Grotesque Digest - Week 44, 2025
Your weekly extreme metal release roundup
Welcome to the Reformation Day edition of our little series. The reason this week’s installment went up a little later than usual is twofold: first, the collab Select Frequency deserved its time in the spotlight; and second…
Seriously, who has the time to listen to all of that? Well, I tried my best to check as many releases as humanly possible and condensed what I consider recommendable below (there are actually two sub-3s in there for some seasonal flair).
The long-awaited but short-breathed Barren Path debut is finally out, and if you enjoy grindcore even a teeny bit, you’d be doing yourself a disservice not to check it out asap. And as if the list of releases wasn’t hectoring enough already, Yellow Eyes casually dropped a new full-length this morning — fans of disso-fied atmo-black, rejoice! If something more uplifting from the blackened realm sounds more up your alley, Miasmata’s new heavy-black LP awaits. Lugubrious Garment, Funeral Harvest, Sallow Moth, Primitive Man — there are so many great records this week that everyone could stop releasing new music today and you’d still have enough to chew on for the rest of the year. Naturally, we’re far from done yet, as the November snapshot in the banner above proves.
Metal Inc. treateth, and Metal Inc. tricketh away. For all the dissolute abundance, the singles tap has been dripping very slowly these past days. We’ll survive.
Now, grab a seat, turn off your doorbell — cut the cable if you must — and click some play buttons.
Araphel - The Endchanter
🇮🇹 Melodic Black Metal
Bianca - Bianca
🇮🇹 Black / Doom Metal
Embraced by Darkness - Ex Inferis
🇳🇱 Black Metal
Fír - Het sinistere oog [EP]
🇳🇱 Black Metal
Flesia - Achterbahnekstase
🇩🇪 Black Metal
Heraldic Blaze - Monument of Will
🇺🇸 / 🇳🇴 Folksy Black Metal
Malakhim - And in Our Hearts the Devil Sings
🇸🇪 Black Metal
Miasmata - Subterrania
🇳🇿 Speedy Heavy-coded Melodic Black Metal
Misanthropic Might - Qualzucht
🇦🇹 Black Metal w/ some DM nods
Nightveil / Ukhu Pacha - Nightveil / Ukhu Pacha [Split]
🇺🇸 / 🇺🇸 Black Metal | Melodic Black Metal
Nyrak - Phoenix Mortis
🇧🇪 Melodic / Symphonic Black Metal
Ondrædan - La nueva edad
🇨🇱 Black Metal
One of Nine - Dawn of the Iron Shadow
🇺🇸 Slightly Dungeon-y Melodic Black Metal
Orm - Guld
🇩🇰 Melodic / Atmospheric Black Metal
Outlaw - Opus mortis
🇩🇪 (🇧🇷) Melodic Black Metal
Rietas - Torne Valley Black Metal
🇫🇮 Black Metal
Sad - Fullmoon’s Bestial Awakening
🇬🇷 Slightly Melodic Black Metal
Thanargonauts - Awakening the Egregore
🇧🇪 Black Metal
Thron - Vurias
🇩🇪 Melodic Black Metal
Ulvehyrde - Dødsdømt
🇳🇴 Black Metal
Yellow Eyes - Confusion Gate
🇺🇸 Slightly Dissonant Atmospheric Black Metal
Abominator - The Fire Brethren
🇦🇺 War Metal / Death Metal
Bestial Amputator - War Charge of the Infernal Cabal [Demo]
🇬🇧 War Metal
Chaos Perversion - The Judgment of Malkuth [EP]
🇨🇱 Blackened OSDM
Funeral Harvest - Malum in se [Mini-album]
🇳🇴 Deathened Black Metal
Hexalter - Coronation in Chaos
🇺🇸 Deathened Black Metal
Lugubrious Garment - Demo MMXXV [Demo]
🇮🇹 Slightly Grind-y Black / Death Metal
Abysmal Descent - Dismal Thoughts
🇧🇪 OSDM / Death Doom Metal
Binah - Ónkos
🇬🇧 Death Metal w/ Doom, Tech & Prog elements
Cadavered - Demo 2025 [Demo]
🇺🇸 Death Metal
Engraved - Embodied in Flesh [EP]
🇺🇸 HC-/Beatdown-infused Death Metal
Gutsaw - Fuck Me I’m Undead
🇺🇸 Deathgrind / Technical Death Metal w/ Deathcore moments
Infrahumano - Depths of Suffering
🇪🇸 OSDM
Internal Decay - Reanimated Putrescence [EP]
🇺🇸 OSDM
Iron Fortress - Tortuous Horrors Await Volume 3
🇺🇳 Death Metal
Prater - March Through the Gates of Endless Nightmares
🇭🇷 OSDM
Sallow Moth - Arcane Benthic Umbilicus [Demo]
🇺🇸 Technical / Progressive Death Metal
Sligm - Untethered Dimensions [EP]
🇺🇸 Death Metal
Skumhammer - Promo 2025 [Demo]
🇬🇧 OSDM
Wayd - Reinvent
🇸🇰 Blackened Jazzy Progressive Death Metal
Dwelling Below - Wearisome Guardians
🇺🇸 Contorted Death Doom Metal
Heteropsy - Pandemonium Alter
🇯🇵 Death Doom Metal
Pillory - Old Soul
🇨🇦 Thrashy Progressive OS Technical Death Metal
Barren Path - Grieving
🇺🇸 Technical Grindcore / Deathgrind
Bastard Cröss - Crossripper
🇺🇸 Blackened Thrash Metal
Demiurgus - Equilibrio
🇨🇱 Thrash / Death Metal
Demoniac - Nube negra en vivo [Live]
🇨🇱 Blackened Technical Thrash Metal
Believe in Nothing - Rot
🇬🇧 Blackened Sludge Metal
Primitive Man - Observance
🇺🇸 Sludge / (Death) Doom Metal
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The Stone - Besi
Kletva | November 28th | Immortal Frost
🇷🇸 (Melodic) Black Metal
Misotheist - Blinded and Revealed
De Pinte | Early 2026 | Terratur Possession
🇳🇴 (Dissonant) Black Metal
Strigiform - Hypnagogic Allure
Aconite | November 14th | I, Voidhanger
🇮🇹 Dissonant Black / Death Metal
Tzevaot - The Emerald Tablet of Thoth
The Hermetic Way | November 14th | I, Voidhanger
🇬🇧 Avant-garde Black Metal
Summoning Hellgates - Hostis Humani Generis - The Revenant
Spear of Conquest | November 28th | Osmose
🇪🇸 Death / Black Metal
Depravity - Awful Mangulation
Bestial Possession | November 21st | Transcending Obscurity
🇦🇺 Death Metal
Ferosity - Damyelination
De-Evolution | November 2025 | Selfmadegod
🇵🇱 Death Metal
Insidius - The Perfect Slave
Vulgus illustrata | November 7th | Black Lion
🇵🇱 Death Metal
Bloodtruth - Obsidian and Steel
Execration | November 2025 | Selfmadegod
🇮🇹 Technical / Brutal Death Metal
Dead and Dripping - Nefarious Scintillating Through Vacant Galactic Reservoirs
Nefarious Scintillations | November 28th | Transcending Obscurity
🇺🇸 Brutal / Technical Death Metal
Lust of Decay - Entombed in Sewage
Entombed in Sewage | December 12th | Comatose
🇺🇸 Brutal Death Metal
Obscured Existence - Disgorging the Disembodied
Cystic Incursion | New Standard Elite
🇺🇸 Brutal Death Metal
Puthroatfucktion - Spinal Monolith of Putridity
Brutal Mind
🇨🇱 Brutal Death Metal
Rotten Sound - Brave New World
Mass Extinction | December 12th | Season of Mist
🇫🇮 Grindcore
Struck a Nerve - Raining Death
Struck a Nerve | November 28th | Listenable
🇬🇧 Thrash Metal
Tempestuous Fall - Psyche - Temptation of the Divine
The Descent of Mortals Past | November 14th | I, Voidhanger
🇦🇺 Funeral Doom Metal
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