A Rather eclectic week for all y'all metal nerds. This week includes some Norwegian craziness, positive-affirmation-core, lots of atmosphere, and more! To the metals…

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Destruction – Under Attack

Genre: Thrash

Origin: Weil am Rhein, Germany

Label: Nuclear Blast

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This long-running thrash band has returned with their first record in four years. This album doesn't really bring any surprises, but your melodic guitar solos, shrieking vocals, and grounded rhythm section are all back. It's hard to be upset since this formula has worked so well for them thus far.

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DevilDriver – Trust No One

Genre: Groove metal

Origin: Santa Barbara, California

Label: Napalm

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With Dez back in Coal Chamber, I half expected this record to feel phoned in. I'm not the biggest DevilDriver fan, but I've got to admit that this is probably the best record they're dropped in a while. The band is really getting the hang of this whole melodic death metal thing.

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Gorguts – Pleiades' Dust EP

Genre: Avant-garde Death Metal

Origin: Richmond, Canada

Label: Season Of Mist

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If you dug the Gorguts comeback album Colored Sands, you'll love this. It is one thirty-two minute song, so it requires a commitment. Pleiades' Dust is worth the commitment though. Luc Lemay is a genius and I'm still enjoying the influences that the Dysrhythmia guys brought to the band.

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Grand Magus – Sword Songs

Genre: Heavy metal/Doom

Origin: Stockholm, Sweden

Label: Nuclear Blast

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Do you need music to battle to? Is folk metal too silly for you? Is power metal just a bit too majestic? Then Grand Magus is your band you fierce warrior, you! Sharpen your blades and get the band's eighth record spinning to guide you.

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Hatebreed – The Concrete Confessional

Genre: Hardcore

Origin: New Haven, Connecticut

Label: Nuclear Blast

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Hatebreed is another band that doesn't do it for me, but I really appreciate what they're going for. Jamey Jasta and the gang are one of the bigger heavy bands out and they're discussing police brutality and political corruption while also pushing self-positive thinking. It's easy to get bogged down in all the bad shit, and having a reminder that maybe you don't suck is nice. The band is twenty-two years and seven albums in, and it's hard not to respect this band for doing what they do for so long.

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Kvelertak – Nattesferd

Genre: Heavy metal

Origin: Rogaland, Norway

Label: Roadrunner

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Nattesferd has Kvelertak really pulling out the dad rock anthem influence here. They're combining that with modern heavy chaos and I am loving it. There is a weirdness that was missing from Meir, and I'm happy to be hearing it again.

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Nothing – Tired Of Tomorrow

Genre: Shoegaze

Origin: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Label: Relapse

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I seem to be including at least one metal-adjacent band with each Weekly Injection these days, and here is this week's. If you don't already know Nothing then A) you are not Jon Snow (See what I did there?) and B) you're missing out. They are a fuzzy indie band that brings the heavy while being pretty moody. They've got some old Radiohead vibe to them, as well as some Deftones atmosphere. A very successful sophomore album from these guys. Way to avoid the slump fellas!

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Sylvaine – Wistful

Genre: Atmospheric black metal

Origin: Oslo, Norway /Paris, France

Label: Season Of Mist

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Still looking to fill the void of Alcest (mostly) dropping black metal from their sound created? Look no further than Sylvaine. Actually, this reminds me a lot of Neige's short-lived Amesoeurs project, which I loved. This is the one-woman post rock/blackened-ish metal's second album, and it is pretty tremendous.

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Also dropping today…

Arise In Chaos – Terminal Cognition (EMP) – Heavy metal

Avatar – Feathers & Flesh (eOne) – Nu metal

Blaak Heat – Shifting Mirrors (Tee Pee) – Psychedelic rock

Black Space Riders – Beyond Refugeeum EP (Cargo) – Space rock

Blakk Old Blood – Greed (Clavis Secretorvm) – Black metal

Bright Curse – Before The Shore (HeviSike) – Psych stoner

Coffin Lust – Manifestation Of Inner Darkness (Hells Headbangers) – Death metal

Dance Gavin Dance – Tree City Sessions (Rise) – Post-hardcore

Eleanora – Allure (Consouling Sounds) – Doom/sludge

Electric Citizen – Higher Time (RidingEasy) – Heavy metal

Ethereal Riffian – I Am Deathless EP (Robustfellow) – Stoner

Eversin – Flagellum Dei EP (Club Inferno) – Prog power metal

Gridfailure – Ensuring The Bloodline Ends (The Compound) – Experimental noise

Helhorse – Helhorse (Spinefarm) – Sludge rock

Hells – Paradise EP (Seeing Red) – Hardcore

I Am Noah – The Verdict (Bastardized) – Ambient metalcore

Imperium – Titanomachy (Ultimate Massacre) – Death metal

Lamori – To Die Once Again (Wormholedeath) – Goth rock

Lost Boots – Come Cold, Come Wind (Svart) – Garage rock

Mother Feather – Mother Feather (Metal Blade) – "Pop cock rock"

Nominon – Chaos In The Flesh…Live! (Morbid Skull) – Death metal

Phantom 5 – Phantom 5 (Frontiers) – Melodic rock

Phobocosm – Bringer Of Drought (Dark Descent) – Death metal

Pierce The Veil – Misadventures (Fearless) – Post-hardcore

Replicant – Worthless Desires EP (PRC) – "Unorthodox" Death Metal

Savage Master – With Whips And Chains (High Roller) – Heavy metal

Somerset – King Of The Lapiths (Wooaaargh) – Hardcore

Spotlights – Tidals (Crowquill) – Shoegaze

Subliminal Fear – Escape From Leviathan (Inverse) – Melodic death metal

Sunstorm – Edge Of Tomorrow (Frontiers) – Hard rock

Swollen Organs – Feelings About Gender Guilt Over Time (Annihilvs) – Noise metal/Grind

Ted Poley – Beyond The Fade (Frontiers) – Danger Danger rock

Toseland – Cradle The Rage (Metalville) – Motorcycle rock

Twenty Second Dimension – Twenty Second Dimension (Pavement) – Hard rock

Vega – Who We Are (Frontiers) – Melodic rock

Vetten Aparat – Syntyi Talven Kyynelistä (Inverse) – Folk metal