New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. July is filled with new music from supergroups Category 7 and Painted Shield, live albums from Ghost and Metal Church, fictitious band Semi-Famous come to life and the return of Powerwolf, among the many, many excellent albums hitting shelves/streaming services. Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen new music from veteran artists like Mr. Big, Travis, Deep Purple, Dr. Dog and The Raveonettes, as well as new works from the likes of Cassadee Pope, Highly Suspect and Her Head’s On Fire. On the first New Music Friday of July, we saw new works from the likes of Kasabian, Bacchae, The Rivals and Visions Of Atlantis, as well as the debut full-length from Truck Violence. Don’t forget to check out our July playlist below. Enjoy!
July 26, 2024 Release Highlights:
Ghost, Rite Here Rite Now (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Loma Vista):
The band releases the soundtrack to last month’s concert film, which includes new track “The Future Is A Foreign Land.”
Painted Shield, Painted Shield 3 (Loosegroove):
Featuring Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard, folk singer Mason Jennings, drummer Matt Chamberlain, soul singer Brittany Davis and guitarist Jeff Fielder, the supergroup releases their third album in four years.
Powerwolf, Wake Up the Wicked (Napalm):
The German power metal band releases their 10th studio album, which Blabbermouth called “hard, surprising and full of variety.”
Semi-Famous, Destroy Ourselves (Rare Bird Books/Duck! Records):
Featuring members of Mixtapes, Bombpops, Crash And Burn & Scooby Don’t, the band from Screaching Weasel guitarist John Jughead’s 2001 semi-autobiographic novel Weasels In A Box releases its debut album.
Metal Church, The Final Sermon (Rat Pak):
Recorded in Japan in 2019, it’s one of the band’s final live recordings with vocalist Mike Howe.
Category 7, Category 7 (Metal Blade):
The newly-formed supergroup of Phil Demmel (ex-Machine Head, Kerry King), Mike Orlando (ex-Adrenaline Mob), John Bush (Armored Saint, ex-Anthrax), Jason Bittner (Overkill, Shadows Fall) and Jack Gibson (Exodus) releases it’s debut album. According to their bio, the album’s tracks are as “crushing and confrontational as an armed rebellion, as rhythmically thunderous as a storm of golf ball-sized hail, and as fiercely melodic as infectious riffs and aggressive vocals can be.”
July 26, 2024 Releases:
Cults, To the Ghosts (Imperial)
Empire of the Sun, Ask That God (Capitol)
Robber Robber, Wild Guess (Independent)
Wand, Vertigo (Drag City)
Already Dead, Something Like A War (Independent)
Dream Evil, Metal Gods (Independent)
Fancy Gap, Fancy Gap (Ghost Choir)
Lime Cordiale, Enough of the Sweet Talk (Chugg)
MAITA, want (Fluff And Gravy)
Respire, Hiraeth (Dine Alone)
Sacri Monti, Retrieval (Tee Pee)
Sinai Vessel, I SING (Keeled Scales)
State Faults, Children of the Moon (Deathwish)
Death Racer, From Gravel To Grave (Dying Victims)
Harvestman, Triptych: Part Two (Neurot)
Imperia, Dark Paradise (Massacre)
Iress, Sleep Now, In Reverse (Church Road)
Ironflame, Kingdom Torn Asunder (High Roller)
Laceration, I Erode (20 Buck Spin)
Mean Mistreater, Razor Wire (Dying Victims)
Soulbound, obsYdian (Metalville)
Summoning The Lich, Under The Reviled Throne (Prosthetic)
Verni, Dreadful Company (M-Theory)
Wormwitch, Wormwitch (Profound Lore)
Mayhemic, Toba (Independent)
Disloyal, Divine Miasmata (Black Lion)
Duskwalker, Underground Forever (Black Lion)
Scald, Ancient Doom Metal (High Roller)
ColdCell, Age of Unreason (AOP)
Curse upon a Prayer, The Worship: Orthoprax Satanism (The Cursed Order)
Void Witch, Horripilating Presence (Everlasting Spew)
Ghost of Agony, Ashen Kingdom (Independent)
Abyssielle, Through Sun and Stone (These Hands Melt)
Wraithfyre, Of Fell Peaks and Haunted Chasms (Naturmacht Productions)
Pagan Impaler, Buried Alive (Independent)
Überserker, Ineffable Force of Will (Independent)
Santa Cora, Elementum (Independent)
Mountaineer, Dawn and All That Follows (A Thousand Arms)
Dead Man Risen, Life Death Time (MMD Records)
