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Here is the Cutting Edge Metal team’s roundup of this week’s essential new metal releases…
Nervochaos – Chaosmongers
Genre: Death Metal
About: Brazilian death metal veterans Nervochaos return with Chaosmongers, their fourteenth studio album and a new chapter in three decades of uncompromising extremity. Across 12 tracks, the band explores chaos, transformation, occultism and human resilience, with a tribute to Brazilian punk legends Ratos de Porão closing the record. Produced by Edu Lane, the album was recorded in São Paulo and mixed and mastered by Fredrik Nordström at Studio Fredman. Listen on Spotify.
Cutterred Flesh – The Shapes of Hidden Malice
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
About: Czech brutal death metal veterans Cutterred Flesh continue evolving on The Shapes of Hidden Malice, their latest full-length through Transcending Obscurity Records. The band streamlines its sound without sacrificing the crushing brutality, incorporating more fluid transitions and progressive touches into its tightly constructed attack. Each track draws inspiration from classic horror literature, with artwork by Eliran Kantor complementing the album's macabre concept. Listen on Spotify.
Crucivore – Desecration
Genre: Brutal Death Metal / Slam
About: Lisbon's Crucivore make their full-length debut with Desecration, a 12-track assault released through Testimony Records. Formed in 2024 by former Analepsy vocalist Ricardo Proença and Downfall of Mankind guitarist Sérgio Páscoa, the band combines brutal death metal and slam with cinematic elements and atmospheric passages. Corruption, decay, blasphemy and mortality shape the album's destructive thematic landscape. Listen on Spotify.
Serpent – The Pit and the Pendulum
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
About: Stockholm's occult-minded Serpent finally deliver their debut full-length, The Pit and the Pendulum, through Hammerheart Records. Built around razor-sharp guitar work, haunting melodies and crushing melodic death metal, the nine-track album explores witch hunts, necromancy, occult rites and historical horrors. Edgar Allan Poe's infamous tale inspires the title track, while the record also confronts the Salem witch trials and the Black Death. Listen on Spotify.
Night in Gales – Bitter Harvest
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
About: German melodic death metal stalwarts Night in Gales return with their tenth studio album, Bitter Harvest, released through Apostasy Records. Following Shadowreaper, the band pushes its songwriting and compositions further while retaining the melodic intensity that has defined its sound for more than three decades. The nine-track release was mixed and mastered at Studio Fredman, with artwork by Paolo Girardi. Listen on Spotify.
Sinister – Lucid Nightmares
Genre: Death Metal
About: Dutch death metal institution Sinister unleash Lucid Nightmares, their fifteenth studio album and another dose of uncompromising brutality through Massacre Records. Aad Kloosterwaard leads the charge alongside drummer Toep Duin and guitarist/bassist Walter Jurgen Tjwa, delivering ten tracks steeped in the band's trademark aggressive death metal. Song titles including “Outburst of Violence,” “Bathing in Acid” and “The Strangulation” signal a relentless and grotesque approach. Listen on Spotify.
Sinistrum – The Hammer of Conquest
Genre: Death / Thrash Metal
About: Kentucky's Sinistrum follow Infernal Dawn with The Hammer of Conquest, a ten-track release through Remorseless Records. The band's death/thrash foundation drives a campaign of aggressive riffing and destructive momentum, with the title track joined by “Scourge Awakened,” “Empire of Gnawed Bone” and “Cataclysm Machines.” The album also includes a cover of Kreator's “Flag of Hate.” Listen on Spotify.
Graviton – Graviton
Genre: Blackened Thrash Metal
About: Massachusetts blackened thrash outfit Graviton return with their self-titled full-length, released through Skepsis Recordings. Formed in 2015, the band channels a combination of thrash aggression and darker extreme-metal elements, with themes spanning space travel, political upheaval, social issues and fantasy. The album follows the band's previous releases with a fresh collection of high-energy, blackened thrash. Listen on Spotify.
And the unearthed and on rotation underground bands this week include: Black Sanctum, Old Moon, Crown of Decay, HORRESQUE, and Bannerlord.
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