PODCAST: Episode 787 - New Music Friday 8-22-25: All the New Metal and Rock You Should Hear

From underground gems to the big time, it's New Music Friday 8-22-25Who has the best album cover this week? Arcadea – The Exodus Of Gravity (Relapse Records)Ashen – Leave The Flesh Behind (Redefining Darkness Records)Automatism – Sormland (Tonzonen Records)Barnabas Sky – Over The Horizon (Pride & Joy Records)Bask – The Turning (Season Of Mist Records)Benefactor Decease – Abnormal Attachments (Xtreem Records)Bioscope – Gentō (earMusic)Blackbriar – A Thousand Little Deaths (Nuclear Blast Records)Burning Sun – Retribution (Metalizer Records)Burning Witches – Inquisition (Napalm Records)Corridore – Abandon (Hypaethral Records)Crop – S.S.R.I. (Third House Records)Crowne – Wonderland (Frontiers srl)Deaf Club – We Demand A Permanent State Of Happiness (Southern Lord/Three One G)Defacement – Doomed (Unorthodox Emanations)Deftones – Private Music (Reprise Records)Desaster – Kill All Idols (Metal Blade Records)Dinosaur Pile-Up – I’ve Felt Better (Mascot Label Group)Donella Drive – Axon (Self-Released)Dragonsclaw – Moving Target (High Roller Records)Dying Awkward Angel – The Missing Frame (Rockshots Records)Fates Messenger – Eternal War EP (Greyline Records)Feuerschwanz – Knightclub (Napalm Records)Glass Lungs – Afterglow EP (Self-Released)Grave Hex – Vermian Death (Cavernous Records)Hebephrenique – Decathexis (Gutter Prince Cabal Records)Hellir – Hollow Moon: Precursor EP (Self-Released)Hot Mulligan – The Sound A Body Makes When It’s Still (Wax Bogeda Records)Hundreds Of Au – Life In Parallel (Iodine Records)Hunter Oliveri – Teen Slug (Spinefarm Records)Innumerable Forms – Pain Effulgence (Profound Lore Records)Iron Savior – Reforged – Machine World (Perception Records)Jack The Joker – The Devil To Pay In The Backlands (Frontiers srl)Kratornas – God Of The Tribes (Grathila Records)Malevich – Under A Gilded Sun (Church Road Records)Mob Rules – Rise Of The Ruler (Rock Of Angels Records)Monoliyth – He Who Kills (Wormholedeath Records)Night’s Edge – The World That Never Was (Self-Released)Old Machines – The Cycles Of Extinction (Self-Released)Panzerchrist – Meleficium Part 2 (Emanzipation Records)Reinforcer – Ice And Death (Scarlet Records)Retching – Charming The Decomposed (Transcending Obscurity Records)Robert Jon & The Wreck – Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes (Journeyman Records)Rust N’ Rage – Songs For Yesterday (Frontiers)Sadistic Force – Morbid Odyssey EP (Self-Released)Skull Revenge – State Of Oblivion (Self-Released)Signs Of The Swarm – To Rid My Self Of Truth (Century Media Records)Solace – Further Re-Release (Magnetic Eye Records)Storm – Join The Storm (Indie Recordings)Strangers – Boundless (Frontiers srl)Supernaughty – Apocalypso (Ripple Music)Three Days Grace – Alienation (RCA Records)Vindicator – Whispers Of Death (Self-Released)We Came As Romans – All Is Beautiful…Because We’re Doomed (SharpTone Records)ANDWhite Mantis – Arrows At The Sun (High Roller Records)The Usual Suspects: 🎤 Ghost Cult Keefyhttps://www.instagram.com/ghostcultkeefy 💻 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