This week’s new heavy metal releases include a band’s farewell, a triple split, some really solid catchy stuff, and more! To the metals…

A Perfect Circle / Primus / Puscifer – Sessanta E.P.P.P.

The Weekly Injection: New Releases From SUM 41, A PERFECT CIRCLE/PRIMUS/PUSCIFER & More Out Today 3/29

Genre: Experimental rock/Primus
Origin: Los Angeles/El Sobrante, California
Label: Puscifer Entertainment

Buy now from the tour site

Maynard James Keenan is turning 60 and to celebrate his non-Tool bands are hitting the road with Primus. Just before all that, the bands are putting out this EP(PP) that features a new song from all three. The Primus song features Maynard, which I guess is in the spirit of the tour where all the bands perform with one another throughout the show.

The Absence – The Absence

The Weekly Injection: New Releases From SUM 41, A PERFECT CIRCLE/PRIMUS/PUSCIFER & More Out Today 3/29

Genre: Melodic death metal
Origin: Tampa, Florida
Label: Listenable Insanity

Buy now on Bandcamp

Now for some melodic death metal with some of that old school MDM flair. There are plenty of guitar earworms here that’ll keep you coming back. The aggression from the vocals, and really everything else will keep you moving.

Kólga – Black Tides

The Weekly Injection: New Releases From SUM 41, A PERFECT CIRCLE/PRIMUS/PUSCIFER & More Out Today 3/29

Genre: Surf/black metal
Origin: Dallas, Texas
Label: Otitis Media Records

Buy now or sample on Bandcamp

You all know that I love to highlight the weird when possible. When I got an email about a band that combines black metal and surf rock this had my attention. It’s both frosty and summer-y. You’ll wanna hang loose and windmill headbang while in a forest of palm trees. Very fun record.

Sum 41 – Heaven :X: Hell

The Weekly Injection: New Releases From SUM 41, A PERFECT CIRCLE/PRIMUS/PUSCIFER & More Out Today 3/29

Genre: Punk/hard rock
Origin: Ajax, Ontario
Label: Rise

Buy now on Amazon

On what they’re claiming will be their final record Sum 41 are saying goodbye with a double-album. Disc one is their melodic punk side (Heaven), and disc two features their more hard rock/straight ahead heavy metal side (Hell). It winds up feeling like a career retrospective despite being all new material. Should this farewell stick this would be quite the send off.

Venues – Transience

The Weekly Injection: New Releases From SUM 41, A PERFECT CIRCLE/PRIMUS/PUSCIFER & More Out Today 3/29

Genre: Metalcore/hard rock
Origin: Stuttgart, Germany
Label: Arising Empire

Buy now on Amazon

On Transience, Venues are combining grand, catchy choruses with some heavy grooves, and occasional techy bursts. Their a sonic cocktail that seems designed to take over their scene. This isn’t one for the old school heavy heads, but this is undeniably solid modern metal.

While She Sleeps – Self Hell

The Weekly Injection: New Releases From SUM 41, A PERFECT CIRCLE/PRIMUS/PUSCIFER & More Out Today 3/29

Genre: Metalcore/hard rock
Origin: Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
Label: Sleeps Brothers/Spinefarm)

Buy now from While She Sleeps

After almost twenty years, While She Sleeps has their melodic hard rock meshed with metalcore thing down to a science. There are so many earworms on this record and they usually come sandwiched between some undeniably badass grooves. You get to enjoy features from Aether and Malevolence as well.

Also dropping this week…

  • Above AuroraMyriad Woes (War Anthem Records) – Doom/black metal
  • Alkhemia Abraxas (Malpermesita Records) – Black metal
  • Ana – The Art Of Letting Go EP (Eclipse) – Symphonic metal
  • Boundaries – Death Is Little More (3Dot) – Hardcore
  • Cancervo III (Electric Valley Records) -Psychedelic/stoner
  • Cantique LépreuxLe bannissement (Eisenwald) – Black metal
  • Carrion Vael Cannibals Anonymous (Unique Leader Records) – Death metal/thrash
  • Charun Impending Decline (New Density Records) – Death metak
  • Child Shitegeist (Suicide Records) – Grindcore
  • Cnts – Thoughts & Prayers (Ipecac) – Punk
  • Coffins – Sinister Oath (Relapse) – Death metal/doom
  • Coffin Storm – Arcana Rising (Peaceville) – Heavy metal/doom – Full review
  • Darkestrah – Nomad (Osmose) – Folk/black metal
  • Divided Light Will Shine (Dunk!records) – Post-hardcore
  • Amira Elfeky Skin To Skin (Atlantic) – Nu metal
  • FlageladörCulto Aos Decibéis (Hellprod Records) – Speed metal/thrash
  • Frail BodyArtificial Bouquet (Deathwish Inc.) – Hardcore
  • Frank Never DiesRed Moon Rising (Argonauta Records) – Psychedelic
  • GivreLe cloître (Eisenwald) – Black metal
  • GlyphHonor. Power. Glory. (Black Note Music) – Power metal
  • Malphas – Portal (M-Theory) – Melodic death metal
  • Max Boogie OverdriveStoned Again (Future Primitive Recordings) – Stoner rock
  • Meadows Familiar With Pain (Facedown Records) – Melodic hardcore
  • Mutilation BarbecueAmalgamations Of Gore (Maggot Stomp) – Death metal
  • Nø ManGlitter And Spit (Iodine Recordings) – Hardcore
  • The Quill – Wheel Of Illusion (Metalville) – Stoner/hard rock
  • Rage – Afterlifelines (Steamhammer/SPV) – Heavy metal
  • Ren Marabou and The BerserkersHelgafjell (Wormholedeath) – Folk metal
  • The Rocky Valentines – Erase (Tooth & Nail) – Hard rock
  • Saturday Night SatanAll Things Black (Made of Stone Recordings) – Doom/occult rock
  • SeptageSeptic Worship (Intolerant Spree of Infesting Forms) (Me Saco un Ojo) – Grindcore/ death detal
  • slowchamber The Delay Of Suffering (Self-released) – Metalcore/hardcore
  • Sons Of Alpha CentauriPull (Exile On Mainstream) – Post-metal
  • Suffer Grand Canvas Of The Aesthete (Wise Blood Records) – Death metal
  • VerwoedThe Mother (Argento Records) – Black metal
  • VorgaBeyond the Palest Star (Transcending Obscurity) – Black metal
  • Esben Willems Glowing Darkness (Majestic Mountain Records) – Post-punk
  • Words Of Farewell Stories To Forget (Seek And Strike) – Melodic death metal
  • Wristmeetrazor – Degeneration (Prosthetic) – Metalcore
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