PODCAST: Episode 708 - New Music Friday - Rock and Metal Releases for 5-2-25

From underground gems to headline-worthy drops, it's New Music Friday for 5-2-25 What is your favorite album cover this week? Aawks – On Through The Sky Maze (Black Throne Records)Abyssal Vacuum – Abyssal Vacuum (Signal Rex Records)Acceptance – Crucifixion Of Orchids (Road To Masochist Records)Acherontas – Nekya – The Necromantic Patterns (Zazen Sounds)Acres – The Host (Solid State Records)Amalekim – Shir Hashirim (Avantgarde Music)Arv – Curse & Courage (Vinter Records)Beware Of Gods – Upon Whom The Last Light Descends II: Amnesia Island (Invoke Records)Black Honey Cult – Black Honey Cult (Heavy Psych Sounds)Bleed – Bleed (20 Buck Spin)Burndy – Burndy (Self-Released)Crematory – Destination (ROAR/RPM Music)The Crystal Teardrop – …Is Forming (Popclaw Records/Rise Above Records)fallfiftyfeet – Counterfeit Recollections (Self-Released)Falling From Grace – At The Edge (Inverse Records)A Flock Named Murder – Incendiary Sanctum (Hypaethral Records)The Flower Kings – Love (InsideOut Music)Gentle Giant – Playing The Fool: The Complete Live Experience (Self-Released)Goats Of Doom – INRI (Purity Through Fire Records)Gypsy Pistoleros – Welcome To The Church Of The Pistoleros (Earache Records)Hangfire – Burn (Rottweiler Records)Hate – Bellum Regiis (Metal Blade Records)Herta – Crossing The Illusion (Lifeforce Records)Kickin Valentina – Raw Tracks, B-Sides & Bootlegs (Mighty Music)Knives - Glitter (Marshall Records)Lux Interna - New Wilderness Gospel (Self-Released) Maestrick – Espresso Della Vita: Lunare (Frontiers srl)Master Charger – Posthumous Resurrection (Argonauta Records)Matraque – Nature Morte (Ashen Tree Records)Misfire – Product Of The Environment (MNRK Heavy)Nightfall – Children Of Eve (Season Of Mist)No Heroes – Brood Eternal (Sound Of The Northwoods)Palantyr – The Ascent & The Hunger EP (Jawbreaker Records)Paradise Slaves – With Hell In His Eyes (Spinefarm Records)Power Surge – Shadows Warning (FHM Records)Press Club – To All The Ones That I Love (Self-Released)Propagandhi – At Peace (Epitaph Records)Pyramids – Pythagoras (The Flenser)RawMoor – En Route (Wormholedeath Records)Scott Hepple & The Sun Band – English Mustard (Rise Above Records)Shuggah – Her Chrysalis (Mongrel Records)Skyjoggers – 12021: Post-Electric Apocalypse (Supernatural Cat Records)Slow Draw – The People’s Department of Governmental Checks & Balances (Self-Released)Slung – In Ways (Art As Catharsis/Fat Dracula Records)Solfatare – Asservis par l’espoir (Signal Rex Records)Spiritwood – The Apparition Of Horns (Loudriver Records)Strega – Stryx Strega Strygae EP (Masked Dead Records)Tumble – Lost In Light EP (Echodelick Records)Turnover – Peripheral Vision Re-Release (Run For Cover Records)Under Ruins – Age Of The Void (FHM Records)Xiphoid Dementia – Spiral Rapture Holy War (Fusty Records)ANDYour Spirit Dies – My Gnawing Pains Will Never Rest (MNRK Heavy)The Usual Suspects: 🎤 Micaela Petersen⁠https://www.instagram.com/micaeladeadeyes 💻 Omar Cordy ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/ojcpics⁠⁠ 🎵 Fahad Syed ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/fahanzi💀 Daily top metal stories and features: Visit our Linktreehttps://linktr.ee/ghostcultmag🎸 Want your music featured in our weekly New Music Friday list?Hit us up here well ahead of your release date to secure your spot!https://bit.ly/submityourmusictoGhostCult