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BEST NEW HEAVY ALBUM RELEASES MAY 2025

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By: mike
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BEST NEW HEAVY ALBUM RELEASES MAY 2025

🔥🔥MAY 2025 BEST NEW HEAVY ALBUM RELEASES🔥🔥
👉My vote submission to the Doom Charts and published on Playgroundz Rocks

1. KAL-EL - ASTRAL VOYAGER VOL. 1 (MAJESTIC MOUNTAIN RECORDS/BLUES FUNERAL RECORDINGS)
2. THAMMUZ - III (ARGONAUTA RECORDS)
3. THE OSSUARY - REQUIEM FOR THE SUN (SUPREME CHAOS RECORDS)
4. PARALYZED - RUMBLE AND ROAR (RIPPLE MUSIC)
5. DUSTY ROSE GANG - A1 FROM DAY ONE (RIDING EASY RECORDS)
6. ROKETS - BAD CHOICES (SVART RECORDS)
7. WHITE NOISE GENERATOR - MYRIADS
8. JOVIAC - AUTOFICTION PT. 1 - SHARDS (INVERSE RECORDS)
9. STONE FIST - STONE FIST (GO DOWN RECORDS)
10. PELICAN - FLICKERING RESONANCE (RUN FOR COVER RECORDS)
11. CRYSTAL SPIDERS - METANOIA (RIPPLE MUSIC)
12. ZIG ZAG - DEADBEAT AT DAWN (RIDING EASY RECORDS)
13. STONE FROM THE SKY - BAKENEKO (ARGONAUTA RECORDS)
14. WITCHCRAFT - IDA (HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS)
15. KILLIAD - KILLIAD (SELF RELEASE)
16. ROOT ZERO - DARK RAINBOW (SELF RELEASE)
17. SLUMBERING SUN - STARMONY (SELF RELEASE)

🤘Every month, from around the globe some of the finest bloggers, journalists, radio, podcasters and reviewers from the heavy underground submit their picks for the best new doom, sludge, metal, stoner, psychedelic and heavy rock albums and submit them to the Doom Charts.

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