Grotesque Digest - Week 35, 2025
Your weekly extreme metal release roundup
What this week is lacking in big names, it more than makes up for with a surprisingly high median quality. Ryan gave the go-ahead to skimp on BM recs this time, so you’ll get to check out a metric ton of death metal. Yay! Imperishable, Hexrot, Ethereal Wound, and Proscription should be high up on your list, but we also recommend giving stuff like Exsul or Splatt a spin if the genre tags appeal to you.
Our apologies to phone users on limited data plans. There are so. many. singles. this week, and we didn’t even include the 2000s throwback trio of Mudvayne, Soulfly, and Slipknot. Maybe we should ask the artists and suits to take an off-season? Nah—we must consume, consume, consume. Riffs and noise are what keep us sane.
Porenut - Výstup k svätej Kunde
🇸🇰 Avant-Garde Black Metal
Ash Magick - Rituals of Anathemic East
🇹🇷 Medium-Rare Occult Black Metal
Imperishable - Revelation in Purity
🇺🇸 Black / Death Metal
Void Enthronement - Abyss Exhortation [Demo]
🇫🇷 Black / Death Metal
Ethereal Wound - Defile | Demise
🇵🇹 Progressive Dissonant Blackened Death Metal
Malefican Ritualis - Malefican Ritualis [EP]
🇨🇿 Blackened Death Metal
Proscription - Desolate Divine
🇫🇮 Blackened Death Metal
Ritual Fog / Chaos Relic - Ritual Fog / Chaos Relic [Split]
🇺🇸 / 🇺🇸 OSDM | OSDM
KHNVM - Cosmocrator
🇩🇪 / 🇧🇩 Death Metal
Crimson Butchery - Stalker
🇮🇪 Slightly Brutal / Slightly Technical Death Metal
Pyrexia - Unholy
🇺🇸 Brutal Death Metal
Exsul - Promo XXV [Demo]
🇺🇸 Death / Death Doom Metal
Pilgrimage - From Amber to Sun
🇳🇱 Doom / Death Doom Metal
Tentacult - Synaptic Perfidity
🇺🇸 Death / Death Doom Metal
Hexrot - Formless Ruin of Oblivion
🇺🇸 Progressive / Avant-garde / Technical Death Metal
!T.O.O.H.! - Po ovoci poznáte je
🇨🇿 Experimental / Avant-Garde / Technical Death Metal
Cannibal Accident - Pulisongs [EP]
🇫🇮 Deathgrind
Splatt - Demo 2025 [Demo]
🇺🇸 Occult Brutal Deathgrind
Bone Fetish - Bone Fetish [Compilation]
🇨🇦 Goregrind
Lipoma / Endometriosity - Rotten Bloody Bowels of Eternal Disease [Split]
🇺🇸 / 🇮🇹 Goregrind / Melodeath | Goregrind
Necrokinesis - Death Is the Hammer
🇮🇪 Death / Thrash Metal
Void - Forbidden Morals
🇺🇸 Technical Thrash / Speed Metal
No Apologies - Life
🇦🇺 Crossover Thrash / Metalcore
Railhazer - Trashtronaut
🇺🇸 Sludge / Stoner Doom Metal
Zatokrev - ...Bring Mirrors to the Surface
🇨🇭 Atmo-Sludge / Doom Metal
In Shame - Looming
🇺🇸 Crust / Sludge Metal
withpaperwings - Six Thousand Days [EP]
🇺🇸 Melodic Metalcore / Slam
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Angrrsth - Mane, tekel, fares
Złudnia | October 10th | Godz ov War
🇵🇱 (Melodic) Black Metal
Asphagor - Path to Devotion Pt. II
The Aphotic Vortex | October 24th | Immortal Frost
🇦🇹 (Melodic) Black Metal
Christ Agony - Nocturnal Dominion
Anthems | September 26th | Deformeathing
🇵🇱 Black Metal
Diabolus, mecum semperterne! - Gratias agamus domino infero deo nostro
February 2026 | Terratur Possessions
🇳🇴 Black Metal
Häxär - Bastardis
October 31st | Purity Through Fire
🇨🇭 Black Metal
Afsky - Natmaskinen
Fællesskab | October 17th | Eisenwald
🇩🇰 (🇩🇪) Folksy Atmospheric Black Metal
Nyrak - Leviathan
Phoenix Mortis | October 30th | Void Wanderer
🇧🇪 Melodic Black Metal
Waldgeflüster - Knochengesang
Knochengesänge | November 7th | AOP
🇩🇪 Atmospheric Black Metal
BIANCA - Somniloquies
BIANCA | October 31st | Avantgarde Music
🇮🇹 Doomy Atmospheric Black Metal
Impermanence - Spiritual War
Anicca | October 16th | Satanath / Sanatorio
🇵🇱 Technical Black / Death Metal
Cruentation - Prayers in Piss
Damned Fallen Angels | September 29th | Iron Bonehead
🇺🇸 Blackened Death Metal
Occulsed - Cudgel of Antimatter
Antegnosis | September 26th | Everlasting Spew
🇺🇸 OSDM
Glorious Depravity - The Devouring Dust
Death Never Sleeps | Transcending Obscurity
🇺🇸 Death Metal
Insepulto - The Absolute Sense of Non Existence
Self-released
🇨🇷 Death Metal
Scorching Tomb - Skullcrush
Ossuary | October 24th | Time to Kill
🇨🇦 Death Metal
Heteropsy - Pandemonium Alter
Embalming | October 31st | Caligari
🇯🇵 Death Doom Metal
Hooded Menace - Pale Masquerade
Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration | October 3rd | Season of Mist
🇫🇮 Death Doom Metal
Dispossessed - Exanimate
Dêmocide | October 3rd | Carbonized
🇺🇸 Death Doom / Sludge Metal
Lecherous Nocturne - Serpentence
Violust | 2026
🇺🇸 Technical Death Metal
Vermithor - Banquet of Bastards
Self-released
🇫🇮 Death Metal / Hardcore
PeelingFlesh - Autistimus Prime
PF Radio 2 | September 26th | Unique Leader
🇺🇸 Slam
Abraded - Uroboric Incest
Ethereal Emanations from Cthonic Caries | September 26th | Redefining Darkness / Aggressively Uninterested
🇺🇸 Deathgrind / Death Metal
Tithe - Burn the Throne of God
Communion in Anguish | September 19th | Profound Lore
🇺🇸 Blackened Deathgrind
Species - Born of Stitch and Flesh
Changelings | September 19th | 20 Buck Spin
🇵🇱 Technical Thrash Metal
Spite - Lights Out
New World Killer | October 31st | Rise
🇺🇸 Deathcore goes LoG
The Materia - Declaration of Hate
Self-released
🇵🇱 Djent / Metalcore
The Devil's Trade - Weltschmerz
Nincs Szennyezetlen Szép | November 7th | Pelagic
🇭🇺 Dark Folk / Post / Atmo-Sludge
Author & Punisher - Thrush
Nocturnal Birding | October 3rd | Relapse
🇺🇸 Industrial / Drone Metal
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