Progressive metal duo Humanness Test unveil their latest single, “Prima Facie,” along with new video. You can hear it with us first.

Read and listen as prog-metallers the Reticent take an extensive, and personal, look at mental health and illness with their new album.

Fanatisme‘s roughly recorded (and played) new seven-song record takes a raw black metal aesthetic and vocal approach and marries it to early ’80s post punk and goth gloom.

Blackened death thrash conjurors Morbikon return with the third chapter of their animated medieval-fantasy saga taken from their new full-length Lost Within the Astral Crypts, out now on Tankcrimes.

Hear Horror-obsessed death metal lunatics House by the Cemetary deliver 30 filthy minutes of sharpened bone saws, sewer-stench groove, and classic Fulci-drenched death.

Soak in some instrumental doom vibes with the latest from Sacri Suoni.

London grinders Carthage Must Be Destroyed will blast you back to the stone age.

Watch Columbian melodeath monsters Eshtadur perform “Fire Above Mountain Below” alongside a symphony orchestra.

Learn the story of a Ukrainian solider in World War I via a breakdown of the new 1914 album.

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…