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 releases includes albums from the likes of Body Count, Kim Deal and Opeth, as well as the debut of Crossbone Skully and final recordings of The FMs’ original vocalist, among the many, many outstanding works hitting shelves. Don’t forget to check out our weekly playlist below. Enjoy!
November 22, 2024 Release Highlights:
Body Count, Merciless (Century Media):
In the works since 2021, the hardcore metal band featuring rapper Ice-T on vocals, finally releases its highly anticipated 8th studio album.
Kim Deal, Nobody Loves You More (4AD):
The Breeders frontwoman and Pixies bassist/co-vocalist releases her debut solo album.
Opeth, The Last Will And Testament (Reigning Phoenix):
The Swedish progressive metal band’s returns to their old screaming ways on their 14th studio effort (their first in five years), a concept album about a post-WW1 family learning about their history as the will of their deceased patriarch is read.
Marilyn Manson, One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1 (Nuclear Blast):
The band’s first album since their frontman was accused of sexual abuse by many women.
Crossbone Skully, Evil World Machine (Better Noise Music):
Spearheaded by veteran rocker Tommy Henriksen (Alice Cooper, Hollywood Vampires, Warlock, etc) and produced by Mutt Lange, the band’s debut LP is a dystopian concept album in the vein of Ziggy Stardust that “takes on our current global crisis with the fury of a hellfire-and-brimstone prophet/preacher, condemning greed, avarice, racism and sexism in no uncertain terms.”
The FMs, 51122 (Independent):
The New York band’s latest album features the final recordings of founding member Frankie Rex, who passed away from a Fentanyl overdose in 2022.
November 22, 2024 Releases:
Papa M, Ballads of Harry Houdini (Drag City)
Defeated Sanity, Chronicles of Lunacy (Season Of Mist)
10,000 Years, All Quiet on the Final Frontier (Ripple)
Common Sage, Closer To (Equal Vision)
Distant, Tsukuyomi: The Origin (Century Media)
Gutless, High Impact Violence (Dark Descent)
Kingcrown, Nova Atlantis (Rockshots)
Last Temptation, Heart Starter (Metalville)
Múr, Múr (Century Media)
Ocean Grove, Oddworld (SharpTone)
Polar, Five Arrows (Arising Empire)
Storace, Crossfire (Frontiers)
Sunstorm, Restless Fight (Frontiers)
Fellowship, The Skies Above Eternity (Scarlet)
Starwraith, Distant Shores (Independent)
Silent Winter, Utopia (No Remorse)
Sign of the Jackal, Heavy Metal Survivors (Dying Victims Productions)
Ante-Inferno, Death’s Soliloquy (Vendetta)
Dawn of Destiny, IX (El Puerto)
Raptore, Renaissance (Dying Victims Productions)
High Warden, Astral Iron (Dying Victims Productions)
Iniquitous Savagery, Edifice of Vicissitudes (Willowtip)
Aeon Gods, King of Gods (Scarlet)
Panzerfaust, The Suns of Perdition – Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion (Eisenwald)
Slať, Elegie propastná (Doomentia)
Repuked, Club Squirting Blood (Soulseller)
Carnal Savagery, Graveworms, Cadavers, Coffins and Bones (Moribund)
Svartfjell, I, the Destroyer (Moribund)
Weight Shift, Haled from Aether (Independent)
Entomophthora, Instinctual Disease (Soulseller)
Hevn III, Hevn III (Polypus)
Immortal Force, Mystic Seance Unrealities (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions)
Purgatorial, Fading Whispers of Voidbound Souls (These Hands Melt)
Rvkkvs, Antithesis of Prosperity (Independent)
Nigrum, Blood Worship Extremism (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Thunraz, Incineration Day (Independent)
Terrorpy, The Bisection Collection (Over the Under)
Forlorn Aspect, Archaia (Independent)
Black Pyre, Blessed Brân, Son of the Sea (Independent)
Obscuridad Eterna, Evil and Revenge (Independent)
Sophie’s Threat, Enemy Within (Independent)
