From underground gems to the big time, it's our New Music Friday preview for Oct 10th 2025

What new albums are you picking up and spinning? 

Akolyth – Ecstatic Kingdom (Amor Fati Records)

Angel Face – Out In The Street (Slovenly Records)

Atomic Rooster – Circle The Sun (Cherry Red Records)

The Bateleurs – A Light In The Darkness (Self-Released)

Blindfolded And Led To The Woods – The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me (Prosthetic Records)

Blue Heron – Emulations (Blues Funeral Recordings)

Blutgott – Legions Of Metal (Self-Released)

Dead Heat – Process Of Elimination (Metal Blade Records)

Extortionist – Stare Into The Seething Wounds (Unique Leader Records)

First Draft – An Instant Before The Promise Of Dawn (Vlad Records)

Foxy Shazam – Box Of Magic (eeeoooah Records)

Frayle – Heretics & Lullabies (Napalm Records)

Friendship Commanders – Bear (Magnetic Eye Records)

Goad – Dusketha (My Kingdom Records)

God Alone – The Beep Test (Prosthetic Records)

Greyhaven – Keep It Quiet (Solid State Records)

Haeresis – Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (Vendetta Records)

Heads For The Dead – Never Ending Night Of Terror (Pulverised Records)

Hell Ever After – Act I (Self-Released)

Illusive Key – Consume Us (Amor Fati Records)

Intraether – Vestiges (Fiadh Productions)

John 5 – Ghost (Self-Released)

Junkbreed – Sick Of The Scene (Raging Planet Records)

Les Batards Du Roi – Les Chemins de L’Exil (LADLO Records)

Linx – Annihilation (Metalville Records)

Litania – Litania (Heavy Psych Sounds/Subsound Records)

Living Dead Girl – Conspiracy (Self-Released)

Malota – Scapegoat (Go Down Records)

Morke – To Carry On (True Cult Records)

Nils Patrik Johansson – War And Peace (Metalville Records)

Nyos – Growl (Pelagic Records)

Occult Kenji – Of Gods And Ancestors (Self-Released)

Omnivide – Arise EP (Seek And Strike Records)

Plague Curse – Verminous Contempt (Adirondack Black Mass)

Purpendicular – Banned (Metalville Records)

Sanguisugabogg – Hideous Aftermath (Century Media Records)

Serpent God – Denial (Inverse Records)

Slyther – Chronicles Of Despair (Time To Kill Records)

Soul Blind – Red Sky Mourning (Closed Casket Activities)

Stonebirds – Perpetual Wasteland (Ripple Music)

Souille – L’odeur du mépris (Wormholedeath Records)

Sweet – Live At The Marquee Re-Release (Metalville Records)

Terzij de Horde – Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone (Church Road Records)

Testament – Para Bellum (Nuclear Blast Records)

This Will Destroy Your Ears – Funland (Self-Released)

Thorondir – Wächter des Waldes (Trollzorn Records)

Ultra Raptor – Fossilized (Fighter Records)

Undersave – Merged In Abstract Perdition (Transcending Obscurity Records)

Victimarum – Seitsemän soihdun valossa (Signal Rex Records)

Vile Apparition – Malignity (Dark Descent Records)

Vulnificus – Inclination (Comatose Records)

AND

Warrant – The Speed Of Metal (Massacre Records)

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