New & Noteworthy, Metal Insider’s weekly column highlights some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week, we’re catching up with February 4th, 2022’s releases, which features new music from KoRn, Saxon, Persefone, and more. For previous releases you can read our January New & Noteworthy wrap up.. Metal by Numbers will soon return! Be sure to follow us on Spotify to get this month’s New & Noteworthy Playlist, updated every Friday with the newest metal releases.
Abhoria, Abhoria (Prosthetic)
Second album, Los Angeles, CA, aggressive “90s-inspired” black metal w/ modern production
Music Video(s): “Mountebank,” “Sunless,” “False Idols”
Abysmal Dawn, Nightmare Frontier EP (Season Of Mist)
First EP, Los Angeles, CA, death metal
Music Video(s): “A Nightmare Slain,” “Blacken the Sky”
Circa Survive, A Dream About Death (Rise Records)
Philadelphia-based alt rock band released the follow-up to last year’s A Dream About Love EP
Music Video(s): “Electric Moose”
Craniotomy, Ripped Out By Violence (Amputated Vein Records)
Sixth album, Slovakia, brutal death metal
The Final Sleep, Vessels of Grief (self)
Second album, Troy, New York, progressive metal
Golgothan, Leech (Lacerated Enemy Records)
Debut full-length, Louisiana, death metal
Music Video(s): “Bottomless Pit,” “Parent Organism”
KoRn, Requiem (Loma Vista)
Fourteenth album from these numetal legends from Bakersfield, CA
Music Video(s): “Start the Healing”
Krvvla, X (Brucia records)
Debut full-length effort, Belarus, black metal
Mass Worship, Portal Tombs (Century Media)
Sophomore album, Sweden, death metal
Music Video(s): “Portal Tombs,” “Revel In Fear,” “Orcus Mouth”
Mystic Circle, Mystic Circle (Atomic Fire)
Eighth album Germany, melodic black/death metal
Music Video(s): “Darkness In Flames,” “Letters From the Devil”
Obsidian Sea, Pathos (Ripple)
Fourth album, Bulgaria, doom metal
Music Video(s): “I Love the Woods,” “Mythos”
Persefone, metanoia (Napalm)
Seventh album, Andorra, progressive/ melodic death metal
Music Video(s): “Merkabah,” “Katabasis,” “Architecture of the I”
Rolo Tomassi, Where Myth Becomes Memory (MNRK)
Brighton/London/New Jersey, progressive metal
Music Video(s): “Closer,” “Drip”
Saxon, Carpe Diem (Silver Lining)
Twenty-third studio album, UK, NWOBHM, heavy metal
Music Video(s): “Carpe Diem (Seize the Day),” “The Pilgrimage”
Thorn, Yawning Depths (Self)
Sophomore album, Phoenix, AZ, death/doom metal
Venom Prison, Erebos (Century Media)
Fourth album, UK, hardcore
Music Video(s): “Judges of the Underworld,” “Comfort of Complicity,” “Nemesis,” “Pain Of Oizys”
Other: Check out our interview here.
Vorga, Striving Toward Oblivion (Transcending Obscurity)
Debut album, Germany, black metal
Music Video(s): “Comet”
