Metal By Numbers returns with a closer look at weekly metal sales from October 3, 2025. Yes, we’re catching up, stay tuned, there’s more to come! From major releases to underground newcomers, we’re tracking how these New & Noteworthy releases debuted in charts. This week highlights new albums from AFI, Orbit Culture, Author & Punisher, Hooded Menace, and more.
Notable Debuts:
Artist/Album: AFI, Silver Bleeds The Black Sun… (Run for Cover)
Debut #: 5
Sold: 9550
Artist/Album: Thrice, Horizons/West (Epitaph)
Debut #: 26
Sold: 3355
Artist/Album: Orbit Culture, Death Above Life (Century Media)
Debut #: 30
Sold: 3065
Artist/Album: Agriculture, The Spiritual Sound (Flenser)
Debut #: 65
Sold: 1315
Artist/Album: Author & Punisher, Nocturnal Birding (Relapse)
Debut #: 92
Sold: 1010
Artist/Album: Michael Schenker Group, Don’t Sell Your Soul (earMusic)
Debut #: 102
Sold: 935
Artist/Album: Hooded Menace, Lachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration (Season of Mist)
Debut #: 117
Sold: 785
Artist/Album: Supersuckers, Liquor, Women, Drugs & Killing (Blue Elan)
Sold: 400
Artist/Album: Swiz, Complete Discography (Dischord Records)
Sold: 115
Notable Sales:
Artist/Album: Twenty One Pilots, Breach (Fueled By Ramen)
#: 11
Sold: 5600
Artist/Album: Deftones, Private Music (Reprise)
#: 19
Sold: 4315
Artist/Album: Nine Inch Nails, Tron: Ares Soundtrack (The Null Corporation/Interscope)
#: 20
Sold: 4285
Artist/Album: Sleep Token, Even In Arcadia (RCA)
#: 34
Sold: 2575
Artist/Album: Turnstile, Never Enough (Roadrunner Records)
#: 39
Sold: 2100
Artist/Album: Yungblud, Idols (Locomotion Recordings)
#: 60
Sold: 1325
Artist/Album: Ghost, Skeletá (Loma Vista)
#: 68
Sold: 1275
Artist/Album: Twenty One Pilots, Clancy (Fueled By Ramen)
#: 78
Sold: 1165
Artist/Album: Led Zeppelin, Live EP (Atlantic)
#: 89
Sold: 1035
Artist/Album: Motley Crue, From The Beginning (BMG)
#: 94
Sold: 1000
Artist/Album: Lorna Shore, I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me (Century Media)
#: 108
Sold: 900
Artist/Album: Three Days Grace, Alienation (RCA)
#: 114
Sold: 810
Artist/Album: Linkin Park, From Zero (Warner Records)
#: 136
Sold: 665
Artist/Album: Coheed And Cambria, The Father Of Make Believe (Coheed And Cambria)
Debut #: 140
Sold: 640
Artist/Album: Dying Wish, Flesh Stays Together (Sharptone)
#: 157
Sold: 540
Artist/Album: Between The Buried And Me, Blue Nowhere (Inside Out Music)
#: 173
Sold: 500
Artist/Album: Queens Of The Stone Age, Alive In The Catacombs (Matador)
#: 179
Sold: 475
Artist/Album: I Prevail, Violent Nature (Fearless Records)
#: 182
Sold: 465
Artist/Album: Revocation, New Gods, New Masters (Metal Blade)
#: 200
Sold: 405
Artist/Album: Igorrr, Amen (Metal Blade)
Sold: 390
Artist/Album: Alice Cooper, The Revenge Of Alice Cooper (earMUSIC)
Sold: 365
Artist/Album: Demon Hunter, There Was A Light Here (Weapons Mfg)
Sold: 360
Artist/Album: Babymetal, Metal Forth (Capitol)
Sold: 350
Artist/Album: Fleshwater, 2000: In Search Of The Endless Sky (Closed Casket Activities)
Sold: 345
Artist/Album: Amorphis, Borderland (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Sold: 335
Artist/Album: The Who, Live At The Oval 1971 (UMe)
Sold: 315
Artist/Album: Halestorm, Everest (Atlantic)
Sold: 300
Artist/Album: Bring Me The Horizon, Post Human: Nex Gen (Columbia)
Sold: 300
Artist/Album: Def Leppard, Greatest Hits (Walmart Exclusive Release)
Sold: 275
Artist/Album: Dance Gavin Dance, Pantheon (Rise Records)
Sold: 270
Artist/Album: Rise Against, Ricochet (Loma Vista Recordings)
Sold: 270
Artist/Album: Daughtry, Shock To The System – Part Two EP (Big Machine Rock)
Sold: 265
Artist/Album: Paradise Lost, Ascension (Nuclear Blast)
Sold: 260
Artist/Album: Helloween, Giants & Monsters (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Sold: 250
Artist/Album: Faetooth, Labyrinthine (Flenser)
Sold: 245
Artist/Album: Chevelle, Bright As Blasphemy (BMG)
Sold: 240
Artist/Album: Dream Theater, Parasomnia (Inside Out Music)
Sold: 235
Artist/Album: Knocked Loose, You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To (Pure Noise Records)
Sold: 230
Artist/Album: Falling In Reverse, Popular Monster (Epitaph)
Sold: 225
Artist/Album: Sleep Theory, Afterglow (Epitaph)
Sold: 220
Artist/Album: Castle Rat, The Bestiary (King Volume Records)
Sold: 215
Artist/Album: Spinal Tap, The End Continues (Interscope)
Sold: 210
Artist/Album: Poppy, Negative Spaces (Sumerian Records)
Sold: 205
Artist/Album: Spiritbox, Tsunami Sea (Rise Records)
Sold: 204
Artist/Album: Warning, Live From Auditorio Nacional, CDMX (Lava/Republic Records)
Sold: 203
Artist/Album: Callous Daoboys, I Don’t Want To See You In Heaven (MNRK)
Sold: 200
Artist/Album: Die Spitz, Something To Consume (Third Man Records)
Sold: 195
Artist/Album: Blood Incantation, Absolute Elsewhere (Century Media)
Sold: 190
Artist/Album: Volbeat, God Of Angels Trust (Republic Records)
Sold: 185
Artist/Album: Five Finger Death Punch, Best Of – Volume 1 (Better Noise Music)
Sold: 180
Artist/Album: Mirador, Mirador (Universal)
Sold: 170
Artist/Album: Slaughter To Prevail, Grizzly (Sumerian Records)
Sold: 165
Artist/Album: Thornhill, Bodies (Unfd)
Sold: 160
Artist/Album: Mike Tramp, Songs Of White Lion Vol. III (Frontiers)
Sold: 155
Artist/Album: A Day To Remember, Big Ole Album Vol. 1 (Fueled By Ramen)
Sold: 150
Artist/Album: Bush, I Beat Loneliness (earMusic)
Sold: 145
Artist/Album: Ghost aka Ghost B.C., Rite Here Rite Now (Loma Vista)
Sold: 140
Artist/Album: Speed, Only One Mode (Flatspot Records)
Sold: 135
Artist/Album: Chiodos, All’s Well That Ends Well (20th Anniversary) (Sumerian)
Sold: 135
Artist/Album: Deafheaven, Lonely People With Power (Roadrunner Records)
Sold: 130
Artist/Album: Warning, Keep Me Fed (Lava/Republic Records)
Sold: 125
Artist/Album: Rush, Rush 50 (UMe/Mercury and Anthem Records)
Sold: 120
Artist/Album: Black Dahlia Murder, Servitude (Metal Blade)
Sold: 115
Artist/Album: Skillet, Revolution (Hear It Loud)
Sold: 110
Artist/Album: Whitechapel, Hymns In Dissonance (Metal Blade)
Sold: 105
Artist/Album: Primal Fear, Domination (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Sold: 105
