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The Weekly Injection: New Releases From JERRY CANTRELL, THE ARMED & More Out This Week 10/18

Plus releases from Ensiferum, Escuela Grind, Harvestman, Immortal Bird, Melted Bodies, and Swallow The Sun.

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This week's new heavy metal releases include a record that sounds like a warrior riding a wolf, sad metal, and more! To the metals…

The Armed – Everlasting Gaze

The Weekly Injection: New Releases From JERRY CANTRELL, THE ARMED & More Out This Week 10/18

Genre: Detroit, Michigan
Origin: Experimental metal.rock
Label: Sargent House

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This is an EP that includes three new songs and three remixes of the track "Sport of Form" from The Armed's last full record Perfect Saviors. Like that last record, this is big, bright, and riotous.

Jerry Cantrell – I Want Blood

The Weekly Injection: New Releases From JERRY CANTRELL, THE ARMED & More Out This Week 10/18

Genre: Hard rock/grunge
Origin: Tacoma, Washington
Label: Double J

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Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell has returned with another grungy triumph of a record. Like all his solo outings, he dabbles a bit more, but when he goes hard it's not that different from AIC. He has a lot of familiar friends helping him out here like Duff McKagan, Robert Trujillo, Greg Puciato, and more

Ensiferum – Winter Storm

The Weekly Injection: New Releases From JERRY CANTRELL, THE ARMED & More Out This Week 10/18

Genre: Folk metal
Origin: Helsinki, Finland
Label: Metal Blade

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Every once in a while I say something about a record's cover art telling you what you're in for. What do you think a record adorned with a sword-wielding, wolf-riding warrior sounds like? Ensiferum's ninth record sounds like that. Equal parts epic and heavy.

Escuela Grind – Dreams On Algorithms

The Weekly Injection: New Releases From JERRY CANTRELL, THE ARMED & More Out This Week 10/18

Genre: Grindcore/death metal
Origin: Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Label: MNRK Heavy

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After a rather eventful year or so, Escuela Grind have returned with some grinding heaviness. Dreams On Algorithms has them working with producer Kurt Ballou and utilizing some clean vocals, which may be an adjustment for some. Still heavy as hell otherwise.

Harvestman – Triptych: Part Three

The Weekly Injection: New Releases From JERRY CANTRELL, THE ARMED & More Out This Week 10/18

Genre: Folk/ambient
Origin: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Label: Neurot Recordings

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While Neurosis remains dormant (dead?) Steve Von Till is once again taking us into nature and some more experimental realms with his Harvestman project. This is more unease via drone, programmed noises, and vibes. This is the final part of the Triptych, and what a haunting journey it has been.

Immortal Bird – Sin Querencia

The Weekly Injection: New Releases From JERRY CANTRELL, THE ARMED & More Out This Week 10/18

Genre: Blackened sludge/crust
Origin: Chicago, Illinois
Label: 20 Buck Spin

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Immortal Bird's first record in five years hard to pin down and treat of an album. It's proggier than I remember them being, but still dark and crushing. You're getting breakneck tonal shifts, blast beats, and a sonic beating that doesn't let up.

Melted Bodies – The Inevitable Fork

The Weekly Injection: New Releases From JERRY CANTRELL, THE ARMED & More Out This Week 10/18

Genre: Experimental metal
Origin: Los Angeles, California
Label: Self-released

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Over the last few years I have gushed about this wild band and their Inevitable Fork EPs. It has all lead to this. The EPs are all in one place with even more songs and it is a deranged feast when it's all put together. Again, if you like Danny Elfman's Big Mess and/or classic Mr Bungle, this should be very pleasing.

Swallow The Sun – Shining

The Weekly Injection: New Releases From JERRY CANTRELL, THE ARMED & More Out This Week 10/18

Genre: Melodic death metal/doom
Origin: Jyväskylä, Finland
Label: Century Media

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Taking us home this week with some sad metal icons. Shining is a beautiful and emotional while swinging a doom hammer. The band's last record Moonflowers was poised to be a difficult record to top. This one might be just as great.

Also dropping this week…

  • Aries Descendant – From The Ashes Of Deceit (Frontiers) – Power/symphonic metal
  • Ashen TombEcstatic Death Reign (Everlasting Spew Records) – Death metal
  • Black Elephant The Fall Of The Gods (Small Stone Recordings) – Psychedelic/stoner rock
  • Camos Hide From The Light (Murder Records) – Black metal
  • Candy Flipping (Triple B Records) – Hardcore
  • Carnosus Wormtales (Willowtip Records) – Technical/melodic death metal
  • Common WoundsAll Night Blood (Protagonist Music) – Post-hardcore
  • Contrition Pariahs (Self-released) – Grindcore/death metal
  • The Copyrights – New Ghosts (Fat Wreck Chords) – Pop punk
  • DGM – Endless (Frontiers) – Progressive/power metal
  • Damnations DomainA World Turned Black (Iron Fortress Records) – Grindcore/death metal
  • Dawnwalker – The Unknowing (Self-released) – Post-metal/rock
  • Deathrite Flames Licking Fever (Into Endless Chaos Records) – Death metal/punk
  • Deivos Apophenia (Selfmadegod Records) – Brutal death metal
  • Deserts of Mars Dead Planet Exodus (Self-released) – "Mars metal"
  • Disentomb Nothing Above (Unique Leader Records) – Brutal death metal
  • Dregg The Art Of Everything (Self-released) – Nu metal
  • Fate – Reconnect N' Ignite (Frontiers) – Hard rock/AOR
  • FeralTo Usurp The Thrones (Transcending Obscurity Records) – Death metal
  • Fight The Fade Isolationist (FiXT) – Hard rock
  • Five The Hierophant Apeiron (Agonia Records) – Avant-garde metal
  • FórnRepercussions of the Self (Persistent Vision Records) – "funeral sludge"
  • Frost*Life In The Wires (InsideOutMusic) – Progressive rock/metal
  • Frozen Crown – War Hearts (Napalm) – Power metal
  • Funeral – Gospel Of Bones (Season Of Mist) – Doom
  • Grand Magus – Sunraven (Nuclear Blast) – Heavy metal/doom
  • Hatchet – Leave No Soul (M-Theory) – Death metal/thrash
  • Hell Valley HighWelcome To Hell Valley (Argonauta Records) – Hard rock
  • The Hypothesis Evolve (Noble Demon) – Progressive metal
  • Maatkare Rise To Power (Maatkare) – Blackened death metal
  • MC5 – Heavy Lifting (earMusic) – Rock
  • Misanthropic AggressionInsect Politics (Boris Records) – Death metal/crust
  • Mother Of GravesThe Periapt Of Absence (Profound Lore Records) – Melodic death metal/doom
  • Mystyc Blade The Master Is Inside (Wormholedeath Records) – Heavy metal
  • OryxPrimordial Sky (Translation Loss Records) – Doom/sludge
  • Prime Directive – The Fallout (Punkerton) – Punk
  • The Progressive Souls CollectiveEncore Vol. 1: Sonic Tributes (Metalville Records) – Progressive
  • Starcrazy Starcrazy (Self-released) – Glam rock
  • Sun & Sail ClubShipwrecked (Heavy Psych Sounds) – Stoner rock/metal
  • Tungsten The Grand Inferno (Reigning Phoenix Music) – Power metal
  • Veiled SE/CT (Seek And Strike) – Deathcore
  • Veonity The Final Element (Scarlet Records) – Power metal
  • Whispering VoidAt the Sound of the Heart (Prophecy Productions) – Ambient rock

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