The Weekly Injection: New Releases From BORN OF OSIRIS, IMPUREZA & More Out This Week 7/11

Happy slurpee day to those you celebrate (not a sponsor)! This week’s new heavy metal releases include lots of Latin influence, glitchy metalcore, slow heaviness, and more! To the metals…

Born Of Osiris – Through Shadows

Genre: Progressive metal/deathcore
Origin: Palatine, Illinois
Label: Sumerian

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Starting this week off with album number seven from these glitchy metal masters. This is another rhythmically complex yet wildly melodic record. It’s also their last with Lee McKinney.

Calva Louise – Edge Of The Abyss

Genre: Alternative metal
Origin: Manchester, England
Label: Mascot

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This band is really rad. At their core they’re an alternative metal band with big choruses heavy grooves. When they veer from that is when they really shine though. They dabble in Latin American folk, electronic, deathcore, and more. This was my introduction to them, but I was stoked to learn that there is another album, an EP, and a bunch of singles to explore in addition to this.

Enter Shikari – Live At Wembley

Genre: Metalcore/electronic
Origin: St Albans, England
Label: SO Recordings

Buy now from Enter Shikari

I feel like every band from the UK ultimately wants to play Wembley and when they do they go all out for a live release. Muse did it, Biffy Clyro did it, and now Enter Shikari did it. They play a little something from all their albums. This is a must for fans.

Hell – Submersus

Genre: Blackened doom
Origin: Salem, Oregon
Label: Sentient Ruin/Lower Your Head

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Fresh off their collaborative album with Mizmor, Hell is already back to crush you. Submersus is five tracks of heavy, dark shit. MSW’s first purely Hell record in eight years is an evil lurching beast.

Impureza – Alcázares

Genre: Flamenco/death metal
Origin: Orléans, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Label: Season Of Mist

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Listen. I have been doing this metal blurb thing for a long time, and I sort of feel like I’ve heard it all before in some fashion. However, when I got a heads up about a band playing flamenco infused death metal I was very intrigued. Not sure why it took three albums to land in my ears, but that just means there’s a lot to enjoy already. Time to break out your castanets and open a pit in your living room.

In The Company Of Serpents – A Crack In Everything

Genre: Sludge/doom
Origin: Denver, Colorado
Label: Self-released

Buy and/or sample now on Bandcamp

Brining us home this week with some more dark, slow stuff. This has the weight of a sludge record, but does not skimp on stoner riffs. Then there is this lo-fi by design production to it that makes it sound like it’s a direct feed to an underworld rehearsal room.

Also dropping this week…

• Angerot – Seofon (Redefining Darkness) – Death metal
• Celestial Wizard – Regenesis (Scarlet Records) – Power/death metal
• Cronos Compulsion – Lawgiver (Avantgarde Music) – Death metal
• dead7 – Love What You Can While You Still Got Something To Love (SharpTone) – Metalcore
• Death Rattle – The Moral Chokehold (M-Theory Audio) – Groove metal
• Decadence Incarnate – Eternal Rebellion (Dead Voice Records) – Melodic death metal/thrash
• Diamond Head – Live And Electric (Silver Lining) – NWOBHM
• Disembodiment – Spiral Crypts (Everlasting Spew Records) – Death metal
• Double Vision – Double Vision (Frontiers) – Rock
• Embers Of Ouroboros – The Autumnal Decline And Hermetic Maturation (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions) – Black metal
• Eternal Idol – Behind A Vison (Frontiers) – Power metal
• Front Row Warriors – Running Out Of Time (Rock Of Angels) – Heavy metal
• Girlschool – Running Wild: Live In London (HNE) – Rock
• Gods Of Tomorrow – Gods Of Tomorrow (Wormholedeath) – Heavy metal/hard rock
• Steve Hackett – The Lamb Stands Up Live At The Royal Albert Hall (InsideOut) – Progressive rock
• Imperial Crystalline Entombment – Abominable Astral Summoning (Debemur Morti) – Black metal
• Nathan James – Hollywood Mortician (CrowdKill Records) – Nu metal/goth rock
• Laguna – The Ghost Of Katrina (Frontiers) – Hard rock
• Mädhouse – Plead The Fifth (Rock Of Angels) – Glam metal
• Matt Jencik and Midwife – Never Die (Relapse) – Experimental
• Philosophobia – The Constant Void (Sensory Records) – Progressive metal/rock
• Pygmy Lush – Totem (Persistent Vision Records) – Folk/hardcore
• Sheev – Ate’s Alchemist (Ripple) – Progressive stoner/doom
• Split Chain – motionblur (Epitaph) – Emo/grunge
• Viogression – Thaumaturgic Veil (Self-released) – Death metal
• Ward XVI – Id3ntity (Earache) – Gothic metal