Weekly Release Roundup: Monday 16th June 2025 – Friday 20th June 2025
From glorious post rock, to eccentric doom, to powerful modern deathcore, chunky hardcore groove, excitable punk rock, and insatiable power metal, it’s a big week for releases and we’ve got a list for you to check out.
Hiroe – Wield (Pelagic Records)
If you’ve ever heard the statement that ‘music has the power to move you’ and never understood it, you will now. Debut’s really don’t come much stronger than this.
Read the full review here.
The Medea Project – Kharon (Self Released)
Very weird, quite wonderful, and dangerously addictive, this new album from The Medea Project is an eccentric, but absorbing beast of a record. Not one thing or another, but also recognisable in many ways, it can best be summed up as the sound of a band exploring and expanding their musical horizons.
Read the full review here.
Existentialist – Terminal (Seek & Strike)
A stunning example of modern metal and modern deathcore. Existentialist combine heaviness, darkness and aggression with real passion and emotion. It’s a remarkable release and a must listen for everyone.
Read the full review here.
Malevolence – Where Only The Truth Is Spoken (MLVLTD / Nuclear Blast)
Riding high on years of success and sounding more confident than ever, Malevolence are back and holy hell, are they back with a banger. A record filled with riffs, hardcore slams, brutal breakdowns, and some serious groove metal energy. A record that seems to have been created with one eye on the live side of things, arguably where Malevolence truly excel.
Read the full review here.
Death Pill – Sologamy (New Heavy Sounds)
It’s good to have Death Pill back, and even better to have them back in this kind of mood. Sologamy is a statement of an album. If the self-titled debut was the introduction, this is the ‘kick in the crotch’ declaration that they have well and truly arrived, especially from a varied, creative standpoint.
Read the full review here.
Paradis – Ouroboros (Self Released)
What a powerhouse band Paradis have already become, and even though they’ve already released a banger self-titled EP, this new record sounds bigger and bolder. A major component of this is the more notable accessible edge that sits nicely alongside their intense technical heaviness.
Read the full review here.
Black Majesty – Oceans Of Black (Scarlet Records)
A power metal record through and through. From riffs that scream like howling winds across mountaintops, vocals that can command the heavens with their range, drums chunky enough to crack the earth, to big, hooky choruses that will have swathes of people dropping to their knees and thanking the gods for this music. Power freaking metal. What more do you need to hear?
Read the full review here.
Cryptopsy – An Insatiable Violence (Season of Mist)
An Insatiable Violence is the sound of a band on form, unified and angry. After all these years, Cryptopsy are still innovating and still blazing a trail for heavy music and death metal.
Read the full review here.
