NEW MUSIC FRIDAY 8-22-25: All the New Metal and Rock You Should Hear


From underground gems to the big time, it’s New Music Friday
8-22-25

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Arcadea – The Exodus Of Gravity (Relapse Records) (Buy)
Ashen – Leave The Flesh Behind (Redefining Darkness Records) (Buy)
Automatism – Sormland (Tonzonen Records) (Buy)
Barnabas Sky – Over The Horizon (Pride & Joy Records) (Buy)
Bask – The Turning (Season Of Mist Records) (Buy)
Benefactor Decease – Abnormal Attachments (Xtreem Records) (Buy)
Bioscope – Gentō (earMusic) (Buy)
Blackbriar – A Thousand Little Deaths (Nuclear Blast Records) (Buy)
Burning Sun – Retribution (Metalizer Records) (Buy)
Burning Witches – Inquisition (Napalm Records) (Buy)
Corridore – Abandon (Hypaethral Records) (Buy)
Crop – S.S.R.I. (Third House Records) (Buy)
Crowne – Wonderland (Frontiers srl) (Buy)
Deaf Club – We Demand A Permanent State Of Happiness (Southern Lord/Three One G) (Buy)
Defacement – Doomed (Unorthodox Emanations) (Buy)
Deftones – Private Music (Reprise Records) (Buy)
Desaster – Kill All Idols (Metal Blade Records) (Buy)
Dinosaur Pile-Up – I’ve Felt Better (Mascot Label Group) (Buy)
Donella Drive – Axon (Self-Released) (Buy)
Dragonsclaw – Moving Target (High Roller Records) (Buy)
Dying Awkward Angel – The Missing Frame (Rockshots Records) (Buy)
Fates Messenger – Eternal War EP (Greyline Records) (Buy)
Feuerschwanz – Knightclub (Napalm Records) (Buy)
Glass Lungs – Afterglow EP (Self-Released) (Buy)
Grave Hex – Vermian Death (Cavernous Records)(Buy)
Hebephrenique – Decathexis (Gutter Prince Cabal Records) (Buy)
Hellir – Hollow Moon: Precursor EP (Self-Released) (Buy)
Hot Mulligan – The Sound A Body Makes When It’s Still (Wax Bogeda Records) (Buy)
Hundreds Of Au – Life In Parallel (Iodine Records) (Buy)
Hunter Oliveri – Teen Slug (Spinefarm Records) (Buy)
Innumerable Forms – Pain Effulgence (Profound Lore Records) (Buy)
Iron Savior – Reforged – Machine World (Perception Records) (Buy)
Jack The Joker – The Devil To Pay In The Backlands (Frontiers srl) (Buy)
Kratornas – God Of The Tribes (Grathila Records) (Buy)
Malevich – Under A Gilded Sun (Church Road Records) (Buy)
Mob Rules – Rise Of The Ruler (Rock Of Angels Records) (Buy)
Monoliyth – He Who Kills (Wormholedeath Records) (Buy)
Night’s Edge – The World That Never Was (Self-Released) (Buy)
Old Machines – The Cycles Of Extinction (Self-Released) (Buy)
Panzerchrist – Meleficium Part 2 (Emanzipation Records) (Buy)
Reinforcer – Ice And Death (Scarlet Records) (Buy)
Retching – Charming The Decomposed (Transcending Obscurity Records) (Buy)
Robert Jon & The Wreck – Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes (Journeyman Records) (Buy)
Rust N’ Rage – Songs For Yesterday (Frontiers) (Buy)
Sadistic Force – Morbid Odyssey EP (Self-Released) (Buy)
Skull Revenge – State Of Oblivion (Self-Released) (Buy)
Signs Of The Swarm – To Rid My Self Of Truth (Century Media Records) (Buy)
Solace – Further Re-Release (Magnetic Eye Records) (Buy)
Storm – Join The Storm (Indie Recordings) (Buy)
Strangers – Boundless (Frontiers srl) (Buy)
Supernaughty – Apocalypso (Ripple Music) (Buy)
Three Days Grace – Alienation (RCA Records) (Buy)
Vindicator – Whispers Of Death (Self-Released) (Buy)
We Came As Romans – All Is Beautiful…Because We’re Doomed (SharpTone Records) (Buy)
White Mantis – Arrows At The Sun (High Roller Records) (Buy)

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