SONIC SELECTIONS (((o))): 10 Essential Metal Albums released in September, 2025

 

Well another month is behind us and although we say goodbye to September, it’s time for my monthly recap of the amazing music released in September and share with you my top 10 records of September 2025, otherwise known as our 10 essential Sonic Selections (((o)))

Over the course of September, I listened to an astonishing amount music and that equated to 6575 minutes (or roughly 109 hours) from 88 artists and over 478 individual tracks. In terms of this feature, our sole purpose is to focus on new music released in September and so over the course of last month, I listened to 20 new albums, and the quality of music was such that whittling it down to just ten albums was extremely difficult.

From a personal standpoint, September was a fantastic month for new music, so please do check out my favourite album(s) and I hope you can enjoy some if not all the music below.  Who needs words to review the music, when the releases are this good.  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: Leaker
🩸 Title: “HAPPYHOUR”
⚔️ Release date: September 12th, 2025

🩸 genre/tags: noise rock, post hardcore, sludge

9).

⚔️ Artist: viile
🩸  Title: “A Bottomless Curse, A Bottomless Sea”
⚔️ Release date: September 19th, 2025

🩸  genre/tags: progressive death metal, technical death metal, metalcore, deathcore

8).

⚔️ Artist: Motherless
🩸  Title: “Do you Feel Safe”
⚔️ Release date: September 11th, 2025

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

7).

⚔️ Artist: Cult Burial
🩸 Title: “Collapse of Pattern, Reverence of Dust”
⚔️ Release date: September 5, 2025

🩸  genre/tags: blackened death metal, dissonant death metal, experimental death metal

6).

⚔️ Artist: Paradise Lost
🩸  Title: “Ascension”
⚔️ Release date: September 19th, 2025

 
🩸  genre/tags: goth doom, melodic death doom

5).

⚔️ Artist: Novembers Doom
🩸  Title: “Mercy”
⚔️ Release date: September 19th, 2025

🩸  genre/tags: doom

4).

⚔️ Artist: Intercourse
🩸  Title: “How I Fell in Love with the Void”
⚔️ Release date: September 12th, 2025

🩸  genre/tags: noise rock, hardcore, sludge

3).

⚔️ Artist: Crippling Alcoholism
🩸 Title: “Camgirl”
⚔️ Release date: September 12th, 2025

🩸 genre: noise rock, goth rock, synth rock, new wave

2). 🥈

⚔️ Artist: Lorna Shore
🩸  Title: “I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me”
⚔️ Release date: September 12th, 2025

🩸  genre/tags: symphonic blackened deathcore

1). 🏆

⚔️ Artist: Revocation
🩸  Title: “No Gods, No Masters”
⚔️ Release September 25th, 2025

🩸  genre/tags: technical death metal, death metal, thrash metal

ESSENTIAL METAL RELEASE(S): #WK 37 September 8th, 2025 to Sunday, September 14th, 2025

⚔️ 🩸 Album of the week:
 
#260

⚔️ Artist: Lorna Shore
🩸  Title: “The Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me”
⚔️ Release date: September 12th, 2025
 
🩸 Genre/tag: black metal, symphonic death metal, deathcore

 

🩸 Essential Release (s)
 
 
#254
 
⚔️ Artist: Fister
🩸  Title: ““Graceless””
⚔️ Release date: September 5th^th, 2025
 
🩸 Genre/tags: sludge, doom
 

#255
 
⚔️ Artist: Imperishable
🩸  Title: “Revelation In Purity”
⚔️ Release date: August 29^th, 2025
 
🩸 Genre/tags: blackened death metal

#256

⚔️ Artist: Centuries of Decay
🩸  Title: “A Monument to Oblivion”
⚔️ Release date: August 1st, 2025
 
🩸 Genre/tags: progressive death metal 

#257

⚔️ Artist: Trypanon
🩸  Title: “Through the Portal of Flesh to Achieve Divinity” 
⚔️ Release date: September 5^th, 2025
 
🩸 Genre/tags: black metal, sludge, doom

#258

⚔️ Artist: Cult Burial
🩸  Title: “Collapse of Pattern, Reverence of Dust”
⚔️ Release date: September 5^th, 2025

🩸 Genre/tags: blackened death metal, dissonant death metal, experimental death metal

259).

⚔️ Artist: Leaker
🩸  Title: “HAPPYHOUR”
⚔️ Release date: September 12th, 2025
 
🩸 Genre/tags: noise rock, post hardcore, sludge

 
#261

⚔️ Artist: Between The Buried And Me
🩸  Title: “The Blue Nowhere”
⚔️ Release date: September 12^th, 2025
 
🩸 Genre/tags: progressive metal

ALBUM REVIEW: Lorna Shore, "Immortal"

By: Thomas Gonzales

Album Type: Full Length

Date Released: 31/01/2020

Label: Century Media Records

“Immortal” CD//DD//LP track listing:

1. Immortal
2. Death Portrait
3. This Is Hell
4. Hollow Sentence
5. Warpath Of Disease
6. Misery System
7. Obsession
8. King Ov Deception
9. Darkest Spawn
10. Relentless Torment

The Review:

Lorna Shore return in full force with what may be their purest vision yet. Formed in 2010, Lorna Shore have garnered a dedicated fan base, and for well deserved reasons. With the release of “Immortal”, founding band members Adam De Micco & Austin Archery have cemented themselves amongst the elite of extreme metal. Not content with simple scene labels and contrived stylization, Lorna Shore seeks to break the mold with a blistering assault of sonic ferocity.

Following not one, but TWO lineup changes since “Flesh Coffin”, “Immortal” almost didn't see the light of day, however, through dedication to their craft, Lorna Shore's remaining members were adamant about exposing their art to the masses. For anyone who followed the band's social media accounts, you may well be aware of the effort behind this album, and the sincerity expressed in its composition.

Founding member Tom Barber split from the band for Chelsea Grin in 2018, and was replaced by CJ McCreery of Signs of the Swarm fame in 2019, bringing with him his destructive style of deathcore vocalization. McCreery was later fired at the end of 2019. Often times sounding like he's gargling a mouthful of skulls, McCreery is an excellent accent to the already fluid sound of Lorna Shore. It’ll be a shame not to have him in future releases, but be confident that there is enough talent at the heart of the band to more than continue the legacy.

Bending Metal sub-genres at every opportunity, Lorna Shore manages to expand beyond their fan bestowed classification of Deathcore, and instead craft a dynamic assimilation of styles…resistance is futile. Drawing inspiration from such categories as Blackened & Melodic Death Metal, and Slam, the group manages to craft a spellbinding and hauntingly dark soundscape, without sacrificing the brutality they’ve become known for in the extreme metal world. Machine gun bass kicks and screaming lead guitars overlay epic swelling synths, and choral arrangements, while bestial scream and growls utterly eradicate the listener into a state of wicked ecstasy. It’s these dramatic shifts that really separates “Immortal” from Lorna Shore's previous works.

“Immortal” is a release that almost wasn’t, one that had to overcome doubt and adversity to see the light of day, and the world is damn lucky it did. There is a lot of complex and intuitive song writing to be appreciated on this release, and it would be no surprise to see it wind up on many year end Metal lists. If you haven’t been listening, this is the time to give them a shot, don’t let the useless labels deter you, Lorna Shore is so much more than just another Deathcore Band, and “Immortal” is far too savage to be ignored.

Band info: facebook