Darvaza - We Are Him

Available Dec 5 via Terratur Possessions - Darvaza’s We Are Him pursues a familiar lineage of adversarial black metal but strips it to fundamentals, pressure, repetition and intent. Omega and Wraath operate inside a vocabulary they know thoroughly, and the result is a record that understands tradition without bothering to modernize. Terratur Possessions issues it as the duo’s second full-length, a decade after their formation, and the release confirms their commitment to a style that privileges atmosphere through discipline.

Deos - Augustus Omnipotens

Available Dec 5 via Wormholedeath Records - Augustus Omnipotens pushes DEOS further into a zone where historical narrative becomes a tool for pressure. The band frames Octavian’s rise as a sequence of ruthless decisions, stripping away sentiment and leaving only machinery, vengeance, legislation and war.

Chris Maragoth - Depths of Despair

Available now on all streaming platforms - Chris Maragoth’s Depths of Despair arrives as a focused counterpoint to the current era’s creative drift. His work has always carried a gothic melodic spine, but this EP tightens the whole body up. The blend of metal, classical phrasing, and unforced emotional weight is deliberate, and the result, a set of compositions that function as a self contained narrative.

Decimator - Downfallen

Available Dec 5 via Wormholedeath Records - Decimator’s trajectory has been defined by instability, but Downfallen turns their volatility into structure. The three track EP works as a concentrated study in power, discipline and historical fracture, using the Reign of Terror as more than a thematic crutch. The band treats the period as a framework for tension, violence as process and collapse as inevitability.

Zero Tolerence - A Test Of Strength

Zero Tolerance’s A Test of Strength arrives with no pretense and no disguise. It is a straight line document of intent with eight tracks, thirty minutes, and no deviation from their mission. The Canadian quartet operates inside thrash’s classic framework, but they refuse to reenact it. They sharpen it, condense it, and strip it down to the core mechanics of velocity, articulation, and impact.

Bloodfield – Homunculus Sapiens

Available Nov 28 via Great Dane Records - Bloodfield’s Homunculus Sapiens lands as a decisive reset after nearly a decade of silence. The Vicenza quintet keeps its thrash architecture intact but sharpens every structural element. The tone colder, the pacing severe, and the overall intent stripped of anything ornamental. The record locks into a psychological and physical intensity that never wavers across its runtime.

GRIM COLOSSUS - Unhallowed Blasphemies

Available Nov 28 on all streaming services - Grim Colossus returns with Unhallowed Blasphemies, a four-track descent into Lovecraft’s psychic rot. The approach is direct with slow, heavy structures, a monochrome palette, and vocals that carry weariness. The one man project has been refining this formula since Where Shadows Dwell, and here the focus sharpens without losing the edge that defines its character.

Perdition Temple - Malign Apotheosis

Available Nov 28 via Hells Headbangers - Perdition Temple’s Malign Apotheosis arrives, pushing their blackened death metal into a tighter, harsher frame. The immediacy is absolute with the record hitting full stride within seconds, never loosening its grip.

Fessus - Subcutaneous Tomb

Available Nov 26 via Darkness Shall Rise - Fessus approach Subcutaneous Tomb with a clarity that is very uncommon for a debut. The Vienna group build their sound on mid tempo death metal shaped by doom weighted pacing, but the execution is cleaner and more deliberate than their raw origins suggest, with their writing relying on pressure, repetition, and distortion used as structure.

Infernal Presence - Fiery Paths

Physical Format Available Nov 26 via Darkness Shall Rise - Infernal Presence arrive with Fiery Paths, a first full length that shows none of the hesitation common to new projects. Formed in 2023 and already landing a release through Darkness Shall Rise, the duo move with the focus of musicians who understand the foundations they’re working with. The record runs six tracks, including a brief instrumental introduction, and wastes no time establishing intent.

1349 - Winter Mass

Out Nov 28 via Season Of Mist - 1349’s Winter Mass stands as a direct snapshot of a band operating on complete instinct. Recorded in Oslo just after the pandemic restrictions lifted, it carries the tension of a room finally returning to volume. The sound is unfiltered. The atmosphere is close and abrasive. There is no attempt to smooth anything out.

Equilibrium - Equinox

Out Nov 28 via Nuclear Blast Records - Equinox marks Equilibrium’s return with a clean sense of direction. The band cuts away the excess and rebuilds its core with tighter writing and utterly sharp control. René Berthiaume and Jessica Rösch guide the shift with precision, while new vocalist Fabian Getto adds something extra without distorting the framework.

Death Yell - Demons of Lust

Out Nov 28 via Hells Headbangers - Death Yell’s Demons of Lust moves with the same ferocity the band carried out of Santiago in the late ’80s, but the execution is tighter, colder, and more deliberate. The production avoids glossiness, yet it’s structured enough to keep every riff and drum strike anchored. Nothing feels nostalgic, the album works like a continuation rather than a rehash.

The Old Dead Tree - London Sessions EP

Available Nov 28 via Season Of Mist - The Old Dead Tree approach London Sessions with a kind of quiet steadiness. After years scattered across different projects and cities, the band steps into Abbey Road not to make a grand statement, but to see what still holds between them. The result is four songs that move with complete intention.

THE OMINOUS CIRCLE - Cloven Tongues of Fire

Available Nov 28 via Osmose Productions - The Ominous Circle return with Cloven Tongues of Fire, a record that wastes no time reminding you how hostile and unadorned their world is. Nothing here leans on nostalgia or trend. The band works in a narrow, deliberate frame with low tuned guitars, blunt rhythmic pressure, and a sense of scale that comes from sheer physical force rather than theatrical posturing. What separates this album from their debut isn’t polish or ambition, but control. They’ve stopped circling their own ideas and started cutting straight through them.

Lamp of Murmuur - The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy

Out now via Wolves of Hades - Lamp of Murmuur’s The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy arrives two years after Saturnian Bloodstorm and lands with absolute intent. The project has always thrived on the pull between instinct and reinvention, and this fourth full length sets that dynamic into clearer focus. It draws on the severity of the earlier work while adopting a wider symphonic vocabulary, using scale as structure, instead of embellishment.

Moral Implant ‘Delusion’

Out now via @CaligariRecords - Moral Implant’s Delusion lands with the assurance of a band that already understands its internal logic and has no interest in diluting it for anyone. The trio’s fixation on darkness, pressure, and psychological unrest is not a theme, it’s the operating system that drives every decision across these six tracks.

Grenouer - Downtown Dream

Available Nov 21 via @brutalrecords - Grenouer’s Downtown Dream arrives with the weight of a band that has outlived multiple metal eras and refuses to settle into any of them. Instead of looking backward or chasing trends, the album functions as a controlled recalibration of their entire body of work. Three decades of stylistic detours, death metal, industrial rigidity, groove driven syncopation, and melodic expansion, are distilled into a record that sounds unhurried, and structurally exact.

Dragon Throne - Tale of the Two: Dusk

Out now on all streaming platforms - Dragon Throne’s Tale of the Two: Dusk doesn’t posture or overreach. It works because the band commits to its own world building with the same seriousness it brings to its riffs. The record is short, sharp, and assembled with the kind of intent that suggests the band finally understands its center of gravity. The shift toward Japanese and Chinese tonal colors isn’t a gimmick, the koto and erhu sit inside the arrangements like they were always meant to be there, tightening the mood rather than broadening it for show.

Sun Of The Dying - A Throne Of Ashes

Out Nov 21 via AOP Records - A Throne of Ashes demonstrates a band stepping into its third decade of work with a clearer sense of its own gravity. Sun of the Dying strip their sound down to essentials, slow motion violence, melodic tension, and a lyrical stance that rejects abstraction in favor of lived despair. The record abandons the cosmic detachment that marked earlier releases. Here, the weight is terrestrial. Tyranny is not metaphor but environment.

Decrepit Altar - Egregious Defilement

White Baroness - War Chariots

Available now via Primitive Reaction - White Baroness arrive with pedigree and intent, and War Chariots makes that plain within seconds. The lineup’s history of Morgal, Sigon, Devil Moon, Mutant Sex Demon, Nocturnal Mass, suggests chaos, excess, and a particular Finnish strain of black metal mania. What the album delivers is not a rehash of any prior project but a concentrated distillation of everything these players know how to weaponise. It’s fast, disciplined, and edged with a melodic sensibility that never softens the impact.

Waldgeflüster - Knochengesänge I & II

Out now via aop records - Waldgeflüster’s Knochengesänge I & II stands as the band’s most ambitious work to date, a double album that functions as both a reflection and a rupture. Conceived and recorded between autumn 2024 and spring 2025, it is less a pair of records than a single body split in two, one rooted in the band’s established atmospheric black metal form, the other stripped bare and rebuilt through alternate languages of sound.

Funeral Harvest - Malum in Se

Out now via Amor Fati Productions - Issued through Amor Fati Productions on October 31, this six track mini album reaffirms the Norwegian collective’s command of occult black metal as spiritual praxis. It follows Redemptio (2022) not as continuation but as inversion, where the earlier work invoked divine wrath, Malum in Se exalts Lucifer, the morning star, as the sole light worth seeking.

Araphel - The Endchanter

Out now via @nuclearwar - Araphel’s The Endchanter marks a rare debut that feels both ancient and newly awakened. Rooted in the black metal traditions of early Rotting Christ and Varathron, the Italian quartet’s first full length transforms epic heavy metal structures into philosophical ruin. Led by former Demonomancy drummer Santo, Araphel strip the genre of excess, revealing something austere, ritualistic rather than performative.

Imperial Domain - Portentum

Stellar Circuits - Phantom : : Phoenix

Out Nov 14 via @nuclearblast 🔥- Stellar Circuits’ Phantom :: Phoenix extends the trajectory of a band determined to refine chaos into coherence. Building on the precision and weight of 2023’s Sight to Sound, the North Carolina quartet reemerges with a record that translates loss, collapse, and rebirth into sound design, feeling out progressive metal as catharsis, not display.

Binah - Ónkos

Hammerfilosofi – Signum

Malakhim - And in Our Hearts the Devil Sings

Out now via @IronBonehead Malakhim’s second album, And in Our Hearts the Devil Sings, stands as a towering affirmation of purpose from a band already known for precision and conviction. Four years removed from Theion, the Umeå quintet refine their vision of orthodox Swedish black metal into something sharper, darker, and far more brutal. Their sound remains rooted in that late-’90s melodic severity, equal parts No Fashion grandeur and Solistitium malice, but what was once promise now feels absolute.

FÍR - Het Sinistere Oog

Orgrel - The Abyssal Terror

Heteropsy - Embalming

Radiant Thought - Transcendence

Out Nov 7 on all streaming platforms 🔥 Transcendence, the debut full length from @RadiantThought is a rare instance of restraint within progressive metal, a record defined not by virtuosity but by emotional architecture. Conceived, performed, and produced primarily by @ValterAbreu the album condenses over a decade of experimentation into a cohesive meditation on renewal, decay, and the cyclical nature of human experience.

Selias - Killkarma

Out Nov 7 via @wormholedeath 🪱💀 Killkarma, the sophomore album from Canadian outfit @Selias sharpens the band’s vision into a weaponized form of melodic death metal that fuses mechanical precision with emotional gravity. Released via Wormholedeath, it builds upon the foundations of 2024’s Headshot but replaces its straightforward aggression with a deeper, more cinematic bleakness.

Abyssic Grave - Born of the Wilderness

Kvad - Sort Skogsmesse

Heraldic Blaze - Monument of Will

Sad - Fullmoon’s Bestial Awakening

Out now via @PurityThroughFire Nearly twenty years into their existence, Greece’s @Sad show no sign of softening their assault. Fullmoon’s Bestial Awakening, their ninth album and third with Purity Through Fire, reinforces everything the band has stood for since 2005, unrelenting, orthodox black metal devoid of compromise or modern varnish. Multi instrumentalist Ungod and vocalist Nadir again summon the frostbitten spirit of the late ’90s underground, filtering it through their own instinct for repetition, hypnosis, and controlled violence.

Pest - Eternal Nightmares

Out now via @HeidensHart German black metal veterans Pest return from the grave with Eternal Nightmares, their first album in over a decade, out through Heidens Hart. Formed in 1997 and silenced by the death of drummer Mrok, the band, now consisting of Scum, Atax, and Mr. Blasphemy, resume exactly where their legacy froze - in the cold, minimal orthodoxy of true black metal. Recorded entirely in their rehearsal room, the album rejects polish and progress alike, capturing a sound as primitive, raw, and unrepentant as it was twenty five years ago.

Grailknights - Forever

Out now via @reigningphoenixmusicofficial Germany’s costumed crusaders Grailknights have always walked a fine line between parody and power, delivering tongue in cheek hero metal with the kind of unrelenting theatricality that could make even Gloryhammer blush. Their seventh studio album, Forever, doesn’t rewrite the genre’s rulebook, but it’s packed with enough galloping riffs, laser bright hooks, and unashamed camp to power a small comic con.

Conjurer – Unself

Out now vía @NuclearBlast There’s always been something uniquely suffocating about @Conjurer’s sound. A molten fusion of sludge, post-metal, and deathly dissonance that feels equally cathartic and collapse. On Unself, the Midlands quartet take that familiar heaviness and drag it somewhere deeply human in an unflinching portrait of identity, transformation, and pain.

Despised Icon - Shadow Work

Two decades into shaping the sound of deathcore, Despised Icon hit back with Shadow Work, and they’ve brought the fucking heat. Opening with the title track, the band wastes no time with Alex Erian and Steve Marois tearing into dual vocal assault with all the hatred you’d come to expect, while musically, the band are completely locked, loaded and ready to go. It’s controlled chaos waiting to destroy your ears.

Flamecore - Self Titled

Flamecore’s debut record is a damn fine masterclass in modern melodic death metal, both ferocious and emotionally charged from start to finish. Hailing from Greece, the band channels their influences of In Flames, Gojira, and Slipknot without ever sounding like a tribute band (which is all too common in this day and age).

Soulfly - Chama

Max Cavalera is on fire. Again. At a point where most metal vets are coasting, he’s unleashing Chama, Soulfly’s 13th album, and it to say if fucking rips is the understatement of the year. From Brazil to Arizona, tribal drums, and guttural vocals collide to create an album that is just absolutely thriving, dangerous, and utterly uncompromising.

DETERIOROT – Awakening

Finally, DETERIOROT are back, and they’ve definitely put the last nail in the coffin with this one. With Awakening, the NJ/NY death metal veterans deliver their darkest, nastiest, and most uncompromising record yet. Paul Zavaleta and crew have spent more than three decades perfecting their rotted, atmospheric sound, a lethal fusion of early Finnish, UK, and Swedish death metal, filtered through the grimy intensity of 90s New Jersey. It’s mid paced, guttural, and utterly bone snapping, the perfect cocktail for anyone who loves their death metal soaked in doom and dread.

Gorotica – Daily Grind of the Medieval Age

Gorotica are back ready to steamroll us once again. Australia’s premier deathgrind trio drop Daily Grind of the Medieval Age, and it’s a full-on medieval bloodbath that doesn’t give in for a single second. Clocking in at thirty five minutes over eighteen tracks, it’s fast, filthy, and fucking unhinged, leaving our necks sore and brains rattled.

Carach Angren - The Cult of Kariba

Carach Angren have returned from the depths with The Cult of Kariba, a five track descent into folklore, vengeance, and madness. It’s theatrical, and soaked in atmosphere, making it the kind of release that reminds you exactly why these Dutch horror masterminds are in a league of their own.

Thaumaturgy - Pestilential Hymns

Thaumaturgy’s Pestilential Hymns is hands down, pure festering death metal filth with no polish & no pretense, just rot and ruin. Out now through Memento Mori, this Kansas trio sound like they’ve been locked in a tomb for a decade and came out speaking in riffs that ooze contagious disease. It’s grim, suffocating, and fucking addictive.

Tribal Gaze — Inveighing Brilliance: Out now via Nuclear Blast.

Texas death metal just keeps hitting different, and Tribal Gaze are out here proving they’re one of the state’s nastiest exports. Inveighing Brilliance is a filthy, groove heavy monster. It’s their first record with Nuclear Blast, and somehow they’ve gotten heavier, meaner, and more locked in. This thing literally feels like it’s dragging you face first through a pit of sharpened teeth.

Sabaton — Legends

Sabaton’s Legends is a fucking power metal war march through time. Eleven tracks, each one dedicated to a historical icon, and every single song sounds like it was built to be played in a coliseum at full noise. From the holy fire of “Templars” to the fist pumping chaos of “Hordes of Khan,” this is Sabaton at their biggest, boldest, and most badass.

BATTLE BEAST - Steelbound

(Out now via Nuclear Blast Records ) Let’s get one thing straight, nobody does sugar coated power metal quite like Battle Beast. The Finnish maniacs are back with Steelbound, their seventh record and probably their most shamelessly fun yet. It’s loud, over the top, and bursting with that wild mix of synthy ‘80s excess bite, and sheer fucking joy that only this band can pull off.

SOUL GRINDER – Frozen Halls

(Out now via MDD Records) Germany’s SOUL GRINDER don’t do easy listening. Their third full length, Frozen Halls, is a cold, relentless piece of DM that feels as raw and unforgiving as the name suggests. Across ten tracks, the Bremen trio deliver a masterclass in brutality which is OG in spirit but sharp enough to cut through the modern production glass.

TESTAMENT - Para Bellum

(Out now via Nuclear Blast Records) After four decades, Testament have no business sounding this pissed off, but Para Bellum proves they’ve still got plenty of fight left in them. Para Bellum doesn’t sound like a bunch of veterans trying to relive the past, it sounds like a band that still has something to prove, and they’re doing it by blowing ears clean off.

MORDETH - Hermetic Creation

After 37 years of tearing through the underground, Brazilian death metal legends Mordeth return with Hermetic Creation, and they haven’t skipped a god forsaken beat. From the opening’s of “Lux Tenebris”, the album plunges you into a cosmos of crushing riffs, thunderous drums, and vocals that claw deep within. It’s brutal, precise, and terrifyingly melodic all wrapped up neatly into what you would expect from the DM gods, a perfect storm of old school aggression and modern technicality.

OCCULT KENJI – Of Gods and Ancestors

(via Thalassocracy Records) Cyprus’ Occult Kenji isn’t just a band, it’s one man’s goddamn crusade through history, myth, and chaos. Spearheaded by multi instrumentalist, vocalist, and writer Marios Michaelides, Of Gods and Ancestors is a monumental achievement for a solo project that sounds like an army of the undead marching out of the Mediterranean dusk. It’s epic, cinematic, and spiritually fucking heavy, a full bodied collision of mythological storytelling, post metal atmosphere, and death doom grit.

SOTHORIS – Domus Omnium Mortuorum

(Fetzner Death Records / ADG Records – out now) Polish blackened death metal force SOTHORIS return with Domus Omnium Mortuorum (“House of All the Dead”) a record as theatrical as it is terrifying. It’s a macabre concept album that drags 19th century tragedy into the modern age, turning graveyards into stages and the dead into narrators. From the opening dirge of “Wieczornica,” where crypt doors creak open to the sound of restless spirits, to the closing slams of “Piętno,” this album doesn’t just play, it fkn haunts.

Lucynine — Melena

Lucynine’s Melena (out now via Talheim Records Germany) is a pitch black descent into the guts of the human psyche, a post black, post hardcore, avantgarde fever dream that feels less like an album and more like a cry for help recorded in real time. Written, performed, and produced entirely by Sergio Bertani, Melena is raw, intimate, and utterly fucking fearless. Gone are the sprawling conceptual landscapes of Amor Venenat, in their place stands something stripped bare, written under duress, built from blood and dread.

Revocation – New Gods, New Masters

Twenty years in, and Revocation are still raising hell like it’s day one. New Gods, New Masters, their ninth album and fifth via Metal Blade, Dave Davidson and crew unleash a record that is as brain meltingly technical as it is thematically terrifying. Produced by Davidson himself and given the sonic sheen of Jens Bogren (Spiritbox, The Haunted), this is Revocation at their most ambitious, unflinching, and fucking ruthless.

Return to Darkness – Eternal

After more than two decades in the shadows, Return to Darkness have come back swinging with Eternal, an album that proves thrash metal isn’t just alive, it’s thriving. Rebuilt from the ashes of their ’90s outfit Out of Darkness, the band’s long awaited reunion has resulted in a record that is as fierce as it is precise, capturing both the raw chaos of classic thrash and the refinement of seasoned musicians who know exactly what they’re doing.

MRSA — Horrifier

If you’ve ever wondered what it’d sound like if Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees and Leatherface formed a death metal band, the answer is Horrifier — the gore-drenched debut from Florida maniacs MRSA, unleashed via CDN Records. And let me tell you, this record doesn’t just fuck around. It carves you up, serves your guts on a platter, and then cracks a cold one while your soul bleeds out.

Cultic – Lore

Cultic are back swinging a fkn warhammer with Lore, their heaviest and most deranged record to date. Out now via Eleventh Key Records, this beast of an album doesn’t just tiptoe into the dark, it boots the fkn door down and drags you straight into the dungeon.

Hooded Menace — Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration

Hooded Menace have done it again. With Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration, these Finnish death doom overlords prove they’re still at the bloody top of their game, twisting the genre into something both reverent and terrifyingly fresh. From the first melodies of “Twilight Passages” you’re slammed into a neon lit nightmare where the rest of the album ensures Pekka Koskelo’s drums pounding like the gates of hell itself & Lasse Pyykkö’s riffs, as always, absolutely monstrous, bone crushing, yet hypnotic.