This Week In Metal, 2025 Week 17

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

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Messa - The Spin Metal Blade Records ~ Heavy / Doom Metal

The cruel, ever advancing passage of time spares no one. Three years, and a few mental breakdowns and depressive episodes later, Scuttlegoat finds himself confronted with The Spin. Will it make him turn 360 degrees around and walk away?

Cosmo

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Ritual Ascension – Profanation of the Adamic Covenant Sentient Ruin Laboratories ~ Death / Doom Metal

Perched on a wobbly table, Cosmo clutches his peppermint mocha like a sacred relic. He lifts it skyward, eyes blazing with caffeinated conviction, and whispers with holy reverence, "Ritual Ascension… the bolo tie of Minnesota."

Anti-Peat's Perplexing Position

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Contemplation – Au Bord Du Précipice Independent ~ Death / Doom Metal

Once upon a time, Anti-Peat found a great life hack in a restaurant review, and that hack is pick the weirdest thing on the menu. Either the restaurant can deliver and you have picked something truly special, or they can’t and you’ve got a good story out of it. Now serving King Tubby’s favorite snack: fat fucking riffs.

Bobo's Brainless Bearing

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Belnejoum – Dark Tales of Zarathustra Antiq Records ~ Symphonic Black Metal

What happens when a bear tries to widen his palate with some symphonic black metal? Will it be perfectly charred or will it make him wish for death?

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