PODCAST: Episode 900 - New Music Friday: All the New Metal and Rock You Should Hear for January 23rd, 2026

From the underground to the big time, it's New Music Friday for January 23rd, 2026!Can you pronounce all these bands?Alkaloid – Bach Out Of Bounds (Season Of Mist)Archvile King – Aux Heures Désespérées (LADLO Recordings)Autumn’s Child – Melody Lane (Pride & Joy Records)Backengrillen – Backengrillen (Svart Records)Barbarian – Reek Of God (Dying Victims Records)Casket – In The Long Run We Are All Dead (Neckbreaker Records)Coranatus – Dreadful Waters (Massacre Records)The Crawling – Live In Belfast MMXXIV (Grindscene Records)Crystal Lake – The Weight Of Sound (Century Media Records)The Damned – Not Like Everybody Else (earMusic Records)Death Dealer – Reign Of Steel (Massacre Records)Deathraiser – Forged In Hatred (Xtreem Records)Destiny’s End – Breath Deep The Road (Live & Unreleased) (Nameless Grave Records)Draag – Miracle Drug EP (Smoking Room Records)Dreamkillers – Proiphys Cunninghamii (XMusic Records)Elwood Stray – Descending (Out Of Line Records)Furi Helium – No Altar Stands Eternal (Self-Released)Fyres – Like Waves (LDP Records)Gavial – Thanks, I Hate It (Exile On Mainstream Records)Gros Enfant Mort – Le Sang des Pierres (Moment Of Collapse Records)HamaSaari – Pictures (Klonosphere Records)Helix – Scrap Metal (Perris Records)Karloff – Revered By Death (Dying Victims Records)Ligation – After Gods (Personal Records)Megadeth – Megadeth (Tradecraft Records/ BLK II BLK)Meteora – Dissonance EP (H-Music Records)New Mexican Doom Cult – Zaggurat (Majestic Mountain Records)New Miserable Experience – Gild The Lily (Pelagic Records)Nite Stinger – What The Nite Is All About (Pride & Joy Records)Pagan Altar – Lord Of Hypocrisy Re-Release (Dying Victims Records)Pelican – Ascending EP (Run For Cover Records)Poppy – Empty Hands (Sumerian Records)Ritual Arcana – Ritual Arcana (Heavy Psych Sounds)Rotting Christ – Aealo (Re-Recorded) (Season Of Mist)Sad Whisperings – The Hermit (Vidar Records)Shadowmass – Wastelands (Floga Records)Sigh – Ghastly Funeral Theatre Re-Release (Peaceville Records)Sky Valley Mistress – Luna Mausoleum (New Heavy Sounds)Slowrepeat – Aqua Haze (Electric Desert Records)Spiral Fracture – Grace In Decay (Wormholedeath Records)Stalwart – Tempvs Edax Rervm (Wormholedeath Records)Temptress – Hear (Blues Funeral Recordings)Textures – Genotype (Kscope Records)Trash Pillow – Raw EP (Self-Released)Turbo’s Tribunal – Mills Of Tribunal (Jawbreaker Records)ANDVirtue In Vain – Nothing Is All I Am EP (Self-Released)The Usual Suspects: 🎤 Ghost Cult Keefyhttps://www.instagram.com/ghostcultkeefy 💻 Omar Cordy ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/ojcpics⁠⁠ 🎵 Fahad Syed ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/fahanziCheck out our linktree - updated daily with top stories:⁠https://linktr.ee/ghostcultmagTo get your next release on this list -message us at this link *well before* the release date:https://bit.ly/submityourmusictoGhostCult