Grotesque Digest - Week 37, 2025

Your weekly extreme metal release roundup

Another week, anoth—wait, what happened to time? Why are Siege Column pretending their new album came out last week, when nobody had even heard it before Tuesday? Why is the remaster of Nasum’s debut already streaming when it isn’t due until late October? Why does Heruvim’s Mercator sound like it was recorded in 1993? And why is everything so turquoise?

We may never know the answers to those questions. What we do know, though, is that there’s no time like the present. Yes, yes, there’s a new Der Weg Einer Freiheit record you can’t wait to hear, but why not check out some of the cool new releases below while you’re here? Freshly arrived: a killer atmo-death split by Halucinate and Jade, another quality black-death EP by Lunar Blood, and a ripper of a deathy thrash album from Mortal Scepter.

If you’re looking for a quick, fast-food-sized fix of extremity, we recommend skimming the singles section, where Speed, Wode, Sadistic Butchering, and many more await. Jesus fucking Christ, now some of that foul language spilled over.

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Redenção Pelas Chamas - Redenção Pelas Chamas
🇵🇹 OS Black Metal

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Longinus Wound - Ultra Metal Outlaws [EP]
🇺🇸 Black / Speed Metal

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Bergsvriden - I Haggans Afton
🇸🇪 Folk Black Metal

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Dark Watcher - The Law of Bone and Sinew
🇺🇸 Folk Black Metal / Americana

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Celestial Silence - Silent Calls from the Other Side
🇫🇮 / 🇺🇦 Posty Atmospheric Black Metal

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Silver - Obsidian Moon Invocation
🇺🇸 Raw Black Metal

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Luctus - Tamsošviesa
🇱🇹 Deathened Black Metal

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Lunar Blood - Ithil [EP]
🇺🇸 Black / Death Metal

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Revelator - Light the Devil's Fire
🇨🇦 Speedy-Heavy Black / Death Metal

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Crossbreaker - Cult of the Apocalypse [Demo]
🇩🇪 Black / Death / Thrash Metal

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Golden Serpent - Lullabies from Hell
🇬🇷 Blackened Death Metal

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Infernal Thorns - Christus Venari
🇨🇱 Blackened Death Metal

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Siege Column - Sulphur Omega
🇺🇸 Blackened Thrashy OSDM

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Heruvim - Mercator
🇺🇦 OSDM

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Septic Fumes - Mucilaginous Sewage
🇺🇸 Gory OSDM

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Bloodfed - Pandemonium
🇮🇩 Core-infused OSDM

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Caesarean - Wretched Decrepitude [EP]
🇺🇸 Death Metal

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Venomous Breath - Abysm
🇧🇷 Death Metal

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Hallucinate / Jade - Heaven's Gate / The Hidden Crypt [Split]
🇩🇪 / 🇪🇸 Slightly Progressive & Doomy Death Metal | Atmospheric Death Metal

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Works of the Flesh - Zero Fucks Given [EP]
🇧🇪 Death Metal / Crust

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Anal Stabwound - Enshrining the Many-Fingered Grasp [EP]
🇺🇸 Technical Brutal Death Metal

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Mortuary Ghoul - Wear Your Face: Corpse Exhumation Redux
🇺🇸 Brutal Death Metal

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Scornmonger - Barbaric Intentions [EP]
🇺🇸 Brutal Progressive Death Metal

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Unaligned - A Form Beyond
🇺🇸 Technical Death Metal

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I, Cursed - Heretical Onslaught [EP]
🇫🇮 Deathgrind

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Mortal Scepter - Ethereal Dominance
🇫🇷 OS Thrash / Death Metal

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Cheap Gas - Altars of Patrician Genocide
🇺🇸 Black-Death Grindcore / Crust

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Nasum - Inhaled/Exhaled/Revived [Compilation - early upload]
🇸🇪 Grindcore

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Liquid Viscera / Egggore / Lipoma - Trisectio Cadaveris [Split]
🇺🇸 / 🇨🇿 / 🇺🇸 Gory Deathgrind | Goregrind | Goregrind

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Slomatics - Atomicult
🇬🇧 Doom / Sludge Metal

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Sunniva - Hypostasis
🇫🇮 Atmo-Sludge / Doom / Post Metal

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Hot Singles in Your Area

Frostmoon Eclipse - Truth of the World
As Time Retreats | September 26th | Immortal Frost
🇮🇹 Atmospheric Black Metal

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Illusive Key - Ghosts
Consume Us | October 8th | Amor Fati
🇩🇪 Melodic / Dissonant Black Metal

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Terzij de Horde - The All-Consuming Work of the Soul's Foreclosing
Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone | October 10th | Church Road
🇳🇱 (Atmospheric) Black / Post / Sludge Metal

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Thron - The Serpent’s Path
Vurias | October 31st | Listenable
🇩🇪 Melodic Black Metal

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Vígljós - A Seed of Aberration
Tome II: Ignis sacer | September 19th | Acteurs de l'Ombre
🇨🇭 Beekeeper Melodic Black Metal w/ Witch Vox

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Akolyth - A Black Torch
Ecstatic Kingdom | Amor Fati
❓ Thrashing Black Metal

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Wode - Under Lanternlight
Uncrossing the Keys | October 3rd | 20 Buck Spin
🇬🇧 Heavy Black Metal

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Plague Curse - Umbrage Earned
Verminous Contempt | October 10th | Adirondack Black Mass
🇺🇸 / 🇨🇦 / 🇦🇺 Blackened Death Metal

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Protocol F40.1 - Fatalritual
Fatalritual | October 10th | Warhorn
🇱🇹 Blackened Death Metal

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Thaumaturgy - Plague Ritual
Pestilential Hymns | October 20th | Memento Mori
🇺🇸 Black / Death / Doom Metal

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Funeral Vomit - Upheaval of Necromancy
Upheaval of Necromancy | December 19th | Xtreem
🇨🇴 OSDM

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Occulsed - Haze Of Morbid Slicing
Antegnosis | September 26th | Everlasting Spew
🇺🇸 OSDM

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Acid Death - The Gateway to Knowledge
Evolution | November 21st | 7hard
🇬🇷 Death Metal

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Depravity - Rot in the Pit
Bestial Possession | 2025 | Transcending Obscurity
🇦🇺 Death Metal

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Heads for the Dead - In Disgust We Trust
Never Ending Night of Terror | October 10th | Pulverised
🇸🇪 / 🇩🇪 / 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 Death Metal

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Insidius - Destroy the Priests
Vulgus illustrata | November 7th | Black Lion
🇵🇱 Death Metal

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Vulnificus - Insurmountable Insurrection
Inclination | October 10th | Comatose
🇺🇸 Brutal Death Metal

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Sadistic Butchering - Be Killed
Seed of Impurity | New Standard Elite
🇺🇸 Brutal Death Metal / Slam

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Analepsy - Cryogenic Rebirth
Self-released
🇵🇹 Slam

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Internal Bleeding - Settle All Scores
Settle All Scores | October 17th | Maggot Stomp
🇺🇸 Slam / Beatdown Hardcore

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

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Fit for an Autopsy - It Comes For You
Nuclear Blast / Human Warfare
🇺🇸 Deathcore / Groove Metal

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

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Speed - Peace
All My Angels | October 23rd | Last Ride / Flatspot
🇦🇺 Hardcore

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Truth Grip - Your Selfmade Hell
Self-released
🇩🇪 Hardcore

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Psychonaut - And You Came With Searing Light
World Maker | October 24th | Pelagic
🇧🇪 Post / Progressive Metal

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Set your DeLoreans to 09/19/2025. Destination: