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Here is the Cutting Edge Metal team’s roundup of this week’s essential new metal releases…
Filth - Death Exhibition
Genre: Death Metal
About: Filth are a death metal power trio from Sweden. Death Exhibition is their sophomore full-length, following 2025's Time to Rot, and continues the band's old-school Swedish death metal barbarity while pushing into more finessed, atmospheric territory, drawing on influences like Grave, Immolation, Demilich, and Autopsy. The album is released via Me Saco Un Ojo Records in Europe and Rotted Life in North America, and was recorded with a fully analog production approach for a raw, organic sound. Listen on Spotify.
Vulgar Mephitis - From Dust
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal
About: Vulgar Mephitis are a brutal death metal band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From Dust is the band's debut full-length album, following their self-titled 2022 three-track EP, and is released via Willowtip Records. The record took roughly three years to write and was recorded in summer 2025, blending violent tempo shifts and dissonant riffing with technical songwriting. Listen on Spotify.
Harlott - Exsequiis
Genre: Thrash Metal
About: Harlott are an Australian thrash metal band from Melbourne, formed in 2006. Exsequiis is their fifth full-length album and first in six years, following 2020's Detritus of the Final Age, and arrives via Metal Blade Records. The band built its reputation on the foundational trilogy of Origin (2013), Proliferation (2015), and Extinction (2017), and Exsequiis is being described as their boldest stylistic leap yet. Listen on Spotify.
Distention - What Remains
Genre: Technical Death Metal
About: Distention are a technical death metal band from Pennsylvania featuring current and former members of Rivers of Nihil, The Kennedy Veil, Organ Trail, and Visceral Disgorge. What Remains follows their 2023 debut full-length, Nothing Comes from Death, released via The Artisan Era. Listen on Spotify.
Whispered - Honorbound
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
About: Whispered are a Finnish melodic death metal band known for blending Japanese folk instrumentation, mythology, and samurai themes with their sound. Honorbound is their fourth studio album and first in nearly a decade, following 2016's Metsutan, released via Ranka Kustannus. The band took full creative control of the album's production themselves during its lengthy writing and recording process. Listen on Spotify.
Diabolisher - Astral Presence of Evil
Genre: Blackened Death Metal
About: Diabolisher are a death/black metal band from Kouvola, Finland. Astral Presence of Evil is the band's debut album, drawing on old-school 80s and 90s extreme metal attitude. Lead single "Resurrection by Carnage" features a guest guitar appearance from Corpse of Deathchain. Listen on Spotify.
Morbid Abomination - Delusions
Genre: Death Metal
About: Morbid Abomination are a death metal band from Graz, Austria, formed in 2021. Delusions follows their 2022 debut album, Perceptional Decay, which was released via Grazil Records. Listen on Spotify.
Commotion - The Eldritch Tales
Genre: Thrash/Death Metal
About: Commotion are a thrash and death metal band from Montreal. The Eldritch Tales is the band's debut album, presented as a lyrically conceptual work structured like a collection of short stories exploring ancient, fantastical, and strange themes. Listen on Spotify.
And the unearthed and on rotation underground bands this week include: Worship The Pestilence
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