- Daughters of Mara – I Am Destroyer [10/3]
- Linx – Annihilation [10/10]
- Living Dead Girl – Conspiracy [10/10]
- Batchelor – Shadow Protocol [10/14]
- Heartsick – Break the Curse [10/14]
- Julien-K – DRK|MODE [10/17]
- Dead Deceased – Chasm of Radiant Despair [10/17]
- The Thing With Feathers – So Electric [10/24]
- Anaria – Piercing the Veil [10/24]
- POET The Band – Night Era (Nightcore) [10/24]
- Buried Beneath Me – The House of Ash [10/24]
- Parhelyon – From Dark to Light [10/24]
- Dark Moon Spirit – Sacrificial Moon [10/31]
- Wraithlurk – Engraved [10/31]
- MethodOne – Novus Initium [10/31]
- Armchair Cynics – The Lost Tapes [11/7]
- Soulhound – The Divine Purge [11/7]
- Citizen Soldier – Family Heirlooms [11/12]
- Stellar Circuits – Phantom::Phoenix [11/14]
- Suicide Queen – Crowned in Blood [11/14]
- The Malt – Weeping Red [11/15]
- DENIGH – Sleep With No Sound [11/17]
- Falls for the Elderly – Insomnia [11/20]
- Never Enough – Aurora [11/21]
- Moonscape – Entity, Chapter III: A Sudden Glimpse of Clarity [11/21]
- The Pretty Wild – zero.point.genesis [11/21]
- RedPrint – Beyond Reality [11/26]
- Sleeper Signal – Tales of the Misguided Souls [11/26]
- Jungle Dream – We Are Legion [11/28]
- Black Dog Moon – Hell and Back [11/28]
- Excide – Bastard Hymns [11/28]
- Devil-M – Titanomachie [11/30]
- Michael Botte Band – Demos & Diamonds, Vol. 1 [12/5]
- the OWLiNG – You Don’t Bow You Will Learn [12/5]
- Immunosuppressed – Lilith [12/5]
- Set For Tomorrow – ARCS [12/5]
- Stain the Canvas – Honey Rot [12/12]
- Eye of Atlantis – Eye of Atlantis [12/13]
- Severed Skies – Oblivion [12/15]
- Vagabond – Ode to Isotopia [12/17]
- Priest – Live in Hollywood [12/19]
- Dark Enchantment – Fragments of Faith [12/20]
- SouthsideFerris – Dying Light [12/23]
- The Further I Get – Life [12/25]
- Libricide – Kismet [12/26]
- Cirkus – Still Remains [12/27]
- Damnum – Obsidian Machine [12/30]
2025 albums
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]
- Magdalene Rose – The Heart That Bloomed After Death [8/22]
- Jutes – Dilworth [8/27]
- New Medicine – Die Trying: The Double Album [8/29]
- Forsaken Throne – Bloodline [8/29]
- Silent Theory – Theoretically Speaking III [9/5]
- Seilies – Between Truth & Lies [9/5]
- Apocalyptic Society – Instinctual Self-Slaughter [9/5]
- vasthearts – grow your wings [9/6]
- Deverauxx – This Isn’t Going to End Well [9/9]
- SFINX – Feral [9/9]
- Noir Addiction – Decadent Desire [9/9]
- Not Enough Space – Weaponize Your Rage [9/12]
- Naked Sunday – Library of Medication [9/12]
- The Twin – Blue Honey [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]
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]
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]
- Corlyx – Purple Pain [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]
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