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.
Golgata - Själabod
🇸🇪 Semi-Melodic Black Metal
Lotan - Yetzer Hara
🇩🇰 Midtempo Black Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Fell Omen - Caelid Dog Summer
🇬🇷 Elden Ring Blackpunk
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Auro - Im Schatten der Bastion
🇩🇪 Melodic Thrashy Black Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Nekro Cvlt Desecration - Purification In the Witchcraft Flames
🇻🇪 Blackthrash
Cosmicam Exitium - Imperial Cosmic Death [EP]
🇲🇽 Black / Death Metal
Also on: YT Music
Ange de la Mort - Bequeathed
🇺🇸 Blackened Experimental Tech-Death
Cthonica - Bone Altars of the Vanquished Sun [Physical Release]
🇻🇪 Blackened Death Metal / Noise
Castrator - Coronation of the Grotesque
🇺🇸 OSDM
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Obscenum - In the Depths of Impurity [EP]
🇫🇮 OSDM
Also on: YT Music
Decedent - For Those in Shallow Graves
🇺🇸 DM w/ Core and Gore nods
Also on: Spotify | YT Music | YouTube
Dychosis - An Exhibition of Human Brutality
🇬🇧 Death Metal
Also on: YT Music
Unknown Subject - Democracies Die! [EP]
🇫🇮 Death Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Compulsed - Amalgamated Anguish
🇺🇸 Brutal Death Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Titanosauria - Raptoricide
🇺🇸 Slamming Brutal Death Metal
Rhabdomyolysis - Visceral Lesion
🇨🇦 Goregrind / Brutal Death Metal
Also on: Spotify
Abhorrent Expanse - Enter the Misanthropocene
🇺🇸 Free-form / Avant-garde Death Metal
Anthrodynia - Unspeakable Horrors Emanating From Within
🇨🇦 Death Doom Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Atavistic Decay - Immakulate Invokations [EP]
🇺🇸 Ambient Death Doom Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
God's Funeral - El despertar dels morts
🇪🇸 Doom / Death Doom Metal
Also on: YouTube
Persecution - Ultra Mortem
🇦🇺 OS Deathrash
Also on: YT Music
Feind - 9mm Neuroleptika
🇩🇪 Deathgrind / Technical Death Metal
Also on: Spotify
Trespass - Festival of Heretic Torture [EP]
🇺🇸 Black / Death Metal / Grindcore
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Phosphorus - Frail Grasp of Broken Hands
🇩🇪 Black-Sludge / Post Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music
Hot Singles in Your Area
LVTHN - Mother of Abominations
The Devil's Bridge | September 6th | Amor Fati Productions
🇧🇪 Black Metal
Heretoir - Season of Grief
Solastalgia | September 19th | AOP
🇩🇪 Post / Blackgaze
Gaerea - Submerged
Century Media
🇵🇹 Post-Black
Wode - Transmutation
Uncrossing The Keys | October 3rd | 20 Buck Spin
🇬🇧 Heavy Black Metal
Krigsgrav - Ghosts
Stormcaller | September 19th | Willowtip
🇺🇸 Melodic Atmo-Black / Death Metal
Antiversum - Pulsar Feralis
De nemesis omnes et omnia | September 19th | Amor Fati Productions
🇨🇭 Blackened Death Metal
Abhorrence - Old Age, Sickness and Death Metal
Svart
🇫🇮 Death Metal
Abyssalis - Senescence
Adaptation | September 19th | Transcending Obscurity
🇺🇸 Death Metal
De Profundis - I: Corruption
The Gospel of Rot | October 1st | Self-released
🇬🇧 Death Metal
Neptunn - Neptunn Rise
Self-released
🇧🇷 Death Metal
Scasm - Placental Expulsion
Demo 2025 | New Standard Elite
🇺🇸 Brutal Death Metal
Barren Path - The Insufferable Weight
Grieving | October 31st | Willowtip
🇺🇸 Technical Grindcore / Deathgrind
Sunniva - Valovaltimo
Hypostasis | September 19th | Svart / Violence in the Veins
🇫🇮 Atmo-Sludge / Doom / Post
Drofnosura - Kapala Kriya
Ritual of Split Tongues | October 24th | Transcending Obscurity
🇨🇦 Blackened Sludge / Post
Conjurer - Hang Them In Your Head
Unself | October 24th | Nuclear Blast
🇬🇧 Sludge / Atmo-Sludge Metal
Coroner - Renewal
Dissonance Theory | October 17th | Century Media
🇨🇭 Technical Thrash Metal turned Swedeath
Find out if Demilich and Necrophagist join in on this trend of big-name jump scares next week, on…
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