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

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

 

⚔️🩸 My biggest tracks from Oct 17^th - Oct 23^rd, 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

ESSENTIAL METAL ALBUM (s): #WK42 Monday, October 13, 2025, to Sunday, October 19, 2025

This week’s sonic eruption delivers a blistering spectrum of heaviness—from dissonant death metal to oscillating horror drone, industrial menace to cosmic doom. These aren’t just new releases—they’re the seven albums I’ve personally absorbed, dissected, and endured during Week 42 of 2025. Each one left a mark, whether through sheer brutality, atmospheric dread, or genre-defying ambition.

Whether you're craving dissonant complexity or groove-laced annihilation, these records are the pulse of the underground and beyond. From Undersave’s cerebral death labyrinth to Danakil Heat’s desert-baked sludge, from Terzij de Horde’s poetic blackened fury to Nine Inch Nails’ futuristic industrial score—this lineup is a testament to metal’s evolving edge.

 Welcome to #WK42 of THE SLUDGELORD’s Essential Metal Releases. So, plug in. Black out. Watch your speakers die!.

⚔️ 🩸 Album of the week: 

#292 “What Vangelis was to Blade Runner, Nine Inch Nails now are to Tron: architects of a soundtrack that reshapes the genre for a new era.”
 
⚔️ Artist: Nine Inch Nails
🩸  Title: “Tron: Ares (Original Soundtrack)”
⚔️ Release date: September 19th, 2025 

🩸 Genre/tags: electronic, synth, industrial, soundtrack 

🩸 Essential Release (s)
 
#288 “A labyrinthine slab of dissonant death metal that twists with cerebral precision”
 
⚔️ Artist: Undersave
🩸  Title: “Merged in Abstract Perdition”
⚔️ Release date: October 10th, 2025

🩸 Genre/tags: dissonant, atmospheric death metal 

#289 “searing blackened hardcore, channeling existential fury through raw, cathartic riffs”
 
⚔️ Artist: Terizj de Horde
🩸  Title: “Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone”
⚔️ Release date: October 10th, 2025 

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

#290 “a dose of guttural brutality”
 
⚔️ Artist: Vile Apparition
🩸  Title: “Malignity”
⚔️ Release date: October 10^th

🩸 Genre/tags:  old school death metal, brutal death metal 

#291 “pushing progressive death into cinematic realms with a perfect blend of melody and menace”
 
⚔️ Artist: Omnivide
🩸  Title: “Arise” 
⚔️ Release date: October 10th, 2025 

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

#293 “a retro-futurist descent into analog horror and cosmic dread”
 
⚔️ Artist: Oscillotron 
🩸  Title: “Snieza”
⚔️ Release date: September 19th, 2025 

 
🩸 Genre/tags: ambient, doom, drone, synth 

#294 “heat-soaked riffs that burn slow and deep”
 
⚔️ Artist: Danakil Heat
🩸  Title: “Doomsday Delight”
⚔️ Release date: September 13th, 2025

 
🩸 Genre/tags: groove, stoner, sludge