Music Tracking 2025

These are 2025 releases that I've taken note of, listed alphabetically by artist, with VA comps at the bottom. My grades, where available, are in brackets at the end of the line (stars in B+ range). Lines in blue indicate that I have a physical copy (albeit sometimes just a promo CDR); in green are records that I graded based on a Rhapsody stream or other such source. Most records have release dates and a brief generic note.

Unheard records are prioritized 0-3 (graded records are 4-5). The priotization is based subjectively on personal interests, reviews I've noticed, reviewers I particularly respect, what I know about the artists, etc. Roughly speaking: 0 is something I have no reason to consider (default page omits 0); 1 has been noted as having some cred somewhere; 2 is something I have some specific reason to search out; 3 is something I'll listen to ASAP.

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  • 16: Guides for the Misguided () [02-07] - sludge metal
  • Abduction: Existentialismus (Spinefarm) [02-21] - metal
  • Abhorrent Expanse: Enter the Misanthropocene (Amalgam Music) [08-15] - avant-metal
  • The Acacia Strain: You Are Safe From God Here (Rise) [10-24] - deathcore
  • Acid Magus: Scatterling Empire () [02-21] - metal
  • Aephanemer: Utopie (Napalm) [10-31] - metal
  • Agriculture: The Spiritual Sound (The Flenser) [10-03] - blackgaze
  • Alien Weaponry: Te Rā (Napalm) [03-28] - metal
  • Allegaeon: The Ossuary Lens (Metal Blade) [04-04] - metal
  • Amorphis: Borderland (Reigning Phoenix) [09-26] - prog metal
  • Ancient Death: Ego Dissolution (Profound Lore) [04-18] - metal
  • . . . And Oceans: The Regeneration Itinerary (Season of Mist) [05-23] - metal
  • Apocalypse Orchestra: A Plague Upon Thee () [02-14] - metal
  • Aran Angmar: ORdo Diabolilcum () [03-21] - metal
  • Arch Enemy: Blood Dynasty (Century Media) [03-28] - metal
  • Architects: The Sky, the Earth & All Between (Epipath) [02-28] - alt-metal
  • ERR: stream no grade: Ashé Mystics: Fizzy Bubble Hummm
  • Avantasia: Here Be Dragons (Napalm) [02-28] - metal
  • Avatarium: Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead (AFM/Napalm) [01-24] - heavy psych
  • Babymetal: Metal Forth (Capitol) [08-08] - alt-metal
  • Balefire: Balefire (Iron Bonehead -EP) [01-31] - metal
  • Barrens: Corpse Lights (Pelagic) [09-12] - post-metal
  • Behemoth: The Shit ov God (Nuclear Blast) [05-09] - metal
  • Benediction: Ravage of Empires (Nuclear Blast) [04-04] - metal
  • Bergthron: Neu Asen Land () [01-06] - metal
  • Between the Buried and Me: The Blue Nowhere (Sumerian/InsideOut) [09-12] - prog metal
  • Beyond Extinction: Where They Gather () [09-26] - deathcore
  • Biohazard: Divided We Fall (BLKIIBLK) [10-17] - metal
  • Black Spiders: Cvrses () [03-14] - hard rock
  • Blackbraid: Blackbraid III (self-released) [08-07] - metal
  • Blackbriar: A Thousand Little Deaths (Nuclear Blast) [08-22] - symphonic metal
  • Blacktoothed: Headway (Arising Empire) [01-24] - alt-metal
  • Bleed From Within: Zenith (Nuclear Blast) [04-04] - metalcore
  • Bleeding Through: Nine (SharpTone) [02-14] - metal
  • Blessthefall: Gallows (Rise) [09-05] - metalcore
  • Bloodywood: Nu Delhi (Fearless) [03-21] - metal
  • Blut Aus Nord: Ethereal Horizons (Debemur Morti) [11-28] - metal
  • Bong-Ra: Black Noise (Debemur Morti) [02-21] - metal
  • Bonnie Trash: Mourning You (Hand Drawn Dracula) [02-28] - metal
  • Born of Osiris: Through Shadows (Sumerian) [07-11] - metalcore
  • Buried Realm: The Dormant Darkness () [04-04] - metal
  • Burning Witches: Inquisition (Napalm) [08-22] - metal
  • Bury Tomorrow: Will You Haunt Me, With That Same Patience (Music for Nations) [05-16] - alt-metal
  • The Callous Daoboys: I Don't Want to See You in Heaven (MNRK) [05-16] - mathcore
  • Calyces: Fleshy Waves of Probability (Dry Clean) [03-21] - metal
  • Caskets: The Only Heaven You'll Know (SharpTone) [11-07] - alt metal
  • Castle Rat: The Bestiary (King Volume) [09-19] - doom metal
  • The Caution Children: Appropriate Music () [08-20] - screamo
  • Caustic Wound: Grinding Mechanism of Torment (Profound Lore) - metal
  • Cave Sermon: Fragile Wings (self-released) [04-16] - metal
  • Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo: In the Earth Again (Computer Students) [10-31] - metal
  • Chepang: Jhyappa (Relapse) [05-23] - metal
  • Christian Mistress: Children of the Earth (Cruz Del Sur Music) [02-26] - metal
  • Combust: Belly of the Beast (Triple-B) [03-07] - hardcore punk
  • Conjurer: Unself (Nuclear Blast) [10-24] - metal
  • Alice Cooper: The Revenge of Alice Cooper (EarMusic) [07-25] - hard rock
  • Coroner: Dissonance Theory (Century Media) [10-17] - metal
  • Cradle of Filth: The Screaming of the Valkyries (Napalm) [03-21] - metal
  • Creeper: Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death (Spinefarm) [10-31] - glam metal
  • Cruce Signatus: II () [04-04] - metal
  • Cryptopsy: An Insatiable Violence (Season of Mist) [06-20] - metal
  • Cryptosis: Celestial Death (Century Media) [03-07] - metal
  • Cytotoxin: Biographyte (Blood Blast) [04-11] - metal
  • Dark Watcher: The Law of Bone and Sinew (self-released) [09-12] - black metal
  • Dawn of Ouroboros: Bioluminescence (Prosthetic) [03-07] - metal
  • Dayseeker: Creature in the Black Night (Spinefarm) [10-24] - alt-metal
  • Dead Heat: Process of Elimination (Metal Blade) [10-10] - metal
  • Deadguy: Near-Death Travel Services (Relapse) [06-27] - metalcore
  • Deafheaven: Lonely People With Power (Roadrunner) [03-28] - metal [*]
  • Death Goals: Survival Is an Act of Defiance (-EP) [08-29] - mathcore
  • Deathless Legacy: Damnatio Aeterna (Scarlet) [03-07] - metal
  • Decrepisy: Deific Mourning (Carbonized) [03-28] - metal
  • Deftones: Private Music (Reprise) [08-22] - alt-metal [B-]
  • Der Weg Einer Freiheit: Innern (Season of Mist) [09-12] - metal
  • Destruction: Birth of Malice (Napalm) [03-07] - metal
  • Diabolizer: Murderous Revelations (Dark Crescent/Me Saco Un Ojo) [04-11] - metal
  • Die Spitz: Something to Consume (Third Man) [09-12] - alt-metal
  • Disrupted: Stinking Death () [01-24] - metal
  • Divide and Dissolve: Insatiable (Bella Union) [04-18] - drone metal
  • Domain: Philosophy of the Blade (Daze -EP) [02-17] - metal
  • Dormant Ordeal: Tooth and Nail (Willowtip) [04-18] - death metal
  • Dorothy: The Way (Roc Nation) [03-14] - hard rock
  • Dream Theater: Parasomnia (InsideOut/Ytse Jams) [02-07] - metal
  • Drudkh: Shadow Play (Season of Mist) [03-21] - metal
  • Dunes: Land of the Blind () [01-17] - stoner rock
  • Dying Wish: Flesh Stays Together (SharpTone) [09-26] - metalcore
  • Dynazty: Game of Faces (Nuclear Blast) [02-14] - metal
  • Employed to Serve: Fallen Star (Spinefarm) [04-25] - metalcore
  • Epica: Aspiral (Nuclear Blast) [04-11] - metal
  • Eternal Darkness: Eternal Darkness () [07-18] - metal
  • Evoken: Mendacium (Profound Lore) [10-17] - metal
  • Faithxtractor: Loathing & the Noose (Reaper Metal Productions) [01-10] - metal
  • Falling Leaves: The Silence That Binds Us (Meuse Music) [09-05] - doom metal
  • Fallujah: Xenotaph (Nuclear Blast) [06-13] - prog metal
  • False Reality: Faded Intentions (Hassle) [11-14] - metalcore
  • Flummox: Southern Progress (Needlejuice) [04-11] - metal
  • Forlorn: Aether (Church Road) [03-28] - metalcore
  • Frayle: Heretics & Lullabies (Napalm) [10-10] - metal
  • Friendship Commanders: Bear (Magnetic Eye) [10-10] - metal
  • Ghost: Skeletá (Loma Vista) [04-25] - metal
  • Ghost Bath: Rose Thorn Necklace (Nuclear Blast) [05-09] - metal
  • Glixen: Quiet Pleasures () [02-21] - alt-metal
  • God Alone: The Beep Test (Prosthetic) [10-10] - math rock
  • God Complex: He Watches in Silence (SharpTone -EP) [02-21] - metalcore
  • Gràb: Kremess (Prophecy Productions) [02-21] - metal
  • Grave Digger: Bone Collector () [01-17] - metal
  • Great American Ghost: Tragedy of the Commons (SharpTone) [01-31] - metalcore
  • The Great Old Ones: Kadath (Season of Mist) [01-24] - metal
  • Green Carnation: A Dark Poem, Pt. I: The Shores of Melancholia (Season of Mist) [09-05] - prog metal
  • Grief Ritual: Collapse (Church Road) [01-31] - metalcore
  • Grima: Nightside (Napalm) [02-28] - metal
  • Guiltless: Teeth to Sky ( Neurot) [03-07] - metal
  • Haggus: Destination Extinction (Tankcrimes) [06-20] - mincecore
  • Hail the Sun: Cut. Turn. Fade. Back. (Rude) [10-24] - post-hardcore
  • Halestorm: Everest (Atlantic) [08-08] - alt metal
  • The Halo Effect: March of the Unheard (Nuclear Blast) [01-10] - metal
  • Hands Like Houses: Atmospherics (Civilians) [02-14] - post-hardcore
  • Hangman's Choir: Saddiction (Nuclear Blast) [02-14] - metal
  • Harakiri for the Sky: Scorched Earth (AOP) [01-24] - metal
  • Havukruunu: Tavastland (Svart) [02-28] - metal
  • Häxkapell: Om Jordens Blod Och Urgravens Grepp () [01-17] - metal
  • Hedonist: Scapulimancy () [08-01] - death metal
  • Hellacopters: Overdriver (Nuclear Blast) [01-31] - hard rock
  • Helloween: Giants & Monsters (Reigning Phoenix) [08-29] - metal
  • Heretoir: Solastalgia (ADP) [09-19] - post-metal
  • Hexrot: Formless Ruin of Oblivion (Transcending Obscurity) [08-29] - metal
  • Hierarchies: Hierarchies (Transcending Obscurity) [01-17] - metal
  • Marko Hietala: Roses From the Deep (Nuclear Blast) [02-07] - metal
  • Hirax: Faster Than Death (Armageddon) [02-28] - metal
  • Hooded Menace: Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration (Season of Mist) [10-03] - metal
  • Hot Milk: Corporation P.O.P. (Music for Nations) [06-27] - alt-metal
  • Jonathan Hultén: Eyes of the Living Night (Kscope) [01-31] - dark folk
  • Hypermass: Apparition Day (Seek & Strike -EP) [03-07] - metal
  • I Prevail: Violent Nature (Fearless) [09-19] - alt metal
  • I See Stars: The Wheel (Sumerian) [09-12] - alt-metal
  • Idle Heirs: Life Is Violence (Relapse) [04-11] - metal
  • Igorrr: Amen (Metal Blade) [09-19] - avant-garde metal
  • Ihlo: Legacy (Kscope) [08-29] - prog metal
  • Imperial Triumphant: Goldstar (Century Media) [03-21] - metal
  • In Mourning: The Immortal (Supreme Chaos) [08-29] - metal
  • In the Woods: Otra (Prophecy) [04-11] - metal
  • Industrial Puke: Alive to No Avail (Suicide) [03-28] - metal
  • Ingrown: Idaho () [03-07] - metalcore
  • Jaye Jayle: After Alter (Pelagic) [01-31] - gothic country
  • Jinjer: Duél (Napalm) [02-07] - djent
  • Jivebomb: Ethereal (Flatspot) [03-28] - metalcore
  • Killswitch Engage: This Consequence (Metal Blade) [02-21] - metal
  • Knives: Glitter (Marshall Amplification) [05-02] - nu metal
  • ERR: grade bad priority: Knucks: A Fine African Man
  • La Dispute: No One Was Driving the Car (Epitaph) [09-05] - post-hardcore
  • La Torture Des Ténèbres: Episode VII - Revenge of Unfailing Valor (self-released) [03-06] - black noise
  • Lacuna Coil: Sleepless Empire (Century Media) [02-14] - metal
  • Lamp of Murmuur: The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy (Wolves of Hades) [11-14] - metal
  • Landmvrks: The Darkest Place I've Ever Been (Arising Empire) [04-25] - metalcore
  • Larcenia Roe: Extraction (Unique Leader) [05-16] - deathcore
  • Lastelle: Exist Vol. 2 (-EP) [09-12] - post-hardcore
  • Lik: Necro () [04-18] - death metal
  • Love Is Noise: To Live in a Different Way (Century Media) [02-14] - alt-metal
  • Machine Girl: PsychoWarrior: MG Ultra X (Future Classic) [10-24] - metal
  • Magnolia Park: Vamp (Epitaph) [04-11] - alt metal
  • Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway: Addicted to the Violence (Scarred for Life) [07-18] - alt metal
  • Malevolence: Where Only the Truth Is Spoken (Nuclear Blast) [06-20] - Metalcore
  • Mammoth: The End (BMG) [10-24] - hard rock
  • Månegarm: Edsvuren (Napalm) [08-29] - metal
  • Mantar: Post Apocalyptic Depression (Metal Blade) [02-14] - sludge metal
  • Massa Nera: The Emptiness of All Things () [10-31] - screamo
  • Maud the Moth: The Distaff (The Lavarium) [02-21] - metal
  • Mean Mistreater: Do or Die (Dying Victims Productions) [02-21] - metal [*]
  • Mechina: Bellum Interruptum (self-released) [03-23] - metal
  • Melvins 1983: Thunderball (Ipecac) [04-18] - sludge metal
  • Memphis May Fire: Shapeshifter (Rise) [03-28] - metal
  • Menace Ruine: The Color of the Grace Is Green (Union Finale) [10-09] - drone metal
  • Messa: The Spin (Metal Blade) [04-11] - doom metal
  • Midnight: Steel, Rust and Disgust (Metal Blade) [05-23] - metal
  • Militarie Gun: God Save the Gun (Loma Vista) [10-17] - post-hardcore
  • Mizmor & Hell: Alluvion (Gilead Media) [04-04] - metal
  • Morbikon: Lost Within the Astral Crypts (Tankcrimes) [11-21] - metal
  • Mors Principium Est: Darkness Invisible (Reigning Phoenix) [09-26] - metal
  • Motherless: Do You Feel Safe? (Prosthetic) [09-12] - metal
  • Museum of Light: Diviner (Spartan) [03-14] - stoner metal
  • Mutagenic Host: The Diseased Machine (Dry Cough/Gurgling Gore) [01-03] - groove metal
  • Necrotic Gore Beast: Brute (Comatose -EP) [09-12] - metal
  • Neptunian Maximalism: Le Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu (LSDSI) (I, Voidhanger) [04-11] - metal
  • Nevertel: Start Again (Epitaph) [09-12] - alt-metal
  • Nexion: Sundrung (Avantgarde Music) [09-19] - metal
  • The Night Flight Orchestra: Give Us the Moon (Napalm) [01-31] - hard rock
  • Ninkharsag: The Black Swords of Winter (Vendetta -EP) [03-07] - metal
  • Nite: Cult of the Serpent Sun (Season of Mist) [03-14] - metal
  • Not Enough Space: Weaponize Your Rage (Thriller) [09-12] - metalcore
  • Novarupta: Astral Sands () [02-14] - metal
  • Novembers Doom: Major Arcana (Prophecy Productions) [09-19] - metal
  • Nuclear Dudes: Truth Paste (self-released) [09-05] - grindcore
  • NyreDolk: Barndommens Hjem () [02-07] - metal
  • Obscura: A Sonication (Nuclear Blast) [02-07] - metal
  • Obscure Sphinx: Emovere (self-released -EP) [01-06] - metal
  • One of Nine: Dawn of the Iron Shadow (Profound Lore) [10-31] - metal
  • Onslaught: Origins of Aggression (Reigning Phoenix) [05-23] - metal
  • Orbit Culture: Death Above Life (Century Media) [10-03] - metal
  • Ossuary: Abhorrent Worship (Me Saco Un Ojo) [05-23] - metal
  • Pain of Truth & Sunami: Coast to Coast Split (Daze/Triple B -EP) [03-03] - metalcore
  • Paleface Swiss: Cursed (Blood Blast Distribution) [01-03] - deathcore
  • Paradise Lost: Ascension (Nuclear Blast) [09-19] - gothic metal
  • Patriarkh: Prophet Ilja (Napalm) [01-03] - metal
  • Pelican: Flickering Resonance (Run for Cover) [05-16] - post-metal
  • Pendulum: Inertia (Mushroom/Virgin Music) [08-22] - alt-metal
  • Pentagram: Lightning in a Bottle (Heavy Psych Sounds) [01-31] - metal
  • Phrenelith: Ashen Womb (Dark Descent/Me Saco Un Ojo) [02-07] - metal
  • Pinkshift: Earthkeeper (Hopeless) [08-29] - alt metal
  • Pissgrave: Malignant Worthlessness (Profound Lore) - metal
  • Pop Evil: What Remains (MNRK Heavy) [03-21] - metal
  • Pothamus: Abur (Pelagic) [02-14] - metal

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