The Weekly Injection: New Releasers From LAMB OF GOD, WITCHCRAFT & More Out This Week 3/13

This week’s new heavy metal releases include haunted blues riffs, evil piano madness, lots of shredding, and more! To the metals…

Steve Blanco – Shadow Arc Suite

Genre: Avant-garde piano composition
Origin: Nashville, Tennessee
Label: Self-released

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Starting this week off in an oddly chaotic way. Steve Blanco is the bassist/keyboard/vocalist of Imperial Triumphant and that alone should tell you that you’re in for a ride. This is wild drums and somehow wilder piano work, and little else.

Nili Brosh – Eventide

Genre: Shred
Origin: Las Vegas, Nevada
Label: Self-released

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Long before her tenure with Dethklok and Danny Elfman, Nili Brosh was shredding on her own. Her fourth record is some of that smooth, technical guitar-forward rock that you’d hear in a G3 show. Also making cameos are Dethklok live pals Pete Griffin and Brendon Small, Ilan Rubin on Foo Fighters, and oodles more.

Fabienne Erni – Starveil

Genre: Folk/symphonic metal
Origin: Zürich, Switzerland
Label: Self-released

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Fabienne is perhaps best known for her work as one of Eluveitie‘s vocalists and harpists. Here, she is on her own in a world that still a little proggy, a little symphonic, and a little pop-infused. She’s a standout in the folk collective, and under the spotlight should could be a star on her own.

Lamb Of God – Into Oblivion

Genre: Groove metal
Origin: Richmond, Virginia
Label: Epic

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Album number twelve from Randy and the boys is another Lamb of God record in a good way. They have taken the world around us all, put it in sonic form, and unsurprisingly, it winds up sounding pretty angry. And the grooves here! Good golly, the grooves. Heads will bang… or at least bob a lot.

Monstrosity – Screams From Beneath The Surface

Genre: Technical death metal
Origin: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Label: Metal Blade Records

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Now how about some Florida-ass death metal? The latest from Monstrosity comes after eight years and a shift in sixty percent of their line up. Original bassist Mark van Erp is back, and they welcome new friends Ed Webb and Justin Walker to the band. The result is unrelenting, driving death metal.

Witchcraft – A Sinner’s Child

Genre: Occult/heavy metal
Origin: Örebro, Sweden
Label: Heavy Psych Sounds

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Wrapping this week with some chill riffs. This EP is five tracks of bowl-packing, psych rock. When they bring the heavy on “Själen Reser Sig” they come in swinging, but this largely reminds me of the earliest days of The Black Keys (meant as a compliment).

Also dropping this week…

• Against I – Anti Life (Twisted Flesh Recordings) – Melodic death/groove metal
• Alkhemia – Häxen (Non Serviam Records) – Black metal
• Asia – Asia – Live In England (Frontiers Music Srl) – Rock
• Blood Red Delusion – Bloodlust Awakening (Self-released) – Melodic thrash
• Bound In Fear – A Mind Too Sick To Heal (Unique Leader Records) – Deathcore
• Deadvoid Inc. – Chapters (Inverse Records) – Melodic death metal
• Eihwar – Hugrheim (Season Of Mist) – Electric/folk
• Fallath – Nälkäiset aaveet (Naturmacht Productions) – Black metal
• Fotocrime – Security (Auxillary/Shirtkiller/Artoffact) – Industrial/post-rock
• The Gems – Year Of The Snake (Napalm) – Hard rock
• Gluttony – Eulogy To Blashphemy (FDA) – Death metal
• The Good Depression – Where Grace Won’t Grow (Self-released) – Metalcore
• Gore Machine – Congealed And Foaming (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions) – Brutal death metal/goregrind
• Gotthard – More Stereo Crush (Reigning Phoenix Music) – Hard rock
• Irreversible – Vessel (Dipterid Records) – Post-metal
• Kallohonka – Lazer Blood (Memory Terminal Records) – “Slug metal”
• Lesotho – A Flashing On Plain Glass (Self-released) – Post-metal/blackgaze
• Lord Centipede – Centipede II: Electric Boogaloo (Morbid And Miserable Records / Wyrd Byrd) – Doom/thrash
• Magnolia Park – Nights Afrer Vamp (Epitaph) – Rock
• Mammon’s Throne – My Body To The Worms (Hammerheart Records) – Stoner/sludge
• Mascara – Going Postal (Fever Ltd.) – Alternative/shoegaze
• Mauled – When Your Eyes Are Shut (Self-released) – Deathcore
• Angus McSix – Angus McSix And The All-Seeing Astral Eye (Napalm) – Power/symphonic metal
• Messticator – Total Mastery (Testimony Records) – Death metal/thrash
• Monosphere – Amneisa (Self-released) – Post-metal/progressive rock
• Moon Far Away – Acou (Lupus Lounge) – Folk
• Morbid Death – Veil Of Ashes (Firecum Records / Museu do Heavy Metal Açoriano) – Melodic death/gothic metal
• No/Más – No Peace (Redefining Darkness Records) – Grindcore/death metal
• Ondt Blod – Bauta (Playground Music) – Hardcore/blackened metal
• Osmium Gate – Cannibal Galaxy (Self-released) – Atmospheric black metal
• Protrusion – The Last Suppuration (Iron Fortress Records) – Death metal
• Ravenspell – Obsidian King (Fighter Records) – Speed/heavy metal
• Red Sun Atacama – Summerchild (Mrs Red Sound) – Desert rock
• Salos – A Slaughter For The Empire (Self-released) – Post-metal
• Schattenmann – Besser als der Rest (Perception) – Hard rock
• The Scratch – Pull Like A Dog (Sony Music Ireland/Music For Nations) – Folk/heavy metal
• Senki – Szilánkok (Wormholedeath Records) – Alternative
• Surturian – Hessian Spears (Chaos Records) – Thrash
• Transilvania – Magia Posthuma (Invcitus Productions) – Black metal/thrash
• UnityTX – Somewhere, In Between… (Pure Noise Records) – Rap/nu metal
• Vanta – Perpetual Selection (Self-released) – Melodic death metal
• Vicious Rain – The Anatomy Of Surviving (Arising Empire) – Metalcore
• Wielded Steel – Sins Of Your Domain (1126 Records) – Death metal
• Wolfbastard – Satanic Scum Punks (Apocalyptic Witchcraft) – Black metal/crust