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