We’ve got an EPIC arctic blast moving in here so, YAY. I really wish Canada would keep their cold air but here we are. Anyway, it’s already another new week here in 2025 and with that comes another batch of new releases. This week we get things rolling with some stellar blackened death metal from Sabhankra, nordic folk from Wardruna, putrid death metal from Putred, and some grind from Cocaine Mitch. And, of course, the entire list that follows these four which is quite a bit longer than we’ve recently had. Definitely some good stuff to be had so dig your heels in. Meanwhile, I’ll be over here wrapped up like a damn eskimo waiting the storm out. We’ll see you here throughout the week as it should be a busy one.

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Sabhankra – Nocturnal Elegies (Khufu Records) – melodic black / death

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Wardruna – Birna (By Norse Music) – nordic folk

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Putred – Megait al Putrefacției (Memento Mori) – death metal

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Cocaine Mitch – An Act of Violence (Haul of Horror) – grindcore

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Also on tap:

A Terre – Embrasser La Nuit (Self) – post-metal

Abduction – Existentialism (Candlelight) – black metal

Acolytes of Moros – Sphere of Adversity (Nine Records) – doom

Anā’Anā – Aura of Blood (Darkness Within) – black metal

Atramentum – The Wrath Within (Self) – death/doom

Belle Morte – Pearl Hunting (WormHoleDeath) – symphonic / dark

Beneath A Steel Sky – Cleave (Ripcord Records) – post-metal

Bumblefoot – Bumblefoot…Returns! (Bumblefoot Music LLC) – instru…metal

Century – Sign of the Storm (Dying Victims Productions) – metal

Corroding Soul – S/T (Self) – post-black metal

Dax Riggs – 7 Songs for Spiders (Self) – dark

Deadspawn – Bile of the Gods (Self) – blackened death metal

Discordant Meditation – Tragic Creature (Self) – experimental death metal

Fleshbore – Painted Paradise (Transcending Obscurity Records) – tech death

Harakiri For The Sky – Scorched Earth (AOP Records) – post-black metal

Haven – Causes (Argonauta Records) – post-metal

Hjort – Evolve IV-VIII (Inertial Music) – doom / post-metal

Ice War – Feel The Steel (Hooked On Metal Records) – metal

Insurrection – Exiled To Earth (Self) – death metal

Irae – Promiscuous Fire (Signal Rex) – black metal

Kathryn Mohr – Waiting Room (The Flenser) – diy

Labyrinth – In The Vanishing Echoes Of Goodbye (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – metal

Malauriu / Sinoath – S/T, Split (Doomentia Records) – dark sound / black metal

Marko Bojkovic – Powercore (Self) – prog

Membaris – Black Plasma Armour (W.T.C. Productions) – black metal

Monosphere – Lapse (Self) – post metal

Negative Thirteen – Recover What You Can (Self) – post-punk

Oni – Genesis (Self) – metal

Retador – Earëndel (Xtreem Music) – thrash

Rosary – The Broken Sacrament (Nine Records) – doom

Rotten Sound – Murderworks, Reissue (Time To Kill Records) – grind

Scitalis – Maledictum (Vendetta Records) – black metal

The Ferrymen – Iron Will (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – melodic metal

The Great Old Ones – Kadath (Season of Mist) – black metal

The Machinist – Contempt For Life (Invima Records) – industrial black / death

The Slime – Crabwalk To Oblivion (Self) – hardcore

Tormentor Tyrant – Excessive Escalation Of Cruelty (Everlasting Spew Records) – death metal

Touching Grass – NIXONOISE, EP (Philip K. Discs) – harsh noise

Umbersound – If The Flies Can Sing (Self) – doom

Under The Shadows – I Before You, EP (Self) – metal

Under The Sun – Man Of Sorrow, EP Re-release (Nine Records) – doom

Unreqvited – A Pathway To The Moon (Prophecy Productions) – post-black metal

Veenlijk – Galgenberg (Void Wanderer Productions) – black metal

Vomitriste – Black Abyss Invocation (Roman Numeral / Machine Tribe Recordings) – black ambient / death industrial

Vortex Sutra – Glimpse Into The Transcendental (Self) – thrash / prog

Watch My Dying – Egyenes Kerőlő (Self) – mathy, sorta

— Josh