New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week’s new albums include music from the likes of Blackwater Holylight, Buzzcocks, Kula Shaker and MØL amongst the many outstanding works hitting shelves. Don’t forget to check out our weekly playlist below. Enjoy!

January 30, 2026 Release Highlights:

Blackwater Holyligh, Not Here Not Gone (Suicide Squeeze):
The hard rockers’ fourth studio effort is described as “explor[ing] the duality of light and dark—menacing riffs provide the bedrock to beguiling melodies; dense walls of shoegaze guitars pair with lighter-than-air synths; and heavy subject matter is delivered by siren song vocals. Across their work, the listener gets a sense of empowerment at one turn, vulnerability the next.”

Buzzcocks, Attitude Adjustment (Cherry Red):
The punk stalwarts’ 11th studio album is described by vocalist Steve Diggle as “punk rock with a Motown vibe!.”

Kula Shaker, Wormslayer (Strange F.O.L.K.):
According to a press release, the UK rockers’ eighth studio effort “brims with adventure, embraces epic, cinematic atmospherics, and is electrified with the irrepressible rush of their renowned live experience.

MØL, DREAMCRUSH (Nuclear Blast):
The Danish blackgaze band’s third album, according to their bio, is “ a tapestry of emotions, stitched together with threads of experiences that criss-cross over time and place.”

January 30, 2026 Releases:

Softcult, When A Flower Doesn’t Grow (Easy Life)
Cast, Yeah Yeah Yeah (Scruff Of The Neck)
Francis Rossi (of Status Quo), The Accidental (earMusic)
Banisher, Metamorphosis (Selfmadegod Records)
Course Of Fate, Behind The Eclipse (ROAR)
D.A.M., Inside The Wreckage (Dissonance)
Eximperitus, Meritoriousness of Equanimity (Willowtip)
Hällas, Panorama (Aventyr Records)
Indica Blues, Universal Death Heat (Majestic Mountain)
Invictus, Nocturnal Visions (Memento Mori)
Lone Wanderer, Exequiae (High Roller)
Lord Elephant, Ultra Soul (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Malignant Aura, Where All Of Worth Comes To Wither (Memento Mori)
McAuley Schenker Group, Bad Boys: The McAuley Schenker Group Story 1987-1992 (HNE)
Old Sorcery, The Outsider (Avantgarde Music)
Rave In Fire, Square One (High Roller)
Roth, Alles Endet (Massacre)
Shields, Death & Connection (Long Branch)
Shine, Wrathcult (Dark Descent)
Skulld, Abyss Calls To Abyss (Time To Kill)
Stabbing, Eon Of Obscenity (Century Media)
Summer Of Hate, Blood & Honey (Tee Pee)
Sweatmaster, More! (Svart)
Therion, Con Orquesta (Napalm)
Urne, Setting Fire To The Sky (Spinefarm)
Wolfenstein, Death Brigade (CDN)
Fortress, Death Is Your Master (High Roller)
Wicked Leather, Season of the Witch (Lost Realm)
Hellmaze, Dead Flesh Rising (Independent)
Sidious, Malefic Necropolis (Immortal Frost)
Gorrch, Stillamentum (Avantgarde Music)
Axe Victims, Hypnotized (High Roller)
TarLung, Axis Mundi (Argonauta)
Teutonic Slaughter, Cheap Food (Iron Shield)
Sagenbringer, Zwischen den Welten (SPV GmbH
Supplices, De l’Infâme et du Trépas (Chapitre XIII)
Deathmarch, Violent Retaliation (Independent)
Profane Elegy, Herezjarcha (Independent)
Swarmhole, Visceral Void (Independent)
Gavran, The One Who Propels (Independent)

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