June 20, 2025, brings with a ferocious blast of heavy music, from Alestorm’s swashbuckling The Thunderfist Chronicles to Cryptopsy’s brutal tech-death An Insatiable Violence. With Malevolence’s groove-metal intensity, Skräcken’s hard rock sound, and Tenebrae in Perpetuum’s chilling black metal, this lineup spans pirate metal, thrash, doom, and more, delivering a relentless sonic storm for every headbanger.
Alestorm – The Thunderfist Chronicles
Label: Napalm Records
Genre: Pirate Metal
Country: Scotland
Cryptopsy – An Insatiable Violence
Label: Season of Mist
Genre: Brutal/Technical Death Metal
Country: Canada
Malevolence – Where Only the Truth Is Spoken
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Genre: Groove Metal/Metalcore
Country: United States
Helms Deep – Chasing the Dragon
Label: Nameless Grave Records
Genre: Heavy Metal
Country: United States
Patristic – Catechesis
Label: Ripple Music
Genre: Blackened Death Metal
Country: United States
Black Majesty – Oceans of Black
Label: Scarlet Records
Genre: Power Metal
Country: Australia
Deathblow – Open Season
Label: Independent
Genre: Thrash Metal
Country: United States
Shaxul – Rasa & Bhava
Label: Lucha Final
Genre: Black Metal/Punk, Folk
Country: France
Cénotaphe – Chimères
Label: Ancien Culte
Genre: Black Metal
Country: France
Apophany – Demo
Label: Independent
Genre: Black Metal
Country: United States
Ad Omega – Fathan Aiseras Seus
Label: Zazen Sounds
Genre: Black Metal
Country: Italy
Eternal Dissonance – Through the Endless
Label: Darkwoods
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
Country: Spain
Babalon – Blood Lust
Label: Independent
Genre: Black/Death Metal
Country: United States
Vinnum Sabbathi – Intersatelital
Label: Teschio Dischi
Genre: Stoner/Drone/Doom Metal
Country: Mexico
Moon Oracle – Guardians of the Lunar Spheres
Label: Bestial Burst
Genre: Black Metal
Country: Finland
Tardigrade Inferno – Made in Hell
Label: Independent
Genre: Progressive Metal/Rock
Country: Australia
Inception of Fall – Ruin
Label: Independent
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Country: Czechia
Gravewitch – Gravewitch
Label: Independent
Genre: Blackened Thrash Metal
Country: United States
Hellevaerder – Fakkeldragers
Label: Independent
Genre: Black Metal
Country: Netherlands
Mandragora Titania – In Fabulis
Label: MDD Records
Genre: Folk Metal
Country: Germany
Imha Tarikat – Confessing Darkness
Label: Prophecy Productions
Genre: Black Metal
Country: Germany
Lucille – Dawn of Destruction
Label: Dying Victims Productions
Genre: Thrash Metal
Country: Poland
Morbyda – Under the Spell
Label: Dying Victims Productions
Genre: Speed Metal
Country: United States
Skräcken – Echoes from the Void
Label: Dying Victims Productions
Genre: Heavy Metal/Hard Rock
Country: Sweden
Leverage – Gravity
Label: Frontiers Music srl
Genre: Heavy/Power Metal
Country: Finland
Ravine – Chaos and Catastrophes
Label: Ripple Music
Genre: Sludge/Groove Metal
Country: United States
Haggus – Destination Extinction
Label: Goregrind
Genre: Goregrind/Grindcore
Country: United States
Tenebrae in Perpetuum – Vacuum Coeli
Label: Avantgarde Music
Genre: Black Metal
Country: Italy
Valdrin – Apex Violator
Label: Avantgarde Music
Genre: Melodic Black Metal
Country: United States
Varhara – Первый вздох после
Label: These Hands Melt
Genre: Atmospheric Post-Black Metal
Country: Russia
Helheim – HrabnaR / Ad vesa
Label: Independent
Genre: Viking/Black Metal
Country: Norway
Abruptus – Drifting on the Macabre Depths
Label: Ablaze Productions
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Mexico
Witherer – Shadow Without a Horizon
Label: Hypaethral Records
Genre: Black Metal
Country: Canada
Reflection – The Battles I Have Won
Label: Pitch Black Records
Genre: Epic Heavy Metal
Country: Greece
The Medea Project – Kharon
Label: Independent
Genre: Doom/Gothic/Sludge Metal
Country: United Kingdom
Herzoga – Evil Waits for Its Messiah
Label: Independent
Genre: Thrash Metal
Country: Poland
Warhog – The Dystopian Chronicles, Vol. 3
Label: Independent
Genre: Heavy/Groove Metal
Country: United States
Leo Jiménez – 30 Años tras el Apocalipsis
Label: Maldito Records
Genre: Heavy Metal
Country: Spain
Returning – Numinous
Label: Bindrune Recordings
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
Country: United States
WOAT – Prevail in Absence
Label: Independent
Genre: Powerviolence/Death Metal/Hardcore
Country: Germany
Morningstvr – A Fate Engraved
Label: Self-Released
Genre: Black Metal
Country: United States
Mortalha Negra – Necromante
Label: Helldprod Records
Genre: Speed/Black Metal
Country: Brazil
Rotgut – 24 Oz Cantrip
Label: Self-Released
Genre: Black Thrash & Roll
Country: United States
Black Path – Of Paint And Ash
Label: Self-Released
Genre: Death Metal
Country: Greece
Freeze The Fall – The Red Garden
Label: 604 Records
Genre: Black Metal
Country: United States
Wrath Of Belial – Embers Of Dead Empires
Label: CDN Records
Genre: Melodic Death/Thrash Metal
Country: Denmark
Which release are you most excited for?