Metal By Numbers returns with a closer look at weekly metal sales from October 17, 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 Sabaton, Biohazard, Battle Beast, An Abstract Illusion, Coroner, and more.
Notable Debuts:
Artist/Album: David Gilmour, The Luck And Strange Concerts (Legacy Recordings)
Debut #: 8
Sold: 6375
Artist/Album: Sabaton, Legends (Better Noise Music)
Debut #: 13
Sold: 4875
Artist/Album: Scorpions, From The First Sting (BMG)
Debut #: 40
Sold: 2000
Artist/Album: Biohazard, Divided We Fall (BLKIIBLK)
Debut #: 54
Sold: 1665
Artist/Album: Coroner, Dissonance Theory (Century Media)
Debut #: 58
Sold: 1445
Artist/Album: Battle Beast, Steelbound (Nuclear Blast)
Debut #: 130
Sold: 635
Artist/Album: An Abstract Illusion, The Sleeping City (Willowtip)
Debut #: 152
Sold: 550
Artist/Album: Pixies, Demos (Cooking Vinyl)
Debut #: 186
Sold: 410
Artist/Album: Evoken, Mendacium (Profound Lore Records)
Sold: 350
Artist/Album: Carach Angren, The Cult Of Kariba (Season of Mist)
Sold: 335
Artist/Album: Tribal Gaze, Inveighing Brilliance (Nuclear Blast)
Sold: 280
Artist/Album: Wings Of Steel, Winds Of Time
Sold: 275
Artist/Album: Wretched, Decay (Metal Blade)
Sold: 245
Artist/Album: Daedric, As The Light Left (FiXT)
Sold: 165
Artist/Album: Immortal Disfigurement, Hell Is Right In Front Of Us (Seek & Strike LLC)
Sold: 130
Artist/Album: Y & T, Live at Sherwood Hall, Salinas, California – October 1, 1983 (Renaissance)
Sold: 125
Artist/Album: Nothing More, We’re In This Together EP (Better Noise Music)
Sold: 115
Artist/Album: Silly Goose, Keys To The City (Blue Grape Music)
Sold: 110
Notable Sales:
Artist/Album: Nine Inch Nails, Tron: Ares Soundtrack (The Null Corporation/Interscope)
#: 15
Sold: 4100
Artist/Album: Twenty One Pilots, Breach (Fueled By Ramen)
#: 18
Sold: 3575
Artist/Album: Deftones, Private Music (Reprise)
#: 26
Sold: 2775
Artist/Album: Sleep Token, Even In Arcadia (RCA)
#: 34
Sold: 2195
Artist/Album: Testament, Para Bellum (Nuclear Blast)
#: 45
Sold: 1895
Artist/Album: Yungblud, Idols (Locomotion Recordings)
#: 74
Sold: 1175
Artist/Album: AFI, Silver Bleeds The Black Sun… (Run for Cover)
#: 80
Sold: 1055
Artist/Album: Turnstile, Never Enough (Roadrunner Records)
#: 84
Sold: 1035
Artist/Album: Sammy Hagar, Sammy Hagar & The Best Of All Worlds Band – The Residency (Big Machine Rock)
#: 88
Sold: 995
Artist/Album: Twenty One Pilots, Clancy (Fueled By Ramen)
#: 103
Sold: 875
Artist/Album: Dropkick Murphys, For The People (Play It Again Sam)
#: 108
Sold: 810
Artist/Album: Motley Crue, From The Beginning (BMG)
#: 118
Sold: 710
Artist/Album: Ghost, Skeletá (Loma Vista)
#: 121
Sold: 700
Artist/Album: The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, Dreams Of Being Dust (Epitaph)
#: 125
Sold: 665
Artist/Album: Thrice, Horizons/West (Epitaph)
#: 134
Sold: 605
Artist/Album: Three Days Grace, Alienation (RCA)
#: 147
Sold: 565
Artist/Album: Led Zeppelin, Live EP (Atlantic)
#: 153
Sold: 545
Artist/Album: Sanguisugabogg, Hideous Aftermath (Century Media)
#: 156
Sold: 535
Artist/Album: Linkin Park, From Zero (Warner Records)
#: 158
Sold: 525
Artist/Album: Zakk Sabbath, Greatest Riffs (Magnetic Eye)
#: 193
Sold: 400
Artist/Album: Fleshwater, 2000: In Search Of The Endless Sky (Closed Casket Activities)
Sold: 345
Artist/Album: Lorna Shore, I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me (Century Media)
Sold: 330
Artist/Album: Ace Frehley, Now Playing (Atlantic Catalog Group)
Sold: 305
Artist/Album: I Prevail, Violent Nature (Fearless Records)
Sold: 255
Artist/Album: Orbit Culture, Death Above Life (Century Media)
Sold: 245
Artist/Album: Die Spitz, Something To Consume (Third Man Records)
Sold: 240
Artist/Album: Babymetal, Metal Forth (Capitol)
Sold: 235
Artist/Album: Halestorm, Everest (Atlantic)
Sold: 230
Artist/Album: Alice Cooper, The Revenge Of Alice Cooper (earMUSIC)
Sold: 225
Artist/Album: Knocked Loose, You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To (Pure Noise Records)
Sold: 220
Artist/Album: Def Leppard, Greatest Hits (Walmart Exclusive Release)
Sold: 215
Artist/Album: Dream Theater, Parasomnia (Inside Out Music)
Sold: 210
Artist/Album: Chevelle, Bright As Blasphemy (BMG)
Sold: 209
Artist/Album: Agriculture, The Spiritual Sound (Flenser)
Sold: 205
Artist/Album: Dance Gavin Dance, Pantheon (Rise Records)
Sold: 200
Artist/Album: Daughtry, Shock To The System – Part Two EP (Big Machine Rock)
Sold: 195
Artist/Album: The Who, Live At The Oval 1971 (UMe)
Sold: 195
Artist/Album: Various Artists, Contaminated Comp 2024 (Relapse)
Sold: 190
Artist/Album: Demon Hunter, There Was A Light Here (Weapons Mfg)
Sold: 185
Artist/Album: Falling In Reverse, Popular Monster (Epitaph)
Sold: 180
Artist/Album: Hooded Menace, Lachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration (Season of Mist)
Sold: 179
Artist/Album: Ruby The Hatchet, Valley Of The Snake Live To Tape At Retro City
Sold: 175
Artist/Album: Blood Incantation, Absolute Elsewhere (Century Media)
Sold: 170
Artist/Album: Igorrr, Amen (Metal Blade)
Sold: 165
Artist/Album: Spiritbox, Tsunami Sea (Rise Records)
Sold: 160
Artist/Album: Castle Rat, The Bestiary (King Volume Records)
Sold: 159
Artist/Album: Revocation, New Gods, New Masters (Metal Blade)
Sold: 155
Artist/Album: Between The Buried And Me, Blue Nowhere (Inside Out Music)
Sold: 150
Artist/Album: HO99O9, Tomorrow We Escape (Last Gang Records)
Sold: 149
Artist/Album: Sleep Theory, Afterglow (Epitaph)
Sold: 145
Artist/Album: Spinal Tap, The End Continues (Interscope)
Sold: 140
Artist/Album: Faetooth, Labyrinthine (Flenser)
Sold: 135
Artist/Album: Amorphis, Borderland (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Sold: 134
Artist/Album: Volbeat, God Of Angels Trust (Republic Records)
Sold: 134
Artist/Album: Warning, Live From Auditorio Nacional, CDMX (Lava/Republic Records)
Sold: 133
Artist/Album: Five Finger Death Punch, Best Of – Volume 1 (Better Noise Music)
Sold: 130
Artist/Album: Paradise Lost, Ascension (Nuclear Blast)
Sold: 130
Artist/Album: Dead Eyes, Black Hole Heart (Invogue Records)
Sold: 130
Artist/Album: A Day To Remember, Big Ole Album Vol. 1 (Fueled By Ramen)
Sold: 125
Artist/Album: Poppy, Negative Spaces (Sumerian Records)
Sold: 124
Artist/Album: Soul Blind, Red Sky Mourning (Closed Casket Activities)
Sold: 120
Artist/Album: Ghost aka Ghost B.C., Rite Here Rite Now (Loma Vista)
Sold: 115
Artist/Album: Michael Schenker Group, Don’t Sell Your Soul (earMusic)
Sold: 110
Artist/Album: Funeral Portrait, Greetings From Suffocate City (Better Noise Music)
Sold: 105
