Music Tracking 2025

These are 2025 releases that I've taken note of, listed alphabetically by artist, with VA comps at the bottom. My grades, where available, are in brackets at the end of the line (stars in B+ range). Lines in blue indicate that I have a physical copy (albeit sometimes just a promo CDR); in green are records that I graded based on a Rhapsody stream or other such source. Most records have release dates and a brief generic note.

Unheard records are prioritized 0-3 (graded records are 4-5). The priotization is based subjectively on personal interests, reviews I've noticed, reviewers I particularly respect, what I know about the artists, etc. Roughly speaking: 0 is something I have no reason to consider (default page omits 0); 1 has been noted as having some cred somewhere; 2 is something I have some specific reason to search out; 3 is something I'll listen to ASAP.

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New Releases

  • Abduction: Existentialismus (Spinefarm) [02-21] - metal
  • Acid Magus: Scatterling Empire () [02-21] - metal
  • Alien Weaponry: Te Rā (Napalm) [03-28] - metal
  • Allegaeon: The Ossuary Lens (Metal Blade) [04-04] - metal
  • Apocalypse Orchestra: A Plague Upon Thee () [02-14] - metal
  • Aran Angmar: ORdo Diabolilcum () [03-21] - metal
  • Arch Enemy: Blood Dynasty (Century Media) [03-28] - metal
  • Architects: The Sky, the Earth & All Between (Epipath) [02-28] - alt-metal
  • Avantasia: Here Be Dragons (Napalm) [02-28] - metal
  • Avatarium: Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead (AFM/Napalm) [01-24] - heavy psych
  • Balefire: Balefire (Iron Bonehead -EP) [01-31] - metal
  • Behemoth: The Shit ov God (Nuclear Blast) [05-09] - metal
  • Benediction: Ravage of Empires (Nuclear Blast) [04-04] - metal
  • Bergthron: Neu Asen Land () [01-06] - metal
  • Black Spiders: Cvrses () [03-14] - hard rock
  • Blacktoothed: Headway (Arising Empire) [01-24] - alt-metal
  • Bleed From Within: Zenith (Nuclear Blast) [04-04] - metalcore
  • Bleeding Through: Nine (SharpTone) [02-14] - metal
  • Bloodywood: Nu Delhi (Fearless) [03-21] - metal
  • Bong-Ra: Black Noise (Debemur Morti) [02-21] - metal
  • Bonnie Trash: Mourning You (Hand Drawn Dracula) [02-28] - metal
  • Buried Realm: The Dormant Darkness () [04-04] - metal
  • Calyces: Fleshy Waves of Probability (Dry Clean) [03-21] - metal
  • Cave Sermon: Fragile Wings (self-released) [04-16] - metal
  • Combust: Belly of the Beast (Triple-B) [03-07] - hardcore punk
  • Cradle of Filth: The Screaming of the Valkyries (Napalm) [03-21] - metal
  • Cruce Signatus: II () [04-04] - metal
  • Cryptosis: Celestial Death (Century Media) [03-07] - metal
  • Cytotoxin: Biographyte (Blood Blast) [04-11] - metal
  • Dawn of Ouroboros: Bioluminescence (Prosthetic) [03-07] - metal
  • Deafheaven: Lonely People With Power (Roadrunner) [03-28] - metal
  • Deathless Legacy: Damnatio Aeterna (Scarlet) [03-07] - metal
  • Destruction: Birth of Malice (Napalm) [03-07] - metal
  • Diabolizer: Murderous Revelations (Dark Crescent/Me Saco Un Ojo) [04-11] - metal
  • Disrupted: Stinking Death () [01-24] - metal
  • Domain: Philosophy of the Blade (Daze -EP) [02-17] - metal
  • Dormant Ordeal: Tooth and Nail (Willowtip) [04-18] - death metal
  • Dorothy: The Way (Roc Nation) [03-14] - hard rock
  • Dream Theater: Parasomnia (InsideOut/Ytse Jams) [02-07] - metal
  • Drudkh: Shadow Play (Season of Mist) [03-21] - metal
  • Dunes: Land of the Blind () [01-17] - stoner rock
  • Dynazty: Game of Faces (Nuclear Blast) [02-14] - metal
  • Epica: Aspiral (Nuclear Blast) [04-11] - metal
  • Faithxtractor: Loathing & the Noose (Reaper Metal Productions) [01-10] - metal
  • Flummox: Southern Progress (Needlejuice) [04-11] - metal
  • Forlorn: Aether (Church Road) [03-28] - metalcore
  • Ghost Bath: Rose Thorn Necklace (Nuclear Blast) [05-09] - metal
  • God Complex: He Watches in Silence (SharpTone -EP) [02-21] - metalcore
  • Gràb: Kremess (Prophecy Productions) [02-21] - metal
  • Grave Digger: Bone Collector () [01-17] - metal
  • Great American Ghost: Tragedy of the Commons (SharpTone) [01-31] - metalcore
  • The Great Old Ones: Kadath (Season of Mist) [01-24] - metal
  • Grief Ritual: Collapse (Church Road) [01-31] - metalcore
  • Grima: Nightside (Napalm) [02-28] - metal
  • Guiltless: Teeth to Sky ( Neurot) [03-07] - metal
  • The Halo Effect: March of the Unheard (Nuclear Blast) [01-10] - metal
  • Hands Like Houses: Atmospherics (Civilians) [02-14] - post-hardcore
  • Hangman's Choir: Saddiction (Nuclear Blast) [02-14] - metal
  • Harakiri for the Sky: Scorched Earth (AOP) [01-24] - metal
  • Havukruunu: Tavastland (Svart) [02-28] - metal
  • Häxkapell: Om Jordens Blod Och Urgravens Grepp () [01-17] - metal
  • Heartworms: Glutton for Punishment (Speedy Wunderground) [02-07] - gothic rock
  • Hellacopters: Overdriver (Nuclear Blast) [01-31] - hard rock
  • Hierarchies: Hierarchies (Transcending Obscurity) [01-17] - metal
  • Marko Hietala: Roses From the Deep (Nuclear Blast) [02-07] - metal
  • Hirax: Faster Than Death (Armageddon) [02-28] - metal
  • Jonathan Hultén: Eyes of the Living Night (Kscope) [01-31] - dark folk
  • Hypermass: Apparition Day (Seek & Strike -EP) [03-07] - metal
  • Idle Heirs: Life Is Violence (Relapse) [04-11] - metal
  • Imperial Triumphant: Goldstar (Century Media) [03-21] - metal
  • In the Woods: Otra (Prophecy) [04-11] - metal
  • Jaye Jayle: After Alter (Pelagic) [01-31] - gothic country
  • Jinjer: Duél (Napalm) [02-07] - djent
  • Jivebomb: Ethereal (Flatspot) [03-28] - metalcore
  • Killswitch Engage: This Consequence (Metal Blade) [02-21] - metal
  • La Torture Des Ténèbres: Episode VII - Revenge of Unfailing Valor (self-released) [03-06] - black noise
  • Lacuna Coil: Sleepless Empire (Century Media) [02-14] - metal
  • Lik: Necro () [04-18] - death metal
  • Love Is Noise: To Live in a Different Way (Century Media) [02-14] - alt-metal
  • Magnolia Park: Vamp (Epitaph) [04-11] - alt metal
  • Mantar: Post Apocalyptic Depression (Metal Blade) [02-14] - sludge metal
  • Maud the Moth: The Distaff (The Lavarium) [02-21] - metal
  • Mean Mistreater: Do or Die (self-released) [02-21] - metal
  • Mechina: Bellum Interruptum (self-released) [03-23] - metal
  • Melvins: Thunderball (Ipecac) [04-18] - sludge metal
  • Memphis May Fire: Shapeshifter (Rise) [03-28] - metal
  • Messa: The Spin (Metal Blade) [04-11] - doom metal
  • Museum of Light: Diviner (Spartan) [03-14] - stoner metal
  • Mutagenic Host: The Diseased Machine (Dry Cough/Gurgling Gore) [01-03] - groove metal
  • Neptunian Maximalism: Le Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu (LSDSI) (I, Voidhanger) [04-11] - metal
  • The Night Flight Orchestra: Give Us the Moon (Napalm) [01-31] - hard rock
  • Ninkharsag: The Black Swords of Winter (Vendetta -EP) [03-07] - metal
  • Nite: Cult of the Serpent Sun (Season of Mist) [03-14] - metal
  • Novarupta: Astral Sands () [02-14] - metal
  • Obscura: A Sonication (Nuclear Blast) [02-07] - metal
  • Obscure Sphinx: Emovere (self-released -EP) [01-06] - metal
  • Pain of Truth & Sunami: Coast to Coast Split (Daze/Triple B -EP) [03-03] - metalcore
  • Paleface Swiss: Cursed (Blood Blast Distribution) [01-03] - deathcore
  • Patriarkh: Prophet Ilja (Napalm) [01-03] - metal
  • Pentagram: Lightning in a Bottle (Heavy Psych Sounds) [01-31] - metal
  • Phrenelith: Ashen Womb (Dark Descent/Me Saco Un Ojo) [02-07] - metal
  • Pop Evil: What Remains (MNRK Heavy) [03-21] - metal
  • Pothamus: Abur (Pelagic) [02-14] - metal
  • Pulse: Body Is Reality () [02-07] - metal
  • Purified in Blood: Primal Pulse Thunder () [03-14] - metal
  • Pyres: Yun () [03-07] - metal
  • Retromorphosis: Psalmus Mortis (Season of Mist) [02-21] - metal
  • Dax Riggs: 7 Songs for Spiders (Fat Possum) [ 01-24] - stoner rock
  • Ritual Ascension: Profanation of the Adamic Covenant (Sentient Ruin Laboratories) [ 02-28] - metal
  • Røry: Restøration () [01-31] - emo-pop
  • Rwake: The Retun of Magik (Relapse) [03-14] - metal
  • Sanhedrin: Heat Lightning (Metal Blade) [03-14] - metal
  • Saor: Amidst the Ruins (Season of Mist) [02-07] - metal
  • Sarcator: Swarming Angels & Flies (Century Media) [01-17] - metal
  • Scare: In the End, Was It Worth It? () [02-21] - metal
  • Scour: Gold (Nuclear Blast) [02-21] - metal
  • Shepherds of Cassini: In Thrall to Heresy (self-released) [02-21] - prog metal
  • Shrieking Demons: The Festering Dwellers (Transcending Obscurity) [01-31] - metal
  • Silverstein: Antibloom (UNFD) [02-21] - post-hardcore
  • Sleep Token: Even in Arcadia (RCA) [05-09] - alt-metal
  • Spiritbox: Tsunami Sea (Rise/Pale Chord) [03-07] - alt-metal
  • SpiritWorld: Helldorado (Century Media) [03-21] - crossover thrash
  • Stick to Your Guns: Keep Planting Flowers (SharpTone) [01-10] - metalcore
  • Stinky: Solace () [02-21] - hardcore
  • Stormo: Tagli/Talee (Prosthetic) [03-21] - screamo
  • Tayne: Love (Inside Job/MNRK) [01-31] - industrial
  • Teitanblood: From the Visceral Abyss (Norma Evangelium Draboli) [03-28] - metal
  • Thecityisours: Will You Still Love Me? () [01-31] - metal
  • Thornhill: Bodies (UNFD) [04-04] - alt metal
  • Thundermother: Dirty & Divine (AFM) [02-07] - hard rock
  • Tiberius: Singing for Company (self-released) [03-21] - metal
  • Tiktaalika: Gods of Pangaea (InsideOut) [03-14] - metal
  • Tómarúm: Beyond Obsidian Euphoria (Prosthetic) [04-04] - metal
  • ERR: stream no grade: Transcendence: Music of Pat Metheny
  • Tremonti: The End Will Show Us How (Napalm) [01-10] - metal
  • Unreqvited: A Pathway to the Moon (Propecy Productions) [02-07] - blackgaze
  • Vacuous: In His Blood (Relapse) [02-28] - metal
  • Voidfallen: The Rituals of Resilience () [02-21] - metal
  • Vukovi: My God Has Got a GUn (SharpTone) [01-24] - alt-metal
  • Warbringer: Wrath and Ruin (Napalm) [03-14] - metal
  • Wardruna: Birna (Music for Nations/Sony) [01-24] - ritual ambient
  • Whitechapel: Hymns in Dissonance (Metal Blade) [03-07] - death metal
  • The Wildhearts: Satanic Rites of the Wildhearts () [03-07] - hard rock
  • Wrath of Logarius: Crown of Mortis (Season of Mist) [04-04] - metal
  • Wrekmeister Harmonies: Flowers in the Spring (Thrill Jockey) [02-21] - drone metal
  • Wren: Black Rain Falls (Church Road) [02-21] - post-hardcore
  • Wyatt E.: Zamā Ultu Qeber Ziqquratu, Pt. 1 (Heavy Psych Sounds) [01-10] - doom metal

Reissues, Etc.

  • Helloween: March of Time (The Best of 40 Years) (Nuclear Blast) [03-28] - metal

Priority Counts

  • Priority 1: 147
  • Priority 2: 0
  • Priority 3: 0
  • Priority 4: 0
  • Priority 5: 0

Total: 147