Written By Kevin McSweeney
Metal Lair’s Seven Deadly Songs Weekly Series October 10th 2025
Welcome to Seven Deadly Songs, Metal Lair’s weekly feature in which, this week at least, we seem to be concentrating on the back end of the alphabet. I’m not entirely sure why. It certainly wasn’t deliberate, but we don’t seem to have anything by a band whose name starts with any of the first eleven letters. What we are bringing you, however, is a list of songs from seven of the best albums to be released between the 6th and the 12th of October. So, open up your minds, your ears, and maybe some beers, and let us serve you seven hot ones to go with your cold ones. Enjoy!
Les Bâtards Du Roi – Les Chemins De L’Exil
All the king’s bastards and all the king’s men couldn’t stop Kevin including French black metal again! Les Chemins De L’Exil – the paths of exile, if the French I learned in school hasn’t deserted me completely – is the title track of the second full-length album from the magnificently named Les Bâtards Du Roi (The King’s Bastards) and, well, c’est magnifique!
I love the way it threatens to go all emo on us at the start, only to swerve unceremoniously into full-on black metal blast beat. It turns moody and atmospheric in the middle, with some sexy French-accented spoken word vocals, but returns promptly to the heaviness, thus violently suppressing any ardour they might have aroused. The album is out on October 10th via Les Actuers De L’Ombre Productions. Black metal has seldom been so alluring!
Living Dead Girl – We’ll All Be Dead
But only one of us will be living and dead? A Schrödinger’s Girl kind of thing? I don’t know how many of you watched The Inbetweeners (the British version, not the disappointing American imitation) but I’m sure the vocalist of this band is the girl who propositioned Will at the Caravan Club disco.
All nonsense aside, this is an interesting blend of styles, alternating between shouty nu metal and, well, basically Olivia Rodrigo. It’s a lot better than I’ve made it sound and thats why they are featured on this weeks Seven Deadly Songs. The shouty parts are really quite heavy. Actually, there’s a hint of ABBA in the melodic bits, which is no bad thing in my book. This song is from Conspiracy, which I believe is their second album, which is due to be released independently on October 10th. I’m sure we’ll all be dying to get our hands on a copy.
Pandemic Outbreak – Consumed by Flames
Now lads, are you taking the piss with this band name or what are you doing? We had enough of that shite earlier in the decade, thank you very much! (Would you believe there’s also releases this week by bands called Plague Curse, Plague Doctor and Red Right Hand of Plague?
We want breakdowns, not lockdowns!) Luckily, they make up for it with an exquisite blend of death and thrash metal on Consumed by Flames, which seems to skew markedly towards the former. The Polish social distancing enforcers release their second full-length album, Torment Beyond Comprehension – and wasn’t Covid exactly that? – independently on October 10th. Missing out on it would be enough to make you sick!
Serpent God – Keyhole
It seems almost obligatory to include a band from Finland in Seven Deadly Songs at this stage, but bands from that chilly country will insist on releasing metal of the finest quality. Keyhole is the fourth single to be made available prior to the release of Serpent God’s first album, Denial, which drops on October 10th, courtesy of Inverse Records.
This is a slow, sombre and slightly sinister-sounding piece of music from the death/doom metal debutants, even if there is a riff in there that reminds me of the intro to the jaunty little ditty that was Terrorvision’s Alice, What’s The Matter? Nobody else will be reminded of Terrorvision by it, of course. I’m a very strange man, and Serpent God are a very good band. Why not let them slither their way into your playlist?
Terzij de Horde – The All-Consuming Work of The Soul’s Foreclosing
Speaking of consistently producing metal of the finest quality, we turn now to an offering featured on this weeks Seven Deadly Songs to be released courtesy of our good friends at Church Road Records, who never let us down, and they certainly haven’t done so here. Dutch masters of post-black metal Terzij de Horde return on October 10th with their third full-length album, Our Breath is Not Ours Alone.
(They love a long title, don’t they? Dutch men are on average the tallest in the world, so it wouldn’t be like them to produce anything short.) It’s music that is as emotionally powerful as it is heavy and intellectually as towering as the tallest man in Amsterdam, and that dude is going to be seriously tall!
Ültra Raptör – Hard ‘N’ Fast
I love everything about this! I love the fact that it does exactly what it says on the tin by actually being hard and fast. I love the virtuoso musicianship as much as I love the unashamedly 80s retro vibe. I love the unnecessary umlauts. I love the way they embrace the cheesiness of it all, and I especially love the artwork, and the fact that they don’t scrimp on the dinosaurs.
Above all, I love the fact that it’s a lot of fun, and it puts a smile on my face ten miles wide! (There’s an oblique reference to the subsequent pick!) This weeks Seven Deadly Songs includes the Quebec speed metal crew released their second full-length album Fossilized on October 7th via Fighter Records, and I’m already a huge fan. They make music that would have appealed to me when I was a grotty teenager who was repulsive to girls, and it also appeals to me as a grotty middle-aged man who is repulsive to girls. Did I mention that I love it?
Warrant – Falling Down
Finally on Seven Deadly Songs we have Warrant, and I must say: these guys have certainly changed since their Cherry Pie days! In the 14 years since the untimely death of Jani Lane, the LA glamour boys seem to have morphed into a German thrash metal band. That’s quite a transformation!
In all seriousness, Teutonic thrash Warrant have been around since the 1980s, though The Speed of Metal, the album from which Falling Down is taken, is actually only their third.
It’s available from October 10th courtesy of Massacre Records, and its sound is fast, frenetic and as scary as Michael Douglas was when he was rampaging around Los Angeles – home of the hair metal Warrant – toting a machine gun in the movie that shares its name with the song. And with that, I wish you all a fond auf wiedersehen!
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❓ FAQ: Seven Deadly Songs (October 6–12, 2025)
Q: What is Seven Deadly Songs?
A: Seven Deadly Songs is Metal Lair’s weekly roundup of the heaviest new releases across the metal spectrum — from black and death to doom, thrash, and speed metal. Each week we spotlight seven standout tracks you shouldn’t miss.
Q: When does Seven Deadly Songs update?
A: We post a new edition every week, typically highlighting releases from Monday through Sunday. This edition covers October 6 to October 12, 2025.
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A: Right here. Seven Deadly Songs is your go-to source for discovering the latest metal tracks — including fresh black, death, thrash, doom, and speed metal releases — all curated in one place.
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A:Every featured track links out to the artist’s official release, streaming platform, or label page so you can dive deeper and support the bands directly.
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