The Weekly Injection: New Releases From PROPAGHANDI, HATE & More Out This Week 5/2

This week’s new heavy metal releases include riffs, evil stuff, epic punk, and more! To the metals…

ALSO! Today, Bandcamp is doing one of their days of giving 100% of what you pay directly to the labels and artists. So if you can get stuff from Bandcamp, please do.

Aawks – On Through The Sky Maze

Genre: Stoner metal
Origin: Barrie, Ontario
Label: Black Throne Productions

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Riffs. For. DAYS! On Through The Sky Maze is all head bang inducing fuzzy stoner metal. Sounds like Fu Manchu if they were a little pissed off.

Bleed – Bleed

Genre: Alternative/hard rock
Origin: Dallas, Texas
Label: 20 Buck Spin

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Early-00’s metal is back in a big way and when bands like Bleed take a swing at it, they do it well. Their debut sounds like Chevelle mixed with Deftones and some of your more modern shoegaze acts. This even sounds like it was recorded in the era.

Crematory – Destination

Genre: Gothic metal
Origin: Westhofen, Germany
Label: ROAR

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While very much still a gothic metal record, Crematory feel like their dipping more of their toes into their melodic death metal era here than on their last record. There are some twists thrown in since they gotta mix things up at least a little bit on their seventeenth album. For one there’s a cover of Type O Negative‘s “My Girlfriend’s Girlfriend” and then Michelle Darkness from End of Green makes a cameo on a song.

Hate – Bellum Regiis

Genre: Blackened death metal
Origin: Warsaw, Poland
Label: Metal Blade

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On lucky album number thirteen Hate are once again not fucking around. This is heavy, evil metal that only takes breaks to bathe you in sonic darkness. Fans of Vader and, of course, their fellow countrymen Behemoth will dig this.

Nightfall – Children Of Eve

Genre: Blackened death/gothic metal
Origin: Athens, Greece
Label: Season Of Mist

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So here’s something slightly interesting (or more likely not at all). This album is called Children of Eve. The single below is called “I Hate.” The last band I mentioned was called Hate, and their vocalist calls himself Adam The First Sinner. Adam and Eve… WHOA! Anyway, this record is like the middle ground between Hate and Crematory. This is grand and heavy. Honestly, the trio would be a pretty solid tour.

Propagandhi – At Peace

Genre: Melodic hardcore
Origin: Portage la Prairie, Manitoba
Label: Epitaph

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Concluding this week with a fun one in honor of our fearless leader Greg who loves himself some Propagandhi. The band’s eighth album comes eight years (weird) after their last record and takes the listener on a high-energy punk-infused ride. It’s catchy, surprisingly technical, and has a song that’s sort of about cats.

Also dropping this week…

• Acherontas – Nekya – The Necromantic Patterns (Zazen Sounds) – Black metal
• Acres – The Host (Solid State) – Metalcore
• Alukta – Merok (Transcendence) – Atmospheric black metal
• ARV – Curse & Courage (Vinter Records) – Hardcore/post-metal
• Burndy – Burndy (Self-released) – Noise rock
• The Crystal Teardrop – …Is Forming (Popclaw / Rise Above) – Psychedelic rock
• fallfiftyfeet – Counterfeit Recollections (Self-released) – Mathcore
• Falling From Grace – At The Edge (Inverse Records) – Groove metal/thrash
• A Flock Named Murder – Incendiary Sanctum (Hypaethral Records) – Post-black metal
• The Flower Kings – Love (InsideOut) – Progressive rock
• Frontline – Back With A 6-Pack (Self-released) – Hard rock
• Gypsy Pistoleros – Church Of The Pistoleros (Earache) – Glam punk
• Hangfire – Burn (Rottweiler Records) – Heavy metal/hard rock
• Herta – Crossing The Illusion (Lifeforce Records) – Progressive/groove metal
• Kalaveraztekah – Nikan Axkan (Self-released) – Progressive/folk death metal
• Khôra – Ananke (Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions) – Atmospheric black metal
• Labyrinthus Stellarum – Rift In Reality (Archivist Records) – Atmospheric/ambient black metal
• Leper Colony – Those of the Morbid (Testimony Records) – Death metal
• Maestrick – Espresso Della Vita: Lunare (Frontiers) – Progressive rock
• Master Charger – Posthumous Resurrection (Argonauta Records) – Doom/stoner
• Matraque – Nature Morte (Ashen Tree Records)
• Melting – You Exist Because We Allow It (Greyscale Records)
• Misfire – Product Of The Environment (MNRK Heavy) – Thrash
• Müntrails – The Cenobite Tapes (Wormholedeath) – Post-rock
• Namebearer – Industries Of The Fading Sun (Self-released) – Black metal
• Paradise Slaves – With Hell In His Eyes (Spinefarm) – Hardcore/metalcore
• Pyramids – Pythagoras (The Flesner) – Experimental metal
• Puddle Of Mudd – Kiss The Machine (Pavement) – Post-grunge
• Skyjoggers – Post-Electric Apocalypse (Supernatural Cat) – Psychedelic rock
• Slung – In Ways (Art As Catharsis/Fat Dracula) – Stoner rock
• Tonguecutter – Minnow (Learning Curve Records) – Thrash/grunge
• Tumble – Lost In Light (Echodelick Records) – Hard/psychedelic rock
• Vide – Decorated In Spiderweb (Self-released) – Black metal
• Your Spirit Dies – My Gnawing Pains Will Never Rest (MNRK Heavy) – Hardcore