Staff Infections – November 2025

Howdy, friends. It’s time for the final edition of Staff Infections for 2025. I know it’s only November, but to avoid contributing to list-overload come the year’s end, we cut Staff Infections off a month early. It’s been a Hell of a year, and I don’t mean that in a good way. On top of losing Ozzy and Tompa, and potentially democracy, we recently lost Ace Frehley. I was a bit too young to appreciate Kiss in their heyday, or maybe just more concerned with Star Wars. However, as I got more into heavy metal and guitar later, I learned that a whole bunch of my heroes were inspired to pick up a guitar by none other than Ace Frehley, and I eventually became a bit of a fan myself. Ace had a rough battle with the bottle, but he eventually won, and I’m glad he was able to resume his music career, with Kiss for a while, and solo for many years. Seventy-Four seems young to go these days, but I take comfort in the fact that Ace was able to make and perform music until the end of his life. Rest in peace, Spaceman.

Now let’s see what we’ve been listening to. Our runners-up this month are everyone’s favorite Swiss technical thrash band Coroner, with their recent comeback album Dissonance Theory, and multinational black metal band Sleepwalker, with РЛБ30011922. Is that the album’s SKU, perhaps? Our final album of the month is new-old-school death metal group Glorious Depravity with its second album, Death Never Sleeps. This type of death also never gets old. You can read a review by Mr. Hams right here.

That’s going to just about do it for the month and the year. But before you go, take some time to listen to the staff-curated Spotify playlist below, and share your own playlist in the comments. Also, for our group discussion, give us your favorite Ace Frehley song—Kiss or solo—and three of your favorite old-school death metal albums. For the sake of argument, the old-school cut-off is 1995. My favorite Ace song is “Cold Gin”, and three of my favorite OSDM albums are Grave – Into the Grave, Morbid Angel – Blessed are the Sick, and Immolation – Dawn of Possession. I hope you all have a good holiday season, and a happy new year. See you all again in January.

• Zach Duvall
  Coroner – Dissonance Theory
  Elton John – Tumbleweed Connection
  Sleepwalker (夢遊病者) – РЛБ30011922
  Kakothanasy – Metagonism
  Jimi Hendrix – Band of Gypsys
  Dissona – Receptor
• Andrew Edmunds
  Kreator – Endless Pain
  Gridlink – Coronet Jupiter
  Coroner – Dissonance Theory
  !T.O.O.H.! – Rad a trest
  Forced Starvation – Forced Starvation
  Bone Fetish – Bone Fetish
• Captain
  226 power metal albums
  Industry – Industry
  Dead Neanderthals – Incantations
  Shitbrains / Exorbitant Prices Must Diminish Split
  Sleepwalker – РЛБ30011922
• Ryan Tysinger
  Boris – Pink
  Boris – Flood
  Sleepwalker (夢遊病者) – РЛБ30011922
  Megadeth – Rust in Peace
  Impetigo – Ultimo Mondo Cannibale
  Church of Misery – The Second Coming
• Danhammer Obstrkieg
  Wendy Eisenberg – Viewfinder
  Feanor – Hellhammer
  Home Front – Watch It Die
  Brendon Randall-Myers & Annie Blythe – Only in the Dark
  Olde Outlier – From Shallow Lives to Shallow Graves
  Slayer – Show No Mercy
• Spencer Hotz
  Stillbirth – Survival Protocol
  Glorious Depravity- Death Never Sleeps
  Nasum- Shift
  The Necks – Disquiet
  Primitive Rage – Visions of Ecstasy
  Nuvolascura – How This All Ends
• Isaac Hams
  Cea Serin – The World Outside
  Korn – Korn
  One of Nine – Dawn of the Iron Shadow
  Cannibal Corpse – The Wretched Spawn
  Glorious Depravity – Death Never Sleeps
  Dream Theater – Train of Thought
• Jeremy Morse
  Metallica – Kill ‘Em All
  Sepultura – Chaos A.D.
  Sepultura – Beneath the Remains
  Disincarnate – Dreams of the Carrion Kind
  High Command – Eclipse of the Dual Moons
  Death – Spiritual Healing
• Lone Watie
  Glorius Depravity – Death Never Sleeps
  Slayer – Hell Awaits
  Dark Angel – Darkness Descends
  Presto Ballet – Dreamentia
  King Crimson – Lizard (David Singleton Elemental Mix)
  Sonny Clark – Leapin’ And Lopin’

Posted by Jeremy Morse

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