PREVIEW: New Music Friday – Rock and Metal Releases for 5-2-25


From underground gems to headline-worthy drops, it’s New Music Friday for 5-2-25!

 

 

What is your favorite album cover this week?

Aawks – On Through The Sky Maze (Black Throne Records)
Abyssal Vacuum – Abyssal Vacuum (Signal Rex Records)
Acceptance – Crucifixion Of Orchids (Road To Masochist Records)
Acherontas – Nekya – The Necromantic Patterns (Zazen Sounds)
Acres – The Host (Solid State Records)
Amalekim – Shir Hashirim (Avantgarde Music)
Arv – Curse & Courage (Vinter Records)
Beware Of Gods – Upon Whom The Last Light Descends II: Amnesia Island (Invoke Records)
Black Honey Cult – Black Honey Cult (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Bleed – Bleed (20 Buck Spin)
Burndy – Burndy (Self-Released)
Crematory – Destination (ROAR/RPM Music)
The Crystal Teardrop – …Is Forming (Popclaw Records/Rise Above Records)
fallfiftyfeet – Counterfeit Recollections (Self-Released)
Falling From Grace – At The Edge (Inverse Records)
A Flock Named Murder – Incendiary Sanctum (Hypaethral Records)
The Flower Kings – Love (InsideOut Music)
Gentle Giant – Playing The Fool: The Complete Live Experience (Self-Released)
Goats Of Doom – INRI (Purity Through Fire Records)
Gypsy Pistoleros – Welcome To The Church Of The Pistoleros (Earache Records)
Hangfire – Burn (Rottweiler Records)
Hate – Bellum Regiis (Metal Blade Records)
Herta – Crossing The Illusion (Lifeforce Records)
Kickin Valentina – Raw Tracks, B-Sides & Bootlegs (Mighty Music)
Knives – Glitter (Marshall Records)
Lux Interna – New Wilderness Gospel (Self-Released)
Maestrick – Espresso Della Vita: Lunare (Frontiers srl)
Master Charger – Posthumous Resurrection (Argonauta Records)
Matraque – Nature Morte (Ashen Tree Records)
Misfire – Product Of The Environment (MNRK Heavy)
Nightfall – Children Of Eve (Season Of Mist)
No Heroes – Brood Eternal (Sound Of The Northwoods)
Palantyr – The Ascent & The Hunger EP (Jawbreaker Records)
Paradise Slaves – With Hell In His Eyes (Spinefarm Records)
Power Surge – Shadows Warning (FHM Records)
Press Club – To All The Ones That I Love (Self-Released)
Propagandhi – At Peace (Epitaph Records)
Pyramids – Pythagoras (The Flenser)
RawMoor – En Route (Wormholedeath Records)
Scott Hepple & The Sun Band – English Mustard (Rise Above Records)
Shuggah – Her Chrysalis (Mongrel Records)
Skyjoggers – 12021: Post-Electric Apocalypse (Supernatural Cat Records)
Slow Draw – The People’s Department of Governmental Checks & Balances (Self-Released)
Slung – In Ways (Art As Catharsis/Fat Dracula Records)
Solfatare – Asservis par l’espoir (Signal Rex Records)
Spiritwood – The Apparition Of Horns (Loudriver Records)
Strega – Stryx Strega Strygae EP (Masked Dead Records)
Tumble – Lost In Light EP (Echodelick Records)
Turnover – Peripheral Vision Re-Release (Run For Cover Records)
Under Ruins – Age Of The Void (FHM Records)
Xiphoid Dementia – Spiral Rapture Holy War (Fusty Records)
Your Spirit Dies – My Gnawing Pains Will Never Rest (MNRK Heavy)

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