Explore 37 New albums just announced – 11/03/2025

A few weeks have flown since we shared 33 albums recently announced. Since then there’s now 1865 New & Noteworthy metal releases on record this year. In the fast-moving world of new music, missing even a week means missing countless new songs and album announcements. To help you catch up, Metal Insider has compiled 37 recently announced albums from the last few weeks alone including, Sun Don’t Shine, Gaerea, Michael Monroe, and more.

01) Zu, Ferrum Sidereum (Iron of the Stars)

Release Date: January 9, 2026
Label: House of Mythology
Pre-Order: Here.
Genre: Jazz Metal
Location: Italy
Note: This will be their seventeenth record

Track List:

01) Charagma
02) Golgotha
03) Kether
04) A.I. Hive Mind
05) La Donna Vestita Di Sole
06) Pleroma
07) Fuoco Saturnio
08) The Celestial Bull and the White Lady
09) Hymn of the Pearl
10) Perseidi
11) Ferrum Sidereum

Latest Single: “Golgotha”

02) Slaughterday, Terrified – EP

Release Date: November 21, 2025
Label: Testimony Records
Pre-Order: Here.=
Genre: Death Metal
Location: Germany
Note: First new music since 2022.

Track List:

01) Ashes of the Innocent
02) Fleshtorn Future
03) Terrified
04) Chained to Oblivion

Latest Single: “Terrified”

03) Rob Moratti, Sovereign

Release Date: December 12, 2025
Label: Frontiers
Pre-Order: Here.
Genre: Melodic/Progressive Rock
Note: Next solo album from the acclaimed singer (formerly lead vocalist of Moratti, Final Frontier and Saga).

Track List:

01) Don’t Give Up On Love
02) Can’t Let You Go
03) Every Word
04) Waiting
05) Locked Down
06) Two Hearts
07) In The Air Tonight
08) I’ll Never Break Your Heart
09) The Calling
10) Angel
11) This Is Forever

Latest Single: “Don’t Give Up On Love”

04) Nuclear Dudes, Skeletal Blasphemy

Release Date: November 14, 2025
Label: The Ghost Is Clear Records
Pre-Order: Here.
Genre: “Electro-Power Violence”
Note: Electro-power-violence project featuring members of Sandrider, Melvins, High On Fire, and more

Track List:

01) Skeletal Blasphemy
02) Fully Clothed And Still Afraid
03) Antisax
04) Victory Pants
05) Tastes Like Medicine
06) Bat Body
07) These Machines
08) The Octopus

Latest Single: “Skeletal Blasphemy”

05) Mayhem, Grand Declaration of War – 25th Anniversary Edition

Release Date: December 5, 2025
Label: Season of Mist
Pre-Order: Here.
Genre: Black Metal
Location: Norway
Note: Special 25th Anniversary Edition

Track List:

01) A Grand Declaration of War
02) In the Lies Where upon You Lay
03) A Time to Die
04) View from Nihil (Part I of II)
05) View form Nihil (Part II of II)
06) A Bloodsword and a Colder Sun (Part I of II)
07) A Bloodsword and a Colder Sun (Part II of II)
08) Crystalized Pain in Deconstruction
09) Completion in Science of Agony (Part I of II)
10) To Daimonion (Part I of III)
11) Untitled
12) Untitled II
13) Completion in Science of Agony (Part II of II)

**06) South Arcade, Play – EP**

Release Date: November 21, 2025
Label: BKM Artists and LAB Records, in partnership with Atlantic Records
Pre-Order: Here.
Genre: Rock
Location: UK

Track List:

01) Drive Myself Home
02) Bleed Out (Ft. Bilmuri)
03) Supermodels
04) FEAR OF HEIGHTS
05) Blood Run Warm

Latest Single: “Drive Myself Home”

07) The Hirsch Effekt, Der Brauch

Release Date: January 30, 2026
Label: Long Branch
Pre-Order: Here.
Genre: Progressive Metal
Location: Germany

Track List:

01) Der Brauch
02) Der Faden
03) Das Seil
04) Brauch Reprise
05) Der Doppelgänger
06) Die Lüge
07) Die Brücke
08) Das Nachsehen
09) Die Heimkehr

Latest Single: “Der Brauch”

08) Nornes, Thou Hast Done Nothing

Release Date: November 28, 2025
Label: Sleeping Church Records
Pre-Order: Here.
Genre: Doom Metal
Location: France

Track List:

01) Never Ending Failure
02) A Rose to The Sword
03) Our Love of Absurd
04) Perceptions in Grey
05) Oneness

Latest Single: “Oneness”

09) MØL, DREAMCRUSH

Release Date: January 30, 2026
Label: Nuclear Blast
Pre-Order: Here.
Genre: Post-Black Metal/Shoegaze
Location: Denmark
Note: First new album since 2021.