The Weekly Injection: New Releases From DEFTONES, ARCADEA & More Out This Week 8/22

This week's new heavy metal releases include the return of a synthy side-hustle, Americana metal, really heavy stuff, and more! To the metals…

Arcadea – The Exodus Of Gravity

Genre: Synth/progressive metal
Origin: Atlanta, Georgia
Label: Relapse

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When he's not painting clowns, Mastodon's Brann Dailor is fronting this sci-fi rock band. The drums are stellar of course, but this is more of a spacy affair. This time he and Core Atoms (Gaylord) are teaming up with synth wizard João Nogueira.

Bask – The Turning

Genre: Heavy Americana/psychedelic
Origin: Asheville, North Carolina
Label: Season Of Mist

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I was late to the Bask train since this is the band's fourth record, but man am I glad I got on eventually. I can really only liken their sound to Huntsmen in that they have some twang and southern harmonies. Think recent Mastodon, Baroness, and maybe Alice in Chains.

Burning Witches – Inquisition

Genre: Heavy/power metal
Origin: Brugg, Aargau, Switzerland
Label: Napalm

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Looking for some straight up heavy metal? Look no further than Inquisition. This is the kind of shit that'll make you run full-speed into battle on a horse. Don't worry about what battle or where you got that horse.

Deftones – Private Music

Genre: Alternative metal
Origin: Sacramento, California
Label: Reprise

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It's been a five years since Chino and the boys slinked through your eardrums. I many ways this feels like a perfect combination of all eras of the band. Glad to have these guys back after their longest gap between records yet.

Signs Of The Swarm – To Rid Myself Of Truth

Genre: Deathcore
Origin: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Label: Century Media

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Good god this is abrasive. From composition to production, this one hits hard.And they're beating you up with a bunch of their friends like Will Ramos (Lorna Shore), Phil Bozeman (Whitechapel), 156/Silence, and Prison)

We Came As Romans – All Is Beautiful…Because We're Doomed

Genre: Post-hardcore/metalcore
Origin: Troy, Michigan
Label: SharpTone

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Concluding this week with some catchy metalcore. Lots of big ol' choruses that'll get stuck in your head here. Also, I love the album title. Really puts things in perspective.

Also dropping this week…

• Amenspear – All My Gods Are Dying (Self-released) – Black metal
• Ashen – Leave The Flesh Behind (Redefining Darkness Records) – Death metal
• Blackbriar – A Thousand Little Deaths (Nuclear Blast) – Symphonic metal
• Corridoré – Abandon (Hypaethral Records) – Black metal/post-rock
• Crop –S.S.R.I (Third House Communications) – Heavy metal/doom
• Crowne – Wonderland (Frontiers) – Heavy/power metal
• Desaster – Kill All Idols (Metal Blade) – Black metal/thrash
• Dinosaur Pile-Up – I've Felt Better (Mascot) – Grunge/alternative
• Dizzy Reid – Rock ‘N’ Roll Chose Me (Self-released) – Rock
• Dragonsclaw – Moving Target (High Roller) – Power metal
• Fates Messenger – Eternal War (Greyline Records) – Metalcore
• Feuerschwanz – Knightclub (Napalm) – Folk metal
• Glass Lungs – Afterglow (Self-released) – Shoegaze
• Hebephrenique – Decathexis (Gutter Prince Cabal/Brilliant Emperor Records) – Death metal
• Hog – Blackhole (RidingEasy Records) – Heavy metal/stoner
• Hundreds Of Au – Life In Parallel (Iodine) – Hardcore
• Hunter Oliveri – Teen Slug (Spinefarm) – Alternative rock
• Innumerable Forms – Pain Effulgence (Profound Lore) – Death metal/doom
• Iron Savior – Reforged – Machine World (Perception) – Power metal
• Jack The Joker – The Devil To Pay In The Backlands (Frontiers) – Progressive metal
• Kratornas – God of the Tribes (Grathila Records) – Death metal/hardcore
• Left Hand Path – Sustain (Indecision Records) – Hardcore
• Malevich – Under A Gilded Sun (Church Road Records) – "post-death metal influenced blackened screamo \ power ambient"
• Mob Rules – Rise Of The Ruler (Rock Of Angels) – Power metal
• Myrath – Reflections (earMusic) – Folk/progressive metal
• Night's Edge – The World That Never Was (Self-released) – Alternative/symphonic metal
• Old Machines – The Cycles Of Extinction (Self-released) – Symphonic black metal
• Otherwise – Some Kind Of Alchemy (Seek And Strike) – Hard rock
• Panzerchrist – Meleficium Part 2 (Emanzipation) – Black/death metal
• Pendulum – Inertia (Mushroom Music / Virgin Music Group) – Electronic rock
• quannnic – Warbrained (deadAir) – Shoegaze/emo
• Reinforcer – Ice And Death (Scarlet) – Heavy/power metal
• Rust N' Rage – Songs For Yesterday (Frontiers) – Hard rock
• Sadistic Force – Morbid Odyssey (Pure Abandon) – Speed/black metal
• Solace – Further (Magnetic Eye Records) – Stoner
• Skull Revenge – State Of Oblivion (Sound Pollution) – Melodic heavy metal
• Strangers – Boundless (Frontiers) – Heavy metal
• Steegmoord – Mandatory (MADN Productions) – Melodic progressive metal
• Sugar Spine – Violent Heaven (Prime Collective) – Metalcore/deathcorre
• Superchunk – Songs In The Key Of Yikes (Merge) – Rock
• Visitant – Rubidium (Exitus Stratagem Records) – Melodic death/black metal
• White Mantis – Arrows At The Sun (High Roller) – Thrash
• The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die – Dreams Of Being Dust (Epitaph) – Post-hardcore/emo
• Wreck And Reference – Stay Calm (The Flenser) – Electronic/noise
• Zetra – Believe EP (Nuclear Blast) – Gothic rock/synthwave

Zetra Believe (Nuclear Blast)