PREVIEW: New Music Friday – Rock and Metal Releases for 5-9-25


From underground gems to headline-worthy drops, it’s New Music Friday for 5-9-25

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Abysmal Rites – Restoring The Primordial Order (Wormholedeath Records)
Axiom Chaos – Primacy Arrival (Comatose Records)
Bangover – Hibernation Devastation (Self-Released)
Behemoth – The Shit Ov God (Nuclear Blast Records)
Black Map – Hex (Spinefarm Records)
Bronson Arm – Casket Schwagg (Learning Curve Records)
Candlemass – Black Star EP (Napalm Records)
Cavern Deep – Part III – The Bodiless (Majestic Mountain Records)
The Chemistry Set – An Introduction To The Chemistry Set (Fruits De Mer Records)
Cocaine Culture – Cocaine Culture (Horror Pain Gore Death Records)
Cryptopsy – None So Vile Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
Dagdrøm – Schauder (Self)
Death SS – The Entity (Lucifer Rising Records)
Demeted – Rituals EP (Seek & Strike Records)
Devine Defilement – Ruthless (Time To Kill Records)
Divine Sovereign – Dawn Of A New Age (Wormholedeath Records)
Edensong – Our Road To Dust (The Lasers Edge)
Elusive God – Ambis (Personal Records)
Escarnium – Inexorable Entropy (Everlasting Spew Records)
For The Pyres – At The Pyres Of Sin (Gruesome Records)
Ghost Bath – Rose Thorn Necklace (Nuclear Blast Records)
Gong – I See You 10th Anniversary Edition (Kscope Records)
Haken – Liveforms: An Evening With Haken (InsideOut Music)
Hippie Death Cult – Live At The Star Theater (Heavy Psych Sounds)
In Covert – Bleak Machinery (Dune Altar Records)
Jade – Mysteries Of A Flowery Dream (Pulverised Records)
Kaleo – Mixed Emotions (Atlantic Records)
Kurt Deimer – And So It Begins… (Bald Man Records)
Lars Fredrik Frøislie – Gamle Mester (Karisma Records)
Lloth – Archees Legeones (Theogonia Records)
Marea – Adrift (Masked Dead Records)
mclusky – the world is still here and so are we (Ipecac Recordings)
Meatwound – Macho (Threat Collection Records)
Mors Silens – Infernal Legacy (Wormholedeath Records)
Mütterlein – Amidst The Flames, May Our Organs Resound (Debemur Morti Records)
Nail By Nail – Embraced By Darkness (War Anthem Records)
Nechochwen – spelewithiipi (Nordvis Records)
Nihili Locus – Semper (My Kingdom Records)
Novelists – Coda (Ackor Records)
Ominous Ruin – Requiem (Willowtip Records)
Paralyzed – Rumble & Roar (Ripple Music)
Postmortal – Profundis Omnis (Aesthetic Death Records)
Prophetic Suffering – Rivalry Of Thyself (Sentient Ruin)
Pyromancer – Absolute Dominion By Fire (Adirondack Black Mass)
Shores Of Null – Beauty Over Europe (Sulphur/Masked Dead Records)
Skaphos – Cult Of Uzura (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Sleep Token – Even In Arcadia (RCA Records)
Slumbering Sun – Starmony (Self-Released)
Statement – Sinister Thing (Mighty Music)
Steve Dadaian – Revenant City (Self-Released)
Stone Fist – Stone Fist EP (Go Down Records)
Svarta Havet – Månen Ska Lysa Din Väg (Prosthetic Records)
Tetrarch – The Ugly Side Of Me (Napalm Records)

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