Written By Kevin McSweeney
Metal Lair’s Seven Deadly Songs November 7th 2025
Welcome to the Halloween hangover edition of Seven Deadly Songs, where you find us feeling a bit glum seven days after our favourite time of year, with the memory of our ill-gotten goodies being but a distant spike in our blood sugar levels.
We need cheering up, and fast! Luckily, there’s plenty of excellent new rock and metal albums and EPs being released this week, which will help to put a bit of pep back in our step, and some piss back in our vinegar.
We’ve selected seven of the best new releases between the third and the ninth of November, and highlighted the songs that have us most excited for them. We hope you enjoy them as much as you enjoyed terrifying your neighbours last week in pursuit of a bucket full of sugary delights, you absolute monsters!
Bogwife – From Ashes
Full disclosure: I decided to consider including our opening selection purely because the band’s name amused me. Bogwife are from Denmark, which is known for the remarkably well preserved human remains discovered in its peat bogs – how very metal! – though the term “bog” has a different meaning altogether in the UK, and I’m basically a middle-aged child.
Fortunately for me, these delightful Danes have produced an outstanding piece of psychedelic stoner/doom metal to give me some credence I don’t deserve.
The title track from their third full-length album – due out on November 7th via Majestic Mountain Records – boasts riffs that are both bluesy and ballsy, as well as some captivating grooves and vocals that evoke the spirit of Ozzy himself. Oh, and the guitar solo is as delectable as a Danish pastry!
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Cold in Berlin – Hangman’s Daughter
It can undoubtedly be very cold in Berlin, though that shouldn’t be a concern for you if you live in London.
These melancholic metropolitans have been around since 2009, when their sound was notably different to its current incarnation. Nowadays, they are purveyors of the finest gothic metal, but are still stamped indelibly with the mark of their post-punk origins.
They probably won’t thank me for the comparison, but Hangman’s Daughter reminds me a little of early U2, when Bono and Co. were an exciting post-punk band, rather than the abomination they became.
The militaristic beat brings to mind Sunday Bloody Sunday, and the wailing lead guitar could be the work of The Edge. Add to that a flavour of Sisters of Mercy-style synth-based goth pulsating away beneath the powerful lungs of vocalist Maya, and you’ve got a broodingly beautiful blend.
The song is taken from Wounds, their fifth full-length album, which is available from November 7th via New Heavy Sounds. Sample its delights or be marched to the gallows!
Drain – Stealing Happiness From Tomorrow
Bit of a tearjerker, this one – which is not what you’d expect from hardcore punk. The video for Stealing Happiness From Tomorrow, which is taken from Drain’s third length album …Is Your Friend, is a tribute to the Californian band’s drummer. Tim Flegal, who is taking time away from them for the first time in their 11-year history, in order to battle cancer.
So, it’s an emotional one, though it still hits as hard as you’d expect from a band of their ilk. (They are certainly not to be confused with the all-female melodic hard rock band, who are known as Drain STH outside of their native Sweden.)
The album is due to be released via the prestigious Epitaph label on November 7th. It’ll draw tears from your eyes and put a boot up your backside at the same time.
Dysentery – Indignation Unravels
This isn’t as shitty as the band’s name might suggest, though my indignation would not be unravelling if I were suffering from bloody diarrhoea.
The Massachusetts maulers have produced a short and savage slab of slam/brutal death metal here, in the form of this pummeling piece of music from their fourth full-length album, Dejection Chrysalis, which is due to be released on November 7th courtesy of Comatose Music.
It ticks all the “slam” boxes, right down to the overtones on the snare drum. It’s obviously super heavy mid-paced brutality with a beast of a breakdown and some of those screechy guitar harmonics that I associate primarily with Code Orange.
The riffs are absolute beasts and the vocals seem to be emanating from the bloody bowels of Hell, which is entirely in keeping with their nomenclature, is it not?
Godark – Leaving Out
Next up, we have two consecutive pieces of music that extend beyond the six-minute mark, and seven minutes in the case of the former.
Self indulgent? Possibly? Enjoyable and able to hold your attention for the entire duration? Definitely, Melodic death metallers Godark are – cue the groans – leaving out nothing here, from the folksy, 6/8 time strum-along sections via black metal blast beat to death metal ferocity and symphonic beauty and no small measure of prog thrown in on top.
There’s a lot going on with these Portuguese purveyors of elegant noise. Leaving Out is taken from their second full-length album, Omniscience, which will be released independently on November 5th. I imagine it will also be omnibenevolent, ie: all good.
Ildaruni – Zurvan Akrane
The second of our lengthy pieces of music comes in the form of atmospheric black metal from Armenia.
I don’t think I’ve engaged with an Armenian band before, unless you count a certain Armenian-American alternative metal institution known for the toxicity of their city.
Zurvan Akrane (something to do with Zoroastrianism, far too esoteric for the likes of me) is taken from Ildaruni’s second full-length album, Divinum Sanguinem, (Latin for Divine Blood), which will be available from November 7th, courtesy of Black Lion Records.
Naturally, there’s plenty in the way of the tremolo picking, blast beats and banshee vocals that are par for the course in black metal, but it has to be noted that some of the little guitar flourishes wouldn’t be out of place in 1980s stadium rock.
Those six-plus minutes go by in no time, it’s such highly entertaining stuff. I am not going to be able to help reading their name as Hilda Rooney, though, which undermines the atmospheric and esoteric nature of the music somewhat.
Stargazery – Retaliate
I’m ending this week’s list the same way I started it: by selecting a band on the basis that their name amuses me, only to be bailed out by the fact that the music is excellent.
You see, the name Stargazery reminds me of stargazy pie, which is a fish-based pastry dish from Cornwall in the UK. It is thus named because the heads of the pilchards protrude through the pie’s crust, as if the fish are looking towards the heavens. I digress.
Stargazery are from Finland, and it’s hard to imagine a Seven Deadly Songs without an offering from that cold and frosty but beautiful land.
Billed as traditional heavy metal, it actually sounds more like power metal at times, with its synths and nautical theme bringing Alestorm to mind.
Whatever, it’s a lot of fun, and I’m sure their fourth full-length album, Carnival Puppeteers, will be much more of the same. It’s available from November 7th via Sleassy Rider Records, and we strongly recommend that you direct your gaze towards it.
Anyway, that’s enough waffle from me for one week. See you next week for another medley of seven most deadly!
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FAQ: Seven Deadly Songs (November 7th 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 is for November 7th – 13th 2025.
Q: Where can I find the best new metal songs?
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.
Q: How can I listen to the songs featured?
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.
Q: Does Metal Lair have other weekly series?
A: Absolutely. Try Deep Cuts Metals Hidden Gems for rare, overlooked tracks or unreleased demos, World Metal Weekly, your passport for metal around the world and our Metalhead Horoscopes shows you what the stars have in store, translated into metalhead language and paired with a lucky song of the week.
