Grotesque Digest - Week 46, 2025
Your final extreme metal release roundup
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Änterbila - Avart
🇸🇪 Folksy Black Metal
Deogen - The Graves and Ghosts of Yore
🇺🇸 Dungeon-y Black Metal
Lamp of Murmuur - The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy
🇺🇸 Black Metal
Tzevaot - The Hermetic Way
🇬🇧 Lo-fi Avant-garde Black Metal
Ch’ahom - Covered in the Priests Black Shit
🇩🇪 War / Death Metal
Strigiform - Aconite
🇮🇹 Dissonant Black / Death Metal
Veilburner - Longing for Triumph, Reeking of Tragedy
🇺🇸 Avant-garde / Dissonant Black / Death Metal
Degraved - Spectral Realm of Ruin
🇺🇸 OSDM
Imputridity - Mandatorial Embodiment of Atrocious Flesh [Demo]
🇫🇮 OSDM
Moral Implant - Delusion [EP]
🇵🇱 OSDM
Mortification Ritual - Mortification Ritual [EP]
🇺🇸 OSDM
Primal Scourge - End of Eden
🇺🇸 Death Doom / Hardcore-infused OSDM
Primordial Rites - Contemplation Scriptures & the Swallowing Void [EP]
🇲🇽 OSDM
Unchurch - Unchurch
🇨🇱 OSDM
Warp Chamber / Benothing - Warp Chamber / Benothing [Split]
🇺🇸 / 🇫🇮 OSDM | OSDM
Demon King - Death Knell
🇺🇸 Blackened Technical Death Metal
Thalidomide - Le retour à la barbarie
🇫🇷 OS Technical / Progressive Death / Thrash Metal
VoidCeremony - Abditum
🇺🇸 Technical / Progressive Death Metal
Cadaveric Incubator / Depression - Blood Fire Deathgrind [Split]
🇫🇮 / 🇩🇪 Deathgrind | Gore-y Deathgrind
Tempestuous Fall - The Descent of Mortals Past
🇦🇺 Gothic-y Doom / Funeral Doom Metal
Auditory Anguish - AFA [EP]
🇺🇸 Deathcore / Death Metal
Executioner’s Blade - First Execution [Demo]
🇫🇮 Blackened Speed / Thrash Metal
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Enthroned - Ashen Advocacy
Ashspawn | December 5th | Season of Mist
🇧🇪 Black Metal
The Stone - Trag u večnosti
Kletva | November 28th | Immortal Frost
🇷🇸 (Melodic) Black Metal
Unfyros - Black Magnetism
Star Blood | December 12th | Avantgarde
🇫🇮 Doom / Black Metal
Windswept - The Potion
The Devil’s Vertep | December 12th | Season of Mist
🇺🇦 Atmospheric Black Metal
Ectovoid - Collapsing Spiritual Nebula
In Unreality’s Coffin | January 9th | Everlasting Spew
🇺🇸 Death Metal
Funeral Vomit - Cryptic Miasma Stench
Upheaval of Necromancy | December 19th | Xtreem
🇨🇴 OSDM
Malignant Aura - The Pathetic Festival
Where All of Worth Comes to Wither | January 26th | Memento Mori
🇦🇹 Death / Death Doom Metal
Mors Verum - Bloodied Teeth
Canvas | Transcending Obscurity
🇨🇦 (Dissonant) Death Metal
Putridarium - Schmerzfresser
Natvm ad mortem | January 16th | Night Terror
🇩🇪 OSDM
Terror Corpse - Pyre of Ash and Bone
Ash Eclipses Flesh | November 21st | Dark Descent
🇺🇸 OSDM
Burning Death - Death Is Salvation
Burning Death | December 5th | Caligari
🇺🇸 OS Thrash Metal
Heriot - Commander of Pain
Century Media
🇬🇧 Metalcore / Sludge Metal
Bye now!
Epilogue
Oh, you’re still here…
Congratulations on making it all the way to the twentieth edition, which, as the subtitle suggests, will also be the last post of this kind you’ll see from me. We’ve pried the gates wide open for you, featuring roughly 500 releases between the end of June and today, all the while making sure the Rühlesque walking wardrobes we stationed at the exit points kept the unwashed specimens out of your first three proxemic distance zones. And what a high note we get to end on!
Alongside the fantastic new VoidCeremony album and the expectedly weird and fun Veilburner LP, there’s a flurry of intriguing death metal releases this week: from Primal Scourge’s brodoom to Strigiform’s eccentric discord to Ch’ahom’s ch’aotic blasts of warfare, there’s no shortage of enjoyable string abuse. Fans of all subgenres are eating good today (or last Sunday, as it were).
Thanks again to Ryan, who made wading through the tar more manageable for a minute, and thanks to you, our readers, for, uh, reading?
No, you hang up first!
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Fret not, for the metal of death shall continue to be covered here on…
