NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: New Rock and Metal Releases for 5-23-25


From underground gems to headline-worthy drops, it’s New Music Friday for 5-23-25

 

What is your favorite album cover this week?

7Seconds – New Wind & Change In My Head (Trust Records) (Buy)
Aexylium – Myth Of Mankind (Rockshots Records) (Buy)
Age Of Apocalypse – In Oblivion (Closed Casket Activities) (Buy)
…And Oceans – The Regeneration Itinerary (Season Of Mist) (Buy)
Animalize – Verminateur (Dying Victims Records) (Buy)
Balmog – Laio (War Anthem Records) (Buy)
Bent By Sorrow – Sakura (Brutal Records) (Buy)
Black Mynah – Worried ‘Bout Madame (Antena Krzyku Records) (Buy)
Brutal Sphincter – Ephinct-Earth Society (Time To Kill Records) (Buy)
Ceresian Valot – Uumen (Prophecy Productions) (Buy)
Chepang – Jhyappa (Relapse Records) (Buy)
Crust – Where Light Fears To Descend (Moribund Records) (Buy)
Crystal Spiders – Metanoia (Ripple Music) (Buy)
Dark Solstice – Where Black Stars Beckon EP (Self-Released) (Buy)
Deraps – Viva Rock N’ Roll (Metalville Records) (Buy)
The Devil Wears Nada – Postalgia (Eonian Records) (Buy)
The Discussion – All The Pretty Flowers (Artoffact Records) (Buy)
Don Felder – The Vault – Fifty Years Of Music (Frontiers srl) (Buy)
Dwellers – Corrupt Translation Machine (Small Stone Records) (Buy)
Entheomorphosis – Pyha Kuilu (Svart Music) (Buy)
Feed The Beast – Mercy (Futureless Records) (Buy)
Feversea – Man Under Erasure (Dark Essence Records) (Buy)
Fly! – …Or Die! (Dying Victims Records) (Buy)
Fragments Of Unbecoming – Dawnbringer (Apostasy Records) (Buy)
Hellcrash – Inferno Crematörio (Dying Victims Records) (Buy)
Holler – Next In Line (Scarlet Records) (Buy)
House Of Protection – Outrun You All EP (Red Bull Records) (Buy)
Korean Cars – #1 EP (Mas-Kina Records) (Buy)
Krematorium – Sinister Seduction (Witches Brew Records) (Buy)
Mandy Manala – Mandy Manala (Argonauta Records) (Buy)
Marble Ghosts – The Greatest Divide EP (Self-Released) (Buy)
Midnight – Steel, Rust And Disgust (Metal Blade Records) (Buy)
Moonlight Haze – Beyond (Scarlet Records) (Buy)
Onslaught – Origins Of Aggression (Rock Of Angels Records) (Buy)
Ossuary – Requiem For The Sun (Supreme Chaos Records) (Buy)
Our Chronicle – If These Walls Could Speak EP (Self-Released) (Buy)
Pleaser – Begging Guitars (Part Time Records) (Buy)
Poison The Preacher – Vs The World (Seek And Strike Records) (Buy)
Ronnie Romero – Live At Rock Imperium Festival (Frontiers srl) (Buy)
Senna – Stranger To Love (SharpTone Records) (Buy)
SexMag – Sexorcyzm (Dying Victims Records) (Buy)
Skunk Anansie – The Painful Truth (FLG Records) (Buy)
Spider Rockets – Dirty And Bad (FireRock Records) (Buy)
Sudden Death – In Sinner Hate (Time To Kill Records) (Buy)
Sweet – Platinum Rare 1 (Metalville Records) (Buy)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra – I’m Done With Self Care, It’s Time For Others Harm (Prosthetic Records) (Buy)
Turtle Skull – Being Here (Art As Catharsis Records) (Buy)
Undecayed – In Death’s Image (Lethal Scissors Records) (Buy)
Unmerciful – Devouring Darkness (Willowtip Records) (Buy)
Waxen – High Plains Bloodlust (Moribund Records) (Buy)
Witchcraft – IDAG (Heavy Psych Sounds) (Buy)
Witchrot – Soul Cellar (Fuzzed And Buzzed Records) (Buy)
Year Of No Light – Les Maitres Fous (Pelagic Records) (Buy)
Zahn – Seite E EP (Crazysane Records) (Buy)

The Usual Suspects:
🎤 Micaela Petersen
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💻 Omar Cordy
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🎵 Fahad Syed
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