New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. To Start off 2025, this week sees new music from the likes of Megafauna and Patriarkh among the outstanding works hitting shelves. Don’t forget to check out our weekly playlist below. Enjoy!
January 3, 2025 Release Highlights:
Megafauna, I Owe This Land A Body (Syrup Moose):
According to their Bandcamp, the experimental, dark ambient rockers’ latest album is “about how dying is the last decent thing we can do.”
Patriarkh, ПРОРОК ИЛИЯ (Prophet Ilja) (Napalm):
Following years of court drama, Bartek Krysiuk’s version of Batushka is releasing its first album under the name Patriarkh. Through Polish folk instruments and the use of symphonic orchestras and choirs, the Polish black metal band tells the true story of Eliasz Klimowicz, leader of the Orthodox Grzybowska Sect from the 1930s to 1960s.
January 3, 2025 Releases:
Lord Agheros, Anhedonia (My Kingdom)
Mutagenic Host, The Diseased Machine (Memento Mori)
Fermentor, Release Me (Independent)
Bloodbark, Sacred Sound of Solitude (Northern Silence Productions)
Agony by Default, Of Darkness and Solitude (Independent)
Acid Cross, Under Dark (Independent)
Delusions of Reality, The War Without (Independent)
