February 14, 2025
Album artwork by: Roberto Toderico
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This New Music Friday features new releases ready to love from the likes of Lacuna Coil, Hands Like Houses, Mantar, Pattern-Seeking Animals and Warlung, as well as a charity full-length from Savage Lands among the many outstanding works hitting shelves. Don’t forget to check out our weekly playlist below. Enjoy!
February 14, 2025 Release Highlights:
Lacuna Coil, Sleepless Empire (Century Media):
For their 10th studio album, the Italian goth metal band “captures, through our eyes, the chaos of a generation trapped in a digital world that never stops” with songs that are “a desperate cry to reclaim oneself in an era that seems to have lost its sense of time and reality.”
Hands Like Houses, A T M O S P H E R I C S (Civillians):
The Australian rockers look to reintroduce themselves with their fifth studio effort, their first with new lead singer Josh Raven (The Faim).
Mantar, Post Apocalyptic Depression (Metal Blade):
The German duo decided to go in a different, less produced direction with their sixth studio album, saying “We wanted to keep it as primitive as possible. We were bolder this time and literally cut any shit off the songs that we didn’t think was necessary.”
Pattern-Seeking Animals, Friend of All Creatures (GEP):
Featuring members of Spock’s Beard, the prog-rockers release their fifth studio effort, which multi-instrumentalist John Boegehold said “is a bit more concise and focused than previous albums.”
Savage Lands, Army of the Trees (Season Of Mist):
Megadeth drummer Dirk Verbeuren’s non-profit side-project will give proceeds from its collaboration-filled full-length to preserving forests in Costa Rica, Africa and France.”
WARLUNG, The Poison Touch (Heavy Psych Sounds):
The heavy doom rockers describe their fifth studio album as “blasting” the listener “with in-your-face raw energy while simultaneously feeling like a hauntingly beautiful experience.”
February 14, 2025 Releases:
Horsegirl, Phonetics On And On (Matador)
Kestrels, Better Wonder (Darla)
The Velveteers, A Million Knives (Easy Eye Sound)
Winona Fighter, My Apologies to the Chef (Rise)
Bleeding Through, Nine (SharpTone)
Suicide Puppets Drop, Where Killers Go to Die EP
Crazy Lixx, Thrill Of The Bite (Frontiers)
Dawn Of Solace, Affliction Vortex (Noble Demon)
Dynazty, Game Of Faces (Nuclear Blast)
Ginger Evil, The Way It Burns (Frontiers)
Hangman’s Chair, Saddiction (Nuclear Blast)
Love Is Noise, To Live In A Different Way (Century Media)
Mantric Momentum, Alienized (Frontiers)
Novarupta, Astral Sands (Suicide)
Pothamus, Abur (Pelagic)
Apocalypse Orchestra, A Plague upon Thee (Despotz)
Vermilia, Karsikko (Independent)
Mastord, Lemmon lintu (Inverse)
Serpentyne, Tales from the Dark (Rockshots)
Délirant, Thoughteater (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
Klastos, Born to Ruin (Superlord Recordings)
Horoh, Horde of Horror (Crypt of Dr. Gore)
Möuth, Global Warning (Independent)
Skycrater, Subversion (Independent)
Ventr, Ubique Diaboli Voluntas (Signal Rex)
Morbid, Skewered Beyond (Independent)
GallBladder, Virus Rotted Minds (Independent)
Anguish Project, What’s Believing? (Independent)
Teryky, Beyond the Absence of Light (Independent)
