Ominous Ruin – Requiem (tech death)
Well, that's tech-death album of the year wrapped up then.
Release Roundup
Abysmal Rites – Restoring the Primordial Order (sludge doom)
Aeroscreamer – Countess of the Night (trad metal)
An Tóramh – Echoes Of Eternal Night (funeral doom)
Asthénie – Iridescence (posty post-black/gaze)
Axiom Chaos – Primacy Arrival (brutal death, gurgle-grind)
Bangover – Hibernation Devastation (crossover thrash)
Behemoth – The Shit Ov God (shitty blackened death)
billy woods – Golliwog (hip-hop)
Black Map – Hex (melodic alt-rock)
Bronson Arm – Casket Schwagg (noise/sludge punk)
Candlemass – Black Star (doom metal)
Cascadent – Telemetry (progressive post-hardcore)
Cavern Deep – Part III: The Bodiless (doom)
Chainsword – Chapter XII (death metal)
Chontaraz – Phantom Of Reality (blackened groove metal)
Cocaine Culture – Cocaine Culture (blackened death metal)
Crimson Crown – Vae Victis (black metal)
The Cruel – Cruel Society (metalcore)
Dagdrøm – Schauder (post-black metal)
Death Kommander – Never to Grow Old (death metal)
Death SS – The Entity (hard/shock rock)
Demeted – Rituals (dlackened death/core)
Devine Defilement – Ruthless (slamming brutal death)
Dos Monos – Dos Moons (experimental/noise hip-hop)
Edensong – Our Road To Dust (prog rock)
Elusive God – Ambis (doomy metal)
Escarnium – Inexorable Entropy (death-doom)
Esox – Watery Grave (folky post-black)
Exilium Noctis – Pactum Diaboli (blackened death metal)
For The Pyres – At The Pyres Of Sin (death metal)
Ghost Bath – Rose Thorn Necklace (post-black metal)
Ghost Chant – Hell May Await Me (metalcore)
Harms Way – Other World (brutal/industrial hardcore)
Helllight – We, The Dead (gothic/funeral doom)
Hellth – The Glitch (deathcore)
Hellspawn – Euphorias – Stories of My Multitude (blackish death metal)
Helpless Agony – Belligerent Retribution (death metal)
Hostia – Razorblade Psalm (brutal death-metal/core)
House Lights - The Past is Ours to Leave (emo)
In Covert – Bleak Machinery (post-punk, industrial)
Interceptor – Metal Death (black/speed metal)
Jade – Mysteries Of A Flowery Dream (blackened death-doom)
Kal-El – Astral Voyager Vol. 1 (stoner rock/doom)
King Parrot – A Young Person’s Guide To King Parrot (death/grindcore)
Kurt Deimer – And So It Begins… (bad rock)
Lacabra – Lacabra (melodeath)
Lamenting Satanas – Invocations (blackened death)
Little Simz – Lotus (progressive hip-hop)
Lloth – Archees Legeones (power black)
Marea – Adrift (black doom)
mclusky – the world is still here and so are we (alt rock)
Meatwound – Macho (noise/sludge-core)
Memoremains – Toxic Devotion (electro/pop metal)
Monvrchs – You Are Not Safe Here (djentcore)
Mors Silens – Infernal Legacy (blackened death metal)
Mütterlein – Amidst The Flames, May Our Organs Resound (post-metal)
My Dementia – Premonição: Só Me Arrependo do Que Não Vivi (black/death-doom)
Nechochwen – Spelewithiipi (folk)
Nerv – Lost (melodic alt-metal)
Novelists – Coda (pop metalcore)
Paralyzed – Rumble & Roar (hard rock, stoner blues)
Peter Murphy – Silver Shade (goth rock, post punk)
Persekutor – Vlad but True (“ice metal”)
Phrymerial – Earth Wonderland (slamming brutal death)
Postmortal – Profundis Omnis (doom)
Prophetic Suffering – Rivalry Of Thyself (crusty blackened-death)
Pyromancer – Absolute Dominion By Fire (noisy death metal)
Skaphos – Cult of Uzura (brutal death-doom)
Sleep Token – Even In Arcadia (pop, metal?)
Slumbering Sun – Starmony (prog rock/doom)
Sold Soul - Just Like That, I Disappear Entirely (progressive deathcore)
Spiritless GA – Exordium (nu/progressive? metalcore)
Statement – Sinister Thing (alt rock/metal)
Steve Dadaian – Revenant City (instrumental prog metal)
Stolen Gun – Demo 2025 (grind/deathcore)
Stone Fist – Stone Fist (alt rock)
Svarta Havet – Månen Ska Lysa Din Väg (black metal/gaze)
Telos – What They Built (noisy mathcore)
Tetrach – The Ugly Side Of Me (nu metal)
Thelemite – Powers of Darkness (King Diamond metal)
Veneraxiom – Apocryphilia (brutal black/death-metal)
Victim Path – Lost In Stellar Dust (post-black metal)
Void – Horrors of Reality (spooky thrash)
Wall of Sleep – The Kingdom (hard/meodic rock)
You Win Again Gravity - Don't Leave Me Here, Pt. 1 (post-prog)