September 13, 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 new music includes returns from veteran bands The Jesus Lizard, Nick Lowe, Cursive, Nada Surf, Snow Patrol, Flotsam and Jetsam and Stryper, as well as follow-ups from Jade Hairpins and The Funeral Portrait among the many, many outstanding works hitting shelves. Don’t forget to check out our weekly playlist below. Enjoy!
September 13, 2024 Release Highlights:
Cursive, Devourer (Run For Cover):
The band’s 10th studio effort explores the dark side of consumption in all its forms, with the band’s bio saying of the songs, “The characters populating the album have bottomless capacities for consumption, whether it’s resources, material goods, art, or even each other. Then they are consumed by larger forces, whether it’s humanity, Earth, dreams, time, or life itself.”
Nada Surf, Moon Mirror (New West):
Alt-rockers Nada Surf are back with their 10th studio album. According to the band, the songs deal with “love…grief, deep loneliness, doubt, wonder, and hope,” but with an added aire of “hard-won wisdom” and “hard-won belief in possibility.”
Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets, Indoor Safari (Yep Roc):
The new wave icon releases his first full length album in more than a decade, featuring new songs and some reworked favorites.
Snow Patrol, The Forest Is The Path (Polydor):
The alt-rockers release their first full-length album in six years. Written about “the idea of love from the distance of time,” it’s described as “an album rooted in reflection, introspection and interrogation.”
The Jesus Lizard, Rack (Ipecac):
After 26 years, the Chicago punk band returns with a brand new album. Their past discography is only a jumping off point, however, with guitarist Duane Denison telling the New York Times, “There are definitely some references to the past, but it’s more as a point of departure: We don’t stay there.”
Flotsam and Jetsam, I Am the Weapon (AFM):
The veteran thrash metal band returns with their 15th studio album. Continuing to push the limits of their talents, the album is described as having “more surprising moments than ever before. From brutal high-octane tracks like “I Am The Weapon” to the atmospheric but not superfast “Burned My Bridges”, each track on the album is convincing in its own way.”
Jade Hairpins, Get Me the Good Stuff (Merge):
Featuring members of Fucked Up, the band’s sophomore album is described as “an absurdist buffet of sound and aesthetic that comes with one hell of a floorshow.”
Stryper, When We Were Kings (Frontiers):
In addition to celebrating their 40th anniversary this year, the veteran Christian metal band is releasing their 15th studio album. Frontman Michael Sweet describes the LP as having “a heaviness yet at the same time, a very melodic approach and a bit more of a ‘sing-along’ style when it comes to the choruses.”
The Funeral Portrait, Greetings From Suffocate City (Better Noise):
Building off the momentum of popular single “Suffocate City”, which features vocals from Ice Nine Kills’ Spencer Charnas, the dark “emo” rockers release their second full-length.
September 13, 2024 Releases:
Surf Trash, The Only Place I Know (Impressed Recordings)
Gurriers, Come And See (No Filter)
Hello Mary, Emita Ox (Frenchkiss)
Legions of Doom, The Skull 3 (Tee Pee)
Lunar Vacation, Everything Matters, Everything’s Fire (Keeled Scales)
The Mystery Lights, Purgatory (Daptone)
Oceans of Slumber, Where Gods Fear to Speak (Season Of Mist)
Satan, Songs In Crimson (Metal Blade)
Silent Theory, Tell Us How It Ends (oneRPM)
Spirit Mother, Trails (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Bill Leeb (of Front Line Assembly), Model Kollapse (Metopolis)
Bones UK, SOFT (Sumerian)
Chastity, Chastity (Deathwish)
COIN, I’m Not Afraid of Music Anymore (10K Projects)
Crobot, Obsidian (Megaforce)
Dale Crover (of Melvins), Glossolalia (Joyful Noise)
Divine Sweater, A Time For Everything (Better Company)
Foxing, Foxing (Grand Paradise)
156/Silence, People Watching (SharpTone)
Big Big Train, A Flare On The Lens (InsideOut)
Horna, Nyx – Hymnejä Yölle (W.T.C.)
A Killer’s Confession, Victim 1 (MNRK Heavy)
Slomosa, Tundra Rock (MNRK Heavy)
Trelldom, …By The Shadows… (Prophecy)
Victory, Circle Of Life (AFM)
Winterfylleth, The Imperious Horizon (Candlelight)
Wolfbrigade, Life Knife Death (Metal Blade)
Zetra, Zetra (Nuclear Blast)
Morticide, Death Cannot Hold Those with Purpose… (Independent)
Opium Warlords, Strength! (Svart)
Crypt Crawler, The Immortal Realm (Independent)
Breeding Chaos, Distant Planets (Great Dane)
Mordkaul, Feeding the Machine (Massacre)
Agrypnie, Erg (AOP)
Firtan, Ethos (AOP)
Helevorn, Espectres (Meuse Music)
Taur-im-Duinath, Verso casa (Dusktone)
Apep, Before Whom Evil Trembles (War Anthem)
Post Luctum, Forced to Watch You Wither (Meuse Music)
Las Trumien, Budowniczowie grozy (Piranha Music)
Hand of Omega, The End of the Beginning (Cursed Monk)
NightWraith, Divergence (Independent)
Mynskh, Chapter II – The Last Messiah (Atmaah)
Insurrection, Obsolescence (Bam&Co-Heavy)
Denomination, The Last Companion (F.D.A.)
Isolert, Wounds of Desolation (Non Serviam)
Shadow and Claw, Whereabouts Unknown (Independent)
Aethyrick, Death Is Absent (Independent)
Black Citrus, Glass Mountain (Independent)
Geisterfaust, Geisterfaust (Crawling Chaos)
Warpriest, Gloombreaker (Independent)
Death Decline, Pattern of an Imminent Collapse (Independent)
Great Gaia, Opus Doom (Independent)
In Chaos, Hope Wears Black (Independent)
Khranial, Monsters of Gore (Independent)
Age of Fire, From the Forge (Independent)
Disfiguring the Goddess, Softly With You (Independent)
