Sh*t That Comes Out Today: October 31, 2025

Show of hands: how many of us are getting dolled up in something slutty and using Halloween as a single day to stop hiding behind your well-tailored corporate life and let your freak flag fly? Just me? Then it’s a good thing I work from home and the only things that could report me to HR are the countless Gundam models staring at me from the shelves...

…Here’s some new music to play while trick or treaters bombard your house.

Avatar

Don’t Go In The Forest (Black Waltz)

For Halloween to fall on a Friday has to be the greatest thing for a band like Avatar. Their whole schtick is sorta Hot Topic rock music, so if you think Ghost is too heavy but you still want a quirky Swedish band to get behind, you should enjoy this album. Vocalist Johannes Eckerström has said that this album “is filled to the brim with stuff we’ve never done before,” so who knows?

Danheim

Heimferd (Season of Mist)

If you constantly imagine yourself as a viking and really dig authentic sounding music, Danheim is for you. Not exactly metal, per se, but this Nordic folk/Viking-inspired project from Denmark sounds like it’s straight out of the Viking age. It’s like Heilung but fast forward a couple hundred years.

Despised Icon

Shadow Work (Nuclear Blast)

Hailing from the Great White North, this deathcore band continues to release brutal tunes. Pretty much still rocking with their founding lineup, Despised Icon still ride high on the insane precision of its core players. With a focus on “the psychological process of confronting and integrating one’s darker aspects,” this one’s sure to explore some dark places and themes.

Moonspell

Opus Diabolicum – The Orchestral Live Show (Napalm Records)

Not ones to shy away from their roots, Moonspell pulled a Metallica (and Kiss, and ELO, and…) in releasing a live orchestral album. Tapping the 45-piece Orquestra Sinfonietta de Lisboa as their collaborators, what came out from the live performance is an epic sounding event that only boosted the the band’s sense of grandeur and power.

Primitive Man

Observance (Relapse Records)

Ho-lee-shit. If you’re looking for pure, unadulterated doom metal that borders on the abyssal, you’ve come to the right place. Shit is tuned low, played slow, and built to slowly steamroll over your senses. It’s nihilism in metal form with a penchant of combining aspects of noise, funeral doom, and black metal. This one’s mind-meltingly heavy.

Other Shit That Comes Out Today:

Believe In Nothing, Rot (Church Road Records)
Danheim, Heimferd (Season Of Mist)
Deez Nuts, Saudade (Century Media)
Hope Deferred, Darkness Remains (The Charon Collective)
King 810, Rustbelt Numetal (King 810)
One Of Nine, Dawn Of The Iron Shadow (Profound Lore)
Stephen Brodsky, Cut To The Core Vol. 1 (Pax Aeternum)
The Pretty Reckless, Taylor Momsen’s Pretty Reckless Christmas (Fearless Records)
Unprocessed, Angel (Unprocessed)
Wiltwither, Pure Light (3DOT Recordings)