The Weekly Injection: New Releases From CRADLE OF FILTH, IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT & More Out This Week 3/21

This week’s new heavy metal releases include lots of blackened stuff, some cowboy boots, and more! To the metals…

Bloodywood – Nu Delhi 

Genre: Folk/nu metal
Origin: New Delhi, India
Label: Fearless

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India’s groovy metal sensation is back with another record of powerful heaviness. They continue their blend of traditional influences and what has become the norm for nu metal. This also record includes a Babymetal cameo which is pretty rad.

Iggor Cavalera & Shane Embury – Neon Gods/Own Your Darkness

Genre: Industrial/dark ambient
Origin: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil/Broseley, Shropshire, England
Label: Cold Spring Records

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This is a two track split between Cavalera Conspiracy‘s Iggor Cavalera and Napalm Death‘s Shane Embury. Neither dude is up to what they normally are here though. Each song is long and mostly whooshing, static, or tense noises.

Cradle Of Filth – The Screaming Of The Valkyries

Genre: Extreme metal
Origin: Suffolk, England
Label: Napalm

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On Cradle of Filth‘s first record in four years, Dani and the gang are up to their usual antics. You’re getting their trademark blackened, bombastic metal that is sure to ruffle the features of your uptight family members. The aforementioned gang includes a couple new faces in Donny Burbage (Æther Realm) on guitar and Zoe Marie Federoff (Catalyst Crime) on keyboards/vocals.

Drudkh – Shadow Play

Genre: Black metal
Origin: Kharkiv, Ukraine
Label: Season Of Mist

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While still blackened and epic, Shadow Play is in a very different world than Cradle of Filth. Lots of quick picking and beats. There’s an air of sadness throughout that adds some weight here.

Euphrosyne – Morus

Genre: Post-black metal/doom
Origin: Athens, Attica, Greece
Label: Black Lion Records

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Let’s keep the grim-yet-different theme going with the debut from Euphrosyne. This young band mixes your more traditional black metal with stuff like Lacuna Coil. They’re doubling down on both darkness and emotion with that combo. A great record.

Imperial Triumphant – Goldstar

Genre: Avant-garde/black metal
Origin: New York City, New York
Label: Century Media

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Metal Injection’s favorite trio of masked weirdos has made their (Imperial) Triumphant return with another wild collection of chaotic, dissonant black metal. This one fascinates, confuses, and compels. Speaking of trio, there’s also a trio of guests with Dave Lombardo (Fantômas), Tomas Haake (Meshuggah), and Yoshiko Ohara (Bloody Panda).

Pop Evil – What Remains

Genre: Hard rock/alternative metal
Origin: Muskegon, Michigan
Label: MNRK Heavy

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Album number eight from these not quite djent, not quite metalcore mainstays is another soaring, catchy affair. It’s one that’ll get your head bobbing and/or stuck in your head whether you like it or not. This also is their first record with new drummer Blake Allison (Devour the Day).

Sometime In February – Where Mountains Hide

Genre: Progressive metal
Origin: Charlotte, North Carolina
Label: Inside Out / Century Media Records

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Loyal readers will know that I love me some prog metal. Despite that, I don’t always love your wanky instrumental prog acts. Sometime In February are one that I do love though as they are able to collectively shine technically while showcasing excellent songwriting abilities. It’s one that will keep the listener guessing. If you’ve seen BtBaM in the last couple years and wondered where they got their live guitarist, this is the band.

SpiritWorld – Helldorado

Genre: Western metal
Origin: Las Vegas, Nevada
Label: Century Media

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Concluding this week with a hearty and horrifying “yeehaw!” The third in what’s their calling their “death-western trifecta” has plenty of twang but is able to dip a toe in a lot of metal flavors still. If you’ve ever been curious about this band’s deal, this would be a great place to sample them and them travel backwards into a whole unique world.

Also dropping this week…

• Amammoth – Distant Skies and the Ocean Flies (Electric Valley Records) – Stoner
• Artach – Morrigan…Goddess Of War (Depressive Illusions Records) – Black metal
• As The World Dies – Nebula (Reaper Entertainment) – Progressive death metal
• Aversed – Erasure Of Color (M-Theory) – Extreme/gothic metal
• Azshara – Ashen Skies (DAZE) – Metalcore
• Big Big Train – Scop (Self-released) – Progressive rock
• Black Yet Full Of Stars – In Glorious Red (Self-released) – Power/progressive metal
• BlackLight – Future Belongs To (Wormholedeath) – Progressive metal
• Bodybox – 3 (Maggot Stomp) – Brutal death metal/metalcore
• Corpus Offal – Corpus Offal (20 Buck Spin) – Death metal
• Dark Driven – From The Unbeliever (Hammerheart) – Melodic death metal/doom
• Dead Bars – All Dead Bars Go To Heaven (Iodine) – Hard rock
• Diatheke – …And The Word Was God (Rottweiler Records) – Progressive death metal
• Disillusion City – The Painter & The Poet (Self-released) – Progressive metal
• Dissocia – To Lift The Veil (Willowtip Records) – Extreme metal/synthwave
• Embrional – Inherited Tendencies For Self-Destruction (Agonia Records) – Death metal
• Eternal White Trees – Prelude Of Loss (My Kingdom Music) – Gothic metal/doom
• Euphrosyne – Morus (Black Lion Records) – Melodic black metal/doom
• Foxy Shazam – Animality Opera (EEEOOOAH) – Glam rock?
• Gates To Hell – Death Comes To All (Nuclear Blast) – Death metal/metalcore
• Ghostsmoker – Inertia Cult (Art As Catharsis) – Sludge/doom
• Gnod & White Hills – Drop Out III (Thrill Jockey) – Drone/industrial
• Gotthard – Stereo Crush (Reigning Phoenix) – Hard rock
• Hidden Intent – Terrorform (Self-released) – Groove metal/thrash
• Ill Natured – Cryptic Psychosis (Last Ride Records) – Hardcore
• The Infinity Ring – Ataraxia (Profound Lore) – Folk/gothic rock
• Iron Form – Cut From Cold Blood (Church Road Records) – Metalcore
• Katla – Scandinavian Pain (Napalm) – Doom
• Kazea – I. Ancestral (Suicide Records) -Neo-folk/post-rock
• Lordi – Limited Deadition (Reigning Phoenix) – Hard/shock rock
• Marble Orchard – Ruminations Of Ruin (Morbid And Miserable Records) – Doom
• Molotov Solution – Void (Self-released) – Deathcore
• Nattverd – Tidloes Naadesloes (Soulseller) – Black metal
• Noirsuaire – (Khaoszophy Productions) – Black metal
• Noisepicker – The Earth Will Swallow The Sun (Exile On Mainstream) – Doom/stoner
• Nydvind – Telluria (Malpermesita Records) – Black metal/doom
• O.R.k. – Firehose Of Falsehoods (Kscope) – Progressive rock
• Oobris Ios – Vospat (Decomp Regalia Records) – Death metal
• Pestifer – Ravaging Fury (IBD) – Death metal
• Pyramid Mass – Gargling Rot (Ossien Records) – Death/experimental metal
• Izzy Reign – Izzy Reign (FiXt) – Metalcore/nu metal
• Soul Demise – Against The Abyss (Apostasy Records) – Melodic death metal
• Stormo – Tagli/Talee (Prosthetic) – Post-hardcore
• Throne – That Who Sat Upon Him, Was Death (Redefining Darkness Records) – Melodic death/black metal
• Tower – Let There Be Dark Cruz (Del Sur Music) – Heavy metal
• Vida Vella – Panorama (Beso Y Abrazo) – Rock
• Wythersake – At War With Their Divinity (Scarlet) – Symphonic black/death metal
• Young Widow – Power Sucker (Temporary Residence Ltd.) – Noise rock/hardcore