Weekly Release Roundup: Monday 3rd March 2025 – Friday 7th March 2025
From alternative and progressive metal, to post, deathcore, groove, and sludge, to hard rock, symphonic metal, and more, it’s a big week for releases and we’ve got a list for you to check out. All these releases are out this week!
Spiritbox – Tsunami Sea (Pale Chord / Rise Records)
The hype has been unreal, unfair to some degree, but it’s all deserved, this album is incredible and will take this band to even greater heights. The future is now, the future is Spiritbox.
Check out the full review here.
Vordermann – Feeding on Flowers (Self Released)
A true encapsulation of what it means to genre-bend, labelling Vordermann is a fool’s game, instead the best way to describe this release to the uninitiated is to explain the intrinsic cleverness of what they have shaped here.
Check out the full review here.
Dawn of Ouroboros – Bioluminescence (Prosthetic Records)
Special? You have no idea, and this ranks up there as one of the best albums of the year, regardless of genres.
Check out the full review here.
Whitechapel – Hymns in Dissonance (Metal Blade Records)
This is a throwback, a Whitechapel throwback, and it comes with unparalleled aggression and intensity. You can sink into the mire of the story, experience all its wretched horror to its fullest, but you can also let loose, and enjoy the blistering brutality of it all. It might not have the personal feel of the last couple of albums, but it certainly isn’t lacking in power or passion either.
Check out the full review here.
Hypermass – Apparition Day (Seek & Strike)
The hype is so freaking real, and rightfully, this new EP is hotly anticipated. So much so, that the electricity can be felt in the air throughout.
Check out the full review here.
Raging Speedhorn – Night Wolf (Spinefarm Records / UMG)
Their dirty amalgamation of sludge, groove, doom, hardcore, and hard rock has always delivered exciting results, but Night Wolf is another big step forward for the group.
Check out the full review here.
Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate – The Uncertainty Principle (Glass Castle Recordings)
Perhaps there can be no better summation of this new album than the one that insists you have patience and give it time to breathe. However, it also must be stated that this is an accessible album from the start. Experimental and progressive music might be intrinsic to the Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate sound, but they also know how to write rousing, temperamental, dramatic, vivid, and (occasionally) catchy tunes. It’s madness, but it’s controlled madness.
Check out the full review here.
Deathless Legacy – Damnatio Aeterna (Scarlet Records)
A grand concept needs a grand sound and Deathless Legacy are adept at creating such a thing. Especially as their approach comes with horror-laden theatrics, salacious atmosphere, and a mischievous metal soundscape.
Check out the full review here.
Crown Magnetar – Punishment (Unique Leader Records)
Crown Magnetar are crushing it here, delivering four absolute beasts that showcase the brilliance of this band’s ferocious ways. They’re sounding more vicious and chaotic than ever, and the fact that it’s only four tracks long means it flies by in a sickening blur of brutality.
Check out the full review here.
Necrambulant – Upheaval of Malignant Necrambulance (Gore House Productions)
It falls under the brutal blackened death metal genre, but it comes with a lavish helping of gore and blood, aided by the chainsaw sounds of grind. Across eleven tracks, an impossibly high level of carnage is dished out by Necrambulant.
Check out the full review here.
