Week 43 didn’t overwhelm with quantity, but the underground still coughed up a handful of records worth your time—and your volume knob. I scraped through the noise to find the ones that hit hardest, weirdest, and most unapologetically raw.
Cranial delivers a slow-motion collapse of sound—dense, deliberate, and tectonic. An Abstract Illusion twists progressive death into a fever dream of layered chaos and fragile beauty. Author & Punisher grinds out mechanical grief, each track a piston-driven dirge. Coroner, ever the surgical ghosts of thrash, return with riffs honed like bone saws.
⚔️ 🩸 Album of the week:
#298 “A dreamlike descent into progressive death
metal—cinematic, surreal, and emotionally unhinged”
⚔️ Artist: An Abstract Illusion
🩸 Title: “Sleeping City”
⚔️ Release date: October 17th, 2025
🩸 Title: “Sleeping City”
⚔️ Release date: October 17th, 2025
🩸 Genre/tags: atmospheric progressive death metal
🩸 Essential Release (s)
#295 “A suffocating
slab of post-metal architecture—Structures doesn’t build, it crushes.”
⚔️ Artist: Cranial
🩸 Title: “Structures”
⚔️ Release date: October 2nd, 2025
🩸 Title: “Structures”
⚔️ Release date: October 2nd, 2025
#296 “It’s industrial
doom stripped to its rawest nerve.”
⚔️ Artist:
Author & Punisher
🩸 Title: “Nocturnal Birding”
🩸 Title: “Nocturnal Birding”
🩸 Genre/tags: industrial, drone, electronic, noise
#297 “Hymn is a slow-burning wreck of sludge and dissonance—raw, abrasive, and absolutely unrepentant.”
🩸 Title: “Hymn”
🩸 Genre/tags: post metal, sludge, doom, black metal
#299 “It doesn’t chase past glories; it carves out
new ground with surgical intent.”
🩸 Title: “Dissonance Theory”
🩸 Genre/tags: technical thrash metal
#300 “Sunbreather eases through psych textures, stoner tones, and grunge mood with a slow pulse and open space.”
🩸 Title: “Sunbreather”
⚔️ Release date: October 10th, 2025
