Friday is arguably the best day of the week. Why? Well not only does it mean the weekend is nigh, but it’s also the day that most bands and artists unleash their new albums upon the world. These Weekly Release posts aim to compile the best new heavy releases into one convenient location, allowing for the discovery of countless new bands and the convenience of keeping track of old favourites. Here are the new heavy metal releases for May 12th, 2023.
Editor’s Note: If you feel any releases have been missed, or you would like to add your own band’s release to this or a future release post, please contact us here.
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The Acacia Strain – Failure Will Follow & Step Into The Light
Genre: Death / Doom Metal / Deathcore
Label: Rise Records
Country: USA
FFO: Fit For An Autopsy, Despised Icon, Whitechapel
Double album with the second featuring a slower, sludgier tempo
Ascended Dead – Evenfall of the Apocalypse
Genre: death Metal
Label: 20 buck spin
Country: USA
FFO: necrovore, immolation, pissgrave
Cattle Decapitation – Terrasite
Genre: death Metal / Grindcore
Label: metal blade Records
Country: uSA
FFO: aborted, dying fetus, misery index
Esoctrilihum – Astraal Constellations of the Majickal Zodiac
Genre: experimental black metal
Label: i, Voidhanger records
Country: france
FFO: krallice, blut aus nord, portal
…And The Rest of the New Heavy Metal Releases For May 12th
Aelvica – Lichdragons Spewing Gloom
Genre: Black / Death Metal
Label: Independent
Country: USA
FFO: Anthems of Gomorrah, behemoth
The Amity Affliction – Not Without My Ghosts
Genre: metalcore
Label: Warner Music
Country: australia
FFO: miss may i, the word alive, we came as romans
Astrodeath – Vol. II
Genre: stoner / Sludge Metal
Label: heavy psych sounds
Country: australia
FFO: Weedeater, Eyehategod, Bongzilla
Battle Born – Blood, Fire, Magic and Steel
Genre: Heavy / Power Metal
Label: prosthetic Records
Country: England
FFO: Fellowship, Hammer King
Bitchsectomy / Royal Infanticide – Reign of Death
Genre: brutal Death Metal
Label: amputated vein records
Country: uSA / Belgium
FFO: Devourment, Extermination Dismemberment
Burial Clouds – Last Days of a Dying World
Genre: doom / post-Metal
Label: church road records
Country: USA
FFO: ISIS, The Ocean
Chained To The Bottom of The Ocean – Obsession Destruction
Genre: sludge / doom Metal
Label: Independent
Country: USA
FFO: thou, primitive man, bell witch
Chronogoria – Fragments of a Dream
Genre: Black / death Metal
Label: independent
Country: serbia
FFO: Behemoth, Cradle of Filth
Collapsor – Spit on the Nation
Genre: Crossover Thrash, grindcore
Label: independent
Country: USA
FFO: napalm death, s.o.d., repulsion
Cronos Compulsion – Malicious Regression
Genre: death metal
Label: caligari Records
Country: uSA
FFO: Tomb Mold, Incantation
Daughters of Sophia – ソフィアの娘たち
Genre: Atmospheric / Post-Black metal
Label: ATMF
Country: france
FFO: alcest, cult of luna
DevilDriver – Dealing With Demons Vol. II
Genre: groove metal
Label: napalm Records
Country: USA
FFO: lamb of god, chimaira, soulfly
Duskwood – The Last Voyage
Genre: stoner metal / desert rock
Label: ripple music
Country: england
FFO: kyuss, clutch
Emphasis – Lazaret
Genre: post-metal
Label: geenger records
Country: croatia
FFO: The Ocean, Cult of Luna
Exitium – Imperitous March for Abysmal Glory
Genre: black / death metal
Label: time to kill Records
Country: italy
FFO: Behemoth, Belphegor, Vader
Godsnake – Eye For An Eye
Genre: Melodic Thrash Metal
Label: Massacre Records
Country: Germany
FFO: Gothminister, The 69 eyes, rammstein
Gonemage – Astral Corridors
Genre: Experimental Black Metal / Chiptune
Label: Independent
Country: uSA
FFO: Cara Neir, Master Boot Record
Grave Desecrator – Immundissime Spiritus
Genre: death / Black Metal
Label: From Deepest Records
Country: Brazil
FFO: Sarcofago, Holocausto, Blasphemy
Hex A.D. – Delightful Sharp Edges
Genre: doom / progressive metal
Label: Apollon Records
Country: Norway
FFO: Deep Purple, King Crimson, Unto Others
Hot Mulligan – Why Would I Watch
Genre: Pop Punk / emocore
Label: Wax Bodega records
Country: USA
FFO: Free Throw, tiny moving parts
Human Abomination – Dismal Foreshadowing
Genre: brutal death Metal
Label: independent
Country: france
FFO: Devangelic, Fulci, Cryptopsy
Ifryt – Płuca
Genre: avant-garde black metal
Label: godz ov war production
Country: poland
FFO: Kekal, Sigh
Impetuous Ritual – Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis
Genre: death metal
Label: profound lore
Country: australia
FFO: portal, teitanblood, incantation
Industrial Puke – Born Into The Twisting Rope
Genre: death Metal / d-Beat
Label: suicide records
Country: sweden
FFO: Discharge, Gatecreeper
Iress – Solace
Genre: post-Metal / doomgaze
Label: dune altar
Country: USA
FFO: fvnerals, holy fawn
Iron Buddha – Raze//Repose
Genre: sludge Metal
Label: independent
Country: uSA
FFO: Weedeater, MWWB, Ohhms
Left To Starve – Vapaj za mogućim
Genre: Doom / Sludge Metal
Label: rope or guillotine
Country: croatia
FFO: Body Void, Fvnerals, Full of Hell
Left To Suffer – Feral
Genre: deathcore
Label: ONErpm
Country: USA
FFO: to the grave, bodysnatcher
Logical Terror – Sides Of The Unknown
Genre: industrial metalcore
Label: Odium Records
Country: Italy
FFO: Northlane, Meshuggah
Moonreich – Amer
Genre: black Metal
Label: Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions
Country: france
FFO: Wiegedood, Djevel
The Motion Mosaic – Limbo Conditions
Genre: experimental metalcore / mathcore
Label: Independent
Country: USA
FFO: frontierer, botch, pupil slicer
Never Ending Game – Outcry
Genre: hardcore
Label: triple b records
Country: USA
FFO: Gridiron, pain of truth
Non Est Deus – Legacy
Genre: black metal
Label: noisebringer records
Country: germany
FFO: 1914, kanonenfieber, mgla
Omnerod – The Amensal Rise
Genre: Progressive death Metal
Label: independent
Country: belgium
FFO: Amorphis, Persefone, Sadist
Óreiða – The Eternal
Genre: black metal
Label: debemur morti productions
Country: iceland
FFO: Misþyrming, Paysage d’Hiver
Parity Boot – Fast Sunset
Genre: industrial thrash metal
Label: black sunset
Country: germany
FFO: in flames, children of bodom
Profeci – Ubóstwo
Genre: black Metal
Label: godz ov war productions
Country: poland
FFO: Mgla
Pronostic – Chaotic Upheaval
Genre: technical / melodic death metal
Label: Independent
Country: canada
FFO: inferi, allegaeon
Scarilegious Impalement – IV – Infinite Victor
Genre: black metal
Label: woodcut records
Country: finland
FFO: watain, saturnian mist
The Slumbering – When We Forget It Repeats
Genre: Doom / Drone Metal
Label: trepanation recordings
Country: USA
FFO: Sunn O))), Boris
Thanatomass – Hades
Genre: black Metal
Label: living temple records
Country: russia
FFO: teitanblood, sarcofago
The Troops of Doom – Prelude To Blasphemy
Genre: death / thrash metal
Label: alma mater Records
Country: Brazil
FFO: sepultura, possessed, sarcofago
Veil of Maya – [M]other
Genre: Djent, Technical Metalcore
Label: Sumerian Records
Country: USA
FFO: After The Burial, Within the Ruins, The Faceless
Veriluola – Cascades of Crimson Cruor
Genre: black / death Metal
Label: nameless grave records
Country: Finland
FFO: Mortuary’s Drape, Grand Belial’s Key
Wilczyca – Magija
Genre: Black Metal
Label: godz ov war productions
Country: poland
FFO: Behemoth, Mayhem
Worth – Worth
Genre: Melodic death metal
Label: wormHoleDeath
Country: spain
FFO: In Flames, At The Gates
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