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

 

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

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

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

 

Hellevaerder – Fakkeldragers
Genre: Black Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

MYR – Helvegen
Genre: Black Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Ectospire – Spiritual Dismemberment
Genre: OSDM
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Blemish – Dunevah
Genre: OSDM / Thrash
Stream: Bandcamp

 

Insanity – Rotted Soul
Genre: Deathrash
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Butyric Acid – Vomitous Bile
Genre: Brutal Death Metal / Grindcore
Streams: Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Cassadagga – Demo 2025
Genre: Brutal Death Metal / Goregrind
Streams: Bandcamp | YouTube

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Upon Stone – End Time Lightning
Genre: Melodeath
Streams: Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Destroyer Destroyer – Void
Genre: Mathcore
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

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

 

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

 

Discouraged – Demo
Genre: Death-Doom
Stream: Bandcamp

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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More destroyer-destroying on…

Bluesky

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