ESSENTIAL METAL ALBUM (s): #WK41 Monday, October 6th, 2025 to Sunday, October 12th, 2025

This week’s essential metal releases shine a spotlight on a diverse group of bands pushing the boundaries of heavy music. From the progressive technical death metal intensity of Blindfolded and Led to the Woods to the uncompromising legacy of Today Is the Day, each album offers something unique for fans of the genre. Hooded Menace deliver their signature blend of doom and death, while newcomers Deathfuckingwound live up to their moniker and unleash raw, chaotic fury. Finally we get Antiversum bringing an atmospheric edge to this list, with their dark, immersive soundscapes, and finally rounding things out with Tan and Handsome dropping them Every Time I Die vibes with their new EP. Dive into these releases and discover the latest in cutting-edge metal.

 
⚔️ 🩸 Album of the week:
 
#285 “BALTTW have created an unparalleled God tier death metal release”
 
⚔️ Artist: Blindfolded and Led to the Woods
🩸  Title: “The Hardest Thing About Being a God is that No One Believes Me”
⚔️ Release date: October 10th, 2025

🩸 Genre/tags:  progressive death metal, technical death metal 

#281 “The pioneers of experimental metal, redefine themselves yet again and deliver abstract perfection”

 
⚔️ Artist: Today Is The Day
🩸  Title: “Never Give In”
⚔️ Release date: October 3^rd, 2025
 

🩸 Genre/tags:  experimental, noise rock

#282 “striking the perfect balance of crushing heaviness and sombre beauty."
 
⚔️ Artist: Hooded Menace
🩸  Title: “Lachrymose Moments of Obscuration
⚔️ Release date: October 3rd, 2025

🩸 Genre/tags: death doom 

#283 “grinding riffage and guttural vocals, delivered with unsettling dissonant menance”
 
⚔️ Artist: Deathfuckingwound
🩸  Title: “MMXXV” 
⚔️ Release date: October 7th, 2025

 
🩸 Genre/tags:  death metal, black metal, grindcore, powerviolence

#284 “a monolithic journey through cavernous death metal, enveloping the listener in suffocating atmospheres and relentless intensity.
 
⚔️ Artist: Antiversum
🩸  Title: “De Nemesis Omnes Et Omnia”
⚔️ Release date: September 19^th, 2025

🩸 Genre/tags: black metal, death metal 

#286 “Taking cues from Every Time I Die; "2 Tan and 2 Handsome" is as addictive as meth”
 
⚔️ Artist: Tan and Handsome
🩸  Title: “2 Tan 2 Handsome”
⚔️ Release date: July 11^th, 2025

🩸 Genre/tags: metal, post hardcore