The Weekly Injection: New Releases From MØL, HANABIE & More Out This Week 1/30

This week's new heavy metal releases include crushing energetic metal, a splitting headache (You'll groan at that soon. You're welcome), and more! To the metals…

Hanabie. – Hot Topic

Genre: Nu metal/metalcore
Origin: Kichijōji, Tokyo, Japan
Label: Sony

Buy now from Hanabie.

One of the better band sin their scene is hitting you with some catchy metal here. You're getting big ol' grooves, lots of aggression, and a lot of fun. There are a lot of little nostalgic moments thrown in this weirdly. There was a Gameboy start up sound that hit my brain just right in the song "Iconic."

The Hirsch Effekt – Der Brauch

Genre: Progressive metal
Origin: Hanover, Germany
Label: Long Branch Records

Buy now on Bandcamp

The Hirsch Effekt have a lot albums with covers featuring weird shit happening to heads. Der Brauch is another one of those. Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, this is a showcase of the weird shit happening in their heads. This is a proggy showcase that'll require you to brush up on your Deutsch if you want you follow along.

Møl – Dreamcrush

Genre: Post-black metal/shoegaze
Origin: Aarhus, Midtjylland –
Label: Nuclear Blast

Buy now on Bandcamp

Back before the comments got too full of bots and jerks, readers were quick to let me know that I slept on the last Møl record, and holy shit were you right. Dreamcrush is another win in their catalog and ensures that I will never forget them again. Big recommendation for fans of the epic, blackened, and ethereal.

Planet Hunter – Soothsayer

Genre: Stoner/psychedelic rock
Orign: Wellington, New Zealand
Label: Sharkhound

Buy and/or sample on Bandcamp

Riffs and fun. That's what you're getting on Soothsayer. They're catchy like Torche during their Harmonicraft period and have the swagger of golden era of Clutch. This is an unexpected gem.

Therion – Con Orquesta

Genre: Symphonic metal
Origin: Upplands Väsby, Sweden
Label: Napalm

Buy now from Napalm

Back in 2024 Therion played a show in Mexico City with a full orchestra. The already grand sounding band was made more massive with all their orchestral friends. The set offers a pretty balanced selection of cuts from a lot of albums, so fans should have oodles to be happy about here. Those wanting more have get a BlueRay and/or DVD to watch all the performances and catch some hersal footage as well.

Urne – Setting Fire To The Sky

Genre: Sludge/metalcore
Origin: London, England
Label: Spinefarm

Buy now from Spinefarm

Closing out this week with the heavy hammer of Urne. Their third album is a crushing mix of sludge and energy, which is always a gnarly combo. The now four-piece welcomes new guitarist Kurtis Bagley who adds some lovely textures, harmonies, and more here.

Also dropping this week…

• Banisher – Metamorphosis (Selfmadegod Records) – Technical/experimental death metal
• Buzzcocks – Attitude Adjustment (Cherry Red) – Punk
• Circular Ruins – band A Sermon In Tongues (Vendetta Records) – Progressive metal
• Course Of Fate – Behind The Eclipse (ROAR) – Progressive metal
• Dead Air Divine – The Answer (Dead Air Divine) – Metalcore
• Defaced – Icon (Massacre) – Death metal
• Eximperituserqethhzebibšiptugakkathšulweliarzaxułum – Meritoriousness Of Equanimity (Willowtip Records) – Technical/brutal death metal
• Final Dose – Endless Woe (Wolves of Hades) – Black metal/punk
• Francis Rossi – The Accidental (earMusic) – Rock
• Gavran – The One Who Propels (Dunk! Records) – Post-metal/doom
• Gorrch – Stillamentum (Avantgarde Music) – Black metal
• Hällas – Panorama (Aventyr Records) – Progressive/hard rock
• Harxson – Can't Kill Us (No Life Til Metal Records) – Thrash
• Hér – Monochrome (Season Of Mist) – Nordic fusion/jazz
• Indica Blues – Universal Death Heat (Majestic Mountain) – Psychedelic doom
• Invictus – Nocturnal Visions (Memento Mori) – Death metal
• It It Anita – Hi Hi Ha Ha (Vicious Circle / Luik Music) – Noise rock
• Jagged City – There Are More Of Us, Always (Pelagic Records) – Post-rock/metal
• Kosuke Hashida – Moment Of Silence (Horror Pain Gore Death) – Thrash/grindcore
• Krateros – Lost In Translation (Inverse Records) – Progressive metal/thrash
• Lone Wanderer – Exequiae (High Roller) – Funeral doom
• Lord Elephant – Ultra Soul (Heavy Psych Sounds) – Psychedelic doom/stoner
• Malignant Aura – Where All Of Worth Comes To Wither (Memento Mori) – Death metal/doom
• Nightmarer – Hell Interface (Self-released) – Avant-garde/technical death metal
• Noirnoise – Plant Resilience (Self-released) – Psychedelic rock
• Orgg – Indomita (Eternal WInter) – Black metal
• Our Mirage – Fractured Minds (Arising Empire) – Metalcore
• Profane Elegy – Herezjarcha (Self-released) – Black metal
• Qasu – A Bleak King Cometh (Apocalyptic Witchcraft/Phantom Limb) – Experimental black metal
• Rave In Fire – Square One (High Roller) – Heavy metal
• Red Sands – Evocations (Self-released) – Melodic metal
• Red Vox – Retcon (Self-released) – Alternative rock
• Roth – Alles Endet (Massacre) – Dark metal
• Sanctvs – De l'Abîme au Plérôme (Osmose) – Black metal
• Shields – Death & Connection (Long Branch) – Metalcore
• Shine – Wrathcult (Dark Descent) – Extreme metal
• Skulld – Abyss Calls To Abyss (Time To Kill) – Death metal/hardcore
• Stabbing – Eon Of Obscenity (Century Media) – Brutal death metal
• Summer Of Hate – Blood & Honey (Tee Pee) – Gothic/psychedelic rock
• Survivalist – A Place For Those Who Suffer, Alone (Seek and Strike) – "groove-core"
• Sweatmaster – More! (Svart) – Rock
• Tarlung – Axis Mundi (Argonauta Records) – Stoner/doom
• Vaulderie – Sanguinoctum (Witches Brew) – Black metal/thrash
• Viamaer – In lumine lunae (Self-released) – Atmospheric black metal/shoegaze
• Wolfenstein – Death Brigade (CDN) – Thrash