January 31, 2025
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. In this final week of January, we will see new albums from the likes of All That Remains, L.S. Dunes, The Hellacopters, Pentagram and The Night Flight Orchestra among the many outstanding works hitting shelves. Don’t forget to check out our weekly playlist below. Enjoy!
January 31, 2025 Release Highlights:
All That Remains, Antifragile (Independent):
The metalcore band returns with their 10th studio album, their first following the 2018 passing of guitarist/founding member Oli Herbert.
L.S. Dunes, Violet (Fantasy):
The rock supergroup featuring members of Circa Survive, My Chemical Romance, Thursday and Coheed And Cambria return with their second studio effort.
The Hellacopters, Overdriver (Nuclear Blast):
The band celebrates their 30th anniversary with the release of their 9th studio album, which their label describes as “filled to the brim with roaring guitars and earth-shattering grooves, fist-raising energy and anthemic choruses, while keeping the variety richer than ever before.”
Pentagram, Lightning in a Bottle (Heavy Psych Sounds):
With new line-up in tow, the doom metal band releases its first album in nearly 10 years. According to the band’s bandcamp, the album brings “fresh ideas and dynamic to one of doom’s most classic, formative acts.”
The Night Flight Orchestra, Give Us The Moon (Napalm):
The Swedish rockers release their first album following the passing of founding guitarist David Andersson.
January 31, 2025 Releases:
Circa Waves, Death & Love Pt.1 (Lower Third)
Freckle, Freckle (God?/Drag City)
Cut the Kids in Half, What We Became (Independent)
Last Train, III (Mixed Up)
moe., Circle of Giants (Fatboy/ATO)
TheCityIsOurs, Will You Still Love Me? (Arising Empire)
Great American Ghost, Tragedy Of The Commons (SharpTone)
Grief Ritual, Collapse (Church Road)
Jaye Jayle, After Alter (Pelagic)
Kilmara, Journey To The Sun (Rock Of Angels)
Nachash, Eschaton Magicks (Signal Rex)
Naked Whipper, Chapel Defilement (Iron Bonehead)
Pyre, Where Obscurity Sways (Osmose)
Rats Of Gommorrah, Infectious Vermin (Testimony)
Relics Of Humanity, Absolute Dismal Domain (Willowtip)
Selvans, Saturnalia (Avantgarde)
Skaldr, Samsr (Avantgarde)
Tayne, Love (Inside Job/MNRK)
Tyran, Tyran’s Oath (Listenable)
Void Of Hope, Proof Of Existence (Avantgarde)
Zangoma, Faka Mulilo (Svart)
Confess, Destination Addiction (Independent)
Shrieking Demons, The Festering Dwellers (Transcending Obscurity)
Maceration, Serpent Devourment (Emanzipation Productions)
Lunar, Tempora Mutantur (Saibot Reigns)
Black Talon, Scenes of Agony (Independent)
Burn Down Eden, Dismal Epiphany (Seek & Strike)
Revenge, Violation.Strife.Abominate (Season of Mist Underground Activists)
WarWolf, The Final Battle (Metalapolis)
Blackslash, Heroes, Saints & Fools (Iron Shield)
Worlds Beyond, Rhapsody of Life (Independent)
Usquam, Ex Nihilo (Source Atone)
Ande, De schemering van werelden (Naturmacht Productions)
Voidhra, Only Cold Winds Will Carry My Name (Crawling Chaos)
Guts, Nightmare Fuel (Independent)
Ebonheart, Face Our Fear (Independent)
Speedemon, Fall of Man (Independent)
Arraigo, Crioyo (Independent)
Theophonos, Allegheny Rains (Independent)
Sorrow Blue, Elegy for a Bleak Autumn (Independent)
