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I am sick. Things are bleak. It is October. There is pumpkin spice in everything. And now you come to me and you say, “AMG<\/strong><\/span>, give me the Record(s) o’ the Month.” But you don’t ask with respect. You don’t offer friendship. You don’t even think to call me Dr. Metal Guy<\/strong><\/span> or compliment my excellent taste. Instead, you come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married, and you ask me to give you the Record(s) o’ the Month\u2014for free<\/em>.<\/p>\n

What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully? If you’d come to me in friendship, then this music that will ruin your eardrums and cause your grandchildren to yell while they try to communicate with you would already have been yours. And, if, by chance, honest people like yourselves made enemies, they would become my enemies\u2014and they would fear you.<\/p>\n

Someday, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this Record(s) o’ the Month as a gift on my daughter\u2019s wedding day.1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\n

\"The<\/p>\n

One of metal’s true titans, Paradise Lost<\/strong> has been at this for 40 years and 17 albums. A band with eras, Paradise Lost<\/strong>’s tenure has not been without its ebbs. Yet Ascension <\/em>[out September 19th, 2025, from Nuclear Blast Records (buy on Bandcamp<\/a>)] offers fans something old and new again, and truly lifts the band’s modern sound through synthesis. Rather than simply rehashing the classics, Ascension<\/em> assembles the different pieces of the band’s legacies into something powerful, catchy, and\u2014as counterintuitive as it seems\u2014novel. It would be wrong to say that Paradise Lost<\/strong> has “never sounded so vital,” but they haven’t previously presented such a simultaneously diverse and powerful vision of their sound. Both Steel Druhm<\/strong><\/span> and Grymm<\/strong><\/span> were blown away by Ascension<\/em>’s ability to balance the different veins of their sound and feel united and unique. What Druhm<\/span> <\/strong>gushed is true: “It’s rare a band as long in the tooth as Paradise Lost<\/strong> uncorks a late career album that can stand among the giants in their catalogue, but Ascension<\/em> is one such slippery aberration.”2<\/a><\/sup> And Grymmothy<\/span> <\/strong>concurs: “Who would have thought,” he wondered aloud after crooning in amazement at this accomplishment of metal, “that by reaching into their vault of classic albums, they would not only put together something fresh and timeless, but also make a strong case for one of their best ever?”<\/p>\n

Hegel, that’s who.<\/p>\n

Runner(s) Up:<\/h2>\n

\"AlbumVittra<\/strong> \/\/ Intense Indifference<\/em><\/a> [September 19th, 2025 | <\/em>Self-release | Bandcamp<\/a>] \u2014 Melodic death metal might be gasping for air in 2025, but Sweden\u2019s Vittra<\/strong> just kicked the respirator across the room and screamed “MOTHERFUCKER LET\u2019S GO!” Intense Indifference<\/em> clocks in at a tight 33 minutes of thrashy, riff-driven melodeath that remembers the genre was born to move heads, not cry into beards.3<\/a><\/sup> With the manic energy of a band stuck in rural V\u00e4stmanland and the chops to back it up, Vittra<\/strong> threads the needle between At the Gates’<\/strong> aggression, Soilwork<\/strong>’s slickness, and the fretboard fireworks of Mors Principium Est<\/strong>. Yet somehow, these weirdos slip in honkytonk piano, bluesy acoustic passages, and enough BDE to make your mom blush. As I papified Pure Divine Doctrine and a Universal Truth for which all dissenters and deviants shall be roundly punished: “Vittra<\/strong> reminds us that melodic death metal still slaps when it remembers to be metal. Intense Indifference<\/em> might be short, but it\u2019s sharp, hooky, and very, very good.”4<\/a><\/sup> Short album, long replay life.<\/p>\n

\"\"Igorrr<\/strong> \/\/ Amen<\/em><\/a> [September 19th, 2025 | Metal Blade Records | Bandcamp<\/a>] \u2014 For nearly twenty years, Gautier Serre has been metal\u2019s reigning mad scientist, blending breakcore, baroque, and blastbeats into something that shouldn\u2019t work but absolutely does. Amen<\/em> refines the chaos without sanding off the edges, finding full-band-Igorrr<\/strong> firing on every cylinder. Dear Hollow<\/strong><\/span> probably crossed someone’s personal boundaries while calling it “a reaffirmation of Serre\u2019s genius\/insanity,” but even if he’s sitting too close, that\u2019s the right take. Amen<\/em> balances absurdity, heaviness, and sophistication with freakish precision. From the orchestral depth to the cartoonish detours of “Mustard Mucous” and “Blastbeat Falafel,” it\u2019s dense, manic, and meticulously constructed. There\u2019s no other band that can make so much noise feel this purposeful or fun. Returning to Dear Hollow<\/strong><\/span>’s (only?) vaguely inappropriate public tongue-bathing of Igorrr<\/strong>,5<\/a><\/sup> let’s round this off: “Amen<\/em> is a reaffirmation of Igorrr<\/strong>\u2019s batshit and fun-loving genius, as well as a new step forward: haunting, brutal, and otherworldly in a way that we can take seriously.”<\/p>\n

\"\"Mors Principium Est<\/strong> \/\/ Darkness Invisible<\/em><\/a> [September 26th, 2025 | Perception\/Reigning Phoenix Music | No Bandcamp because labels hate their fans] \u2014 Eight albums deep and still shredding like they\u2019ve got something to prove, Mors Principium Est<\/strong> returns with Darkness Invisible<\/em>, a darker, heavier, and more cinematic take on Finnish melodeath. With founding guitarists Jori Haukio and Jarkko Kokko back in the fold, the band taps into its early DNA while pushing toward symphonic density and blackened aggression. In my factual recitation of truths about the world, I referred to Darkness Invisible <\/em>as “a record that sounds darker and denser than the glossy sheen of Seven<\/em>,” and incidentally, I’m right; this is ambitious melodeath with a subtly addictive feel, even though the mix sometimes threatens to collapse under its own weight, and Darkness Invisible<\/em> is a bold reset for Mors Principium Est<\/strong>. I wasn’t going to include this here, but the more I listen to it, the more I like it.6<\/a><\/sup> And more importantly, the more I spin it, the better I think it is. While it does struggle with production, its Bodom<\/strong>esque guitarwork and orchestral ambitions make it sneakily addictive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And now you come to me and you say, “AMG<\/strong><\/span>, give me the Record(s) o’ the Month.” But you don’t ask with respect. You don’t offer friendship. You don’t even think to call me Dr. Metal Guy<\/strong><\/span> or compliment my excellent taste. 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