A few weeks have flown since we shared 26 albums recently announced. Since then there’s now 1663 New & Noteworthy metal releases on record this year. In the fast-moving world of new music, missing even a week means missing countless new songs and album announcements. To help you catch up, Metal Insider has compiled 33 recently announced albums from the last week alone including, Blood Red Throne, Equilibrium, Astronoid, and more.
01) Enthroned, Ashspawn
Release Date: December 5, 2025 Label: Season of Mist Pre-Order: Here. Genre: Occult Black Metal Location: Belgium Note: First new album since 2019.
Release Date: February 6, 2026 // US Release – March 6, 2026 Label: ROAR Genre: Heavy Groove Location: Greece
Track List:
01) Glasgow Grin
02) No Gods, No Chains
03) The Tear
04) The Other Side
05) Free Fall
06) Rain
07) From The Gutter
08) Distant Star
09) Crawling
10) Reign of Terror
Latest Single: “No Gods, No Chains”
03) Fimbul Winter, What Once Was – EP
Release Date: November 14, 2025 Genre: Melodic Death Metal Location: Sweden Note: Fimbul Winter is the new group featuring three former Amon Amarth Members.
Track List:
01) Storms Rage
02) What Once Was
03) Mounds Of Stones
04) A Soul That Soared
05) In Solitude’s Embrace
Latest Single: “Mounds of Stones”
04) Gluecifer, Same Drug New High
Release Date: January 16, 2026 Label: Steamhammer Pre-Order: Here. Genre: Hard Rock Location: Norway
Track List:
01) The Idiot
02) Same Drug New High
03) Armadas
04) I’m Ready
05) The Score
06) Pharmacity
07) 1996
08) Made in the Morning
09) Mind Control
10) Another Night, Another City
11) On the Wire
Latest Single: “The Idiot”
05) Blood Red Throne, Siltskin
Release Date: December 5, 2025 Label: Soulseller Records Pre-Order: Here. Genre: Death Metal Location: Norway Note: First new album since 2024.
Track List:
01) Scraping Out The Cartilage
02) Beneath The Means
03) Husk In The Grain
04) Necrolysis
05) Anodyne Rust
06) Vestigial Remnants
07)Vermicular Heritage
08) On These Bones
09) Marrow Of The Earth
Latest Single: “Husk In The Grain”
06) Gasket, Gasket
Release Date: November 21, 2025 Label: Blue Grape Music Pre-Order: Here. Genre: Hardcore/Grimy Metal Location: Baltimore Note: The band’s debut album.
Track List:
01) Die Trying
02) Blood To Bone
03) Carousel
04) The Clod
05) Purest Existence
06) Nailed Down
07) Not Your Breed
08) Bricksucker
09) In Veno Veritas
Latest Single: “Blood To Bone”
07) Starmen, Starmenized II
Release Date: November 28, 2025 Label: Sound Pollution/Melodic Passion Records Pre-Order: Here. Genre: Hard Rock Location: Sweden
Track List:
01) Trouble
02) Born to Rock
03) 15 Minutes of Pain
04) The One
05) Shark in the Dark
06) Fire
07) One World
08) Shame on You
09) Not Your Enemy
10) Waiting on a Heartbreak
Latest Single: “Trouble”
08) Ov Sulfur, Endless
Release Date: January 16, 2026 Label: Century Media Records Pre-Order: Here. Genre: Deathcore Location: Las Vegas Note: Sophomore album and first record since their 2023 debut.
Track List:
01) Endless//Godless
02) Seed
03) Forlorn
04) Vast Eternal
05) Wither
06) Evermore
07) Dread (feat. Josh Davies of Ingested)
08) Bleak (feat. Johnny Ciardullo of Carcosa)
09) A World Away (feat. Alan Grjna of Distant)
10) Endless//Loveless
Latest Single: “Evermore”
09) Triskelyon, Maelstrom of Chaos
Release Date: November 28, 2025 Label: Moribund Records Pre-Order: Here. Genre: Thrash Metal Location: Canada
Track List:
01) Of Dust and Divination
02) The Winter Tsar
03) Maelstrom of Chaos
04) Unit 684
05) Blood Drowned Prophecy
06) Death Racer
07) Blame Game
08) Divide and Dissent
09) Cretin
10) Major Tom (cover)
Latest Single: “Blood Drowned Prophecy” (ft. guest vocals Liv Jagrell from Liv Sin)
10) Lavisher, Aligned & Vital
Release Date: November 14, 2025 Label: Nefarious Industries Pre-Order: Here. Genre: Alt-Rock/Grunge Location: Chicago
Track List:
01) No Sign Of Mine
02) Preemptive Waltz
03) Sultry
04) Ancients
05) Way Too Much
06) Topped & Tailed
07) Charmer
08) Gritty
09) Howl
10) Aligned & Vital
11) Detached
12) Redress
Latest Single: “Sultry”
11) 1349, Winter Mass – Live Album
Release Date: November 28, 2025 Label: Season of Mist Pre-Order: Here. Genre: Black Metal Location: Norway Note: Recorded in the band’s hometown of Oslo (NO) at Parkteatret on November 20, 2021
Track List:
01) Enter Inferno
02) Sculptor of Flesh
03) Slaves
04) Through Eyes of Stone
05) Cauldron
06) Striding the Chasm
07) Chasing Dragons
08) Serpentine Sibilance
09) I Am Abomination
10) Golem
11) Atomic Chapel
12) Dodskamp
13) Abyssos Antithesis
Mayhem have unveiled a visualizer for their new single, "Despair." The track is taken from their upcoming album, Liturgy of Death, scheduled to arrive on February 6, 2026. Nearly four decades into their career, Mayhem frame death not as an ending but as an inevitable...
A few weeks have flown since we shared 37 albums recently announced. Since then there’s now 2059 New & Noteworthy metal releases on record this year. In the fast-moving world of new music, missing even a week means missing countless new songs and album...
Rob Zombie has unleashed a video for his latest single, “Heathen Days.” The track is taken from his upcoming album The Great Satan, scheduled to arrive on February 27th via Nuclear Blast Records. Watch the clip below and pre-order the album here:
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...
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week will see the release of Aerosmith and Yungblud’s collaborative EP and a holiday album from Stryper, as well as new works from...
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week saw new albums from the likes of Cheap Trick, The Devil Wears Prada, Mezzrow and Of Mice & Men amongst the many...
