New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This final week of November sees releases from the likes of Excide, Blut Aus Nord, Plosivs and Equilibrium amongst the many outstanding works hitting shelves. Don’t forget to check out our weekly playlist below. Enjoy!

November 28, 2025 Release Highlights:

Excide, Bastard Hymns (SharpTone):
The band returns with their sophomore full-length, which the band describes as a “fuzzy, rocky, groovy, angry record. Seeped in the woes of growing up in a hillbilly hellscape, and living to tell the tale.”

Blut Aus Nord, Ethereal Horizons (Debemur Morti Productions):
According to their Bandcamp, the French metal band’s 16th studio album finds them “fully realised: richer, deeper, grander, more enigmatic and simultaneously more human than ever. Intermeshing the earthen and the futuristic as a vessel for the dark dreamer, soaring and ascending to vivid realms.”

Plosivs, Yell at Cloud (Swami):
The punk supergroup featuring members of Rocket From The Crypt, Mrs. Magician and Pinback, release their second full-length, an album more than four years in the making. 

Equilibrium, Equinox (Nuclear Blast):
The German folk metal band releases their seventh studio effort, their first since 2019. According to the band, the album is about “authenticity, reconnection with and rediscovering our own art.”

November 28, 2025 Releases:

Dream Theater, Quarantième: Live à Paris (InsideOut)
1349, Winter Mass (Season Of Mist)
Malefic Throne, The Conquering Darkness (Agonia)
The Old Dead Tree, London Sessions EP (Season Of Mist)
The Ominous Circle, Cloven Tongues Of Fire (Osmose)
Perdition Temple, Malign Apotheosis (Hells Headbangers)
Soho Dukes, Nighthawks, Acrobats And Everything Under The Moon (Cargo)
Struck A Nerve, Struck A Nerve (Listenable)
Triskelyon, Maelstrom Of Chaos (Moribund)
Various Artists, The Downward Spiral Redux (Magnetic Eye)
5Rand, Ordhalia (Art Gates)
Bloodfield, Homunculus Sapiens (Great Dane)
Verilehto, Aarnihauta (Inverse)
Thermality, Concept 42 (Black Lodge)
Suffering, Things Seen but Always Hidden (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)
Carnal Savagery, Crypt of Decay (Moribund)
Dead and Dripping, Nefarious Scintillations (Transcending Obscurity)
Avdagata, The Apocalyptic Aeon (At Dawn)
Aktor, Professori (Season Two) (Independent)
Dyssidia, Deeper Wells of Meaning (Wild Thing)
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Live in 24′ (Having Fun)
Motörhead, Live at Brixton ’87 (BMG)
Phobocosm, Gateway (Dark Descent)
Thy Disease, United We Fall (Creative Music)
Darklon, Mind Reaper (No Remorse)
Kaunis Kuolematon, Kun valo minussa kuoli (Noble Demon)
Steel Arctus, Dreamruler (No Remorse)
Onsetcold, Apocalyptic Sleep (WormHoleDeath)
APRS, Radio Nocturna Vol.2: Voces del pasado (Flowing Downward)
Hakla, Pieśni końca (Via Nocturna)
Alethophobia, Order from Evil (Independent)
Toxic Soul, Visiones Putrefactas (Punishment 18)
Infyrna, Weltschmerz (Independent)
Adventus, De mi corazón y otras Miserias (Maldito)
PitchBlack, Walking on Burning Ground (Producciones Paganas)
Shadowkiller, Sworn to Avenge (Stormspell)
Haunted by Silhouettes, Faith Came Crawling (Independent)
Munt, The World Is Not Yours (Independent)
Metal Destroyer, Brutal Extinción (Independent)
Harifa, As the Pale Sun Fades (Independent)
Traktates, Koenig in Thule (Independent)
Hazardous, Let There Be Dark (Independent)
Hellixxir, Beyond the Frame (Independent)
Gods of Gaia, Escape the Wonderland (Independent)
Deserted, Brothers Betrayal (Independent)
Sorgsvart, Gardar og grende (Independent)
Tarchon Fist, XX Years of Rock and Heavy Metal (Underground Symphony)

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