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Here is the Cutting Edge Metal team’s roundup of this week’s essential new metal releases…
Cryptorium – Through the Bowels of Ceaseless Dissonance
Genre: Old-School Death Metal
About: Swedish death metal outfit Cryptorium follow their 2024 debut Descent into Lunacy with a second full-length steeped in the filthy, chainsaw-driven tradition of the Stockholm scene. Across ten tracks, the band deliver raw HM-2 guitar tones, pounding d-beats and a grimy old-school attack that pays homage to the genre’s formative years. Released through Transcending Obscurity Records, the album also features the late bassist Knalle, making it a tribute to his contribution to the band. Listen on Spotify.
Eldfödd – The Night Belongs to the Dead
Genre: Death Metal
About: Eldfödd bring together an experienced cast of Swedish extreme-metal musicians for The Night Belongs to the Dead, their debut full-length. Featuring members with backgrounds in bands including Necrophobic, Dismember, General Surgery and Under the Church, the group deliver a direct, uncompromising form of death metal built around crushing riffs, forceful drums and harsh vocals. Edged Circle Productions releases the ten-track album. Listen on Spotify.
Darkest Hour – Suffer Divine
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore
About: Washington, D.C. veterans Darkest Hour return with Suffer Divine, their eleventh studio album and the follow-up to 2024’s Perpetual | Terminal. The band continue to combine hardcore urgency with melodic death-metal riffing, speed and twin-guitar harmonies, drawing on the sound they helped establish within American metalcore. Produced by Mark Lewis, the eleven-track album is released through MNRK Records. Listen on Spotify.
Grave Hex – Domain of Foul Rebirths
Genre: Death Metal
About: Finnish death metal quartet Grave Hex follow their 2025 debut Vermian Death with Domain of Foul Rebirths, a five-track EP that pushes their established sound into more complex compositional territory. Thematically, the release explores grotesque forms of self-destruction and rebirth, with each song examining attempts to reach a postmortal existence through extreme physical torment. Released through Night Terrors Records and Cavernous Records, the EP features mastering by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios. Listen on Spotify.
Mastic Scum – Void
Genre: Industrial Death Metal / Grindcore
About: Austrian extreme-metal veterans Mastic Scum return with Void, their seventh full-length and first album since 2022’s Icon. Across eleven tracks, the band combine crushing riffs and dissonant melodies with the industrial-tinged aggression that has shaped their sound, while guest appearances from Sebastian Grihm of Cytotoxin, Andy Dude of Throwback and Mike Kronstorfer of Before the Fall add further intensity. The album explores destruction, chaos and existential collapse, and is released through MDD Records. Listen on Spotify.
And the unearthed and on rotation underground bands this week include: Deadwood, Blistered Existence, Grandeur, and Heathen Peace
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