Music News 20250930 (Sept 30, 2025)
featuring LITANIA , MALOTA , KING ULTRAMEGA , THE MON , VICTIM OF FIRE , PALE HORSE RITUAL , STONEBIRDS , BASTARD CRÖSS , AGENBITE MISERY , EVOKEN and Monuments in Ruin EP283.
Let's dig in!
Hindustan psychedelic doom specialists LITANIA share a ritualistic new sonic incantation taken from their upcoming self-titled debut, to be released on October 10th through Heavy Psych Sounds and Subsound Records.
Italian psych stoner rock outfit MALOTA is set to unleash their new album, "Scapegoat", on October 10 via Go Down Records. As a first taste of the upcoming record, the band has just dropped a brand new video for their track, 'In A Common Grave'. The song is accompanied by a music video.
Photo by Dario Perissutti
Alternative rock collective KING ULTRAMEGA, featuring members of ALICE IN CHAINS, ANTHRAX, MASTODON, and SOUNDGARDEN, have returned with a haunting instrumental rendition of the AUDIOSLAVE classic, "Be Yourself". This new single release once again aims to celebrate Chris Cornell’s musical genius while raising funds and awareness for MusiCares. MusiCares is the Recording Academy’s nonprofit that provides mental health, addiction recovery, and emergency services to those in the music community.
Embrace The Abandon is the new project by THE MON, the solo vision of Urlo, vocalist/bassist of the long-running Italian heavy-psychedelic trio Ufomammut, as well as the co-founder of the internationally renowned poster art collective Malleus Rock Art Lab and of the independent label Supernatural Cat.
photos by Francesca De Franceschi Manzoni
Initially formed in 2016, the Denver hailing blackened crust ensemble VICTIM OF FIRE began as a side project filling in a creative gap and available studio time. Now, almost a decade later, the quartet are preparing to unearth their third studio album, The Old Lie, and bring their explosive sound to the masses around the US and Canada.
Inspired by the likes of TRAGEDY, DISFEAR, IN FLAMES, DISMEMBER and IRON MAIDEN, Austin reveals his creative influences, "harmonized guitars have always been my favorite part of music ever since I discovered IRON MAIDEN at the age of 16, and I’ve just been trying to recreate it in my bands wherever I can. Also not being afraid to take a risk with a song of musical style to see if it connects. We aren’t trying to be the crustiest crust band, we want to blend a bunch of styles together to make something fun and energetic to play live."
Under the canopy of a darkening forest, the album, Diabolic Formation is preparing to manifest in its final material form on November 28, 2025, via Black Throne Productions. As it's arrival approaches, the Canadian stoner/doom/heavy psych outfit PALE HORSE RITUAL provide a further taste of what is to come with the new single, "Bloody Demon".
Brittany-based post-metal architects STONEBIRDS reveal a towering second single and video taken from their upcoming farewell album "Perpetual Wasteland", to be issued on October 10th through Ripple Music.
This Halloween, blackened metalpunk band BASTARD CRÖSS will unveil the auditory blasphemy that is their forthcoming album, Crossripper via Morbid and Miserable. The debut full-length as been heavily inspired by horror movies, and draws from religious history notably dark and violent documented events. The music video for the first single and title track is available now.
"Whatness of Allhorse" is the second single to land from the experimental metal trio AGENBITE MISERY, in advance of their approaching new album Remorse of Consciousness that is set to arrive on February 6th, 2026. "Whatness of Allhorse" provides a further glimpse into AGENBITE MISERY's entwining of music and literature through their genre-defying literary adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses.
“None” is the latest single from American death/funeral doom outfit EVOKEN. The track, which comes accompanied by the band’s first ever video, appears on their impending new full-length, Mendacium, set for release on October 17th on Profound Lore Records.
Photo by Eva Tusquets
and of course, Monuments in Ruin - Chapter 283 (music podcast)
Monuments in Ruin EP283
Cosmic fires overcome earthly suffering
Track List:
00:00 Monuments in Ruin Intro
00:10 Better Than Love by BLACK MAGNET - Megamantra (Federal Prisoner)
03:47 First break
04:26 Nulla Res by HERUVIM - Mercator (Redefining Darkness Records)
08:54 Damned Fallen Angels by Cruentation - Damned Fallen Angels (Iron Bonehead)
12:43 Succubus by BORRACHO - Ouroboros (Ripple Music)
20:11 Ghunghru by LITANIA - Litania (Heavy Psych Sounds)
23:06 Second break
23:55 Morning Epitaph by MOUNDRAG - DEUX (Spinda Records, Stolen Body Records)
29:26 Apocalypso by SUPERNAUGHTY - Apocalypso (Ripple Music)
33:33 Octagon by WARCOE - Upon Tall Thrones (Ripple Music)
37:07 Low by ESSES - Pain at the Altar of Jest (Seeing Red Records)
41:52 Collapse by Cult Burial - Collapse of Pattern, Reverence of Dust (Independent)
46:47 Third break
48:22 Immortality Manifest by ECHOES OF GLOOM - The Mind’s Eternal Storm (ATMF)
54:35 take us home
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