Grotesque Digest - Week 30, 2025

Your weekly extreme metal release roundup

Hellooooooooooo… Is this the void? Silence is deafening, so let’s fill it with the freshest of gross sonics!

It’s the last Friday in July, and the end of summer is heralded by an absolutely macerating amount of death metal records. Rearing from all corners like malformed teeth, Cancerbero, Kontusion, and Abyssery thud with traditional thickened crud. Pushing the envelope (and splattering it with intestines), Cordyceps and Deliquesce deliver brutal tech and slam of the uniquely leader-ish variety. Defenestrating the book entirely, Azure Emote present an avant-death opera whose lineup boasts a staggering collective of Metallum credits.

If speed is paramount, pick your poison. No Shelter. offer a scathing but accessible hardcore/death metal crossover, Scalp tear through deathgrind-infused powerviolence in under 20 minutes, and the inimitable Sulfuric Cautery spew the most livid, rancid (read: ideal) goregrind. If indica is more your flavor, throw down with Red Brick’s gnarly self-proclaimed “false sludge,” or get slow with Demonsmoke who Nex lovingly say “seem to like Eyehategod.”

With this choice of a selection to weed through you can be sure to fall into the abyss of August with a bang. Or, some sort of loud, disgusting noise anyway. In space, no one can tell you your gutturals are weak.

-Ryan

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Grimovetust - Gates to Heptagon Tower
❓ Black Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Widowed Light - Whitted Knoll
🇺🇸 Black Metal
Also on: Ampwall

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Jordfäst - Blodsdåd och hor
🇸🇪 Folksy Pagan Black Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Piercing - Demo [Demo]
🇺🇸 Raw Atmospheric Black Metal

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Arkhaaik - Uihtis
🇨🇭 Black Metal / Death-Doom
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Нябожчык - Нябожчык [Demo]
🇧🇾 Black / Death Metal
Also on: YouTube

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Rhizaria - Indulgences
🇺🇸 Progressive Black / Death Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Cancerbero - Sempiternal Decay
🇨🇱 OSDM

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Kontusion - Insatiable Lust for Death
🇺🇸 OSDM
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Abyssery - Interminable End
🇮🇪 Death Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Dehuman Reign - Dawn of a Malefic Dominion
🇩🇪 Death Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Malformed - Confinement of Flesh
🇫🇮 Death Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Tomb of Annihilation - Execration Rites
🇺🇸 Death Metal
Also on: YouTube

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Cordyceps - Hell Inside
🇺🇸 Brutal Death Metal / Slam
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Deliquesce - Saviour / Enslaver
🇦🇺 Technical Brutal Death Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Sanguinary Consummation - Promo 2025 [Demo]
🇺🇸 / 🇸🇪 Delirious Brutal Death Metal

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Kill Everything - Headless Cum Dumpster
🇺🇸 Brutal Death Metal / Slam
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Haxprocess - Beyond What Eyes Can See
🇺🇸 Technical Progressive Death Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Azure Emote - Cryptic Aura
🇺🇸 Avant-garde Death Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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No Shelter. - Remission/Resolve
🇩🇪 Hardcore / OSDM
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Gloombound - Dreaming Delusion
🇳🇴 Funeral / Death Doom
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Scalp - Not Worthy of Human Compassion
🇺🇸 Grindcore / Deathgrind / Powerviolence
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Sulfuric Cautery - Killing Spree [Official Digital Release]
🇺🇸 Goregrind / Noisegrind
Also on: Spotify

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Red Brick - Thrown
🇺🇸 Sludge / Core / Doom
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Demonsmoke - Resin Wrought
🇺🇸 Bluesy Sludge
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Transmitting… Don’t gaze too long or something might gaze back. Signing off until next week, on…