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Actin' Up (2023)
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The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
05/13 @ The Pyramid Scheme, Grand Rapids
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California / New York black metal project.
Wichita black metal project from the Kansas underground.
April 16th brings NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal from London since 2021, channeling the golden era of British metal through their date-specific name. Their approach honors the traditions of the genre that London helped create.
April Hope crafts depressive and post-black metal from Ufa in Bashkortostan since 2009. Their springtime-optimism name creates a devastating contrast with the emotional devastation of their DSBM compositions from the Ural-Volga region.
Williamson black metal project from the West Virginia underground.
Bethlehem deathcore project from the Pennsylvania underground.
April Weeps creates melodic groove and gothic metal from Dunajská Streda in the Žitný ostrov since 2013. From this Hungarian-majority town in Slovakia's Danube island region, they bring over a decade of tearful melodic compositions.
April Wine built a long-running career on the point where heavy rock muscle, radio melody, and sharp ensemble playing meet. Myles Goodwyn's voice and songwriting anchored the band for decades, giving its catalog a mix of riff-driven stompers, harmony-rich choruses, and power ballads that never drift too far from guitar weight. The classic run around First Glance, Harder... Faster, and The Nature of the Beast produced staples such as "Roller," "I Like to Rock," and "Just Between You and Me," all of them showing different sides of the band's appeal. April Wine could be sleek and melodic, but the guitars often carried real bite, especially in the three-guitar era when the arrangements had a broad, loud, stage-ready attack. Their sound reflects a time when hard rock, blues rock, and early heavy metal rubbed against each other naturally: direct riffs, big drums, memorable choruses, and enough grit to keep the polish from turning soft.
Kansas City, Missouri black metal project active since 2017. Their releases Remembrance and Homesick inject unusual emotional vulnerability into black metal, the spring-rain name suggesting a softer atmospheric approach that contrasts with the genre's typical harshness.
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