Grotesque Digest - Week 32, 2025

Your weekly extreme metal release roundup

Big Metal is finally having some mercy on us and allowing the machinery to cool down for once. Now, this might just be the gatekeeper in me speaking, or maybe I’m taking cues from some known pot-stirrers, but this is a cool callback to the slow drip you’d typically find in any given year’s early months.

Of course, that doesn’t mean week 32’s hopper is completely devoid of action. Apart from the return of the legendary Cemetery, this drop brings with it the hotly anticipated sophomore full-length by Ireland’s finest, Malthusian, as well as some tasteful goregrind served up by Sewer Haul. There’s even more, like the new Blackbraid, but since Ryan’s on holiday, I’ll leave those pickings to the vultures.

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Augur - Arcane Insurgency [EP]
🇺🇸 Black Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Grole - Come Here at Your Peril
🇨🇦 Black Metal

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Finistère - Am grauen Meer
🇩🇪 Atmospheric Black Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Devil Wizard - Nightmare Creature / ... In Hell [Demo]
🇫🇮 Black / Speed Metal

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Execrion - Black Blood Trinity [Compilation]
🇪🇸 Shamanic Blackened Death Metal

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Malthusian - The Summoning Bell
🇮🇪 Blackened Death Metal w/ Dissonant Tendencies
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Pustulant Flesh - Gurgling Pustulence [EP]
🇩🇰 HC-infused OSDM
Also on: Spotify

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Cemetery - Thoughts on Life... and Death
🇩🇪 Death Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Groaning Retch - Cathemeral Bloodshed
🇺🇸 Death Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Tromort - No volverá a brillar
🇪🇸 Death Metal
Also on: YT Music

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Theurgion - All Under Heaven
🇺🇸 Death Doom Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Dyslexia - Infliction of Agony
🇮🇩 Slamming Brutal Death Metal

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Inhuman Suffering - Internal Decay [EP]
🇬🇧 Slamming Brutal Death Metal
Also on: YT Music

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FleshGorger - Only Hatred Remains [EP]
🇺🇸 Technical Death Metal
Also on: YT Music | YouTube

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Sewer Haul - Torso Mangled Beyond Repair [EP]
🇩🇰 Goregrind
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Scorched Mind - Embracing the Dying Sun
🇺🇸 Sludge / Death Metal / Hardcore
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Paralysis - Spiral of Suffering
🇺🇸 Crossover Thrash
Also on: YT Music

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Hot Singles in Your Area

Gorycz - Tańczy
Zasypia | October 3rd | Piranha Music
🇵🇱 Post Black Metal

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Ifryt - Rzygacze
Godz ov War Productions
🇵🇱 Experimental Black Metal | 80s Pop

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In Corpore Mortis - Exsanguinating the Hemispheres: Etsbah Elohim
Umbræ Ignis | September 27th | Satanath
🇮🇹 (Melodic) Black Metal

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Belphegor - Sanctus Diaboli Confidimus
Reigning Phoenix Music
🇦🇹 Black / Death Metal

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Imperishable - Spewing Retribution
Revelation in Purity | August 29th | Everlasting Spew
🇺🇸 Black / Death Metal

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Orbstruct - Hive
Ostracism | October 3rd | Paragon
🇺🇦 Blackened Death Metal

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Ad Nauseam - Coincidentia Oppositorum [Live at Roadburn]
Live at Roadburn | September 19th | Avantgarde Music
🇮🇹 Dissonant Death Metal

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Hooded Menace - Portrait Without a Face
Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration | October 3rd | Season of Mist
🇫🇮 Death Doom

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Dwelling Below - Unfolding Universe
Wearisome Guardians | Transcending Obscurity
🇺🇸 Death Doom

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Hold Me Down - Living Meat
Devour | September 5th | Sentient Ruin Laboratories
🇺🇸 Industrial Metal

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