New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week’s list finds us looking forward to albums from Cannibal Corpse, Chaver, My Lament, Teenage Fanclub, Winterstorm, Wormhole, and Wolves At The Gate, among others. Don’t forget to check out our weekly playlist below and look at our latest Metal By Numbers to see how previous releases debuted in charts. Enjoy!
Cannibal Corpse, Chaos Horrific (Metal Blade)
Cannibal Corpse continues to dominate the death metal scene with their 16th studio album.
Chaver, Of Gloom (BDHW)
The German black/death metal band that received some attention recently for having the same album cover as the Doja Cat releases the album with the infamous cover. It’s the band’s third studio effort.
My Lament, The Season Came Undone (Ardua Music)
It’s been 14 years since Belgian doom/death metal band My Lament released their debut full-length album and eight since their last EP. With The Season Came Undone, the band looks to “reach a wider audience without giving up their doom/death heritage.”
Winterstorm, Everfrost (AFM Records)
The German folk metal/power metal band release their fifth studio album, which their label describes as being full of “earworm-heavy choruses and many polyphonic vocals.”
Wormhole, Almost Human (Season of Mist)
The proprietors of “tech slam” return with a new album playfully described by their label as “bigger, darker, and in this case, covered in much more pixelated space horror viscera.”
Teenage Fanclub, Nothing Lasts Forever (Merge)
The alt-rock band’s 12th studio effort is already getting high praise from critics, with Exclaim! calling it darker and more introverted than their previous works with harmonies that are still “soar sky high.”
Wolves At The Gate, Lost In Translation (Solid State)
Wolves At The Gate put their metallic spin on songs from a diverse set of artists that include Linkin Park, Billie Eilish, Twenty-One Pilots, Jimmy Eat World, Foo Fighters, Muse, and more.
Thy Art Is Murder, Godlike (Human Warfare)
3Teeth, EndEx (Century Media)
Bonfire, Fireworks (MMXXIII Version) (AFM)
Bruce Soord, Luminescence (Kscope)
Dayshell, Pegasus (Self)
Final Gasp, Mourning Moon (Relapse)
Freya, Fight As One (Upstate)
Heart Of A Coward, This Place Only Brings Death (Arising Empire)
Hexvessel, Polar Veil (Svart)
KEN Mode, Void (Artoffact)
Reckless, Sharp Magick Steel (Dying Victims)
Traindodge, The Alley Parade (Spartan)
Values Here, Take Your Time, I’ll Be Waiting (End Hits)
Necrotted, Imperium (Independent)
Deadspace, Unveiling the Palest Truth (Immortal Frost Productions)
Profanatica, Crux Simplex (Season of Mist Underground Activists)
Subsignal, A Poetry of Rain (Gentle Art of Music)
Farscape, Purged and Forgotten (Dying Victims Productions)
Kings Rot, At the Gates of Adversarial Darkness (Hypnotic Dirge Records)
Vengeance, Sewer Surge (Dying Victims Productions)
Apostolica, Animae Haeretica (Scarlet Records)
Acid Mass, Agonizer (Morbid and Miserable Records)
Noctomb, Noctomb (Independent)
Rebaelliun, Under the Sign of Rebellion (Agonia Records)
Torture Squad, Devilish (Time to Kill Records)
Mercenary, Soundtrack for the End Times (NoiseArt Records)
Kerrigan, Bloodmoon (High Roller Records)
Bulletbelt, Burn It Up (Impaler Records)
Tyranex, Reasons for the Slaughter (GMR Music Group)
Suffer Yourself, Axis of Tortures (Independent)
Son ov Leviathan, Lvcifugium (Independent)
By Fire & Sword, Glory (No Remorse Records)
Grim Ravine, Upon the Darkest Shores (Cursed Monk Records)
Bekor Qilish, The Flesh of a New God (I, Voidhanger Records) 02.-[
Anima Hereticae, Descended from the Mountains (Independent)
The Moth, Frost (Exile on Mainstream Records)
Death Dealer Union, Initiation (Napalm Records)
Destabilizer, Violence Is the Answer! (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions)
Octavus Lupus, Octavus Lupus (M & O Music)
Dying Embers, Of Things to Come (Independent)
Starlit Melancholy, To Wilt Beneath the Stars (Independent)
Brainscanner, Slow Evolution (Independent)
Gøren, Summon (The Swamp Records)
Abominated, Traumatic Putrefaction (Godz ov War Productions)
Melan Selas, Zephyrean Hymns (The Circle Music)