BEST IN METAL! June 2025
My favorite metal releases of June 2025!
Featuring Destroyer Destroyer, ΔYNAMIS, Cwfen, Uninhibited, Kalmen, IMPERIALIST, Sorceröt, and Fallen Short.
June brought the heat, and I’m not just talking about the weather. I’m talking about suffocating sludge and sci-fi black metal epics!
After digging through the anguish, chaos, and blast beats, I finally rounded up June 2025’s finest. Whether you’re into blackened despair or genre-bending madness, there’s something in here worth your time (and your volume knob).
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Void - Destroyer Destroyer
Void is less a comeback than a rupture. Nineteen years after Vessels Cast From Crippled Hands, and nearly a decade since the death of vocalist Jamie Schnetzler, Destroyer Destroyer resurfaces with Void, a self-eviscerating piece of mathcore grief. There’s no nostalgia here. Just pure noise, precision, and catharsis smelted in Oklahoma heat.
I’d say Void feels like a panic attack in a collapsing building, all unrelenting syncopation and soar-throat vocals. But beneath the grind and dissonance is something mournful and even elegiac.
This is mathcore that doesn’t try to be what it’s not. It’s too angry, too raw. After all, Void is all that remains when you scream everything out and nothing answers back.
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Alosis 1453 (Psalm 78) - ΔYNAMIS
Mournful, majestic, and steeped in sacred history. That’s how I would describe Alosis 1453 (Psalm 78), a liturgy in mourning by Christopher Laskos and Bob Katsionis. This is a Byzantine epic metal project that feels less like metal as a genre and more like metal as a ritual.
Alosis 1453 (Psalm 78) is an elegy for the Fall of Constantinople through the lens of Psalm 78, which explains why listening to it feels so somber. And don’t go looking for a catharsis, this one mourns because it must.
You can pre-order the full Byzantine Metal album on Bandcamp linked below.
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Wolfsbane - Cwfen
There's a particular kind of magic when a band emerges fully formed, like they’ve been casting spells in secret and only now stepped into the light. Cwfen’s Wolfsbane is exactly that.
“Sisters, I’ve waited a hundred years for this.” Do you feel like that’s both a curse and a promise, too? A duality that’s repeated in the seething, sensual darkness style of Chelsea Wolfe but grounded in goth-rock soil. And Guy DeNuit’s guitar works beautifully with this haunting quality. It’s as if it’s been dredged up from some fogged-over cathedral and brought straight to your ears.
The result isn’t doom, not fully. It isn’t goth in the classic sense either. It’s something stranger, heavier, more defiant, and deeply feminine. So, if you’ve been waiting for something with teeth, this is it.
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Blood Sucker - Uninhibited
At over eight minutes, Blood Sucker is a beast, and Uninhibited knows exactly how to wield its weight. The German duo builds this one slow and sinister, layering eerie atmosphere before dragging you into a pit of tremolo-picked chaos and blast beats that feel like a controlled collapse.
It’s brutal and weirdly beautiful at times. If you like your death metal bleak and heavy as sin, Blood Sucker will ruin your day in the best possible way.
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Earthbound - Kalmen
With a title like Earthbound, you might expect something grounded or down-to-earth. But no, Kalmen's latest track from their 2025 album Sombre Vaults is anything but. It’s a descent into the abyss, a cold spiral of doomed atmosphere and black metal that disorients just as it entrances.
I especially love Earthbound’s hypnotic pacing. There’s no rush here. Kalmen lets each phrase breathe and rot, coating everything in the eerie stillness that fans of Funeral Mist or Aosoth will recognize.
This is hypnotic black doom done right: slow, seething, and sacred in its desolation.
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Starstorm - Imperialist
It’s been a long wait since Zenith, but Imperialist are finally back with Starstorm. I must say that when it comes to sci-fi black metal, few bands have got me as entranced as Imperialist has!
Taken from their upcoming album, Prime, Starstorm is a near-flawless strike of sharp and calculated apocalyptic energy. Thematically, it continues their devotion to high-concept sci-fi and might just be my favorite thing they’ve done.
It still has that Imperialist DNA, but they’ve tightened everything. It’s as if now there’s more light and space in the songwriting, but somehow that makes it heavier in the process!
If you’ve been sleeping on them, now’s the time to check them out.
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Nightmare Cauldron - Sorceröt
Sorceröt’s Nightmare Cauldron feels ancient and furious from the very start, much like its beautiful album cover. The band’s roots in both epic and black metal show up immediately, but what makes this song hit is how they blend those two traditions. This isn’t just black metal with a few heavy metal flourishes tacked on; it’s a real synthesis, and honestly, it just sounds huge.
The production manages that sweet spot between clarity and power, just enough to feel every cymbal crash and bass tremor without sanding down the edges. I highly recommend listening to Nightmare Cauldron if you haven’t already!
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Hollow Screams of a Withering Soul - Fallen Short
This one hit hard. The title track from Hollow Screams of a Withering Soul feels like crawling through wet concrete with no way out: slow, suffocating, and painfully honest. It blends sludge, black metal, and a raw sense of grief that doesn’t try to dress itself up. The riffs drag like dead weight, and the vocals sound like someone breaking from the inside.
Lyrically, it’s bleak but weirdly comforting if you’ve been there. “Hope, used as bait / Long past my use”... Yeah, that line stuck. There’s no release, no fake light at the end. Just repetition, exhaustion, and that gut-punch refrain: “Hollow / Scream / Withering soul.” It's as close as music gets to the sound of giving up, and somehow, that honesty feels like a kind of solidarity.
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