Weekly Release Roundup: Monday 17th March 2025 – Friday 21st March 2025
From deathcore to black metal, to post-hardcore, avant-garde metal, stoner rock, and extreme, to progressive metal, AOR, and modernised nu-metal, it’s a big week for releases and we’ve got a list for you to check out. All these releases are out now!
Cabal – Everything Rots (Nuclear Blast Records)
Cabal have delivered one of the best albums you will hear in 2025. An album that is brutally heavy, full of fire, passion and intensity. It flows, it is exciting and makes good use of a lot of different talented guest artists to freshen up styles and songs as the album progresses. The way they have captured the emotional anguish and despair in their songs is admirable. You feel the air thicken as you listen, but you don’t feel sad. It is cathartic almost, like Cabal are helping you release your darkness with them. Weight releases itself from your shoulders and while you know around you, Everything Rots, you feel like maybe you can stand and face it.
Check out the full review here.
Cradle of Filth – The Screaming Of The Valkyries (Napalm Records)
Their icon status is assured, yet their creativity only seems to grow as they get more and more comfortable with embracing their past. Impressively combining a devolution and evolution of their sound. Cradle of Filth have found the perfect balance of old-school riff-driven blackened heaviness and lavish symphonic elements, and the proof is in this album.
Check out the full review here.
Halfway Home – Winter (Self Released)
A cathartic journey through the darkest corners of anxiety and depression, Winter is an emotional release. One that wears its heart on its sleeve and is all the better for it. Halfway Home’s willingness to be so authentically honest adds so much impact to the gloom that surrounds this EP, but it’s heartening to see it end up in a more uplifting place, showing that it is possible to come out the other side, battle-worn but unbroken.
Check out the full review here.
Imperial Triumphant – Goldstar (Century Media)
Goldstar is a continuation of their unique ways, yet it is different. All because they’ve taken a more concise approach to song structure and length. While I would certainly not call this album accessible in any way, it is fair to say that this is Imperial Triumphant at their most understandable.
Check out the full review here.
Euphrosyne – Morus (Black Lion Records)
Morus is a very strong album, and a really impressive debut. Clearly Euphrosyne have an abundance of talent and skill but it takes something even more special to lay your emotions out so openly for everyone else to see and hear. An album that delivers darkness and heaviness, clever ideas, exciting song structures and a superb vocal performance.
Check out the full review here.
Stormo – Tagli/Talee (Prosthetic Records)
Creating a captivating experience that has impressive genre-bending ways, being both accessible and challenging in equal measures. Stormo’s new record is boundary pushing, experimental in places, but can also be thoroughly enjoyed by those looking to let loose to some noisy post-hardcore punk too.
Check out the full review here.
Caboose – Left for Dust (Majestic Mountain Records)
Worship the riff, sink into the fuzz, and get ready to groove to the sound of high energy stoner rock. It’s Caboose, and they have something very noisy to share with you.
Check out the full review here.
Pop Evil – What Remains (MNRK Heavy)
On the one hand, What Remains will be very familiar to long-term Pop Evil listeners, in that it’s the sum of all the alternative rock band’s parts enhanced by their inherently anthemic ways. On the other hand, what we have here is a heavier and more intense Pop Evil that uses its experimental ways in a sharper and more vibrant way.
Check out the full review here.
Gates to Hell – Death Comes to All (Nuclear Blast)
Back to wreck some necks, Gates to Hell return with an album that will put the silliest of smiles on the faces of those who love a bit of extreme, especially when it’s delivered in such forceful fashion as it is here. Death Comes to All is a ten-track album, but it’s over in around twenty minutes.
Check out the full review here.
Lordi – Limited Deadition (RPM)
Limited Deadition is Lordi through and through, but that doesn’t mean the spooky rascals don’t have a trick or two up their sleeves. It’s Limited Deadition and it’s one you’ll want to take out of the box and play with time and time again.
Check out the full review here.
Calyces – Fleshy Waves of Probability (Self Released)
Calyces have done it again. Fleshy Waves of Probability is special, but importantly, it feels like an important step-forward for the band too. They’re still focused on being a progressive experience, but it’s one that has more accessibility than ever.
Check out the full review here.
Iron Form – Cut from Cold Blood (Church Road Records)
Featuring an explosive metal approach with emphatic infusions of modern post-hardcore intensity, melody and a bulbous vein of rawness running through it, Iron Form’s debut EP is one to bang your head to. Yet, impressively, it has so much more to say and show, which is where the true longevity of this release (and the band) comes in.
Check out the full review here.
Bloodywood – Nu Delhi (Fearless Records)
Refined to a sharp point, Bloodywood have gone the ‘all killer, no filler’ route with this new record, and deliver a thrilling eight-track listen. One that builds on what they were doing with ‘Rakshak’ but does so in a more nuanced and clever way. It’s a roaring metal album, embracing ‘nu’ aspects, but is also infused with experimental effects, anthemic melodies, and layered with Indian folk elements. It’s Bloodywood, and this is a damn good new album.
Check out the full review here.
