February 21, 2025
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Among the many outstanding works hitting shelves this week are new albums from the likes of Silverstein, Four Seconds Ago, Killswitch Engage, Scour and Pissgrave. Don’t forget to check out our weekly playlist below. Enjoy!
February 21, 2025 Release Highlights:
Silverstein, Antibloom (UNFD):
The Canadian post-hardcore stalwarts return with the first part of a double album, for which the band threw out all their unwritten rules and pulled inspiration from their previous albums and evolving sound to create.
Four Seconds Ago, 1000 Needles (3DOT):
The experimental side project of Periphery members Jake Bowen and Misha Mansoor releases its sophomore album.
Killswitch Engage, This Consequence (Metal Blade):
According to singer Jesse Leach, the metalcore band’s ninth studio effort “is the combination of everything the past five years has thrown at us as a band, as humans, and society as a whole.”
Scour, Gold (Housecore):
The supergroup featuring Pantera’s Philip H. Anselmo, Agoraphobic Nosebleed’s John Jarvis, Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals’ Derek Engemann, Pig Destroyer’s Adam Jarvis, and Misery Index’s Mark Kloeppel release their debut full-length. Drawing inspiration from horror literature, the album “pulls the listener through a blistering vortex of speed, aggression, and, above all, absolute horror.”
Pissgrave, Malignant Worthlessness (Profound Lore):
The death metal band completes their trilogy with their third full-length album.
February 21, 2025 Releases:
The Murder Capital, Blindness (Human Season)
The Wombats, Oh! The Ocean (AWAL)
Abdomen, Yes, I Don’t Know (FatCat)
Anxious, Bambi (Run For Cover)
Califone, The Villagers Companion (Jealous Butcher)
Gaytheist, The Mustache Stays (Hex)
Yawning Balch, Volume Three (Heavy Psych Sounds)
The 7th Guild, Triumviro (Scarlet)
Abduction, Existentialismus (Candlelight)
Airforce, Acts Of Madness (ROAR)
Bong-Ra, Black Noise (Debemur Morti)
Dirty Honey, Mayhem And Revelry (Dirt)
Gràb, Kremess (Prophecy)
Jason Bieler and The Baron Von Bielski Orchestra, The Escapologist (Independent)
Mean Mistreater, Do Or Die (Dying Victims)
Morax, The Amulet (High Roller)
Nachtblut, Todschick (Napalm)
One OK Rock, Detox (Fueled By Ramen)
Retromorphosis, Psalmus Mortis (Season Of Mist)
Stinky, Solace (M-Theory)
Twins Crew, Chapter IV (Scarlet)
Vultures Vengeance, Dust Age (High Roller)
Wrekmeister Harmonies, Flowers In The Spring (Thrill Jockey)
Wren, Black Rain Falls (Church Road)
Defiled Serenity, Within the Slumber of the Mind (Inverse)
Voidfallen, The Rituals of Resilience (Noble Demon)
Horizon Ignited, Tides (Reaper Entertainment)
Matalobos, Phantasmagoria: Hexed Lands (Concreto)
Sinner Rage, Powerstrike (Dying Victims Productions)
Across the Swarm, Invisible Threads (Time to Kill)
Omega Purge, The Last Monarch’s Fall (Independent)
Enbound, Set It Free (Embrace the Fear)
Aitheer, The Serpent (Rockshots)
Räum, Emperor of the Sun (Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions)
Homeskin, Soul Washed Bleach (Independent)
Shellshock, War Eternal (Independent)
Xenotrone, Into the Void (Archivist)
Monolith, Magnum Opus (Independent)
Nocny Kochanek, Urwany film (Independent)
