The Weekly Injection: New Releases From WARBRINGER, COHEED & CAMBRIA + More Out This Week 3/7

This week’s new heavy metal releases include a noisy collaboration, a lot of thrash, a lot of prog, and (not much) more! To the metals…

The Body and Intensive Care – Was I Good Enough?

Genre: Experimental
Origin: Providence, Rhode Island/London, England
Label: Closed Casket Activities

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Starting this week off in a noisy and weird way. This is the first of what I can only assume will be many releases from The Body this year, and it’s a collab with industrial/noise act Intensive Care. If you dug The Body’s joint effort with Uniform, you’ll probably dig this too.

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Coheed & Cambria – The Father Of Make Believe

Genre: Progressive rock
Origin: Nyack, New York
Label: Virgin

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From here on it’s thrash and prog week on The Weekly Injection. Coheed’s eleventh record is the third of the on-going Vaxis pentalogy and like Vaxis II, this one continues their electronic dabbling while never too far from their epic prog sound. There’s is even a fair amount of screaming on “Blind Side Sonny.” So, if that’s your line in the sand for what’s heavy or whatever, there you go?

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Dessiderium – Keys To The Palace

Genre: Progressive death metal
Origin: Phoenix, Arizona
Label: Willowtip

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The 2021 Dessiderium album Aria slowly grew to be one of my favorite progressive metal albums of the last decade. It was the perfect blend of heavy, epic, beautiful, and technical that I haven’t hears since the first time I heard Ne Obliviscaris. On a personal level Keys To The Palace has a lot of pressure on it, and it doesn’t disappoint as it does so much of what made Aria incredible while shifting the sound just enough.

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Heathen – Bleed The World: Live

Genre: Speed metal/thrash
Origin: San Francisco, California
Label: Nuclear Blast

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Looking for some old school heavy metal with that live energy? Heathen have you covered this week. This includes a little bit of everything form the band’s forty-plus years with “Hyptotized” “Goblin’s Blade” and more.

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Nite – Cult Of The Serpent Sun

Genre: Blackened heavy metal
Origin: San Francisco, California
Label: Season Of Mist

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It wasn’t my intention to keep things in the Bay Area AND in the (fairly) straight-up heavy metal realm, but here we are. The latest from Nite has a blackened aura throughout, but that’s laid over a solid rocking foundation. Fans of Tribulation and the likes should check this out.

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Tiktaalika – Gods Of Pangaea

Genre: Progressive metal/thrash
Origin: London, England
Label: InsideOut

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Haken‘s Charlie Griffiths is back with another solo record, but as he dons the Tiktaalika name he is leaning into a much thrashier sound. He’s still shredding his ass off on the guitar and because of who he is, he can’t help but get proggy along the way. He is joined by a lot of guests on the microphone with Tommy Rogers (Between The Buried & Me), Daniël de Jongh (Textures) Vladimir Lalić (Organised Chaos), and Rody Walker (Protest The Hero) all joining in on the thrashy fun.

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Warbringer – Wrath And Ruin

Genre: Thrash
Origin: Newbury Park, California
Label: Napalm

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Warbringer‘s first full-length in five years is all the circle-pit inducing madness you’d hope for. This also comes with a bonus live set from 2023 from their Ravaging Europe tour. You’re getting old AND new. What a time to be alive for Warbringer fans.

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Steven Wilson – The Overview

Genre: Progressive rock
Origin: Kingston upon Thames, London, England
Label: Fiction

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Aaaand bringing us home on this special (and accidental mostly) prog and thrash special is the pure progressive rock of Steven Wilson. Like most (all?) his solo material this is a soaring yet sad affair that tells a story. It’s two long-ass tracks that total about forty-two minutes with a lot of parts. It reminds me a lot of the Yes album Close To The Edge in both song structure and delivery.

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Also dropping today…

• Ade – Supplicium (Time To Kill) – Epic death metal
• All Against – Straight Down to Hell (Raging Planet) – Death metal/thrash
• Alzhagoth – Grievous Diorama (Inertia Music) – Melodic death metal
• Athiel – Maw Of The Curse (Broken Bones Productons) – Black metal
• Bambara – Birthmarks (Bella Union/Wharf Cat) – Deathrock/post-punk
• Black & Damned – Resurrection (Reigning Phoenix Music/Roar) – Heavy/power metal
• Buried – Infect And Replicate (Self-released) – Thrash/doom
• Cartilage Tales – From The Entrails: A Necrology (Everlasting Spew Records) – Death metal/goregrind
• Crushuman – Besides (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions) – Death metal
• Dead Rabbitts – Redefined (Judge & Jury) – Metalcore
• Derision Cult – Mercenary Notes Pt. 2 EP (Glitch Mode) – Industrial
• Dorothy – The Way (Roc Nation) – Rock
• Dosgamos – On Day Seven He Regretted (Wormholedeath Records) – Groove metal
• Envy Of None – Stygian Wavz (Kscope) – Progressive rock
• An Evening With Knives – End Of Time (Argonauta) – Stoner/doom
• Hanging Garden – The Unending (Agonia Records) – Death metal/doom
• Incineration In The Infinite – Serpent’s Tongue (Wormholedeath) – Doom
• Kerberos – Apostle to the Malevolent (Self-released) – Symphonic death metal
• Manntra – Titans (Napalm Records) – Folk metal
• Museum Of Light – Diviner (Spartan) – Post-metal
• Nightstalker – Return From The Point Of No Return (Heavy Psych Sounds) – Stoner
• Nasty – Black My Heart (Self-released) – Hardcore
• Nomadic Rituals – Fust (Cursed Monk Records) – Sludge/doom
• The Oddeven – Outer Space Outtakes (Eclipse) – Post-grunge
• Purified in Blood – Primal Pulse Thunder (Indie Recordings) – Metalcore/melodic death metal
• Red Fang – Deep Cuts (Relapse) – Stoner/sludge
• Rwake – The Return Of Magik (Relapse) – Sludge
• Sanhedrin – Heat Lightning (Metal Blade) – Heavy metal
• Som – Let The Light In (Pelagic) – Post-metal/shoegaze
• Soren Andersen – Live In The Homeland (Mighty) – Shred
• Streetlight – Night Vision (Frontiers) – AOR/melodic rock
• Telepathy – Transmissions (Pelagic Records) – Post-metal
• Temperance – From Hermitage To Europe (Napalm) – Symphonic/power metal
• Thurnin – Harmr (Auerbach Tonträger) – Dream folk
• Trold – I Skovens Rige (Mighty) – Folk metal
• Ricky Warwick – Blood Ties (Earache) – Hard rock
• Wombbath – Beyond The Abyss (Pulverised) – Death metal