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Release Day Roundup: 4/25/25

This is the big one folks, featuring new releases from *inhales* Machine Head, Ghost, H.E.A.T, Employed To Serve, Kardashev, Sumac + Moor Mother, BRUIT ≤, Ancst, Conan, Game Over, Imminent Sonic Destruction, Eyes, Changeling, Point Mort and so many, many more…

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Top Pick

H.E.A.T – Welcome to the Future (hair metal)

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Release Roundup

Aeonyzhar – The Profane Era (blackened death metal/doom)

Ahamkara – The Harrow Of The Lost (progressive post-black)

Ancient Bards – Artifex (symphonic power metal)

Ancst – Dominion (crusty metalcore)

Angels On Fire – Falling From The Sky (heavy/doom metal)

Another Damn Disappointment – Bedlam (punk metal)

Aortes – Carrion (doomy post-metal)

Art Nation – The Ascendance (melodic rock)

Assimilated Transdimensionalization – Neuroforged in the Womb of Wires (brutal death metal)

Ataudes – Tempus Edax Rerum (black/death metal)

Avenger Of Blood – Revenge Is My Name (black thrash)

Bank Myna – Eimuria (ambient, post-doom)

Bark – The Time Has Come (death thrash)

Behölder – In The Temple Of Tyrant (heavy/doom metal)

Big Boy – Love Songs (hardcore)

Big|Brave – Ost (ambient post/drone)

Billy Idol – Dream Into It (pop-rock)

Black Sword Thunder Attack – Black Sword Thunder Attack (heavy metal)

Blastanus – Land Of The Weak, Home Of The Slave (tech grind)

Blister Brigade – A Rioting New Breed (thrash)

Brick By Brick – Collapse (beatdown hardcore, groove death)

BRUIT ≤ – The Age Of Ephemerality (progressive post–rock)

Cadaver – Hymns Of Misanthropy (weird/techish death metal)

Caliban – Back From Hell (death/metalcore)

Cancer – Inverted World (death metal)

Caustic Wound – Grinding Mechanism of Torment (death metal/grind)

Cell Intruder – Den of Deformity (death metal)

Changeling – Changeling (progressive/technical death metal)

Cineastre – Fortgang (post-black/gaze)

Coffin Feeder – Big Trouble (brutal death metal)

Cogas – Among The Dead: How To Become A Ghost (blackened death metal)

Conan – Violence Dimension (sludge doom)

Corrupter – Gloria in Profundis (blackened/brutal death metal)

Cosmic Cathedral – Deep Water (prog rock)

Cotoba – Sin Swims (post-rock)

Danny Veras – Can’t Stop The Rock (please stop)

David Eugene Edwards and Al Cisneros – Pillar of Fire / Capernaum (stoner/psych rock)

Dead Shrine – Cydonia Mensa (stoner metal/doom)

Deserted Fear – Veins Of Fire (alt groove, melodeath)

Desolator – Spirit of Speed (thrash)

Disfuneral – In Horror, Reborn (speedy death metal)

Drain Down – Mental Pollution (thrash)

Earl Of Hell – Earl Of Hell (spooky goth-metal)

Echoes of the Extinct – Era of Darkness (melodeath)

Eluveitie – Ànv (folk metal)

Employed To Serve – Fallen Star (sludgy metalcore) Review

Epic Death – The Seer (symphonic/blackened melodeath)

Eyes – Spinner (crusty hard/metal/mathcore)

Fat Bastard – Barely Dressed (very bad metal)

Felgrave – Otherlike Darknesses (long prog-black)

Gaffed – I Can Feel Myself Rot (death metal)

Game Over – Face The End (thrash)

Ghost – Skeleta (heavy/occult metal)

GhostSeeker – Divergence (nu/groove metal)

The Great Sea – Noble Art Of Desolation (post metal, meloblack)

Greengoat – Aloft (blackish doom metal)

Ǥứŕū – Revel in the End of the World (blackened doom)

Hans & Valter – The Legend Of The Oakensource (power folk)

Harem Scarem – Chasing Euphoria (melodic rock)

Heart Attack Man – Joyride The Pale Horse (acoustic pop punk)

Hexekration Rites – Misanthropic Path of Carnal Deliverance (blackened death metal)

Higher Walls – No End (sludge-core)

Hyena – About Rock And Roll (heavy metal)

Imminent Sonic Destruction – Floodgate (prog metal)

Inhuman Nature – Greater Than Death (crossover thrash)

Insineratehymn – Irreverence Of The Divine (death metal)

Insomnia Creep – Questions? (stoner sludge)

Jack Starr – Out Of The Darkness Part II (heavy metal)

Kardashev – Alunea (progressive/post-death metal) Review

Landmvrks – The Darkest Place I’ve Ever Been (nu metal, baddiecore)

Liv Kristine – Amor Vincit Omnia (symphonic metal, power doom?)

Lord Vampyr – The Greatest Bloodbath (blackened goth metal)

Machine Head – UNATØNED (grøøve thrash) Review

Mad Invasion – Crack In The Sky (doom metal)

Malforce – Force du Mal (death thrash)

Mano de Piedra – Tales From The Burnt House (post metal)

Martoriator – Bloodpainted Visions of Perpetual Conflict (blackened deathgrind)

Miss Lava – Under A Black Sun (stoner rock)

Monhell – A Last Sigh Of Pain (doomy meloblack)

Morbific – Bloom Of The Abnormal Flesh (brutal death metal)

Northvoid – Ember Remains (melodeath)

Oak – The Third Sleep (mellow prog)

Of the Muses – Underheavens: Of Blood, Ghosts and Saltwater (pop-ambient, post post-black?)

Onsetter – Malice (fuzzy sludge)

Opia – I Welcome Thee, Eternal Sleep (mellowdoom)

Oracle Hands – Dirge For The Doomed (gothy/blackened sludge)

Oresund Space Collective – Alotta Hella Down In Estrela (space prog)

Oria – This Future Wants Us Dead (weird/progressive groove-metal)

Ornamentos del Miedo – Vacío como el tronco de un árbol muerto (blackish funeral doom)

Osmed – The Final Singularity (brutal death metal)

Our Frankenstein – Magnum Spire Hotel (industrial goth)

Övervåld – Vigarv (death metal)

Pagan Altar – Never Quite Dead (doom rock)

Panzerballett – Übercode Œuvre (y tho?)

Parthian – Mortuorum (groove death)

Phantom – Tyrants Of Wrath (speed metal, thrash)

Phoschydeux – 4 Days of Bliss in Hell (blackish doom)

PLQ MRX – Cumgitsum (noise sludge)

Point Mort – Le point de non-retour (post/-blackened hardcore)

Prost – Believe Again (melodic rock/AOR)

The Riven – Visions Of Tomorrow (heavy metal)

Sacred Steel – Ritual Supremacy (heavy metal, thrash)

Samiarus – Reign Destroyer (noisy/blackened death-doom)

Serj Tankian – Foundations (alt metal)

Sijjin – Helljjin Combat (death metal/thrash)

Slamdinistas – Wild & Restless (punk/garage rock)

Snow White Blood – A Spark of Truth (symphonic/power metal)

Society Of Villains – Good & Evil (weird/pop rock)

The Storyteller – The Final Stand (power metal)

Structure – Heritage (funeral doom)

Sumac + Moor Mother – The Film (weird post-sludge?)

Sunflower Bean – Mortal Primetime (goth rock)

Supreme Void – Towards Oblivion (blackened disso-death)

Teaser Sweet – Night Stalker (hard rock/metal)

Temple Fang – Lifted From The Wind (alt/hard rock)

Titan Rage – Colossal (groove death)

Trick Or Treat – Ghosted (power metal)

Urisk – Shrivelling Lights (black doom)

Valkenrag – Fury Untamed (folkened meloblack)

Vape Warlök – …And His Skull Shall Make My Bong (stoner sludge/doom)

Venator – Psychodrome (heavy/speed metal)

The Victorious Dead – The Reaper At The Gates (black metal)

Void King – The Hidden Hymnal: Chapter II (doom)

Voland – The Grieving Fields (folk metal)

Vomitizer – Release The Rats (crossover death metal)

Wednesday 13 – Mid Death Crisis (Rob Zombie at home, only-semi-derogatory)

Where Evil Follows – Ruination Revelation (speed thrash)

Wisdom & Fools – Prophecy (progish death metal, thrash)

The Yagas – Midnight Minuet (goth metal)

 

Joshua Bulleid

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