PREVIEW: New Music Friday – Rock and Metal Releases for 4-25-25


From underground gems to headline-worthy drops, It’s New Music Friday for 4-25-25!

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Aeonyzhar – The Profane Era (Apostasy Records)
Ahamkara – The Harrow Of The Lost (Bindrune Recordings)
Andre Drage Project – Wolves (Self-Released)
Angels On Fire – Falling From The Sky (Moribund Records)
Another Damn Disappointment – Bedlam (Disappointed Records)
Avenger Of Blood – Revenge Is My Name EP (M-Theory-Recordings)
Bank Myna – Eimuria (Medication Time)
Bark – The Time Has Come (Listenable Records)
Behölder – In The Temple Of Tyrant (Black Lion Records)
Big|Brave – Ost (Thrill Jockey Records)
Black Sword Thunder Attack – Black Sword Thunder Attack (No Remorse Records)
Blister Brigade – A Rioting New Breed (Inverse Records)
Cadaver – Hymns Of Misanthropy (Listenable Records)
Caliban – Back From Hell (Century Media Records)
Cancer – Inverted World (Peaceville Records)
Catacombs – In The Depths Of R’lyeh (Moribund Records)
Changeling – Changeling (Season Of Mist)
Coffin Feeder – Big Trouble (Listenable Records)
Cogas – Among The Dead: How To Become A Ghost (Self-Released)
Conan – Violence Dimension (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Cosmic Cathedral – Deep Water (InsideOut Music)
Deserted Fear – Veins Of Fire (Testimony Records)
Disfuneral – In Horror, Reborn (Redefining Darkness Records)
Earl Of Hell – Earl Of Hell (Self-Released)
Elan – Elan Vs Elan (APF Records)
Eluveitie – Ànv (Nuclear Blast Records)
Employed To Serve – Fallen Star (Spinefarm Records)
Eyes – Spinner (Prosthetic Records)
Felgrave – Otherlike Darknesses (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Game Over – Face The End (Scarlet Records)
Ghost – Skeleta (Loma Vista Recordings)
GhostSeeker – Divergence (Rock Of Angels Records)
Goose – Everything Should Go (No Coincidence Records)
The Great Sea – Noble Art Of Desolation (AOP Records)
Greengoat – Aloft (Argonauta Records)
Harem Scarem – Chasing Euphoria (Frontiers srl)
H.E.A.T. – Welcome To The Future (earMusic)
Higher Walls – No End EP (Self-Released)
Hyena – About Rock And Roll (Dying Victims Records)
Imminent Sonic Destruction – Floodgate (Self-Released)
Inhuman Nature – Greater Than Death (Church Road Records)
Insineratehymn – Irreverence Of The Divine (Memento Mori Records)
Jack Starr – Out Of The Darkness Part II (BraveWords Records)
Jarboe – Disburden Disciple Re-Release (The Circle Records)
Jordsjø/Breidablik – Kontraster Split (Apollon Records)
Kardashev – Alunea (Metal Blade Records)
Klaus Schulze – Bon Voyage (Live Audimax Hamburg 1981) (SPV Records)
Landmvrks – The Darkest Place I’ve Ever Been (Arising Empire Records)
Liv Kristine – Amor Vincit Omnia (Metalville Records)
Lord Vampyr – The Greatest Bloodbath (Moribund Records)
Machine Head – Unatoned (Nuclear Blast Records)
Mano de Piedra – Tales From The Burnt House (Hombre Montana Records)
Miss Lava – Under A Black Sun (Small Stone Records)
Monhell – A Last Sigh Of Pain (Fetzner Death Records)
Morbific – Bloom Of The Abnormal Flesh (Memento Mori Records)
Northvoid – Ember Remains EP (Inverse Records)
Oak – The Third Sleep (Karisma Records)
Of The Muses – Underheavens – Of Blood, Ghosts And Saltwater (My Kingdom Records)
Oracle Hands – Dirge For The Doomed (Moment Of Collapse Records)
Oria – This Future Wants Us Dead (Theogonia Records)
Pagan Altar – Never Quite Dead (Dying Victims Records)
Panzerballett – Übercode Œuvre (Self-Released)
Panzerkrieg – Day Of Genocide EP (Self-Released)
Phantom – Tyrants Of Wrath (High Roller Records)
PLQ MRX – Cumgitsum EP (Reptilian Records)
Point Mort – Le Point De Non-Retour (Almost Famous Records)
Profanatica – Wreathed In Dead Angels EP (Hells Headbangers)
Prost – Believe Again (Pride & Joy Records)
Raven – Screamin’ Down The House (1985-1988) Box Set (HNE Records)
The Riven – Visions Of Tomorrow (Dying Victims Records)
Sacred Steel – Ritual Supremacy (Rock Of Angels Records)
Sijjin – Helljjin Combat (Sepulchral Voice Records)
Slamdinistas – Wild & Restless (Rum Bar Records)
Snakemother – Snakemother Re-Release (Ripple Music)
Society Of Villains – Good & Evil EP (CloudKid Records)
Spiritus Mortis – The Great Live (Svart Records)
The Storyteller – The Final Stand (The Circle Records)
Structure – Heritage (Ardua Records)
Sumac + Moor Mother – The Film (Thrill Jockey Records)
Sunflower Bean – Mortal Primetime (Lucky Number Records)
Temple Fang – Lifted From The Wind (Stickman Records)
Trick Or Treat – Ghosted (Scarlet Records)
Vampyriia – The Melancholic Charm Of The Moon (Void Wanderer Records)
Vape Warlök – …And His Skull Shall Make My Bong (Pillars Of Creation Records)
Various Artists – Brown Acid: The Twentieth Trip (RidingEasy Records)
Venator – Psychodrome (Dying Victims Records)
The Victorious Dead – The Reaper At The Gates (Self-Released)
Wednesday 13 – Mid Death Crisis (Napalm Records)
Wolves In The Throne Room – 2005 Demo Re-Release (Relapse Records)
Yngwie Malmsteen – Tokyo Live 2024 (Music Theories Recordings)