The Weekly Injection: New Releases From THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, THE AVETT BROTHERS/MIKE PATTON & More Out This Week 11/14

This week’s new heavy metal releases include honking horn hardcore, World War 1 metal, well-read metalcore, and more! To the metals…

1914 – Viribus Unitus

Genre: Blackened death metal/doom
Origin: Lviv, Ukraine
Label: Napalm

Buy now on Bandcamp

Album number four from these World War 1 obsessed Ukrainians is another blackened beast. Like all their material, this one is conceptual, but most of the tracks here are a specific year, or even a specific battle. These guys clearly all got A’s in history class.

AVTT/PTTN – AVTT/PTTN

Genre: Alternative country/americana
Origin: Concord, North Carolina/Eureka, California
Label: Thirty Tigers/Ramseur Records/Ipecac Recordings

Buy now on Bandcamp

Mike Patton has dipped his toes into a number of genres. Plenty of Avant-garde jazz, Italian pop songs from the 60’s with an orchestra, and literally screaming while crushing an aluminum can. Still, when it was announced that he had joined forces with the folksy Avett Brothers, I was surprised. This is more psychedelic than I was expecting, but if you wanna hear Mike gon’ country, that’s here too.

Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin – Stygian Bough Vol. II

Genre: Doom
Origin: Seattle, Washington/Portland, Oregon
Label: Profound Lore

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Five years ago Bell Witch and Aerial Ruin released the first Stygian Bough collaboration and it was a lurching, doom affair. They’re all finally back with Volume II and it is more sad, epic, dark, and beautiful shit. You now have over two ours of these acts together.

The Devil Wears Prada – Flowers

Genre: Metalcore
Origin: Dayton, Ohio
Label: Solid State

Buy now on from The Devil Wears Prada

If you’re looking for some synth-infused metalcore, look no further than album number nine from The Devil Wears Prada. Choruses are huge and melodic. This shows that twenty years into their career that they still can nail this sound.

Fallstaf – Ode To The Dead

Genre: Brass metal
Origin: Montreal, Québec
Label: Self-released

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What what it sound like if you smashed Hatebreed into Reel Big Fish, you ask? What an odd question. Fallstaf are the answer though. This is hard hitting hardcore with horns blaring throughout. Can you skank and hardcore dance at the same time?

Of Mice & Men – Another Miracle

Genre: Metalcore/hard rock
Origin: Costa Mesa, California
Label: Century Media

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Speaking of metalcore greats named after literature (The Devil Wears Prada was a book first…), next up is the latest from Of Mice & Men. This is also their ninth album. And they have a song on the record called “Flowers.” Weird. Like tDWP, this is super catchy, rockin’ stuff.

Stellar Circuits – Phantom :: Phoenix

Genre: Progressive/alternative metal
Origin: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Label: Nuclear Blast

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You know, some weeks are for the kvlt crowd and some weeks are for the melodic folks. This week is the latter. Stellar Circuits have some Chevelle-esque atmosphere mixed with djent grooves, and tons of shredding. A really cool record mixing the modern and the classic.

Violent Vira – Lover Of A Ghost

Genre: Metalcore/alternative metal
Origin: Boise, Idaho
Label: Mom+Pop Music

Buy now from Violent Vira

Last month I went to Aftershock and one one of the days started with Violent Vira and it was a really cool live experience even though it was like 11:45 am or whatever. Really the only band I can think to compare the sound to might be Flyleaf. Pretty solid debut record.

Also dropping this week…

• Angerseed – Rapture Is Mine… Glory Is Ours (Pest Records / Metal Ör Die Records) – Death metal
• Another Realm – Origin (Demolition Records) – Symphonic metal
• Änterbila – Avart (Nordvis Produktion) – Folk/black metal
• Arcane Marrow – Rising In The Early Dawn (Moonlight Cypress Archetypes) – Black metal
• Auditory Anguish – AFA (Creator-Destructor Records) – Death metal
• Avoid – Creature Of Habit (UNFD) – Hardcore
• Avralize – liminal (Arising Empire) – Metalcore
• Steve Blanco – Imprints Of Man (Vile Luxe Entertainment, LLC) – Piano versions of Imperial Triumphant songs
• Bloodtruth – Execration (Selfmadegod Records) – Technical/brutal death metal
• Chairmaker – Leviathan Carcass (Self-released) – Grindcore
• chokecherry – Ripe Fruit Rots And Falls (Fearless) – Shoegaze/alternative rock
• Creatures – Creatures II (High Roller) – heavy metal/hard rock
• Degraved – Spectral Realm Of Ruin (Dark Descent) – Death metal
• Enemynside – In The Shadows Of Unrest (Self-released) – Thrash
• Fate’s Hand – Steel, Fire & Ice (Dying Victims Productions) – Heavy metal
• Fimbul Winter – What Once Was (Profound Lore) – Death metal
• G.A.E.A. – A Frozen Moment In Time (Club Inferno Ent.) – Progressive/avant garde metal
• The Grasshopper Lies Heavy – HEAVY (Learning Curve Records) – Sludge
• Heavensgate – Angel Hymms (Pure Noise Records) – Metalcore
• The Hunna – blue transitions (FLG) – Alternative rock
• Imperial Domain – Portentum (Wormholedeath) – Melodic death metal
• Lamp Of Murmuur –The Dreaming Prince In Ecstasy (Wolves Of Hades) – Black metal
• Lavisher – Aligned & Vital (Nefarious Industries) – Space rock/grunge
• Mausoleum Gate – Space, Rituals and Magick (Cruz Del Sur Music) – Heavy metal
• Mezzrow – Embrace The Awakening (ROAR) – Thrash
• Monograf – Occultation (Overhead Productions) – Folk metal
• Mourn The Light – Sorrow Feeds The Silence (Argonauta Records) – Heavy metal/doom
• N.Y.C. – Built To Destroy (Adrenalizing Media Network) – Heavy metal
• Negative Blast – Destroy Myself For Fun (Three One G Records/Vitriol Records) – Hardcore
• Nuclear Dudes – Skeletal Blasphemy (The Ghost Is Clear Records) – Synth/progressive metal
• One Last Day – Eyes Like Glass // Thoughts Like Fuel (Self-released) – Alternative metal
• Preyrs – The Wounded Healer (Pelagic Records) – Alternative rock/metal
• Primordial Rites – Contemplation Scriptures & The Swallowing Void (Nameless Grave Records) – Death metal
• Putrevore – Unending Rotting Cycle (Xtreem Music) – Death metal
• Raw Brigade – 100% (Flatspot Records) – Hardcore
• The Reticent – please (Generation Prog Records) – Progressive metal
• Rise Of The Northstar – Chapter 04: Red Falcon Super Battle! Neo Paris War!! (Kuromako Corp) – hardcore/rap metal
• scrape – flood (Self-released) – Noise rock
• Scorpions – Coming Home Live (Spinefarm) – Hard rock
• Season of the Dead – Zombie Chronicles Vol. 1 (Time To Kill Records) – Death metal
• Skull & Crossbones – Time (Massacre) – Heavy metal
• Thumbsucker / Atomçk – Split (Road To Masochist) – Hardcore/grindcore
• Trace Amount – Flagrant (Self-released) – Industrial
• Valontuoja – Tulesta syntynyt (Inverse Records) – Melodic/atmospheric black metal
• Veilburner – Longing For Triumph, Reeking Of Tragedy (Transcending Obscurity) – Black/death metal
• Vein – Reveal (HateWorks) – Death/groove metal
• Various Artists – No Life ‘Til Leather – A Tribute To Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All (Silver Lining) – Thrash
• Voidceremony – Abditum (20 Buck Spin) – Progressive death metal
• Vower – A Storm Lined With Silver (apricity records) – Progressive rock
• Wheel Of Time – Asymmetry (Self-released) – Progressive metal
• Withering Soul – Passage Of The Arcane (Liminal Dread Productions) – Melodic black metal
• Yawning Man – Pavement Ends (Heavy Psych Sounds) – Stoner
• Your Inland Empire – Your Inland Empire (Season Of Mist) – Industrial/darkwave