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Here is the Cutting Edge Metal team’s roundup of this week’s essential new metal releases…
Muertissima - Prophecy
Genre: Old School Death Metal
About: French death metal band from the Paris region, formed in 2017 by guitarist El Pradosaure. This is their second full-length album following 2021's Inquisition, released via Fetzner Death Records. Drawing from influences like Morbid Angel, Carcass, Slayer, and At the Gates, the band delivers raw death metal tinged with thrash and black metal elements, exploring themes of war, societal collapse, and religious corruption. Listen on Spotify.
Slaughterday - Dread Emperor
Genre: Old School Death Metal
About: German death metal duo from Leer, Lower Saxony, consisting of Jens Finger (guitar/bass) and Bernd Reiners (drums/vocals), formed in 2010. Their sixth full-length album released via Testimony Records, blending crushing doom-ridden parts with calculated brutality. The band draws inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft for their lyrical themes, with recent material using cosmic horror as metaphor for contemporary issues. Listen on Spotify.
Overtoun - Death Drive Anthropology
Genre: Technical Death/Thrash Metal
About: Chilean/American death-thrash band based between Santiago and Boston, founded by Agustín Lobo and Matías Bahamondes. This third full-length album explores human rituals, mortality, and cultural collapse through a fusion of Latin rhythms, folk-tinged guitars, and technical death metal. Released via Time To Kill Records and produced by Martín Furia, featuring guest appearances from Max Phelps (Cynic, Death To All), Enrico H. Di Lorenzo (Hideous Divinity), and Shantanu Vyas (Hazing Over). Listen on Spotify.
Glassbone - Ruthless SavagerY
Genre: Death Metal/Hardcore
About: Paris-based death metal/hardcore quintet formed in 2021. This sophomore EP is released via Iron Fortress Records and Frozen Records, featuring dense, hostile riffing and volatile rhythmic shifts. The band balances technical control with raw, animalistic drive, drawing from death metal's brutal traditions and hardcore's immediacy. The EP includes a guest appearance from Fulci on "Testimony of Death." Listen on Spotify.
Wolfchant - Echoes Of A Time Once Past
Genre: Pagan Metal
About: German pagan metal band from Sankt Oswald, formed in 2003. Their eighth studio album is self-released through Southern Wolfcult Records in collaboration with Hamburg Records and EDEL. The band has been a fixture in the pagan metal scene for over 20 years, combining epic and rousing metal with Nordic mythology themes, produced by guitarists Skaahl and Seehb at Southern Wolfcult Studio. Listen on Spotify.
Malefic - Impermanence
Genre: Blackened Death/Thrash Metal
About: Atlanta-based blackened thrash band formed in 2007, releasing their debut full-length album via Terminus Hate City Records. The band began work on this album in 2018, blending black, death, and thrash metal influences from bands like Old Man's Child, Carcass, Testament, Dissection, and Opeth. The album explores themes of politics, drug use, existentialism, and perseverance. Listen on Spotify.
And the unearthed and on rotation underground bands this week include: Vanta and Upior.
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