Friday August 29 2025 – This Week’s Major Metal Releases

Helloween – “Giants & Monsters” (Reigning Phoenix Music)
The legendary German heavy/power/speed metallers release their 19th studio album.

In Mourning – “The Immortal” (Supreme Chaos Records)
The Swedish progressive melodic death metallers unveil their 7th album.

Vicious Rumors – “The Devil’s Asylum” (Steamhammer)
The American heavy/power veterans return with their 14th record.

Månegarm – “Edsvuren” (Napalm Records)
Sweden’s viking/black/folk pioneers deliver their 11th album.

Asymmetric Universe – “A Memory And What Came After” (InsideOut)
The Italian progressive metallers release their latest album.

Dragonsfire – “Rebirth of the Beast”
The German melodic heavy metallers strike with their 3rd album.

Ihlo – “Legacy” (Kscope)
The British progressive metallers return with a new release.

Nova Twins – “Parasites & Butterflies” (Marshall Records)
The UK alternative/rap metal duo drop their next album.

Hexrot – “Formless Ruin of Oblivion” (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Debut album from the American progressive death metallers.

Mélancolia – “Random.Access.Misery” (Nuclear Blast Records)
Australia’s deathcore force return with their sophomore record.

Ursawrath – “Emergence”
The U.S. progressive/sludge metallers release their first full-length.

Rising Steel – “Legion of the Grave” (Frontiers Records)
The French heavy metallers deliver their 4th album.

Pilgrimage – “From Amber to Sun” (Meuse Music Records)
The international doom/death metal band unleash their 2nd album.

Forsaken Throne – “Bloodline”
The American heavy metallers present their sophomore effort.

Mutator – “Excessive Rage”
The Dutch thrash metallers unleash their debut album.

Merhum – “Ungraving the Primal Essence”
The Turkish gothic/black metallers drop their 2nd album.

Hour of Chaos – “Bred to Fail”
Debut record from the Danish melodic death/thrash metallers.

Vipera – “Ex Nihilo”
The American thrash metallers release their debut.

Zatokrev – “…Bring Mirrors to the Surface” (Pelagic Records)
The Swiss doom/death/sludge metallers unveil their 5th full-length.

Deathhammer – “Crimson Dawn” (Hells Headbangers Records)
The Norwegian blackened thrash/speed maniacs release their 6th record.

Necrokinesis – “Death Is the Hammer” (Witches Brew)
Irish thrash/death metallers drop their 3rd album.

Crimson Butchery – “Stalker” (Iron Fortress Records)
Ireland’s brutal/technical death metallers strike back with their 3rd record.

Wolves of War – “Wasteland Warfare”
The German industrial metallers return with their 2nd full-length.

Khnvm – “Cosmocrator” (Testimony Records)
The international death metal act release their 4th album.

Finnr’s Cane – “Finnr’s Cane” (Nordvis Produktion)
The Canadian black metallers unveil their self-titled 4th album.

Minotaurus – “Memories in the Haze” (NRT-Records)
The German folk metallers release their 7th album.