Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Join me as I break down the best and worst metal albums of August 2025! From returning legacy death metal and blackened chaos to surprise gems and newcomers, this month was PACKED with killer new music. Of course, not everything hit the mark… so I’ll also be covering the more disappointing releases as well. Whether you’re into death metal, black metal, thrash, prog, or experimental sounds, there’s something here for everyone. #newmetalalbums #deathmetal #thrashmetal #deftones
Best:
Blackbraid - Blackbraid III
Cruel Bomb - Cruel Bomb
Unleashed - Fire Upon Your Lands
Malthusian - The Summoning Bell
Harvested - Dysthymia
Grand Cadaver - The Rot Beneath
Car Bomb - Tiles Whisper Dreams
Imperishable - Swallowing The World
Incite - Savage New Times
Baest - Colossal
Hexrot - Formless Ruin of Oblivion
King Yosef - Spire of Fear
Plasmodulated - An Ocean ov Putrid, Stinky, Vile, Disgusting Hell
Vindicator - Whispers of Death
Monoliyth - He Who Kills
Helloween - Giants and Monsters
Defacement - Doomed
CREATVRE - Toujours Humain
Sallow Moth - Mossbane Lantern
Mélancolia - random.access.misery
Panopticon - Songs Of Hiraeth
The Armed - The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
Babymetal - Metal Forth
Signs Of The Swarm - To Rid Myself of Truth
Deftones - Private Music
Honorable Mentions:
Hebephrenique - Decathexis
Warmen - Band Of Brothers
Sadistic Force - Morbid Odyssey
Panzerchrist - Maleficium - Part II
Castrator - Coronation of the Grotesque
Barbarous - Initium Mors
!T.O.O.H.! - Po ovoci poznáte je
Prayer Group - Strawberry
Thorn - Nebulous Womb of Eternity
Chevelle - Bright As Blasphemy
Sea Mosquito - Majestas
To The Grave - Still
Månegarm - Edsvuren
In Mourning - The Immortal
Worst:
Fit For A King - Lonely God
Attack Attack - Attack Attack II
00:00 Intro
00:12 Native American Black Metal
00:53 Underground and Underrated THRASH Metal
01:37 30+ Years Of Swedish Death Metal
02:29 Irish Blackened Death Metal
03:20 This Death Metal Album Knocked My Socks Off
03:54 Mikeal Stanne Is A Busy Bee
04:33 Mathcore Mayhem: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Embrace Djent
05:10 Members of Nile, Enthean, Hate Eternal and Malevolent Creation
05:48 Killer Groove Metal
06:26 Death ‘N Roll with some Heavy Metal sauce
07:03 Abyssal, Veilburner, Deathspell Omega, and Krallice
07:49 Industrial Hardcore FFO Black Magnet
08:31 What An Amazing Title
09:12 Killer Meat And Potatoes Thrash
09:50 Australian death metal crew from 1998
10:32 Power Metal Legends with album 19
11:25 Experimental and Avatgarde Death Metal
12:03 Incredibly Interesting Take On Black And Death Metal
12:51 Toilet Sounds & Smooth Jazz
13:39 Blackened Deathcore
14:19 Returning Post-Black Champion
15:19 Hardcore with Andy Warhol
15:59 Kawaii Collabs
16:31 Best Deathcore Album Of 2025?
17:25 Honorable Mentions
23:10 Worst Albums of August 2025
23:49 Best Metal Album Of August 2025
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Join me as I break down the best and worst metal albums of August 2025! From returning legacy death metal and blackened chaos to surprise gems and newcomers, this month was PACKED with killer new music. Of course, not everything hit the mark… so I’ll also be covering the more disappointing releases as well. Whether you’re into death metal, black metal, thrash, prog, or experimental sounds, there’s something here for everyone. #newmetalalbums #deathmetal #thrashmetal #deftones
Best:
Blackbraid - Blackbraid III
Cruel Bomb - Cruel Bomb
Unleashed - Fire Upon Your Lands
Malthusian - The Summoning Bell
Harvested - Dysthymia
Grand Cadaver - The Rot Beneath
Car Bomb - Tiles Whisper Dreams
Imperishable - Swallowing The World
Incite - Savage New Times
Baest - Colossal
Hexrot - Formless Ruin of Oblivion
King Yosef - Spire of Fear
Plasmodulated - An Ocean ov Putrid, Stinky, Vile, Disgusting Hell
Vindicator - Whispers of Death
Monoliyth - He Who Kills
Helloween - Giants and Monsters
Defacement - Doomed
CREATVRE - Toujours Humain
Sallow Moth - Mossbane Lantern
Mélancolia - random.access.misery
Panopticon - Songs Of Hiraeth
The Armed - The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
Babymetal - Metal Forth
Signs Of The Swarm - To Rid Myself of Truth
Deftones - Private Music
Honorable Mentions:
Hebephrenique - Decathexis
Warmen - Band Of Brothers
Sadistic Force - Morbid Odyssey
Panzerchrist - Maleficium - Part II
Castrator - Coronation of the Grotesque
Barbarous - Initium Mors
!T.O.O.H.! - Po ovoci poznáte je
Prayer Group - Strawberry
Thorn - Nebulous Womb of Eternity
Chevelle - Bright As Blasphemy
Sea Mosquito - Majestas
To The Grave - Still
Månegarm - Edsvuren
In Mourning - The Immortal
Worst:
Fit For A King - Lonely God
Attack Attack - Attack Attack II
00:00 Intro
00:12 Native American Black Metal
00:53 Underground and Underrated THRASH Metal
01:37 30+ Years Of Swedish Death Metal
02:29 Irish Blackened Death Metal
03:20 This Death Metal Album Knocked My Socks Off
03:54 Mikeal Stanne Is A Busy Bee
04:33 Mathcore Mayhem: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Embrace Djent
05:10 Members of Nile, Enthean, Hate Eternal and Malevolent Creation
05:48 Killer Groove Metal
06:26 Death ‘N Roll with some Heavy Metal sauce
07:03 Abyssal, Veilburner, Deathspell Omega, and Krallice
07:49 Industrial Hardcore FFO Black Magnet
08:31 What An Amazing Title
09:12 Killer Meat And Potatoes Thrash
09:50 Australian death metal crew from 1998
10:32 Power Metal Legends with album 19
11:25 Experimental and Avatgarde Death Metal
12:03 Incredibly Interesting Take On Black And Death Metal
12:51 Toilet Sounds & Smooth Jazz
13:39 Blackened Deathcore
14:19 Returning Post-Black Champion
15:19 Hardcore with Andy Warhol
15:59 Kawaii Collabs
16:31 Best Deathcore Album Of 2025?
17:25 Honorable Mentions
23:10 Worst Albums of August 2025
23:49 Best Metal Album Of August 2025
Buy Metal Trenches MERCH (Sick design by CurlyArt): metaltrenches.bigcartel.com
Grow YOUR OWN YouTube Channel with vidiq.com/METAL
Join us on DISCORD! discord.gg/7QTAesh5Pp
Become a Supporter!
patreon.com/metaltrenches
subscribestar.com/metal-trenches
SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: eepurl.com/dogQCD
Connect:
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facebook.com/metaltrenches
metaltrenches.bandcamp.com
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I do not own the rights to any of the featured song clips on this video. All credit to the artists and labels with specific permission granted. These fall under fair use based on sufficient transformation for the purpose of review, promotion, and commentary.
