Glorious Depravity - Death Never Sleeps (2025)

Glorious Depravity is a band from Texas, with members of Pyrrhon, Woe, Gravesend, and their new album Death Never Sleeps is a very solid old-school death metal offering, mostly mid-tempo but quite brutal anyway, with a feel reminding Suffocation, excellent deep and low vocals (with occasional high pitched screaming for diversity), nice leads, some more thrashy parts (that and the drummung can also evoke Vader), and, the most important, good song after good song after good song. Old school aficianodos have found a new champion, but I think the appeal of Glorious Depravity is definitely not limited to the old school crowd. Excellent death metal. period.

 

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Doom Spirit - Drama City (2025)

Drama City is the second album (I also recommend the first one) from Swiss hip-hop band Doom Spirit. If you look at the cover and listen to the music it's hard to believe it's beeen released in 2025 and not 1995 or even 1992). It is pure nineties style old-school and grim hip-hop (with lyrics in French), especially reminding early Mobb Deep. Anyone into this kind of hip-hop will enjoy Doom Spirit.

 

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Chat Pile - Who Love sThe Sun (2026)

After a collab album with Hayden Pedigo that was good, but a lot more quiet/ambient, Chat Pile is back to its usual self, that is sounding somewhere between Unsane and Korn, maybe slightly more melodic on this new album called Who Loves The Sun. In any case another strong Chat Pile album. 

 

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Rahaty - Bestial Lustmord (2026)

From the Bandcamp page : "Rahaty is the alter ego of Belarusian raw black metal tomb-walker Pa Vesh En, here wielding the unholy hellfires of death metal's most deranged and enigmatic dominion." Bestial Lustmord is indeed a strongly blackened piece of death metal, cavernous, at times dissonant, and with also a feel of chaos/war metal at times. My only complain is that the album is too short for its immersive potential to really catch. Good stuff anyway.

 

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Tech Level 2 - Indifferent (EP 2025)

Blasting Days readers should already know that Justin Broadrick isn't only an ex Napalm Death and doing Godflesh, he's mostly active nowadays as electronic/industrial music producer, and have done that sicne the nineties. As Tech Level 2 he's doing old school jungle, withe some eerie atmsospheres and an abrasive sound. the Indifferent EP is four track of raw jungle excellency.

 

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Xenosis - Hermetic Transmutaiton (2026)

With this fifth album, Hermtic Transmutation, released with Transcending Obscurity, a label that keeps growing and excelling, the US death-metal band Xenosis are making a big impression. Very technical and progressive while keeping brutality on a high level. What the songs may lack in clear direction they more than compensate with the awesome musicianship and the many very inspired moments. Highly recomended!

 

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Sex Dwarf - Påhittad Värld (2025)

Starting an album with a six-minute-long instrumental track isn't something crust punks usually do. But Sex Dwarf isn't your usual crust punk band, and they know better. Starting Påhittad Värld like this was an excellent move. The track is as ferocious as can be, no less than the shorter songs that follow. Super aggro noise punk from beginning to end. Highly recommended!

 

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