The Weekly Injection: New Releases From AVATAR, TRIVIUM & Extra Out This Week 10/31

This week’s new heavy metallic releases embody some apt Halloween albums, a explosive debut, a number of punks overlaying Lemmy and the boys, and extra! To the metals…

Avatar – Do not Go In The Forest

Style: Melodic dying/different metallic
Origin: Mölndal, Sweden
Label: Black Waltz

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I am unable to consider a extra Halloween applicable band than Avatar (perhaps Helloween?). Sweden’s clown-led melodic weirdos are again and hitting the listener from a bunch of various angles. There’s some folks metallic, some groove metallic, some alt rock, and much more. One other diversified entry in an already numerous catalog.

Black Cross Lodge – Songs For Switches

Style: Gothic rock/post-punk
Origin: Chicago, Illinois
Label: SomeoddPilot

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It looks as if this yr – greater than ever – The Atlas Moth crew need to do something however The Atlas Moth. Final month noticed the debut of Motherless which options Stavros and on Black Cross Lodge Ragin and Mike have returned with their driving industrial, post-punk outfit with – amongst others – Marcus from Stabbing Westward. This one is one other excellent one for at present particularly.

Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo – Within the Earth Once more

Style: Noise metallic/avant-garde
Origin: Oklahoma Metropolis, Oklahoma/Amarillo, Texas
Label: Laptop College students Data

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This one is difficult to explain. Chat Pile have been main a brand new period of angsty noise rock recently and for this album they teamed with avant-garde artist Hayden Pedigo for a extra floaty album. Nonetheless some dissonance, however what little I’ve heard is oddly nice compared to the same old CP stuff? Possibly the singles have been deceptive.

Despised Icon – Shadow Work

Style: Deathcore
Origin: Montreal, Quebec
Label: Nuclear Blast

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Up subsequent we’re getting pummeled by the sonic fists of Despised Icon. Their first album in six years is a deathcore masterclass. It is also stuffed with mates. These mates embody Matt from Kublai Khan TX, Scott from Carnifex, Tom from Chelsea Grin, and Misstiq.Yay mates!

Primitive Man – Observance

Style: Doom/sludge
Origin: Denver, Colorado
Label: Relapse

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What if in the future Primitive Man dropped an album that gave the impression of Owl Metropolis? Simply glad little beeps and boops about glowing bugs. That is most likely so far as you will get from that vibe. Simply darkness, heaviness, unhappiness, anger. All that enjoyable stuff.

Trivium – Struck Lifeless

Style: Metalcore
Origin: Orlando, Florida
Label: Roadrunner

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Trivium’s first launch of recent materials is a visit of songs that function a farewell to drummer Alex Bent. The songs are within the ballpark of In Waves and Shogun. If the final couple weren’t aggressive sufficient for you, this may scratch that itch.

Varied Artists – Killed By Deaf – A Punk Tribute To Motörhead

Style: Punk
Origin: Varied
Label: BMG

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Because the title of this means that is punk bands overlaying Motörhead. You are getting Pennywise, Rancid, Anti-Nowhere League, The Damned (with Motörhead), and extra. Motörhead songs have all the time been fairly punk, so to listen to bands take them throughout that line is fairly cool.

Wiltwither – Pure Gentle

Style: Experimental metallic
Origin: South Carolina
Label: 3dot

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In case you are a fan of The Callous Daoboys however want they ditched all of the foolish components, you will most likely dig the debut from Wiltwither. That is an intense and adventurous album. Some deathcore right here, some nu metallic there, some mathcore there, some pure rage there. All pulled off very properly.

Additionally dropping this week…

• Aephanemer – Utopie (Napalm) – Melodic dying metallic
• Archaic Thorn – Malicious Spears (Excessive Curler) – Demise metallic
• Aviana – Void (Arising Empire) – Metalcore/djent
• Barren Path – Barren Path (Willowtip Data) – Deathgrind
• Bastard Cröss – Crossripper (Morbid and Depressing) – Blackened punk
• Imagine In Nothing – Rot (Church Street Data) – Black metallic/sludge
• Black Soul Horde – Symphony Of Chaos (Vinyl Retailer) – Sludge
• Bloody Moon – Misplaced & Damned (Bloody Moon) – Blackened melodic dying metallic
• Bloom – The Gentle We Chase (Pure Noise Data) – Melodic hardcore
• Boum Patat – Ma Belgitude (Wormholedeath) – “Electro-fun”
• Stephen Brodsky – Minimize To The Core Vol. 1 (Pax Aeternum) – Acoustic hardcore covers
• Burned In Effigy – Tyrannus Aeternum (Self-released) – Melodic dying metallic
• Cemican – U okay ‘u’ uk’ankil Mayakaaj (M-Idea) – Folks/dying metallic
• Laura Cox – Hassle Coming (earMusic/Verycords) – Rock
• Creeper – Sanguivore II: Mistress of Demise (Spinefarm) – Groove metallic/thrash
• Danheim – Heimferd (Season Of Mist) – Folks
• Defecto – Echoes Of Isolation (Frontiers Music Srl) – Progressive metallic
• Embraced By Darkness – Ex Inferis (Non Serviam Data) – Black metallic
• Empire Drowns – Infinite Nights (Mighty Music) – Gothic metallic/doom
• Flesia – Achterbahnekstase (Cultkill Music) – Black metallic
• Gazpacho – Magic 8-Ball (Kscope) – Progressive rock
• Going Off – Kill Record II (Self-released) – Hardcore
• Gumm – Beneath The Wheel (Convulse Data) – Publish-hardcore/melodic hardcore
• Hades Of Deep Water – The Years On Borrowed Time (Meuse Music Data) – Demise metallic/doom
• Harkon – Love And Vore (Doc Gator Data) – Progressive metallic
• Hope Deferred – Darkness Stays (The Charon Collective) – Demise metallic
• Howling Big – Crucible & Spoil (Magnetic Eye) – Stoner metallic
• Inferisium – In Hell (Self-released) – Demise metallic
• King 810 – Rustbelt Numetal (Self-released) – Nu metallic/metalcore
• Liminal Spirit – Unwell (Self-released) – Doom
• Lunatic Soul – The World Beneath Unsun (InsideOut) – Progressive metallic
• Duff McKagan – Lighthouse: Dwell From London (Blood Meridian) – Rock
• Moonspell – Opus Diabolicum (Napalm) – Gothic metallic
• Mystic Circle – Hexenbrand 1486 (Rock Of Angels) – Melodic blackened dying metallic
• Newbreed – Outlaw (Selfmadegod Data) – Progressive metallic
• ODC – Twisted Love (BLKIIBLK) – Different metallic
• One Of 9 – Daybreak Of The Iron Shadow (Profound Lore) – Melodic black metallic
• Orm – Guld (Indisciplinarian) – Melodic black metallic
• The Different – Alienated (Bloodbath) – Gothic rock
• Outlaw – Opus Mortis (AOP Data) – Black metallic
• Pile Of Knives – Pushed By The Blade (POK) – Demise metallic
• Treasured Blood – False Prophets (Self-released) – Doom
• The Fairly Reckless – Taylor Momsen’s Fairly Reckless Christmas (Fearless) – Christmas music
• Saint Agnes – Your God Fearing Days Are About To Start (Spinefarm) – Rock
• Sakna – De Syv Dødssynde (Hypaethral Data) – Folks/doom
• Sarayasign – Shadows Of The Dying Gentle (Black Lodge Data) – Heavy metallic
• Smash Into Items – ArmaHeaven (Self-released) – Pop/different metallic
• Solence – Angels Calling (Higher Noise) – Electro-rock
• Spite – New World Killer (Rise) – Hardcore
• Stillbirth – Survival Protocol (Reigning Phoenix) – Demise/surf metallic
• Takomaha – American Basements (Loyal Blood Data) – Noise/drone
• Tapeworm Electrical – Moonshine (Pitch Black Data) – Heavy metallic
• Unprocessed – Angel (Self-released) – Progressive metallic
• Varied Artists – Spaceship Touchdown: A Tribute To Kyuss (Witching Buzz) – Kyss covers/desert rock