New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Among this week’s new albums are the returns of Gossip and Brodequin, as well as highly-anticipated works from Elbow, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Snuff, The Veronicas, Boris & Coaltar of the Deepers and many, many more. Don’t forget to check out our weekly playlist below. Enjoy!
Elbow, Audio Vertigo (Polydor): Critics are calling the UK rock band’s 10th studio effort one of their best in years. According to the band’s frontman, the album was “built from “gnarly, seedy grooves created by us playing together in ‘garagey rooms’ ” and is both more direct and sonically varied by purpose than its predecessor.”
Gossip, Real Power (Columbia): The indie rockers return with their first album in 11 years. The album finds the band reuniting with producer Rick Ruben, who helmed their 2009 breakthrough.
The Jesus and Mary Chain, Glasgow Eyes (Fuzz Club): The Scottish alt-rockers return with their eighth studio effort, imparting the same “no rules” approach to writing and recording that made them an influential force since the 1980s.
Boris & Coaltar of the Deepers, hello there (Dog Knights): Two of Japan’s heaviest rockers cover each other on this collaborative album.
Brodequin, Harbinger of Woe (Season Of Mist): The Tennessee-based death metal band release their fourth studio album, their first full-length in nearly two decades.
Snuff, Off On The Charabanc (Sbam): The 80s UK punks return with a half-electric/half-acoustic set that frontman Duncan Redmonds calls a “journey,” saying “The first half is a party, a celebration of life’s good times. But then, as the record progresses, the mood changes. It’s about facing up to the inevitable, about looking death in the eye.”
The Veronicas, Gothic Summer (Big Noise): The pop-punk Australian sister duo release their sixth studio album, which is produced by Goldfinger frontman John Feldmann and aims to shine “a light on the truth beneath pop music’s shimmering surface.”
Hammer King, König und Kaiser (Napalm)
Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol, Big Dumb Riffs (Independent)
Velcros, Strange News From the Vault (Crazysane)
Apparition, Disgraced Emanations From A Tranquil State (Profound Lore)
Avralize, Freaks (Arising Empire)
Civerous, Maze Envy (20 Buck Spin)
Cruzh, The Jungle Revolution (Frontiers)
Fall Of Serenity, Open Wide, O Hell (Lifeforce)
Ghostkid, Hollywood Suicide (Century Media)
Hamferð, Men Guðs hond er sterk (Metal Blade)
Keygen Church, Nel Nome Del Codice (Metal Blade)
Leaves Eyes, Myths Of Fate (AFM)
Mastiff, Deprecipice (MNRK Heavy)
Moon Incarnate, Hymns To The Moon (Iron Bonehead)
Thor, Ride Of The Iron Horse (Cleopatra)
Thornbridge, Daydream Illusion (Massacre)
Zombi, Direct Inject (Relapse)
Alestorm, Voyage of the Dead Marauder EP (Napalm)
The Gaslight Anthem, History Books – Short Stories EP (Rich Mahogony)
The Wizards, The Exit Garden (High Roller Records)
Furor Gallico, Future to Come (Scarlet Records)
Dödsrit, Nocturnal Will (Wolves of Hades)
Deception, Daenacteh (Mighty Music)
Hideous Divinity, Unextinct (Century Media)
Hashtronaut, No Return (Blues Funeral Recordings)
Horresque, Chasms Pt. II – The Devouring Exorbitance (Supreme Chaos Records)
Daevar, Amber Eyes (TLD Records)
Khold, Du dømmes til død (Soulseller Records)
Inner Sanctum, The Great Odd Ones (Independent)
Iota, Pentasomnia (Small Stone Recordings)
Funeral Oration, Antropomorte (Avantgarde Music)
Altar of Betelgeuze, Echoes (Independent)
The Lightbringer, Seven Thrones (Independent)
Critical Defiance, The Search Won’t Fall... (Unspeakable Axe Records)
Aberration, Refracture (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
Unshine, Karn of Burnings (Rockshots Records)
Inner Axis, Midnight Forces (Fastball Music)
Bodyfarm, Malicious Ecstasy (Edged Circle Productions)
Adventus, Lo que trajo el viento (Maldito Records)
Atrexial, The Serpent Abomination (Non Serviam Records)
Thvn, Zgnij (Independent)
Sonic Wolves, III (Argonauta Records)
Mysteria Mortis, From Fall to Rise (Soundage Productions)
Fractures in the Sky, Monolith of Avarice (Independent)
Ataraxia, Torments of Reality (Independent)
Exodikon, Chaosophilia (Independent)
Slave Agent, Silent Universe (Independent)
Innocence Lost, Oblivion (Independent)
Mudshow, Destiny (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions)
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