Grotesque Digest - Week 31, 2025
Your weekly extreme metal release roundup
Another week, another slathering of sonic putridity spreads across the internet airwaves like a gruesome glaze. A malignant mucus. A sinister sludge. An…an ocean of putrid, stinky, vile, disgusting hell!
Brace to witness the orthodoxy of black metal twisted into esoterica, as Amphisbaena tears a rift into a dissonant dimension of symbolic serpents and phalli. Ancient Torment and Feral Lord are fierce representatives of the USBM discipline soaked in thrumming melody, whereas Eskapism convoke distinctly forested European (Ukrainian) folk-black infused with flute and glittering keys.
The death worshippers this week show slightly more adherence to their predecessors’ traditions, but still the variety of flavors summoned goes to show the complexity of even just OSDM. Cancer Void bring buzzsaw bog metal with almost Bosch-ian art of distorted monstrosities. Putriditium rumble and belch like noxious geothermal gas, and Hedonist (whom Sint figured mainstream enough for regular Weeklies; it’s Southern Lord so…slim pass) are a leather-bound engine of war, armed to the teeth with egregiously spiked daggers.
New this week: HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA! We’ve already been including short demos and 2-song EPs, so for something extra to chew on and to always shine a spotlight on the freshest grotesqueries, we’ve added even more tantalizing tidbits.
-Ryan
Ancient Torment - Follow the Echo of Curses
🇺🇸 Black Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Eskapism - Skresnava
🇺🇦 Atmospheric / Melodic Black Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Feral Lord - Wunjo
🇺🇸 Posty Black Metal
Amphisbaena - Rift
🇨🇦 Black / Death Metal
Fermento - Acts of Blood
🇪🇸 Black / Death Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Gam - Iron Gauntlet [EP]
🇸🇪 Black / Death Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Immoral Rope - Tithing Satan's Wealth [EP]
🇺🇸 OS Black / Death Metal
Nihilvm - Ancient Cosmic Emanation
🇵🇱 Black / Death Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Putriditium - Fatal Offences
🇫🇮 Blackened OSDM
Also on: YouTube
Crungus - Hollow
🇺🇸 Blackened Death Metal
Also on: YT Music
Cancer Void - First Metastasis [EP]
🇨🇿 OSDM / Doom
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Hedonist - Scapulimancy
🇨🇦 OSDM
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Plasmodulated - An Ocean ov Putrid, Stinky, Vile, Disgusting Hell
🇺🇸 Slightly Proggy OSDM
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Undeath - Enter Patient / Endless Graveyard [EP]
🇺🇸 OSDM
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Barbarous - Initium mors
🇺🇸 Death Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Harvested - Dysthymia
🇨🇦 Death Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Hyperdontia - Dormant Scourge [EP]
🇩🇰 Death Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Sursum Corda - Métodos de tortura
🇨🇴 Thrashy Death Metal
Sacrificial - Demo 2025 [Demo]
🇺🇸 Brutal Death Metal
Vaegon - Ciphers From the Void [EP]
🇨🇦 Technical Death Metal
Also on: YT Music
Sallow Moth - Mossbane Lantern
🇺🇸 Technical Progressive Death Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Human Corpse Abuse / Mortify - From the Cradle to the Ladle / Rotting and Plotting [Split]
🇺🇸 / 🇯🇵 Deathgrind / Goregrind | Grindcore / Death Metal
Also on: Spotify
Ancient Malice - Accept the Vile Gifts of the Dead
🇮🇪 Crusty Deathgrind
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Centuries of Decay - A Monument to Oblivion
🇨🇦 Blackened Progressive Death / Groove Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Scarab - Burn After Listening
🇺🇸 Hardcore / Metalcore
Also on: YT Music
Victim of Fire - The Old Lie
🇺🇸 Neocrust
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Tantric Bile - A Medusa in Your House
🇺🇸 Free Improv / Modern Classical / Gorenoise
Hot Singles in Your Area
Obcasus - Death Meditation
Omega Sermon | Self-released
🇫🇮 Black Metal
Altars Ablaze - Indiscriminate Heresy Extermination
Indiscriminate Extermination | October 10th | Lavadome
🇨🇿 Black / Death Metal
Sothoris - Pro Memoria
Domus Omnium Mortuorum | October 3rd | Fetzner Death / ADG
🇵🇱 Black / Death Metal
Innumerable Forms - Blotted Inside
Pain Effulgence | August 22nd | Profound Lore
🇺🇸 Death / Doom Metal
Perishing - Osedax (Devoured By the Cavernous Worm)
Malicious Acropolis Unveiled | October 17th | Transcending Obscurity
🇨🇷 Death / Doom Metal
Runemagick - Old Bones
Cycle of the Dying Sun (Dawn of Ashen Realms) | October 31 | Hammerheart
🇸🇪 Death / Doom Metal
Occulsed - Heinous Pulse
Antegnosis | September 26th | Everlasting Spew
🇺🇸 OSDM
Enragement - Insectiferous Abomination
Extinguish All Existence | Transcending Obscurity
🇫🇮 Brutal Death Metal
Sanguisugabogg - Rotted Entanglement
Hideous Aftermath | October 10th | Century Media
🇺🇸 Brutal Death Metal
Human Mastication - Assaulted and Left for Dead
New Standard Elite
🇵🇠Brutal Death Metal
An Abstract Illusion - No Dreams Beyond Empty Horizons
Willowtip
🇸🇪 Progressive / Melodic Death Metal
Mors Principium Est - Summoning the Dark
Darkness Invisible | September 26 | Reigning Phoenix Music
🇫🇮 Melodic Death Metal
Violator - Chapel of the Sick
Unholy Retribution | September 5th | Kill Again
🇧🇷 Thrash Metal
Species - The Essence
Changelings | September 19th | 20 Buck Spin
🇵🇱 Technical Thrash Metal
Psychonaut - Stargazer
World Maker | October 24th | Pelagic
🇧🇪 Post / Progressive Metal
Drofnosura - Selection of a Corpse
Ritual of Split Tongues | Transcending Obscurity
🇨🇦 Blackened Sludge / Post Metal
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That Victim of Fire song is insane holy shit
"Hot Singles in your area" 😂 Bravo, bravo. Lots to sift through, I just heard Sallow Moth and Hedonist and they're both great. Great list!