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