New Music Friday – December 8th, 2023

Welcome to this week’s New Music Friday, our wrap-up of all the releases ranging from metalcore, post-hardcore, indie and alternative. Take a look at our release calendar to see what releases are due soon. The NMF playlist can be found here or at the bottom of the page.

STAFF PICKS

Sarita Idalia Traces of Light (Single)
Label – Stellar Frequencies
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Dobbin recommends: Sarita Idalia’s new track “Traces of Light” is a frigid ballad for fuzz pedals, the best she’s sounded in her solo work so far. The all-important mix is deliberately cold and unforgiving, as if the drums only an arm’s reach away, whilst the vocals are spectral and starlike. Certainly one for the slow-heads, fans of Grouper, Chelsea Wolfe, and Midwife. The track will appear on an upcoming record released through French label Stellar Frequencies, a proudly reverb-oriented label. 

Nedaj – DARKNESS (feat. FlowerBoyDeMii) (Single)
Label –
NUMBPROMISES
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Joe recommends: Nedaj continues their standout year with their latest collaboration alongside breakcore stalwart FloweBoyDeMii on track “DARKNESS”. Racing beats dance around the soundscape with remixed and blended vocals, adding in an ethereal quality to “DARKNESS”.

Mountain Caller – March of the Göll (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Max recommends: Single number three from three-piece Mountain Caller is track… five, “March of the Göll”. It starts all nasty, likely the heaviest moment on the upcoming record, but it still  presents their blend of bouncy instrumental-doom. The finale is stellar, somehow binding an epic tale into just six minutes. 

Perturbator – Dangerous (feat. Kabbel) (From The “American Psycho” Comic Series Soundtrack) (Single)
Label –
Sumerian Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Harry recommends: The king of synthwave makes their return with soundtrack feature “Dangerous”, working alongside fellow Frenchmen, Kabbel. Both combine to make for a scintillating and groove laden listen.

METAL/CORE RELEASES

Atreyu – The Beautiful Dark of Life
Label – Spinefarm Records

Bloodred Hourglass – How’s the Heart? (Bonus Version)
Label – Out of Line Music

Jarhead Fertilizer – Carceral Warfare
Label – Closed Casket Activities

Osiah – Kairos
Label – Unique Leader Records

Surut – Unelma
Label – Suicide Records

Break Fifty – Every Scream Became a Whisper in the Dark (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Independent

PSYCHO-FRAME – AUTOMATIC DEATH PROTOCOL (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – SWAMP SOUND

SAVE US – Lucid (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Year of the Rat Records

Andromida – Lost Voices (EP)
Label – FixT

Never Back Down – Pathfinder (EP)
Label – Independent

Neverland in Ashes – Haunted (EP)
Label – Independent

Weightless – A STATE OF MIND (EP)
Label – Independent

CLEARxCUT – The Seventh Seal (Single)
Lagel – Lifeforce Records

Discoveries NC – Spineless (feat. Taylor Barber) (Single)
Label – Independent

Embla North – Like Hell (Single)
Label – Lost Tongue Records

Glassbone – No elevation for the sinners (Single)
Label – Independent

Quiet Fear – Presidio (Single)
Label – Persistent Vision

TheCityIsOurs – Shame (Single)
Label – Arising Empire

Vanitas – I’m Here (from “Sonic Frontiers) (Single)
Label – Independent

ZOMBIESHARK! – Put Your Glasses On, Nothing Can Be Wrong (Single)
Label – Theoria Records

While She Sleeps – DOWN (feat. Malevolence) (Single)
Label – Independent

Thoughtcrimes – Rose Bather (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records

HARDCORE RELEASES

Glower – Gaunt Sun
Label – Independent

Sentinel – Age of Decay
Label – Convulse Records

Skinhead – Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt
Label – Closed Casket Activities

Abstain – Winter Promo (EP)
Label – Independent

EDICT – In Defense Of Labor (EP)
Label – Unbeaten Records

Outright – Bury Us (EP)
Label – Reason and Rage Records / Life Lair Regret Records

Test of Patience – Test of Patience (EP)
Label – Independent

Warpath HC – Separation of Pain and Desire (EP)
Label – Independent

Brawler N.Z.H.C. – Push Back (Single)
Label – 1054 Records

Eight Count – Revenge (feat. Terror) (Single)
Label –
Independent

Surfaced – Right With God (Single)
Label – Independent

Comeback Kid – Trouble In The Winners Circle (Single)
Label – Sharptone Records

Rough Justice – Faith In Vain (Single)
Label – MLVLTD

Splitknuckle – Breathing Through The Wound (Single)
Label – DAZE

Gender Warfare – (I Am Not Your) Dude (Single)
Label – Subwoofers Anonymous

POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES

AV Sunset – Disconnections [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Independent

Dream Drop – Acne Superstar
Label – Sony Music

Have Mercy – NUMB
Label – Rude Records

HEALTH – RAT WARS
Label – Loma Vista Recordings

IMMERSE – ENERGY
Label – Adventure Cat Records

Devil May Care – MANDALA (EP)
Label – Independent

Galleons – Deadman Wonderland (EP)
Label – Famined Records

Greenwood – Somewhere With You (EP)
Label – MKES LTD

panicwaves – Roots (EP)
Label – Easthaven Records

Abandoned In Destiny – Dead End (Single)
Label – Independent

ALESTI – Sinner (feat. Jonathan Grimes) (Single)
Label – Independent

Bad Juju – Don’t Pretend (Single)
Label – Independent

Captives – Oblivion (Single)
Label – Independent

Dream State – Anxious State of Mind (Single)
Label – Independent

LEAVE. – When I’m Gone (Single)
Label – Out of Line Music

Set It off – Parasite (Single)
Label – Independent

Banks Arcade – More Want (Single)
Label – UNFD

Rivals – Nobody Loves Me (Single)
Label – Independent

Time Lost – Eternal Vibe (Single)
Label – Church Road Records

True North – Still Enough (Single)
Label – Out of Line Music

Hands Like Houses – Heaven (Single)
Label – Cooking Vinyl

Architects – Seeing Red (Single)
Label – Epitaph

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES

Alison Goldfrapp – The Love Reinvention
Label – BMG

BAKGROUND – Schway City
Label – SYNECDOCHE

Kimbra – A Reckoning (Deluxe Version)
Label – Independent

Leith Ross – To Learn, More
Label – Republic Records

Bvdub & Inquiry – Destroyesterday. (EP)
Label – AY

GnB Chili – RND (EP)
Label – dreamstation

San Huan – To Increase the Height (EP)
Label – 857

CVC – The Remortgage Anthem (Single)
Label – Independent

CYPARISS – don’t step (feat. Puhf) (Single)
Label – nxnameslxft

Devault – Chains (feat. Daya) (Single)
Label – Ultra Records

Fred again… – leavemealone (feat. Baby Keem) (Single)
Label – Warner Music

IDLES – Grace (Single)
Label – Partisan Records

Luna Shadows – witches’ brew – haunted version (Single)
Label – Independent

Utsyō\\ – give it back (Single)
Label – neōn\\utsyō

8485 – Something bad (Single)
Label –
Independent