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.
Redenção Pelas Chamas - Redenção Pelas Chamas
🇵🇹 OS Black Metal
Longinus Wound - Ultra Metal Outlaws [EP]
🇺🇸 Black / Speed Metal
Bergsvriden - I Haggans Afton
🇸🇪 Folk Black Metal
Dark Watcher - The Law of Bone and Sinew
🇺🇸 Folk Black Metal / Americana
Celestial Silence - Silent Calls from the Other Side
🇫🇮 / 🇺🇦 Posty Atmospheric Black Metal
Silver - Obsidian Moon Invocation
🇺🇸 Raw Black Metal
Luctus - Tamsošviesa
🇱🇹 Deathened Black Metal
Lunar Blood - Ithil [EP]
🇺🇸 Black / Death Metal
Revelator - Light the Devil's Fire
🇨🇦 Speedy-Heavy Black / Death Metal
Crossbreaker - Cult of the Apocalypse [Demo]
🇩🇪 Black / Death / Thrash Metal
Golden Serpent - Lullabies from Hell
🇬🇷 Blackened Death Metal
Infernal Thorns - Christus Venari
🇨🇱 Blackened Death Metal
Siege Column - Sulphur Omega
🇺🇸 Blackened Thrashy OSDM
Heruvim - Mercator
🇺🇦 OSDM
Septic Fumes - Mucilaginous Sewage
🇺🇸 Gory OSDM
Bloodfed - Pandemonium
🇮🇩 Core-infused OSDM
Caesarean - Wretched Decrepitude [EP]
🇺🇸 Death Metal
Venomous Breath - Abysm
🇧🇷 Death Metal
Hallucinate / Jade - Heaven's Gate / The Hidden Crypt [Split]
🇩🇪 / 🇪🇸 Slightly Progressive & Doomy Death Metal | Atmospheric Death Metal
Works of the Flesh - Zero Fucks Given [EP]
🇧🇪 Death Metal / Crust
Anal Stabwound - Enshrining the Many-Fingered Grasp [EP]
🇺🇸 Technical Brutal Death Metal
Mortuary Ghoul - Wear Your Face: Corpse Exhumation Redux
🇺🇸 Brutal Death Metal
Scornmonger - Barbaric Intentions [EP]
🇺🇸 Brutal Progressive Death Metal
Unaligned - A Form Beyond
🇺🇸 Technical Death Metal
I, Cursed - Heretical Onslaught [EP]
🇫🇮 Deathgrind
Mortal Scepter - Ethereal Dominance
🇫🇷 OS Thrash / Death Metal
Cheap Gas - Altars of Patrician Genocide
🇺🇸 Black-Death Grindcore / Crust
Nasum - Inhaled/Exhaled/Revived [Compilation - early upload]
🇸🇪 Grindcore
Liquid Viscera / Egggore / Lipoma - Trisectio Cadaveris [Split]
🇺🇸 / 🇨🇿 / 🇺🇸 Gory Deathgrind | Goregrind | Goregrind
Slomatics - Atomicult
🇬🇧 Doom / Sludge Metal
Sunniva - Hypostasis
🇫🇮 Atmo-Sludge / Doom / Post Metal
Hot Singles in Your Area
Frostmoon Eclipse - Truth of the World
As Time Retreats | September 26th | Immortal Frost
🇮🇹 Atmospheric Black Metal
Illusive Key - Ghosts
Consume Us | October 8th | Amor Fati
🇩🇪 Melodic / Dissonant Black Metal
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
Thron - The Serpent’s Path
Vurias | October 31st | Listenable
🇩🇪 Melodic Black Metal
Vígljós - A Seed of Aberration
Tome II: Ignis sacer | September 19th | Acteurs de l'Ombre
🇨🇭 Beekeeper Melodic Black Metal w/ Witch Vox
Akolyth - A Black Torch
Ecstatic Kingdom | Amor Fati
❓ Thrashing Black Metal
Wode - Under Lanternlight
Uncrossing the Keys | October 3rd | 20 Buck Spin
🇬🇧 Heavy Black Metal
Plague Curse - Umbrage Earned
Verminous Contempt | October 10th | Adirondack Black Mass
🇺🇸 / 🇨🇦 / 🇦🇺 Blackened Death Metal
Protocol F40.1 - Fatalritual
Fatalritual | October 10th | Warhorn
🇱🇹 Blackened Death Metal
Thaumaturgy - Plague Ritual
Pestilential Hymns | October 20th | Memento Mori
🇺🇸 Black / Death / Doom Metal
Funeral Vomit - Upheaval of Necromancy
Upheaval of Necromancy | December 19th | Xtreem
🇨🇴 OSDM
Occulsed - Haze Of Morbid Slicing
Antegnosis | September 26th | Everlasting Spew
🇺🇸 OSDM
Acid Death - The Gateway to Knowledge
Evolution | November 21st | 7hard
🇬🇷 Death Metal
Depravity - Rot in the Pit
Bestial Possession | 2025 | Transcending Obscurity
🇦🇺 Death Metal
Heads for the Dead - In Disgust We Trust
Never Ending Night of Terror | October 10th | Pulverised
🇸🇪 / 🇩🇪 / 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 Death Metal
Insidius - Destroy the Priests
Vulgus illustrata | November 7th | Black Lion
🇵🇱 Death Metal
Vulnificus - Insurmountable Insurrection
Inclination | October 10th | Comatose
🇺🇸 Brutal Death Metal
Sadistic Butchering - Be Killed
Seed of Impurity | New Standard Elite
🇺🇸 Brutal Death Metal / Slam
Analepsy - Cryogenic Rebirth
Self-released
🇵🇹 Slam
Internal Bleeding - Settle All Scores
Settle All Scores | October 17th | Maggot Stomp
🇺🇸 Slam / Beatdown Hardcore
Abyssalis - Pandemonium
Adaptation | September 19th | Transcending Obscurity
🇺🇸 Technical Death Metal
Fit for an Autopsy - It Comes For You
Nuclear Blast / Human Warfare
🇺🇸 Deathcore / Groove Metal
Gawthrop - Jimmy
Kuboa | September 19th | Sentient Ruin Laboratories
🇰🇷 Deathened Sludge / Doom Metal
Speed - Peace
All My Angels | October 23rd | Last Ride / Flatspot
🇦🇺 Hardcore
Truth Grip - Your Selfmade Hell
Self-released
🇩🇪 Hardcore
Psychonaut - And You Came With Searing Light
World Maker | October 24th | Pelagic
🇧🇪 Post / Progressive Metal
Set your DeLoreans to 09/19/2025. Destination:
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Set your DeLoR Y A N S to 9/19/2025
Remakes of both Nasum's and Gridlink's classics this year!