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Rounding up A LOT of (extremely good) new releases, from Despised Icon, Burned in Effigy, Barren Earth, Creeper, Unprocessed, Primitive Man, Hecktic, To Octavia, Spite, Trivium, Howling Giant, Aesop Rock and even more.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/31/release-day-roundup-10-31-25/

Kvlt Kolvmn // October 2025 I awoke to frost today. A film of frozen condensation covering the ground, my car, the dying leaves clinging to their last drops of life. It was a cold morning. A dark morning. A black metal morning.  *raises invisible orange to the sky and howls* Black metal’s true season

Black metal’s true season of domination is upon us, and we couldn’t be happier to bring you some sick tunes to welcome the darkness. Have a listen, feast on the misery, and as is tradition…

Stay frosty.

https://loom.ly/DX6-Yk8

We ❤️Hypaethral Records

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: From the Mist, Sakna Emerges With De Syv Dødssynder The album rings with the unique perspective that Solemn, the brain and heart behind Sakna, had on black metal, steeped in the greats but willing and able to push past them.

This album rings with the unique perspective that Solemn, the brain and heart behind Sakna, had on black metal, steeped in the greats but willing and able to push past them. Excellent second wave black metal contained herein!

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/29/exclusive-premiere-13/

Burned in Effigy – Tyrannus Aeternum Firmly embedded in the barbed-wire lined battlefield that is the modern death metal scene, these wizards from the windy city wield a mean battle-axe of riffs and hooks with the precision of a scalpel.

Firmly embedded in the barbed-wire lined battlefield that is the modern death metal scene, these wizards from the windy city wield a mean battle-axe of riffs and hooks with the precision of a scalpel.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/28/burned-in-effigy-tyrannus-aeternum/

Barren Path – Grieving Those expecting Barren Path to be a strict and seamless continuation of Gridlink’s final hour may be disappointed, but the technical mastery and unrelenting intensity of the members’ previous project is on full display on Grieving.

Those expecting Barren Path to be a strict and seamless continuation of Gridlink’s final hour may be disappointed, but the technical mastery and unrelenting intensity of the members’ previous project is on full display on Grieving.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/27/barren-path-grieving/

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Psychonaut - World Maker I invite you to join me in appreciating just how well crafted and put together this album is, despite a few missteps at its beginning. It leaves me very hopeful for the future of Psychonaut as they work out the last few kinks in their sound and continue to push forward.

"It's safe to say that this is Psychonaut's best effort to date. They always had potential but World Maker sees them hone that potential into a more cohesive, convincing, and enjoyable whole".

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/24/psychonaut-world-maker/

Release Day Roundup 10/24/25 Rounding up lots of great new releases from The Acacia Strain, Rolo Tomassi, Soulfly, Speed, Conjurer, Dawnwalker, Psychonaut, Hail The Sun, Mastiff, Drofnosura, Leylines, Devastrosity, Something Is Waiting, Ronnie Romero, Wino, Aduanten, Shiraz Lane, Bonginator, Bad Juju and many more.

Rounding up lots of great new releases from The Acacia Strain, Rolo Tomassi, Soulfly, Speed, Conjurer, Dawnwalker, Psychonaut, Hail The Sun, Mastiff, Leylines, Aduanten, Shiraz Lane, Bonginator, Bad Juju and many more.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/24/release-day-roundup-10-24-25/

Death's Door // October 2025 Death’s Door’s contributors have been busy in 2025.  Well, personally yes. Jobs and life responsibilities have been a bear this year. But we’re also busy consuming the absolutely titanic amount of quality death metal that’s been hitting us since January. A chaotic calm in the storm

Death's Door opens once more and reveals excellent albums from Revocation, Amorphis, Heruvim, and Mors Principium Est!

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/23/deaths-door-october-2025/

Conjurer - Unself With Unself Conjurer have unearthed a dark, razor sharp yet brittle crystallisation of their identity as musicians and humans. A jagged, warping mirror to hold up to society and reflect themselves and their audience, lurking outside the bleak and lifeless light of conformity.

[..] a dark, razor sharp yet brittle crystallisation of their identity as musicians and humans. A jagged, warping mirror to hold up to society and reflect themselves and their audience.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/21/conjurer-unself/

Soulfly – Chama If Soulfly striped back some of the tribal elements, Chama could easily be a new Nailbomb album, and may have been even better for it.

If Soulfly striped back some of the tribal elements, Chama could easily be a new Nailbomb album, and may have been even better for it.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/20/soulfly-chama/

Release Day Roundup: 10/17/25 Rounding up new release from Wings of Steel, An Abstract Illusion, The Isosceles Project, Wretched, Coroner, Biohazard, Sabaton, Carach Angren, Militarie Gun, Tame Impala, Unto Others, Age of Ruin, Tombs, Kaksonen, Sunn O))) and more.

Rounding up new release from Wings of Steel, An Abstract Illusion, The Isosceles Project, Wretched, Coroner, Biohazard, Carach Angren, Militarie Gun, Tame Impala, Unto Others, Age of Ruin, Tombs, Kaksonen, Sunn O))) and more.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/17/release-day-roundup-10-17-25/

Editors' Picks // October 2025 It's that time of the year again - the end of it is on the horizon. But there is still so much amazing music being released that it feels silly to start to think about summing it all up.

It's that time of the year again - the end of it is on the horizon. But there is still so much amazing music being released. Let's dive into some of it with Waxwolf, Igorrr, Sundrowned, Wounds of Recollection and more!

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/16/editors-picks-october-2025/

Release Day Roundup: 10/10/25 10s across the board! Rounding up new releases from Sanguisuggabog, Testament, Perturbator, Blindfolded And Led To The Woods, Seims, Ultra Raptor, Morke, God Alone, Frayle, Heavy//Hitter, Vile Apparition, Soul Blind, Gonemage, Bluttgott, Light Dweller/Aoecist/Sleep Paralysis and more.

10s across the board! Rounding up new releases from Sanguisuggabog, Testament, Perturbator, Blindfolded And Led To The Woods, Seims, Ultra Raptor, Morke, God Alone, Frayle, Gonemage, Bluttgott, and more.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/10/release-day-roundup-10-10-25/

Testament's black metal album?

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/09/testament-para-bellum/

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Barren Path Reveal That In The End, The Gift is Death As soon as it came back, GRIDLINK disappeared again and as soon as it did, Matsubara collected many of his interstellar crew of grindcore mercenaries to keep making jagged, intense music. The result is Barren Path.

Matsubara collects many of his interstellar crew of grindcore mercenaries to keep making jagged, intense music. The result is Barren Path.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/08/exclusive-premiere-barren-path-reveal-that-in-the-end-the-gift-is-death/

God Alone - The Beep Test If you are looking for an album that will go toe to toe with you, that refuses to settle for one thing and insists on doing all the things, and if you want that album to be played by proficient and prolific music nerds - then look no further.

If you are looking for an album that will go toe to toe with you, that refuses to settle for one thing and insists on doing all the things - then look no further.

Read our full review for God Alone's The Beep Test!

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/08/god-alone-the-beep-test/

Doomsday // October 2025 In the oppressive darkness I have returned home to one of my oldest flame, one of my oldest friends: doom

bbrrrrmmmmm with Doomsday and Elder, November's Doom, Gawthrop and more!

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/07/doomsday-october-2025/

Release Day Roundup: 10/3/25 Rounding up new releases from AFI, Hooded Menace, Cathedral, Thrice, Today is the Day, Lite, Orbit Culture, Author & Punisher, Agriculture, Alpha Male Tea Party, 50 Lions, Raphael Weinroth-Browne, Kirk Windstein, Feast of Corpses, Constrict, Plague Pit, Wode, Yowie, and a tired-ass showgirl.

Rounding up new releases from AFI, Cathedral, Thrice, Today is the Day, Lite, Orbit Culture, Author & Punisher, Agriculture, Alpha Male Tea Party, 50 Lions, Raphael Weinroth-Browne, Wode, Yowie, and a tired-ass showgirl.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/03/release-day-roundup-10-3-25/

Song premiere: Last rites with The Prophet Scandinavian folk and black metal form a haunted ode to despair on the new song from Monograf.

Scandinavian folk and black metal form a haunted ode to despair on the new song from Monograf.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/02/song-premiere-last-rites-with-the-prophet/

Release Day Roundup: 9/26/25 Revocation, Mors Principium Est, Amorphis, Rage, Elder, Dying Wish, The Vintage Caravan, Peeling Flesh, Paradox, After Earth, Wounds of Recollection, Korypheus, Irk, Lightchapter, Sundrowned and a lot of djethcore.

Revocation, Mors Principium Est, Amorphis, Rage, Elder, Dying Wish, The Vintage Caravan, Peeling Flesh, Paradox, After Earth, Wounds of Recollection, Korypheus, Irk, Lightchapter, Sundrowned and a lot of djethcore.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/09/26/release-day-roundup-9-26-25/

After Earth - Dark Night of the Soul After Earth’s Dark Night of the Soul is a good but rarely great platter of melodic death metal, saved from the muddy mess of mediocrity by a great production job and a few standout tracks.

After Earth’s Dark Night of the Soul is a good but rarely great platter of melodic death metal, saved from the muddy mess of mediocrity by a great production job and a few standout tracks.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/09/25/after-earth-dark-night-of-the-soul/

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Dawnwalker Tease The Between With New Excerpt At this point, I live in the spaces between the times in which I get to premiere new music from Dawnwalker.

At this point, we live in the spaces between the times in which we get to premiere new music from Dawnwalker. They have a new, one track, thirty plus minutes release coming next month.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/09/25/exclusive-premiere-dawnwalker-tease-the-between-with-new-excerpt/

Doomsday bestday

Irk – The Seeing House Irk's weird identity remains at the forefront on sophomore record The Seeing House, which is bound to garner a lot of skepticism but might also be one to careen pessimists, sending seismic shock waves down their spinal cords in the process.

Irk's "weird" identity remains at the forefront on sophomore record The Seeing House, which is bound to garner a lot of skepticism but might also be one to careen pessimists, sending seismic shock waves down their spinal cords.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/09/23/irk-the-seeing-house/

Wounds of Recollection - I Found the Love I Was Looking For Wounds of Recollection's newest release is the ideal post-black metal soundtrack for autumnal reflections, whether regretful or triumphant.

Wounds of Recollection's newest release is the ideal post-black metal soundtrack for autumnal reflections, whether regretful or triumphant.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/09/22/wounds-of-recollection-i-found-the-love-i-was-looking-for/

If you're nostalgic for that older wave of progressive deathcore influenced by the likes of early The Contortionist and Between the Buried and Me, this is just the album premiere for you.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/09/18/album-premiere-viile-a-bottomless-curse-a-bottomless-sea-2/

Kvlt Kolvmn // September 2025 Ah. FINALLY. The summer fades. Leaves wither and die. The morning dew turns to a light dusting of frost. The wind becomes chill, its previously warm embrace now a cool warning of things to come. The cold beckons.  It’s black metal season.  Been a minute since our last entry

Ah. FINALLY. The summer fades. Leaves wither and die. The morning dew turns to a light dusting of frost. The cold beckons.

It’s black metal season.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/09/16/kvlt-kolvmn-september-2025/