New Stuff This Week… 4/14/2025

Sick N Beautiful
Horror Vacui
Frontiers Records SRL
Modern ish metal

Cirkus Prutz
Manifesto
Metalville Records
Bluesy hard rock

Lord Vampyr
The Greatest Bloodbath
Moribund Records
Black metal with a synthy vibe and some catchiness

The Quill
In Triumph
Metalville Records
Kind of a groovin’ hard rock with some big powerful vox and a little bluesy groove

Messa
The Spin
Metal Blade Records
11 April 2025
Doomish sound, melodic with some nice groovin’

Mawiza
Killari
Season of Mist
8 April 2025
Kind of a tech/prog modernish metal. a little metalcore, some just classic metal, a big groove metal, maybe overall putting it in a melodeath sub

Idle Heirs
Life is Violence
Relapse
A bit post metal, some chill

Storm Orchestra
Get Better
Mascot
Alt-hard rock, modern metal type stuff. melodic

Paradise Slaves
Swim North ft. Trevor Phipps
With Hell In His Eyes
Spinefarm
Deathcore with some good melodeath stuff too

Ye Banished Privateers
Til the Sea Shall Give Up Her Dead
Napalm
Folky stuff, but more of a just rockish and can’t really find a whole lotta metal here

Aittala
Machines – EP
Exitus Stratagem Records
11 April 2025
A little doomish melodic type stuff

Ancestor Of Kaos
Animal Ritual
Horror Pain Gore Death
April 18th
Kind of a death metal, a little blackened sound too. raw

Headphone Jacks
Discipline
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: April 11th 2025
They call it “Desert Rock / Stoner / Alternative Rock” And pretty spot on. Nice laid back chill stuff.

Samtar
The Bog of Cosmic Delusions
Self-released
11 April 2025
Melodic and maybe a bit psychedelic

Empyrean Sanctum
Detachement From Reality
Independent
18 April 2025
Prog metal, keyboards, gritty guitar, clean vox, a lot of those cool signature prog metal things…

Rickert G.
Endless Thoughts
Wormholedeath
April 11
Melodic Death Metal, a bit of a chill vibe, maybe a little doomish.

Midnight
Cleveland Metal – radio single
Metal Blade Records
23 May 2025
Classic metal with that dark vibe… coool stuff

Igorrr
ADHD – radio single
Metal Blade Records
19 September 2025
A lot of djenty electronic stuff, the name of the song kind of describes it. haha

Kardashev
Alunea – radio singles
Metal Blade Records
25 April 2025
Like, full on melodic death/thrash, then stretches out and heads into clean vox and chill prog type stuff… then back to tech death.. cool stuff!

Atrox Trauma
Where Death Hunts
Wormholedeath
4/18
Some nice thrashy death metal, catchy good stuff

Dormant Ordeal
Tooth and Nail
Willowtip Records
18 April 2025
Tech and brutalish death metal.

Revengin
Dark Dogma Embrace
Wormholedeath
4/11
Symphonic Metal with female clean vox

New Stuff This Week…4/7/2025

Allegaeon
The Ossuary Lens
Metal Blade Records
4 April 2025
Technical, heavy, brutal, definitely Allegaeon. I wasn’t sure how’d it’d be with the new old singer again… but right in stride. Great stuff.

Fractal Universe
Album: The Great Filters
Label: M-Theory Audio
Release date: April 4, 2025
prog metal, pushing into a little death metal too. So yeah, melodic death? Clean and harsh vox. Cool stuff.

Benthos
From Nothing
Century Media Records
Kind of a deathcore/nu-metal type thing and yeah, prog too!

Epica
Aspiral
Nuclear Blast USA
Living up to their name again. EPIC! Such a great mix of melodic power metal and melodeath

Becoming Wolves
The Fault In Your Scars
Curtain Call Records
Classic metal, nice groovin’ stuff.

Herman Rarebell
Herman Rarebell & Friends What About Love?
Metalville Records
Covers of classic rock tracks and kinda just rock type stuff.

Imminence
The Return of The Black
5B
Kind of a modern metal with melodic elements but then some full on deathcore too

Dead Groove
Rubicon
Cleopatra Records
Female fronted hard rock

Media
”Kimono”
Media
Self-Released
Chilled out stoner-ish doomy / Tool ish sound

Our Chronicle
”Time Lapse”
If These Walls Could Speak EP
Self-Released
Metal/deathcore stuff

VULVECTOMY
ABERRANT VAGINAL GESTATION
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: APRIL 11th 2025
Brutal Death metal and with songs like “maggots infested clit” and “geriatric Ass fucker” you know it’s gonna be fun. haha Aside from the shocking subject matter and song titles, it’s some good meaty groovin’ brutal death metal.

The Infernal Deceit
The True Harmful Black
Personal Records
11 April 2025
Kind of a tech/melodic death metal with a smidge of black metal. and some good groovin stuff too

Grotesque Bliss
Grotesque Bliss
Iron Bonehead
11 April 2025
Sludgey brutal death metal

Tower
Let There Be Dark
Cruz Del Sur Music
11 April 2025
Classic metal, big soaring female vox, great guitar work.s

Impious Throne
Suffering
ATMF – De Tenebrarum Principio
11 April 2025
Techish blackened death.

The Lord Weird Slough Feg
Traveller Supplement I: The Ephemeral Glades
Cruz Del Sur Music
11 April 2025
Classic hard rockin’ metal, a bit of a stoner doomy sound

Vortex
Alien Realms (EP)
Self Release
11 April 2025
Brutal death metal, but with a little twist… the kind of breaks in the action during a song have a little melodeath/prog vibe and a symphonic thing going on

Past Glories
Damiano’s Fall
Wormholedeath
April 4
Progressive Metal/Rock more leaning on the hard rock with some pushes into the heaver metal type stuff

Messiah Paratroops
Legions of Tomorrow
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: April 4th 2025
Old School Death Metal with a bit of a thrashy type groove to it more than brutality.

BREAKER
Breaker EP
Wormholedeath
April 4
A classic metal with a speed/thrash thing (clean vox)

BRKN LOVE
The Program
Spinefarm
28 March 2025
Clean vox, a bit hard rock, a bit modern metal.

CORRUPTER
Gloria in Profundis
GODZ OV WAR PRODUCTIONS
classic brutal meaty Death Metal

HEXEKRATION RITES
Misanthropic Path of Carnal Deliverance
GODZ OV WAR PRODUCTIONS
Brutal blackened death metal

Industrial Puke
Alive To No Avail
Suicide Records
28 March 2025
Kind of a crust/hardcore/death metal type thing, grows on me the more I hear

Midnight Vice
Debut EP
ROAR
4 April 2025
Good ol classic metal with big powerfull screamy vox

Valhalore
Beyond The Stars
ROAR
11 April 2025
Melodic metal, some deathy stuff, a little folky/keyboardy/prog ish stuff too

Diabolizer
Murderous Revelations
Dark Descent Records / Me Saco Un Ojo Records
11 April 2025
Death metal, a bit of a grit, lots of brutality, a pinch of black metal, a pinch of melodeath.

LO-PAN
Get Well Soon
Magnetic Eye Records
3 March 2025
Kind of a stoner groove thing happening

Symbiotic Growth
Beyond The Sleepless Aether
Self Release
28 March 2025
Prog death, with a little atmosphere, a smidge of black metal, longer tracks, pretty complex and yeah brutal too.

The Summit Fever
The Summit Fever
Majestic Mountain Records
4 April 2025
Stoner metal with some nice grungy riffs

Visceral
Eyes, Teeth and Bones
Raging Planet Records
4 April 2025
Death metal with some nice grooves

New Stuff This Week… 3/31/2025

Deafheaven
Lonely People With Power
Roadrunner
I never really understood what makes this band more “mainstream” than other black metal bands, but so far on this listen through this seems like standard classic black metal.

Warfield
With The Old Breed
Napalm
German thrash, classic fast gritty thrash.. Cool stuff!

Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs
Death Hilarious
Missing Piece Records
Kinda grungy doomish punky

Gutter Creek
Alive & Well
Independent
Just straightforward metal.

Meshuggah
Immutable The Indelible Edition
Reigning Phoenix Music
Remaster/reissue of their last album. Um, not sure why, maybe to have something “new” for their tour this year?

FIRSTBORNE (single)
WAKE UP
M-THEORY AUDIO
Chris Adler / James Lomenzo new band… a kind of thrashy heavier sound with a solid groove.

Smith/Kotzen
Black Light/White Noise
BMG
Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen back for some classic hard rock metal-ish stuff, with a bit of a bluesy vibe and groove

Stretcher
Information Overdose
Independent
Some classic ish metal, a bit of a groove metal thing.

Amenra
De Toorn & With Fang And Claw EPS
Relapse
Two separate two song EPs… De Toorn has two 12+min tracks of mostly post-metal type stuff, the other are shorter tracks, and doomy post metal type stuff.

Calva Louise
”WTF”
Edge of the Abyss
Mascot
Modern electronic-ish metalcore – female fronted

TUNDRA
ETERNAL
LABEL: ROTTWEILER RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: APRIL 4th 2025
Kind of a screamo-ish deathcore

UNBOUNDED TERROR
SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN HUMANITY
LABEL: XTREEM MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: APRIL 1st 2025
Meaty brutal and groovin’ death metal. Great stuff!

Aldaaron
Par-delà les cimes
Ordre du Givre / Paragon Records (co-release)
4 April 2025
Classic black metal

Godless
Album (EP): Genesis of Decay
Self Released
Release date: April 4th, 2025
Brutal and a bit technical death metal, pushing a smidge into blackened death… a bit of a morbid angel groove

Belnejoum
Dark Tales of Zarathustra
Antiq
4 April 2025
Epic symphonic blackened death

Chronepsis
Weight of Eternity
Self-released
4 April 2025
Techy blackened death

Flagg
Diabolical Bloodlust
Purity Through Fire
4 April 2025
Fast old school melodic black metal

Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro
Unholy Anarchy Records
28 March 2025
Melodic blackened death metal

Bloody Valkyria
Release Title: In Our Home, Across The Fog
Label: Northern Silence Productions
Release Date: April 4, 2025
Melodic and Epic Black Metal

Tyrmfar
Symbiosis EP
Wormholedeath
March 28
Black/Death Metal, fast, technical but with a little room to breathe with some groovin’.

BlackLight
Future Belongs To
Wormholedeath
March 21
Progressive Metal, but mostly a bit chill like a porcupine tree type thing

Teitanblood
From the Visceral Abyss
NoEvDia
28 March 2025
Wall of sound of black metal

WRATH OF LOGARIUS
Crown of Mortis
Season of Mist
4 April 2025
Fast and brutal death metal pushing into the black metal arena

Hate
Iphigenia – radio single
Metal Blade Records
2 May 2025
Single, heavy, straightforward death metal.

New Stuff This Week… 3/24/2025

Arch Enemy
Blood Dynasty
Century Media Records
As a fan of this band… They have their sound, and some clean vox again this time, but the harsh stuff still wins out and crazy catchy guitars and stuff

Sicksence
Cross Me Twice
Earache Records
Kind of a nu-metal / metalcore… clean and harsh vox, and clean female vox too, not too shabby

Aversed
Album: Erasure of Color
Label: M-Theory Audio
Release date: March 21, 2025
Some pretty cool prog melodic death, harsh, yet catchy and melodic too

Alien Weaponry
Te Rā
Napalm
Thrashy grooves, catchy too

Becoming Wolves
The Fault In Your Scars
Curtain Call Records
Classic metal, nice groovin’ stuff.

Yngwie Malmsteen
Tokyo Live
Music Theories/MLG
Live stuff, and fast, well, it’s Yngwie

Vulvarine
Fast Lane
Napalm
All female hard rock band (as their name might suggest? – just a guess), almost a pop rock ish thing

Paths to Deliverance
Ten
Malpermesita Records
28 March 2025
Black metal, a little bit of an epic sound too

SAVAGE MASTER
Dark & Dangerous
Shadow Kingdom
28 March 2025
Classic metal

Fleshspoil
The Beginning of the End
Self-Release
March 25
Dark and doomy death metal with a bit of a black metal thing too.

CAUSTIC PHLEGM
Purulent Apocalypse
Hells Headbangers
28 February 2025
Gore noise death metal

Dissocia
To Lift The Veil
Willowtip Records
21 March 2025
Kind of a blackened atmospheric prog metal type thing

Gallower
Vengeance & Wrath
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 28/03/2025
Black/thrash, fast riffage, vox are more shout/screamed… some deathy elements too, and a bit of a raw vibe

Gryla
The Redeemer’s Festering Carcass
Iron Bonehead
21 March 2025
Wall of sound classic black metal

Hexecutor
…Where Spirit Withers in its Flesh Constraint
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 28/03/2025
Fast thrashy black metal, cool stuff with a bit of a tech/prog thing going on .

Lady Beast
The Inner Alchemist
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 28/03/2025
Classic metal, female vox, decent grooves

Nydvind
Telluria
Malpermesita Records
21 March 2025
Doomy atmospheric stuff

Nyktmyst
Nyktmyst MLP/MCD
Iron Bonehead
21 March 2025
Classic black metal

WYTHERSAKE
At War With Their Divinity
Scarlet Records
21 March 2025
Kind of a melodic death, smidges of black metal

URN
Demon Steel
Osmose Productions
28 March 2025
Thrashy death/black/death. More of a melodic deathish sound musically. cool stuff.

DEREV
Troubled Mind
Self-Release
26 March 2025
Prog, mostly in the rock/hardrock realm

Severed Angel
When Eternity Ends
No Life ‘Til Metal Records
28 March 2025
This one has a classic metal thing, maybe a bit into some power metal type stuff.

Vigilhunter
Vigilhunter
High Roller Records
28 March 2025
Classic / power metal

Smoke Mountain
Album: The Rider
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: March 28th, 2025
Doom

Hersir
Hateful Draugar From the Underground
Darkness Shall Rise
28 March 2025
classic black metal

Heruka
Release Title: Panacea
Label: Rude Awakening Records
Release Date: March 21, 2025
Melodic Black Metal comes across a bit in your face- but normal classic stuff.

Ophidian Memory
Carrion Lord
Wormholedeath
March 11
Melodic Death Metal, with more of a melodic black metal thing cool stuff.

Cabal
Everything Rots
Nuclear Blast Records
11 April 2025
Deathcore. brutal and pissed off.

New Stuff This Week… 3/17/2025

Cradle Of Filth
The Screaming Of The Valkyries
Napalm Records
Well, if anything, this band is consistent with their sound… mostly… sometimes they get a little too far into the operattic thing, but overall it’s catchy heavy blackened type stuff.

SpiritWorld
Helldorado
Century Media Records
Just straightforward good ol metal.

NITE
Cult of the Serpent Sun
Season of Mist
14 March 2025
Doomy stonerish deathish metal. Growly vox, but a solid melodic groove

LACABRA
ENEMY (single)
M-THEORY AUDIO
Melodic death, cool stuff

Imperial Triumphant
Glodstar
Century Media Records
Kind of a tech death thing… heavy a little prog/avant garde-ish

Dessiderium
Keys to the Palace
Willowtip Records
14 March 2025
Tech/prog death, some longer tracks, but lots of cool stuff happening

Bloodywood
Nu Delhi
Fearless Records
Kind of a nu-metal/groove metal thing from India, so there are some Indian music influences too

Katla
Scandinavian Pain
Napalm
This is kind of a blackeded doom

Nova Twins
“Soprano”
Parasites & Butterflies
Marshall Amplification
Female fronted hard rock, kind of a poppy metal

Rwake
The Return of Magik
Relapse
Kind of a death metal, a little dark/gloom/doom ish and melodic too.

Staticlone
Better Living Through Static Vision
Relapse
Kind of a punky hardcore

Sanhedrin
Heat Lightning
Metal Blade Records
14 March 2025
A kind of classic metal/hard rock. Female fronted, a smidge of a doomy sound.

DIATHEKE
…AND THE WORD WAS GOD
LABEL: ROTTWEILER RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 21st 2025
Technical and melodic blackened death

Supersonic Deuces
Deuce On The Loose
Screaming Crow Records
21 March 2025
Kind of a hard rockin’ almost stoner thing, but inbetween.. high energy

Cercle du Chêne
Récits d’Automne et de Chasse
Antiq
21 March 2025
Kind of a doomy post-black metal

GENOCIDAL RITES
Genocidal Upheaval of Subservient Abrahamic Law (CD, LP, TAPE)
Hells Headbangers
14 March 2025
Grindy gore – a little chaotic with shorter tracks

Bruno Karnel
Album: Villa Solitude
Label: Bitume Productions
Release date: March 14th, 2025
Post-rock chill stuff.

Predator
Release Title: Unsafe Space
Label: Fighter Records
Release Date: March 18, 2025
Heavy/Speed/Thrash Metal, nice classic sound, a little like sacred reich

Rotten Filthy
Release Title: Apotheosis
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: March 20, 2025
groovin’ thrashy death metal

PLASMAJET
Album: Solastalgia
Label: Octopus Rising
Release date: March 14, 2025
Stoner metal with a chilled out laid back groove, then picks up the tempo a little

Foreign
Release Title: Gutter
Label: Thrash Out Records
Release Date: March 21, 2025
kind of a metalcore thing and thrashy

O.R.k.
Firehose of Falsehoods
Kscope
21 March 2025
Melodic prog hard rock/rock, overall fairly chill, but it

SARMAT
Upgrade
I, Voidhanger Records
21 March 2025
Proggy jazzy metal

Damon Systema
Release Title: Ate
Label: Theogonia Records
Release Date: March 21, 2025
they call it “Melodic Dark Metal” and that fits… it has a melodic death, and a little opeth vibe, but more of a down/doomy vibe.

Dosgamos
On Day Seven He Regretted
Wormholedeath
March 14
Groove Metal and maybe a little comparable to like a Devildriver.

DRUNKEN CROCODILES
Album: Aegony
Label: Octopus Rising
Release date: March 21, 2025
Heavy Psych/Stoner/Sludge, kinda laid back and chill

Atomizator
Release Title: Nuclear Booze Patrol
Label: Witches Brew
Release Date: February 28, 2025
kind of a classic thrash… decent stuff

Maltuka
Black Rite
High Roller Records
7 March 2025
This one is a bit of a blackened thrash… probably more on the thrash side of things, but vox and just a vibe of a little black metal coldness. cool stuff.

Re-Armed
“What Is Love” (Haddaway cover)
Inverse
Melodeath version of the song made extra famous by SNL… I still want to move my head sideways, just more of a headbangy thing. haha I’m a sucker for metal covers of not metal songs. 😀

SEIDHR
Release Title: Dracanthropy
Label: Witches Brew
Release Date: February 28, 2025
They call it “Black Thrash Metal” and it fits the bill… musically it’s heavy fast thrash… and the vox are classic black metal style. cool grooves, riffs and all that. good stuff!

All Against
Straight Down To Hell
Raging Planet Records
14 March 2025
This one is some thrashy grooves, some cleanish vox, some growls… I guess overall, a heavy thrash… cool stuff. catchy too!

Amenspear
Album: A Casket of Relics
Self Released
Release date: March 7, 2025
They call it prog black metal, which I can see… it is one 26ish long track, ranges from chill progish stuff to full on black metal.

DEATH PULSATION
Demo
Caligari Records
7 March 2025
Black metal with a little thrashy vibe

State of Mind
Sanity of Madness
Self Made Records
7 March 2025
Classic metal, maybe more of a chunky hard rock.

Ashes In The Fall
Where Serenity Prevails
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: March 21st 2025
A little bit of a chill prog/death metal

Houruva
Release Title: Highway to Hell
Label: Metal Madness Studios
Release Date: March 7, 2025
Extreme metal cover of the AC/DC classic. Music has the vibe, kind hard to tell what’s going on with the vocals til the chorus or not… Vocals seem to have their own thing going on. hah

Sculforge
Release Title: Cosmic Crusade Chronicles
Label: MDD Records
Release Date: March 20, 2025
over the top power metal right off the bat, so that kind of Dragonforce vibe

The OddEven
Outer Space Outtakes
Eclipse Records
14 March 2025

Sleep Token
Emergence (single)
Even in Arcadia (may 9)
RCA
I can say I don’t totally get the hype around this band… this song is decent for what it is, kind of chilled out doomy type stuff.

HEADLESS
WEIGHTLES
M-THEORY AUDIO
Kind of a hard rock type thing

New Stuff This Week… 3/10/2025

Warbringer
Wrath and Ruin
Napalm
Modern thrash. They set the bar! A whole second bonus live album too!

Jizzy Pearl’s Love/Hate
Punk Rock Fiesta
Kenyon Records
Good ol classic metal

Tiktaalika
Gods Of Pangaea
Century Media Records
One of the guitarists from Haken with a kind of melodic death thrashy thing… and also some prog metal stuff. too. longer tracks, but cool stuff.

Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs
Stitches (Single)
Missing Piece Records
Doomish stoner metal, and of course a fun name too

Queen of Dreams
Subnivium
Self Released
January 31, 2025
Local female fronted prog/power metal, seeming to get better and tighter with each release. Songs have a nice edge and melodic feel too

Paradise Slaves
“Aesthetic of Serpents”
With Hell In His Eyes
Spinefarm
Metalcore “super group”…. Brock from 36 Crazyfists some diecast members… kinda straightforward almost KsE-like.

Visions of Atlantis
Armada Live Over Europe
Napalm
Live album

CRANBERRY SUIT
NOMAD
FIREROCK MUSIC GROUP
Kind of a classic metal / hard rock

Christian Mistress
Children of the Earth
Cruz Del Sur Music
7 March 2025
Female fronted classic metal type stuff

Grey Mountain
Grey Mountain
Eat Lead and Die Music
7 March 2025
This one is interesting… on the surface, it’s an atmospheric, maybe prog hard rock/metal, then kicks in to classic black metal

Buried
Infect & Replicate
Self-Released
12 March 2025
Downtempo groovin’ death metal with meaty grooves

Mortuaire
Monde Vide
World Eater
7 March 2025
Kind of a doomy death metal, brutal, but slower grooves

DEATHLESS LEGACY
Damnatio Aeterna
Scarlet Records
7 March 2025
Horror metal, has a nice just good metal groove, maybe a little goth, melodeath, power metal stuff. Female fronted vox

Caballero
Caballero
Gates of Hell Records
7 March 2025
Just metal, I guess. Kind of hard to pin a subgenre… a little doom/stoner-ish, a big NWOBHM vibe too

March Of Scylla
Andromeda
Klonosphere Records
7 March 2025
A little melodic death, post metal darkness, and atmoshphere

WHIPSTRIKER
Cry of Extinction
Hells Headbangers
7 March 2025
Kind of a blackened raw speed metal type thing

Necrambulant
Upheaval of Malignant Necrambulance
Gore House Productions
7 March 2025
Raw gore death metal

Purified in Blood
Primal Pulse Thunder
Indie Recordings
14 March 2025
blackened death… leaning more towards colcer death metal

Necrochakal
Release Title: Golgothian Orgies of Bestial Lust
Label: Floga Records
Release Date: March 10, 2025
Black/Thrash Metal, fast and intense with that black metal coldness, but thrashy catchy

War Magic
Release Title: Atomic Rites
Label: Obelisk Polaris Productions
Release Date: March 7, 2025
Death Metal with some grit, and meaty grooves too.

CrusHuman
Besides
Horror Pain Gore Death
March 14th
Kind of a meaty groovin’ light death metal. cool stuff

Álaghom
Return to the Beginner’s Mind
Wormholedeath
March 7
Progressive Rock… very chill – female fronted.

Dimman
Consciousness
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: February 28th 2025
Melodeath, nice catchy edge and yeah grooooves

JamArt
OmiNoUS
Self Released
Kind of a progressive metal, some chill stuff, some heavier classic metalish

Spoiled
Collapse
Gruesome Records/Selvajaria Records
27 February 2025
Kind of a thrashy hardcore… short quick songs..

Voidchaser
Trust
Self-Release
7 March 2025
Progish metal… 3 song ep with 2 longer epics

Dååth
Run (feat. Paul Masvidal of Cynic)
Metal Blade Records
27 February 2025
Cover from the song by AIR. I had to look it up… kind of a weird alt-rock type thing on the original… Daath kind of keeps the same vibe but with a little more edge… but not too far different. A little harsh vox and still synthy.

Exordium Mors
Sworn To Heresy
Praetorian Sword Records
1 March 2025
Blackened death, fast heavy catchy cool stuff.

Overdrivers
Glory Or Nothing
ROAR
7 March 2025
Classic hard rock/metal, a little like Accept-lite

Sacrosanct
Kidron
ROAR
7 March 2025
mix some power metal, prog metal, trad and thrash…

Void Revenant
Release Title: Celestial Procession
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: February 28, 2025
They call it Cosmic Death Metal… I guess there’s an atmospheric blackend death thing happening here

Kaiser
2nd Sound
Majestic Mountain Records
7 March 2025
stoner metal, with a little kyuss vibe.

Ghost (single)
Satanized
Loma Vista / Concord
A bit of a chill track, but throws back a few albums.

New Stuff This Week…3/3/2025

Whitechapel
Hymns in Dissonance
Metal Blade Records
7 March 2025
Wall of brutality, whilst still having a melotech thing too. They sound REALLY pissed. great stuff.

Cryptosis
Celestial Death
Century Media Records
An epic blackened death thing… sounds cool!

Raging Speedhorn
Night Wolf
Spinefarm Records
Groovin’ heavier stoner type stuff. harsh-ish vox, but meaty doomy high energy cool.

Destruction
Birth of Malice
Napalm
Fast and heavy classic thrash, awesome!

Edge of Paradise
Prophecy
Napalm
A kind of modern metal, female vox, a solid groove, melodies and hooks, nice heavier crunch too

Landmvrks
Blood Red (Single)
Arising Empire
Modern nu-metal.

Horizon Theory
Radio Silence
Independent
Modern metalcore type stuff

Freezemachine
”Thought You Knew”
Self-Released
A big of a grungy sound with some drivin’ grooves.

Vacuous
In His Blood
Relapse
Brutal death metal, a smidge of melodic stuff hanging around, but not any less brutal. cool stuff.

AVULSED
PHOENIX CRYPTOBIOSIS
LABEL: XTREEM MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 4th 2025
Meaty and brutal death metal… nice groovin’ stuff

CHORDOMA
CHORDOMA EP
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 7th 2025
Raw brutal gore type stuff.

Frogg
Eclipse
Self-Release
7 March 2025
Technical metal, a little prog, some metalcore, deathcore, brutal and heavy, then almost jazzy in parts too. cool stuff.

MAISON DIEU
Album (EP): Herbacea
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: March 4th, 2025
A little doom, some grooves, they call it “mystic doom”

Ashen
Ritual of Ash
Redefining Darkness Records
7 March 2025
Brutal death metal, a smidge of a blackened thing going on

MindWars
V
High Roller Records
7 March 2025
Kind of thrashy, a little technical, catchy cool classic metal

MIDRYASI’S KULT
Mountain Devil
Caligari Records
7 March 2025
Doomy grooves, a smidge of black metal feel

SCALPTURE
Landkrieg
Testimony Records
7 March 2025
Blackened death, a little thrashy… cool stffu.

New Stuff This Week… 2/24/2025

Killswitch Engage
This Consequence
Metal Blade Records
21 February 2025
Worth the wait? 6 years since their last album… this one is heavy, catchy and melodic too… pretty cool stuff!

Enemy Inside
Venom
Reigning Phoenix Music
Modern metal, a bit synthy and maybe poppy – female vox, catchy and nu-metal ish

Architects
The Sky The Earth And All Between
Epitaph Records
Modern metalcore, clean and harsh vox, breakdowns, happy melodic emochorus parts.

Avantasia
Here Be Dragons
Napalm Records
Epic and straightforward power metal.

Grima
Nightside
Napalm
black metal, melodic and a little doomy

Tubal Cain
Slime Abyss
Darkness Shall Rise
27 February 2025
Local black metal! Solid grooves, while still sounding cold and evil. sweeet!

Ditheist (single)
Kill the Priest
Cosmic Liar
Self Released (chicago)
Brutal and technical death metal, cool stuff.

Abduction
Existentialismus
Candlelight
Feb 21
Blackened death, a little more on the classic black metal side, cold and haunting guitars with a black metal vibe but a little death metal groove underlying

STINKY
SOLACE
M-THEORY AUDIO
Death/metalcore… a bit like KsE actually.

W.A.S.P.
BONUS TRACKS AND B-SIDES
MADFISH RECORDS
It is what it says… a lot of covers and fun stuff that sounds like Wasp!

Public Grave
Release Title: Grotesque Mutations
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: February 28, 2025
Nice meaty Death Metal, with catchy grooves.

CHRIST DISMEMBERED
OV VAMPIRICY
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 25th 2025
Classic black metal, good production and nothing is drawn out. solid..

Fanalo
Fanalo
Klonosphere Records
28 February 2025
JSS, lots of guests, pretty cool prog / power metal.

YEAR OF THE COBRA
Year of the Cobra
Prophecy Productions
28 February 2025
A bit doomy, goth, modern metal grungy stuff.

Hirax
Faster Than Death
Armageddon Label
28 February 2025
Fast old school thrash.

ACT OF IMPALEMENT
Profane Altar
Caligari Records
28 February 2025
Old school death metal with black metal coldness

BRONCO
Bronco
Magnetic Eye Records
28 February 2025
Doomy stoner metal.. slow and meaty

Sepulchral Curse
Crimson Moon Evocations
Dark Descent Records
28 February 2025
Brutal death metal

VOODUS
Emanating Sparks
Shadow Records / Regain Records
28 February 2025
Blackened metal, it’s not full on death metal, not full on black metal, but has kind of classic metal vibe with cold vox and tone.

IRONRAT
Album: Beneath It All
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: February 28th 2025
Decent doomy stoner metal

MUSKEG CHARNEL
Decomposition Part 4: Livor Mortis
Horror Pain Gore Death
February 28th
Death metal with a hint of black metal (mostly vox) a doomy groove too

NEBULA NINE
THE LAST SKY PIERCER EP
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 28th 2025
Prog metal/rock, some atmosphere,

The Hellacopters
Overdriver
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 31 January 2025
straightforward rockin’ metal, a bit like a WASP (vocal style) and stoner metal groove.

Grave Infestation
Carnage Gathers
Invictus Productions / Dark Descent
28 February 2025
Pure death metal fast and heavy, brutal and groovin’ too.,

Pale Epiphany
Release Title: Pale Epiphany
Label: Corrupted Records
Release Date: February 28, 2025
Heavier moments are decent prog metal, but a lot of it is kinda chill

CHEMICIDE
Violence Prevails
Listenable Records
28 February 2025
Old school thrash with a little hardcore rawness

Frau Fleischer
We Are Not…
Wormholedeath
February 21, 2025
Industrial Metal, has a little similarity to Ministry… maybe not as heavy, but definitely some guitar base with the electronic stuff

Havukruunu
Tavastland
Svart Records
28 February 2025
Kind of a black metal, or “pagan black metal” Cold and harsh

D.E.A.D
Of Vile and Hate
Wormholedeath
February 28, 2025
Death metal, solid grooves and brutality.

LÖANSHARK
No Sins To Confess
RPM-ROAR
14 February 2025
Straight up classic metal

REFINER
RETURN TO DUST EP
LABEL: ROTTWEILER RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 28th 2025
Kind of deathy and thrashy. so deathcore?

Cannibal Accident
Disgust
Inverse Records
Release Date: February 28th 2025
Death grind that is brutal, fast and heavy, short songs.

Defiled Serenity
Within the Slumber of the Mind
Record label: Inverse Records
February 21st 2025
Melodic Death Metal, nice grooves,

Light Dweller
The Subjugate
Label: Unorthodox Emanations / Avantgarde Music
Release date: February 28th 2025
Raw brutal death metal

NIGHTFALL
I Hate (Single)
Season of Mist
3 February 2025
Meaty death metal with a pinch of black metal evil coldness and some melodic room to breathe. Cool stuff.

AD HOMINEM
Totalitarian Black Metal
Goatfucker Records
28 February 2025
Brutal and pure black metal. Filed under “what’s their problem” hah while the subject matter is full of hate, music is decent. But call me too “woke” to give it airplay. sorry not sorry

New Stuff This Week… 2/17/2025

The Dark
The Dark
Arising Empire
A melodic modern metal type thing with some electronic stuff too

Uncured
Warpath
Conclave Studios
This is modern nu-metal type stuff… probably some sort of “core” a little melodic too

The Callous Daoboys
“Two-Headed Trout” / “The Demon of Unreality Limping Like A Dog”
MNRK Heavy
This started off kind of modern metal, then got a little deathcore, so we’ll call it a cross of that. Throwing them into a kind of prog-core category. Yes i made that up.

Nachtblut
Todschick
Napalm
German goth metal but with an extreme element, almost like a Rammstein meets Cradle of Filth. Throw in some depeche mode too.

RETROMORPHOSIS
Psalmus Mortis
Season of Mist
21 February 2025
Meaty and brutal technical-ish death metal. coool stuff

Conniption
The Theatre of Invention
Self Released
Milwaukee’s own… this came out last month, but we just got it… whoa! Nice production, catchy with a fast thrashy vibe, great vox… great stuff

SAVAGE LANDS
Army of the Trees
Season of Mist
14 February 2025
A metal project supprting the battle against deforestation in Costa Rica. an all star guest cast on this release. Founded in part by Dirk from Megadeth. It’s mostly straightforward metal, some harsh, some clean vox. decent stuff.

SWEET (single)
INSANE
DARK STAR RECORDS
Yes, a single from THAT Sweet. This is a catchy cool hard rockin’ thing

VOLA
”We Will Not Disband”
Mascot
Modern metal, electronic parts, a little goth and prog stuff

Allegaeon (single)
Driftwood
Metal Blade Records
4 April 2025
Very pumped for this one! Fast, progressive, technical and melodic too

Ingested (single)
Altar of Flesh
Metal Blade Records
11 February 2025
Brutal death metal

FRACTURED INSANITY
AGE OF MANIPULATION
LABEL: XTREEM MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 18th 2025
Brutal and technical death metal, decent stuff.

Matalobos
Release Title: Phantasmagoria: Hexed Lands
Label: Concreto Records
Release Date: February 21, 2025
Melodic Death Doom… a bit atmospheric

Marrowomb
Phisenomie
Self Released
21 February 2025
This one is kind of a melodic blackened death, cool stuff.

Mean Mistreater
Do or Die
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 21/02/2025
Female fronted just “trad” metal.

Scumripper
For A Few Fixes More
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 21/02/2025
Kind of a raw blackened thrashy death metal

THE 7TH GUILD
Triumviro
Scarlet Records
21 February 2025
Epic power metal

Armory
Black Star
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 21/02/2025
This one is kind of a blackenedish thrashy… maybe more just fast extreme thrash type stuff. pretty neat

Sinner Rage
Powerstrike
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 21/02/2025
straight up classic metal

TWINS CREW
Chapter IV
Scarlet Records
21 February 2025
Epic ish, but classic power metal type stuff with big vox, speedy galloping guitar.

Xenotrone
Album: Into the Void
Label: Archivist Records
Release date: February 21, 2025
This is kinda thrashy, a bit techy prog and heavy too. cool stuff!

SweetBeast
Illusions
Self-Release
21 February 2025
Nice groovin’ and catchy stoner metal. cool stuff!

Sin of God
Blood Bound
Exitus Stratagem Records
18 February 2025
Meaty death metal, with a little tech stuff

MAGNADUR
Album: Beautiful Nightmare
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: February 18th, 2025
Brutal death metal, but with a melodic element and some experimental avant/gardeish stuff.

Asasara
777
Self-Release
18 February 2025
Straight up metal, some meaty grooves

Morax
The Amulet
High Roller Records
21 February 2025
A kind of stonery doom with a classic throwback sound

Diamantide
Diamantide
Wormholedeath
2/21
Melodic Prog Metal, nice powerful female vox

Vultures Vengeance
Dust Age
High Roller Records
21 February 2025
Classic metal with a slight iron maiden vibe

Dysangelium
Exxekratus
W.T.C.Productions
12 February 2025
Black metal with some grooves and room to breathe

PHEAR
Save Our Souls
Golden Robot Records
13 February 2025
Thrashy power metal, just a really cool sound from the get go…. and a cover of Nevermore’s Narcosynthesis to give you a little idea of their vibe.

G3 Reunion Live
Big Bad Moon – Satriani
Desert Rose – Eric JOhnson
Crossroads – Vai
sampler from their reunion tour… production on this is a little more meh then i’d expect.

Awaken The Atlas
Rebuilt From Ashes
Self-Released
Power metal from sweden, epic stuff, but with some crunch to it.

Pitchfork
Horror Trance
Self Released
This one is kind of a thrashy death, vox are harsh, music is a groovin’ heavier thrash. cool stuff.

Wolvenant
Cernegula
Self Released
Melodic death, and a bit of a heavy thrash too

Iron Wolf
Victim of the Dark
Iron Fury
Classic metal, a bit of a bluesy whitesnake vibe.

Sue’s Idol
Kill The Beast
Crushing Notes Entertainment
Classic metal

Mantar
Post Apocalyptic Depression
Metal Blade Records
14 February 2025
Kind of a sludge/grungy punked up extreme metal, shorter tracks,

New Stuff This Week… 2/10/2025

Jinjer
Duél
Napalm
Musically, it almost hits a little prog metal with some metalcore and clean/harsh female vox. Cool stuff.

Lacuna Coil
Sleepless Empire
Century Media Records
Melodic and heavy too… some of the heavier stuff they’ve done, a good blend of harsh and clean vox, and a full sound that still is unmistakeably Lacuna Coil

Prehistoria
Cryptic Halo
StormSpell Records
11 February 2025
Prog metal, a bit of a Blind Guardian vibe, maybe a bit thrashier. Cool stuff!

Revocation
Confines of Infinity (feat. Travis Ryan of Cattle Decapitation) – radio single
Metal Blade Records
5 February 2025
Brutal, groovin’ and a little tech death ish… looking forward to more!

Love Is Noise
To Live In A Different Way
Century Media Records
mostly a modern metalcore type thing, clean and harsh vox, melodic.

Bleeding Through
NINE
SharpTone Records
14 February 2025
Heavier metalcore, some groove and technicality going on too…

Terminal Violence
Moshocalypse
Self-released
24 January 2025
Extreme thrash, to the point, no messing around.

Kaaboos
Anti-Cosmic Rebellion
Iblis Manifestations
Iranian black metal, more of a blackened death, meaty, catchy brutal… cool stuff!

Klein
thirteen sense
(Parkwuud Entertainment)
Noise, drone post metal type stuff.

LEADFEATHER
Album (EP): Roll The Dice
Self Released
Release date: February 14, 2025
Heavy rock, a little bluesy almost led zep thing going on.

EPHEMERA
FOR THOSE AFRAID TO DIE EP
LABEL: MORNING STAR HERESY MUSIC GROUP
RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 12th 2025
Kind of a metalcore, stays kind of in the harsh vox arena

KOSUKE HASHIDA
Outrage
Horror Pain Gore Death
Feb 14
Thrashy brutal death metal with a smidge of grind. Cool stuff!

Sicksense
Cross Me Twice
Earache Records
14 February 2025
Kind of a nu-metal / modern metal type thing. New project of former Agonist singer Vicky Psarakis.

Vénus Bleue
Infâme Nectar
Wormholedeath
Feb 14
Laid back prog type stuff, then one track is almost like black metal, some parts get to be some more heavish metal whilst staying in that prog umbrella

TOUGHNESS
Black Respite of Oblivion
GODZ OV WAR PRODUCTIONS
Death metal from poland, has a pinch of a black metal coldness, but a bit brutal and a bit of melodic progressiveness

FRIGHTFUL
What Lies Ahead
GODZ OV WAR PRODUCTIONS
More polish death metal, this one has a bit more of a straightforward death metal with a blackened death slant. Cool stuff.

Mastord
Lemmon Lintu
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: February 14th 2025
Here’s some finnish language prog rock.

Hyperstrike
“Savage Sword” (Single)
Self-Release
31 January 2025
Called “action” metal. Mostly just regular ol metal .

KILMARA
Journey to the Sun
RPM-ROAR
31 January 2025
This is kind of a power metal/classic metal thing.

Remain Untamed
Release Title: Pharmaceutical Madness
Label: Headbangers Records
Release Date: January 31, 2025
Crossover Thrash Metal, a dark groove

Fulaing
An End Held Dear
Self-Release
5 February 2025
A more ambient atmospheric type thing, then going into some classic black metal too

Tómarúm (single)
Beyond Obsidian Euphoria
Prosthetic Records
4 April 2025
Progressive blackened death metal… single here is pretty cool

Rivers of Nihil
House of Light – radio single
Metal Blade Records
4 February 2025
Brutal and technical, yet, melodic too… clean and harsh vox. can’t wait for this one