The Halo Effect
March Of The Unheard
Nuclear Blast Records
10 January 2025
Well the first album was pretty great for fans of the 90’s In Flames sound… and this follow up picks right up where they left off… how can they keep making so many catchy and melodic yet still heavy melodeath songs? Great stuff.

Sarcator
Swarming Angels Flies
Century Media Records
Blackened thrash, extreme and up in your business… cool stuff.

Arcania
Lost Generation
Independent
Thrashy, a little melodic and catchy cool stuff too.

CONCRETE
MORTUALIS
UPSTATE RECORDS
Nice meaty and brutal death metal.

Peter Wilson
Freedom’s Door
Dr. Music Records
mostly straightforward rock

Magnum
Live At KK’s Steel Mill
(SPV/Steamhammer)
Live album with these classic hard rockers…

Tremonti
The End Will Show Us How
(Napalm)
Melodic hard rock type stuff

Mutagenic Host
The Diseased Machine
Gurgling Gore / Dry Cough / Memento Mori
3 January 2025
Kind of a deathy thrash thing, nice solid grooves and catchiness with an old school sound too… cool stuff!

Second Day
Release Title: Flamboyance
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: January 7, 2025
They call it “Post Prog Metal” Not sure what that really means… but in this case, it’s kind of a proggy melodic death.

CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE
EXEMPTING REALITY
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 17th 2025
Brutal death metal throwing some classic death grovoes

Crimson Storm
Release Title: Livin’ On the Bad Side
Label: Fighter Records
Release Date: January 14, 2025
kind of a classic metal pushing into some speedier stuff, not quite thrash… with siren-like vox similar to Bruce Dickinson… cool stuff.

Caelestia
Infernalia EP
Wormholedeath
Nice meaty death metal, with a bit of a melodic touch.

Onirophagus
Revelations From the Void
Personal Records
17 January 2025
Doomy death post-metal

Putrid Defecation
Release Title: Tales from the Toilet
Label: Stadin Rec
Release Date: January 17, 2025
they call it “Slamming Death Metal / Toilet Slam” aside from their name, the song titles should explain a bit “Airborne Backdoor Evacuation” for example… you know you’re gonna get some dirty death metal I little gore and grind, but overall just good meaty, or poopy in this case, death metal.

Vitriolic
Black Steel Vengeance
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 17/01/2025
A classic black metal sound, but with a little groove/death throwin in

Axetasy
Withering Tides
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 17/01/2025
There’s a bit of a NWOBHM type sound, but a little rawness, black metal influences, and speedy thrash.

DRAGONKNIGHT
Legions
Scarlet Records
17 January 2025
Epic power metal

FAITHXTRACTOR
Loathing & the Noose
Redefining Darkness Records
10 January 2025
Fast intense death metal, punchy and brutal

RATS OF GOMORRAH
Infectious Vermin
Testimony Records
17 January 2025
Kind of a blackened death metal with a nice deathy catchy groove

GENOCIDE KOMMANDO
Third World War
Osmose Productions
27 December 2024
Black metal, a bit fast and in your face.

Druparia
The River Above
Self-Release
27 December 2024
Straightforward metal, getting more extreme with vox, and a bit thrashy but still melodic.

DEUS SABAOTH
Album: Cycle of Death
Self-Released
Release date: January 17, 2025
Melodic Black Metal, fits that bill good

Lamashtu
Längtan
Wormholedeath
Kind of a progressive folk-ish symphonic metal… doomy and epic

Necromaniac
Sciomancy, Malediction & Rites Abominable
Invictus Productions / The Ajna Offensive
Jan 13
Classic old school black metal

The Cimmerian
An Age Undreamed Of
Hyborian Rage Records / BVR (fka Black Voodo Records)
10 January 2025
Some big doomy grooves and sludge.

Ember Sea (single)
Ahab
Green Bronto Records
Release Date: 16 Dec. 2024
Melodic Metal, classic stuff, a little prog metal, female vox

Final Siege
Nuclear Doom State
Wormholedeath
27 December 2024
Death-Thrash Metal, catchy cool stuff

Fragmentary Solid Abyss
Concento Pavor Nocturnus
Wormholedeath
20 December 2024
Raw black metal with haunting vocals

Gravethorn
Atrocitas
Wormholedeath
20 December 2024
Blackened Death Metal, fast and intense, leaning more towards the black metal side of things

Sorceress of Sin
Ennea
Wormholedeath
20 December 2024
Melodic Power Metal, a bit epic

Tigguo Cobauc
Fountains of Anguish
Exitus Stratagem Records
20 December 2024
Kind of a classic black metal, a bit melodic

Wolf Hex
Profane Heresies
Armageddon Label
6 December 2024
Raw thrashy metal, a little on the extreme side with the vocal style.

Brutal Carnage
Release Title: Butchery
Label: Blood and Brutality Records
Release Date: December 13, 2024
Death Metal, technical yet a bit of a thrashiness.

Garden of Stone
The Grave Mistake
Release Date: January 10th 2025
Record label: Inverse Records
This one is kind of straightforward metal type stuff

RAUHBEIN
Adrenalin
Reigning Phoenix Music (RPM)
27 December 2024
Folky German party metal

Voodoo Circle
Hail To The King
AFM Records
20 December 2024
Reminds me of Whitesnake right away, then has that classic hard rock AOR type vibe.