September is upon us, and with it the final three months of 2025! We've had a healthy trickle of new releases in recent months with the likes of Deftones, Turnstile and Babymetal all dropping new albums over the summer, but we're far from done. There's still new albums from Creeper, Avatar, Sabaton and more to come before the end of 2025, and that's to say nothing of emergent talent.
Speaking of! Much as we did last month, we're back with another round-up of brilliant new talent from the world of rock, punk and metal that you should check out. Whether it's the hardcore/death metal fusion of Kentucky's Gates To Hell, shimmering synths of The Defect, Welsh riffers King Kraken, London-Hastings crossover thrashers Inhuman Nature or the nu metal meets shoegaze of Split Chain, we've got a diverse selection for you to get your ears around.
