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

This week’s new heavy steel releases embrace some apt Halloween albums, a explosive debut, numerous punks protecting Lemmy and the boys, and extra! To the metals…

Avatar – Do not Go In The Forest

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

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

Black Cross Lodge – Songs For Switches

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

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It looks like this 12 months – 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 in the present day specifically.

Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo – Within the Earth Once more

Style: Noise steel/avant-garde
Origin: Oklahoma Metropolis, Oklahoma/Amarillo, Texas
Label: Pc 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 these days 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 filled with associates. These associates embrace Matt from Kublai Khan TX, Scott from Carnifex, Tom from Chelsea Grin, and Misstiq.Yay associates!

Primitive Man – Observance

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

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What if at some point Primitive Man dropped an album that seemed like Owl Metropolis? Simply pleased little beeps and boops about glowing bugs. That is most likely so far as you will get from that vibe. Simply darkness, heaviness, disappointment, anger. All that enjoyable stuff.

Trivium – Struck Useless

Style: Metalcore
Origin: Orlando, Florida
Label: Roadrunner

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Trivium’s first launch of latest 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.

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

Style: Punk
Origin: Numerous
Label: BMG

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

Wiltwither – Pure Gentle

Style: Experimental steel
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 steel there, some mathcore there, some pure rage there. All pulled off very effectively.

Additionally dropping this week…

• Aephanemer – Utopie (Napalm) – Melodic dying steel
• Archaic Thorn – Malicious Spears (Excessive Curler) – Demise steel
• Aviana – Void (Arising Empire) – Metalcore/djent
• Barren Path – Barren Path (Willowtip Data) – Deathgrind
• Bastard Cröss – Crossripper (Morbid and Depressing) – Blackened punk
• Consider In Nothing – Rot (Church Highway Data) – Black steel/sludge
• Black Soul Horde – Symphony Of Chaos (Vinyl Retailer) – Sludge
• Bloody Moon – Misplaced & Damned (Bloody Moon) – Blackened melodic dying steel
• 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 steel
• Cemican – U okay ‘u’ uk’ankil Mayakaaj (M-Concept) – People/dying steel
• Laura Cox – Bother Coming (earMusic/Verycords) – Rock
• Creeper – Sanguivore II: Mistress of Demise (Spinefarm) – Groove steel/thrash
• Danheim – Heimferd (Season Of Mist) – People
• Defecto – Echoes Of Isolation (Frontiers Music Srl) – Progressive steel
• Embraced By Darkness – Ex Inferis (Non Serviam Data) – Black steel
• Empire Drowns – Infinite Nights (Mighty Music) – Gothic steel/doom
• Flesia – Achterbahnekstase (Cultkill Music) – Black steel
• Gazpacho – Magic 8-Ball (Kscope) – Progressive rock
• Going Off – Kill Checklist 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 steel/doom
• Harkon – Love And Vore (Doc Gator Data) – Progressive steel
• Hope Deferred – Darkness Stays (The Charon Collective) – Demise steel
• Howling Large – Crucible & Destroy (Magnetic Eye) – Stoner steel
• Inferisium – In Hell (Self-released) – Demise steel
• King 810 – Rustbelt Numetal (Self-released) – Nu steel/metalcore
• Liminal Spirit – Unwell (Self-released) – Doom
• Lunatic Soul – The World Underneath Unsun (InsideOut) – Progressive steel
• Duff McKagan – Lighthouse: Dwell From London (Blood Meridian) – Rock
• Moonspell – Opus Diabolicum (Napalm) – Gothic steel
• Mystic Circle – Hexenbrand 1486 (Rock Of Angels) – Melodic blackened dying steel
• Newbreed – Outlaw (Selfmadegod Data) – Progressive steel
• ODC – Twisted Love (BLKIIBLK) – Various steel
• One Of 9 – Daybreak Of The Iron Shadow (Profound Lore) – Melodic black steel
• Orm – Guld (Indisciplinarian) – Melodic black steel
• The Different – Alienated (Bloodbath) – Gothic rock
• Outlaw – Opus Mortis (AOP Data) – Black steel
• Pile Of Knives – Pushed By The Blade (POK) – Demise steel
• Valuable 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) – People/doom
• Sarayasign – Shadows Of The Dying Gentle (Black Lodge Data) – Heavy steel
• Smash Into Items – ArmaHeaven (Self-released) – Pop/different steel
• Solence – Angels Calling (Higher Noise) – Electro-rock
• Spite – New World Killer (Rise) – Hardcore
• Stillbirth – Survival Protocol (Reigning Phoenix) – Demise/surf steel
• Takomaha – American Basements (Loyal Blood Data) – Noise/drone
• Tapeworm Electrical – Moonshine (Pitch Black Data) – Heavy steel
• Unprocessed – Angel (Self-released) – Progressive steel
• Numerous Artists – Spaceship Touchdown: A Tribute To Kyuss (Witching Buzz) – Kyss covers/desert rock