The last Weekly Injection of the year includes three weeks of danceable yet sad industrial, weird-ass blackened doom, Elden Ring metal, and more! To the metals…
The week of December 12th
Health – Conflict DLC
Genre: Industrial
Origin: Los Angeles, California
Label: Loma Vista Recordings
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This follow-up to 2023’s Rat Wars is a continuation of that record’s sound, but offers a little more fun. There’s still plenty of darkness, driving rhythms, and all that, but it feels a little easier to dance to. Enjoy a nice dance/cry here.
Reaping Asmodeia – Metempsychosis
Genre: Melodic/technical death metal
Origin: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Label: Cardinal Sin
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Reaping Asmodeia are wrapping their year with this EP. It includes a trio of songs – one of which is a Chimaira cover – then the b-side you’ll find those three songs instrumentally. Take that frontman Eric Keyes!
Volumes – Mirror Touch
Genre: Progressive metalcore/djent
Origin: Los Angeles, California
Label: Fearless
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If you’re in the mood for some smooth, almost-R&B metalcore then the new Volumes will be up your alley. There is a bit of a Sleep Token, etc aura throughout, but these guys have some heavier grooves and djentier djents.
Also dropping this week…
- Abbie Falls – Life is just a temporary plan (Out of Line Music) – Modern metal
- Atavistia – The Winter Way (Reforged) (Blood Blast Distribution) – Melodic death metal
- Blood Of The Wolf – V: Indomitable (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions) – Blackened death metal
- Buried In Lies – Finding Beauty In Pain (Auricular Impalement) – Metalcore
- Bygone – Bygone (Svart) – Heavy metal/hard rock
- CoreLeoni – Live At Hallenstadion Zurich (Perception) – Hard rock
- Dark Sky Burial – The Sacred Neurotic (Consouling Sounds) – Avant-garde/experimental
- Dawn Of A Dark Age – Ver Sacrum (My Kingdom Music) – Atmospheric/experimental black metal
- Der Rote Milan – Verlust (Unholy Conspiracy Deathwork) – Black metal
- Dizzy – Yard Sale (Punkerton) – Punk
- Endless Curse – Disgusting Existence (Self-released) – Death metal
- Glasgow Kiss – Down In Flames (Eclipse Records) – Alternative/melodic death metal
- Graham Bonnet Band – Lost In Hollywood Again (Frontiers) – Rock
- The Harbinger – Gates Of Hell (Self-released) – Melodic death metal/doom
- Imperatore – The Lionspirit (Rockshots Records) – Symphonic/power metal
- Jim Peterik & World Stage – River Of Music: The Power Of Duets Vol. 1 (Frontiers) – Rock
- Kaosophia – Funeral Of The Gods (Serpent Sun Records) – Black metal
- Khepra – Anatomy Of Sin (Theogonia Records) – Symphonic death/folk metal
- Lord Of The Lost – Opvs Noir Vol. 2 (Napalm) – Gothic/industrial metal
- Lust Of Decay – Entombed In Sewage (Comatose Music) – Brutal death metal/grindcore
- Martröð – Draumsýnir eldsins (Debemur Morti Productions) – Black metal
- Rob Moratti – Sovereign (Frontiers) – Rock
- Morbonoct – No One Knows We’re Dying (Self-released) – Symphonic black metal
- Nattradio – The Longest Night (Darkness Shall Rise Productions) – Gothic rock/doom
- Orbis de Ignis – Ancestral Strides (Coppermine Records) – Gothic metal/doom
- Pincer+ – Who Are You When No One’s Around (Greyscale Records/1126 Records) – Metalcore/hardcore
- Rotten Sound – Mass Extinction (Season Of Mist) – Grindcore
- Rotting Christ – Evil Existence – Live In Lycabettus (Season Of Mist)
- Sacred Leather – Keep The Fire Burning (King Volume Records) – Heavy metal
- Second Harbour – Coalesce (SharpTone) – Post-hardcore
- Sun Of The Suns – Entanglement (Scarlet) – Progressive deathcore
- Vrsty – Cloud City (Archives) (Spinefarm) – Acoustic post-hardcore
- Walk In Darkness – Gods Don’t Take Calls (Self-released) – Gothic metal
- Windswept – The Devil’s Vertep (Underground Activists) – Black metal
- YHWH – Khatha (Wormholedeath) – Blackened death metal
- Zero 9:36 – They Were Always Here (OneRPM) – Rap metal
Week of December 19th
Lychgate – Precipice
Genre: Avant-garde black metal/doom
Origin: London, England
Label: Debemur Morti
Buy now on Bandcamp
The weather is drab, so let’s get weird and evil with Lychgate. The band’s first album in seven years arrives with the return of drummer Tom Vallely and new bassist Tom MacLean and you can really hear the added Tom this time. This sounds like a nightmare in a reverberating void. Good, off-putting stuff.
Starscourge – Conqueror Of The Stars – Betwixt Sundered Seraphim, The Lands Between Bleed
Genre: Death/black metal
Origin: Malmö, Skåne, Sweden / Singapore
Label: Self-released
Buy now on Bandcamp
Elden Ring metal. Why not? There’s all sorts of fun and weird metal. This is the debut from this duo and it is a fully-forged, epic metal adventure of a record. In addition to the ten songs inspired by the game (I assume. I basically only play Animal Crossing.) you’re also getting a cover of Slayer‘s “Spirit In Black.”
Also dropping the week of the 19th
- Dead Sun – This Life Is A Grave (Emanzipation) – Death metal
- Dulce Liquido – Mind Domination (Out Of Line Music) – Industrial metal
- Funeral Vomit – Upheaval Of Necromancy (Xtreem Music) – Death metal
- Imperatore – The Lionspirit (Rockshots Records) – Power metal
- Pythonic – Decomposition (Self-released) – Death metal/thrash
- Scheitan – Wine For A Tormented Soul (The Circle Music) – Gothic metal
- Taedifer – Indivinus (Archaic Sound) – Death metal
- Trold – Til Gilde Under Ulven (Live At Copenhell ’25) (Mighty) – Folk metal
- Weft – The Splintered Oar (Bindrune) – Black metal
Week of December 26th
Abysmal Grief – Taetra Philosophia
Genre: Doom
Origin: Genoa, Ligury, Italy
Label: Avantgarde Music
Buy now on Bandcamp
Merry Riffmas! Abysmal Grief brought you a sinister a combination of doom riffs mixed with creepy organ for being so… bad? This really seems like more of a Halloween album, but enjoy it over some eggnog anyway!
Also dropping the week of Boxing Day
- Aldious – The Dominators Last Standing 2025 (Columbia_ – Power metal
- Black Mold – Antinomy (Helldprod Records) – Black metal/punk
- Consanguine – Worlds Hidden Behind Vision, Rituals Hidden Behind Dream (Self-released) – Progressive black metal
- St. Unholyness – Through High Holy Haze (Self-released) – Stoner/black metal
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