April 2026 - Feature Release - The Fallen Edition

For this month's The Fallen feature release, I have gone with an album from a band not recognised as being metal on Encyclopaedia Metallum. UK based, Smote have been on my radar since last year when they released two albums, the latter of which I am featuring here for April.  Songs From the Free House embraces psych, folk, doom, drone and ambient across its five tracks and is a real listening experience as a result.

Let us know what you think in the thread below or maybe write us a review even.

https://metal.academy/releases/64694

Not heard of these guys before, but it sure sounds interesting.

Not heard of these guys before, but it sure sounds interesting.

I'm not aware of Smote either. Interestingly though, this record doesn't qualify for metal status as yet so keep that in mind while listening & we'll see how things play out this month before reassessing that position.

I listened to this yesterday, quite difficult to categorise as it encompasses a lot: psych, folk, doom etc, with use of flute and did I hear a part that sounded like a doomy Elizabethan tune during one of the songs. A great listen, will add more later. I went straight on to the other release from the same year, Clyppan, which is also great probably more straight ahead with doomy stoner pysch vibes, still with use of ocassional flute and some eastern influences.

Sonny, I think you'll enjoy both of these judging from your voting preferences when I ran the psych song poll on RYM.