This Week In Metal, 2025 Week 19

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

Vacant Moley - The Planned Obsolescence of Our Kind
Vacant Moley - The Programmed Obsolescence of Your Kind Independent ~ Experimental Slam

Dripping has not done much since the cult release Disintegration of Thought Patterns During a Synthetic Mind Traveling Bliss, although a single released just last year might suggest that more new music is on the horizon — a beautiful side effect of the internet age is that cult classics can be revived and live on. The musicians have not been lazy, either way. Or rather, Ed Morris, a relatively new addition to Dripping who now seems to be one of its main creative forces, has not. Vacant Moley is a solo project by Morris that, in any way but name, just seems like more Dripping. Glaze us, weirdo slam daddy.

Bobo's Brainless Bearings

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Diabolizer - Murderous Revelations Me Saco Un Ojo Records / Dark Descent Records ~ Death Metal

Turkey’s extreme metal scene consistently yields potent acts, and Diabolizer stand as a prime example. Following their impressive debut, Khalkedonian Death, the band returns with Murderous Revelations, an album delivering relentless, high-octane death metal. From the outset, the music grabs the listener with its sheer intensity.

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Morbific - Bloom of the Abnormal Flesh Me Saco Un Ojo Records ~ Death Metal

Morbific deliver exactly what their aesthetic promises: nasty, groovy death metal perfect for foul moods. Their album Bloom of the Abnormal Flesh immediately establishes its territory with a warm, yet distinctly wet sound. Morbific by name, with one foot and a blast beat into the grave.

Anti-Peat's Perplexing Position

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Karg - Marodeur AOP Records ~ Atmospheric Black Metal / Post-Punk

Excursions into screamo have already convinced me that black metal and punk are naturally suited for hybridization, so why not explore further? As ideas go, it makes sense to Karg and it makes sense to Peat.

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