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The summer is solsticing and the halation is blinding. Need some cool blasts to beat the heat? Riff Index is your one-stop shop to stock up on all the week’s best new metal and metal accessories.
Shake off your Seppuku-punx blues, grab a molotov and join the Death Pill grrrrls rioting in Kyiv or start a Midsummer bonfire with Rites of Tara.
Hear the new decree from Valdrin now seated upon his lunar throne.
Get bewitched by the Diamanda Galás incanted Puppe Magnetik.
It took 17+ years but Destroyer Destroyer have found another destroyer to destroy and Insanity return to life after Death After Death.
Want to storm the Parthenon at the speed of black with the wild melodies of heavy metal? Aetos has you covered – just don’t get behind the gas-puffing dragon of Helms Deep.

-Azazzel

 


List of Recommendable Guitar Music:
June 16th – June 22nd, 2025


Compiled, checked, and recommended by ThyCrossAwaits, Azazzel, and yours truly

 

Tenebrae in Perpetuum

Tenebrae in Perpetuum – Vacuum Coeli
Genre: Black Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 

Hellevaerder

Hellevaerder – Fakkeldragers
Genre: Black Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 

MYR

MYR – Helvegen
Genre: Black Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 

Rites of Tara

Rites of Tara – Relic
Genre: Pagan Black Metal
Stream: Bandcamp

 

Valdrin

Valdrin – Apex Violator
Genre: Slightly Symphonic Black Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 

Helheim

Helheim – HrabnaR / Ad vesa
Genre: Viking Black Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 

Returning

Returning – Numinous
Genre: Post-Black
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 

Puppe Magnetik

Puppe Magnetik – Laudans Deum
Genre: Occult Neo-Folk Dark Ambient Death-Industrial
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 

Witherer

Witherer – Shadow Without a Horizon
Genre: Funeral Doom / Black Metal / Death Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 

Patristic

Patristic – Catechesis
Genre: Blackdeath with Disso Nods
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 

Sodomic Baptism

Sodomic Baptism – Contra Christum
Genre: Death Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 

Heretic Warfare

Heretic Warfare – Perpetual Fire
Genre: Death Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 

Smouldering Tomb

Smouldering Tomb – Maledictions Upon the Wretched
Genre: Death Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 

Ectospire

Ectospire – Spiritual Dismemberment
Genre: OSDM
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 

Blemish

Blemish – Dunevah
Genre: OSDM / Thrash
Stream: Bandcamp

 

Insanity

Insanity – Rotted Soul
Genre: Deathrash
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 

Extinctionism

Extinctionism – Et diabolus incarnatus est. Et homo factus est
Genre: Death Metal / BDM
Stream: Bandcamp

 

Vaginal Swamp

Vaginal Swamp – Repulsive Stench
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Stream: Bandcamp

 

Porkfarm

Porkfarm – Involuntary Surrender
Genre: Brutal Tech
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 

Butyric Acid

Butyric Acid – Vomitous Bile
Genre: Brutal Death Metal / Grindcore
Streams: SpotifyYouTube Music

 

Cassadagga

Cassadagga – Demo 2025
Genre: Brutal Death Metal / Goregrind
Streams: BandcampYouTube

 

Melancholy Pessimism

Melancholy Pessimism – Butchery Is Our Strategy
Genre: Tech Death / Deathgrind
Stream: Bandcamp

 

Feartilizer 1492

Feartilizer 1492 – Wape’k Mntu
Genre: Deathgrind
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 

WOAT

WOAT – Prevail in Absence
Genre: DM / Beatdown Hardcore
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 

Upon Stone

Upon Stone – End Time Lightning
Genre: Melodeath
Streams: SpotifyYouTube Music

 

Destroyer Destroyer

Destroyer Destroyer – Void
Genre: Mathcore
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 

Raw Addict

Raw Addict – Swarm Decomposition
Genre: Dripping-Faucet Snare Grindcore / Goregrind
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify

 

Haggus

Haggus – Destination Extinction
Genre: Crusty Goregrind
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 

Discouraged

Discouraged – Demo
Genre: Death-Doom
Stream: Bandcamp

 

Angel of Damnation

Angel of Damnation – Ethereal Blasphemy
Genre: Trad-Doom
Stream: Bandcamp

 

Helms Deep

Helms Deep – Chasing the Dragon
Genre: USPM
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Black Majesty

Black Majesty – Oceans of Black
Genre: Symphonic Power Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 

Reflection

Reflection – The Battles I Have Won
Genre: Epic Heavy Metal/Power Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 

Aetos

Aetos – Ancient Power
Genre: USBM Heavy Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 

Psychic Armour

Psychic Armour – Pressure
Genre: Punk / Heavy Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 

Kirsta

Kirsta – Seppuku-punx
Genre: Hikikomori Shoujo Dark Punk
Stream: Bandcamp

 

Death Pill

Death Pill – Sologamy
Genre: Riot Grrrrl Punk Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 

Ravine

Ravine – Chaos and Catastrophes
Genre: Stoner Metal / Doom
Streams: Bandcamp | SpotifyYouTube Music

 


 

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Azazzel
06.22.25
Wait! oh shoot darnit, we forgot to include the new Alestorm, dang that's just too bad

Thought it was a slow week at first but kick a few stones turn a few leafs and there's good metal to be found everywhere. Apologies to the thrash, dsbm, alt, core fans tending to get the short end of the stick around here but if you've found something quality shout em out in the comments.

Hawks
06.22.25
Friggin sweet!! Gotta check Valdrin and Porkfarm first.

Sniff
06.22.25
You now i gotta check out Vaginal Swamp

Zac124
06.22.25
That Helms Deep cover is one of the silliest things I have ever seen. Need to check out!

Azazzel
06.22.25
it is ridiculous and I love that I'm going to be seeing it a lot cause the album rules (maybe a tad long though)

Hawks
06.22.25
Oh yeah gotta get on that Helms Deep too. Their first album was killer.

Imperial
06.23.25
I wonder what the wives of the fellas in Vaginal Swamp think.

Hawks
06.24.25
I just jammed that Tenebrae in Perpetuum album and it's honestly one of the best pure bm albums I've heard in the past few years. Amazing stuff.

Azazzel
06.25.25
the vocalist puts in a hell of a performance and the drums really pulls it all together. not my favorite style with the more complimentary simple hypnotic guitar but can't argue with the result if you like that traditional icy sound, can tell they've been at it awhile honing that

Hawks
06.25.25
I definitely have a soft spot for the more traditional stuff since it's what got me into bm heavily. Reminds me of early Gorgoroth/1349 with a bit better production.

brickhed
06.25.25
Cassadagga demo is pretty okay, wish it was more focused on one thing rather than jumping between 5 ideas for 9 minutes

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