Standout Black/Death Metal October
urgh, everyone and their fucking mother felt the need to release smth on Halloween this year.
anway list is unranked, only the good shit (at least according to yours truly) aaaand incomplete.
bite me. |
| 1 |  | Yellow Eyes
Confusion Gate
https://yelloweyes.bandcamp.com/album/confusion-gate
might be their best yet. |
| 2 |  | Vile Apparition
Malignity
https://vileapparition.bandcamp.com/album/malignity
brutal face-ripping death metal straight from straya. |
| 3 |  | Hooded Menace
Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration
https://hoodedmenace.bandcamp.com/album/lachrymose-monuments-of-obscuration
death doom with a ton of 80s heavy metal tossed in. feels a bit like a King Diamond album with growls. |
| 4 |  | Suffering Hour
Impelling Rebirth
https://sufferinghour.bandcamp.com/album/impelling-rebirth
nice little blackened disso death ep. prob their most aggressive release yet |
| 5 |  | Luctus
Tamsošviesa
https://luctus.bandcamp.com/album/tamso-viesa
baltic black metal with a hefty death metal infusion. |
| 6 |  | Calvary (US-GA)
White Ruins
https://calvary-iec.bandcamp.com/album/white-ruins
noisy yet ethereal americana themed black metal/post-punk. One half of this duo is Jason Wood of Grinning Death's Head. |
| 7 |  | Zaratus
Those Who Dwell Beyond
https://zaratus.bandcamp.com/album/those-who-dwell-beyond
hellenic black metal with Necroabyssious of Varathron on vocals. Really nice production (unlike its predecessor) which enhances the beautiful instrumentation courtesy of Bill El (also a member of The Magus another project with a legendary vocalist of the greek bm scene) |
| 8 |  | Evoken
Mendacium
https://evokenofficial.bandcamp.com/album/mendacium
proper bleak funeral doom by these scene veterans. |
| 9 |  | Haeresis
Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum
https://haeresis.bandcamp.com/album/si-vis-pacem-para-bellum
ferocious post-black metal. |
| 10 |  | Owls Woods Graves
Strix
https://owlswoodsgraves.bandcamp.com/album/strix
polish black metal/punk cocktail suited for fist raising and pounding beers. |
| 11 |  | Nimbifer
Vom Gipfel
https://nimbifer.bandcamp.com/album/vom-gipfel
neat little atmospheric black metal ep. |
| 12 |  | Sunken
Lykke
https://sunkendenmark.bandcamp.com/album/lykke-2
emotional atmo black metal from denmark. better than the new afsky imo. |
| 13 |  | Order of the Ebon Hand
XI: Justice
https://orderoftheebonhand1.bandcamp.com/album/xi-justice
melodic keyboard black metal from greece. long live the 90s! |
| 14 |  | Pest (DE)
Eternal Nightmares
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzy3-YwNLAI
sometimes they come back...from the grave that is and they do sound like it. cold, hypnotic, ghostly old school black metal made in germany. |
| 15 |  | Barren Path
Grieving
https://barrenpath.bandcamp.com/album/grieving
14 min. grindcore. your face=pulverized. band consists mostly of members of the last Gridlink line-up. |
| 16 |  | Hornblower
The Resurgence of Virtue and Crime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afoqCaQENkU
black metal in the vain of Godkiller's "The Rebirth of the Middle Ages" |
| 17 |  | Binah
Onkos
https://osmoseproductions.bandcamp.com/album/nkos
death metal from the uk. just two 20+ min long tracks, a very atmospheric affair that over time drags you under its spelll. |
| 18 |  | Heteropsy
Embalming
https://caligarirecords.bandcamp.com/album/embalming
rather lively death/doom from japan. riffs galore. |
| 19 |  | Lugubrious Garment
Demo MMXXV
https://nuclearwinterrecords.bandcamp.com/album/demo-mmxxv
cool new blackened death metal project by the Cosmic Putrefaction dude. |
| 20 |  | Stworz
U śmierci na komornem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJy2rEda5cI
slavic pagan black metal from poland. |
| 21 |  | Dwelling Below
Wearisome Guardians
https://dwellingbelow.bandcamp.com/album/wearisome-guardians
dark&cavernous death doom with america's busiest drummer providing not just drumming but also vocals . |
| 22 |  | Stillbirth
Survival Protocol
https://stillbirthofficial.bandcamp.com/album/survival-protocol
quality brutal death metal for the gym. |
| 23 |  | Thron
Vurias
https://listenable-records.bandcamp.com/album/vurias
melodic black metal with a nice heavy metal tint to it. |
| 24 |  | Terzij de Horde
Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone
https://terzijdehorde.bandcamp.com/album/our-breath-is-not-ours-alone-2
intense black metal album with a strong hardcore influence. |
| 25 |  | Dor
Dança Soturna da Morte
https://dordor.bandcamp.com/album/dan-a-soturna-da-morte
black metal punk to rock out to from brazil. |
| 26 |  | Auriferous Flame
The Duel
https://auriferousflame.bandcamp.com/album/the-duel
cool little ep from the Spectral Lore dude. triumphant bm with some atmospheric bits. |
| 27 |  | Humanity Zero
Cursed Be the Gift of Life
https://satanath.bandcamp.com/album/sat405-humanity-zero-cursed-be-the-gift-of-life-2025
bleak kinda basic death/doom with a funeral tinge to it. |
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