New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week marks the return of Dokken and The Gaslight Anthem, as well as big releases from the likes of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Poppy, Doro, In This Moment, Taking Back Sunday and more. Don’t forget to check out our weekly playlist below. Enjoy!
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, The Silver Cord (KGLW): The “more electric-leaning” companion album to June’s PetroDragonic Apocalypse.
Poppy, Zig (Sumerian): The dark pop artist’s fifth studio effort.
Dokken, Heaven Comes Down (Silver Lining Music): The veteran metal band releases their first new album in 11 years.
Doro, Conqueress Forever Strong & Proud (Nuclear Blast): The “Metal Queen” shows no signs of slowing down with the release of her 14th studio effort.
In This Moment, Godmode (BMG): Mostly written during the pandemic, the band’s eighth studio album is filled with “angst and intensity.”
The Gaslight Anthem, History Books (Rich Mahogany): The Americana punks return after a long hiatus with their sixth album.
Taking Back Sunday, 152 (Fantasy): The pop-punk rockers release their first album of new music in seven years and is being called a great bridge from their past to their future.
Mark Tremonti , Christmas Classics New & Old (Independent)
Wargasm, Venom (Republic)
Mass Hysteria, Tenace – Part 2
VRSTY, Levitate (Spinefarm)
Year of the Knife, No Love Lost
Aegrus, Invoking The Abysmal Night (Osmose)
Autopsy, Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts (Peaceville)
Broder, Skarpretterfossilet (Extremely Rotten)
Cemetery Urn, Suffer The Fallen (Hells Headbangers)
CoreLeoni, Alive (Metalville)
Crime In Stereo, House & Trance (Pure Noise)
Ecocide, Metamorphosis (Memento Mori)
Efraah Enhsikaah, One Thousand Vultures Waiting To Be Fed (Osmose)
Elm Street, The Great Tribulation (Massacre)
End, The Sin Of Human Frailty (Closed Casket)
Endseeker, Global Worming (Metal Blade)
Eternal Evil, The Gates Beyond Mortality (Listenable)
Gravesend, Gowanus Death Stomp (20 Buck Spin)
Hollow Front, The Fear Of Letting Go (UNFD)
Howling Giant, Glass Future (Magnetic Eye)
Immortal Guardian, Unite And Conquer (M-Theory)
King Falcon, King Falcon (Mascot)
Magnolia Park, Halloween Mixtape II (Epitaph)
Martyrdoom, As Torment Prevails (Memento Mori)
Mouth For War, Bleed Yourself (MNRK Heavy)
Of Virtue, Omen (Arising Empire)
Omission, Disciples Of Ravens Vengeance (Xtreem)
One Of Nine, Eternal Sorcery (Argento)
Pattern-Seeking Animals, Spooky Action At A Distance (InsideOut)
Paws, Paws (Self)
Ragana, Desolation’s Flower (The Flenser)
Robin Trower, Joyful Sky (Provogue)
Serenity, Nemesis AD (Napalm)
Sorcerer, Reign Of The Reaper (Metal Blade)
Throat, We Must Leave You (Svart)
Tortuga, Iterations (Napalm)
Wayfarer, American Gothic (Profound Lore)
Witching, Incendium (Translation Loss)
Lightlorn, At One with the Night Sky (Black Lion Records)
Ramage Inc., Humanity Has Failed (Layered Reality Productions)
Sepulchral Curse, Abhorrent Dimensions (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Ghosts of Atlantis, Riddles of the Sycophants (Hammerheart Records)
Sky Empire, The Shifting Tectonic Plates of Power – Part One (ViciSolum Productions)
Berzerker Legion, Chaos Will Reign (Listenable Records)
Howling Giant, Glass Future (Magnetic Eye Records)
Nebelkrähe, Ephemer (Crawling Chaos)
Generation Steel, Lionheart (El Puerto Records)
Malokarpatan, Vertumnus Caesar (Hells Headbangers Records)
Neck Cemetery, Bring Us the Head (Reaper Entertainment)
Cardinals Folly, Live by the Sword (Soulseller Records)
Impalement, The Dawn of Blackened Death (Independent)
Icarus Witch, No Devil Lived On (Cleopatra Records)
Kituma, Sin Nomine (Independent)
Bacterial Husk, Anthropogenic Ruin (Independent)
Lowest Creature, Witch Supreme (Independent)
Crowdead, Tearing Your Soul Apart (Independent)
Mangled Carpenter, Salvation Syndrome (Rottweiler Records)
Dead Serenity, When Worlds Turn to Gray (Inverse Records)
Legendry, Time Immortal Wept (No Remorse Records)
Raining Nails, Human Deeds (Rockshots Records)
La Mer, Tetrahedra (Godz ov War Productions)
Freakshow, So Shall It Be (Eönian Records)
Offended, Dreamworld (Independent)
Krâel, Vanitas Vitae (Naturmacht Productions)
