Grotesque Digest - Week 38, 2025
Your weekly extreme metal release roundup
Hi there!
Now that you’ve hopefully recovered from the sucker punch of Volahn’s surprise drop, it’s time to dive into the other releases from this week. If you’re craving something on the more unhinged side, Kamra, Codex Nero, and the Amor Fati black-death double strike of Antiversum and Hadopelagyal have you covered.
Feeling inspired by the banner above and longing for some fierce thrash? Check out Sadistic Goatmessiah, Ravager, Evilcult, and Species. But wait, there’s still more: Vromostomoi and Tithe bring the deathgrind goods, while Aleister Cowboy and Dying Remains are worth a peek if you’re after some less prefix-y death metal. Oh, and there’s really no excuse for not listening to Ad Nauseam’s live album.
I’d love to talk about this week’s other singles at length, but between today’s new Suffering Hour track and Barren Path’s Horizonless on repeat, those two are all that’s on my mind.
Volahn - Popol Vuh
🇺🇸 Mesoamerican-Folk-Coded War-y Black Metal
Approaching Prophecy - Demo [Demo]
❓ Black Metal
Jordsjuk - Naglet til livet
🇳🇴 Black Metal
Kaeck - Gruwelijk onthaal
🇳🇱 Black Metal
Vígljós - Tome II: Ignis sacer
🇨🇭 Beekeeper Black Metal
Henere - The Chosen Path
🇺🇸 Melodic Black Metal
Codex Nero - Ordo Acherontis
🇵🇱 Esoteric Dissoblack
Kamra - Unending Confluence
🇸🇮 Slightly Atmo / Slightly Avant Black Metal
Sadistic Goatmessiah - Violence
🇩🇪 Blackthrash / Speed Metal
Lijkschouwer - All What Did the Blade Reveal
🇳🇱 Black Metal w/ Atmo and Death Metal Bits
Antiversum - De nemesis omnes et omnia
🇨🇭 Doomy-Dissonant Black / Death Metal
Hadopelagyal - Haematophoryktos
🇩🇪 Abyssal Black / Death Metal
Nexion - Sundrung
🇮🇸 Black / Death Metal
Opositor / Warslaughter - Putrefactio et apotheosis [Split]
🇪🇸 / 🇪🇸 Black / Death Metal | War / Death Metal
Ancient Thrones - Melancholia
🇨🇦 Blackened Death Metal
Aleister Cowboy - Neolithic Blood Rites [EP]
🇺🇸 Death Metal
Dying Remains - Merciless Suffering
🇨🇦 HC-/BDM-adjacent Death Metal
Undead - This Side of the Grave [EP]
🇪🇸 Death Metal
Vitrectomy - Valediction Universe
🇮🇩 Slamming Brutal Death Metal
Abyssalis - Adaptation
🇺🇸 Slightly DxC-y Technical Death Metal
Ad Nauseam - Live at Roadburn [Live Album]
🇮🇹 Avant-Garde / Dissonant / Technical Death Metal
Isomorphist - Iridiscence [EP]
🇺🇸 Technical / Progressive Death Metal
Werewolves - The Ugliest of All
🇦🇺 (Technical) Death / Black Metal
Gawthrop - Kuboa
🇰🇷 Deathened Sludge / Doom Metal
Ashbreather - La Grande Bouffe
🇨🇦 Avant-Garde Sludge / Post-Metal
Μορμώ - Δυστοπία
🇬🇷 Ponderous Crust / Doom
Tithe - Communion in Anguish
🇺🇸 Blackened Sludgy / Doomy Deathgrind
Βρωμόστομοι - Αρρωστημένες Εμμονές
🇬🇷 Grindcore / Blackened Deathgrind
Cult Member - GORE
🇳🇴 Crossover Splatterthrash
Evilcult - Triumph of Evil
🇧🇷 Blackened Thrash / Speed Metal
Ravager - From Us With Hate
🇩🇪 OS Thrash Metal
Species - Changelings
🇵🇱 Progressive Technical Thrash Metal
Duck Duck Goose - Love Will Set You Free
🇺🇸 Mathcore / Sass
Heretoir - Solastalgia
🇩🇪 Post Metal / Blackgaze
Castle Rat - The Bestiary
🇺🇸 Epic Medieval Heavy Metal / Doom
Hot Singles in Your Area
Dark Divination - Liitto hengen ja veren
Autumn 2025 | Signal Rex
🇫🇮 Black Metal
Lamp of Murmuur - Forest of Hallucinations
The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy | November 14th | Wolves of Hades
🇺🇸 Black Metal
Heraldic Blaze - Harken the Peals of May
Monument of Will | October 31st | Purity Through Fire
🇺🇸 / 🇳🇴 Rolling Folksy Black Metal
Gorycz - Wybacza
Zasypia | October 3rd | Piranha Music
🇵🇱 Post Black Metal
Outlaw - Those Who Breathe Fire
Opus mortis | October 31st | AOP
🇧🇷 Melodic Black Metal
Redwood Hill - Ammonia
Self-released
🇩🇰 Atmospheric Sludge / Black Metal / Post-Metal
Waldgeflüster - Crusade in the Dark
Knochengesänge II | November 7th | AOP
🇩🇪 Atmospheric Black Metal / Dark Folk
Owls Woods Graves - The Flag Is Raised
Strix | October 15th | Malignant Voices
🇵🇱 Black Metal / Hardcore
Suffering Hour - Revelation of Mortality
Impelling Rebirth | October 3rd | Profound Lore
🇺🇸 Dissonant Death / Black Metal
Miasmic Serum - Witches (A Tribute to Dario Argento's Suspiria)
Iron Fortress
🇮🇹 Death Metal
Scorching Tomb - Diminished to Ashes
Ossuary | October 24th | Time to Kill
🇨🇦 Death Metal
Devastrosity - Hellish Consumption
Eviscerating Desolation | October 24th | Comatose
🇮🇩 Brutal Death Metal
Dying Fetus - Into the Cesspool
Relapse
🇺🇸 Somewhat Technical, Somewhat Brutal Death Metal
Evoken - None
Mendacium | October 17th | Profound Lore
🇺🇸 Death / Funeral Doom Metal
Perishing - Las ruinas del palacio
Malicious Acropolis Unveiled | October 17th | Transcending Obscurity
🇨🇷 Death / Doom
Sun of the Dying - Black Birds Beneath Your Sky
A Throne of Ashes | November 21st | AOP
🇪🇸 Death Doom Metal
Veilburner - That Which Crypts Howls Grandeur
Longing for Triumph, Reeking of Tragedy | November 14th | Transcending Obscurity
🇺🇸 Avant-Garde / Dissonant Death / Black Metal
Barren Path - Horizonless
Grieving | October 31st | Willowtip
🇺🇸 Technical Grindcore / Deathgrind
Coroner - Symmetry
Dissonance Theory | October 17th | Century Media
🇨🇭 Ex-Technical Thrash Metal
Mezzrow - Symphony of Twisted Souls
Embrace the Awakening | November 14th | Reigning Phoenix / Rock of Angels
🇸🇪 Thrash Metal
Struck a Nerve - Struck a Nerve
Struck a Nerve | November 28th | Listenable
🇬🇧 Thrash Metal
Dead Heat - By My Will
Process of Elimination | October 10th | Metal Blade
🇺🇸 Crossover Thrash
Cognitive - People = Shit
Metal Blade
🇺🇸 Nu Metal / Deathcore
Shrine of Malice - Angel of Hatred
Self-released
🇺🇸 Blackened Deathcore
Wolvennest - Décharné
Procession | October 17th | Consouling Sounds
🇧🇪 Posty Psychedelic Doom Metal
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Excellent picks!