June 13, 2025
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week’s new music includes albums from the likes of Buckcherry, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Fallujah, Murder By Death and Byzantine, as well as a one-of-a-kind live album from Queens Of The Stone Age, among the many outstanding works hitting shelves. Don’t forget to check out our weekly playlist below. Enjoy!
June 13, 2025 Release Highlights:
Buckcherry, Roar Like Thunder (Round Hill):
The hard-rockers release their 11th studio effort is described by Myglobalmind as an “electrifying, pedal-to-the-metal thrill ride that captures the band’s raw energy and primal spirit.”
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Phantom Island ((P)Doom):
The prolific Australian rockers’ 27th studio album, written alongside their previous release, was inspired by their 2023 concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and leans more orchestral.
Fallujah, Xenotaph (Nuclear Blast):
The tech-metal band’s latest album is filled with “intense, detailed and dynamic” tracks, with guitarist Scott Carstairs saying “We spent many hours trying out different arrangements and had a goal from the beginning to keep the song structures fast-paced and dense with tons of different parts in each song. We also tried to push the music in a simultaneously more melodic and more technical/progressive direction—even crazier riffs and solos balanced out by atmospheric moments and more prominent clean vocal hooks.”
Murder By Death, Egg & Dart (Self-Released):
The indie-rockers release their 10th and final studio album. Frontman Adam Turla called the work “an elegy,” saying “the songs are about goodbyes and the different ways we think about that concept.”
Queens of the Stone Age, Alive in the Catacombs (Matador):
Recorded in the Paris Catacombs in July 2024, the band’s latest live album and concert film documents the first time a musician has been granted permission by the city to perform there.
Byzantine, Harbingers (Metal Blade):
The heavy metal band’s seventh studio effort is constructed of “deep lyrical wisdom alongside equally hefty riffs delivered seamlessly by one of the most commanding and unsung lineups to emerge from the New Wave Of American Heavy Metal movement of the early 2000s.”
June 13, 2025 Releases:
Steve Queralt (of Ride), Swallow (Sonic Cathedral)
Goya, In the Dawn of November (Blues Funeral)
The Bug Club, Very Human Features (Sub Pop)
Avkrvst, Waving At The Sky (InsideOut)
Fairyland, The Story Remains (Frontiers)
Hexvessel, Nocturne (Prophecy)
Insania, The Great Apocalpyse (Frontiers)
Iron Mind, Test Of The Iron Mind (Flatspot)
Malvada, Malvada (Frontiers)
Sigh, I Saw The World’s End (Hangman’s Hymn MMXXV) (Peaceville)
Motorjesus, Streets of Fire (Reaper)
Nightbearer, Defiance (Testimony)
Evadne, The Fragile Light of Fireflies (Meuse Music)
Memories of a Lost Soul, Songs from the Restless Oblivion (My Kingdom)
Dark Matter Secret, New Matter (The Artisan Era)
Leafblower, Burn Cruise (Max Trax)
Sargassus, Vitruvian Rays (Inverse)
The Risen Dread, Death from Above (Time to Kill)
Skyborne Reveries, Skyborne Reveries (Naturmacht)
Lipoma, No Cure for the Sick (Gurgling Gore)
Daggr, Torn Veil of Existence (Independent)
Outergods, Dethroned & Devoured (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)
Professor Emeritus, A Land Long Gone (No Remorse)
Lights of Vimana, Neopolis (Dusktone)
Fabula Rasa, Tome II: The Beyond (Independent)
Blind Watchmaker, Shadows over Elysium (Independent)
Saxon, Eagles over Hellfest (Silver Lining)
Karçaz, Estrela Pálida do Silêncio Mórbido (Independent)
Ichabod Crane, Renaissance (Independent)
Hammer Strike, Sic Semper Tyrannis (Independent)
Finita, Children of the Abyss (Independent)
Sadistic Impalement, Screams of the Abyss (Sounds from Hell)
Under the Ashes, Sacrifices Heaped (Independent)
