Weekly Review Roundup: Monday 27th October 2025 – Friday 31st October 2025
From violent and vitriolic deathcore, to heavy groove metal, and expansive post and atmosphere, to passionate alternative rock, potent modern metal, and sinful blackened thrash and death, we’ve reviewed some great releases this week, and here’s our weekly reminder of what was covered. All these releases are out now!
Spite – New World Killer (Rise Records)
If you thought that Spite had already hit a heavy high, you’re in for one hell of a shock when you hear this new album. An album with a bite as bad as the bark, it’s the sound of a rabid band embracing the groove, while keeping the blackened deathcore fundamentals of their music prevalent. The result is a ten-track beast of a record that shows off an incredible amount of progression. Spite we’re so good already, but this record is even mightier.
Check out the full review here.
Trivium – Struck Dead (Roadrunner Records)
A potent and punchy EP that borrows from Trivium’s rich history, you can hear how their revisiting of the Ascendency album for the 20th anniversary has bled into the music they created for this record. Albeit with modern Trivium’s writing capabilities.
Check out the full review here.
V/Haze Miasma – Praise Me! Erase Me! (Inertial Music)
Praise Me! Erase Me! isn’t just a great follow-up from V/Haze Miasma — it’s a statement album. It’s proof that post-metal can still feel huge, human, and genuinely affecting without ever falling into an overly familiar formula. Across these eight expansive tracks, the band blend patience and power, fragility and fury, melody and menace with masterful confidence. It’s an album that challenges as much as it comforts. This is powerful, thoughtful, unpredictable, and beautiful — often all in the span of a single song. Praise Me! Erase Me! is a journey worth taking again and again.
Check out the full review here.
Headwreck – Attitude Adjustment (Self Released)
There’s a lot to like about Headwreck’s EP, especially if alternative, retro nu-metal, and rocking anthems are your jam. Throw in plenty of boundary experimentation too, and the six-track record starts to look like one hell of a potent release.
Check out the full review here.
Smash Into Pieces – ArmaHeaven (The Orchard)
Constantly setting rock trends, Smash into Pieces return with, arguably, their biggest record to date. Not only because it tells an elaborate story with exciting twists and turns, but because they express this story in anthemic fashion. Come for the rocking heaviness, melodic potency, and chorus-driven delights, but stay for the detail.
Check out the full review here.
Believe In Nothing – Rot (Church Road Records)
What horrible sounds would you like to hear? Because Believe in Nothing have a bevy to share and it’s damn addictive stuff. Kicking off with something that can best be described as discomfort in aural form, although even that doesn’t fully convey the wretchedness that is on display here. Here, it becomes evidently clear that Believe in Nothing set out to create something disturbing, something raw, harsh, and unflinchingly honest, and that is what we get. Music that stays with you even though you’d rather it didn’t, serving as a stark reminder of the unimaginable evil taking place in our world at any given moment.
Check out the full review here.
Unprocessed – Angel (Self Released)
Inspiring, exciting, and addictive modern metal that combines the sharpness of metalcore with the ferocity of deathcore, throws in technical twists, experiments with melody, and so much more. This is Unprocessed and they’re continuing their fine form with another banging record.
Check out the full review here.
Going Off – Kill List II (Self Released)
Seven tracks that will leave you feeling as though you have been punched in the head over and over again. Just like the first Kill List, this sequel is filled with venom, punk-infused hardcore venom, and just like the first Kill List, it kicks so much ass. All because Going Off believe in themselves wholeheartedly and with that, comes a potency that can only come from confidence. Considering its sees the band channelling grief, rage, and resilience, their intense focus makes a lot of sense.
Check out the full review here.
Bastard Cröss – Crossripper (Morbid and Miserable)
A sinful and sinister release that sits somewhere between black metal and crust punk. Delivering nine tracks of malevolent heaviness and speed, Bastard Cröss’ style is familiar, but the group throw enough of their own nuances in to make the record stand out as their own thing. Interestingly, across the album’s runtime, they show off variety and deliver a cacophony of different styles.
Check out the full review here.
