Weekly Review Roundup: Monday 15th December 2025 – Friday 19th December 2025

From extreme metal and sludge crossover metal, to progressive metal twisted by black and death, and thrashing death metal, we’ve reviewed some great releases this week, and here’s our weekly reminder of what has been covered.

Funeral Vomit – Upheaval of Necromancy (Xtreem Music)

Funeral Vomit’s new album isn’t just sickeningly ugly, violently heavy, and abjectly coarse, it’s refined. This is a surprisingly palatable release, albeit one that is still forcefully jammed down the throat. It’s the extreme metal way, after all.

Check out the full review here.

Verminthrone – Feast Of The Serpent (Self Released)

The ugly, violent, heavy, and intense sound that Verminthrone deliver has long appealed, but it’s even more exciting to hear them reach a new level of garishness with this EP. Sounding nastier, heavier, and rawer, but refined nicely too, this is Verminthrone at their most hostile, and subsequently, their most addictive.

Check out the full review here.

Weft – The Splintered Oar (Bindrune Recordings)

Known for his violin work in Panopticon, Charlie Anderson branches out into black and death focused soundscapes, while putting haunting atmosphere at the forefront of everything. Along with a ton of impressive collaborators, the man creates something that captures the imagination and stays with you for a long time afterwards.

Check out the full review here.

Pythonic – Decomposition (Self Released)

A nice blast of heaviness to see out the year. Pythonic throw their all into delivering a memorable showcase of thrashing death metal. An EP of five tracks that shows off plenty of creativity, has moments of exciting flair, and undeniably delivers the hefty ‘one-two’ punch of death crossed with thrash metal.

Check out the full review here.