ESSENTIAL METAL RELEASE(S): #WK 36 September 1st, 2025 to September 7th, 2025

 
⚔️🩸  Album Of The Week:

⚔️ Artist: Zatokrev
🩸  Title: “…Bring Mirrors to the Surface”
⚔️ Date Released: August 29th, 2025

🩸 genre/tag: post metal, psych, sludge

🩸 Honourable Mentions
 
⚔️ Pains - “Blistering Wrath” issued August 22nd, 2025
 
🩸 Genre/tags: dbeat, death metal, grindcore
 
▶️ https://painsusa.bandcamp.com/album/blistering-wrath
 
⚔️ Farseer - “Portals to Cosmic Womb” issued August 22nd, 2025
 
🩸 Genre/tags: doom, post metal, sludge
 
▶️ https://farseerofchicago.bandcamp.com/album/portals-to-cosmic-womb
 
⚔️ Crown of Anguish - “Giants of The Twisted Sun” issued July 11th, 2025
 
🩸 Genre/tags: death metal, epic death metal, cinematic metal
 
▶️ https://crownofanguish.bandcamp.com/album/giants-of-the-twisting-sun
 
⚔️ Ethereal Wound - “Defile | Demise” issued August 29th, 2025
 
🩸 Genre/tags: dissonant blackened death metal
 
▶️ https://loweredheadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/defile-demise
 
⚔️ Proscription - “Desolate Divine” issued August 29th, 2025
 
🩸 Genre/tags: blackened death metal
 
▶️ https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/desolate-divine

SONIC SELECTIONS O))): 10 Essential Metal Albums released in August, 2025

10).

⚔️ Artist: Harvested
🩸  Album: “Dysthymia”
⚔️ Release date: August 1st, 2025

🩸genre: death metal, technical death metal

9).

⚔️ Artist: Blessings
🩸Album: “Blodsträngen”
⚔️ Release date: August 1st, 2025

🩸genre: noise rock, hardcore, punk

8).

⚔️ Artist: Ethereal Wound
🩸  Album: “Defile | Demise”
⚔️ Release date: August 29th, 2025

🩸genre: dissonant blackened death metal

7).

⚔️ Artist: Sallow Moth
🩸  Album: “Mossbane Lantern”
⚔️ Release date: August 1st, 2025

🩸genre: death metal, brutal death metal, technical death metal

6).

⚔️ Artist: Lebrique
🩸  Album: “LBRQ”
⚔️ Release date: August 1st, 2025

🩸 genre: noise rock, sludge

5).

⚔️ Artist: Zatokrev
🩸Album: “…Bring Mirrors to the Surface”
⚔️ Release date: August 22^nd, 2025

🩸 genre: post metal, psych, sludge

4).

⚔️ Artist: Scorched Mind
🩸  Album: “Embracing The Dying Sun”
⚔️ Release date: August 7th, 2025

🩸 genre: dbeat, breakdown, hardcore, sludge

3).

⚔️ Artist: Malevich
🩸  Album: “Under A Gilded Sun”
⚔️ Release date: August 22nd, 2025

🩸 genre: black metal, grindcore, noise, sludge

2). 🥈

⚔️ Artist: Trudger
🩸  Album: “Void Quest”
⚔️ Release date: August 29th, 2025

🩸genre: crust, death metal, sludge

1). 🏆

⚔️ Artist: Deftones
🩸  Album: “private music”
⚔️ Release date: August 22nd, 2025

🩸 genre: alt metal