What’s New in Metal and Rock This Week? New Music Friday, Oct 10th 2025

From underground gems to the big time, it's our New Music Friday preview for Oct 10th 2025What new albums are you picking up and spinning? Akolyth – Ecstatic Kingdom (Amor Fati Records)Angel Face – Out In The Street (Slovenly Records)Atomic Rooster – Circle The Sun (Cherry Red Records)The Bateleurs – A Light In The Darkness (Self-Released) Blindfolded And Led To The Woods – The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me (Prosthetic Records)Blue Heron – Emulations (Blues Funeral Recordings)Blutgott – Legions Of Metal (Self-Released)Dead Heat – Process Of Elimination (Metal Blade Records)Extortionist – Stare Into The Seething Wounds (Unique Leader Records)First Draft – An Instant Before The Promise Of Dawn (Vlad Records)Foxy Shazam – Box Of Magic (eeeoooah Records)Frayle – Heretics & Lullabies (Napalm Records)Friendship Commanders – Bear (Magnetic Eye Records)Goad – Dusketha (My Kingdom Records)God Alone – The Beep Test (Prosthetic Records)Greyhaven – Keep It Quiet (Solid State Records)Haeresis – Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (Vendetta Records)Heads For The Dead – Never Ending Night Of Terror (Pulverised Records)Hell Ever After – Act I (Self-Released)Illusive Key – Consume Us (Amor Fati Records)Intraether – Vestiges (Fiadh Productions)John 5 – Ghost (Self-Released)Junkbreed – Sick Of The Scene (Raging Planet Records)Les Batards Du Roi – Les Chemins de L’Exil (LADLO Records)Linx – Annihilation (Metalville Records)Litania – Litania (Heavy Psych Sounds/Subsound Records)Living Dead Girl – Conspiracy (Self-Released)Malota – Scapegoat (Go Down Records)Morke – To Carry On (True Cult Records)Nils Patrik Johansson – War And Peace (Metalville Records)Nyos – Growl (Pelagic Records)Occult Kenji – Of Gods And Ancestors (Self-Released)Omnivide – Arise EP (Seek And Strike Records)Plague Curse – Verminous Contempt (Adirondack Black Mass)Purpendicular – Banned (Metalville Records)Sanguisugabogg – Hideous Aftermath (Century Media Records)Serpent God – Denial (Inverse Records)Slyther – Chronicles Of Despair (Time To Kill Records)Soul Blind – Red Sky Mourning (Closed Casket Activities)Stonebirds – Perpetual Wasteland (Ripple Music)Souille – L’odeur du mépris (Wormholedeath Records)Sweet – Live At The Marquee Re-Release (Metalville Records)Terzij de Horde – Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone (Church Road Records)Testament – Para Bellum (Nuclear Blast Records)This Will Destroy Your Ears – Funland (Self-Released)Thorondir – Wächter des Waldes (Trollzorn Records)Ultra Raptor – Fossilized (Fighter Records)Undersave – Merged In Abstract Perdition (Transcending Obscurity Records)Victimarum – Seitsemän soihdun valossa (Signal Rex Records)Vile Apparition – Malignity (Dark Descent Records)Vulnificus – Inclination (Comatose Records)AND Warrant – The Speed Of Metal (Massacre Records)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