Metal By Numbers returns with a closer look at weekly metal sales from August 15, 2025. From major releases to underground newcomers, we’re tracking how these New & Noteworthy releases debuted in charts. This week highlights new albums from Chevelle, Unleashed, Rise Against, and more.
Notable Debuts:
Artist/Album: Chevelle, Bright As Blasphemy (BMG)
Debut #: 5
Sold: 6845
Artist/Album: Rise Against, Ricochet (Loma Vista Recordings)
Debut #: 15
Sold: 3960
Artist/Album: Jethro Tull, Live From Baloise Session 2008 (earMUSIC)
Debut #: 92
Sold: 880
Artist/Album: Ellefson-Soto, Unbreakable (Rat Pak Records)
Debut #: 98
Sold: 815
Artist/Album: Unleashed, Fire Upon Your Lands (Napalm Records)
Debut #: 148
Sold: 535
Artist/Album: Baest, Colossal (Century Media)
Sold: 225
Artist/Album: Agnostic Front, Gorilla Biscuits And Sick Of It All, Live In N.Y.C. ’91 (Galaxy Vinyl) (Wargod Collective)
Sold: 195
Artist/Album: Incite, Savage New Times (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Sold: 175
Artist/Album: Warmen, Band Of Brothers (Reaper Entertainment)
Sold: 170
Notable Sales:
Artist/Album: Ghost, Skeletá (Loma Vista)
#: 34
Sold: 2425
Artist/Album: Halestorm, Everest (Atlantic)
#: 39
Sold: 2200
Artist/Album: Babymetal, Metal Forth (Capitol)
#: 45
Sold: 1910
Artist/Album: Alice Cooper, The Revenge Of Alice Cooper (earMUSIC)
#: 70
Sold: 1275
Artist/Album: Sleep Token, Even In Arcadia (RCA)
#: 75
Sold: 1245
Artist/Album: Blackbraid, Blackbraid Iii
#: 76
Sold: 1230
Artist/Album: Turnstile, Never Enough (Roadrunner Records)
#: 77
Sold: 1200
Artist/Album: Yungblud, Idols (Locomotion Recordings)
#: 80
Sold: 1105
Artist/Album: Linkin Park, From Zero (Warner Records)
#: 82
Sold: 1075
Artist/Album: Fontaines D.C., Romance (XL Recordings)
#: 115
Sold: 675
Artist/Album: Linkin Park, Papercuts (Warner Records)
#: 118
Sold: 655
Artist/Album: Offspring, Supercharged (Concord Records)
#: 132
Sold: 600
Artist/Album: Volbeat, God Of Angels Trust (Republic Records)
#: 133
Sold: 585
Artist/Album: As December Falls, Everything’s On Fire But I’M Fine
#: 145
Sold: 545
Artist/Album: Lumineers, Automatic (Dualtone Music Group)
#: 152
Sold: 515
Artist/Album: Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd At Pompeii – Mcmlxxii (Legacy Recordings)
#: 153
Sold: 510
Artist/Album: Twenty One Pilots, Clancy (Fueled By Ramen)
#: 155
Sold: 500
Artist/Album: Styx, Circling From Above (UME)
#: 178
Sold: 410
Artist/Album: Good Charlotte, Motel Du Cap (Atlantic)
#: 183
Sold: 400
Artist/Album: Falling In Reverse, Popular Monster (Epitaph)
Sold: 325
Artist/Album: Psycho-Frame, Salvation Laughs In The Face Of A Grieving Mother (Sharptone)
Sold: 310
Artist/Album: Knocked Loose, You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To (Pure Noise Records)
Sold: 305
Artist/Album: Spiritbox, Tsunami Sea (Rise Records)
Sold: 300
Artist/Album: Blood Incantation, Absolute Elsewhere (Century Media)
Sold: 290
Artist/Album: Fit For A King, Lonely God (Solid State Records)
Sold: 275
Artist/Album: Ghost aka Ghost B.C., Rite Here Rite Now (Loma Vista)
Sold: 265
Artist/Album: Sleep Theory, Afterglow (Epitaph)
Sold: 255
Artist/Album: Bush, I Beat Loneliness (earMUSIC)
Sold: 250
Artist/Album: Five Finger Death Punch, Best Of – Volume 1 (Better Noise Music)
Sold: 250
Artist/Album: Dreamwake, The Lost Years (UNFD)
Sold: 245
Artist/Album: Thousand Below, Buried In Jade (Pale Chord Music)
Sold: 235
Artist/Album: Poppy, Negative Spaces (Sumerian Records)
Sold: 220
Artist/Album: Slaughter To Prevail, Grizzly (Sumerian Records)
Sold: 215
Artist/Album: Bring Me The Horizon, Post Human: Nex Gen (Columbia)
Sold: 205
Artist/Album: Metal Church, Reforged: The Remastered Collection (1999 – 2013) (Reaper Entertainment)
Sold: 190
Artist/Album: Architects, Sky The Earth & All Between (Epitaph)
Sold: 185
Artist/Album: Dream Theater, Parasomnia (Inside Out Music)
Sold: 180
Artist/Album: Attack! Attack! UK, Attack Attack! Ii
Sold: 165
Artist/Album: The Armed, The Future Is Here And Everything Needs To Be Destroyed (Sargent House)
Sold: 160
Artist/Album: Converge & Coalesce, Live At Cbgbs
Sold: 155
Artist/Album: A Day To Remember, Big Ole Album Vol. 1 (Fueled By Ramen)
Sold: 150
Artist/Album: Warning, Keep Me Fed (Lava/Republic Records)
Sold: 145
Artist/Album: Deafheaven, Lonely People With Power (Roadrunner Records)
Sold: 140
Artist/Album: Skillet, Revolution (Hear It Loud)
Sold: 135
Artist/Album: Return To Dust, Speak Like The Dead (Republic)
Sold: 125
Artist/Album: Whitechapel, Hymns In Dissonance (Metal Blade Records)
Sold: 120
Artist/Album: Bruce Dickinson, More Balls To Picasso (BMG)
Sold: 120
Artist/Album: Gwar, The Return Of Gor Gor (Pit Records)
Sold: 115
Artist/Album: Van Halen, Live In Dallas 1991 (Rhino)
Sold: 110
