The Weekly Injection: New Releases From EXODUS, GAEREA & More Out This Week 3/20

This week’s new heavy metal releases include epic blackened metal, sick death metal, sci-fi prog, and more! To the metals…

The Dear Hunter – Sunya

Genre: Progressive rock
Origin: Providence, Rhode Island
Label: Cave & Canery

Ger it here

One of prog’s finest is taking listeners on a high concept sci-fi journey. The songs themselves are massive, varied, and catchy. Everything around the record is dorky in the best way. The band launched a website where you are in the cockpit of a ship solving puzzles to hear clips and in some cases, even find coordinates to find actual copies of the record hidden in the real world. Fun stuff.

Egregore – It Echoes In The Wild

Genre: Black/death metal
Origin: Vancouver, British Columbia
Label: 20 Buck Spin

Buy now on Bandcamp

Every once in a while you hear a band and they just sound like they have the pointiest guitars. Egregore is one of those bands, and those guitars fit them. It Echoes In The Wind is appropriately a reverby death metal record with plenty of evil. The riffs are so good on this and when the divebomb solo hits – wow, wow, wow.

Exodus – Goliath

Genre: Thrash
Origin: Richmond, California
Label: Napalm Records

Buy now on Bandcamp

It’s been five years since these legends have thrashed in with a new record and this time they’re doing it with Rob Dukes on the mic once again. It’s heavy, pissed off, and a little slower than last time – which adds to the heft. Some guests on this one include Hyprocrisy‘s Peter Tägtgren and violinist Katie Jacoby. The latter was unexpected, but pretty sweet.

Filth Is Eternal – Impossible World

Genre: Hardcore
Origin: Seattle, Washington
Label: MNRK Heavy

Buy now on Bandcamp

It’s been three years since Filth Is Eternal (fka Fucked and Bound) have dropped a record and their whole thing has shifted a lot in that time. They have a some new faces in the mix and the songs aren’t has short has they have been. They’re still full of fury, but perhaps more melodies, and atmosphere than before.

Gaerea – Loss

Genre: Post-black metal
Origin: Porto, Porto, Portugal
Label: Century Media

Buy now on Bandcamp

With a record called “Loss,” one might expect a sad vibe, and Gaerea are certainly bringing sorrow to the table this time. The mystique of the band makes it seem to hit harder too. Mash that up with oodles of crushing drums, soaring tremolo guitars, epic orchestral elements, and you have their finest work yet.

Gutvoid – Liminal Shrines

Genre: Death metal
Origin: Toronto, Ontario
Label: Profound Lore

Buy now on Bandcamp

Every once in a while albums wind up dropping at the same time and it makes my life easy. Liminal Shrines sounds like if Gaerea did a Egregore record. It’s crushingly heavy but also grand and proggy. This feels like one that will hit just right with a lot of death metal folks.

Poison The Well – Peace In Place

Genre: Post-hardcore/metalcore
Origin: Coral Springs, Florida
Label: SharpTone Records

Buy now on Amazon

Wrapping this week with the return of Poison The Well. They’ve been back since 2020, but this is their first release of new material since 2009. It’s full of rage and angst. If you were full of the same either then or are now, you’ll dig it.

Also dropping this week…

• Abrogation – Widerschein (Massacre) – Melodic death metal
• Assignment – With The End Comes Silence (Massacre) – Progressive/power metal
• Bound In Fear – Mind Too Sick to Heal (Unique Leader Records) – Deathcore/beatdown
• Chalice Of Suffering – The Raven Cries One Last Time (My Kingdom Music) – Funeral doom
• ClockTowers – Genesis (SpiritJunkieMedia) – Hard rock
• Crouch – Breaking The Catatonic State (Heimlich Manoeuvres) – Sludge/post-metal
• Cultist – Spiritual Atrophy (Awakening Records / Futhark Records) – Death metal
• Dawn Of Ashes – Anatomy Of Suffering (Metropolis Records) – Industrial/black metal
• Decipher – Thelema (Transcending Obscurity Records) – Black/death metal
• Dragsholm – The Bloodlines Of Bram (Faithless Entertainment) – Black metal
• Eclipsed Moon Apparitions – En les ombres, malson espectral… (En Claustre) – black metal/dungeon synth
• Empire Of Disease – While Everything Collapses (Xtreem Music) – Metalcore/melodic death metal
• Evermore – Mournbraid (Scarlet Records) – Power metal
• Flatwounds – Chain Of Command (Blue Grape Music) – Hardcore
• Following The Signs – Evolve (Self-released) – Alternative metal
• Galvanist – The Silence Between the Stars (Self-released) – Black metal/sludge
• Graufar – Via Necropolis (Graufar Records) – Black/death metal
• Hanging Garden – Isle Of Bliss (Agonia Records) – Melodic death metal/doom
• Hautajaisyö – Surun paino (Inverse Records) – Death metal/thrash
• Hell Trepanner – The Consecration Of Eternal Impurity (Awakening Records) – Death metal
• Ignescent – Eternal (Frontiers Music Srl) – Metalcore/hard rock
• Iron Firmament – In the Land of Pre-Human Kings (Wergild) Black metal
• Karmian – Horror Vacui (Rockshots Records) – Melodic death metal
• Kate’s Acid – Hellbender (High Roller) – Speed metal
• Lord Of Confusion – The Weight Of Life (Morbid And Miserable Records / Larvae Records) – Metalcore
• Lost In Hollywood – Lost In Hollywood (Arising Empire) – Metalcore
• mclusky – i sure am getting sick of this bowling alley (Ipecac Recordings) – Post-hardcore/noise rock
• Mizery – Mizery (Flatspot Records) – Hardcore
• Mystfall – Embers Of A Dying World (Scarlet Records) – Symphonic metal
• Necrogore – Ectoplasmic Rape Phenomena (Awakening Records) – Death metal
• Papa Necrose – Anthropomorphy Execution (Awakening Records) – Death metal
• Axel Rudi Pell – Ghost Town (Steamhammer) – Hard rock
• Radian – Subterfuge (El Burno Records/Third House Communications) – Sludge/doom
• S8nt Elektric – Off The Edge (Long Branch Records) – Hard rock
• Soundscapism Inc. – A Sea of Floating Mirrors (Self-released) – Cinematic rock
• The Silver – Looking Glass Hymnal Blue (Gilead Media) – Post-black metal
• Stainless – Lady Of Lust & Steel (High Roller) – Speed metal/hard rock
• Truth Grip – Twist Of Fate (Thrash Out Records) – Melodic hardcore
• Tusmørke – Balderdom (Karisma Records) – Progressive folk
• Tyketto – Closer To The Sun (Silver Lining Music) – AOR/rock
• Veil Of The Serpent – Born To Burn (Self-released) – Power/groove metal
• Venus 5 – March Of The Venus 5 (Frontiers Music Srl) – Pop metal
• Via Doloris – Guerre et Paix (Season Of Mist) – Black metal
• Warsenal – Endless Beginnings… (Massacre) – Speed metal/thrash
• Zrenice – Snienie (Via Nocturna) – Alternative metal