New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. For this New Music Friday, we will see the return of Kula Shaker’s original line-up, more rediscovered tracks from Static-X, a dark new work from Alkaline Trio and New Model Army’s first new album since 2019, as well as new studio efforts from the likes of Lucifer, Dead Poet Society, Eye Flys, Kill The Thrill and many more. Don’t forget to check out our weekly playlist below. Enjoy!

 

 

Alkaline Trio, Blood, Hair, And Eyeballs (Rise): The heavy pop-punk band’s 10th studio album finds them returning to their original collaborative form to deliver “a dark record for a truly dark time.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kula Shaker, Natural Magick (Strange Folk Records): For their seventh studio effort, the UK rockers reunited with their original keyboardist Jay Darlington for the first time since 1999.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Model Army, Unbroken (earMusic): According to the veteran 80s punk band, their 16th studio album “sounds like us, but different again, and it has been beautifully mixed – full-on, dynamic, and musical.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Static-X, Project Regeneration: Vol 2 (Independent): The second installation of the Regeneration series, featuring tracks mostly based around rediscovered vocal tracks from late original frontman Wayne Static. 

 

 

 

 

Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes, Dark Rainbow (Independent)

SLOWER, SLOWER (Heavy Psych Sounds)

Quarters of Change, Portraits (300 Entertainment)

Lucifer, Lucifer V (Nuclear Blast)

Eye Flys, Eye Flys (Thrill Jockey)

Dead Poet Society, Fission (Spinefarm)

Caligula’s Horse, Charcoal Grace (InsideOut)

Almost Dead, Destruction Is All We Know (Innerstrength)

Any Given Day, Limitless (Arising Empire)

Blood Red Throne, Nonagon (Soulseller)

Carnal Savagery, Into The Abysmal Void (Moribund)

Whitechapel, Live In The Valley (Metal Blade Records)

Cerulean, Carrion Angel (I, Voidhanger)

Cognizance, Phantazein (Willowtip)

Command, Resver (Jawbreaker)

Corax B.M., Pagana (The Circle)

Dipygus, Dipygus (Memento Mori)

Dissimulator, Lower Form Resistance (20 Buck Spin)

Drowned, Procul His (Sepulchral Voice)

Dymytry, Five Angry Men (AFM)

Exocrine, Legend (Season Of Mist)

Funeral Winds, 333 (Osmose)

The Gems, Phoenix (Napalm)

Greengoat, A.I. (Argonauta)

Guhts, Regeneration (Seeing Red)

Hearts & Hand Grenades, Where I Begin (Eclipse)

Hiraes, Dormant (Napalm)

The Infernal Sea, Hellfenlic (Candlelight)

Jenner, Prove Them Wrong (Fighter)

Kalt Vindur, Magna Mater (The Circle)

Kill The Thrill, Autophagie (Season Of Mist)

Luciferian Rites, Oath Of Midnight Ashes (Moribund)

Manticora, Mycelium (Mighty)

Mega Colossus, Showdown (Cruz Del Sur)

Mountain Caller, Chronicle II: Hypergenesis (Church Road)

Olhava, Sacrifice (Avantgarde)

Stone Horns, Age Of Chimairas (Rockshots)

Stuporous, Asylum’s Lament (Void Wanderer)

Vipassi, Lightless (Season Of Mist)

Vitriol, Suffer & Become (Century Media)

Hellman, Born, Suffering, Death (Black Lodge Records)

Mägo de Oz, Alicia en el Metalverso (Warner Music Spain)

Hyloxalus, Make Me the Heart of the Black Hole (Independent)

Knoll, As Spoken (Independent)

Rituals of the Dead Hand, The Wretched and the Vile (Immortal Frost Productions)

Madder Mortem, Old Eyes, New Heart (Dark Essence Records)

Boarhammer, II: Chemognosis – A Shortcut to Mushrooms (Naturmacht Productions)

Ad Unum Omnes, Shattering Bones (Independent)

Bombarder, Sa dna groba (Grom Records)

Beshenitar, Unsocialized (Independent)

Nemesis, Embrace Reality (Grom Records)

Powerhouse, Darkest Before Dawn (Independent)

Svitogor, The Howling Void (InsArt Records)

Show n Tell, The Ritual Has Begun (No Remorse Records)

Onryo over October, Last Night I Saw a Ghost (Independent)

Kanseil, Vaia (Bagana B District Music)

Abyssius, Abyssius (Independent)

Rhûn, Conveyance in Death (I.K. Productions)

Sangue de Bode, Eu Sou a Derrota (Independent)

Mourning Divine, Be Free – No More Masters (Independent)