Sh*t That Comes Out Today: May 23, 2025
If you’re here in the U.S., then the unofficial start of the summer is here with the coming of Memorial Day. Hopefully the weather permits and we can all finally touch some fuckin’ grass, eat some barbecue, hang with friends, drink a beer or smoke some bud, and just enjoy ourselves. And what better way to do that than with a lineup of new releases? Oh and our international friends can enjoy the tunes too, so it’s a win-win!
…And Oceans
The Regeneration Itinerary (Season of Mist)
This is one hell of a symphonic black metal release. If that sounds like your jam, then definitely give The Regeneration Itinerary a spin.
House of Protection
Outrun You All (Red Bull Music)
Blending genres and doing a great job doing it, House of Protection are releasing this new EP without any recommendations from any outside influences. Definitely worth checking out.
Midnight
Steel, Rust And Disgust (Metal Blade Records)
The brainchild of one-man band Athenar, Midnight’s been consistent in its approach — go loud, go hard, and overstimulate your ass with some offffffff the grimiest and sleaziest metal they can muster. This time around, this release features some interesting covers from the likes of bands like
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
I’m Done With Self Care, It’s Time For Others’ Harm (Prosthetic Records)
We may have found a decent candidate for the best album title of the year with this one. This is the Maryland-based deathcore outfit’s second album and it’s being described as “conceptual horror-inspired excavation of the bipolarity of self-betterment and healing with mankind’s more malevolent inclinations towards turmoil, anxiety and vengeance.” You know, so typical deathcore shit…
Witchcraft
IDAG (Heavy Psych Sounds)
What can I say? I hear retro sounding, doomy, sludgy, stoner psych rock, I share retro sounding, doomy, sludgy, stoner psych rock. This outfit’s been around for 25 years and if you dig fuzzy riffs and repeating rhythms that pound on ad infinitum in a way that only a fan of lo-fi rock with a penchant for the sticky-icky, you probably already know these guys. Play it loud and just vibe on this shit.
Other Shit That Comes Out Today:
Age Of Apocalypse, In Oblivion (Closed Casket Activities)
Ceresian Valot, Uumen (Prophecy Productions)
Chepang, Jhyappa (Relapse Records)
Idolvein, When We Became Spirits (Mosaic Music)
Metal Charm, Visions Of Escape (Bitume Prods)
Moonlight Haze, Beyond (Scarlet Records)
MSPAINT, No Seperation (Convulse Records)
Ronnie Romero, Live At Rock Imperium Festival (Frontiers Music Srl)
Senna, Stranger To Love (SharpTone Records)
Unmerciful, Devouring Darkness (Willowtip Records)
