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This week’s new heavy metal releases include historical metal, haunted metal, battle metal, and more! To the metals…

Battle Beast – Steelbound

The Weekly Injection: New Releases From SABATON, CORONER & More Out This Week 10/17

Genre: Heavy/power metal
Origin: Helsinki, Finland
Label: Nuclear Blast

Starting this week off with some epicness. Album number seven from BB includes every element of the band’s past as well as some new ones. “Here We Are” sounds like a modern pop anthem while the title-track sounds like ABBA. All with added guitar flourishes, of course.

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Biohazard – Divided We Fall

Genre: Groove metal/hardcore
Origin: New York City, New York
Label: BLKIIBLK

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Next we have Biohazard‘s first album in thirteen years and their tenth over all. Evan Seinfeld is back fronting the band and the whole outfit seems real pissed. This is raw and heavy hardcore that doesn’t let up.

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Coroner – Dissonance Theory

Genre: Technical thrash
Origin: Zürich, Switzerland
Label: Century Media

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Speaking of metal that doesn’t let up. The first album from Coroner in twenty-two years is an onslaught of thrash. The guitar work is especially stellar here juxtaposing a lot of melody into the pummeling.

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Flagman – Before The Blast

Genre: Avant-garde metal
Origin: Seattle, Washington
Label: Self-released

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If you’re looking for some weird, them dig into the new Flagman. This release is a little Primus, a little Nuclear Rabbit, and sometimes even a little Ministry. That’s just the single below. Like all their stuff, this is full of surprises.

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Carach Angren – The Cult Of Kariba

Genre: Symphonic black metal
Origin: Landgraaf, Netherlands
Label: Season Of Mist)

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It’s been five years since this ghouls released any new music and I’m glad the wait is finally over. These five new tracks are epic, evil, and tell the story of Schinveld’s White Lady (Google it. It’s creepy). With Halloween on a Friday and so close, it almost feels like they should have waited a couple weeks since it’s the perfect soundtrack.

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Sabaton – Legends

Genre: Power metal
Origin: Falun, Sweden
Label: Better Noise

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On album number eleven Sabaton have shifted their war-obsessed sights away from WW1 and such and on to all of history. This includes your usual epic power metal stylings, but this time you’re learning (whether you like it or not!) about Genghis Khan, Joan of Arc, Vlad the Impaler, and more. If you’re a history teacher put one of these songs on and consider that part of your curriculum covered.

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Unto Others – I Believe In Halloween II

Genre: Gothic rock/heavy metal
Origin: Portland, Oregon
Label: Century Media Records)

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Just a bit over a year since their awesome Never, Neverland record, Unto Others are back with their sequel to their 2021 I Believe In Halloween EP. This time they’re haunting you with three new tracks and a pair of covers of Ramones and MIsfits songs. Like Carach Angren, this seemed poised for a Halloween day release, but this way you’ll have all the words down for when you scream the lyrics at trick or treaters.

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Sunn O))) – Eternity’s Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential

Genre: Drone
Origin: Seattle, Washington
Label: Sub Pop

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The surprise EP with a catchy title has been out for a few days now, but earlier this week Sunn O))) came lurching back with a trio of new songs on a new label. They’re now labelmates with Father John Misty. Now there’s a collaboration I’d love to hear. Existential dread over bleak, fuzzy, riffs and feedback.

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Wretched – Decay

Genre: Melodic/technical death metal
Origin: Charlotte, North Carolina
Label: Metal Blade

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Concluding this week of bands with weirdly long album gaps with one last weirdly long album gap. Wretched‘s fifth album comes eleven years after their previous one and features the return of early vocalist Billy Powers. There’s been a long time between eras here, but this has a lot of the early vibes so long-time fans should be stoked.

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Also dropping this week…

84 Tigers – Nothing Ends (Spartan) – Post-hardcore
Age Of Ruin – Nothingman (Darkmoonempire) – Melodic death metal
Argesk – Moonlight Pyromancy (Matriarch Records) – Melodic black metal
Basaltic Plateau – Dead Dinosaurs Echoes (Electric Valley Records) – Psychedelic/stoner
Carcosa – The Axe Forgets, The Tree Remembers (Self-released) – Deathcore
Counting Seasons – Above Us The Waves (Self-released) – Metalcore
Daedric – As The Light Left (FiXT) – Alternative metal/rock
Defigurement – Endbryo (Nefarious Industries) – Technical grindcore
Destiny Bond – The Love (Convulse Records) – Hardcore
Erdling – Mana (Out Of Line Music) – Industrial/rock
Evoken – Mendacium (Profound Lore) – Doom
Flitcraft – Transmission Echo (Pitch Black Records) – Death metal/thrash
Grailknights – Forever (Perception) – Melodic death/power metal
Graveripper – From Welkin To Tundra (Wise Blood) – Thrash
Greet – I Know How To Die (Fiadh Productions) – Folk
Herakleion – Live Through Eternity (Self-released) – Death metal/thrash
High On Wheels – The Monkey (Klonosphere Records) – Desert rock
Human Fortress – Stronghold (Massacre) – Power metal
Impermanence – Anicca (Satanath Records/Sanatorio Records) – Technical black/death metal
Infinity Dream – Silver Lining (Nameless Grave Records) – Heavy metal
Internal Bleeding – Settle All Scores (Maggot Stomp Records) – Brutal death metal
Irreparable – The Fate Of All Life (These Hands Melt) – Black metal/electronica
Kaupe – Destroyer of Worlds (Morbid Subculture) – Progressive metal
Ladon Heads – Steel For Fire (Lost Realm Records) – Heavy metal
Lammoth / Gonemage – Aetherfrost Caverns (Fiadh Productions) – Symphonic black metal
Mental Maze – Here Goes Nothing (Self-released) – “brutalcore”
Meteora – Broken Mind (H-Music) – Symphonic metal
Militarie Gun – God Save the Sun (Loma Vista) – Hardcore/indie
Monkeys On Mars – Monkeys On Mars (Mrs Red Sound) – Psychedelic
Now I’ve Done It – An Ill Guest (Lör Records) – Avnat-garde metal
Paaris – Sic Parvis Magna (Self-released) – Shred
Perishing – Malicious Acropolis Unveiled (Transcending Obscurity Records) – Death metal/doom
Saüc – Catarsi (RockCD Records) – Heavy metal/hard rock
Silly Goose – Keys to the City (Blue Grape Music) – Rap metal
Sintage – Unbound Triumph (High Roller) – Heavy metal
:Skull & dawn: – The Harvest (The Circle Music) – Gothic americana
Spaced – No Escape (Pure Noise Records) – Hardcore
Synthre – Heterodoxa (Self-released) – Black metal
Tombs – Feral Darkness (Redefining Darkness) – Experimental/blackened metal
Tribal Gaze – Inveighing Brilliance (Nuclear Blast) – Death metal
Wild Beyond – Black Sites In Lower Chambers (Fiadh Productions) – Black metal