The Weekly Injection: New Releases From BEHEMOTH, SLEEP TOKEN & More Out This Week 5/9

This week’s new heavy metal releases include nu metal love, doom stuff to argue about, and more! To the metals…

Behemoth – The Shit Ov God

Genre: Blackened death metal
Origin: Gdańsk, Poland
Label: Nuclear Blast

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On album number thirteen Nergal and the boys are hitting you with their usual successful mix of epic, blackened death metal. Lyrically, this feels a little on the nose sometimes, whatever though. These new tracks will probably crush live.

Candlemass – Black Star

Genre: Doom
Origin: Stockholm, Sweden
Label: Napalm

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On this EP Candlemass are just giving fans a little something-something between records. You’re getting two new tracks that are trademark sad doom, then a couple covers. They’re taking on Pentagram‘s “Forever My Queen” and Black Sabbath “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.” Nothing too crazy, but hard to be mad at this.

Ghost Bath – Rose Thorn Necklace

Genre: Post-black metal
Origin: Minot, North Dakota
Label: Nuclear Blast

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Next up, Ghost Bath are keeping the sorrowful heaviness going, but they’re bringing in blast beats. Their first record in four years has hits hard while also drowning you in atmospheric dread. It’s refreshing to hear songs like this with more brief run times and not feel shorted.

Haken – Liveforms: An Evening With Haken

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

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If you’re a fan of Haken, here’s A LOT of them. In 2023, the band dropped their rad animal-themed album Fauna. This live album features that record in full plus a set of material from their back catalog like “Nil By Mouth,” “1985,” “Visions,” and way more. The DVD includes the full set and an interview so it clocks in at over three hours.

Novelists – Coda

Genre: Progressive metal/metalcore
Origin: Paris, France
Label: ACKOR Music

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In 2023 Novelists parted ways with their vocalist and came back with Camille Contreras fronting the band. This is her first full album with them, and she shines. There’s still massive, djenty-grooves and progressive instrumentation, but the vocal shift really separates this band from their scene. Solid record.

Sleep Token – Even in Arcadia

Genre: Alternative/pop metal
Origin: London, England
Label: RCA

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Whether this record hits with you or not, 2025 is the year of Sleep Token. They’re headlining massive festivals, selling out arenas, and doing it all while bridging metal and pop music. This record will likely serve as a time capsule for both genres at this time as it nails both. Catchy, rhythmic, moody, groovy.

Tetrarch – The Ugly Side Of Me

Genre: Nu metal/metalcore
Origin: Atlanta, Georgia
Label: Napalm

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Now we conclude this week with another genre-blending record. Tetrarch‘s latest continues their homage to classic Nu metal with moments that sound like Linkin Park, Static-X, or Deftones, but then they’re hitting you with more recent metalcore heft. A lot of moments surprised me and made me go, “Oh? hell yeah.”

Also dropping this week…

• Abysmal Rites – Restoring The Primordial Order (Wormholedeath Records) – Sludge doom
• An Tóramh – Echoes of Eternal Night (Black Lion Records) – Funeral doom
• Black Map – Hex (Spinefarm) – Progressive/alternative rock
• Bronson Arm – Casket Schwagg (Learning Curve Records) – Noise rock
• Butthole Surfers – Live At The Leather Fly (Sunset Blvd) – Alternative/nock
• The Chemistry Set – Introduction to The Chemistry Set (Fruits de Mer Records) – Psychedelic rock
• The Chain – Blind The World (Triple B) – Punk
• Chainsword – Chapter XII (Triumphant Records) – Death metal
• Chontaraz – Phantom of Reality (SAOL) – Dark/modern metal
• Cocaine Culture – Cocaine Culture (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions) – Blackened death metal/sludge
• Steve Dadaian – Revenant City (Self-released) – Progressive metal
• Kurt Deimer – And So It Begins… (Bald Man) – Hard rock
• Demeted – Rituals (Seek and Strike) – Metalcore
• Devine Defilement – Ruthless (Time To Kill Records) – Death metal/deathcore
• Edensong – Our Road To Dust (The Lasers Edge) – Progressive rock
• Elusive God – Ambis (Personal Records) – Doom
• Escarnium – Inexorable Entropy (Everlasting Spew Records) – Death metal
• Exilium Noctis – Pactum Diaboli (Black Lion Records) – Black/death metal
• For The Pyres – At The Pyres of Sin (Gruesome Records) – Death metal
• Ghost Chant – Hell May Await Me (Revival Recordings) – Metalcore/hardcore
• Hippie Death Cult – Live At The Star Theater (Heavy Psych Sounds) – Stoner/doom
• Horrenda – Think On Your Sins (Fiadh Productions) – Blackened extreme metal
• Kaleo – Mixed Emotions (Atlantic) – Hard rock
• Kicked In The Teeth – Watling Street Chambers (Rare Vitamin) – Hard rock/punk
• Jade – Mysteries Of A Flowery Dream (Pulverised Records) – Atmospheric death metal
• Lacabra – Lacabra (M-Theory) – Extreme metal
• Lloth – Archees Legeones (Ancient Legions) (Theogonia Records) – Melodic death/black metal
• Marea – Adrift (Masked Dead Records) – Atmospheric black/death metal
• mclusky – the world is still here and so are we (Ipecac) – Noise rock/post-punk
• Meatwound – Macho (Threat Collection Records) – Hardcore
• Mintage – Rag Doll (Out Of Line Music) – Alternative/electro rock
• Mors Silens – Infernal Legacy (Wormholedeath) – Melodic death/black metal
• My Dementia – Premonição: Só Me Arrependo Do Que Não Vivi (Caverna Abismal Records) – Death metal/doom
• Nechochwen – spelewithiipi (Nordvis) – Folk metal
• Ominous Ruin – Requiem (Willowtip Records) – Technical/brutal death metal
• Prophetic Suffering – Rivalry Of Thyself (Sentient Ruin Laboratories) – Black/death metal
• Pyromancer – Absolute Dominion By Fire (Adirondack Black Mass) – Black/death metal
• Sex Scenes – Everything Makes Me Sick (Big Neck Records) – Thrash/punk
• Shores of Null – Beauty Over Europe (Sulphur Music / Masked Dead Records) – Melodic black metal/doom
• Skaphos – Cult Of Uzura (Transcending Obscurity) – Black/death metal
• Statement – Sinister Thing (Mighty Music) – Hard rock/heavy metal
• Svarta Havet – Månen Ska Lysa Din Väg (Prosthetic) – Post-metal/hardcore
• Thammuz – III (Argonauta Records) – Hard roclk
• Tusmørke – En pakt med naturen (Karisma) – Progressive/folk rock
• Vower – Apricity Live (Apricity Records) – Progressive rock