August 2nd, 2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This first week of August will see new works from the likes of The Smashing Pumpkins, X, and Jack White, as well as Blind Guardian’s reworking of their classic major label debut and Anberlin’s first full-length in 10 years among the many, many albums look forward to. Don’t forget to check out our weekly playlist below. Enjoy!
August 2, 2024 Release Highlights:
The Smashing Pumpkins, Aghori Mhori Mei (Martha’s Music/Thirty Tigers):
More than two years in the making, the band’s 13th studio effort is billed as a “rock, guitar record” that old-school fans are sure to enjoy.
X, Smoke & Fiction (Fat Possum)
The veteran punk band releases its ninth and final studio album, which the group described as “a reflection ‘on the early history of X, their life in Hollywood, and the events unfolding in the world during those formative years.”
Jack White, No Name (Third Man):
Having secretly distributed test pressings of it at Third Man stores last week, the White Stripes/Raconteurs frontman officially drops his sixth studio album.
Anberlin, Vega (Equal Vision):
The band releases their eighth studio album, their first “proper release” since frontman Stephen Christian announced his departure from touring and the addition of Matty Mullins (Memphis May Fire) in his stead. The tracks, most of which were included on the band’s 2022 and 2023 EPs, are described as “deliberately free-flowing and represent the ever-evolving and diverse nature of Anberlin; with a handful of much heavier tracks, a dabble into industrial exploration, as well as the quintessential mellow vibes Anberlin fans have come to love over the band’s expansive career.”
Blind Guardian, Somewhere Far Beyond Revisited (Nuclear Blast):
The seminal German heavy metal band gives new life to their 1992 major label debut with this updated re-recording.
August 2, 2024 Releases:
Blood, Loving You Backwards (Ramp Local)
Brigitte Calls Me Baby, Future Is Our Way (ATO)
ZEBEDEE, Going Nowhere Fast (Independent)
Los Lonely Boys, Resurrection (BMG)
Asenblut, Entfesselt (Massacre)
Mister Misery, Mister Misery (AFM)
Shadow Knell, Shadow Knell (Relapse)
Carnophage, Matter of a Darker Nature (Transcending Obscurity)
Solemn Ceremony, Chapter III (Independent)
Mourners Lament, A Grey Farewell (Personal)
Acid Mass, Worship (Morbid and Miserable)
Barbarian Hermit, Mean Sugar (APF)
Manic Abraxas, Skinformation (Independent)
Har, Cursed Creation (Dark Descent)
Blacklist, With Murderous Intent (Independent)
Brainsore, The Grip of the Naked Mind (Time to Kill)
Svartelder, Trenches (Soulseller)
Ink & Fire, Emblazoned Visions Yield Eternity (Death Prayer)
Sulfuris, Corpus // Animus (Inverse)
Symbiotic Tomorrow, The Final Call (Independent)
The Mantle, Violent Cosmic Fortune (Independent)
Private Prisons, Excommunication (Independent)
Rise of Kronos, Where the Gods Return (Independent)
Kaltesblut, Noctuary (Independent)
