New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out. The last few weeks (July 11 – June 27) have seen new music from the likes of Fishbone, Dropkick Murphys, Jonathan Richman, Born Of Osirus and Impureza, as well as debuts from Pig Pen and Split Chain, and an unearth album from Motörhead, among the many outstanding works hitting shelves. Don’t forget to check out our playlist below. Enjoy!
July 11, 2025
July 11, 2025 Release Highlights:
Born of Osiris, Through Shadows (Sumerian):
The metalcore band releases their seventh studio effort, which they started working on in 2021 before their last album was even out.
Impureza, Alcázares (Season Of Mist):
The Hispanic Metal pioneers combine death metal and flamenco on their latest album, which is described on their Bandcamp as “plung[ing] into the heart of medieval Spain, resurrecting the legends of the Reconquista with unrelenting ferocity.”
Split Chain, motionblur (Epitaph):
The UK nu metal-meets-shoegaze band releases its debut full-length album, which their label describes as “channel[ing] the conflicting and contradictory angst, excitement, joy and pain of growing up and discovering your true sense of self.
July 11, 2025 Releases:
N8NOFACE, As Of Right Now (Stones Throw)
Angerot, Seofon (Redefining Darkness)
Calva Louise, Edge Of The Abyss (Mascot)
Dead7, Love What You Can While You Still Got Something To Love (SharpTone)
Diamond Head, Live And Electric (Silver Lining)
Double Vision, Double Vision (Frontiers)
Eternal Idol, Behind A Vision (Frontiers)
Front Row Warriors, Running Out Of Time (Rock Of Angels)
Girlschool, Running Wild: Live In London (HNE)
Imperial Crystalline Entombment, Abominable Astral Summoning (Debemur Morti)
Laguna, The Ghost Of Katrina (Frontiers)
Mädhouse, Plead The Fifth (Rock Of Angels)
Matt Jencik and Midwife, Never Die (Relapse)
Obituary, Godly Beings Box Set (Dissonance)
Sheev, Ate’s Alchemist (Ripple)
Steve Hackett, The Lamb Stands Up Live At The Royal Albert Hall (InsideOut)
Ward XVI, Id3ntity (Earache)
Floating, Hesitating Lights (Transcending Obscurity)
Toxic Youth, Still Hungry (Time to Kill)
Hell, Submersus (Independent)
Symphobia, Hideously Traumatic (Comatose)
Disembodiment, Spiral Crypts (Everlasting Spew)
Celestial Wizard, Regenesis (Scarlet)
Philosophobia, The Constant Void (Sensory)
In the Company of Serpents, A Crack in Everything (Independent)
Augmented Existence, Edifice of Mortal Struggle (Independent)
Cronos Compulsion, Lawgiver (Unorthodox Emanations)
Carcariass, A Cold Black Day (Adipocere)
Hibernaut, Obsidian Eye (Olde Magick)
Embers of Ouroboros, The Autumnal Decline and Hermetic Maturation (Horror Pain Gore Death)
Mosara, Rumour of a Funeral (Remorseless)
StarForce, Beyond the Eternal Night (Independent)
Kakothanasy, Metagonism (Amputated Vein)
Viogression, Thaumaturgic Veil (Independent)
Primalfrost, Path of Resilience (Independent)
Black Rose, The Mirror (Independent)
Exvamon, Odyssey of Fate (Independent)
Vulgar Dissection, Liquifying Coagulated Viscera (Independent)
