Music News 20250902 (Sept 2, 2025)
featuring SOFTSUN , CROP , YAWNING MAN , Thomas Wildelau , IRK , BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS , PALE HORSE RITUAL , Hooded Menace , THE VINTAGE CARAVAN , PUPIL SLICER , The Devil's Trade and Monuments in Ruin EP279
Californian/Norwegian shoegaze and post-rock duo SOFTSUN have signed to Heavy Psych Sounds Records for the release of their sophomore album "Eternal Sunrise" on November 7th, and present the first track "A Hundred And Sixteen" today.
"Formaldehyde" is the second single to land from Lexington, KY’s heaviest export, CROP, ahead of their highly anticipated sophomore album S.S.R.I, due out August 22, 2025 via Third House Communications.
Desert rock legends YAWNING MAN announce the release of their new album "Pavement Ends" this November 14th on Heavy Psych Sounds. Founding members Gary Arce and Mario Lalli reunite with Bill Stinson for what promises to be some of their darkest and heaviest work, and premiered a first track via It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine.
Thomas Wildelau, drummer of Hamburg, Germany-based sludge metal outfit HIGH FIGHTER, has launched his first-ever solo project under the flag of WDNHF (pronounced: Weidenhof). His upcoming debut album, entitled "Consideration", will be self-released on September 21, 2025, and sees the multi-instrumentalist stepping onto new ground.
"Consideration" is a work of complete self-creation — written, arranged, performed, recorded, and mixed entirely by Wildelau. The result is a sonic journey that escapes rigid genre borders and opens the door to an entirely different world.
MetalSucks is recently hosted the premiere of a new video from English experimental/noise rock trio, IRK, for “Idiot Plot.” The song marks the second single to drop preceding the band’s second LP, The Seeing House, nearing September release on Nefarious Industries.
photo by John Figler
New Zealand-based progressive death metal outfit BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS will unleash their long-awaited new full-length, The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me, on October 10th via Prosthetic Records.
Photo by Hudson Visuals
Canadian stoner/doom/heavy psych outfit PALE HORSE RITUAL evoke the occult sound of the '70s in their new album, Diabolic Formation. The first single, "Wickedness" provides a taste of the fuzz-driven, analogue ambience that lies in wait. Diabolic Formation is set to arrive in our realm on November 28, 2025, via Black Throne Productions.
Hooded Menace are releasing the second advanced single from Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration. "Pale Masquerade" unveils a scene that's chillingly familiar for cult followers. But by leaning heavier on classic influences, the band cast their age-old muse in a ghostly new light.
Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration comes out October 3, 2025 on Season of Mist.
Photo by Pasi Nevalaita
After they recently joined forces with OPETH’s Mikael Åkerfeldt on their latest single “Philosopher”, Icelandic retro-fueled prog rock trio THE VINTAGE CARAVAN have released a new song taken from their forthcoming studio album, Portals, due out on September 26, 2025 via Napalm Records! A music video for the band’s new single, “Crossroads“ – a thunderous blend of 70s-inspired riffs and modern energy – is now premiering below. The track showcases THE VINTAGE CARAVAN‘s signature fusion of classic hard rock, blues, and psychedelia.
photo credit: Stefán Ari Stefánsson
Fleshwork is the latest release from PUPIL SLICER, and it sees the mathcore trio emerging refreshed, reinvigorated, and ready to step things up several gears. The album will be released on November 7th through Prosthetic Records.
Photo by Derek Bremner
Acclaimed post-doom artist The Devil's Trade has announced his new album Nincs Szennyezetlen Szép, to be released 7th November via Pelagic Records. In celebration of the news, the first single from the album, the haunting 'Weltschmerz' has also been unveiled.
and of course, Monuments in Ruin - Chapter 279 (music podcast)
Welcome to Monuments in Ruin EP279
Dancing in the Shadow of Darkened Clouds
Track List:
00:00 Monuments in Ruin Intro
00:10 BLESSED ARE THE CURSED by Psalm - In Darkness... Have Mercy EP (Independent)
04:26 first break
05:05 Scent by in this house of mourning - Enlevèment (Independent)
10:28 Devil on the Throne by Anchorite - Realm of Ruin (Personal Records)
17:26 The Price by Red Brick - Thrown (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions)
21:26 Entering The Gastral Realm (Pt.1 Parasitic Mutant From Beyond by Plasmodulated - An Ocean ov Putrid, Stinky, Vile, Disgusting Hell (Personal Records + Gurgling Gore + Dawnbreed)
25:50 second break
26:53 The Demon King by CALL OF CHARON - Tales of Tragedy (Massacre Records)
30:36 Obscure Altars by Ectovoid - Dark Abstraction [Vinyl Reissue] (Boris Records)
34:46 the gate unseen by Spiritual Deception - The Gate Unseen (single) (lndependent)
38:42 Axehead by VERDALACK - Force From the Grave (Hells Headbangers)
42:18 third break
43:28 Sorrow Verses by Ancient Torment - Follow the Echo of Curses (Eternal Death)
50:32 take us home
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