New Stuff This Week… 6/30/2025

Yup, another week off from reviews… does anyone even miss them? 🙂 – Matt

Deadguy
Near-Death Travel Services
(Relapse)

Stryen
Burning The Bridges
Curtain Call Records

Lake Malace
Mitsuko (Single) (Radio Edit)
So In De Goot

Max Chaos
Ride The Wave (Single)
High Alert Records

Youth Code
Yours With Malice
Sumerian Records

Bray Road (single)
Wasted Mutiny
Self Released

FORBIDDEN (single)
Divided By Zero
FM

Wytch Hazel
V: Lamentations
Bad Omen Records
4 July 2025

Warkings
Armageddon Napalm Records
4 July 2025

Mutant Sex Demon
Cutting Through
Dominance of Darkness
1 July 2025

The Lucidia Project
The Twilight Affliction
Self Released
Release: June 30th, 2025
U.S. Melodic Metal

DOMKRAFT
Domkraft
Magnetic Eye Records
27 June 2025

HEXELLA
The Ancient Gaping Mouth
Hells Headbangers
27 June 2025

Jawfane
Me and All My Demons
Exitus Stratagem Records
26 June 2025

King
K
Horror Pain Gore Death
June 27th

Warhog
The Dystopian Chronicles, Vol. 3
27 June 2025

NEFAS
Oblation ov Obliteration
Self-Release
27 June 2025

Indemon
Reclaiming Chaos
Release Date: June 27th 2025
Record label: Inverse Records
Genre: Thrash Metal

Rival Pack
Burn
Thrash Out Records
20 June 2025

Metal Detektor
Release Title: Violence and Pride
Label: Rude Awakening Records
Release Date: June 20, 2025
Genre: Heavy Metal / US Power

King Witch
III
Listenable Records
27 June 2025

New Stuff This Week…6/23/25

I’m taking another week off from the review portion of this post… -matt


CRYPTOPSY
An Insatiable Violence
Season of Mist
20 June 2025

Sodom
The Arsonist
(SPV/steamhammer)

Motorhead
The Manticore Tapes
BMG

The Burned Over
The Last Great Awakening
Baphometal Records

Deadlands
SEVEN (EP)
Spinefarm Records

Alestorm
The Thunderfist Chronicles
Napalm Records
20 June 2025

Noumenia
Echoes
Eclipse Records
27 June 2025

HANDSOME DICK MANITOBA (single)
BACK ON BROADWAY EP
HEAVY MEDICATION RECORDS

Malevolence
Where Only The Truth Is Spoken
Nuclear Blast Records
20 June 2025

Revocation (single)
Cronenberged (feat. Jonny Davy of Job for a Cowboy)
Metal Blade Records
26 September 2025

RIKETS (single)
FEED
GODSIZE RECORDS

Chained Saint (Single)
1000 Tons
Patriark Records

Gore.
“Sepsis”
(Spinefarm)

Sumo Cyco
“Villains”
(Syco City Records)

Lenax
Infection
Self-Release
25 June 2025

Putridity
Morbid Ataraxia
Willowtip
27 June 2025
Fast technical brutal brutality!

MORTALHA NEGRA
Necromante
Helldprod Records
18 June 2025

Fer de Lance
Fires on the Mountainside
Cruz Del Sur Music
27 June 2025

THE BLEAK PICTURE
SHADES OF LIFE
LABEL: ARDUA MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: JUNE 27th 2025

Crüzer
Look at the Skies
Self Release
(Digital Release April 4th – CD Release TBA)

Deciduous Forest
Fields of Yore
Gutter Prince Cabal
23 June 2025

Mugshot
All The Devils Are Here
Pure Noise Records
20 June 2025

Brinicle
Perceptions of Reality
Wormholedeath
June 20
Death Metal

DEATH PROTOCOL
DEMONIC ONSLAUGHT Single
LABEL: ROTTWEILER RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: JUNE 20th 2025

Degenerate
Release Title: Rituals Of Rage
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: May 23, 2025
Format: Digital, CD
Genre: Thrash Metal, Melodic, Groove, Death

GIDEON (single)
‘Til The Wheels Fall Off
Label: Sumerian

HARXSON
Mata Al Diablo Kill the Devil
Self Released
(LA thrash, ex-Hirax members)

Hessian
Hessian EP
Wormholedeath
20 June 2025
Blackened Death Metal

Surunaamio
Surunaamio
Record label: Isosisko Records
Release Date: May 30th 2025
Genre: Progressive Metal

Tangents
Molt (EP)
Self Release
11 April 2025

Tietæne
Titans Will Awake
Self-Released

Valdrin
Apex Violator
AvantGarde Music
June 20th, 2025
Black metal from the US

LORQUIN’S ADMIRAL
Album: Lorquin’s Admiral
Country: USA
Genre: Psychedelic Stoner Rock
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: June 27th, 2025

Ninth Circle
Release Title: Anthem of the Immortal
Label: Fighter Records
Release Date: June 3, 2025
Format: CD, Digital
Genre: Melodic Heavy Metal

New Stuff This Week… 6/16/2025

I took a break from the little review writeups this week… and maybe going forward too… – matt


Byzantine
Harbingers
Metal Blade Records
13 June 2025

Fugitive
Spheres Of Virulence (Single)
Blue Grape Music

Virulence
Necrosis_EP
Independent

Orbit Culture
“Death Above Life”
Death Above Life
(Century Media)

Gruesome
Silent Echoes
Relapse
6 June 2025

Talia Hoit
Beautiful (Single)
Independent

Attack Attack!
“Dance!” b/w “ONE HIT WONDER”
Attack Attack II
(Oxide)

Cold Steel
“Blacksmith of Damnation”
Spinefarm

Ho99o9
“Upside Down”
(Last Gang)

Patristic
Catechesis
Willowtip
20 June 2025

Deathblow
Open Season
Sewer Mouth Records
16 June 2025

BLACK MAJESTY
Oceans Of Black
Scarlet Records
20 June 2025

BOCC
Obrint El Taut
June 13th
Horror Pain Gore Death

KING’S HAMMER
TO SPEAK IN TONGUES EP
LABEL: ROTTWEILER RECORDS/BROKEN CURFEW RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: JUNE 13th 2025
Raw death metal

IMHA TARIKAT
Confessing Darkness
Prophecy Productions
20 June 2025

Outergods
Release Title: Dethroned & Devoured
Label: Apocalyptic Witchcraft
Release Date: June 13, 2025
Format: Digital, LP, CD, Cassette
Genre: Extreme Metal

REFLECTION
THE BATTLES I HAVE WON
LABEL: PITCH BLACK RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: JUNE 20th 2025

THE MEDEA PROJECT
KHARON
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: JUNE 20th 2025

NADA
Entropia
Wormholedeath
June 6
Hardcore/Thrash Metal

Rotgut
24 oz CANTRIP
Self-released
20 June 2025

Thomas Carlsen’s Transmission
Album: Clockwork Sky
Country: Norway
Genre: Heavy Metal
Release date: June 6th, 2025

Bear Mace
Slaves Of The Wolf
6 June 2025

Z-Cocoon
Angels – Out June 6th
Self Release
6 June 2025

Slaughter To Prevail (single)
Song 3 (ft. Baby Metal)
Sumerian

Mystic Circle
Kriegsgötter MMXXV
ROAR
6 June 2025

New Stuff This Week… 6/9/2025

Hatriot
Serenity Will Follow (Single)
FM Music Management
Fast heavy thrash, cool stuff!

Crust
Where Light Fears To Descend
Moribund Records
Kind of a crusty black metal, a classic sound, but a bit more deathy

Chris Caffery
20 Years Of The Music Man
Metalville Records
Compilation album of Caffery’s solo stuff… some good heavy and Savatageseque stuff here too.

Fallujah
Xenotaph
Nuclear Blast Records
13 June 2025
One of the best of the newer wave of tech/prog death metal.

A-Z
A2Z²
Metal Blade Records
6 June 2025
A sort of super group is… prog, clean vox, a fates warning vibe (obviously) which is great, since there’s not anything happening in the Fates camp.

For Your Health
This Bitter Garden
3DOT
Modern metal/deathcore, a bit punky and proggish, like a Dillinger Escape Plan vibe

Psycroptic (single)
Architects of Extinction
Metal Blade Records
28 May 2025
Tech/prog death, maybe not quite as deathy, and more of a proggy tech thrash.

DEATHGOAT
DRAGGED INTO REALMS BELOW
LABEL: XTREEM MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: JUNE 10th 2025
Gritty and meaty brutal death metal

DISSONANT SEEPAGE
DYSTOPIAN PUTRESCENCE
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: JUNE 6th 2025
Punishing brutal death metal, leaning towards the gore side of things

Affliction Vector
Contra Hominem LP/CD
Iron Bonehead
6 June 2025
Kind of a post metal / black metal wall of sound

GROG
Sphere Of Atrocities
Helldprod Records
13 June 2025
A full on attack of blackened brutal death metal

Fuzzriders
I Like It
Electric Valley Records
6 June 2025
Stoner metal, nice grooves and like their name indicates fuzzy too.

Woodhawk
Love Finds A Way
Grand Hand Records
6 June 2025
A kind of just classic hard rock/metal – melodic

Cromlech
Of Owls and Eels
Darkness Shall Rise
6 June 2025
Melodic black metal, nice epic sound

Intrepid
Release Title: Juxtaposition
Label: Knife Fight Media
Release Date: June 4, 2025
Brutal and thrashy… a cool heavy beatdown of groovin’

HEXVESSEL
Nocturne
Prophecy Productions
13 June 2025
Doomy blackend metal – some parts just kind of doomy, others getting more blackened…

MASSETI
Odds And Ends
Self Released
14 June 2025
Proggy melodic death

NIGHTBEARER
Defiance
Testimony Records
13 June 2025
A bit of a blackened melodic death, brutal, catchy heavy

Sigh
I Saw The World’s End (Hangman’s Hymn MMXXV)
Peaceville Records
13 June 2025
Rerecorded 2007 album, epic, blackened death, brutal, progressive, pretty awesome actually

Prophets Tomb
Through Pain
Wormholedeath
June 13
progressive Death Metal, with a kind of deathcore quirky brutality

Low Before The Breeze
A Hole Beneath The Home We Shared
Terminus Hate City
30 May 2025
A bit deathcore, metalcore ish and extreme!

Sargeist
Flame Within Flame
W.T.C.Productions
28 May 2025
Classic black metal

Genus Ordinis Dei
Eternal Live
Eclipse
13 June 2025
Epic and symphonic melodic death… Live album, sounds pretty crisp

FUNERAL
The Funereal EP
Season of Mist
2 June 2025
Kind of doom, a bit black/death… and well, funeral doomy? hah

Lord Vigo
Walk The Shadows
High Roller Records
30 May 2025
Stoner and doomish, but throw in some prog metal… pretty cool stuff.

New Stuff This Week… 6/2/2025

Doro
Warriors of the Sea (Short Radio Edit)
Rare Diamonds
Epic classic metal

Confessions Of A Traitor
Still Haunted
Facedown Records
Brutal, but catchy groovin’ deathcore

Orthodox
A Door Left Open
Century Media Records
Death metal, leaning more to a deathcore slant. cool stuff

40 Cycle Hum
Rise Up (Single)
TLG Zoid/Virgin Music Group
Solid groove metal, not “brutal” but a good catchy sound maybe like a little heavier static x vibe

Katatonia
Nightmares As Extensions of the Waking State
(Napalm)
Heavy and lighter elements contrasting and mixing – well, kind like Katatonia does… all with a bit of a doomy sound. cool stuff

Carbonstone
Stand Off (Single)
Independent
Modern metal, industrialish metalcore type stuff

Phase Transition
Release Title: In Search of Being
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: June 6, 2025
Progressive Metal with a bit of a goth groove… clean female vox

Teramaze
The Harmony Machine
Screaming Crow Records
6 June 2025
Prog metal, a bit modern ish , but catchy cool stuff.

Lacabra
Album: Lacabra
Label: M-Theory Audio
Release date: June 6, 2025
Melodic death with some blackened death going on… really cool stuff!

Death Rattle
Album: The Moral Chokehold
Label: M-Theory Audio
Release date: May 30th, 2025
Groove metal thrashy and brutal in parts to. cool stuff.

Autumn Lies Buried
Mob Mentality (EP)
Exitus Stratagem Records
6 June 2025
A deathcore type thing, brutal, a smidge of a nu-metal thing.

Ophiolatry
Serpent’s Verdict
Worm Hole Death Records
6 June 2025
Brutal death metal, a smidge of a blackened death too

AUSTERE
The Stillness of Dissolution
Prophecy Productions
6 June 2025
Black metal, a bit more melodic and progressive and chill than full on black metal

GAAHLS WYRD
Braiding the Stories
Season of Mist
6 June 2025
mostly Chilled out with a black metal vibe, but some parts get going a big faster

Turian
Blood Quantum Blues
Wise Blood Records
6 June 2025
A sort of hardcore/metalcore ish thing, catchy

Obsidian Scapes
Death Chants Echo From Aphotic Void
Darkness Shall Rise
6 June 2025
Epic doomy death metal, longer tracks

Nemus Anima
Album: Rivers Flow Red
Self Released
Release date: June 6th, 2025
Melodic black metal

New Stuff This Week… 5/26/2025

The Haunted
Songs Of Last Resort
Century Media Records
Heavy, thrashy, catchy… great stuff.

Vildhjarta
Dar Skogen Sjunger Under Evighetens Granar
Century Media Records
A bit of a djenty metalcore thing

Wolves At The Gate
Wasteland
Solid State Records
Melodic modern metalcore.

Rivers of Nihil
Rivers of Nihil
Metal Blade Records
30 May 2025
Technical and brutal and pulled back to get a bit prog and melodic / melodeath too.

Vader
Humanihility
Nuclear Blast Records
30 May 2025
Just a 3 song ep, but any new vader is good vader! Heavy thrashy, brutal and good stuff

Fox Lake (Single)
Pure Adrenaline (Radio Edit)
MNRK Heavy
Kind of hardcore/metalcore thing, pretty cool

Blackbraid (single)
“Wardrums at Dawn on the Day of my Death”
Independent
22 May 2025
Raw old school black metal… cool stuff once again!

Mile 134
Mud (Single)
Self Released
Local two man band, a bit raw and thrashy, solid grooves

Midnight
Steel, Rust and Disgust
Metal Blade Records
23 May 2025
Mostly a Covers album (from mostly artists I am not familiar with), with a couple of new tracks. all follow the classic edgy groovin’ Midnight sound

Our Chronicle
If These Walls Could Speak EP
(Self-Released)
Modern metalcore, electronic-ish stuff,

SPIDER ROCKETS
DIRTY AND BAD
FIREROCK MUSIC GROUP
Classic rock type stuff, clean female vox, but more of a poppy style

Grin
Release Title: Acid Gods
Label: The Lasting Dose Records
Release Date: May 30, 2025
Sludgey Doom and stonery too.

Necrólisis
Release Title: Templo de Fraude
Label: Witches Brew
Release Date: May 28, 2025
Thrash Metal, fairly basic but headbanging enough (all in spanish)

TRIVAX
The Great Satan
Osmose
30 May 2025
Blackened death, with a nice catchy and melodic sound too. Cool stuff!

Golem Of Gore
Ultimo Mondo Cane
Everlasting Spew Records
30 May 2025
Gore metal, short sweet disgusting tracks! hah!

ANZV
KUR
Edged Circle Productions
Global Release Date: 30/05/2025
Black metal, a bit melodic, still classic sounding, but not full on cold evil lo fi. Decent stuff.

Furnace
Release Title: Eternally Enthroned
Label: Obelisk Polaris Productions
Release Date: May 30, 2025
Melodic Death Metal, a little doom-ish in vibe, but solid grooves and heaviness too.

ONIRIK
Curling Serpents Under Stone
I, Voidhanger Records
30 May 2025
Kind of a classic melodic black metal

Stealth
Release Title: Metal Force
Label: Witches Brew
Release Date: May 28, 2025
Raw old school metal / speed metal

WEEPING SORES
The Convalescence Agonies
I, Voidhanger Records
30 May 2025
A bit of a melodic black metal, a little doomy deathy too

Sith’ari
Before The Dawn (EP)
Ethanol Studio
30 May 2025
classic old school black metal

Graceless
Icons Of Ruin
Listenable Records
30 May 2025
Kind of a groovin’ death metal

Vaneno
Chaos, Hostility, Murder
Raging Planet Records
26 May 2025
A standard kind of gritty metal, growly vox, decent meaty grooves

Divni San
Dreamlike Tales
Wormholedeath
May 30
Kind of a classic just good ol metal, falling a bit more melodic and maybe a smidge thrashy

GraveMass (single)
Fallen
Self Release
18 April 2025
ft. members of Zimmers Hole, 3 Inches of Blood, Revocation. It’s meaty catchy and groovin’ death metal/melodic ish too

Obstruktion
The End Takes Form
Suicide Records
30 May 2025
Gritty groovin’ thrashy deathish and hardcore metal

Patchwork
Scars
Self Released
16 May 2025
Thrash, has a sound that reminds me of Sacred Reich/Flotsam and Jetsam. cool stuff from Rockford

New Stuff This Week… 5/19/2025

Onslaught
Origins Of Aggression
Reigning Phoenix Music
Flying the flag of “modern classic thrash metal” yeah… modern meaning it’s like you know, new, and classic, well, sounds like 80’s thrash!

Deraps
Viva Rock N’ Roll
Metalville Records
Classic hard rock / AOR type stuff. Throws me back to the early 90’s!

Ornimental (Single)
Read Road
Evolution Records
Kind of thrashy, a bit proggish too. cool stuff

ANUBIS
THE PUPPETEERS
M-THEORY AUDIO
here’s some power metal, a little heavier and cool.

The Callous Daoboys
I Don’t Want to See You in Heaven
MNRK Heavy
Kind of a modern pop hard rock type thing, one of the tracks starts off pretty heavy then gets very chill then back to brutal
Blackened death, a bit of an epic sound, pretty complex too but with catchy grooves!

Unmerciful
Devouring Darkness
Willowtip Records
23 May 2025
Wall of brutal tech death sound for your ear holes

Nova Twins (single)
”Piranha”
Parasites & Butterflies
(Marshall Amplification)
More pop-ish hard rock, more just kind of rock.

JACK STARR
OUT OF THE DARKNESS PART II
BRAVEWORDS RECORDS
Classic metal, a bit of a priest/maiden type vibe… neat stuff

…AND OCEANS
The Regeneration Itinerary
Season of Mist
23 May 2025
Blackened death, a bit of an epic sound, pretty complex too but with catchy grooves!

CRUST
Where Light Fears to Descend
Moribund Records
23 May 2025
Kind of a crusty black metal, a classic sound, but a bit more deathy

WAXEN
High Plains Bloodlust
Moribund Records
23 May 2025
A raw-ish blackend death.

Krematorium
Album: Sinister Seduction
Label: Witches Brew
Release date: May 23, 2025
Catchy classic thrash!

SHED THE SKIN
The Carnage Cast Shadows (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
25 May 2025
Kind of a groovin’ thrashed up death metal, catchy ish too

Ossuary
Abhorrent Worship
Me Saco Un Ojo Records / Darkness Shall Rise Productions
23 May 2025
Sludgey black/death

MOONLIGHT HAZE
Beyond
Scarlet Records
23 May 2025
Female fronted classic/power metalish stuff

TORANAGA U.K.
A NEW ORDER EP
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: MAY 19th 2025
A little classic metal, a bit raw just metal with a punkish sounding attitude

PYTHIA
V PT 1: UNHALLOWED
LABEL: GOLDEN AXE
RELEASE DATE: MAY 23rd 2025
Epic power/progish metal, clean female vox.

REFINER
MISTAKE EP
LABEL: ROTTWEILER RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: MAY 16th 2025
A raw doomish heavier sound, maybe a smidge blackend doomish

Autumn
The Endless Crave
Sleaszy Rider
Folkish melodic death, but a bit on the doomy side

Thelemite
Powers Of Darkness
Sleaszy Rider
Classic metal with a bit of a Sanctuary/Queensryche vibe

Orpharion
A Faraway World
Sleaszy Rider
Female fronted power metal type stuff.

Echoes of the Extinct
Era of Darkness
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: April 25th 2025
Melodic death metal, filling out the melodic stuff, harsh vox, and catchy vibe

Joviac
Autofiction Pt. 1 – Shards
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: May 16th 2025
Progressive Metal with a chilled out atmospheric thing, getting to be more prog hard rock than metal but there are cool heavier stuff… what am I saying? yeah dynamic.

LLOTH
Release Title: Archees Legeones (Ancient Legions)
Label: Theogonia Records
Release Date: May 9, 2025
Melodic Black Metal, a bit epic in parts, even a little folky

Ashes Of Ares (single)
“Wake Of Vultures” (single)
ROAR
Radio single: 14 May 2025
New Messiahs – Release: 8 August 2025
Hard to go wrong with anything Matt Barlow sings on… kind of a proggy thrashy thing

Born Of Osiris (single)
“Through Shadows”
Sumerian
Starts off almost modern metal power-ballad-ish… then kicks in a bit more brutality, more down-tempo ish

IMPUREZA (Single)
Pestilencia
Season of Mist
14 May 2025
Brutal flamenco death metal – and after listening, yeah… interesting !

Onslaught
Origins Of Aggression
Reigning Phoenix Music
Flying the flag of “modern classic thrash metal” yeah… modern meaning it’s like you know, new, and classic, well, sounds like 80’s thrash!

Deraps
Viva Rock N’ Roll
Metalville Records
Classic hard rock / AOR type stuff. Throws me back to the early 90’s!

Ornimental (Single)
Read Road
Evolution Records
Kind of thrashy, a bit proggish too. cool stuff

ANUBIS
THE PUPPETEERS
M-THEORY AUDIO
here’s some power metal, a little heavier and cool.

The Callous Daoboys
I Don’t Want to See You in Heaven
MNRK Heavy
Kind of a modern pop hard rock type thing, one of the tracks starts off pretty heavy then gets very chill then back to brutal
Blackened death, a bit of an epic sound, pretty complex too but with catchy grooves!

Unmerciful
Devouring Darkness
Willowtip Records
23 May 2025
Wall of brutal tech death sound for your ear holes

Nova Twins (single)
”Piranha”
Parasites & Butterflies
(Marshall Amplification)
More pop-ish hard rock, more just kind of rock.

JACK STARR
OUT OF THE DARKNESS PART II
BRAVEWORDS RECORDS
Classic metal, a bit of a priest/maiden type vibe… neat stuff

…AND OCEANS
The Regeneration Itinerary
Season of Mist
23 May 2025
Blackened death, a bit of an epic sound, pretty complex too but with catchy grooves!

CRUST
Where Light Fears to Descend
Moribund Records
23 May 2025
Kind of a crusty black metal, a classic sound, but a bit more deathy

WAXEN
High Plains Bloodlust
Moribund Records
23 May 2025
A raw-ish blackend death.

Krematorium
Album: Sinister Seduction
Label: Witches Brew
Release date: May 23, 2025
Catchy classic thrash!

SHED THE SKIN
The Carnage Cast Shadows (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
25 May 2025
Kind of a groovin’ thrashed up death metal, catchy ish too

Ossuary
Abhorrent Worship
Me Saco Un Ojo Records / Darkness Shall Rise Productions
23 May 2025
Sludgey black/death

MOONLIGHT HAZE
Beyond
Scarlet Records
23 May 2025
Female fronted classic/power metalish stuff

TORANAGA U.K.
A NEW ORDER EP
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: MAY 19th 2025
A little classic metal, a bit raw just metal with a punkish sounding attitude

PYTHIA
V PT 1: UNHALLOWED
LABEL: GOLDEN AXE
RELEASE DATE: MAY 23rd 2025
Epic power/progish metal, clean female vox.

REFINER
MISTAKE EP
LABEL: ROTTWEILER RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: MAY 16th 2025
A raw doomish heavier sound, maybe a smidge blackend doomish

Autumn
The Endless Crave
Sleaszy Rider
Folkish melodic death, but a bit on the doomy side

Thelemite
Powers Of Darkness
Sleaszy Rider
Classic metal with a bit of a Sanctuary/Queensryche vibe

Orpharion
A Faraway World
Sleaszy Rider
Female fronted power metal type stuff.

Echoes of the Extinct
Era of Darkness
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: April 25th 2025
Melodic death metal, filling out the melodic stuff, harsh vox, and catchy vibe

Joviac
Autofiction Pt. 1 – Shards
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: May 16th 2025
Progressive Metal with a chilled out atmospheric thing, getting to be more prog hard rock than metal but there are cool heavier stuff… what am I saying? yeah dynamic.

LLOTH
Release Title: Archees Legeones (Ancient Legions)
Label: Theogonia Records
Release Date: May 9, 2025
Melodic Black Metal, a bit epic in parts, even a little folky

Ashes Of Ares (single)
“Wake Of Vultures” (single)
ROAR
Radio single: 14 May 2025
New Messiahs – Release: 8 August 2025
Hard to go wrong with anything Matt Barlow sings on… kind of a proggy thrashy thing

Born Of Osiris (single)
“Through Shadows”
Sumerian
Starts off almost modern metal power-ballad-ish… then kicks in a bit more brutality, more down-tempo ish

IMPUREZA (Single)
Pestilencia
Season of Mist
14 May 2025
Brutal flamenco death metal – and after listening, yeah… interesting !

New Stuff This Week… 5/12/2025

Sabaton (Single)
Templars
Better Noise Music
It’s Sabaton, so you know you’re getting a history lesson, in an epic metal way.

Pridian
Venetian Dark
Century Media Records
A kind of modern death core type thing

Paul Di’Anno
In Memory Of
Metalville Records
Chilled out power ballad track is the only single I have

Calva Louise (single)
Aimless (single)
Mascot
Melodic and heavy metal/deathcore type stuff. It has a latin vibe and female vox

Ghost Bath
Rose Thorn Necklace
Nuclear Blast
9 May 2025
Kind of goes from chilled out then getting into some more classic black metal. and back and forth

Behemoth
The Shit Ov God
Nuclear Blast Records
9 May 2025

Hedvig Mollestad Trio
Bees in the Bonnet
Rune Grammofon
Kind of an instrumental stoner metal – chill.

KORYPHEUS (single)
ICARUS
M-THEORY AUDIO
Prog-ish, melodic metal

Blaxem
Ethereal
Eclipse Records
16 May 2025
A kind of djenty tech metal, a little like meshuggah

Executionist
Sacrament of the Sick
Self-Release
16 May 2025
Extreme thrash… a bit melodic, vox are a bit of a black metal ish style. cool stuff

Cumbeast
Release Title: Fairytales Of Filth
Label: Morbid Generation Records
Release Date: May 12, 2025
Brutal Death Metal, kinda technical and really catchy. Brutal!!

Détresse
Release Title: Pessimismes
Label: Vendetta Records
Release Date: May 17, 2025
classic Black Metal

WARMOON LORD
Sancrosanct Demonopathy (CD, LP, TAPE)
Werewolf
16 May 2025
Classic old school black metal, one track was more of a doomy atmospheric, next track was more of a speed metally vibe before settling in a little.

GAIABETA
GATE OF GAIABETA
LABEL: PITCH BLACK RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: MAY 16th 2025
Classic metal, a smidge into thrashy speed

Eleventh Ray
Reviving Tehom
Dark Descent Records
16 May 2025
Doomy sludgey deathish metal

ANTROPOMPORPHIA
Devoid of Light
Testimony Records
16 May 2025
Heavy and meaty brutal death metal. cool stuiff

Bell Of Mimir
Album: Nocturne
Label: Octopus Rising
Release date: May 16, 2025
Doom Metal, slow, ploddy

NYTT LAND
Songs of the Shaman
Prophecy Productions
16 May 2025
Pretty much river chanting

ABYSMAL RITES
Restoring The Primordial Order
5/9
Wormholedeath
Heavy Sludge

Drouth
The Teeth of Time
Eternal Warfare Records
16 May 2025
Fast intense blackened death

IM NEBEL
Album: Hypocrisis
Label: Octopus Rising
Release date: May 16, 2025
Kind of a gothy melodic proggy death.

EchoSoul
Time of the Dragon
No Dust Records
15 May 2025
Kind of a thrashy prog/power metal thing. cool stuff, big vox (clean and harsh)

Dredge the Lethe
Release Title: Blood Metal
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: April 20, 2025
Brutal kind of blackened melodicish death. decent

Escarnium
Inexorable Entropy
Everlasting Spew Records
9 May 2025
Brutal death metal, good stuff.

Harms Way
Other World
Metal Blade Records
6 May 2025
Kind of a meaty death metal, leaning into some deathcore. second track hits the atmospheric electronicish button.

Liminal Spirit
Pathways
Self-Release
9 May 2025
One man prog doom from Milwaukee, a single 14 minute ish track.

Pupil Slicer
HEATHER/BLACK SCRAWL
Prosthetic Records
5 May 2025
Heavy deathcore, techy too

VOID
Horrors of Reality
Shadow Kingdom
5 May 2025
Kind of a technical thrash. cool stuff.

New Stuff This Week… 5/5/2025

Tetrarch
The Ugly Side Of Me
Napalm Records
Kind of a modern metal, some decent grooves and melodic

Slaughter To Prevail
Russian Grizzly In America (Radio Edit)
Sumerian
You know this band, nothing is half ass and full on brutal. this track is just like that

Hate
Bellum Regiis
Metal Blade Records
2 May 2025
Blackened death metal with some big meaty grooves, this is great stuff.

Candlemass
Black Star EP
Napalm
Meaty groovin’ Doom. Like, they kind of helped invent the genre, so they know, right?

Media
Media
(Self-Released)
Has a laid back Tool type vibe

THE HAUNTED (single)
In Fire Reborn
Century Media Records
30 May 2025
It’;s always a great day when new The Haunted hits my ear holes. Brutal, techy, catchy, melodic great stuff

AXIOM CHAOS
PRIMACY ARRIVAL
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: MAY 9th 2025
Brutal death metal and a bit techy

Ominous Ruin
Requiem
Willowtip Records
9 May 2025
Tech death, great stuff… a bit like Allegaeon

Elusive God
Ambis
Personal Records
9 May 2025
Doom, longer stracks, decent

ACCEPTANCE
CRUCIFIXION OF ORCHIDS
LABEL: ROAD TO MASOCHIST
RELEASE DATE: MAY 2nd 2025
Kind of a blackened post metal

Pyromancer (US)
Absolute Dominion by Fire
Adirondack Black Mass
9 May 2025
Classic black metal

Chontaraz
Phantom of Reality
SAOL
9 May 2025
Kind of a modern / Nu metal, but with a little prog thing going on.

Cocaine Culture
Cocaine Culture
Horror Pain Gore Death
May 9
Raw brutal death metal

Exilium Noctis
Pactum Diaboli
Black Lion Records
9 May 2025
Blackened melodic death, cool stuff.

RawMoor
En Route
Wormholedeath
May 2
Symphonic Blackened Death Metal, a little Cradle of Filth vibe. cool stuff.

MAREA
ADRIFT
LABEL: MASKED DEAD RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: MAY 9th 2025
A little chilled out black metal, a little doomish.

No Heroes
Release Title: Brood Eternal
Label: Sound of the Northwoods
Release Date: May 2, 2025
They say its “Atmospheric Death Grind, Death Metal, Grindcore, Black Metal” And yeah, I can hear that, and a bit raw too

BEHÖLDER
In the Temple of the Tyrant
Sound Pollution
25 April 2025
Classic metal with a little bit of a proggy/power metal thing… cool stuff.

Infernal
Release Title: aVe
Label: Hellstain Productions
Release Date: March 21, 2025
Format: Digital
Genre: Black Metal

Employed To Serve
Fallen Star
Spinefarm
April 25
Deathcoreish with some proggy melodeth too. cool stuff.

Mors Silens
Infernal Legacy
Wormholedeath
May 9
Melodic BlackMetal

New Stuff This Week… 4/28/2025

Machine Head
UNATØNED
Nuclear Blast
Release: 25 April 2025
Heavy yet groovin’ and more to the point. some of the past MH stuff was kind of long and drawn out… thse are all pretty short and to the point… which is good in my opinion… getting in a little deeper, it does chill out a bit with mroe clean vox and atmosphere

Acres
The Host
Solid State Records
A modern metal core thing, decent grooves, a smidge emo

Paradise Slaves
With Hell In His Eyes
Spinefarm
Modern metalcore

Avenger of Blood
Album (EP): Revenge Is My Name
Label: M-Theory Audio
Release date: April 25, 2025
Heavy Thrash Metal with more extreme vox. great stuff

NIGHTFALL
Children of Eve
Season of Mist
2 May 2025
Death metal, with some heavy thrashy grooves

HERTA
Crossing The Illusion
Lifeforce
May 2nd, 2025
Progressive Metal, a little meshuggah thing going on, a smidge deathcore, cool stuff!

Sviteknology (Single)
Heavy Blues
Sviteknology Media Group
Song title says it all… heavy and bluesy with some good grooves

Gama Bomb
Necronomicon Automaton
Prosthetic Records
18 April 2025
thrashy and melodic with big soaring vox.

Cadaver
Hymns Of Misanthropy
Listenable Records
25 April 2025
Good ol classic death metal.

Freezemachine (single)
Edge of a Knife
Self-Released
Kind of a modern alt metal type thing.

Our Chronicle
”Stop Motion”
If These Walls Could Speak EP
(Self-Released)
More modern metal/deathcore.

Rivers of Nihil (single)
Rivers of Nihil – radio singles
Metal Blade Records
30 May 2025
A couple more singles… techy melodic death metal, more on the death/.prog death thing… waiting for the full! nice

A-Z (single)
A2Z² – radio singles
Metal Blade Records
6 June 2025
first single from Fates Warning-adjacent super group. This is the second album and says to be a bit heavier… this single has a nice solid groove with the familiar pipes of Ray Alder.

Eisenkult
Die Hölle ist hier
Purity Through Fire
30 April 2025
Melodic blackened death, pretty cool stuff.

HANGFIRE
BURN
LABEL: ROTTWEILER RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: MAY 2nd 2025
Kind of thrashy music with big soaring powerful female vox. cool stuff!

Encelado
Pillars of Creation
Regenerate Records
29 April 2025
Brutal and kind grindy/gore death metal

LEPER COLONY
Those of the Morbid
Testimony Records
2 May 2025
Kind of a deathy thrash… nice gritty brutal grooves

Master Charger
Album: Posthumous Resurrection
Label: Octopus Rising
Release date: May 2, 2025
Sludgey doom with a nice solid groove

FACE YOURSELF (single)
Sideration
Sumerian
Deathcore, big brutal sumeriancore

Falling From Grace
At The Edge
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: May 2nd 2025
Groovin melodic death. cool stuff

Malforce
Release Title: Force du Mal
Label: Witches Brew
Release Date: April 25, 2025
Thashy death metal, a bit raw.

Matraque
Nature Morte
Ashen Tree Records
1 May 2025
Sludgy, blackened post metal type stuff

Northvoid
Ember Remains
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: April 25th 2025
Meaty groovin’ melodeath

Thus Spoke Zarathustra (single)
I’m Done With Self Care, It’s Time For Others’ Harm
Prosthetic Records
23 May 2025
Tech deathcore type stuff. cool

Wind Down
The Burning Past
Wormholedeath
4/18
Prog Metal, a bit laid back, but fairly straightforward classic metal. Nothing too crazy proggy

YHWH
Tetragrammaton EP
Wormholedeath
April 25
Blackened Death Metal. a bit raw, but heavy

HATE FOREST
Against All Odds
Self-Released
25 April 2025
classic black / death metal. raw and punishing

Ancestral Sin
Next of Sin
Independent, Oblivion Records
16 April 2025
I guess this’d be thrashcore? Fast, in your face, hardcore-ish. Cool.

Byzantine (single)
Harbingers – radio singles
Metal Blade Records
13 June 2025
Melodic yet a nice heavy groove.

Cirith Ungol
Live at the Roxy
Metal Blade Records
25 April 2025
Good ol live album, sounds clean and groovin’

Teaser Sweet
Night Stalker
High Roller Records
25 April 2025
Classic metal, female vox, decent stuff

The Storyteller
The Final Stand
The Circle Music
25 April 2025
Big powerful power metal, with a little blind guardian vibe musically, but otherwise, straightfoward power metal with a little heavier edge.

Wretched Path
Sea of Death
Record label: Meara Music
Release Date: March 26th 2025
Brtual Death metal with a catchy gritty groove.

Celestial Sanctuary
Visions of Stagnant Blood
Metal Blade Records
11 April 2025
Brutal death metal

Demonic Death Judge
Absolutely Launched
Suicide Records
30 April 2025
Groovin’ stoner metal

Imminent Sonic Destruction
Floodgate
Independent
Progressive metal, moving through a few diff genres in their tracks

Space Chaser (single)
Ignite the Skies
Metal Blade Records
24 April 2025
Kind of a thrashy thing with a bit of a classic metal vibe too.