March 14, 2025
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Amongst the many outstanding works hitting shelves this week are highly-anticipated albums from the likes of Coheed and Cambria, Dorothy, Nightstalker, Giovannie and The Hired Guns and Warbringer. Don’t forget to check out our weekly playlist below. Enjoy!
March 14, 2025 Release Highlights:
Coheed and Cambria, The Father Of Make Believe (Virgin):
The third act in the five-part Vaxis arc of the Armory Wars story, frontman Claudio Sanchez said of it’s writing, “this one is very much about the midlife questions that one poses to themselves when they get here.”
Dorothy, The Way (Roc Nation):
According to frontwoman Dorothy Martin, the hard rockers’ fourth full length was written as “a love letter to the fans. I’m letting them know everything is going to be okay, and we’ll help each other find the way — even if we get lost at times.” Single “Tombstone Town” is also a catchy, country-tinged rocker of a track that has been getting a lot of airplay.
Nightstalker, Return From The Point Of No Return (Heavy Psych Sounds):
The Greek stoner rockers’ Bandcamp says of their seventh studio album, “From moments of crushing intensity driven by the band’s muscular rock’n’roll pulse to slow-burning atmospheric tension, each song takes you on a journey through the darker side of life, telling a story that’s as much about pushing boundaries as it is about confronting the void.”
Giovannie and The Hired Guns, Quitter (Warner Music Nashville):
According to Broadway World, the band’s fifth studio effort “pushes the boundaries with even more intensity, matching its explosive riffs and unforgettable hooks with the band’s most brutally honest songwriting to date.”
Warbringer, Wrath and Ruin (Napalm):
The thrash metal band’s seventh studio album is said to feature eight “explosive rippers lyrically focused on inspiring listeners to recognize strength in numbers and actualize their class power.”
March 14, 2025 Releases:
Bambara, Birthmarks (Wharf Cat)
Museum of Light, Diviner (Spartan)
NITE, Cult of the Serpent Sun (Season Of Mist)
RWAKE, The Return Of Magik (Relapse)
Slow Readers Club, Out of a Dream (Independent)
SOM, Let the Light In (Pelagic)
Ade, Supplicium (Time To Kill)
Dead Rabbitts, Redefined (Judge & Jury)
An Evening With Knives, End Of Time (Argonauta)
Intensive Care + The Body, Was I Good Enough? (Closed Casket)
Ricky Warwick, Blood Ties (Earache)
Sanhedrin, Heat Lightning (Metal Blade)
Steven Wilson, The Overview (Fiction)
Streetlight, Night Vision (Frontiers)
Temperance, From Hermitage To Europe (Napalm)
Tiktaalika, Gods Of Pangaea (InsideOut)
Trold, I Skovens Rige (Mighty)
Wombbath, Beyond The Abyss (Pulverised)
Ciconia, Synaesthetic Garbage (Art Gates)
Storm Seeker, Set the Sails (NoCut Entertainment)
Kerberos, Apostle to the Malevolent (Independent)
Black & Damned, Resurrection (Roar / Rock of Angels)
Vallorch, The Circle (Rockshots)
Purified in Blood, Primal Pulse Thunder (Indie Recordings)
Genocidal Rites, Genocidal Upheaval of Subservient Abrahamic Law (Hells Headbangers)
Helvitnir, Wolves of the Underworld (Dusktone)
Dessiderium, Keys to the Palace (Willowtip)
Nomadic Rituals, Fust (Cursed Monk)
Depraver, Necrocryptic Obliteration (Independent)
Vokodlok, The Egregious Being (Independent)
Soulspell, Spirits of Ghosts (Independent)
Déhà, Nethermost & Absolute Comfort (Independent)
Hagalaz, Rise Again (Wolfmond Production)
Fange, Purulences (Independent)
Alzhagoth, Ad Finem (Inertial Music)
Dark Horizon, 9 Ways to Salvation (Underground Symphony)
Curse of Khatru, Curse of Khatru (F.D.A.)
When Reasons Collapse, Men Will Be the End of Men (Independent)
Deathox, Hallucinations (Independent)
Godslave, Champions (Metalville)
Ormagoden, Purphoros (Independent)
Thinning the Herd, Cull (Independent)
Anomos, Triumvirate (Independent)
Svorght, Evig (Independent)
Dun Ringill, 150 – Where the Old Gods Play – Act 2 (The Sign)
