We’re nearing the final quarter of 2025, with 1,284 New & Noteworthy metal releases already 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 30 recently announced albums from the past few weeks.
Release Date: September 12, 2025 Label: Saddle Creek Pre-Order: Here Genre: Post-Hardcore Location: Yardley, PA Note: First album in 14 Years.
Track List:
01) Hawk 02) Shameless Faces (Even The Guy Who Made The Thing Was A Piece Of Shit) 03) What’s Mine 04) noitanitsarcorP 05) Koyaanisqatsi 06) Trying Not To Have A Thought 07) You’ve Always Been Here 08) Revelation 420 09) Million Dollars 10) Attn MOVE 11) World Of Difference
Release Date: October, 03, 2025 Label: Season of Mist Pre-Order: Here Genre: Death/Doom Location: Finland Note: First album since 2018.
Track List:
01) Twilight Passages 02) Pale Masquerade 03) Portrait Without a Face 04) Daughters of Lingering Pain 05) Lugubrious Dance 06) Save a Prayer 07) Into Haunted Oblivion
Latest Single: “Portrait Without a Face”
03) Agenbite Misery, Remorse of Conscience
Release Date: February 06, 2026 Genre: Experimental Metal about Joyce’s Ulysses. Location: New Hampshire
Track List:
01) Telemachean Echoes 02) Cascara Sagrada 03) A Charitable View Of Temporary Sanity 04) Whatness Of Allhorse 05) Bellwether And Swine 06) Circe 07) The Twice-Charred Paths Of Musing Disciples 08) Mnesterophonia
Release Date: October 03, 2025 Label: Run For Cover Records Pre-Order: Here Genre: Punk Location: Ukiah, California Note: First album since 2021.
Track List:
01) The Bird Of Prey 02) Behind The Clock 03) Holy Visions 04) Blasphemy & Excess 05) Spear Of Truth 06) Ash Speck In A Green Eye 07) VOIDWARD, I BEND BACK 08) Marguerite 09) A World Unmade 10) Noneunderground
Release Date: October 10, 2025 Label: Nepalm Records Pre-Order: Here Genre: Doom Location: Cleveland, Ohio Note: First new album since 2022.
Track List:
01) Walking Wounded 02) Summertime Sadness 03) Boo 04) Demons 05) Souvenirs Of Your Betrayal 06) Glass Blown Heart 07) Hymn For The Living 08) Run 09) Heretic 10) Only Just Once
Latest Single: “Summertime Sadness” (Lana Del Rey cover)
Release Date: October 31, 2025 Label: Spinefarm Pre-Order: Here Genre: Gothic Rock Location: UK Note: First new album since 2023.
Track List:
01) A Shadow Stirs 02) Mistress Of Death 03) Blood Magick (It’s A Ritual) 04) Headstones 05) Prey For The Night 06) Daydreaming In The Dark 07) Parasite 08) Razor Wire 09) From The Depths Below 10) The Black House 11) The Crimson Bride 12) Pavor Nocturnu
Release Date: October 24, 2025 Label: Ripple Music Pre-Order: Here Genre: Doom Location: Maryland Note: Fourth Solo album (first album since 2020) from the vocalist behind The Obsessed, Saint Vitus, and Spirit Caravan. Latest Single: “New Terms”
Release Date: October 17, 2025 Label: Metal Blade Records Pre-Order: Here Genre: Death Metal Location: Charlotte, North Carolina Note: First new album in 11 years.
Track List:
01) Decay 02) Malus Incarnate 03) The Royal Body 04) The Crimson Sky 05) Radiance 06) Clairvoyance 07) The Mortal Line 08) Behind the Glass 09) Lights 10) The Golden Tide 11) Blackout 12) The Golden Skyway
Release Date: October 31, 2025 Label: Roadrunner Records Pre-Order: Here Genre: Metal Location: Orlando, Florida Note: Latest full-length album was in 2021.
Track List:
01) Bury Me With My Screams 02) Struck Dead (Pain Is Easier To Remember) 03) Six Walls Surround Me
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:
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