THE WEEKLY INJECTION: New Releases From MOTORHEAD, SOILWORK, NILE and More Out Today – 8/28

This edition includes some facts being fucked, the working of some soil, a head being motored and more! To the metals…

Ahab – The Boats Of The Glen Carrig 

Genre: Doom
Origin: Heidelberg, Germany
Label: Napalm

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Slow and heavy as fuck, one of my favorite doom bands has returned the lurch about in my brain once again. This has to be their most dynamic release yet. This heavy, but there seems to be some more melody and clean vocals than before infused in. Turn this all the way up and shake your building down.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhUwUBJz9ik[/youtube]

 

Fuck The Facts – Desire Will Rot 

Genre: Grindcore/Sludge
Origin: Gatineau, Canada
Label: Noise Salvation

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I really need to become more familiar with this band. They are indeed grindy, but there's more to their sound than a one dimensional grind assault. There's some sludge that I've never noticed before, there's some prog, and there's plenty of noise.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvZySNLqhdM[/youtube]

 

Kobra and the Lotus – Words Of The Prophets EP 

Genre: Heavy metal
Origin: Calgary, Canada
Label: Titan

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Searching for this just by name gets you quite a bit of religious literature, so if you're finding anything but some big rock music, you done searched wrong. Anywhoozle, this EP is all covers to hold fans over until the next record. Bands covered include Rush, Triumph, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, April Wine, and the video below Alannah Myles. Wasn't expecting that song at all from a metal band.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZFeOJHGU_Y[/youtube]

 

Motorhead – Bad Magic 

Genre: Heavy metal
Origin: London, England
Label: UDR

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This album marks the band's 40th year of existence. That's a fucking feat in heavy metal. I'd say it's on par with the last handful of records. Few really cool songs, few clunkers, but unmistakably Motorhead through and through.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRvNu9cioLo[/youtube]

 

Nile – What Should Not Be Unearthed 

Genre: Death metal
Origin: Greenville, South Carolina
Label: Nuclear Blast

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Technical, chaotic death metal about Egyptian stuff. What Nile is as a band, and what it always shall be. It's heavy and brutal as ever. Although, I honestly can't tell if this album is good or fresh in the Nile oeuvre. Fans, you digging this?

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSVqclCr4fI[/youtube]

 

Soilwork – The Ride Majestic 

Genre: Melodic death metal
Origin: Helsingborg, Sweden
Label: Nuclear Blast

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I feel like Soilwork was really in a funk around the release of The Panic Broadcast. The albums before that all ran together, despite having a few stand out songs. However, The Living Infinite felt like a breath of fresh air for the band and The Ride Majestic continues the musical diversity, new levels of technicality, and strong song writing. It's already a personal favorite in their catalog.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wLXeWKGRpM[/youtube]

 

Also dropping today…

Audiotopsy – Natural Causes (Napalm) – Nu-Metal
Black .44 – No Blanks (Inverse) – Gun-pop
Blood Divisions – Blood Divisions EP (Metal Blade) – Heavy metal
Bridge To Grace – Origins (Run) – Rock
Carousel – 2113 (Tee Pee) – Stoner
Cavern – Outsiders (Grimoire) – Progressive Sludge/Thrash Metal
Creeping – Revenant (Iron Bonehead) – Doom
Deep Black – Nails (Van) – Gothic
Die Krupps – V: Metal Machine Music (SPV) – Industrial metal
Embassy Of Silence – Verisimilitude (Inverse) – Progressive gothic metal
Grim Vision – War Agony EP (Bastardized) – Hardcore
Kalmen – Course Hex (Van) – Doom
King Dude – Songs Of Flesh & Blood… (Van) – "Luciferian"
Never To Arise – Gore Whores On The Killing Floor (Cimmerian Shade) – Death metal
Path Of Samsara – The Fiery Hand (Van) – Doom?
Plaguewielder – Chambers Of Death (HPGD) – Atmospheric doom
Putridity – Ignominious Atonement (Willowtip) – Brutal death metal
Reds'cool – Press Hard (SPV) – Hard rock
Rifftera – Pitch Black (Inverse) – Alternative/Melodic death metal
Simulacrum – Sky Divided (Inverse) – Progressive
Sparrows – Dragging Hell EP (New Damage) – Post-hardcore
The Spirit Cabinet – Hystero Epileptic Possessed (Van) – Heavy metal
Tad Morose – St. Demonius (Despotz) – Power metal
Theologian – A Means By Which To Break The Surface… (Nothing Under The Sun) – Electronic/drone
Urn – Epiphany (Dark Moon) – Gothic-ish hard rock
Wederganger – Halfvergaan Ontwaakt (Van) – Black metal