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Sunday, 21 December 2025

Sonic Selections (((o))): 10 Essential Metal Albums released in October/November, 2025

 


Another couple of months are behind us, and as we close the book on October and November, it’s time for my latest recap of the incredible music that landed during this stretch — my Top 10 Records from the past two months, otherwise known as our essential Sonic Selections (((o))).
 
In October, I clocked up 7360 minutes of listening — over 122 hours — spanning 69 artists and 487 individual tracks.  November was a much quieter month, but still full of quality: I listened to 3487 minutes of music, explored 36 artists, and played through 212 tracks.
 
Across the two months combined, I dug into 126 albums — 87 in October and 39 in November — before narrowing the field down to the 10 new releases that made the final cut for this feature. The standard was so consistently high that choosing just ten felt almost cruel.
 
From a personal standpoint, October and November delivered a phenomenal run of new music. I hope you’ll dive into my favourite albums below and discover something that hits you just as hard. When the releases are this good, who even needs words to review them?
 
See you next month — and don’t forget to check out my weekly playlists and essential records of the week, which I share regularly.

10).
 
⚔️ Artist: Cthvn
🩸  Title: “Hymn”
⚔️ Release date: October 10th, 2025



🩸 genre/tags: post metal, sludge, doom, black metal


9).
 
⚔️ Artist: An Abstract Illusion
🩸  Title: “Sleeping City”
⚔️ Release date: October 17th, 2025


🩸 genre/tags: atmospheric progressive death metal



8).


⚔️ Artist: Old Year
🩸  Title: “No Dissent”
⚔️ Release date: October 24th, 2025



🩸 genre/tags: doom, sludge, death doom



 

7).

⚔️ Artist: Terzij de Horde
🩸  Title: “Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone”
⚔️ Release date: October 10th, 2025


🩸 genre/tags: black metal, blackened hardcore, screamo



6).

⚔️ Artist: 1914
🩸  Title: “Viribus Unitus”
⚔️ Release date: November 14th, 2025



🩸 genre/tags: black metal, sludge, death metal

 
5).

⚔️ Artist: Veilburner
🩸  Title: “Longing For Triumph, Reeking of Tragedy”
⚔️ Release date: November 19th, 2025




🩸 genre/tags: avant garde death metal, dissonant death metal, experimental death metal, progressive death metal



4).

⚔️ Artist: Conjurer
🩸  Title: “Unself”
⚔️ Release date: October 24th, 2025



🩸 genre/tags: post metal, doom, sludge, hardcore



3).

⚔️ Artist: Oromet
🩸  Title: “The Sinking Isle”
⚔️ Release date: November 7th, 2025



🩸 genre/tags: atmospheric doom, funeral doom


 
2). 🥈

⚔️ 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


1). 🏆

⚔️ Artist: The Acacia Strain
🩸  Title: “You Are Safe From God Here”
⚔️ Release date: October 24th, 2025




🩸 genre/tags: metalcore, deathcore, post metal, sludge, doom

          

Thursday, 4 December 2025

MONTHLY RECAP: THE SLUGELORD's monthly metal picks #10, October 2025


 

⚔️🩸 My favourite track(s) & artist(s) from October 2025
 
⚔️ Total streams: 1,499 ↑ 38% vs. last month
🩸  Total Artists streamed: 70 ↑ 75%
⚔️ Total Albums streamed: 87 ↑ 53%
🩸  New Tracks streamed: 497 ↑ 42%
⚔️ Total Listening Time: 5 days, 11 hours ↑ 52%
🩸  Average Streams: 48 per day ↑ 34%
⚔️ Most Active Streaming Day: 113 on 17th Oct ↓ 8%

⚔️ Top Artist: Altarage (140 streams)



🩸 Top Album: Nine Inch Nails – “TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (121 streams)



⚔️ Top Track: Blindfolded and Led to the Woods – “The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me” (10 streams)




🩸 Top 30 tracks of the month


Tuesday, 28 October 2025

ESSENTIAL METAL ALBUM (s): #WK43 Monday, October 20st, 2025, to Sunday, October 26th, 2025


 
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.
 
Cthvn drags listeners through a mire of blackened sludge, thick with ritual and rot. And Sunbreather offers a hallucinogenic ride through heavy psych and stoner haze—equal parts desert mirage and amplifier worship.
 
It’s a lean week, but the essentials are here. This is THE SLUDGELORD’s Essential Albums of the Week, WK43. Plug in. Black out. The underground has spoken.

⚔️ 🩸 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 


🩸 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



 🩸 Genre/tags: post metal, doom, sludge 


#296 “It’s industrial doom stripped to its rawest nerve.”
 
⚔️ Artist: Author & Punisher
🩸  Title: “Nocturnal Birding”
⚔️ Release date: October 3rd, 2025


🩸 Genre/tags: industrial, drone, electronic, noise 


#297 “Hymn is a slow-burning wreck of sludge and dissonance—raw, abrasive, and absolutely unrepentant.”
 
⚔️ Artist: Cthvn 
🩸  Title: “Hymn”
⚔️ Release date: October 10th, 2025 


🩸 Genre/tags: post metal, sludge, doom, black metal 




#299 “It doesn’t chase past glories; it carves out new ground with surgical intent.”

⚔️ Artist: Coroner
🩸  Title: “Dissonance Theory” 
⚔️ Release date: October 17th, 2025 


🩸 Genre/tags: technical thrash metal



#300 “Sunbreather eases through psych textures, stoner tones, and grunge mood with a slow pulse and open space.”
 
⚔️ Artist: Sunbreather 
🩸  Title: “Sunbreather”
⚔️ Release date: October 10th, 2025 



 
🩸 Genre/tags: heavy psych, psych rock, stoner rock 


Saturday, 25 October 2025

PLAYLIST: The Sludgelord's Weekly Hit List #43 October 17th, 2025 to October 23rd, 2025

 

⚔️🩸 My biggest tracks from Oct 17th - Oct 23rd, 2025
 
⚔️ Total streams: (358)
🩸  Total Artist(s): (18)
⚔️ Total Album(s): (24)
🩸  New Track(s): (108)
 
⚔️ Top Artist: Nine Inch Nails (121 streams)


🩸  Top Album: Nine Inch Nails “TRON:  Ares (Original Motion Picture) Soundtrack” (121 streams)


⚔️ Top Track: Nine Inch Nails “As Alive As You Need Me To Be” (8 streams)



⚔️🩸 Top 30 tracks of the week