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THE WEEKLY INJECTION: New Releases From DOLLY PARTON, EARTHSIDE & More Out Today 11/17

Plus releases from Maul, Ritual Clearing, Sadus, and Temic

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This week's new heavy metal releases include an Ayreon-like guest-filld album by one of music's biggest legends, some really heavy stuff, some prog, and more! To the metals…

Earthside – Let The Truth Speak

THE WEEKLY INJECTION: New Releases From DOLLY PARTON, EARTHSIDE & More Out Today 11/17

Genre: Progressive metal
Origin: New Haven, Connecticut
Label: Music Theories

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It's been eight years since one of prog's best kept secrets released an album, and they're finally back with another record of diverse and epic metal. Like their first record, this one is full of guests. This time you're getting folks from Aarlon, Fire From The Gods, Tesseract, Leprous, and more.

Maul – Desecration And Enchantment

THE WEEKLY INJECTION: New Releases From DOLLY PARTON, EARTHSIDE & More Out Today 11/17

Genre: Death metal
Origin: Fargo, North Dakota
Label: 20 Buck Spin

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This is a brief but sick EP. This is nasty death metal with a lil black metal essence peppered in. It's a shame it's only two tracks, but if you're a cassette collector, that version has a third track.

Dolly Parton – Rockstar

THE WEEKLY INJECTION: New Releases From DOLLY PARTON, EARTHSIDE & More Out Today 11/17

Genre: Rock
Origin: Pittman Center, Tennessee
Label: Butterfly Records, Big Machine

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In 2022 Dolly Parton was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and vowed to make a rock record so she'd be worthy of the Rock and Roll title. Here is that record. it's largely a cover record where she takes on a song with the original artist in tow. So she is covering The Beatles with Paul and Ringo, Journey with Steve Perry, and more. One of the original songs features Rob Halford and John 5, so there's some metal connection if you need any. I mostly included it this week because it's fun and kind of weird. Live a little.

Ritual Clearing Penitence

THE WEEKLY INJECTION: New Releases From DOLLY PARTON, EARTHSIDE & More Out Today 11/17

Genre: Black metal
Origin: Connecticut
Label: Eternal Death

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Ok, right. Metal. Here you go. Some evil, raw sounding black metal for your Friday. The band's debut is an homage to the earliest grim stuff and will appeal to fans of Bathory and the likes. This is a frosty one so regardless of your weather conditions, bundle up.

Sadus – The Shadow Inside

THE WEEKLY INJECTION: New Releases From DOLLY PARTON, EARTHSIDE & More Out Today 11/17

Genre: Technical death metal/thrash
Origin: Antioch, California
Label: Nuclear Blast

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On their first record since their reunion, Sadus are out for blood. Good golly, this is a ferocious metal record that just exudes classic thrash energy. Jon and Darren are still big mad after almost twenty years.

Temic – Terror Management Theory

THE WEEKLY INJECTION: New Releases From DOLLY PARTON, EARTHSIDE & More Out Today 11/17

Genre: Progressive metal
Origin: Norway
Label: Season Of Mist

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Ending this week with another rad prog album. This one features current and former members of Haken, The Neal Morse Band, Maraton, and Shining. There is a through line of electronic influence and a lot of energy. While every musician is stellar, keyboardist Diego Tejeida steals focus a lot here.

Also dropping this week…

  • Aeternus – Philosopher (Agonia) – Death metal
  • Altars Of The Moon – The Colossus And The Widow (Disorder) – Black metal/doomgaze
  • Bassoon – Succumbent (Nefarious) – Avant-garde/progressive
  • BloodphemyDawn Of Malevolence (Non Serviam Records) – Death metal
  • Bull Elephant – The Long War (Eat Lead And Die) – Progressive death metal/doom
  • Cabrakaän – Aztlan (Self-released) – Folk/death metal
  • Care Of Night – Reconnected (Frontiers) – Melodic rock
  • Celeste – Epilogue(s) (Nuclear Blast) – Black metal/sludge
  • Condemned – Daemonium (Unique Leader) – Brutal death metal
  • Cruel Fate – Destin Cruel (Personal) – Death metal
  • DGM – Life (Frontiers) – Progressive metal
  • Death's-Head And The Space AllusionLUC-II-FARUL (Inverse Records) – Progressive metal/hard rock
  • The DialecticCrawl To The Throne (Seek & Strike) – Deathcore
  • Dogma Dogma (MNRK Heavy) – Hard rock/melodic metal
  • DownShiftOne in the Chamber (Self-released) – Hard rock
  • Draconicon Pestilence (Inner Wound Recordings) – Power metal
  • Dyssebeia Garden Of Stillborn Idols (Transcending Obscurity Records) – Progressive/blackened death metal
  • EldritchInnervoid (Scarlet Records) – Progressive/power metal
  • Elitist – A Merge Of Grandeur (Indisciplinarian) – Death metal/sludge
  • Fellahin Fall Urbana (Self-released) – Alternative/gothic metal
  • Foetal JuiceGrotesque (Gore House Productions) – Death metal
  • Gridfailure Shards In The Wire (Self-released) – Experimental/hardcore
  • Harmagedon Dystopian Dreams (Svart Records) -Stoner/hardcore
  • The Holy NothingVol 1: A Profound and Nameless Fear (Self-released) – Grunge/stoner
  • Hyperia – The Serpent's Cycle (Self-released) – Death metal/melodic thrash
  • Kilter The Suspended Woman (Alter-Nativ) – Progressive/post-metal
  • The ManikinsSwedish Woods (Lövely Records) – Garage rock
  • MMTH Infinite Heights (Crazysane Records) – Post-rock/progressive
  • Mormânt De SnagovInvocation Through Revocation (Wormholedeath) – Black metal
  • The MonarchA Moment To Lose Your Breath (Self-released) – Melodic metal
  • Nail Within – Sound Of Demise (Massacre) – Death metal/thrash
  • Neurectomy – Overwrought (Self-released) – Technical death metal
  • Nonpoint Heartless (361 Degrees Records LLC) – Nu metal
  • Plaguemace – Reptilian Warlords (Napalm) – Death metal
  • Post Profit – Self Defeater EP (SharpTone) – Post-hardcore/alternative
  • Psychic TrashPsychic Trash (RidingEasy Records) – Noise rock
  • Rank And Vile – Worship (Modern Grievance) – Grindcore/death metal
  • The RefreshmentsA Stiff One (Sound Pollution/Wild Kingdom) – Rock n roll
  • Robots Of The Ancient World – 3737 (Small Stone) – Doom/stoner rock
  • Soledriver – Return Me To Light (Frontiers) – Melodic rock
  • Suffocate FasterThis Is The Way Vol. 2 (Smartpunk Records)
  • TerromaniaNyctophobic (Ripple Music) – Groove metal
  • Texas In July – Without Reason (Equal Vision) – Metalcore
  • Unwell – Trial & Error (Self-released) – Rock
  • Vansind Mørket (Mighty Music) – Folk metal
  • Various Artists – Learn To Relax! A Tribute To Jehu (Noise Real Records) – Jehu covers
  • Venus – Obscured Until Observed (Xtreem) – Death metal/thrash
  • Wind Walkers – What If I Break? (Self-released) – Metalcore

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