- House of Warwick – Lost in Hypnosis [7/1]
- Loosely Sewn – LS-1 [7/1]
- SFINX – SFINX [7/8]
- Moonfall – Hope at the Edge of Spring [7/11]
- Ded En – The Gala [7/18]
- Anaria – Chasing Shadows [8/1]
- Stain the Canvas – Inevitable [8/1]
- Phobias – This Was All For Nothing [8/7]
- Miss FD – Euphoria [8/8]
- Servants øf Sleep – 2.0/ [8/12]
- something else together. – see through [8/16]
- Ex Okay – Black EP [8/22]
- The Funeral Portrait – Dark Thoughts EP [8/22]
- Collide – Freaks Me Out [8/22]
- Glass Lungs – Afterglow [8/22]
- Shadow Reborn – The Magnificence of Agony, Pt. 1 [9/5]
- SINthetik Messiah + Moose Harris – Pyramid Schemes [9/6]
- Hunter and the Cold Hearts Club – Till the Flesh Falls [9/10]
- Flür – Your Way [9/19]
New releases
Albums Released From July to September 2025
- Shovel Monster – Shane [7/1]
- BOOGEYMVN – Even Angels Wrists Can Bleed [7/4]
- Ghost Chamber – A Decade in Review, Pt. 2 [7/4]
- Palecurse – dark room [7/11]
- StrikingBlue – Reflection [7/11]
- Collide – Signals, Vol. 1 [7/18]
- Covenant of None – Death of the Voice [7/30]
- To The Grave – Still [8/1]
- Alethium – The Darkest Show on Earth [8/1]
- Eldercall – Closure [8/1]
- TJ From Beyond – Humanless Thing [8/4]
- Sleep Dance – Full of Smiles [8/8]
- Black Water Rising – The Edge [8/15]
- Orion – Into Darkness [8/17]
- Hands Like Houses – Atmospherics (Deluxe) [8/22]
- Jutes – Dilworth [8/27]
- New Medicine – Die Trying: The Double Album [8/29]
- Silent Theory – Theoretically Speaking III [9/5]
- Seilies – Between Truth & Lies [9/5]
- vasthearts – grow your wings [9/6]
- Deverauxx – This Isn’t Going to End Well [9/9]
- SFINX – Feral [9/9]
- Not Enough Space – Weaponize Your Rage [9/12]
- Naked Sunday – Library of Medication [9/12]
- Ded – Resent [9/19]
- A Killer’s Confession – Victim 2 [9/19]
- Autumn Dreams – Colors, In Motion [9/21]
- 9th Evolution – 9th Evolution [9/29]
EPs Released From April to June 2025
- Hand of the Tribe – Makinas, Vol. 1 [4/4]
- Wraithlurk – Suffering [4/4]
- Rise to Ruin – The Alchemy EP [4/4]
- Once Unnoticed – Forever Again [4/5]
- In Passing – In Passing [4/11]
- postdrome – Postdrome [4/15]
- Jutes – The End [4/23]
- Traverse the Abyss – Memento Mori [4/25]
- Death Valley High – U DON’T KNOW WHAT UR ASKING [4/25]
- Bad Valentines – Memory Tattoos [4/25]
- Valtozash – Sundered Synapses [5/2]
- The Journals Kept – Strike the Match [5/2]
- Anaria – Spark of Life [5/9]
- I Was the Crown – Broken Wings [6/1]
- StarrShine – As a Kid [6/5]
- Kumiko – The Space Between [6/7]
- Atomic Fate – Try It… You Might Like It!!! [6/10]
- Eayondig – Ivory Eye [6/11]
- L.O.U.D. – FM Broadcast [6/13]
- Traverse the Abyss – Memento Mori (Instrumental) [6/13]
- Lucretia Death – Half Dead [6/20]
- Priest – Chaos EP [6/20]
- Stain the Canvas – Gattini [6/27]
- Have I Weather – Porch Sessions [6/27]
- splinter kid – Control Freak [6/27]
- The Lucidia Project – The Twilight Affliction [6/30]
Albums Released From April to June 2025
- Swallow the Sun – Shining (Deluxe Edition) [4/11]
- K.A.R.L. (Kill All Remaining Life) – Chapter 5: Astral Projection [4/11]
- Young Other – Enlightenment [4/11]
- Arcadia – Renovatio [4/15]
- Circuit Preacher – Heaven Can’t Heal [4/18]
- Our Frankenstein – Magnum Spire Hotel [4/25]
- AM FALL – All My Friends Are Local Legends [4/25]
- Wednesday 13 – Mid Death Crisis [4/25]
- Zammek – Swell As Well [4/25]
- Naked Sunday – The Shoe String Sessions [5/2]
- Crimson Whisper – Vast World [5/2]
- How We Feel – Ready for War [5/2]
- The Fifth – We Are One [5/2]
- Plain Suite – Sweet Lady [5/8]
- Sleep Token – Even in Arcadia [5/9]
- Ghost Bath – Rose Thorn Necklace [5/9]
- Sleep Theory – Afterglow [5/16]
- Sister Kill Cycle – We Were Ghosts [5/16]
- No Fly List – Way More Tracks [5/30]
- Deadcode – Nothing and Nowhere [5/30]
- Lift the Curse – Don’t Bury the Dream [5/30]
- Blueprint Tokyo – Neon Circuits and the Mission of Hope [5/30]
- Cosmobrigade – Hollow Obsessions [6/6]
- AnimA – Demigod [6/10]
- Elvira’s Curse – The Time Has Come [6/12]
- Static Season – Peripheral [6/13]
- turner.Eturnal – Eturnal Terror [6/13]
- FleischKrieg – Herzblut II [6/13]
- McKenzie Hills – Ice Crossing [6/13]
- AVKRVST – Waving at the Sky [6/13]
- The Funeral Portrait – Greetings From Suffocate City (From Beyond the Abyss: Deluxe Edition) [6/13]
- Whispers in the Shadow – Rapture [6/13]
- Fright – GhostTown [6/18]
- Aesthetic Perfection – Closer to Human [6/20]
- Wraithlurk – Teethmarks [6/20]
- Ghost Chamber – A Decade in Review, Pt. 1 [6/20]
- Mission to the Sun – Seven Years [6/27]
- Half Lyfe – All in All [6/29]
EPs Released From January to March 2025
As stated in the Albums Released From January to March 2025 post, I am handling the announcement of album and EP releases differently this year. I will be sharing a list every 3 months rather than every 6.
Please note that whenever possible, I have linked the artist’s Apple Music profile. I still use Spotify because of its convenience, but I respect that many are struggling with monetary decisions made by the streaming service and will send traffic to your other platforms if I can. (Release dates may vary depending on when the EP was uploaded to Apple.)
- Atta Guns – The Heart and the Mind Have Nothing in Common [1/1]
- ZombieSuckers – Captain Morgue and His Deadbeats [1/8]
- King Saltine – III [1/10]
- Monster Truck – Monster Truck Monday, Vol. 2 [1/13]
- Storm Kingdom – The Savage Garden [1/13]
- GHOSTHVRT – Neon Sin [1/17]
- The Reckless – Who Are You? [1/17]
- Midnight For Now – In the End [1/23]
- Circuit Preacher – Killed Something [1/24]
- Still Echoes – Self (Titled) [1/30]
- Illusions of Grandeur – The Siren Rises, Pt. 1: The Witch [1/31]
- Salaryman – Salaryman [2/1]
- Ghost of the Sun – Black Flower [2/3]
- Monster Truck – Monster Truck Monday, Vol. 3 [2/3]
- Cresthaven – For What It’s Worth [2/8]
- Darkriver – 004 [2/14]
- Fuzzy Death Machine – Culinary Slut [2/21]
- Ruin the Mind – Queen of the Damned (Reloaded) [2/22]
- Circuit Preacher – Torture God [2/28]
- Tropic Gold – Sick to Death of Everything [3/7]
- Take the W – Head in the Sky [3/10]
- f1oater. – Amnesia State of Mind [3/14]
- Who on Earth – Smoke & Mirrors [3/14]
- The Funeral March of the Marionettes – It All Falls Apart [3/14]
- No Fly List – No Fly List [3/17]
- Atlases – Penumbra: Recast [3/19]
- Gillsaw – Fog Watch [3/21]
- Sage – Heartwired [3/21]
- Moonfall – Stillness of Winter [3/21]
- Anaria – Curtain Fall [3/27]
- Adelitas Way – Deja Vu EP [3/28]
Albums Released From January to March 2025
Last year, I attempted to post a list of all the albums and EPs I heard about. I split this compilation into two parts, posting the first at 6 months and the second at the end of December. I didn’t really like the way it worked out, so I’m trying something different for 2025 and sharing new releases quarterly. I am dividing albums and EPs into separate posts, though. That much is staying the same.
Also, in as many cases as possible, I am linking Apple Music profiles. While I continue to use Spotify when building my playlists, I do understand that many artists have conflicting emotions in regard to that particular streaming service. Therefore, I will attempt to send traffic to your alternative platforms. (Release dates may differ, depending on when the album hit Apple. I have used the dates posted by the bands/artists.)
- Skies of Terra – Dreamcatcher [1/1]
- Hobokin – The Rebellion [1/3]
- The Journals Kept – Campfire [1/3]
- Black Cat Bill – Floral Swords: Kuro Neko Sama [1/5]
- Tremonti – The End Will Show Us How [1/10]
- Gnostician – Unification as an Art [1/10]
- The Obsidian Resurrection – As Darkness Falls [1/10]
- Total Radio Silence – The Stories We Tell Ourselves [1/12]
- Animal Ion – Introspection [1/15]
- Nail Bite – Nostalgia [1/17]
- Featured – All Mouth and No Trousers [1/17]
- Beatific – Life Under Tension [1/24]
- Divine Shade – Fragments, Vol. 1 [1/26]
- Deified – Defacto Flame [1/31]
- Six Hours For A Lifetime – 21 [2/5]
- Of Grace – Vindicta [2/7]
- Days of Jupiter – The World Was Never Enough [2/7]
- Wraithlurk – Crucified [2/12]
- Moon Fever – Forever Sleep [2/14]
- Horizon Theory – Radio Silence! [2/14]
- Hands Like Houses – Atmospherics [2/14]
- Bloody Pineapples – Bloody Pineapples [2/14]
- Touch of Red – In Our Nature [2/14]
- Crying Vessel – Sepulchers: The Maiden [2/14]
- Crying Vessel – Sepulchers: The Servant [2/14]
- Spiders – Sharp Objects [2/14]
- Onioroshi – Shrine [2/18]
- Tricky Shoreline – Hummingbird [2/21]
- Sinclair Noire – Bone Orchard [2/21]
- Dirty Honey – Mayhem and Revelry Live [2/21]
- Jason Bieler and the Baron Von Bielski Orchestra – The Escapologist [2/21]
- Delphi Ravens – Keeper of Secrets [2/21]
- War Within Dreams – The Blue [2/22]
- Conan and the Malis – Going for a Walk [2/23]
- Starbender – Social Engineering [2/27]
- Caleb Hyles, Judge & Jury – The Darkness Before the Dawn [2/28]
- Kings of Karma – Bite the Bullet [3/1]
- VVitch – Nefarious [3/1]
- The Royal Ritual – Retract in Circles [3/4]
- Confessions of a Serial Killer – Audio Violence [3/7]
- CrosseD – No Pulse [3/10]
- Mean Silver Machine – No Way Out [3/14]
- Dead Rabbitts, Judge & Jury, Escape the Fate – Redefined [3/14]
- I Rose From the Dead – Lost in the Woods [3/14]
- Mainframe Bird – Ghosts Never Clap [3/21]
Albums Released July to December 2024
Be sure to visit the list of albums from January to June 2024 as well!
Note: My focus is on the indie scene. If you don’t see an album here that dropped this year, please let me know!!!
- Synapsa: Hate Awareness [7/5]
- Auric Echoes: Division for Human Ascension [7/12]
- Damon Stone: My Resurrection [7/12]
- Amerakin Overdose: Artificial Infection [7/12]
- After the Apocalypse: Factions [7/18]
- David Dentinger: Prettiest Girl in the Bar [7/18]
- Shallow Side: Reflections [7/19]
- Patriarchs in Black: Visioning [7/19]
- Dearden: The Call of the Void [8/2]
- Shape: It’s Just Beginning [8/11]
- BlackRabit: Twin Shadows [8/15]
- The Crosseyed: Born in the Bowery [8/16]
- There Is No Us: There Is No Us [8/16]
- Bödel: Välkommen till avrättningen [8/16]
- Left to Suffer: Leap of Death [8/16]
- Endless Chain: Agony [8/23]
- Heal the Hurt: Heal the Hurt [8/23]
- Wraithlurk: Carnival of Madness [8/28]
- Wicked Scoundrel: The Dreamers of the Day [8/30]
- Catburglar: Splintered [8/30]
- Min Min Light: Min Min Light [8/30]
- Akira Xx: Black Rebel Empire [8/31]
- IAM-CK: Nightmares and Love Notes [9/4]
- Submersed: Grand Illusion Army [9/11]
- 8mm: Black Cat [9/13]
- The Funeral Portrait: Greetings From Suffocate City [9/13]
- Embracing the Enemy: Nihilist [9/13]
- Supahoney: Wishing in a Fishbowl [9/13]
- Sun Order: Reveal Yourself [9/13]
- Neocracy: Who To Blame? [9/15]
- My Cavernoma: Forgiven [9/20]
- Dead Spring: Anywhere But Down [9/21]
- Gone For Now + BatHead + KAIOHTE: Thoughts From the Grave [9/21]
- EpicDown: Days of Oblivion [9/27]
- SevVven: Don’t Panic [9/27]
- HILD: Thrash På Svenska [10/4]
- Christopher Ardra: Sometimes Other Times [10/4]
- Wraithlurk: ORIGINS [10/7]
- The Numb Project: Definition [10/11]
- Myles Kennedy: The Art of Letting Go [10/11]
- The Giant Baba: Apocalypse [10/15]
- Nightspell: SPOOKED! [10/17]
- Mindistry: Doppleganger [10/18]
- Mosspaw: Big Bite [10/18]
- Bloodhum: Bloodhum [10/24]
- Pøltergeist: Nachtmusik [10/25]
- Self Deception: Destroy the Art [10/25]
- Atreyu: The Pronoia Sessions [10/25]
- GhostEyes: Love Letters From the Tomb [10/31]
- Lost Seeds Found Trees: Full of Holes [10/31]
- Linkin Park: From Zero [11/15]
- The Anix: Voltage [11/22]
- Marilyn Manson: One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1 [11/22]
- Deep as Ocean: Dance With Death [11/22]
- Society of Beggars: Levitator [11/28]
- Follow the Raven: Crowman [11/29]
- Hunt For More: Hunt For More [11/30]
- Velocyr: Somnium [12/1]
- Desert Undertones: The Sentinel [12/5]
- Jungle Mountain: Reverse Confusion [12/13]
- The Veer Union: Welcome to Dystopia [12/27]
EPs Released July to December 2024
Here is a list of EPs released during the second half of 2024. (Be sure to check out the January to June compilation here.)
Please remember that my focus is on the indie community! And, as stated in the first post, I have likely missed a few, so if there’s anything y’all don’t see, let me know. I will be doing a separate blog for full-length albums that have dropped in the same time frame.
- New Dilemma: Toxic [7/12]
- Saint Diablo: The Reckoning [7/19]
- Witchz: Take Me Back [7/26]
- BREAKKER: Breakker [7/27]
- Jungle Dream: Only a Moment [7/27]
- Bullet to the Heart: Trauma [8/2]
- Vulnicura: Undead End [8/2]
- Alive in Stone: A Cure for Wickedness [8/6]
- Sun Order: Last One Standing [8/9]
- Galaxy Parade: I’ll Always Be Around [8/9]
- Please Knock: Grim [8/21]
- Yuko Rade: Legend [8/23]
- Blueprint Tokyo: Blue [8/28]
- Deny: Call of the Void [8/30]
- LA ROXX: LA Roxx [8/31]
- Generation Down: Masquerades & Mirrors [9/2]
- Red Eleven: Path [9/5]
- Anny: Apparitions [9/6]
- Guillotine: Hellbound [9/13]
- All the Tall Trees: See the World Come Alive [9/20]
- Lil Tytan: Intentions of Evil, Vol. 1 [9/27]
- Plague Mind: Always on the Outside [9/27]
- Stand Abandoned: The Divide [10/4]
- They Were Giants: Legacies [10/4]
- Joel Santiago: Eternal Night [10/13]
- Awesome Ray Ray: The Ups and Downs EP [10/14]
- Ivy Kill: Psychosis Mission [10/18]
- MidiEvil: Dark Arts [10/18]
- Half Fortune: Half Fortune [10/23]
- We’re Wolves: Transformation [10/25]
- Ohanna: Memoirs [10/26]
- POET The Band: t h e p r o l o g u e [10/27]
- Blood Druid: Cannibalistic Tendencies [10/30]
- Rockright: Dark Matter [10/31]
- Besra: Equilibrium [11/1]
- Daniel Thielman, Jay Johnson: A Sacred Truth by Indigo Sect [11/11]
- The Funeral Portrait: Casanova (From Beyond the Abyss) [11/15]
- Ghost in the Room: The Alastor [11/19]
- Ceyeo: Together They Were Nothing [12/13]
- The Crooked Skulls: Hivemind [12/13]
- After the Mourning: Our Transgressions [12/13]
- Silverside: The Blood EP [12/19]
- Heir to Nothing: Perpetuity [12/19]
- Freaky Things: Magic Songs, Vol. 2 [12/22]
Albums Released January to June 2024
There have been several albums released so far in 2024, and I decided to compile them in a post separate from the EPs. Much as with the other list, I am sure I’ve missed a few, so if there are any you know of that are not shared here, feel free to tell me in the comments!
Be sure to check out my list of EPs that have dropped over the past 6 months, as well!
- Jack the Elbow: Crush [1/5]
- Shadow Person: Person of Interest [1/18]
- Ghost Atlas: Dust of the Human Shape [1/26]
- Immortal Girlfriend: Sojourner [2/2]
- Kluu, availax: lunar isolation [2/2]
- It Came From the Basement: Revenant [2/9]
- Jester Syndrome: Shape [2/9]
- Crude Mothas: Crude Mothas [2/11]
- Gravehuffer: Mile High Live [2/14]
- As A Treat: A Little Extra [2/14]
- The Transits: The Transits [2/16]
- Framing the Red: Three to Get Ready [2/16]
- The Requiem: A Cure to Poison the World [2/16]
- ENMY: Breaking Down (Deluxe) [2/20]
- A Scent Like Wolves: Distant Dystopia [2/23]
- AnAkA: The Oblivion Call [2/23]
- Black Sonic Pearls: Sonixomnia [2/23]
- Seven Year Witch: Vampire Calamity [3/1]
- Damned Anthem: The Arsenal 2 [3/1]
- Blind Channel: Exit Emotions [3/1]
- Isenordal: Requiem for Eirênê [3/8]
- NinémiA: Weapons of Math Destruction [3/22]
- Dead Energy: Dark Savior [3/23]
- Blacktop Mojo: Pollen [4/5]
- Blackwood: Release Me [4/9]
- technically nothing: it’s past ur bedtime [4/19]
- Valemon: Enemies [4/19]
- K.A.R.L. (Kill All Remaining Life): Dying Memories (2009-2024) [4/19]
- Violet Vanity: Violet Vanity [4/19]
- Dead Heart Bloom: Dream States [4/23]
- GLOSSA: Death is Not the End [4/26]
- 3 Bravo: Divine Wreckage [4/30]
- Ian Cuthbertson: Alabama Flower [4/30]
- Circuit Preacher: Made to Burn [5/3]
- Danger Silent: The Revival [5/4]
- Crownshift: Crownshift [5/10]
- Powerman 5000: Abandon Ship [5/10]
- Haunting Ghosts: Shadow Work [5/12]
- The Edge of Reason: Ocean [5/17]
- Glis: Gateway to Oblivion [5/17]
- The Royal Ritual: Pleasure Hides Your Needs [5/24]
- Central: The Fall [5/27]
- Priest: Dark Pulse [5/31]
- GLASSFIRES: Gemini [5/31]
- Three Days Bright: Weight of the World [6/11]
- Synthetik Blonde: Dark Side of Your Love [6/12]
- Crywolf: let me be your womb [6/14]
- FortyMore: FortyMore [6/14]
- Eden Architect: Form and Function [6/18]
- Chatrooms: Something Went Wrong… [6/28]
EPs Released January to June 2024
There have been quite a few EPs released so far this year, and I decided to put a list together at the halfway point (June). I’m sure I’ve missed several, but these are the ones I have found. Please keep in mind that my focus is the lesser known indie community. If you have an EP to add to this list, feel free to drop a comment!
Note: I will be doing a separate post for the full-length albums released within the same time frame.
- FOURPL4Y: FOURGOTTEN [1/5]
- MONOWHALES: Who’s There to Hear Me Out? [1/18]
- Penny Fountain: Attack of the Ducks [1/19]
- Defects: Lockdown [1/24]
- Sever Red: Sick and Tormented [1/26]
- Only Love: Death’s Night Shift [1/26]
- The Throwaway Scene: On Death & Dying [1/26]
- Seethe: Cavalier Dualities [1/29]
- Retina Sky: Without Hope We Wither [2/2]
- The Companies: Maybe We Should Let Me Go [2/5]
- Six Scars: The Silence and the Withering [2/16]
- Have I Weather: Zeepbel [2/19]
- BOOGEYMVN: 404: Error Unknown [2/19]
- Ty Dy: Sing Through Strings [2/23]
- 1016: Gettysburg [2/25]
- Violet Dawn: From Basement to Dawn [3/16]
- Shadows Calling: These Scars [3/22]
- The Up & Up: It Starts With You [3/29]
- Perfect Nightmare: This is War [4/3]
- Bryce Evans & the Black Cats: Moonlight [4/4]
- Patient Sixty-Seven: What If It Never Gets Better [4/5]
- The Haunt: Do Not Resuscitate [4/5]
- Anemera: Unconventional Wisdoms [4/5]
- Slave to Sin: Control and Beliefs [4/5]
- The Buyers: Metamorphosis [4/11]
- Key Suspects: Speaking in Tongues [4/12]
- Princess: Wishes for an Untimely Demise [4/12]
- Abigail Circus: 3 Ring Sideshow [4/13]
- Glis: Ascension [4/18]
- Seaside Massacre: Shells [4/19]
- Wilde Owl: Pictures of Richard [4/19]
- The Lazy Ghouls: Louder Than Bombs [4/24]
- Back From Zero: FIVE [4/26]
- Old Ways: Cryin’ Poor Mouth [4/26]
- Waverly Drive: Push My Luck [5/10]
- faulty wires: Punk Isn’t Dead…But Maybe It’s Disabled [5/14]
- Voltaire’s Ghost: Nemesis [5/14]
- Pandemic Unleashed: Return to Ashes [5/14]
- Saint Social: Don’t Let the Fire Die [5/15]
- The Ovtfit: Sunshine [5/17]
- Noiz Ritual: Embrace the Noiz [5/21]
- Pern: Barely Breathing [5/22]
- Lavender Scare: BITES [5/31]
- Ashen Skies: Ashen Skies [5/31]
- Ian Cuthbertson: I’m on a Walk [5/31]
- Central: Solstice [6/3]
- Common Vision: Where Solace Meets the Misery [6/7]
- Cruel Mourning: Cruel Mourning [6/21]
- Naked Sunday: Rise [6/21]
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