{"id":1786488,"date":"2026-02-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1786488"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:00:00","slug":"the-weekly-injection-new-releases-from-exhumed-sylosis-more-out-this-week-2-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1786488","title":{"rendered":"The Weekly Injection: New Releases From EXHUMED, SYLOSIS &amp; More Out This Week 2\/20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/cdn-p.smehost.net\/sites\/7f9737f2506941499994d771a29ad47a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/the-weekly-injection-photo.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"zox-post-body left zoxrel zox100\">\n<div id=\"8263\"><\/div>\n<p>This week&#8217;s new heavy metal releases\u00a0include\u00a0thrashing prog, epic deathcore, horrible car crashes in sonic form, and more! To the metals\u2026<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstracted \u2013 <em>Hiraeth<\/em><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-p.smehost.net\/sites\/7f9737f2506941499994d771a29ad47a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/abb-750x750.jpg\" alt=\"The Weekly Injection: New Releases From EXHUMED, SYLOSIS &amp; More Out This Week 2\/20\" class=\"wp-image-616572\"><\/figure>\n<p>Genre: Progressive death\/extreme metal<br \/>Origin: S\u00e3o Paulo, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil <br \/>Label: M-Theory Audio<\/p>\n<p>Buy now on Bandcamp<\/p>\n<p>What a prog metal feast this is. You&#8217;ve getting tons of heavy grooves, rhythmic shifts, catchy moments, and genre dabbling. There&#8217;s even a guest spot from Chaney Crabb of <strong>Entheos<\/strong>. This was my introduction to the band, and what an intro it was.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ABSTRACTED - Languish ft. Chaney Crabb (Official Video)\" width=\"880\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d4DnTW_q29U?feature=oembed\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dissentience \u2013 <em>Kaiju<\/em><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-p.smehost.net\/sites\/7f9737f2506941499994d771a29ad47a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/diss-750x750.jpg\" alt=\"The Weekly Injection: New Releases From EXHUMED, SYLOSIS &amp; More Out This Week 2\/20\" class=\"wp-image-616566\"><\/figure>\n<p>Genre: Progressive thrash\/death metal<br \/>Origin: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania<br \/>Label: Self-released<\/p>\n<p>Buy now on Bandcamp<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to keep it proggy, but shift the vibe a lot with this EP. <strong>Dissentience<\/strong> are as adventurous as <strong>Abstracted<\/strong>, but heavier and darker. These four songs are unrelenting and pummeling.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DISSENTIENCE - Kaiju (Official Single Visualizer)\" width=\"880\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_LeFFQG8USE?feature=oembed\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Exhumed \u2013 <em>Red Asphalt<\/em><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-p.smehost.net\/sites\/7f9737f2506941499994d771a29ad47a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/a0347787736_10-750x750.jpg\" alt=\"The Weekly Injection: New Releases From EXHUMED, SYLOSIS &amp; More Out This Week 2\/20\" class=\"wp-image-616575\"><\/figure>\n<p>Genre: Deathgrind<br \/>Origin: San Jose, California<br \/>Label: Relapse<\/p>\n<p>Buy now on Bandcamp<\/p>\n<p>Do they still show Red Asphalt in driver&#8217;s ed? For those unaware, it was a film showed the aftermath of brutal car crashes to scare you into driving safely (or maybe inspire death metal kids for years to come). Perfect inspiration for a gore-obsessed metal band, right? <strong>Exhumed<\/strong> thought so. This is a nasty one.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"EXHUMED - Shovelhead (Official Music Video)\" width=\"880\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SLrh2Pefdao?feature=oembed\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sylosis \u2013 <em>The New Flesh<\/em><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-p.smehost.net\/sites\/7f9737f2506941499994d771a29ad47a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/a4044884454_10-750x750.jpg\" alt=\"The Weekly Injection: New Releases From EXHUMED, SYLOSIS &amp; More Out This Week 2\/20\" class=\"wp-image-616578\"><\/figure>\n<p>Genre: Melodic death metal<br \/>Origin: Reading, Berkshire, England <br \/>Label: Nuclear Blast<\/p>\n<p>Buy now on Bandcamp<\/p>\n<p>Album number seven from Josh Middleton and pals is another shredding masterclass. It also feels like their most melodic one yet. When a big sing-a-long chorus hits, woo boy does it soar. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SYLOSIS - The New Flesh (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)\" width=\"880\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HKR2JWBEuaw?feature=oembed\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Worm Shepherd \u2013 <em>Dawn Of The Iconoclast<\/em><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-p.smehost.net\/sites\/7f9737f2506941499994d771a29ad47a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/worm-750x750.jpg\" alt=\"The Weekly Injection: New Releases From EXHUMED, SYLOSIS &amp; More Out This Week 2\/20\" class=\"wp-image-616569\"><\/figure>\n<p>Genre:Blackened deathcore<br \/>Origin: Brockton, Massachusetts <br \/>Label: Unique Leader Records<\/p>\n<p>Buy now on Bandcamp<\/p>\n<p>Wrapping this week in a really heavy and dark place. This EP contains five songs that lay waste to your eardrums with bombastic symphonic elements and just the most deathcore-ass deathcore there is. Tru Purdue is the only one from their last go around <em>Hunter<\/em>, but returning drummer Leo McClain, and the trio of new pals know how to hit.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Worm Shepherd - Whispers Ov A Buried Land (Official Video)\" width=\"880\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3y4_noIE9to?feature=oembed\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Also dropping this week\u2026<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Aeon Gods<\/strong> \u2013<em> Reborn To Light <\/em>(Scarlet Records) \u2013 Symphonic\/power metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Amongruins<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Advent Of Chaos <\/em>(Theogonia Records) \u2013 Melodic death metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Atlas<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Sunder<\/em> (Odyssey Music Network) \u2013 Melodic death metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bayonet Dismemberment<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Skull Crushed by a Tank<\/em> (Iron Fortress Records) \u2013 Brutal death metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bizarrekult<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Alt Som Finnes <\/em>(Underground Activists) \u2013 Post-black metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chained To The Bottom Of The Ocean <\/strong>\u2013 <em>Let Us Not Speak Of Them But Look And Pass On<\/em> (Redscroll Records) \u2013 Sludge\/doom<\/li>\n<li><strong>Clawfinger<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Before We All Die<\/em> (Perception) \u2013 Rap\/nu metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Coscradh<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<em>Carving The Causeway To The Otherworld<\/em>\u00a0(20 Buck Spin) \u2013 Death\/black metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Crowen<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Through The Dying Mist <\/em>(Inverse Records) \u2013 Melodic death\/folk metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Daidalos <\/strong>\u2013 <em>Dante<\/em> (Rockshots Records) \u2013 Symphonic black metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Darklore<\/strong> \u2013 <em>The Great Elven War <\/em>(Self-released) \u2013 Symphonic\/blackened death metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Death Of Youth<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Nothing Is The Same Anymore <\/em>(Sell The Heart Records\/Engineer Records) \u2013 Melodic hardcore<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dimsc\u00fba <\/strong>\u2013 <em>Dust Eater <\/em>(Big Scary Monsters) \u2013 Post-metal\/sludge<\/li>\n<li><strong>Domhain<\/strong> \u2013 <em>In Perfect Stillness <\/em>(These Hands Melt) \u2013 Post-black metal\/shoegaze<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dusk<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Bunker<\/em> (Self-released) \u2013 Industrial\/black metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dwellnought<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Monolith of Ephemerality<\/em> (Caligari Records) \u2013 Black metal\/doom<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ender<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Ender II: In Silent Throne <\/em>(Praetorian Records) \u2013 Progressive doom<\/li>\n<li><strong>Evig Natt<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Vaketimen<\/em> (Wormholedeath) \u2013 Gothic\/death metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eye Of Melian<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Forest Of Forgetting <\/em>(Napalm Records) \u2013 Folk metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Foreword<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Exposition<\/em> (Seek And Strike) \u2013 Metalcore<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hellstedt<\/strong> \u2013 <em>As Right As Rain<\/em> (Self-released) \u2013 Groove metal\/thrash<\/li>\n<li><strong>Horseman<\/strong> \u2013 <em>No Surrender in Dark Days<\/em> (Recordjet) \u2013 Groove metal\/metalcore<\/li>\n<li><strong>Incandescence<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Hors Temps <\/em>(Profound Lore) \u2013 Black metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lead Injector<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<em>Witching Attack<\/em>\u00a0(High Roller) \u2013 Black metal\/thrash<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Magus<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Daemonosophia<\/em> (The Circle Music) \u2013 Heavy\/black metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mirrorcell<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Long Nights In Lovescape<\/em> (InVogue Records) \u2013 Modern metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Monroe<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<em>Outerstellar<\/em>\u00a0(Silver Lining) \u2013 Rock\/glam<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nazghor<\/strong> \u2013 <em>A World Ablaze<\/em> (Solistitium Records) \u2013 Black metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Necronomicon Ex Mortis <\/strong>\u2013 <em>Zombie Blood Nightmare<\/em> (Self-released) \u2013 Death metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>New Found Glory<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Listen Up! <\/em>(Pure Noise Records) \u2013 Pop punk<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nightshade<\/strong> \u2013 <em>In Essence Divided <\/em>(My Kingdom Music) \u2013 Melodic death meta;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Northern Krig<\/strong> \u2013<em> Worship Files For Anthropophagolagnia Predators <\/em>(Self-released) \u2013 Black metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nytt Land<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<em>Aba Khan<\/em>\u00a0(Prophecy) \u2013 Folk<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phasma<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Purgatory<\/em> (Transcending Obscurity Records) \u2013 Technical blackened\/death metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Recreant<\/strong> \u2013 <em>The Code is V\u2026Outlive the Code<\/em> (Self-released) \u2013 Crossover\/thrash<\/li>\n<li><strong>Retrograth<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Antispaces<\/em> (C&amp;N Records) \u2013 Darkwave<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rotten Blasphemy <\/strong>\u2013 <em>Worshippers Of Cha\u00f6s <\/em>(Witches Brew) \u2013 Black metal\/thrash<\/li>\n<li><strong>Serpent Gates<\/strong> \u2013<em> The Veil Of Darkness <\/em>(Venomoon Records) \u2013 Heavy metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shadowspawn<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Cadaver Dogs<\/em> (Via Nocturna) \u2013 Death metal\/thrash<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stam1na<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Apnea<\/em> (Sakara) \u2013 Progressie thrash<\/li>\n<li><strong>Suplecs<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<em>Hymns Under A Blood Red Sky<\/em>\u00a0(Ripple) \u2013 Stoner metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Temple Balls <\/strong>\u2013\u00a0<em>Temple Balls<\/em>\u00a0(Frontiers) \u2013 Melodic rock<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transatlantic Radio<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Midnight Transmission <\/em>(Frontiers) \u2013 AOR<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trespasser <\/strong>\u2013 <em>\u05d9\u05b0\u05d4\u05b4\u05d9 \u05d0\u05d5\u05b9\u05e8<\/em> (Fucking Kill Records) \u2013 Black metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Veer Union<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Reinvention<\/em> (Arising Empire) \u2013 Alternative metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unmother<\/strong> \u2013 <em>State Dependent Memory <\/em>(Fiadh Productions) \u2013 Post-black metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>W.E.B.<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Darkness Alive <\/em>(Metal Blade Records) \u2013 Symphonic black metal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wreck-Defy<\/strong> \u2013 <em>Dissecting The Leech<\/em> (Massacre Records) \u2013 Thrash<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zepter<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<em>Zepter<\/em>\u00a0(High Roller) \u2013 Heavy metal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zox-post-body left zoxrel zox100\"><strong>Want More Metal? 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To the metals\u2026 Abstracted \u2013 Hiraeth Genre: Progressive death\/extreme metalOrigin: S\u00e3o Paulo, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil Label: M-Theory Audio Buy now on Bandcamp What a prog metal feast this is. 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