The Weekly Injection: New Releases From BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME, SPINAL TAP & More Out This Week 9/12

This week’s new heavy metal releases include a record with Garth Brooks on it, lots of heaviness, reminders of your mortality, and more! To the metals…

Between The Buried And Me – The Blue Nowhere

Genre: Progressive metal
Origin: Raleigh, North Carolina
Label: InsideOut

Buy now on Bandcamp

BtBaM’s first record as a four-piece is a progressive metal feast. It’s got plenty of their death metal or whatever heaviness, but like Colors 2, this record is also a lot of fun. They are without boundaries and without peers here.

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Arjen Anthony Lucassen – Songs No One Will Hear

Genre: Progressive rock
Origin: Hilversum, Netherlands
Label: InsideOut

Buy now on Bandcamp

Ayreon‘s mainman is stepping outside of the progressive metal theater realm once again for a record under his own name – and for the first time in thirteen years. He can’t help but bring some prog spirit here, so a concept remains, and this one is about facing extinction (fun!). So, a not light listen. Despite it not being an Ayreon record, he can’t help but have guests and this one includes Marcela Bovio (Stream of Passion), Floor Jansen (Nightwish), and more.

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Demon Hunter – There Was a Light Here

Genre: Metalcore/groove metal
Origin: Seattle, Washington
Label: Weapons MFG

Buy now on Bandcamp

Next up we have metalcore mastery. The band’s usual uplifting message may still be there, but this album is largely about vocalist Ryan Clark losing his mother. So more reminders of mortality this week in The Weekly Injection. Sorry?

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Lorna Shore – I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me

Genre: Deathcore/symphonic metal
Origin: New Jersey
Label: Century Media

Buy now on Bandcamp

I wish I could say the tone of this week will be lifted here, but the video below literally has someone bleeding from the eyes in it. Anyway, this may be the band’s most epic effort yet. Theatrics are full bore here, but the rest of the music pummels as hard as ever.

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Nicolas Cage Fighter – I Watched You Burn

Genre: Hardcore/metalcore
Origin: Ballarat, Australia
Label: Blood Blast Distribution

Buy now on Amazon

The pummeling continues here with one of the finest named bands in heavy music. This is all fury. Frankly, not a lot to say on this one. It’s good.

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Spinal Tap – The End Continues

Genre: Rock
Origin: Los Angeles, California
Label: Interscope

Buy now on Amazon

Forty-one years after their classic movie Spinal Tap are back with a sequel, and there is also a new soundtrack to go with it. I haven’t seen the movie yet, but their fourth record is pretty neat. Some new songs and some of the original ones with guests, updated takes, etc. Paul McCartney, Elton John, Garth Brooks, and Trisha Yearwood all guest on this.

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Umphrey’s McGee – Blueprints

Genre: Progressive rock/jam
Origin: South Bend, Indiana
Label: Diggers Factory

Buy now from Digger’s Factory

Long time readers will know that I am a very vocal champion of Umphrey’s McGee being a metal-enough band for inclusion in my columns. Short version: this one is for me, but trust me. On Blueprints they pieced took six songs and reworked them with recreations of live jams from various shows creating new beasts in the studio. If this record winds up bringing you any joy, I highly recommend seeing them live.

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Unaligned – A Form Beyond

Genre: Progressive/technical death metal
Origin: West Palm Beach, Florida
Label: Transcending Obscurity

Buy now on Bandcamp

Wrapping this week with a tech death assault. So many notes and drum beats and with so, so many time shifts. This one will be hard to headbang to, so stretch first and find the one.

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Also dropping this week…

• Barrens – Corpse Lights (Pelagic) – Post-rock
• Beth Blade & The Beautiful Disasters – Vintage Rebel x Trauma Bond (Self-released) – Rock
• By A Thread – Mirrored Life (Spartan Records) – Post-punk
• Caesarean – Wretched Decrepitude (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions) – Death metal
• Cea Serin – The World Outside (Generation Prog Records) – Progressive metal
• Colorblind – Who Sold You This Truth (Solid State) – “Dreamcore”/post-hardcore
• Colosalist – Two Suns (Hoggorm Music) – Doom
• Crippling Alcoholism – Camgirl (Portrayal Of Guilt) – Gothic/noise rock
• Dance Gavin Dance – Pantheon (Rise) – Post-hardcore
• Der Weg Einer Freiheit – Innern (Season Of Mist) – Black/post-metal
• Electromancy – Visions of Utopia (Self-released) – Black metal/doom
• Exelerate – Hell For The Helpless (From The Vaults) – Power metal/thrash
• Fargo – Live In ’25 (Steamhammer) – Rock
• Helstar – The Devil’s Masquerade (Massacre Records) – Power/speed metal
• Heruvim – Mercator (Redefining Darkness Records) – Death metal
• I See Stars – The Wheel (Sumerian) – post-hardcore/metalcore
• Intercourse – How I Fell in Love with the Void (Brutal Panda Records) – Noise rock
• Jesus On Extasy – Between Despair And Disbelief (Metropolis Records) – Industrial
• Kalamity Kills – Kalamity Kills (Pero Recordings) – Hard rock
• Laveda – Love, Darla (Bar/None) – Alternative rock
• Matt Miller – Fiber Tormentum (Exitus Stratagem Records) – Progressive/melodic death metal
• Mortal Scepter – Ethereal Dominance (Xtreem Music) – Blackened thrash
• Motherless – Do You Feel Safe? (Prosthetic) – Experimental doom/sludge
• Necroticgorebeast – Brute (Comatose Music) – Brutal death metal/slam
• Nevertel – Start Again (Epitaph) – Nu metal/hard rock
• Nord Electric – Loneliness for Sale (Outer Battery Records) – Shoegaze
• Not Enough Space – Weaponize Your Rage (Thriller) Hard rock/metalcore
• Oxymorrons – Create. Destroy. Rebuild. Repeat. (Self-released) – Punk
• The Rasmus – Weirdo (Better Noise) – Gothic rock
• Revelator – Light The Devil’s Fire (Nameless Grave Records) – Black/death metal
• Restraining Order – Future Fortune (Blue Grape Music) – Punk/glam
• RinRin – The Nut House (Year Of The Rad Records) – Pop metal
• Schreigarm – Mara Comes and Darkness Shall Reign (Purity Through Fire Records) – Atmospheric black metal
• Silverstein – Pink Moon (UNFD) – Post-hardcore
• Slomatics – Atomicult (Majestic Mountain Records) – Sludge/doom
• Spite House – Desertion (Pure Noise Records) – Post-hardcore
• Sweet Savage – Bang (earMusic) – heavy metal/NWOBHM
• The Switch – No Way Out (Frontiers) – Rock
• Thorndale – Spiritual Chains (Self-released) – Doom/stoner
• Venera – Exinfinite (PAN) – Experimental/electronic rock
• Year Of The Goat – Trivia Goddess (Napalm) – Occult rock
• Yotuma – The Final Void (Bolverk Records) – Death metal