The Weekly Injection: New Releases From REVOCATION, AMORPHIS & More Out This Week 9/26

This week’s new heavy metal releases include moody masked modern metal, rapid rage-filled riffs, and more! To the metals…

Abraham – Idsungwüssä

Genre: Atmospheric sludge/post-metal
Origin: Lausanne, Switzerland
Label: Pelagic Records

Buy now on Bandcamp

If you’re in the mood for some ethereal, uneasy, heaviness then look no further than the new Abraham. There is a darkness throughout this record that makes the ebbs and flows of it carry so much weigh. If this is a genre you dig and you see Pelagic Records put it out, then you know it’s some of the good shit. This is indeed some of the good shit.

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Amorphis – Borderland

Genre: Melodic death metal
Origin: Helsinki, Finland
Label: Reigning Phoenix

Buy now from Amorphis

Next up is the fifteenth album from these melodic masters. As always you’re getting their balance of epic folk-ish metal, dark gothic aura, and death metal grit. You’ll dance, you’ll mosh, you’ll be engulfed in gloom.

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Dying Wish – Flesh Stays Together

Genre: Metalcore
Origin: Portland, Oregon
Label: SharpTone

Buy now from Dying Wish

The Dying Wish party is one that I got to late, but I’m glad I’m here now. The band have one foot in the classic metalcore sound, but put their own spin on it. Genre staples like breakdowns and melodic choruses are both here, and the rest is pure Dying Wish.

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Elder – Liminality / Dream State Return

Genre: Progressive/psychedelic rock
Origin: Berlin, Germany
Label: Self-released

Buy now on Bandcamp

The Elder lads sprung this on us on Monday and what a joyous surprise it was. This is a two-song EP, but because it’s Elder, you’re still getting just shy of nineteen minutes of music. These songs apparently didn’t quite fit on their last two records, so they’re getting their own life here and it’s awesome to get these bonus, yet not-so bonus tracks.

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President – King Of Terrors

Genre: Alternative metal/hard rock
Origin: United Kingdom
Label: Self-released

Buy now from President

Not a lot is officially known about President. It seems like a Google will blown their identity, but that’s no fun. This is their debut and It’s six songs of trap-ish modern metal. It feels lazy to compare them to Sleep Token, but if you’re a fan of ST and want another masked, moody band, with some pop/hip hop beats balanced with big metal parts in your life, this will probably scratch the itch.

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Revocation – New Gods, New Masters

Genre: Technical death metal/thrash
Origin: Boston, Massachusetts
Label: Metal Blade

Buy now from Bandcamp

Looking for guitar notes? This album has all of them. David Davidson and his crew of technical death metal masters shred through their instruments and your ear drums here. They brought some friends along in Travis from Cattle Decapitation, Luc from Gorguts, Jonny from Job For A Cowboy, and jazz shredder Gilad Hekselman. We gushed about this album all month, and honestly was that really long enough?

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The Vintage Caravan – Portals

Genre: Progressive rock
Origin: Reykjavík, Iceland
Label: Napalm

Buy now on Bandcamp

Last up we have some Icelandic prog. These guys have a bit of the moody Porcupine Tree thing to them here, but I’m also hearing some almost reggae rhythms, straight ahead rock, and hella riffs. There’s a guest spot from Mikael Åkerfeldt from Opeth on a song that I could be convinced is a left over from Sorceress.

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Also dropping this week…

• Abraded – Ethereal Emanations From Cthonic Caries (Redefining Darkness Records) – Death metal/grindcore
• Absence Of Colors – Poison On Your Lips (Weird Noise) – Post-metal
• After Earth – Dark Night Of The Soul (Self-released) – Melodic death metal
• Atomic Rule – With Skull Crushing Force (Self-released) – Hardcore
• Beat – Beat Live (InsideOut) – Progressive rock
• Codex Nero – Ordo Acherontis (Liber Khaos Productions) – Death/black metal
• Cosmic Reaper – Bleed The Wicked, Drown The Damned (Heavy Psych Sounds) – Stoner/doom
• Curse Of Cain – Achtung! (Rock Of Angels) – Atmospheric metal
• Darkness – The Death Squad Chronicles (Massacre) – Thrash
• Death Harvest – Pale Rider (Self-released) – Groove metal
• Degrave – Metalithic (ShredHead Records) – Thrash
• Demiurgon – Miasmatic Deathless Chamber (Transcending Obscurity Records) – Death metal
• Face Yourself – Fury (Sumerian) – Deathcore
• Fauna – Ochre & Ash (Lupus Lounge) – Ambient black metal
• From Fall To Spring – Entry Wounds (Arising Empire) – Metalcore/post-rock
• Hei’An – Kiss Our Ghosts Goodbye (Blood Blast Distribution) – Progressive post-metal
• Indecent Behavior – Sick (Long Branch) – Pop punk
• Irk – The Seeing House (Nefarious Industries) – Mathcore
• Korypheus – Gilgamesh (M-Theory) – Progressive metal/rock
• Last Retch – Abject Cruelty (Time To Kill Records) – Death metal
• Left Hand Black – Left Hand Black 3: Death Can’t Keep Us Apart (The Circle Music) – Horror punk
• Marmalade Knives – Paradigm Lost (Electric Valley Records) – Psychedelic
• Mors Principium Est – Darkness Invisible (Perception) – Melodic death metal
• Mysthicon – Biesn (Tribe Five) – Black/death metal
• Nihili Locus – Semper (My Kingdom Music) – Black metal
• Overt Enemy – Insurrection (Vault 32 Media) – Thrash
• Paradox – Mysterium (High Roller) – Speed metal/thrash
• PeelingFlesh – PF Radio 2 (Unique Leader Records) – Brutal death metal/slam
• Percussor – Remnants Of Horror: The Final Cut (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions) – Death metal
• Rage – A New World Rising (Steamhammer) – Power/speed metal
• Risen Atlantis – Power To The Past (Frontiers) – Power metal
• Sainthood – Dull Bliss (Smartpunk) – Rock
• Septicflesh – Live At The Acropolis II – Prometheus Unchained (Nuclear Blast) – Gothic metal
• The Sorrow Of Being Immaculate – Suicide Forest (Drone Alone) – Sludge/drone
• Stone Machine Electric – Faces (Argonauta Records) – Stoner/sludge
• Sundrowned – Higanbana (Self-released) – Post-metal
• Terra Atlantica – Oceans (Scarlet) – Power metal
• Uragh – Stalemate (Self-relased) – Metalcore
• Villain of the Story – Convergence: Two Minds In (One Out Of Line Music) – Metalcore/hard rock
• Vintersorg – Vattenkrafternas Spel (Hammerheart) – Folk/progressive metal
• Warcoe – Upon Tall Thrones (Ripple) – Doom
• War Grave – Free Will (UK Thrashers PR) – Power metal/thrash
• Zombie Eater – Faces (Argonauta Records) – Stoner/doom