March 07, 2025
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. March is kicking off strong with new albums from veteran artists Bob Mould, Jethro Tull, Destruction and Whitechapel, as well as the sophomore release from Cryptosis, amongst the many outstanding works hitting shelves this week. Don’t forget to check out our weekly playlist below. Enjoy!
March 07, 2025 Release Highlights:
Bob Mould, Here We Go Crazy (Granary Music):
The Hüsker Dü frontman releases his 16th solo studio effort, saying of the album in a press statement, “On the surface, this is a group of straightforward guitar pop songs. I’m refining my primary sound and style through simplicity, brevity, and clarity. Under the hood, there’s a number of contrasting themes. Control and chaos, hypervigilance and helplessness, uncertainty and unconditional love.”
Jethro Tull, Curious Ruminant (Inside Out Music):
The legendary prog rockers release their 24th album, which the band says is lyrically more personal and incorporates demos the band recorded “some years ago.”
Cryptosis, Celestial Death (Century Media):
According to their Bandcamp, the futuristic metal band’s sophomore release finds them on a “darker, heavier, more melodic and extremely cinematic journey.”
Destruction, Birth of Malice (Napalm):
The German thrash metal band’s 16th studio album adds variety and grooves to their sound while still displaying the same raw, brutal and merciless quality that has captivated fans for more than four decades.
Whitechapel, Hymns In Dissonance (Metal Blade):
The deathcore band’s ninth studio effort is a loose sequel to 2008’s This Is Exile and is described by guitarist Alex Wade as an attempt “to write our heaviest album to date. We wanted to put out something that was shockingly menacing and brutal.”
March 07, 2025 Releases:
Frog Eyes, The Open Up (Paper Bag)
This Gift Is A Curse, Heir (Season Of Mist)
Hamilton Leithauser, This Side of the Island (Glassnote)
HotWax, Hot Shock (Marathon Artists)
Ingrown, Idaho (Closed Casket Activities)
Kinski, Stumbledown Terrace (Comedy Minus One)
PYRES, YUN (Hypaethral)
Spiritbox, Tsunami Sea (Pale Chord)
Staticlone, Better Living Through Static Vision (Relapse)
Taxidermists, 20247 (Danger Collective)
Two-Man Giant Squid, Two-Man Giant Squid (Mint 400)
Christian Mistress, Children Of The Earth (Cruz Del Sur)
Dawn Of Ouroboros, Bioluminescence (Prosthetic)
Deathless Legacy, Damnatio Aeterna (Scarlet)
Edge Of Paradise, Prophecy (Napalm)
Maltuka, Black Rite (High Roller)
MindWars, V (High Roller)
Overdrivers, Glory Or Nothing (ROAR)
Raging Speedhorn, Night Wolf (Spinefarm)
Rainbows Are Free, Silver And Gold (Ripple)
Sacrosanct, Avenging Angel (ROAR)
Sadist, Something To Pierce (Agonia)
Scalpture, Landkrieg (Testimony)
Swervedriver, The World’s Fair EP (Outer Battery)
The Wildhearts, Satanic Rites Of The Wildhearts (Snakefarm)
Adamantis, Reforged (No Remorse)
The Unguided, Hellven (SixOneSix AB)
Erocis, The Sunken Lands (Independent)
Outburst, Devouring the Masses (Violent Creek)
Kaiser, 2nd Sound (Majestic Mountain)
Niviane, Queen of Phantoms (Rockshots)
Torpedo Torpedo, Arrows of Time (Electric Fire)
Impurity, The Eternal Sleep (Hammerheart)
Holy Death, Paradice (Independent)
Nephylim, Circuition (Independent)
Guiltless, Teeth to Sky (Neurot Recordings)
Whipstriker, Cry of Extinction (Hells Headbangers)
Frogg, Eclipse (Independent)
War Magic, Atomic Rites (Obelisk Polaris Productions)
Akaamelda, Death Equals Relief (Independent)
Selvforakt, Ormstukken (Cora)
Spider God, Possess the Devil: The Original Album (Independent)
Mortuaire, Monde vide (Independent)
Astral Woods, Into the Mystical Lands (Independent)
Irony of Fate, Equinox (Independent)
Shrine of Denial, I, Moloch (Transcending Obscurity)
Axident, Endless Devastation (Independent)
Exfeciate, Enthroned in Desiccation (Independent)
