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<\/p>\nWe made it! It\u2019s the end of yet another year, and we\u2019ve reached the final Record(s) o\u2019 the Month for 2025. Over the last 12 months, we\u2019ve laughed, cried, burned posers and poorly performing n00bs at the stake, and we\u2019ve all grown as people (except the aforementioned victims of fiery doom). What better way to set the stage for the looming Listurnial celebration than to look back at the best things that hit the ears in November. That was rhetorical. There is NO better way. Onward!<\/p>\n
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It shouldn\u2019t be a big surprise that 1914<\/strong> nets the top spot for the month, since Viribus Unitis<\/a> [November 14th, 2025 by Napalm Records \u2013 buy it at Bandcamp<\/a>!] was another stunning testament to the talent of this Ukrainian ensemble. It seems grimly appropriate to learn about the horrors of modern warfare from those forced to live through it in the present day. As with prior releases, Viribus Unitis is steeped in dark, melancholic atmospheres as tales of battlefield brutality and inhumanity spill over the speakers. It\u2019s a masterful merger of black, death, and doom metal in service of emotional devastation that will transport you to a muddy, blood-soaked trench and fill your soul with existential dread. As a sobered Grin Reaper<\/strong> solemly summed up, \u201cViribus Unitis is a masterclass in no-bullshit metal storytelling that feels authentic, intimate, and anthemic for the entire runtime.\u201d War is still Hell.<\/p>\n Runner(s) Up:<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tGive in to Your Anger:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We made it! It\u2019s the end of yet another year, and we\u2019ve reached the final Record(s) o\u2019 the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[130035,1135,18,117,19,17,337,130036,130037,28592,130038,130039,130040],"class_list":{"0":"post-249839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-130035","9":"tag-1135","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-oromet","16":"tag-qrixkuor","17":"tag-records-o-the-month","18":"tag-the-sinking-isle","19":"tag-the-womb-of-the-world","20":"tag-viribus-unitis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115776714932290694","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Qrixkuor_TWotW_01-350x350.jpg\")
Qrixkuor<\/strong> \/\/ The Womb of the World<\/a> [November 7th, 2025 | Invictus Productions | Bandcamp<\/a>] \u2014 Symphonic death metal can be a sticky biscuit, and balancing the brutality with the bombast takes a steady hand. For The Womb of the World, Qrixkuor<\/strong> brought in an actual orchestra to lay down the symphonies of destruction that undergird the cavernous death metal that\u2019s become the band\u2019s gruesome calling card. Abrasive riffs come in bunches, horrific sounds are forced upon you, and discordance is the watchword. It\u2019s a lot to process and absorb, but it\u2019s very impressive. The Spongefren<\/strong> was all over the AMG Slack channels the last few weeks preaching the merits of this thing, and we couldn\u2019t get him to shut up about it. As he gushed in his extremely gushy review, \u201cTheir sound and style won\u2019t find fans in every corner. In fact, I\u2019d go so far as to say The Womb of the World is liable to weed out prudish listeners more harshly than Poison Palinopsia already had. But it is an unqualified success all the same, a mastapeece for those to whom sanity is immaterial.\u201d Symphomania!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Oromet-The-Sinking-Isle-01--350x350.jpg\")
Oromet<\/strong> \/\/ The Sinking Isle<\/a> [November 7th, 2025 | Hypaethral Records | Bandcamp<\/a>] \u2014 Oromet<\/strong> came back with a vengeance on The Sinking Isle, delivering 3 long-form doses of funeral doom heavy enough to crack a tectonic plate. Opening with a 20-minute track takes Christmas ornaments of brass, but Oromet<\/strong> shows you how doom is done with crushing lows contrasted against dizzying highs. It\u2019s the rare funeral doom album that won\u2019t have you glancing at the clock, and that\u2019s a symptom of success. Despair and hope, violence and tranquility, you get it all for the price of one album. As a stunned Beglassesed Man of Steel<\/strong> exhorted, \u201cAs monumental as Oromet<\/strong>\u2019s debut was, this one is a step forward thematically and musically. It reinvents what funeral doom can be\u2014not just a crushing sense of sorrow, but a genre that can raise your spirits as well.\u201d Go down with this ship.<\/p>\n