In this week’s New Records Round Up, we bring you teasers for 10 recently announced albums and EPs.
Brymir – What We Leave Behind
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Brymir will release new album What We Left Behind on October 2 through Napalm Records.
The band said: “Since our previous album, the world certainly hasn’t gotten any lighter—and as art reflects life, our fifth album, What We Leave Behind, is the darkest creation we’ve made so far. Both musically as well as thematically… ‘What We Leave Behind?’ is the core question explored from many perspectives: from personal hopes, dreams, and fears to societal developments to dark sci-fi and existential despair. Join us on this dark emotional journey, at times violent, at times beautiful, and always honest in baring the soul of what is BRYMIR – no compromise, everything raw and real.”
Tracklist:
Slaying Star
Sleipnir
Tempestbound
What We Leave Behind
True Darkness
Moment Of Silence
Buried Legion
Thy Self The Highest Love
The Roaring King
Broken Dawn
How Much Is The Fish
Defects – Artificial Icons
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Defects will release new album Artificial Icons on October 16 through Mascot Records.
Tracklist:
Heresy
Artificial Icons
Where Did I Go Wrong
Signs (feat. Matthew K. Heafy)
Interlude
Critic
State of Mind
Hollow
The Other Side
All For Nothing
Afterglow
Miss May I – No Place For Me
Credit: Nate Black
Miss May I will release new album No Place For Me on October 2 through Solid State Records.
Vocalist Levi Benton said: “No Place For Me is everything I’ve felt for a long time but never had the words for. Writing it taught me who I actually am even when that hurt to look at. It’s a full journey: Where it started, what I discovered, and where I am today.”
Tracklist:
Sanctuary
Portrait of Pain
Hand Me A Halo
Pray for Silence
Death Threat
Die on the Vine
Fire Falls
Bury Me Down
Ashes Of The Altar
Highbrow Thieves
TV Priest – Cartoons
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TV Priest will release new album Cartoons on November 6 through AMK/Kartel Music Group.
Vocalist Charlie Drinkwater said: “Cartoons is a record about confusion. About the small, daily unspooling of the worlds we thought we knew, and the strange new ones being born in their slipstream. About heroes and villains and the increasingly thin and trembling line between them. About surveillance and sanctuary, and where, exactly, a person is allowed to disappear. About me, and sometimes about you.
“Cartoons began in slowing down. Alex Sprogis and I wrote it over two quiet years, and somewhere in that time we stopped guarding our front door. We let the room get crowded with collaborators, friends, and a wider cast of players. The songs grew louder and stranger and more tender for it. It is the most communal thing we’ve ever made, and the most exposed.
“It is also, somehow, our most direct record and our most expansive. The songs come for you quicker now; the choruses are not embarrassed to mean what they say. But underneath, the ground has shifted. American alt rock leans against electronic production. Alex’s guitars run into programmed drums, organic field recordings, digital data samples, and a low end that takes cues from dance production. And for the first time, I stopped being afraid to sing; to carry a melody out in the open, unguarded, without the old reflex to undercut or hide something. There is hiss and choir, machine and breath.
“If we used to point the lens outward, this time we turned it back on ourselves. Cartoons is more personally political: a record about how I try, and very often fail, to move through late capitalism, work, family, love and the long weather of my own interior. There is anger in it, but also tenderness; and grief that has stopped lying to itself. Not resolution. Just company, out in the noisy world.”
Tracklist:
Just So You Know
Cartoons
Ultraviolet Blue
The Mud Never Dries
A Song From The Riverbed
Love Song (A Good Kind of Weapon)
Into Shape
Daily Recommendations
I Am
Epping
Feldspar – Soft Side
Feldspar will release new album Soft Side on October 9.
Tracklist:
Heart Is A Ghetto
Good Kids
Family Man
Soft Side
Sweating On
Unsober
Slow Down
Aberdeen
Iron And Velcro
Growing Concern
Night Laser – Rats in the Cradle
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Night Laser will release new album Rats in the Cradle on September 25.
Vocalist Benno Hankers said: “Night Laser have become the band we’ve always wanted to be. The handbrake is off and the turbo has been ignited. This is our most diverse album to date and it breathes rock, metal, blues, funk and, above all, friendship and fun!”
Night Laser bassist Rob Hankers said: “With this new album, we’ve definitely found our unique style.”
The band added: “Every track bears our individual signatures and is the result of days and nights spent in the rehearsal room. Each one of us contributed a piece of their soul to our latest album!”
Tracklist:
S.T.F.U.
Make You Mine
Defenders (Feat. Sebastian Zierof)
Blueberry Gin (Feat. Sascha Paeth)
Heart Of The Desert Rose (Feat. Johnny Gioeli)
Rats In The Cradle
Into The West
19CR490
Get Out (Feat. Lars Rettkowitz)
Goddess Of The Sky
You And Me
Mastodon – Marrow Deep
Credit: William Lacalmontie
Mastodon will release new album Marrow Deep on August 28 through Loma Vista Recordings.
Tracklist:
Barbarians Blood
Poisonous Weapons
Your Ghost Again
Snakes For Dinner
Out Like a Lamb
In the Ruins
They’re Coming For You
Golden Spires
Moth and Bone
A Vampire’s Demeanor
The Vanishing
The Three Fates
BRAT – Manslayer
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BRAT will release new album Manslayer on September 25 through Prosthetic Records.
The record has some country influences.
“There’s not a lot of those tropes in death metal,” Liz Selfish says by way of contrast, “which I think primarily is because there’s not a lot of women in that space. I thought that was a really cool perspective and I really liked the storytelling aspect of it.
“It’s quite new territory for me, and it wasn’t necessarily an intentional thing initially.
“I wrote the first song for the album, and I just loved writing, and I was like, ‘I really love doing this, and I want to do more, so I ended up writing the whole album. Brenner’s main focus is writing music – he wants to write riffs – so he wasn’t too torn up about not writing the lyrics. It was a nice passing of the torch.
“We’re evolving the bimboviolence and the campiness by making it all a little bit darker with this album, and a bit more overtly violent.
“I think that will probably reflect in our stage show and our imagery as well, keeping it fun, not a total 180, but definitely progressing into something darker with it.”
Tracklist:
Intro
Aileen Wuornos
Speculum Bleed
Bone Spurs
Botch Tox
Media Slop
Trophy Hunting
Asking For Hell
Heretic Burning
Interlude
Manslayer (Hell Hath No Fury)
Bloody Mary
Femicidal Vengeance
Spit On His Grave
Ways To Kill Your Husband
Blistered Tongues
Outro
Walls Of Jericho – System Error: Humanity
Credit: Napalm Records
Walls Of Jericho will release new album System Error: Humanity on November 13 through Napalm Records.
Vocalist Candace Buckingham said: “System Error: Humanity is a raw, unapologetic, and our most aggressive record to date. We set out to capture the chaos, intensity, and raw energy of our live show rather than chase perfection.
“Lyrically, it’s a rebellion against the modern forces that fracture identity: comparison, conformity, distraction, and the endless pressure to perform instead of live. At its core, this album is about reclaiming your attention, owning your choices, and becoming who you were before the world told you who to be. Kill the noise. Reclaim yourself.”
Tracklist:
True Til’ Death
Beginning
The Flame
Broken Mouths Can’t Speak (feat. Randy Blythe)
Untouchable
Rise
Agency
Unchained
The End Before
Humanity (feat. Guy Kozowyk)
Borrowed Ground
Last Judgement
A Brighter Fire (feat. Patsy Puopolo & Matthew Ruby)
The Reckoning
The Ocean – Solaris
Credit: Pelagic Records
The Ocean will release new album Solaris on September 25 through Pelagic Records.
Tracklist:
52°30’11” N, 13°26’12“ E
Departure Song
Light Pollution
Simulacra
Belligerence
Ultima Esperanza
Milk Of My Dreams
51°28’30” S, 73°6’11” W
