This Week In Metal, 2025 Week 21

Our This Week in Metal post collects our thoughts on music released in or around this week in the music world. We cover mostly metal, but we consider other genres to allow our writers poseur flexibility. Follow us on Instagram too!

Scuttlegoat's Curmudgeonly Critique

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Landfilth - CONTROL Independent ~ Death Metal / Hardcore

For the real amount of gains, Scuttlegoat need something loud, bassy. Something with a lack of nuance and constant aggressive dynamics. Oh, and it must be good, too.

Anti-Peat's Perplexing Position

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Skaphos – Cult of Uzura Transcending Obscurity Records ~ Blackened Death Metal

As metal subgenre hybrids go, mixing up black and death metal is one of the most natural and challenging pairings out there. It’s natural in that musicians gravitate towards taking the more extreme genres and blurring the boundaries between them to try and push things further, but therein lies the challenge too. If you do too little, you don’t stand out in a crowded field; do too much and it just becomes over-dense and loses its edge. Anti-Peat might just be telling you to edge into the kraken’s butthole with Skaphos though. Dive in!

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