September 20, 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 albums include new works from Nightwish, The Voidz, Seether, The Black Pacific and Unto Others, debuts from Vended, Fight Dice and The Calamatix, and a tribute album for veteran punk rocker Jesse Malin among the many, many outstanding ones hitting shelves. Don’t forget to check out our weekly playlist below. Enjoy!
September 20, 2024 Release Highlights:
Nightwish, Yesterwynde (Nuclear Blast):
The Finnish symphonic metal band releases its 10th studio effort, which the band called “a fantastical voyage through time, memory, and the better angels of human nature.” Reviews have been extremely positive so far.
The Voidz, Like All Before You (Cult):
Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas’ experimental rock project releases its politically-inspired third studio album, their first since 2018. (Digital release, vinyl and CD are set to hit shelves 10/18)
Jesse Malin/Various Artists, Silver Patron Saints (Glassnote):
Following Malin’s spinal stroke in 2023 that left him paralyzed from the waist down, the rocker’s famous friends have been finding ways to help fund his recovery. The latest is a covers album that features the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello, The Replacements’ Tommy Stinson and late MC5 frontman Wayne Kramer (among others) putting their spin on some of Malin’s best-known tunes. Proceeds go to the Sweet Relief fund.
The Black Pacific, Here Comes Our Wave (Dine Alone):
Fronted by Pennywise’s Jim Lindberg, the punk rockers release their sophomore album nearly 14 years after their debut.
The Calamatix, The Calamatix (Epitaph):
Mixing Jamaican rocksteady, ska and punk, the band’s deeply personal debut album got some extra writing help from Rancid’s Tim Armstrong.
Fight Dice, Total Party Kill (Forge Again):
The heavy post-punk band featuring members of Braid, Hey Mercedes, The Promise Ring, Celishrine and Tigernite releases its debut album of Dungeons & Dragons-themed tracks.
Seether, The Surface Seems So Far (Fantasy):
The rock band releases its ninth studio effort, on which the band is described as sounding “alternately confident and confessional, full of vitriol and vulnerability.” Single “Judas Mind” has already been helping the band break records, becoming their fourth song in a row to hit number one on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart and tenth overall.
Unto Others, Never, Neverland (Century Media):
The metal band’s third studio effort is described on their Bandcamp as “the sound of harsh light breaking through the Portland quartet’s darkened gothic and classic metal motifs.”
Vended, Vended (Independent):
The nu-metal band, featuring the sons of Slipknot’s Corey Taylor and Shawn Crahan, releases its self-titled debut album.
September 20, 2024 Releases:
Afterimage, Faces to Hide (Independent Project)
Void of Vision, What I’ll Leave Behind (UNFD)
Wings Denied, Just the Basics (Independent)
Sunset Rubdown, Always Happy to Explode (Pronounced Kroog)
Hippo Campus, Flood (Psychic Hotline)
Honeyglaze, Real Deal (Fat Possum)
Luna Sol, Vita Mors (Ripple Music)
Regional Justice Center, Freedom, Sweet Freedom (Closed Casket Activities)
Circus Trees, This makes me sad, and I miss you (Five By Two)
Defiled, Horror Beyond Horror (Season Of Mist)
Dreamless Veil, Every Limb of the Flood (Relapse)
Thurston Moore, Flow Critical Lucidity (Daydream Library Series)
Blossoms, Gary (ODD SK Recordings)
Bright Eyes, Five Dice, All Threes (Dead Oceans)
FIDLAR, Surviving The Dream (Independent)
Jamie xx, In Waves (Young)
Kate Pierson, Radios And Rainbows (SVR)
Neon Trees, Sink Your Teeth (Round Hill)
Charlotte Wessels, The Obsession (Napalm)
Eclipse, Megalomanium II (Frontiers)
Giant Walker, Silhouettes (Church Road)
Glacial Tomb, Lightless Expanse (Prosthetic)
Kanonenfieber, Die Urkatastrophe (Century Media)
Kat Von D, My Side Of The Mountain (Independent)
Kublai Khan TX, Exhibition Of Prowess (Rise)
The Last Gang, Obscene Daydreams (Fat Wreck Chords)
Mork, Syv (Peaceville)
Sweet, Full Circle (Metalville)
Vision Divine, Blood And Angels’ Tears (Scarlet)
Even Flow, Rinascimento (Independent)
Deadspeak, Plagues of Sulfur Bound (Raw Skull Recordz)
Avernus, Grievances (M-Theory Audio)
Crimson Sun, Sorrowbreaker (Independent)
Demon Head, Through Holes Shine the Stars (Svart)
Alunah, Fever Dream (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Typhonian, The Gate of the Veiled Beyond (Transcending Obscurity)
Perpetual Legacy, Teodrama (Enhakkore)
Frostbite, Relentless Grief (Black Lion)
Groza, Nadir (AOP)
Servant, Death Devil Magick (AOP)
Krilloan, Return of the Heralds (Scarlet)|
Invocation, “The Archaic Sanctuary” (Ritual Body Postures) (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Outer Graves, Terminal Limit (Independent)
Dust Lord, Teethcutter (Independent)
Blighted Eye, Agony’s Bespoke (Beyond the Top)
Coffin Rot, Dreams of the Disturbed (Maggot Stomp)
Ævangelist, Perdition Ekstasis Meta (I, Voidhanger)
Thorium, The Bastard (Emanzipation Productions)
Dungeon Crawl, Maze Controller (Carbonized)
Neptune, End of Time (Pride & Joy Music)
Flashback of Anger, Prisoner of War (Independent)
Deathless Void, The Voluptuous Fire of Sin (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Anotherside, Irreversible (Cemetery Profanation)
Hematoid, Liminal Atrophy (Iron Fortress)
Eva Can’t, Emisferi (My Kingdom Music)
Ashed Winter, Papa Legba (Independent)
