August 23, 2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week’s roster of new albums includes works from the likes of Miss May I, ENDON, Fleshgod Apocalypse, NILE, Stand Atlantic and solo debuts from ex-Smashing Pumpkins’ Jeff Schroeder and Epica’s Simone Simons, among the many, many outstanding works hitting shelves. Don’t forget to check out our weekly playlist below. Enjoy!
August 23, 2024 Release Highlights:
Miss May I, Apologies Are for the Weak (Re-Recorded 15th Anniversary Edition) (Solid State):
For the it’s 15th anniversary, the Ohio metalcore band have re-recorded their breakthrough album with the help of some of their peers.
Jeff Schroeder, Metanoia (Clerestory AV):
The former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist releases his debut solo album. According to a social media post, the work is “72 minutes of meditative guitar work in the spirit of ambient pioneers Fripp & Eno.”
ENDON, Fall of Spring (Thrill Jockey):
With lyrics predominantly in English for the first time, the Japanese metal band’s latest album “is as much a dense, innovative onslaught as it is a work of musical and cultural resistance to the “Made in Occupied Japan” hegemony that dominates much of the art around them.”
Fleshgod Apocalypse, Opera (Nuclear Blast):
Inspired by frontman Francesco Paoli’s near fatal mountain climbing accident, the Italian black metal band’s sixth album hits on both the extreme and theatrical angles of their sound.
NILE, The Underworld Awaits Us All (Napalm):
The veteran metal band releases its 10th studio effort, which their bio describes as “boasting airtight technicality and unrelenting brutality” that “pushes each member of NILE to their furthest extremes both in artistry and performance.”
Simone Simons, Vermillion (Nuclear Blast):
The Epica frontwoman releases her debut solo album, pulling from an eclectic array of influences, ranging from “prog rock to film scores to metal to electronic elements.”
Stand Atlantic, Was Here (Hopeless):
The Australian pop-punk band “weaves elements from alternative rock, metal, hardcore punk, and hip-hop into their signature pop-punk sound” on what is described as their most vulnerable albums to date.
August 23, 2024 Releases:
Uniform, American Standard (Sacred Bones)
Spectral Wound, Songs Of Blood and Mire (Profound Lore)
Generation of Vipers, Guilt Shrine (Translation Loss)
The Georgia Thunderbolts, Rise Above It All (Mascot)
illuminati hotties, POWER (Hopeless)
Little Hag, Now That’s What I Call Little Hag (Bar/None)
Nervous Eaters, Rock n Roll Your Heart Away (Wicked Cool)
Closebye, Hammer of My Own (Closebye Music)
Fake Fruit, Mucho Mistrust (Carpark)
Fontaines D.C., Romance (XL)
Gift, Illuminator (Captured Tracks)
Spirit of the Beehive, You’ll Have to Lose Something (Saddle Creek)
Atlas Genius, End of the Tunnel (Frogs Head/The Orchard)
Benny Trokan (of Spoon), Do You Still Think of Me (Daptone)
Delving, All Paths Diverge (Blues Funeral)
All For Metal, Gods Of Metal (Reigning Phoenix)
Demiser, Slave To The Scythe (Blacklight)
Gravenoire, Devant La Porte Des Etoiles (Season Of Mist)
Kingcrow, Hopium (Season Of Mist)
Koldbrann, Ingen Skansel (Dark Essence)
My Fictions, Touch Of Glass (1126)
Paralydium, Universe Calls (Frontiers)
Rising Insane, Wildfires (Long Branch)
Zeal & Ardor, Greif (Independent)
Furnace, Trojan Hearse (Obelisk Polaris Productions)
Endless Chain, Agony (Independent)
Har, Cursed Creation (Dark Descent)
Fostermother, Echo Manor (Ripple Music)
Buryfication, Gallows Rise (Kvlt und Kaos Productions)
Within the Ruins, Phenomena II (MNRK Heavy)
Carmeria, Tragédie d’amour (Independent)
Deadscape, State of Decline (Miracle of Bravery)
Dawn Treader, Bloom & Decay (Liminal Dread Productions)
