Grotesque Digest - Week 33, 2025

Your weekly extreme metal release roundup

This week marks the exhumation of not one, not two, but three presumed-dead 90s behemoths. It only took Persecution three and a half decades to go from demo to full-length, while tech thrash titans Coroner just released their first new song since 1995. Speaking of surprise singles, Finland’s DM pioneers Abhorrence round out the flashback trio with their ode to the classics, “Old Age, Sickness and Death Metal”. Is it any good? You be the judge of that - just scroll down to the singles section and find out. PSA: Unleashed also have a new one out. It didn’t make the cut here, but if you’re in the mood for even more nostalgia bait, feel free to indulge in their melodic Scandi offerings.

To fully digest all things grotesque, let’s zone in on some of the smaller names on this list: Jared Moran caresses our meati acustici interni with six new lilts by his black-death-amalgam project Ange de la Mort, brutality quotas are met by US first-timers Compulsed, and fans of experimental free-death can start their brute force attack on Abhorrent Expanse’s latest arithmetic problems.

Ryan! Ryaaaannn! What are the freshest BM releases this week? Hmm, seems he can’t hear me. Must be because he’s jamming the new Fell Omen at full blast. Let’s hope he’ll tell us glorious tales from The Lands Between next week.

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Golgata - Själabod
🇸🇪 Semi-Melodic Black Metal

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Lotan - Yetzer Hara
🇩🇰 Midtempo Black Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Fell Omen - Caelid Dog Summer
🇬🇷 Elden Ring Blackpunk
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Auro - Im Schatten der Bastion
🇩🇪 Melodic Thrashy Black Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Nekro Cvlt Desecration - Purification In the Witchcraft Flames
🇻🇪 Blackthrash

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Cosmicam Exitium - Imperial Cosmic Death [EP]
🇲🇽 Black / Death Metal
Also on: YT Music

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Ange de la Mort - Bequeathed
🇺🇸 Blackened Experimental Tech-Death

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Cthonica - Bone Altars of the Vanquished Sun [Physical Release]
🇻🇪 Blackened Death Metal / Noise

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Castrator - Coronation of the Grotesque
🇺🇸 OSDM
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Obscenum - In the Depths of Impurity [EP]
🇫🇮 OSDM
Also on: YT Music

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Decedent - For Those in Shallow Graves
🇺🇸 DM w/ Core and Gore nods
Also on: Spotify | YT Music | YouTube

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Dychosis - An Exhibition of Human Brutality
🇬🇧 Death Metal
Also on: YT Music

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Unknown Subject - Democracies Die! [EP]
🇫🇮 Death Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Compulsed - Amalgamated Anguish
🇺🇸 Brutal Death Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Titanosauria - Raptoricide
🇺🇸 Slamming Brutal Death Metal

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Rhabdomyolysis - Visceral Lesion
🇨🇦 Goregrind / Brutal Death Metal
Also on: Spotify

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Abhorrent Expanse - Enter the Misanthropocene
🇺🇸 Free-form / Avant-garde Death Metal

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Anthrodynia - Unspeakable Horrors Emanating From Within
🇨🇦 Death Doom Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Atavistic Decay - Immakulate Invokations [EP]
🇺🇸 Ambient Death Doom Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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God's Funeral - El despertar dels morts
🇪🇸 Doom / Death Doom Metal
Also on: YouTube

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Persecution - Ultra Mortem
🇦🇺 OS Deathrash
Also on: YT Music

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Feind - 9mm Neuroleptika
🇩🇪 Deathgrind / Technical Death Metal
Also on: Spotify

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Trespass - Festival of Heretic Torture [EP]
🇺🇸 Black / Death Metal / Grindcore
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Phosphorus - Frail Grasp of Broken Hands
🇩🇪 Black-Sludge / Post Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Hot Singles in Your Area

LVTHN - Mother of Abominations
The Devil's Bridge | September 6th | Amor Fati Productions
🇧🇪 Black Metal

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Heretoir - Season of Grief
Solastalgia | September 19th | AOP
🇩🇪 Post / Blackgaze

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Gaerea - Submerged
Century Media
🇵🇹 Post-Black

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Wode - Transmutation
Uncrossing The Keys | October 3rd | 20 Buck Spin
🇬🇧 Heavy Black Metal

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Krigsgrav - Ghosts
Stormcaller | September 19th | Willowtip
🇺🇸 Melodic Atmo-Black / Death Metal

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Antiversum - Pulsar Feralis
De nemesis omnes et omnia | September 19th | Amor Fati Productions
🇨🇭 Blackened Death Metal

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Abhorrence - Old Age, Sickness and Death Metal
Svart
🇫🇮 Death Metal

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Abyssalis - Senescence
Adaptation | September 19th | Transcending Obscurity
🇺🇸 Death Metal

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De Profundis - I: Corruption
The Gospel of Rot | October 1st | Self-released
🇬🇧 Death Metal

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Neptunn - Neptunn Rise
Self-released
🇧🇷 Death Metal

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Scasm - Placental Expulsion
Demo 2025 | New Standard Elite
🇺🇸 Brutal Death Metal

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Barren Path - The Insufferable Weight
Grieving | October 31st | Willowtip
🇺🇸 Technical Grindcore / Deathgrind

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Sunniva - Valovaltimo
Hypostasis | September 19th | Svart / Violence in the Veins
🇫🇮 Atmo-Sludge / Doom / Post

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Drofnosura - Kapala Kriya
Ritual of Split Tongues | October 24th | Transcending Obscurity
🇨🇦 Blackened Sludge / Post

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Conjurer - Hang Them In Your Head
Unself | October 24th | Nuclear Blast
🇬🇧 Sludge / Atmo-Sludge Metal

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Coroner - Renewal
Dissonance Theory | October 17th | Century Media
🇨🇭 Technical Thrash Metal turned Swedeath

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Find out if Demilich and Necrophagist join in on this trend of big-name jump scares next week, on…