April 25, 2025
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. The final New Music Friday of April will see the return of Billy Idol, new works from Ghost, Machine Head and Wednesday 13, and debut full-lengths from The Struts’ Luke Spiller and DeathbyRomy among the many outstanding works hitting shelves. Don’t forget to check out our weekly playlist below. Enjoy!
April 25, 2025 Release Highlights:
Billy Idol, Dream Into It (Dark Horse/BMG):
The punk icon releases his first album in more than a decade, which features longtime collaborator Steve Stevens and guest appearances from Avril Lavigne, Joan Jett and The Kills’ Alison Mosshart.
Ghost, Skeletá (Loma Vista):
The hard rock band’s “new frontman” Papa V Perpetua makes his debut on their sixth studio album, which is said to be their most personal to date. Said the band in a press release, the album will “render the distinct individual emotional vistas of each of its 10 songs in one-on-one fashion, at times as if in a dialogue with oneself in a mirror.”
Machine Head, UNATØNED (Nuclear Blast):
The heavy metal stalwarts release their 11th studio effort, which the band describes on social media as a “testament to momentum, an album honed to its sharpest edge, forged on creative discipline and the hunger to push forward. It drips with melancholy melodies, and yet hammers with bludgeoning riffs, soars with anthemic sing-a-longs of love-lost and sadness, to bellowing power and undeniable confidence.”
Luke Spiller, Love Will Probably Kill Me Before Cigarettes and Wine (Big Machine Rock):
The Struts frontman branches out on his own with his debut solo album, which he describes as “a love letter to Scott Walker and Nick Cave and Serge Gainsbourg.”
Wednesday 13, Mid Death Crisis (Napalm):
The horror punk frontman’s 10th studio effort was heavily influenced by his tours celebrating the 20th anniversary of Murderdolls’ Beyond The Valley Of The Murderdolls, calling the new album “a fun, campy, “leave-your-brain-at-the-door” rager and a true return to his hard-rocking roots.”
DeathbyRomy, Hollywood Forever (ONErpm):
The up-and-coming dark pop-meets-industrial artist releases her debut full-length, a project created as an ode to her hometown of Los Angeles.
April 25, 2025 Releases:
The Moonlandingz, No Rocket Required (Transgressive)
Rodeo Boys, Junior (Don Giovanni)
Sacred Steel, Ritual Supremacy (Rock Of Angels)
Stereophonics, ‘Make ‘em Laugh, Make ‘em Cry, Make ‘em Wait’ (EMI)
Um, Jennifer?, Um Comma Jennifer Question Mark (Final Girl)
Conan, Violence Dimension (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Cosmic Cathedral, Deep Water (InsideOut Music)
Heart Attack Man, Joyride The Pale Horse (Independent)
Kardashev, Alunea (Metal Blade)
LANDMVRKS, The Darkest Place I’ve Ever Been (Arising Empire)
Art Nation, The Ascendance (Frontiers)
Cadaver, Hymns Of Misanthropy (Listenable)
Caliban, Back From Hell (Century Media)
Cancer, Inverted World (Peaceville)
Deserted Fear, Veins Of Fire (Testimony)
Eluveitie, Ànv (Nuclear Blast)
Lives Lost, Home (Life or Death Records)
Employed To Serve, Fallen Star (Spinefarm)
GhostSeeker, Divergence (Rock Of Angels)
Harem Scarem, Chasing Euphoria (Frontiers)
H.E.A.T., Welcome To The Future (earMusic)
Liv Kristine, Amor Vincit Omnia (Metalville)
Phantom, Tyrants Of Wrath (High Roller)
Sumac + Moor Mother, The Film (Thrill Jockey)
Sunflower Bean, Mortal Primetime (Lucky Number)
Teaser Sweet, Night Stalker (High Roller)
The Yagas, Midnight Minuet (Independent)
Monhell, A Last Sigh of Pain (Independent)
Behölder, In the Temple of the Tyrant (Black Lion)
Ancient Bards, Artifex (Limb Music)
Trick or Treat, Ghosted (Scarlet)
Coffin Feeder, Big Trouble (Listenable)
Jack Starr, Out of the Darkness Part II (BraveWords)
Deserted Fear, Veins of Fire (Testimony)
Inhuman Nature, Greater than Death (Independent)
Felgrave, Otherlike Darknesses (Transcending Obscurity)
The Storyteller, The Final Stand (The Circle Music)
Game Over, Face the End (Scarlet)
Oria, This Future Wants Us Dead (Theogonia)
Urisk, Shrivelling Lights (Independent)
Sijjin, Helljjin Combat (Sepulchral Voice)
Aeonyzhar, The Profane Era (Apostasy)
Venator, Psychodrome (Dying Victims)
Bark, The Time Has Come (Listenable)
Hyena, About Rock and Roll (Trueno)
Thronum Vrondor, Drowning in the Distorted Light (Immortal Frost)
Ahamkara, The Harrow of the Lost (Bindrune)
Nolove, Nothing Remains (Independent)
Opia, I Welcome Thee, Eternal Sleep (Hammerheart)
Disfuneral, In Horror, Reborn (Redefining Darkness)
Mano de Piedra, Tales from the Burnt (Independent)
Angels on Fire, Falling from the Sky (Moribund)
Caustic Wound, Grinding Mechanism of Torment (Profound Lore)
Void King, The Hidden Hymnal: Chapter 2 (Independent)
Khlad, Chrysalis (Soundage)
Voland, The Grieving Fields (Dusktone)
Gorekaust, Fleshcross (Independent)
The Howling Void, The Glow of a Distant Fire (Solitude)
Drain Down, Mental Pollution (Kernkraftritter)
The Black Court, Amber ~ Momentum Grotesque (Slaughter Race)
The Victorious Dead, The Reaper at the Gates (Independent)
Cova Rasa, Another Time (Independent)
Judas Conspiracy Theory, Ad Solem (Independent)
