Written By Kevin McSweeney
Seven Deadly Songs: New Metal Releases – April 10, 2026
“Welcome to Seven Deadly Songs, Metal Lair’s weekly roundup of the best new metal releases.”
If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to dispense with the formalities and get down to business straight away, for If new releases by legends you seek, you’re very much in luck this week!
How about American thrash OGs Metal Church? Their new album Dead To Rights, the 14th in a stellar 46-year (and counting) career, will be released on April 10th via Rat Pak Records.
Or you could celebrate 16 equally stellar years from Canada’s technical death metal masters Archspire, who will release their fifth full-length album Too Fast To Die independently on the same day.
If that wasn’t enough, you could go bonkers with the men from Yonkers, as the death metal institution that is Immolation grace us with Descent, their 12th full-length album in a majestic career spanning 38 years. That monumental release will be with us on the 10th, courtesy of Nuclear Blast Records.
The heavyweights might be out in force, but there’s plenty of hard-hitting releases lower on the card that also deserve your attention, and it’s to them that we now turn. So, here we go with seven bruising rounds! Seconds out!
Seven Deadly Songs: Astral Spectre – Chronomancer
Any relation to Phil? Sorry! We start off with an appalling joke from me and an outstanding song from German blackened heavy metal solo project Astral Spectre.
All of this is the handiwork of the tremendously talented Tenebros, who releases his third full-length album, Cosmic Mirage, independently on April 10th.
Chronomancer sounds like Iron Maiden, and early Iron Maiden at that, with a black metal Paul Di’Anno, and a special appearance from Deep Purple‘s John Lord to wow us all with the immensity of his organ. (This is sadly not possible, due to both Di’Anno and Lord no longer being with us.)
Astral Spectre also reminds me of Metal Lair favourites Nite, whose Cult of The Serpent Sun album was in my top ten of 2025. If this album is half as good, it’ll definitely be worth your time.
Seven Deadly Songs: Boisson Divine – La Hialaira
Drink certainly is divine, isn’t it? French folk metal ensemble Boisson Divine display their revolutionary spirit on this track from their fourth full-length album, Eretatge, which will be available from April 10th via Brennus Music.
They sound like no-one else – quite literally! – as they sing in the Gascon dialect of the Occitan language of southwest France, as well as in regular French.
I love it when bands incorporate the sounds of their cultural heritage into their metal. Boisson Divine do this well with their folk traditions and glorious harmonies.
One could almost imagine them entertaining Gaston and LeFou in the local tavern, before said gentlemen venture forth for a bit of beast butchering and Belle bothering, or at least one could before the heaviness kicks in.
They deploy an array of instruments seldom used in metal: flute, clarinet, accordion and, most excitingly for me, boha, the Gascony bagpipes. Being a Celt, I’m a sucker for a good piping!
Seven Deadly Songs: Fighter V – Raging Heartbeat
I’m including some melodic rock at this stage courtesy of Switzerland’s finest exponents thereof, mainly as a palette cleanser.
We have a lot of heavy stuff to get through, so let’s have something a little more tuneful, just for a change.
The Alpine arena rockers formed in 2019 and are due to release their third full-length album, Déjà Vu, via Frontiers Records on April 10th.
It’ll certainly be a familiar sound for anyone who was around in the 1980s, with the band citing Survivor, Journey and Whitesnake among their influences.
With his soulful, blues-tinged rasp, vocalist Emmo Acar evokes memories of Whitesnake’s legendary frontman David Coverdale, sounding like a cross between him and his fellow English rock icon John Parr. That should be enough to make anyone’s heartbeat rage.
Seven Deadly Songs: Goatpsalm – Heart of Damballah Wedo
I honestly read this band’s name as Goat’s Palm at first glance. I thought: but goats don’t have palms! Lord knows I’ve done unspeakable things to enough of them to know. I’m no less confused now, mainly because of the fact that a Russian band are writing songs about voodoo.
If that sounds unsettling, so does the music, with its disconcerting blend of black, doom and industrial metal.
They are due to release Beneath, their fourth full-length album, on April 10th via Aesthetic Death. It’s an album with songs that range in duration from one minute and 41 seconds to 17 minutes and 11 seconds.
That’s one way to keep the listeners on their toes. This song is a thoroughly conventional four minutes and 20 seconds, which is a blessing (ironically, given the subject matter.)
Seven Deadly Songs: Paisaunt – Every Grief I Meet
Finland’s Paisaunt is about to deliver not only some fine atmospheric black metal, but an early contender for the best album title of 2026 (There’s actually another candidate for that accolade this week. More on that later!)
The solo project of the ridiculously talented Zannibal will release its debut album via Naturmacht Productions on April 10th, and it will be called Life and Other Horrors, which I absolutely love!
I also love the fact that the production is as rough as a badger’s arse. That’s precisely what I want from my black metal, but, bizarrely, it has a distinct melodic edge that reminds me somewhat of jangly English guitar pop.
It seems implausible, I know, but it almost sounds like Mansun’s Wide Open Space at times. I suppose that’s a case of the influence of The Cure being as evident as that of Emperor or Darkthrone. This Friday, you might just fall in love with it. I did with the title!
Seven Deadly Songs: Riket – 1867 Storsvagåret
I feel like I’m missing out here. All of the song titles on Riket’s 2026, which is due to be released on April 10th via Black Lion Records, reference years, and presumably important events in those years.
This could be a valuable lesson in Swedish history, but I don’t speak Swedish at all. I’m not missing out on excellent Swedish death metal, however, as the Stockholm-based quintet are bringing that in abundance.
This is their first full-length studio album, though they did release a live album in 2018. I love the audacity of releasing a live album eight years before your actual full-length debut! But does their intensity match their audacity? It certainly does, and you won’t have to head to Duolingo to enjoy it.
Seven Deadly Songs: Silaera – The Emergence of Suffering
And so we arrive at our final selection, and it comes in the form of An Aberration of The Void. That’s not a description, but is in fact the title of the forthcoming debut album by Chicago-based atmospheric black/post-metal solo project Silaera.
Confusingly, the absurdly talented Chicago resident who is responsible for it goes by the name of L.A. Do you remember me promising you another outstanding album title? Well, this is it, and it’s one I can relate to, having felt like an aberration many times, often whilst voiding myself.
The excellently-titled opus is due to be released independently on April 10th, and I’m so keen for you to check it out, Illinois you until you do! I started with a shit joke; I’m ending with a shit joke. See you in seven for another seven!
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