The Weekly Injection: New Releases From EPICA, THE MARS VOLTA & Extra Out This Week 4/11

This week’s new heavy steel releases embrace some yeehaw, some experimental weirdness, some epic stuff, and extra! To the metals…

Benthos – From Nothing

Style: Progressive steel
Origin: Milan, Italy
Label: InsideOut

Purchase now on Bandcamp

Getting this week’s get together began with some fairly rad prog. This file has these guys exhibiting off some djenty parts, plenty of melody, and even some shoegaze ambiance. They’re like a mix of The Contortionist and Good Tiger. Would advocate.

Elvenking – Reader Of The Runes – Luna

Style: Energy/people steel
Origin: Sacile, Italy
Label: Reaper

Purchase now from Elvenking

Let’s get epic! The band’s third within the Reader of the Runes collection is one other file that can make you need to mosh in your best animal pelt. Just a few well-done fantasy stuff right here.

Epica – Aspiral

Style: Symphonic steel
Origin: Reuver, Limburg, Netherlands
Label: Reigning Phoenix

Purchase now from Epica

Aspiral retains the hovering steel theme going, however much less of a people lean. Regardless of having a VERY prolific 4 years with plenty of dwell albums and EPs, that is the band’s full-length since 2021’s Omega. Log-time followers could also be excited to be taught that this one consists of three extra entries into the on-going “A New Age Dawns” saga. I very a lot look ahead to the eventual (possible?) efficiency of the whole suite.

In The Woods… – Otra

Style: Progressive black steel/doom
Origin: Kristiansand, Norway
Label: Prophecy

Purchase now on Bandcamp

Bringing the darkness this week we’ve got the most recent from the proggy, bleak, and blackened In The Woods…. Otra is a seven tune assortment of lengthy and catchy songs. Followers of Inexperienced Carnation and maybe Borknagar ought to verify this out.

The Mars Volta – Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos Del Vacio

Style: Progressive/experimental rock
Origin: El Paso, Texas
Label: Clouds Hill

Purchase now by way of Clouds Hill

I went to one of many latest Deftones exhibits that The Mars Volta opened the place they performed this album in full. Assuming the studio model is not wildly completely different, it’s within the realm of their self-titled comeback file. Fairly chill, spacy, and experimental. Followers of the early chaotic years could also be left wanting (once more?).

Messa – The Spin

Style: Doom rock
Origin: Cittadella, Veneto, Italy
Label: Metallic Blade

Purchase now on Bandcamp

The Spin is a kind of data that I may see crossing over to the extra hip music retailers. It’s a enjoyable and darkish file with toes in each doom and post-punk. You will wanna dance and headbang.

Mark Morton – With out The Ache

Style: Southern rock
Origin: Williamsburg, Virginia
Label: Snakefarm Music Group

Purchase now from Mark

Are you THAT shocked {that a} dude from Virginia goes all in on Southern fried rock? Lamb of God‘s most-bearded guitarist has a couple of heavy associates with Troy Sanders (Mastodon) and Neil Fallon (Clutch) guesting, however the remainder of the names that come out to me are dealt with by correct nation/Southern rock voices. If Chappell Roan’s boot-scootin’ flip would not do it for you, perhaps Mark’s will.

Additionally dropping this week…

• Aittala – Machines (Exitus Stratagem Data) – Doom
• Black Map – Hex (Spinefarm) – Progressive rock
• Blood Abscission – II (Debemur Morti Productions) – Atmospheric black steel
• Celestial Sanctuary – Visions of Stagnant Blood (Metallic Blade Data) – Loss of life steel
• Church Of The Sea – Eva (These Fingers Soften) – Doomgaze
• Cytotoxin – Biographyte (Self-relased) – Technical/brutal dying steel
• Exiled Hope – Apocrypha (Self-released) – Symphonic/gothic steel
• Ghörnt – Bluetgraf (Soulseller Data) – Black steel
• Håndgemeng – A Path Much less Traveled (Ripple Music) – Stoner/doom
• Herman Rarebell & Pals – What About Love? (Metalville) – Rock
• Idle Heirs – Life Is Violence (Relapse Data) – Put up-metal
• The Infernal Deceit – The True Dangerous Black (Private Data) – Black steel
• Imperishable – Swallowing The World (Hammerheart Data) – Loss of life steel
• Final Leaf Down – Weight Of Silence (Lifeforce Data) – Put up-rock/shoegaze
• The Lord Bizarre Slough Feg – Traveller Complement I: The Ephermal Glades (Cruz Del Sur) – Experimental/stoner steel
• Magnolia Park – Vamp (Epitaph) – Emo/hip hop
• The Man-Consuming Tree – Night time Verses (Noble Demon Data) – Atmospheric steel
• Mika Häkki – Mørker (Majestic Mountain Data) – Rock
• Moonfall – Odes to the Ritual Hills (Iron Bonehead Productions) – Black steel/doom
• Nightsteel – Nightsteel (Cosmic Fireplace Data) – Heavy/energy steel
• Putrid Offal – Obliterated Life (Time To Kill Data) – Loss of life steel/grindcore
• Rebelmatic – Black Gap Eats The Twister (Say-10 Data) – Heavy steel
• Revengin – Darkish Dogma Embrace (Wormholedeath) – Symphonic steel
• Rock-Out – Let’s Name It Rock N’ Roll (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – Rock
• Samtar – The Bathroom Of Cosmic Delusions (Self-released) – Progressive rock/experimental steel
• Ryoji Shinomoto – Kids Of Bushido (Napalm) – Smphonic steel/Kids of Bodom covers
• Sons Of Ra – Normal Deviation (Free Electrical Sound) – Jazz steel
• Speedway – A Life’s Chorus (Revelation Data) – Hardcore
• Teen Mortgage – Satan Ultrasonic Dream (Roadrunner) – Arduous rock
• Valhalore – Past The Stars (Rock Of Angels) – People steel
• Vortex – Alien Realms (Self-released) – Symphonic steel
• Vulvectomy – Aberrant Vaginal Gestation (Comatose Music) – Slam/brutal dying steel
• Inside Destruction – Animetal (Sumerian) – Nu-metal/deathcore
• Wurmian – Immemorial Shrine (Pest Data) – Melodic dying steel
• Ye Banished Privateers – ‘Til The Sea Shall Give Up Her Lifeless (Napalm) – People steel

Additionally! Tomorrow is Document Retailer Day. Peep the listing right here so you understand what to go camp out for.