Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 44 minutes ago
October 2025 was PACKED with metal releases — from brutal death metal and blackened chaos to prog epics, sludge, and melodic anthems. In this video, we’re diving into the best and worst metal albums of October 2025, ranking everything from underground gems to major label heavyweights.
We’ll cover standout albums from bands like Sanguisugabogg, Testament, Unprocessed, Primitive Man, Soulfly, Coroner, and many more — plus some surprising disappointments along the way. Whether you’re into death metal, black metal, metalcore, doom, or prog, there’s something here for every kind of metalhead. #newmetal #metalhead
Sanguisugabogg - Hideous Aftermath
Author & Punisher - Nocturnal Birding
Testament - Para Bellum
Suffering Hour - Impelling Rebirth EP
Dead Heat - Process of Elimination
Blindfolded and Led To The Woods - The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me
Carach Angren - The Cult Of Kariba
Arson Charge - A Dying Light
Stillbirth - Survival Protocol
Enragement - Extinguish All Existence
Undersave - Merged In Abstract
An Abstract Illusion - The Sleeping City
Scorching Tomb - Ossuary
Wode - Uncrossing The Keys
Extortionist - Stare Into The Seething Wounds
Valletta - Bitter Lucid Truth
Conjurer - Unself
Aephanemer - Utopie
Coroner - Dissonance Theory
Unprocessed - Angel
Katakomba - The Second Death
Primitive Man - Observance
Adept - Blood Covenant
Soulfly - Chama
Honorable Mentions:
Internal Bleeding - Settle All Scores
Trivium - Struck Dead
Biohazard - Divided We Fall
Orbit Culture - Death Above Life
40 Below Summer - Untethered
Orgrel - The Abyssal Terror
Sabaton - Legends
Cemican - U k'u'uk'ankil Mayakaaj
Agriculture - The Spiritual Sound
Centinex - With Guts and Glory
Wiltwither - Pure Light
Avatar - Don’t Go In The Forest
One Of Nine - Dawn Of The Iron Shadow
Hooded Menace - Lachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration
Eldur - Rituals of Death and Necromancy
Deteriorot - Awakening
Morke - To Carry On
Runemagick - Cycle Of The Dying Sun
Outlaw - Opus Mortis
Tribal Gaze - Inveighing Brilliance
Dysylumn - Abstraction
Despised Icon - Shadow Work
Spite - New World Killer
Heavensgate - A Heart Is A Heavy Burden
Immortal Disfigurement - Hell Is Right In Front Of Us
Best:
The Acacia Strain - You Are Safe From God Here
00:00 Intro
00:12 Death Metal Band Gets Good
00:58 Industrial Metal Masterpiece
01:43 The Best Legacy Thrash Band?
02:27 A Blizzard Of Razorblades
03:10 Crossover FFO Power Trip
03:40 Difficult To Classify
04:27 Symphonic Black Metal EP
05:05 First Timers FFO Mastodon
05:45 Tech Death Done Right
06:30 Immolation Meets Behemoth
07:05 Dissonant Death Metal FFO Gorguts, Ulcerate
07:38 Stunning Progressive Death Metal
08:14 Montreal Death Metal FFO Cannibal Corpse
08:55 Gothic Black And Death
09:28 Deathcore Meets Nu Metal Meets Alice In Chains
10:06 Mantar Fans Rejoice
10:45 Sludgy Post Metal
11:21 Riff Frenzy Melodeath
11:57 The Return of The Swiss
12:22 Carrying To At THe Gates Torch
12:39 German Metalcore Band Tops Themselves
14:02 Harrowing Doom Metal
14:39 Returning Uplifting Metalcore
15:19 Your Tribe, Our Tribe
15:59 Honorable Mentions
25:26 The Best Metal Album of October 2025
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October 2025 was PACKED with metal releases — from brutal death metal and blackened chaos to prog epics, sludge, and melodic anthems. In this video, we’re diving into the best and worst metal albums of October 2025, ranking everything from underground gems to major label heavyweights.
We’ll cover standout albums from bands like Sanguisugabogg, Testament, Unprocessed, Primitive Man, Soulfly, Coroner, and many more — plus some surprising disappointments along the way. Whether you’re into death metal, black metal, metalcore, doom, or prog, there’s something here for every kind of metalhead. #newmetal #metalhead
Sanguisugabogg - Hideous Aftermath
Author & Punisher - Nocturnal Birding
Testament - Para Bellum
Suffering Hour - Impelling Rebirth EP
Dead Heat - Process of Elimination
Blindfolded and Led To The Woods - The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me
Carach Angren - The Cult Of Kariba
Arson Charge - A Dying Light
Stillbirth - Survival Protocol
Enragement - Extinguish All Existence
Undersave - Merged In Abstract
An Abstract Illusion - The Sleeping City
Scorching Tomb - Ossuary
Wode - Uncrossing The Keys
Extortionist - Stare Into The Seething Wounds
Valletta - Bitter Lucid Truth
Conjurer - Unself
Aephanemer - Utopie
Coroner - Dissonance Theory
Unprocessed - Angel
Katakomba - The Second Death
Primitive Man - Observance
Adept - Blood Covenant
Soulfly - Chama
Honorable Mentions:
Internal Bleeding - Settle All Scores
Trivium - Struck Dead
Biohazard - Divided We Fall
Orbit Culture - Death Above Life
40 Below Summer - Untethered
Orgrel - The Abyssal Terror
Sabaton - Legends
Cemican - U k'u'uk'ankil Mayakaaj
Agriculture - The Spiritual Sound
Centinex - With Guts and Glory
Wiltwither - Pure Light
Avatar - Don’t Go In The Forest
One Of Nine - Dawn Of The Iron Shadow
Hooded Menace - Lachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration
Eldur - Rituals of Death and Necromancy
Deteriorot - Awakening
Morke - To Carry On
Runemagick - Cycle Of The Dying Sun
Outlaw - Opus Mortis
Tribal Gaze - Inveighing Brilliance
Dysylumn - Abstraction
Despised Icon - Shadow Work
Spite - New World Killer
Heavensgate - A Heart Is A Heavy Burden
Immortal Disfigurement - Hell Is Right In Front Of Us
Best:
The Acacia Strain - You Are Safe From God Here
00:00 Intro
00:12 Death Metal Band Gets Good
00:58 Industrial Metal Masterpiece
01:43 The Best Legacy Thrash Band?
02:27 A Blizzard Of Razorblades
03:10 Crossover FFO Power Trip
03:40 Difficult To Classify
04:27 Symphonic Black Metal EP
05:05 First Timers FFO Mastodon
05:45 Tech Death Done Right
06:30 Immolation Meets Behemoth
07:05 Dissonant Death Metal FFO Gorguts, Ulcerate
07:38 Stunning Progressive Death Metal
08:14 Montreal Death Metal FFO Cannibal Corpse
08:55 Gothic Black And Death
09:28 Deathcore Meets Nu Metal Meets Alice In Chains
10:06 Mantar Fans Rejoice
10:45 Sludgy Post Metal
11:21 Riff Frenzy Melodeath
11:57 The Return of The Swiss
12:22 Carrying To At THe Gates Torch
12:39 German Metalcore Band Tops Themselves
14:02 Harrowing Doom Metal
14:39 Returning Uplifting Metalcore
15:19 Your Tribe, Our Tribe
15:59 Honorable Mentions
25:26 The Best Metal Album of October 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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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.
