Greetings Decibel readers! It’s the last standard Five For Friday roundup of the year. One last chance to revise your personal end-of-year lists before you get distracted by the holidays and resolutions you’ll maintain for about two weeks. But trust me, you’ll want to savor the last of 2025 with the albums below, especially the second…

Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC, Canada-based band Discovery Through Torment are dropping their new EP, Telesynthetic Rebirth. Check it out now ahead of its official December 5 release date.

UK’s proggy death thrashers Unburier dig up some serious foulness on new single “Survive the Vermin.”

Melodic metallers It Haunts arrive with the kind of debut EP that doesn’t feel like a beginning so much as an overdue emergence.

Go on a retro stoner heavy metal trip with the new album from Indigosaur.

We tried to warn you! The “Metal & Beer” ticket option for Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver is officially SOLD OUT. There are still a limited amount of “Just Metal” tickets for both Dec 5 and Dec 6 at the Denver Fillmore.

In Seoul, they spell grindcore HWA. Hear the band’s ripping Demo 2025 now.

Hear Scottish metallic hardcore outfit Kakihara cudgel with impunity on vicious new EP Love Songs Part 2.

It’s bigger than a chapel… enter the Realm of Ghouls now.

If you’ve until the end of the day (Dec 1) to secure a deluxe Decibel subscription to ensure ownership of the re-recording of the Cro-Mags classic “Hard Times” on limited edition flexi disc!