ESSENTIAL METAL ALBUM (s): #WK40 Monday, 29 September, 2025 to Sunday, 5 October, 2025

This week in metal brings a wave of new releases and hidden gems from a variety of subgenres, offering something for every headbanger. Whether you're after melodic death metal, sludge, doom, or atmospheric black metal, the following albums are essential listens.

⚔️ 🩸 Album of the week

#276: “Melodic Death Metal Excellence”

⚔️ Artist: Mors Principium EST 
🩸  Title: “Darkness Invisible” 
⚔️ Release date: September 26th, 2025

Genre/tag: symphonic melodic death metal  

#277: "Soul Crushing sludge from the depths"

 
⚔️ Artist: Voidlurker 
🩸  Title: “Loathe For Life”
⚔️ Release date: September 26th, 2025

 
🩸 Genre/tags: sludge, doom

#278: "Innovative death doom blended through the avant-garde"
 
⚔️ Artist: Liminal Erosion 
🩸  Title: “In The Time Vultures Talons”
⚔️ Release date: September 26th, 2025
 

🩸 Genre/tags: death metal, doom, funeral doom, doomgaze 

#279: "Meshuggah played through a filter of instrumental sludge doom"
 
⚔️ Artist: Modder 
🩸  Title: “Destroying Ourselves for a Place in the Sun”
⚔️ Release date: October 3rd, 2025

 
🩸 Genre/tags:  instrumental, doom, sludge 

#280: "Old school death with modern technical twist"
 
⚔️ Artist: Horror Within
🩸  Title: “Soul Awakening”
⚔️ Release date: October 3^rd, 2025

🩸 Genre/tags: osdm, melodic death metal