Recommended Albums for May

1. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

1. Tapestry Of The Starless Abstract
2. Xenoflux
3. Of The Leper Butterflies
4. Forget Not
5. And Plague Flowers The Kaleidoscope
6. As Icicles Fall
7. Of Petrichor Weaves Black Noise

Genre: Extreme Progressive Metal
Release Date: 7 May 2012
Country: Australia

2. Arcana - As Bright As A Thousand Suns

1. Somnolence
2. As the End Draws Near
3. Inceptus
4. Medea
5. Leave Me Be
6. Infinity
7. In Memoriam
8. The Fading Shadow
9. As Bright as a Thousand Suns
10. Vinter
Genre: Neoclassical/Ambient

Release Date: 28 May 2012

Country: Sweden (Eskilstuna)

3. Ulver - Childhood's End [Compilation]

1. Bracelets of Fingers (The Pretty Things cover)
2. Everybody's Been Burned (The Byrds cover)
3. The Trap (Bonniwell’s Music Machine cover)
4. In the Past (The Chocolate Watchband cover)
5. Today (Jefferson Airplane cover)
6. Can You Travel in the Dark Alone (Gandalf )
7. I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night (The Electric Prunes cover)
8. Street Song (13th Floor Elevators cover)
9. 66-5-4-3-2-1 (The Troggs cover)
10. Dark Is the Bark (The Left Banke cover)
11. Magic Hollow (The Beau Brummels cover)
12. Soon There Will Be Thunder (Common People)
13. Velvet Sunsets (Music Emporium cover)
14. Lament of the Astral Cowboy (Curt Boettcher )
15. I Can See the Light (Les Fleur De Lys cover)
16. Where Is Yesterday (The United States of America cover) 

Genre: Ambient/Avant-garde/Electronica

Release Date: 28 May 2012

Country: Norway (Oslo)

4. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata

1. Voodoo Mon Amour
2. Guerilla Laments
3. Kevlar Sweethearts
4. How to Organize a Lynch Mob
5. Black Box Messiah
6. Exit Strategy of a Wrecking Ball
7. Aurora
8. Mass Rapture
9. Honey Trap Aftermath
10. Of Kali Ma Calibre
11. Justice for Saint Mary 

Genre: Avant-garde Metal

Release Date: 22 May 2012

Country: Sweden ( Stockholm )

5.  Engel - Blood Of Saints

1. Question Your Place
2. Frontline
3. Feel Afraid
4. Numb
5. Cash King
6. One Good Thing
7. Blood Of Saints
8. Down To Nothing
9. Drama Queen
10. In Darkness
11. Journeys End
Genre: Modern Gothenburg Metal
Release Date: 18 May 2012
Country: Sweden

6. Ahab - The Giant

1. Further South
2. Aeons Elapse
3. Deliverance (Shouting at the Dead)
4. Antarctica the Polymorphess
5. Fathoms Deep Below
6. The Giant

Genre: Funeral Doom Metal

Release Date: 25 May 2012

Country: Germany (Munich, Bavaria/Mosbach, Baden-Württemberg)

7. Litrosis - I Am Death

1. Litrosis
2. Insomniac's Lullaby
3. Soulcide
4. Burn the Sun
5. Countless Wounds
6. I Am Death
7. Bloodred Desert Plain
8. In the Grave You Go Alone
9. Bury the Dead

Genre: Symphonic Black Metal

Release Date: 1 May 2012

Country: Greece (Athens, Attica)

8. De Profundis - The Emptiness Within

1. From the Depths (Intro)
2. Delirium
3. Silent Gods
4. This Wretched Plague
5. Twisted Landscapes
6. Release
7. Dead Inside
8. Parallel Existence
9. Unbroken (A Morbid Embrace)

Genre: Progressive Black/Extreme Metal

Release Date: 7 May 2012

Country: United Kingdom (London)

9. Carach Angren - Where The Corpses Sink Forever

1. An Ominous Recording
2. Lingering In an Imprint Haunting
3. Bitte Tötet Mich
4. The Funerary Dirge of a Violinist
5. Sir John
6. Spectral Infantry Battalions
7. General Nightmare
8. Little Hector What Have You Done?
9. These Fields are Lurking (Seven Pairs of Demon Eyes)

Genre: Symphonic Black Metal

Release Date: 18 May 2012

Country: Netherlands (Landgraaf, Limburg)

10. Shadows Fall - Fire From The Sky

1. The Unknown
2. Divide and Conquer
3. Weight of the World
4. Nothing Remains
5. Fire from the Sky
6. Save Your Soul
7. Blind Faith
8. Lost Within
9. Walk the Edge
10. The Wasteland

Genre: Melodic Death Metal/Metalcore

Release Date: 15 May 2012

Country: United States (Springfield, Massachusetts)

11. Sabaton - Carolus Rex

1. Dominium Maris Baltici
2. Lejonet från Norden
3. Gott Mit Uns
4. En Livstid i Krig
5. 1648
6. Karolinens Bön
7. Carolus Rex
8. Ett Slag Färgat Rött
9. Poltava
10. Konungens Likfärd
11. Ruina Imperii

Genre: Power Metal

Release Date: 25 May 2012

Country: Sweden (Dalarna, Falun)

12. Marduk - Serpent Sermon

1. Serpent Sermon
2. Messianic Pestilence
3. Souls for Belial
4. Into Second Death
5. Temple of Decay
6. Damnation's Gold
7. Hail Mary (Piss-soaked Genuflexion)
8. M.A.M.M.O.N.
9. Gospel of the Worm
10. World of Blades

Genre: Black Metal

Release Date: 25 May 2012 

Country: Sweden (Norrköping)