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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New Releases

  • Abduction: Existentialismus (Spinefarm) [02-21] - metal
  • Acid Magus: Scatterling Empire () [02-21] - 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) - 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
  • Avantasia: Here Be Dragons (Napalm) [02-28] - metal
  • Avatarium: Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead (AFM/Napalm) [01-24] - heavy psych
  • 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
  • Blackbriar: A Thousand Little Deaths (Nuclear Blast) [08-22] - symphonic metal
  • Black Spiders: Cvrses () [03-14] - hard rock
  • 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
  • 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
  • Castle Rat: The Bestiary (King Volume) [09-19] - doom metal
  • Caustic Wound: Grinding Mechanism of Torment (Profound Lore) - metal
  • Cave Sermon: Fragile Wings (self-released) [04-16] - metal
  • Chepang: Jhyappa (Relapse) [05-23] - metal
  • Combust: Belly of the Beast (Triple-B) [03-07] - hardcore punk
  • Alice Cooper: The Revenge of Alice Cooper (EarMusic) [07-25] - hard rock
  • Cradle of Filth: The Screaming of the Valkyries (Napalm) [03-21] - 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Epica: Aspiral (Nuclear Blast) [04-11] - 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
  • Flummox: Southern Progress (Needlejuice) [04-11] - metal
  • Forlorn: Aether (Church Road) [03-28] - metalcore
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Heartworms: Glutton for Punishment (Speedy Wunderground) [02-07] - gothic rock
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Månegarm: Edsvuren (Napalm) [08-29] - metal
  • Mantar: Post Apocalyptic Depression (Metal Blade) [02-14] - sludge metal
  • 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: Thunderball (Ipecac) [04-18] - sludge metal
  • Memphis May Fire: Shapeshifter (Rise) [03-28] - metal
  • Messa: The Spin (Metal Blade) [04-11] - doom metal
  • Midnight: Steel, Rust and Disgust (Metal Blade) [05-23] - metal
  • Mizmor & Hell: Alluvion (Gilead Media) [04-04] - 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
  • Obscura: A Sonication (Nuclear Blast) [02-07] - metal
  • Obscure Sphinx: Emovere (self-released -EP) [01-06] - metal
  • Onslaught: Origins of Aggression (Reigning Phoenix) [05-23] - metal
  • Orbit Culture: Death Above Life (Century Media) [10-03] - metal
  • ERR: grade bad priority: Bill Orcutt/Steve Shelley/Ethan Miller: Orcutt Shelley Miller
  • 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
  • Primal Fear: Domination (Reigning Phoenix) [09-05] - metal
  • Pulse: Body Is Reality () [02-07] - metal
  • Purified in Blood: Primal Pulse Thunder () [03-14] - metal
  • Pyres: Yun () [03-07] - metal
  • Revocation: New Gods, New Masters (Metal Blade) [09-26] - death metal
  • Retromorphosis: Psalmus Mortis (Season of Mist) [02-21] - metal
  • Dax Riggs: 7 Songs for Spiders (Fat Possum) [ 01-24] - stoner rock
  • Ritual Ascension: Profanation of the Adamic Covenant (Sentient Ruin Laboratories) [ 02-28] - metal
  • Rivers of Nihil: Rivers of Nihil (Metal Blade) [05-30] - metal
  • Røry: Restøration () [01-31] - emo-pop
  • Rwake: The Retun of Magik (Relapse) [03-14] - metal
  • Sanhedrin: Heat Lightning (Metal Blade) [03-14] - metal
  • Saor: Amidst the Ruins (Season of Mist) [02-07] - metal
  • Sarcator: Swarming Angels & Flies (Century Media) [01-17] - metal
  • Scare: In the End, Was It Worth It? () [02-21] - metal
  • Scorpion Milk: Slime of the Times (Peaceville) [09-19] - metal
  • Scour: Gold (Nuclear Blast) [02-21] - metal
  • Shadow of Delirium: Imperium Delirium (self-released) [06-27] - deathcore
  • Shepherds of Cassini: In Thrall to Heresy (self-released) [02-21] - prog metal
  • Lorna Shore: I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me (Century Media) [09-12] - deathcore
  • Shrieking Demons: The Festering Dwellers (Transcending Obscurity) [01-31] - metal
  • Sigh: I Saw the World's End - Hangman's Hymn MMXXV (Peaceville) [06-13] - symphonic black metal
  • Signs of the Swarm: To Rid Myself of Truth (Century Media) [08-22] - deathcore
  • Silverstein: Antibloom (UNFD) [02-21] - post-hardcore
  • Silverstein: Pink Moon (UNFD) [09-12] - post-hardcore
  • Slaughter to Prevail: Grizzly (Sumerian) [07-18] - deathcore
  • Sleep Theory: Afterglow (Epitaph) [05-16] - alt-metal
  • Sleep Token: Even in Arcadia (RCA) [05-09] - alt-metal
  • ERR: stream no grade: Enoch Smith Jr.: The Book of Enoch Vol. 1
  • Sodom: The Arsonist (Steamhammer) [06-27] - metal
  • Sometime in February: Where Mountains Hide () [03-21] - metal
  • Sowulo: NIHT () [08-29] - dark folk
  • Spiritbox: Tsunami Sea (Rise/Pale Chord) [03-07] - alt-metal
  • SpiritWorld: Helldorado (Century Media) [03-21] - crossover thrash
  • Starset: Silos (Fearless) [09-12] - metalcore
  • Stick to Your Guns: Keep Planting Flowers (SharpTone) [01-10] - metalcore
  • Still in Love: Recovery Language (Church /Road) [09-05] - melodic hardcore
  • Stinky: Solace () [02-21] - hardcore
  • Stormo: Tagli/Talee (Prosthetic) [03-21] - screamo
  • Tayne: Love (Inside Job/MNRK) [01-31] - industrial
  • Teitanblood: From the Visceral Abyss (Norma Evangelium Draboli) [03-28] - metal
  • Ten56.: IO (Out of Line) [09-05] - deathcore
  • Tetrarch: The Ugly Side of Me (Napalm) [05-09] - nu metal
  • Thecityisours: Will You Still Love Me? () [01-31] - metal
  • Three Days Grace: Alienation (RCA) [08-22] - alt-metal
  • Thornhill: Bodies (UNFD) [04-04] - alt metal
  • Thrice: Horizons/West (Epitaph) [10-03] - post-hardcore
  • Thundermother: Dirty & Divine (AFM) [02-07] - hard rock
  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra: I'm Done With Self Care, It's Time for Others' Harm (Prosthetic) [05-23] - deathcore
  • Tiberius: Singing for Company (self-released) [03-21] - metal
  • Tiktaalika: Gods of Pangaea (InsideOut) [03-14] - metal
  • Tómarúm: Beyond Obsidian Euphoria (Prosthetic) [04-04] - metal
  • Torso: Annihilation Day () [08-29] - metal
  • Tremonti: The End Will Show Us How (Napalm) [01-10] - metal
  • Underoath: The Place After This One (MNRK Heavy) [03-28] - metalcore
  • Unreqvited: A Pathway to the Moon (Propecy Productions) [02-07] - blackgaze
  • Vacuous: In His Blood (Relapse) [02-28] - metal
  • Vicious Rumors: The Devil's Asylum (Steamhammer) [08-29] - metal
  • Vildhjarta: + Där Skogen Sjunger Under Evighetens Granar + (Century Media) [05-30] - metal
  • The Vintage Caravan: Portals (Napalm) [09-26] - hard rock
  • Vintersong: Vattenkrafternas Spel (Hammerheart) [ 09-20] - prog metal
  • Voidfallen: The Rituals of Resilience () [02-21] - metal
  • Vukovi: My God Has Got a GUn (SharpTone) [01-24] - alt-metal
  • Warbringer: Wrath and Ruin (Napalm) [03-14] - metal
  • Wardruna: Birna (Music for Nations/Sony) [01-24] - ritual ambient
  • We Came as Romans: All Is Beautiful . . . Because We're Doomed (Sharp Tone) [08-22] - alt-metal
  • Whitechapel: Hymns in Dissonance (Metal Blade) [03-07] - death metal
  • The Wildhearts: Satanic Rites of the Wildhearts () [03-07] - hard rock
  • Witchcraft: Idag (Heavy Psych Sounds) [05-23] - psych rock
  • Wrath of Logarius: Crown of Mortis (Season of Mist) [04-04] - metal
  • Wrekmeister Harmonies: Flowers in the Spring (Thrill Jockey) [02-21] - drone metal
  • Wren: Black Rain Falls (Church Road) [02-21] - post-hardcore
  • Wyatt E.: Zamā Ultu Qeber Ziqquratu, Pt. 1 (Heavy Psych Sounds) [01-10] - doom metal
  • Zatokrev: Bring Mirrors to the Surface (Pelagic) [08-29] - sludge metal

Reissues, Etc.

  • Helloween: March of Time (The Best of 40 Years) (Nuclear Blast) [03-28] - metal
  • Mötley Crüe: From the Beginning (BMG) [09-12] - glam metal
  • Slipknot: Slipknot [25th Anniversary Edition] (Roadrunner) [09-05] - nu metal

Priority Counts

  • Priority 1: 241
  • Priority 2: 0
  • Priority 3: 0
  • Priority 4: 2
  • Priority 5: 0

Total: 243