Top Pick
Jester Majesty – Infinite Measure; Infinite Existence (progressive/technical death-thrash)
Remember when Coroner put out a new album earlier this year, and it was pretty good, but it also didn't really sound like Coroner, and a lot more like Darkane or Kreator? Well, Infinite Measure; Infinite Existence sounds a lot more like what I'd expect from a new Coronor(-style) album in 2025. An offshoot of the Italian Alchemist who sound a lot like later-period Death or a thrashier Atheist, along with Nevermore, Anacrusis and all the other unsung tech-thrash heroes, Jester Majesty probably isn't going to be bothering too many year-end lists, but this album is a welcome reminder that 2025 isn't over yet.
Release Roundup
Abbinormal – Italia’s Gore Talent (death metal)
Age Of Emergence – The All Seeing Eye: Part 2 (trad/prog metal)
Alfonso Conspiracy – The Explicit//The Exploited (groove metal/death)
All Ireland Metal Project – Aiséirí Documentary OST (nu metal)
Arcane Veil – Sands Of Time (melodeath)
Bila – Bezzalart (crusty noise rock)
Bläkken – Światowstręt (mellow death/doom)
Blood Red Throne – Siltskin (death metal)
Boar Taint – Tainted for Life (‘taint bad)
Bodybag – As It Ferments… (slaming brutal death/grind)
Booby Trap – L(i)mbo (crossover, thrash)
The Burial Ground – The Burial Ground (death metal, melodeath)
Burning Death – Burning Death (black thrash)
Cervello – Chaire (prog rock)
Death Obvious – Death Obvious (deathy black metal)
Deos – Augustus Omnipotens (black metal)
Despite Exile – Where Hope Goes To Die (progressive metal/deathcore)
Discovery Through Torment – Telesynthetic Rebirth (blackened death metal)
Enthroned – Ashspawn (deathened black metal)
The Fall of Mother Earth – Fragments of Dawn (meloblack)
Ghoulhouse – Realm Of Ghouls (death metal)
Greystone Canyon – Something Borrowed…Something New (rock)
Hayward x Dälek – Hayward x Dälek (industrial hip-hop)
Hexjakt – Blessing of the Damned (sludge doom)
Hollow Peak – Obsidian Cult (prog/alt metal)
Homegrown – Homegrown (folk)
Hvrt – Cancerbloom (blackened death metal)
Idol Throne – Harbinger Of Light (power metal)
Indigosaur – Cosmic Censor (stoner metal, psych rock)
Jours Pales – Resonances (black metal)
Kakihara – Love Songs Part II (disso mathcore)
Mean To You – Zero (alt rock)
Misericordiam – Nothing But Machine Now (deathcore)
Monolith – The Price Of Their Heaven (deathcore)
Mør – Разумное, громкое, вечное (nu metal)
Omegavortex – Diabolic Messiah of the New World Order (blackgrind)
Ovacörd – Louva-a-deus (instrumetal)
Phantoms Of Future – Forever Dark (shitty folk-goth)
Portal to the God Damn Blood Dimension – Diluvium Cantos (shrug) Premiere
Sepulchral – Beneath The Shroud (death metal/thrash)
Sire Languish – Pull To God (sludgy black metal)
Skogskult – Skogskult (doom metal)
Solegnium – Unheimlich (brutal death metal)
Svntarer – Exitus Triumphalis (black doom)
Tesseract – Radar (live/choral/boring djent)
Those Who Bring the Torture – Miscreant World (death metal)
Untimely Demise – Killing Authority (black metal/thrash)
Upon A Burning Body – Blood Of The Bull (groove metal/core)
Varang Nord – Mygla (melo/death)
Vin de Mia Trix – This Landscape Is Alive (funeral doom)
Warlocks of Morgul – Empire of Puritanical Sorrow (black metal)
We Kill Cowboys – Back From The Dead (alt rock/punk)
White Nights – Cannabaceae II (psych black/doom)
Witness Chamber – Bronze Gates (crossover, groove death)
Wounded In Forest – Antihuman Artist (death/black metal)
XIV Dark Centuries – Aus uralter Zeit (black/folk metal)
Zero State – Shadow Realm (death metal)