The Weekly Injection: New Releases From PUSCIFER, KARNIVOOL & More Out This Week 2/6

This week's new heavy metal releases include acoustic hardcore, a symphonic pirate score, long-awaited returns, and more! To the metals…

ALSO! Today, Bandcamp is doing their first Bandcamp Friday of 2026 where they waive the site's share of profits giving bands/artists more money. So if you can get stuff from Bandcamp, please do.

Stephen Brodsky – Cut To The Core Vol. 2

Genre: Acoustic hardcore covers
Origin: Massachusetts
Label: Pax Aeternum

Buy now on Bandcamp

Cave In and Mutoid Man's Stephen Brodsky has returned with his grandpa's guitar once more to serenade you with hardcore covers. The twists on these make them more etheral and melodic while putting a showcase on lyrics more than before. This time you're getting some Gorilla Biscuits, Hero is Gone, Neurosis, and more.

Hermano – Clisson, France

Genre: Stoner rock/metal
Origin: California
Label: Ripple

Buy now on Bandcamp

A decade after it was recorded, this Hellfest set from the legendary desert rock outfit is finally hitting the masses. John Garcia (ex-Kyuss) sounds fantastic and the fellas still had the riffs here. This was before their 2024 record so it's all stuff form their original run. A must for fans.

Karnivool – In Verses

Genre: Progressive metal/rock
Origin: Perth, Australia
Label: Cymatic

Buy now here

If you're a Karnivool fan, the last thirteen years have been torture. Well, the wait is finally over and Australia's moodiest, proggiest, Karnivooliest band is back and just so great still. As always, rhythmic weirdness and melancholic beauty are in perfect balance.

Mayhem – Liturgy Of Death

Genre: Black metal
Origin: Oslo, Norway
Label: Century Media

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For those looking for something less melodic and more evil, great news! It's been seven long years but Necrobutcher, Hellhammer, and the boys are back to rip you apart. This doesn't reinvent the black metal wheel, but they're one of the ones who invented this in the first place, so who cares?

Puscifer – Normal Isn't

Genre: Art rock
Origin: Los Angeles, California
Label: Puscifer Entertainment/Alchemy Recordings

Buy now from Puscifer

Carina Round, Mat Mitchell, etc's artsy rock outfit has always shifted its sound. Normal Isn't has rocking moments, glitchy boopy songs, vibing grooves, and more. This band has come a long way since it felt like an excuse for them to sing "boner."

Visions Of Atlantis – Armada – An Orchestral Voyage

Genre: Power/symphonic metal
Origin: Bruck An Der Mur, Austria
Label: Napalm Records

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This is the orchestral version of the their rad 2024 Pirates II – Armada record. So, no pesky vocals, guitars, drums this time. Just sweeping symphonies that feel like the perfect score to a swashbuckle. Also, I'll be honest. I'm sort of lost with what Visions of Atlantis are doing with this whole Armada thing they're on. There's so much. There has also been three live EPs (that became a album), an RPG game, and probably something else. Anyway, if VoA are your favorite band you'll have a ton of stuff that says "Armada" on it.

Also dropping this week…

• Assignment – With The End Comes Silence (Massacre) – Progressive power metal
• Ablaze – Slow Death (Self-released) – Mathcore
• Adeline Gray – Portrait of Our Descent (Self-released) – Groove/alternative metal
• Agenbite Misery – Remorse Of Conscience (Self-released) – Experimental black/death metal
• All The Damn Vampires – Vicecore (Self-released) – Synthwave
• Daniele Brusaschetto – Dichotomous (Self-released) – Experimental metal
• Before I Turn – Immoral And Malevolent Happenings (Self-released) – Metalcore
• Belonging / Inny – The Dog (Dipterid Records) – SLudge/psychedelic
• Big Big Train – Woodcut (InsideOut) – Progressive rock
• Blossoms Fall – La Alma (Eclipse Records) – Metalcore/post-hardcore
• Cattle Hammer – Dark Thoughts With Lights Out (Road To Masochist) – Drone/sludge
• Chat Pile – Masks (Sub Pop Records) – Experimental/noise rock
• Cyclone – Known Unto God (M-Theory Audio) – Thrash
• Demonic Resurrection – Apocalyptic Dawn (Self-released) – Progressive death/black metal
• Ensanguinate – Death Saturnalia (Soulseller) – Death metal
• Epinikion – The Force Of Nature (Dr. Music Records) – Symphonic metal
• Evoked Eclipse – The Cries Of Evil (Club Inferno Ent.) – Black/death metal
• Full House Brew Crew – Glasgow Grin (Roar) – Groove metal
• Heir Corpse One – Destination: Domination (Emanzipation Productions) – Death/groove metal
• I Am Mook – Hollow Allegory (Seek & Strike) – Deathcore
• In Aeternum – …Of Death And Fire (Soulseller) – Black/death metal
• Induction – Love Kills! (Reigning Phoenix Music) – Symphonic/power metal
• Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows – Inexorable Opposites (Magnetic Eye) – Psychedelic/Southern rock
• KMFDM – Enemy (Metropolis Records) – Industrial
• Lily Löwe – Beautiful Disaster (Self-released) – Rock
• Lomor – Sabouk Rouge (Rockshot Records) – Thrash
• Mors Verum – Canvas (Transcending Obscurity Records) – Death metal
• Mount Palatine – Wormholy World (Octopus Rising/Argonauta Records) – Doom/psychedelic
• Night Of The Vampire – The Enchanting Winds Of The Dreamweaving Masquerade (Profound Lore) – Black metal
• Outer Gloom – Outer Gloom (Outer Gloom) – Outer Gloom
• Paganizer – As Mankind Rots (Xtreem Music) – Death metal
• Phendrana – Cathexis (Frozen Archives) – Atmospheric/progressive black metal
• Predatory Void – Atoned In Metamorphosis (Pelagic Records) – Blackened sludge
• Sleeping Giant – The Beauty Of Obliteration (Octopus Rising / Argonauta Records) – Sludge/stoner
• Supralunar – Dead Come To Dance? (Supralunatic Records) – Hard rock
• Tailgunner – Midnight Blitz (Napalm Records) – Heavy metal
• Uncultivates – This Will Become Clear Later, Like The French Revolution (Horsebox Records) – Mathcore/post-hardcore
• Wicked Smile – When Night Falls (Self-released) – Heavy metal