This edition of the Weekly Injeciton features a band that shares a name with one of my favorite Mortal Kombat characters, a band named after one of my favorite parts of a fork, a band that probably got it's name from a cat laying on a keyboard and more! To the metals…
Cyrax – Pictures 
Genre: Progressive
Origin: Milan, Italy
Label: Bakerteam
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Somewhere between King Diamond and Dream Theater and Shining is this weird musical collective Cyrax. Soaring insane vocals, electronic beeps and so much groove. I've very curious about the entire thing. Lots of odd fun to be had here.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs_1IMX3GLE[/youtube]
Nightwish – Endless Forms Most Beautiful 
Genre: Symphonic metal
Origin: Kitee, Finland
Label: Nuclear Blast
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I just realized that this is the first album with Floor Jansen (ex-After Forever) and while this is absolutely another Nightwish record, her vocals fit into this formula very well. I'm sure long time fans will forever cry for Tarja, but this is they best they've been since her.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPonioDYnoY[/youtube]
Prong – Songs From the Black Hole 
Genre: Groove/Thrash
Origin: New York City, New York
Label: eOne / SPV
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These thrashy gents are getting in touch with they punk/hardcore side on this covers album. Features Prong renditions of songs originally performed by Discharge, Black Flag, Fugazi and more. Never really been into punk, OG punk or otherwise, so it might be blasphemy to say that I prefer these covers.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3cQc3ApxxQ[/youtube]
Thurisaz – The Pulse of Mourning 
Genre: Atmospheric black metal
Origin: Wervik, Belgium
Label: Sleaszy Rider
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Great doomy epics from full of beauty, dread, and despair. Like Insomnium with some added black metal elements. Fucking fantastic.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydB8vVNfvJY[/youtube]
Ufomammut – Ecate 
Genre: Psych stoner/doom
Origin: Tortona, Italy
Label: Neurot
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Fuzzy, lurching, ominous, fuzz madness. Sounds like the band recorded and entire album, then ran that album through a Russian Muff. Did I mention that this is super fuzzy? Because it is really fuzzy!
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho88ZlrLQBk[/youtube]
Wino & Conny Ochs – Freedom Conspiracy 
Genre: Folk
Origin: Maryland/Germany
Label: Exile On Mainstream
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And now for something completely different! This album is largely, if not entirely, acoustic arrangements from one of one of doom's greatest figures and a fella named Conny Ochs. This is the third collaboration between these two from what I can tell. Pretty great actually. It's a welcomed break from aggression, technicality, pummeling rhythms, etc while still resting in the metal realm.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRoxby91yUs[/youtube]
Also dropping today…
Abhor – Ritualia Stramonium (Moribund)
Acoda – Truth Seeker (Best Before)
Ad Nauseam – Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est (Lavadome)
Akrotheism / Septuagint – Sphinx: The Great Enigma of Times Split (Forever Plagued)
Ancient Rites – Laguz (Massacre)
Antagoniste – The Myth Of Mankind (I, Voidhanger)
Black Flame – The Origin of Fire (Avantgarde)
Blackout – Blackout (Riding Easy)
Blliigghhtted – Zeroes (Merdumgriz)
Choking On Illusions – Rest/less (Bastardized)
Corrosion – Corrosion (Mas-Kina)
De La Muerte – De La Muerte (Bakerteam)
Downfall of Nur – Umbras de Barbagia (Avantgarde)
Entail – United States Of Mind EP (Memorial)
Fortid – 9 (Schwarzdorn)
Hollywood Undead – Day of the Dead (Interscope)
Hot Lunch – Slappy Sunday EP (Scion)
Inculter – Persisting Devolution (Edged Circle)
Infesting Swarm – Desolation Road (Art of Propaganda)
Iris Divine – Karma Sown (Sensory)
Irreversible Mechanism – Infinite Fields (Blood)
Katatonia – Sanctitude DVD/CD (Kscope)
Mor Dagor – Redeemer (Osmose)
Multinational Corporations – Jamut-al-Maut (Transcending Obscurity)
Murg – Varg & Bjorn (Nordvis)
Nepente – I Will Get Your Soul (Cimmerian Shade)
Pantommind – Searching For Eternity (Spectastral)
Pentagram – All Your Sins DVD (Peaceville)
Pombagira – Flesh Throne Press (Svart)
Pregierz – Blood Sanctions EP (Blood Harvest)
Rise of Avernus – Dramatis Personae (Code 666)
Signs Of Darkness – The Age Of Decay (Shiver)
Spectral Darkwave – First Last Contact (Occidental)
Temperance – Limitless (Scarlet)
Terra – Untitled (Hibernacula)
Three Days Grace – Human (RCA)
Tome Of The Unreplenished – Innerstanding (I, Voidhanger)
Under Paris – Transitions (Imminence)
Violent Reaction – Marching On (Revelation)
Viper Solfa – Carving An Icon (Massacre)
Voice Of The Soul – Catacombs (Hell's Hammer/Transcending Obscurity)
We Are Harlot – We Are Harlot (Roadrunner)
Where Evil Follows – Portable Darkness (Moribund)
Wrathage – Discipline (MAA)
