Grotesque Digest - Week 34, 2025

Your weekly extreme metal release roundup

Here at Gatekeep! HQ, we were all excited to talk about how incredible the new records by Defacement, Hebephrenique, Pralaya, and Innumerable Forms sound, but alas…

RIP Brent

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Unholy Altar - A Sullen Dark Sky [EP]
🇺🇸 Black Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Corridoré - Abandon
🇺🇸 Post-Black / Post-Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Doomentor – …of Pestilence, War and Death
🇩🇪 Black / Doom Metal

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Vörnir - Av hädanfärd krönt
🇺🇸 / 🇮🇸 / 🇸🇪 Avant-garde Black Metal
Also on: YouTube

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Panzerchrist - Maleficium Part 2
🇩🇰 Deathened Black Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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प्रलय - Beyond the Tattered Curtain of Unspeakable Madness
🇵🇱 Ritualistic Black / Death Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Wstręt - Subhuman Eschatology [EP]
🇵🇱 Blackened OSDM
Also on: Spotify | YouTube

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Grave Hex - Vermian Death
🇫🇮 OSDM
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Innumerable Forms - Pain Effulgence
🇺🇸 OSDM / Death Doom Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Mortal Desecration - Resurrection Deviation [EP]
🇺🇸 OSDM
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Retching - Charming the Decomposed
🇺🇸 OSDM
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Monoliyth - He Who Kills
🇦🇺 Brutal Death Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Begging for Incest - Going Postal
🇩🇪 Slamming Brutal Death Metal / Deathcore
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Charybdis - Running Out of Things to Kill [EP]
🇺🇸 Death Metal / Hardcore
Also on: YT Music

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Defacement - Doomed
🇳🇱 Blackened Dissonant Death Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Hebephrenique - Decathexis
🇦🇺 Blackened Dissonant Death Metal
Also on: Soundcloud

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Maldisdeun - Into the Flame of Fear [EP]
🇺🇸 Death Doom Metal

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Thallium - Depraved Execution
🇦🇺 Deathrash
Also on: YT Music

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Septic Burial - Entities From Beyond - Within Corpses, Obsessed
🇺🇸 Death / Thrash Metal

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Benefactor Decease - Abnormal Attachments
🇬🇷 OS Thrash Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Sadistic Force - Morbid Odyssey [EP]
🇺🇸 Thrash / Speed Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Vindicator - Whispers of Death
🇺🇸 Thrash / Speed Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Desaster - Kill All Idols
🇩🇪 Thrashblack
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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In Your Blood - In Your Blood
🇨🇦 Thrashblack

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Malevich - Under a Gilded Sun
🇺🇸 Sludge / Deathgrind / Screamo
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Bask - The Turning
🇺🇸 Stoner Rock / Metal
Also on: Spotify | YT Music

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Hot Singles in Your Area

Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Marter
Innern | September 12th | Season of Mist
🇩🇪 Black Metal

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Malakhim - Solar Crucifixion
And in Our Hearts the Devil Sings | October 31st | Iron Bonehead
🇸🇪 Black Metal

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Codex Nero - Let the Darkness Reborn
Ordo Acherontis | Liber Khaos Productions
🇵🇱 Atmospheric Black Metal

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Outlaw - Through the Infinite Darkness
Opus mortis | October 31st | AOP
🇧🇷 Melodic Black Metal

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Blood Offer - Consumed by Brutality
All that Dies… Is Forsaken | September 5th | Iron Fortress
🇮🇹 Thrashy OSDM

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Demiurgon - Apoptosi
Miasmatic Deathless Chamber | September 26th | Transcending Obscurity
🇮🇹 Death Metal

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Undersave - Narcissistic Supreme Alienation
Merged in Abstract Perdition | October 10th | Transcending Obscurity
🇵🇹 (Technical / Dissonant) Death Metal

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Squassation - Subterranean Anthropophagy
Decorated With Feculent Appurtenances | New Standard Elite
🇺🇸 Brutal Death Metal

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1914 - 1916 (The Südtirol Offensive)
Viribus unitis | November 14th | Napalm
🇺🇦 Blackened Death / Doom Metal

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Dwelling Below - Wearisome Guardians
Wearisome Guardians | October 31st | Transcending Obscurity
🇺🇸 Death Doom Metal

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Evoken - Matins
Mendacium | October 17th | Profound Lore
🇺🇸 Death / Funeral Doom Metal

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Gawthrop - Hogweed
Kuboa | September 19th | Sentient Ruin Laboratories
🇰🇷 Deathened Sludge / Doom Metal

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Hold Me Down - At the Gate
Devour | September 5th | Sentient Ruin Laboratories
🇺🇸 Industrial Metal

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More positivity next week on…