New & Noteworthy is a weekly column in which we highlight some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. The week features new releases from Unleash the Archers, Incantation, and more! For last week’s new releases you can check out the last New & Noteworthy, and for the latest sales numbers Metal by Numbers. Be sure to follow us on Spotify to get this month’s New & Noteworthy Playlist, updated every Friday with the newest metal releases.
Unleash The Archers, Abyss (Napalm Records)
Fifth studio album. Vancouver, Canadia. Power metal.
Music videos: “Soulbound” “Abyss”
Producer: Andrew Kingsley (guitarist)
Engineer, mixer and masterer: Jacob Hansen at Hansen Studios in Denmark and produced by guitarist
Abyss is also available on vinyl.
Incantation, Sect Of Vile Divinities (Relapse Records)
Eleventh studio album. Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Death metal.
Music videos: “Fury’s Manifesto” “Entrails of the Hag Queen”
Lyric video: “Propitiation”
Sect of the Vile Divinities is also available on vinyl and on Bandcamp.
(hed)p.e., Class Of 2020 (Suburban Noize Records)
Anthrax, Persistence Of Time (30th Anniversary Edition) (Megaforce)
Atramentus, Stygian (20 Buck Spin)
Cytotoxin, Nuklearth (Unique Leader Records)
Disciples Of Verity, Pragmatic Sanction (DOV/POND)
Idle Threat, Nothing Is Broken (Tooth & Nail)
Saor, Roots (Reissue)(Season Of Mist)
Sleeping With Sirens, How It Feels To Be Lost (Deluxe Edition) (Sumerian Records)
The Obsessed, Live At The Big Dipper (Blues Funeral Recordings)
Thousand Below, Let Go Of Your Love (Rise Records)
Vicious Rumors, Celebration Decay (Steamhammer/SPV)
Vinyl Releases
Buried Alive, Death Will Find You (Bridge 9)
Cattle Decapitation, Monolith Of Inhumanity (Vinyl) (Metal Blade Records)
Cattle Decapitation, The Anthropocene Extinction (Vinyl) (Metal Blade Records)
Junius, The Martyrdom Of A Catastrophist (Vinyl) (Pelagic Records)
Junius, Vol. 1 (Vinyl) (Pelagic Records)