2024 was a banner year for heavy music, having hit us heavy-music fans with countless awesome albums from veteran artists and rising forces alike. And while that was badass, 2025 could be poised to be even greater. Some of Revolver’s favorite noisemakers — from Anthrax to Spiritbox— already have new albums in the pipeline, while the promise of fresh material is likely for Deftones, Bad Omens, Loathe and many more.
Whether you’re into traditional thrash, extreme metal, grotesque and grimy death or nu-grooved bombast, there’s seemingly no shortage of headbanging music heading our way throughout the next 365 days. The salivating dogs we are, these are 60 records we’re looking forward to more than most.
Alien Weaponry
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
We’re closing in on four years since New Zealand’s Alien Weaponry delivered their Tangaroa album, but the long wait for the Te Reo metal band’s third album seems like it’s almost over. The group did, after all, post an Instagram photo of vocalist-guitarist Lewis de Jeong riffin’ it out in the studio last summer, with a caption suggesting the project were working on “undisclosed tings.”
Here’s hoping that more thrash-imbued, haka-employing heaviness is on the docket for 2025.
All That Remains
Title: Antifragile
Release Date: January 31st
All That Remains faced great tragedy when founding guitarist Oli Herbert passed away in 2018 just a month after the release of their last album, Victim of the New Disease. While the band naturally took time off to grieve, they’ve spent the past couple years working on new music with progcore virtuoso Jason Richardson (Born of Osiris) stepping into Herbert’s massive shoes.
Four masterfully monstrous singles from the band’s forthcoming Antifragile LP hit streamers throughout 2024, and while the last one of those was titled “Forever Cold,” it’s looking like things are absolutely heating up for ATR again.
Anthrax
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
You gotta believe this thing’s coming out eventually, right?
Every year we say we’re eagerly anticipating the long-in-the-works follow-up to 2016’s For All Kings, and this year’s no exception. Still, Anthrax pre-produced music throughout 2023, with axman Scott Ian telling Guitar World that everything sounds “thrashier than anything we’ve done in a long time.”
Fingers crossed the Big 4 titans deliver this year.
Arch Enemy
Title: Blood Dynasty
Release Date: March 28th
Arch Enemy previewed their forthcoming Blood Dynasty in 2024 via a trio of singles that vaulted the extreme-metal band from piercing, full-speed aggression towards a more brooding, crimson-coated heaviness. All of this, of course, came topped with the fierce vocal dexterity of frontwoman Alissa White-Gluz
The full bloodletting starts streaming out at the top of the spring, and if the pre-release material gave us a good sense of things, Arch Enemy are adding another set of bangers to their dynastic canon.
Architects
Title: The Sky, The Earth & All Between
Release Date: March 28th
Architects absolutely broke our necks in November when they previewed The Sky, The Earth & All Between with their bounced and banged “Whiplash,” the latest single from their 11th full-length, following 2023’s “Seeing Red” and April’s “Curse.”
The band’s own Dan Searle noted that the ferocious track “marks the beginning of a new era for Architects,” perhaps because its their first release since longtime guitarist Josh Middleton exited the project in 2023. Either way, Architects have their designs on conquering 2025, and per vocalist Sam Carter’s screaming on “Whiplash”: “Fuck you if you disapprove”
Bad Omens
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Bad Omens may have dropped their CONCRETE JUNGLE [THE OST] “expansion pack” in 2024 — which highlighted a few new collaborative songs, as well as remixes and alternate takes — but fans are absolutely dying to hear what’s next from Noah Sebastian and Co., whose last proper album was 2022’s much-loved breakthrough The Death of Peace of Mind.
Though the metalcore experimentalists have an Australian tour at the top of 2025, and a few U.S. festival dates in the spring, Sebastian told us in the fall that their upcoming stage production will “hopefully” mark the band’s last live-show revamp until a next album cycle begins.
Biohazard
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Though we’ve been awaiting new material from Biohazard’s classic lineup — Evan Seinfeld, Billy Graziadei, Bobby Hambel and Danny Schuler — since they linked up again back in 2023, 2025 will be the year the New York hardcore and rap-metal trailblazers formally deliver the punishment we so desperately crave.
The follow-up to 2012’s Reborn in Defiance will be delivered through the new BLKIIBLK label imprint, and Graziadei confirmed in mid-December that the band hit the studio for a “blurry few days” to work on their “banger of a record.”
Black Label Society
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
While Zakk Wylde and the rest of his long-running doom crew swung their grim-grooved “The Gallows” single our way in September, it’s been more than three years since BLS dropped their last full-length, Doom Crew Inc.
Wylde will be back on the road with Pantera next year, while longtime co-shredder Dario Lorina has his debut album with new project Dark Chapel coming out in February, but BLS have also confirmed that they’ve been working on demo ideas for forthcoming 12th full-length. It could arrive at the tail end of 2025.
Bloodywood
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Nu-leaning folk-metal contortionists Bollywood are set to follow up their ambitious 2022 debut album, Rakshak, with the band’s first full-length for new label home Fearless Records.
They’ve already teased the collection with the riotously raging single “Nu Delhi” and their “Bekhauf” collab with BABYMETAL — the latter being a multi-cultural, multi-genre melting pot of English, Hindi and Japanese-sung lyrics that further ramped up Bloodywood’s fearless and borderless artistic spirit.
Burn Eternal
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Former Killswitch Engage bandmates Adam Dutkiewicz and Howard Jones have been teasing a new project for a while now, but officially dubbed their team-up Burn Eternal at the top of December. Jones also posted on Instagram that the pair’s debut album is already mixed, so a release is hopefully not too far off from here.
The album will be Dutkiewicz and Jones’ first full-length together since KSE’s Incarnate nearly a decade ago, but considering the former’s track record for killer riffs and the latter’s soulfully screamed-out presence, Burn Eternal’s debut should be a scorcher.
Side note: Jones also recently announced that he began working on a debut solo album, so 2025 could be a big one for the singer.
Chevelle
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Chevelle have been sitting on “a whole bunch” of songs for the past few years and, at one point, even suggested that the follow-up to 2021’s Niratias was to have been released this past fall. Drummer Sam Loeffler admitted to Trib.Live last summer, however, that they were still working on the 10-song album, which will be the alt-rock vets’ first album for Alchemy Recordings.
Vocalist-guitarist Pete Loeffler said in late December that new music could pop up “in the next month”. While Chevelle report that two tracks, in particular, “definitely sound… different than just rock music,” the whole record is apparently “skewing towards heavy”
Clutch
First thing’s first: Clutch will be busy in 2025 celebrating the 30th anniversary of their iconic self-titled sophomore album in 2025, through a tour, a vinyl repress and more.
But last summer vocalist Neil Fallon revealed to TotalRock that the band have also been accumulating riffs for a proper follow-up to 2022’s Sunrise on Slaughter Beach. The hope was to start recording the album this spring.
Coheed and Cambria
Title: Vaxis Act III: The Father of Make Believe
Release Date: March 14th
When Coheed and Cambria delivered their “Blind Side Sonny” single last fall, the band teased that an upcoming album release would soon follow. When they followed shortly thereafter with another new tune, “Searching for Tomorrow,” the punky prog veterans made it official, announcing their 10th full-length, Vaxis Act III: The Father of Make Believe.
The album follows 2022’s Vaxis Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind and will naturally build on the sci-fi lore of the band’s broader Amory Wars/Vaxis narrative. Bandleader Claudio Sanchez is getting extra meta with his lyrics this time around, with the master storyteller casting himself as the titular Father of Make Believe. As for the already introduced Blind Side Sonny, he will serve as a new villain.
Cradle of Filth
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
While U.K. extreme metal greats Cradle of Filth offered up the pugnaciously raging “Malignant Perfection” single right around Halloween, the full details have yet to be revealed for their long-awaited follow-up to 2021’s Existence Is Futile.
What we know is that they’ve been making the record since 2023, and it will mark the full-length debut of guitarists Marek “Ashok” Šmerda and Donny Burbage and keyboardist-vocalist Zoe Marie Federoff — and possibly an Ed Sheeran guest turn.
Vocalist Dani Filth had previously said it’s “got a very Dusk… and Her Embrace vibe about it,” which sounds promising for longtime fans.
Dayseeker
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Dayseeker just started working on the follow-up to last spring’s Replica LP, and by the sounds of it, the long-running metalcore outfit aren’t retreading the soft-strummed approach of that experimental redux project. Reteaming with producer Dan Braunstein, this one could get loud.
“I feel like it puts all of our other music to shame,” vocalist Rory Rodriguez told Kerrang! “Maybe there’s a happy song on there… but it’s pretty dark so far.”
Deftones
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Deftones’ resident riff lord Stephen Carpenter let it slip back in 2023 that the beloved group had started working on new music alongside producer Nick Raskulinecz. While the band clearly did not make his initially-teased spring 2024 timeline, progress is being made, with the guitarist revealing more recently that the new material “sounds like a continuation of Ohms and Koi [No Yokan].”
While nothing has been confirmed beyond that, with a big North American headlining arena tour kicking off in February, the new album could finally be on the way soon.
The Devil Wears Prada
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
To be sure, the Devil Wears Prada have been coloring outside the lines since they delivered their last full-length, 2022’s Color Decay. They bumped up the synths for their hard-popping “Rituals,” but swerved back to djent for a redone “Reasons,” and then went ultra unplugged for a soft reboot of fan favorite “Chemical.”
The possibilities are wide open for TDWP’s forthcoming ninth full-length, which will likely arrive after the band’s “Metalcore Spring Break Tour.”
Dimmu Borgir
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Dimmu Borgir are not ones to rush greatness.
On the one hand, the symphonic black-metal legends are keenly aware that they haven’t delivered an album of original music since 2018’s Eonian, but guitarist Silenoz expressed in an interview that they’re not going to hurry the process “just to have [a new album] out.”
Still, Dimmu Borgir have been trying “to concoct a new brew” since the early days of the pandemic and hit the studio in mid-December. We can’t wait to drink up the bleak, bombastic results when they finally bottle it all up.
Down
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
The most revered sludge supergroup in the whole wide world have a full-blown album on the way, per longtime guitarist and Crowbar head honcho Kirk Windstein. He recently explained that he and the rest of Down — Philip Anselmo, Pepper Keenan, Jimmy Bower and Pat Bruders — have locked in to finish their first album since 2007’s Down III: Over the Under, and that the 10-song release is sounding pretty “awesome.”
Considering they’re touring alongside Danzig in March, here’s hoping West Coast crowds get smoked out by the NOLA favorites’ new tunes ahead of a proper studio release.
Dream Theater
Title: Parasomnia
Release Date: February 7th
The classic Dream Theater lineup is together again with progressive drum god Mike Portnoy back behind the kit, and now that everything back in place, the band are unleashing Parasomnia — the title is a catch-all term for disruptive sleep-related disorders — upon their followers.
By all accounts, their 16th full-length sounds pretty epic so far — and between the chillingly phantasmagoric “Night Terror” and the precision heaviness of “A Broken Man,” fans will no doubt be restless until the record arrives in full.
Exodus
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Per guitarist Gary Holt (also of Slayer), Bay Area thrash masters Exodus were supposed to start tracking the follow up to 2021’s Persona Non Grata back in the summer, but the songs weren’t quite ready in time.
Good on ‘em for not hopping into the studio half-baked — though there’s a chance Holt and Co. will have the songs seasoned to thrash perfection early in 2025. Either way, he had a succinct summary of the riffs he’s got in store for us so far: “Stuff’s heavy.”
Fear Factory
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Fear Factory co-founder Dino Cazares wants to “conquer the world” with the most recent version of his long-running industrial-metal band. While new vocalist Milo Silvestro has yet to record original music with the band, Cazares has called the frontman “the most musically talented in the band” and likens him to a young Burton C. Bell.
Fear Factory hoped to have at least a single out by the end of 2024, but fans will have to wait a little longer for a follow-up to the mechanized heft of 2021’s Aggression Continuum.
Fit for a King
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Coming off a pair of wildly divergent singles — the chug-bruised “TECHNIUM” and the more pop-edged “Keeping Secrets” — Texas metalcore royalty Fit for a King confirmed through a couple late November Instagram posts that they capped the year by working on “LP8” at producer Dan Braustein’s Hallway Studios in Los Angeles. Current Spiritbox bassist Josh Gilbert has also been involved in the sessions.
It’s been close to three years since the band released an album, and to paraphrase a mosh callout from “TECHNIUM,” it’s about time FFAK to “drop it.”
Gojira
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
According to Revolver readers, Gojira were the artist of 2024 — even without releasing an album. The French heavy-music masters did however become the first-ever metal band to play the Olympics, performing the earth-shaking “Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça Ira).”
That will be fucking hard to top, but Gojira are trying their best to at least live up to that historic moment with the follow-up to 2021’s Fortitude.
“We’re trying to deliver something that is meaningful and impactful,” vocalist-guitarist Joe Duplantier recently told Loudwire Nights. “We’re very ambitious in terms of writing songs and the quality of it. And we wanna take a clear step forward and upward with this album.”
Hopefully, the record will also deliver on the words of Duplantier’s brother and Gojira’s drummer Mario, who said in late 2023: “I have a feeling it’s going to be heavier.”
Halestorm
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
The members of Halestorm had a busy 2024, between their tour dates with Evanescence and vocalist-guitarist Lzzy Hale’s brief stint singing for Skid Row. That said, the metal band likewise sneaked in a few studios sessions with Grammy-nominated producer Dave Cobb, who has primarily worked in the country-music world, though Hale described him as a “closet metal fan.”
Hale estimated in the fall that between 70-80 percent of a follow-up to 2022’s Back From the Dead was in the can, but she needed to put the finishing touches on some vocals and guitar solos.
Jinjer
Title: Duél
Release Date: February 7th
The lead-up to Jinjer’s Duél album has been bombastic, to say the least, with the quartet previewing the platter with everything from melody-spiked battle anthems (“Someone’s Daughter”) to literary-themed power ballads (“Kafka”) to hard-edged stomp-outs about sobriety (“Green Serpent”).
This is all to say, between the progressive dynamics of the music and the always gob-smacking vocal elevation powerhouse frontwoman Tatiana Shmayluk brings to the fore, the Ukrainian metal favorites’ fifth album is going to be a force to be reckoned with.
Killswitch Engage
Title: This Consequence
Release Date: February 21st
The Massachusetts metalcore masters are back with a vengeance, with the band’s recent “Forever Aligned” single bringing together everything we love about Killswitch — blistering speed, dexterously savage riffs, anthemic choruses and the raging cleans-to-screams dynamism of vocalist Jesse Leach.
We’re just over a month away from KSE’s much-anticipated first album in six years, and we are so ready to face the consequences of their actions.
King Diamond
Title: Saint Lucifer’s Hospital 1920
Release Date: TBA
Though King Diamond has been working on a gothic-metal concept album about a haunted sanitarium since at least 2019, the fact that the Danish royal debuted two new songs during his fall 2024 North American tour — the ripping “Spider Lilly” and the more progressive “Electrotherapy” — suggests this may be the year he finally opens up the doors of his Institute.
What we know so far is that the first album of a proposed trilogy will be titled Saint Lucifer’s Hospital 1920.
While the studio version of “Spider Lilly” dropped late in 2024, guitarist Andy LaRocque noted that the band could be wrapping up the full recordings in the spring, with hopes to unleash Saint Lucifer’s Hospital 1920 after a run of summer festival dates.
Korn
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Korn spent the past year celebrating the 30th anniversary of their landmark self-titled debut, but the nu-metal godfathers have also been developing a follow-up to 2022’s Requiem for quite some time.
Guitarist Brian “Head” Welch admitted last March that his band had already been working on material for months, and that it was “the best and heaviest Korn stuff in years” — adding that it sounded like “vintage Korn… with a modern twist.”
Then again, he more recently revealed that it may be a while before we hear anything — summertime at the soonest.
Lacuna Coil
Title: Sleepless Empire
Release Date: February 14th
Italian gothic-metal titans Lacuna Coil say that their Sleepless Empire album — the band’s 10th LP and first in five years — is about “the chaos of a generation trapped in a digital world that never stops,” but damned if the previews they gave us so far didn’t halt us in our tracks.
Featuring guest spots from Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe and New Years Day’s Ash Costello, and naturally driven once again by vocal phenom Cristina Scabbia, it’s high time an album finally resurfaces Lacuna Coil from the “shadows” and into the light
Limp Bizkit
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Fred Durst and Co. are back to Bizkit business.
The vocalist took to his Instagram stories back in October to note that the rap-rock icons had hit the studio — at the very least, drummer John Otto has laid down some beats. Clearly psyched to start working on the follow-up to 2021’s Still Sucks, Durst said at the time: “Let’s get that funky funky. Let’s get that Limp Bizkit popping off.”
No doubt, the rest of us are also excited to get that “funky funky” from our nu-metal daddies.
Loathe
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Well, damn… Loathe vocalist Kadeem France kinda played us when he told Revolver that his U.K. metalcore group would “absolutely” be releasing an album in 2024. Like he said in 2023, it “feels like an eternity” since the band delivered their last proper album, the 2020 instant classic I Let It In and It Took Everything.
While there have yet to be any official updates on the long-awaited follow-up, Loathe are hitting the road on Spiritbox’s big Tsunami Sea tour this year — which would be a great time to debut a new song or two.
Mastodon
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
While Mastodon did offer up some new music in 2024 — namely, the collaborative “Floods of Triton” single with their “Ashes of Leviathan” tourmates Lamb of God — fans are wanting to get caught in the undertow of a full-length follow-up to 2021’s double-sized Hushed & Grim.
Good thing then that more fresh material is in the works: Mastodon guitarist Bill Kelliher has been riffing out new song ideas since 2023, while vocalist-bassist Troy Sanders said this fall that “a lot of loose demos” have been floating back and forth between the bandmates.
Ministry
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
The arrival of Ministry’s next album is going to be super bittersweet, considering main man Al Jourgensen explained long ago that it will in fact be the industrial-metal trailblazers’ final full-length.
What we know so far is that classic-period bassist Paul Barker is back in the fold for the album, which will be released through Cleopatra Records. Forty years into their career, Ministry could be going out with a bang, with Jourgensen himself noting ahead of time: “Buckle up, this is going to be a good one.”
Motionless in White
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Motionless in White bandleader Chris Motionless suggested that he and his long-running goth-tinged metalcore group are working in slow motion when it comes to creating the full-length follow-up to 2022’s Scoring the End of the World, and that’s totally OK. Speaking with Metal Shop TV, he explained that they’re chipping away at the process, and a 2025 due date is imminent, but also, “when it’s done, it’s done.”
“I’m just writing the coolest songs that we could write,” he explained. “And we’re really excited about what we have.”
Mudvayne
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Mudvayne vocalist Chad Gray revealed in 2023 that he and the rest of the reunited nu-metal juggernaut had some “special” song ideas rattling around, but it’s unclear when the group may actually end up releasing new music — something they haven’t done since they delivered their self-titled album in 2009.
While they’ve been sharing riffs and beats, Gray more recently expressed that Mudvayne will only deliver the goods to the public once the songs sound “timeless” — or, as he put it even more directly, “I only wanna put out fucking great shit.”
Nine Inch Nails
Title: Tron: Ares original soundtrack
Release Date: TBA
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have been positively prolific in recent years — just not as Nine Inch Nails. The duo have focused heavily on soundtrack work under their own names, but NIN looks to return to the fore in 2025.
In a December interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Reznor revealed, “We’re taking the inspiration we’ve garnered and funneling it into a Nine Inch Nails project, which we’re working on now. We’re ready to be back in the driver’s seat.”
That project looks to be the soundtrack to Tron: Ares, which, unlike Rezor and Ross’ other film work, will be released under the NIN banner and reportedly feature “new original songs” by the band.
Ozzy Osbourne
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
When will the Ozzman cometh back with a follow-up to 2022’s Patient No. 9? While he’d initially suggested a potential 2024 timeline for a third Ozzy album helmed by producer and guitarist Andrew Watt, the heavy-metal icon ended up focusing on his Madhouse Chronicles show with Billy Morrison and reflected on his iconic solo career through a recent induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Ozzy’s health has kept him off the road for the past few years, but a new studio full-length from the Prince of Darkness would be a perfect addition to our 2025 playlist.
Poison the Well
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Poison the Well will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of their belovedly heavy debut album, The Opposite of December… A Season of Separation, on a spring headlining tour that sees them hitting the road with Better Lovers and Glassjaw.
That would be exciting enough, but last summer the Floridian metalcore group whetted fans’ appetites in the strangest and most niche way possible, by sneak-announcing an upcoming album in a thank you note included in their vinyl discography box set.
Not much else to go on beyond that, but it will be the band’s first LP since 2009’s The Tropic Rot.
Power Trip
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
While Power Trip guitarist Blake Ibanez let it slip all the way back in 2022 that the Texas thrashers were “working hard” on a new album — which would be their first since the passing of vocalist Riley Gale — things are still seemingly pretty up in the air for the follow-up to 2017’s forever legendary Nightmare Logic.
More recently, drummer Chris Ulsh confirmed he and Ibanez have “a ton of music” for an album, but the band are really focusing on playing more live shows with current vocalist Seth Gilmore (also of Skourge and Fugitive) — including their early 2025 European run with Pantera.
Scowl
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Scowl recently announced they’d signed to the more-traditionally indie-rock record label Dead Oceans for their next full-length release, and they teased it with a “Special” new single that once again fused the Bay Area band’s hardcore fury with a melodic alt-rock sheen.
At the time, vocalist Kat Moss explained that the track was about the push-and-pull between audiences and performers. While we’ll have to wait to hear the rest of the release — which will follow 2023’s Psychic Dance Routine EP — there could be more pit-starters on the way for fans soon enough.
Shadows Fall
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Though they’d reunited back in 2021, it wasn’t until early December that New Wave of American Heavy Metal greats Shadows Fall finally put out new music — with their pinch-squealing, rip-snorting “In the Grey” mercifully ending a 12-year drought.
Vocalist Brian Fair said that the band’s self-described “full-throttle thrasher” was built to make you raise your horns and bang your head — and we firmly agree. Better yet, the song seemed to kickstart an exciting new phase for Shadows Fall, with the group likewise noting that fans should “stay tuned for more music.”
Slaughter to Prevail
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Slaughter to Prevail unleashed three pulverizing singles throughout 2024, “Conflict,” “K.O.D.” and “Behelit,” but it’s been four long years since the deathcore demolishers dropped their last full-length, Kostolom.
That drought looks to end in 2025. Indeed, vocalist Alex Terrible included high among his list of New Year’s resolutions: “I want to drop new album with slaughter.”
The rumored title of said album? Grizzly, a not-so-subtle nod to Terrible’s penchant for wrestling bears back in his homeland of Russia.
Sleep Theory
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
If the band’s multi-million streams across countless platforms hadn’t already tipped you off to this, Sleep Theory have become one of the bands to watch the past couple of years. With a sound that branches off a love of nu-metal, Aughts post-grunge and R&B, their music has a penchant for — to paraphrase a 2024 song — getting stuck in your head.
While a formal full-length debut has yet to be detailed, Sleep Theory’s run of singles over the past year have built up a lot of much-deserved hype.
Sleep Token
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Vessel and the rest of Sleep Token’s masked metal adventurists may well have some new music to reveal to the faithful during their 2025 live Rituals. While nothing has been officially detailed by the band, the U.K.’s Download Festival recently let it slip that the group’s forthcoming summer headlining set will be a moment to “witness the next chapter” of Sleep Token.
As we eagerly await more details, what’s for sure is that the band’s follow-up to Take Me Back to Eden will be rapturously received by Sleep Token’s ever-growing and ever-worshipful fan base.
Slipknot
Title: Look Outside Your Window
Release Date: TBA
Slipknot’s still unreleased Look Outside Your Window — recorded during the same sessions as 2008’s All Hope Is Gone — is the Holy Grail to Maggots around the world. It’s a record that Corey Taylor has described as having an experimental, Radiohead-esque vibe, and of which Shawn “Clown” Crahan has said, “You’ll never hear Corey Taylor sing like this on his solo albums.”
According to Clown in an interview with NME, 2025 is the year the world gets to hear it: “[The album is] being moved on, the money has been spent and there is a plan,” he reported. “The management has it and it is coming out.”
We’re also still waiting for the ‘Knot to drop their rumored “Long May You Die” single, which would mark the studio debut of drummer Eloy Casagrande. Should be a big year for Maggots, if the band come through on either front.
Soulfly
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Though the past couple of years found Max Cavalera tapping into his thrash roots while re-recording old Sepultura material, it sounds like he’s ready to get his groove back. The Brazilian metal great confessed to that he wants to jump da fuck up with a new Soulfly album that taps into the tribal grooviness of the band’s earliest releases— something he felt “kind of got lost in the shuffle through the years.”
He also told Moshpit Passion that the new tunes could end up being influenced by the “heavy breakdown grooves” of modern hardcore acts like Knocked Loose and Kublai Khan. “I think we are inspired to create something special next year,” he promised.
Spiritbox
Title: Tsunami Sea
Release Date: March 7th
Honestly, Spiritbox’s 2024 was pretty massive, between touring with Korn and Gojira, singer Courtney LaPlante jumping on songs by SeeYouSpaceCowboy and Megan Thee Stallion, onstage collabs with Poppy, Chelsea Wolfe and Jinjer’s Tatiana Shmayluk, a Grammy nomination and, of course, a pair of brilliant, bombastic new singles: “Soft Spine” and “Perfect Soul.”
In another sense, that was the veritable calm before the flood, considering the djent-pop band are now about to deliver their mega-anticipated second album, Tsunami Sea. The record was produced by Dan Braustein (Silverstein, Silent Planet) and guitarist Mike Stringer, and will be supported with both a headlining tour with Loathe, Dying Wish and GEL, as well as some opening dates for Linkin Park.
Let the flood begin.
Superheaven
Title: Superheaven
Release Date: TBA
After celebrating the 10th anniversary of their JAR album out on the road, the reunited Superheaven finally came through with some new tunes in 2024. The band’s winkingly-titled “Long Gone” comeback single and follow-up track “Numb to What Is Real” are positively bursting from the seams with sensory-overloading layers of shoegazing guitar effects and post-hardcore drum pummeling.
Best of all, the return to form comes with the news that a self-titled LP self-recorded by vocalist-guitarist Jason Clarke and drummer Zack Robbins is queued up to be released sometime in the spring through Blue Grape Music.
Testament
Title: TBA
Release Date: TBA
“All the hard work’s done” on Testament’s new album, per guitarist Eric Peterson, who told KNAC.COM in November that the classic Bay Area thrash titans have about 95 percent of their 14th full-length in the can.
This will be the first Testament record with drummer Chris Dorvas, who replaced Dave Lombardo in 2023. Guitarist Alex Skolnick said that their new skinsman, who hadn’t even been born when Testament formed in the Eighties, “lit a fire under everybody” during the sessions.
A due date has yet to be announced, but Skolnick said it should all be “listenable” before the end of 2025.
Tetrarch
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Los Angeles-via-Atlanta nu-metal group Tetrarch have been working on a follow-up to 2021’s Unstable for quite some time, but the wait may soon be over. By the time the band dropped the single “Live Not Fantasize” last September — their first new music in three years — guitar god in the making Diamond Rowe revealed that they’d already been “locked away for over a year working on some really sick stuff that we’re so excited to share with the world.”
Odds are good that Rowe cut some of the record with her new Pro Series Signature Diamond Rowe DR12MG EVTN6 guitar, the instrument that’s made her “the first female in the history of Jackson with a signature guitar and the first African American female signature artist in heavy music.”
Underoath
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When Revolver caught up with Underoath vocalist Spencer Chamberlain last spring to talk up the 20th anniversary of their iconic They’re Only Chasing Safety album, which they played in full on their last North American tour, the singer said he was grateful to celebrate his past, but was likewise “dying to get to the next chapter.” And when it came to new Underoath music, he hinted that things were sounding “heavy as shit.”
Certainly, the band’s run of singles throughout 2024 trafficked in big breakdowns, fast-as-fuck hardcore and metal-edged severity, but it also offered up some synth-symphonic pop subversion. Needless to say, their next chapter could be accordingly weird as shit, too.
Volbeat
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In December, Volbeat returned to the stage for their first show in nearly a year and a half. In 2025, the Danish “Elvis metal” greasers look to be a helluva lot more active.
In a January 1st message, Volbeat frontman Michael Poulsen revealed that the band’s new album — the follow-up to 2021’s Servant of the Mind — has been recorded and will be out this year.
He also teased a busy touring schedule: “There’s a lot of shows being booked for ’25 with Volbeat everywhere in the world. Can’t wait to meet you all out there.”
Whitechapel
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Honestly, few bands could make a song about feasting upon a demon’s feces as appetizing as Whitechapel did with their recent — and perfectly named — “A Visceral Retch.”
What’s sure is that the veteran deathcore group are back with a vengeance, with the band apparently dialing into the blessedly horrific heaviness of their The Somatic Defilement period. Just as vocalist Philip Bozeman gurgles at the top of that latest single, we cannot help but want to “consume” whatever wretched thing Whitechapel serves up next.
Rob Zombie
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While not much has been revealed behind Rob Zombie’s next full-length — which has been in the works to some degree for the past couple of years, and will be the horror-metal auteur’s first album since 2021’s The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy — what’s sure is that it’ll be a return to form, at least in terms of his band’s lineup.
Back in 2022, longtime axeman John 5 split to link up with Mötley Crüe, which brought Hellbilly Deluxe-era guitarist Mike Riggs back in the fold. And when bassist Piggy D bounced from Zombie’s band early in 2024, OG four-stringer Blasko ended up returning to the Spookshow.
While details are slim, we at least know Zombie, Riggs and Blasko know how to make a monster of an album together.