The Weekly Injection: New Releases From TEMPLE OF THE VOID, ERRA & More Out This Week 3/6

This week’s new heavy metal releases include ever-shifting blackened metal, prog grooves, 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.

Bosse-de-Nage – Hidden Fires Burn Hottest

Genre: Post-black metal/blackgaze
Origin: San Francisco, California
Label: The Flenser

Buy now on Bandcamp

Starting this week off with something pretty cool. There is a lot of ethereal blackened metal out there and a band like Bosse-de-Nage are shaking up the scene. Very little about this record is straight ahead. There are constant rhythmic shifts and tonal movements. This isn’t one to put on and space out to, and it’s better for that fact.

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Erra – silence outlives the earth

Genre: Progressive metalcore
Origin: Birmingham, Alabama
Label: UNFD

Buy now here

Album number seven from these proggsters is another catchy, technical metalcore beast. You’ll find big ol’ grooves galore, plenty of shredding, and the usual stellar vocal juxtaposition of screamy J.T. paiured with singy Jesse.

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Leaves Eyes – Song Of Darkness

Genre: Ludwigsburg, Germany
Origin: Symphonic metal
Label: Reigning Phoenix

Buy now from Reigning Phoenix

This is a four song EP built around the lead single “Song of Darkness.” Odd that this EP wasn’t called SongS of Darkness, but I digress. These tracks should satiate fans while they wait for the next full-length from these symphonic folks and serves as an introduction to a few new members.

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Moon Tooth – Bastard

Genre: Progressive metal
Origin: Long Island, New York
Label: Self-released

Buy now on Bandcamp

Always excited when there’s some new Moon Mooth. It’s a shame that it’s only four tracks, but the musicianship is stellar and the vocals are rad. Like Sevendust mixed with Gojira… sorta. Whatever, it’s rad.

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Temple Of Void – The Crawl

Genre: Death metal/doom
Origin: Detroit, Michigan
Label: Relapse

Buy now on Bandcamp

Readers looking for some proper darkness should be happy with the next couple records. First, Temple of Void‘s first record in four years will slowly rip you apart. Riffs are nasty and the tempos are lurching (until they’re not). Straight up evil.

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Vreid – The Skies Turn Black

Genre: Melodic black metal
Origin: Sogndal, Norway
Label: Indie

Buy now on Bandcamp

Speaking of straight up evil. The first Vreid record in half a decade is the perfect soundtrack to your forest adventure. There’s JUST the right amount of melody here, but the bulk of this is fast, thrashing, and sinister.

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Also dropping this week…

• Axe Dragger – Axe Dragger (Ripple Music) – Heavy metal
• Azken Auzi – Infernua (Argonauta Records) – Occult metal
• Bitter Branches – Let’s Give The Land Back To The Animals (Equal Vision) – Hardcore
• Black Lung – Forever Beyond (Magnetic Eye Records) – Psychedelic/doom
• Black Stone Cherry – Celebrate (Mascot Records) – Southern rock
• Cogadh – Kingmaker (self-released) Black metal
• Desert Collider – Generation Ship: Endless Drift Through Infinity (Small Stone Recordings) – Psychadelic/sludge
• Desert Storm – Buried Under The Weight Of Reason (Heavy Psych Sounds) – Stoner
• Epigram – Obsolescent (Self-released) – Melodic death/black metal
• Evilborn – The Ascension (Self-released) – Experimental/progressive metal
• Feversea – Wormwood In The Veins Of The World (Dark Essence Records) – Blackened post-metal
• Filth – Welcome To Shell Town (Crowdkill) – Deathcore
• Full House Brew Crew – Glasgow Grin (ROAR) – Metalcore/groove metal
• Gold Pyramid – Gold Pyramid (Self-released) – Psychedelic rock/metal
• Gravemass – This Is The Way (End Game Records) – Thrash
• Insect Inside – Reborn In Blight (Gore House Productions) – Death metal
• Kaleidobolt – Karakuchi (Svart) – Hard rock/psychedelic
• Karelian Warcry – Veripellot (Inverse Records) – Black/death metal
• Legionary – Never-Ending Quest For Purpose (Self-released) – Death metal/thrash
• Lightlorn – The Ebb And Flow Of Galactic Tides (Rogue Planet Records) – Atmospheric/post-black meta
• Lost Society – Hell Is A State Of Mind (Nuclear Blast) – Metalcore/groove metal
• Mega Colossus – Watch Out! (Cruz Del Sur Music) – Heavy metal
• Miserere Luminis – Sidera (Debemur Morti) – Atmospheric black metal
• More – Destructor (Warhead Music LLP) – NWOBHM
• Mother Crone – Embrace The Death (Self-released) – Groove/psychedelic metal
• My Pitbull Lucifer – Welcome To New Earth (Self-released) – Epic doom
• Nailed Shut MA – A Promise Made, A Promise Kept (Promised Death Records) – Metalcore
• Nattskri – Blasfemisk Kängthrash (Majestic Mountain Records) – Thrash/d-beat
• Nefastis – Shadows At The Light Of Dawn (Rockshots Records) – Symphonic death metal
• New Age Doom & H.R. – Angels Against Angels (New Age Doom/We Are Busy Bodies) – Experimental/drone
• Oathbound – Colors In Grey (Eclipse Records) – Progressive metalcore
• The Primer – Perpetual Cycles Of Violence (Self-released) – Progressive metalcore
• Prong – Live And Uncleansed (Steamhammer) – Groove/alternative metal
• Qwälen – Veri virtaa edelleen (Time to Kill Records) – Black metal
• Raibard – Postscript (Self-released) – Hard rock
• Rosa Faenskap – Ingenting Forblir (Fysisk Format Records) – Post-black metal/hardcore
• The S.E.T. – Self Evident Truth (Flatspot Records) – hardcore
• Savage Beat – Bright Lights, Tall Shadows (Wap Shoo Wap Records) – Punk/hard rock
• Sermon To The Lambs – Sermon To The Lambs (Comatose Music) – Brutal death metal
• Tardigrade Inferno – Hush (Self-released) – Progressive metal/rocm
• Unreal City – Blood Memory (WAR Records) – Hardcore/thrash