anticreation (Bandcamp)
IMMOLATION - Descent (Bandcamp)
CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - Good God / Baad Man (Bandcamp)
AFTOKTONIA - In Perpetual Orbit Across the Astral Veil of Celestial Solar Systems (Bandcamp)
MYLINGAR - Út (Bandcamp)
VERLETZEN - Usurping The Throne Under The Crown of Blasphemy (Bandcamp)

OMNIVORTEX - Throne Of Absolute Chaos (Bandcamp)
BLOODY VALKYRIA - Requiem : Reveries of the Dying (Bandcamp)
RIKET - 2026 (Bandcamp)
VARGRAV - Dimension: Daemonium (Spotify)
PISSROT - Absolute Form (Bandcamp)
XORSIST - Aberrations (Bandcamp)




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