Welcome to New Music Friday, where we wrap-up all of the releases from the week ranging from metalcore, hardcore, alternative and indie. Give our release calendar a look to see what other releases are coming up. The NMF playlist can be found here or at the bottom of the page.
STAFF PICKS
Omerta – Charade (feat. Vincente Void & Hash Gordon) (Single)
Label – Blowed Out Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Nick recommends: Houston’s Omerta are trailblazing with latest single “Charade”, a five minute offering that provides a beyond worthwhile listening experience. Fusing elements of K-pop with the organized chaos of nu metal and industrial music, Omerta have proven once again that their creativity knows no bounds.
Slow Pulse – Mind Rot (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Austin’s Slow Pulse continue to show their brutality on brand new single “Mind Rot”, fast and furious in every aspect with pissed vocals make for a track that will adjust a few noses at their upcoming show with Capra.
Lowen – Najang Bah Divhayeh Mazandaran (Single)
Label – Church Road Records / Lay Bare Recordings
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin recommends: Prog doomers Lowen are truly entering the big leagues: touring with Green Lung, recording with Lewis Johns, teaming up labels, and dropping their grandest track yet. Persian storytelling from vocalist Nina Saeidi incorporates both English and Farsi lyrics, giving Lowen a truly unique angle in today’s psych scene.
Demersal – Som Et Barn Mod Dit Bryst (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin recommends: A rare blackened track from the Danish screamo project is quiet a treat. Starting out windy and complex, the band switch it up a minute in, sinking into sullen majesty for a classic screamo outro that just keeps building. I promise the end will surpise you further – suffice to say I can’t wait to see how this might fit into the structure of a possible future LP.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
Doom Bleach – Burden
Label – Independent
Enterprise Earth – Death: An Anthology (The Instrumentals)
Label – MNRK
HEAVYHEX – True to You
Label – Bridge Nine
Terminal Nation – Echoes Of The Devil’s Den
Label – 20 Buck Spin
Unearthly Rites – Ecdysis
Label – Prosthetic Records
Uzrah – The Scorching Gaze
Label – APF Records
Agriculture – Living Is Easy (EP)
Label – The Flenser
Ba’al – Soft Eyes (EP)
Label – Independent
Iridium – Mortals (EP)
Label – Independent
Sails of Serenity – Eternal Echoes (EP)
Label – Famined Records
Synestia & Disembodied Tyrant – The Poetic Edda (EP)
Label – Independent
Who They Fear – Sovereign (EP)
Label – Independent
ClaymoreTX – Alter The Course Of Fate (EP)
Label – Independent
DeadVectors – Gravity Wave (EP)
Label – Independent
All That Remains – Divine (Single)
Label – Eleven Seven Music
Balance Breach – Million Miles Away (Single)
Label – Out of Line Music
BROJOB – COCKSNATCHER (Single)
Label – Hollowed Records
Callous Minds – Mirage (Single)
Label – Independent
Causality – Silicium (Single)
Label – Independent
Crystalview – 「.Luna:://Blossom.」(Single)
Label – Independent
Divide the Fall – Death of Me (Single)
Label – Independent
Fire From The Gods – Double Edged Sword (feat. Sylar) (Single)
Label – Better Noise Music
Gravemind – F.E.A.R. (feat. Jamie Hails) (Single)
Label – Grayscale Records
Foreign Hands – Horror Domain (Single)
Label – Sharptone Records
Our Hollow, Our Home – Veil Walker (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
Montclair – This Fragile Life (feat. Balmora) (Single)
Label – Ephyra
PALESKIN – Near Heaven (Single)
Label – Out of Line Music
Revnoir – The Pact (Single)
Label – Independent
RevengeinKyoto – Memories (feat. Candescent) (Single)
Label – Independent
Rise of the Northstar – Underrated (feat. Hyro the Hero) (Single)
Label – Atomic Fire
Saving Vice – Cry, Wolf (Single)
Label – Independent
Sleep Talk – Charged (Single)
Label – Independent
Southpaw FLHC – Face the Facts (feat. Kyle Medina of Bodysnatcher (Single)
Label – Independent
Turn the Course – I Felt You Here (Single)
Label – Independent
Wiltwither – Become One (feat. Carson Pace of The Callous Daoboys) (Single)
Label – Independent
Windwaker – Breaking the Rules (Single)
Label – Fearless Records
ALGOR MORTIS – SEVERED (Single)
Label – Independent
Fuming Mouth – Daylight Again (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast
Heriot – Siege Lord (Single)
Label – Century Media
Starved – Exhales (Single)
Label – Independent
A Serpent’s Hand – Sentience (Single)
Label – Independent
Bodysnatcher – Human Disdain (Single)
Label – MNRK Records
Glass Tides – Pulling Teeth (Single)
Label – Independent
Uppercut970 – Spit (Single)
Label – Chop City Studios
Wallowing – Restless Dusk I: The Anamnesis Hymn (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
Ameonna – Cut Me, Crave Me… (Single)
Label – Independent
Bolu2 Death – La Espina (Single)
Label – Independent
Cancer Game – Obey (Single)
Label – Independent
Great American Ghost – Hymn Of Decay (Single)
Label – SHARPTONE
Intrelock – Inertia (Single)
Label – Independent
HARDCORE RELEASES
Contention – Artillery from Heaven
Label – DAZE
Daggers – Chaos Magic (EP)
Label – Independent
EGO – Rage/Blood (EP)
Label – Independent
EXFIL – DEMO (EP)
Label – Independent
Titled – TITLED (EP)
Label – HARDNOCK NY
bulletsbetweentongues – Like Hell Flame (Single)
Label – Ephyra
Direct Threat – Forever Fighting (Single)
Label – Iron Lung Records
Halo Bite – All Saints Pay (Single)
Label – Independent
No Future – Silent Majority / P.B.S (Single)
Label – Iron Lung Records
Rest Assured – Peace (feat. Feticide) (Single)
Label – 317 Shows
Sect – New Low (Single)
Label – Southern Lord
Sick Solution – Sickies (Single)
Label – Independent
SPENT – The Search (Single)
Label – Grotto Audio
Tombflower – Bootlicker (Single)
Label – BB Records
Walled City – Plastic World (Single)
Label – Post Reality
Calcine – Back to Fight (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
Squid Pisser – Splatter the Master (Single)
Label – SKiN GRAFT Records
SPEED – REAL LIFE LOVE (Single)
Label – Flatspot Records
Threshold – Cut You Down (feat. Condition One) (Single)
Label – Independent
Extinguish – One Less Enemy (Single)
Label – DAZE
Gumskab – Cut Your Teeth (feat. COOKED) (Single)
Label – Cheap Life Records
Lifecrusher – Suspension of Belief (Single)
Label – Side 2 Side Records / Inhumano Records
Cross Of Disbelief – Psychotic Indulgence (Single)
Label – Ephyra
POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES
Cold Years – A Different Life
Label – MNRK
Franker Turner – Undefeated
Label – Xtra Mile
Keith Wallen – Infinity Now
Label – Rise Records
Narrow Head – Moments of Clarity (Deluxe Edition)
Label – Church Road Records
P.O.D. – Veritas
Label – Mascot Records
Demo Division – SUNKEN SKIN (EP)
Label – New Morality Zine
Down The Lees – Dity (EP)
Label – Off White House Records
Knives – What We See in Their Eyes (EP)
Label – Crash Records
Through Arteries – Laughs in Depression
Label – Independent
A Foreign Affair – Hollow (Single)
Label – SBG Records
Anchor & Hearts – Wasted Lives (We’re Ready To Take It Back) (feat. Another Now) (Single)
Label – Redfield Records
As December Falls – More To You (Single)
Label – Independent
Bellwether – 2002 (Single)
Label – Independent
Dal Av & Daedric – Racing the Parallel (Single)
Label – FiXT
Dead Eyes – Same Old You (Single)
Label – Independent
Halflives – everybody knows it (Apocalypse Version) (Single)
Label – Still Standing Group
Headsick – Through My Teeth (Single)
Label – Independent
HRTLSS – Hive (Single)
Label – Independent
Onlap – Ghosts (feat. Lansdowne) (Single)
Label – AFM Records
Point North – Bring Me Down (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records
STARSET – Brave New World (Single)
Label – Fearless Records
SHAKDE UK – G.O.D
Label – Independent
The Home Team – Roommates // Overtime (Single)
Label – Thriller Records
Try Angel – The Answers (Single)
Label – Basement Records
Dream on Dreamer – F.E.A.R (Single)
Label – Independent
Gürl – Evil Twin (feat. Bronnie) (Single)
Label – Circular Wave
Lizzy Farrall – MadHotel (Single)
Label – Independent
Sad Park – death (reimagined) (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records
Beauty School – Gloom (Single)
Label – Slam Dunk Records
Coping Method – Closing In (feat. REEBZ) (Single)
Label – FiXT
Gold Souls – Best of Me (Single)
Label – MUSE Records
House of Protection – It’s Supposed to Hurt (Single)
Label – Red Bull Records
Yours Truly – Sour (Single)
Label – UNFD
LASTELLE – Life In Silhouettes (Single)
Label – Independent
Outlander – Want No More (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
Lake Malice – Stop The Party (Toronto Is Broken Remix) (Single)
Label – Silva Screen Records
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES
American Culture – Hey Brother, It’s Been Awhile
Label – Convulse Records
Dua Lipa – Radical Optimism
Label – Warner
Former Hero – Roots (2018-20)
Label – birkham records
Nag – Fear
Label – Independent
Oakman – Violent Oblivion
Label – Rude Records
The Lemon Twigs – A Dream Is All We Know
Label – Captured Tracks
Alaskan Tapes – Something Ephemeral (1-4) (EP)
Label – Nettwerk Music Group
k0d4m4 – 木魂 EP2 氷 (EP)
Label – Independent
Kee Avil – Spine (EP)
Label – Constellation
Fast Blood – Sunny Blunts (EP)
Label – Independent
Mammoth Penguins – Here (EP)
Label – Fika Recordings
Airshade – your fears (Single)
Label – from heart to heart
Cage The Elephant – Metaverse (Single)
Label – RCA Records
Desert Sharks – Enjoy The Silence (Single)
Label – Substitute Scene Records
Helios – Wild Light (feat. Hollie Kenniff) (Single)
Label – Unseen
Holly Humberstone – Cocoon (feat. Medium Build) (Single)
Label – Universal Music
hxly xo – Floating (feat. shy tea) (Single)
Label – Ink & Wash
Kill Eva – Millions (feat. Stagger) (Single)
Label – umamgmt
LLLL – See U (feat. Emma Aibara) (Single)
Label – Dreamstation
Llynks – Only Cure (feat. jacket.) (Single)
Label – NRW Records
Timetrip 1989 – Childhood (Single) (Single)
Label – Independent
Thomas Powers – Empty Voices (feat. Julien Baker) (Single)
Label – Sensible Anomie
TURQUOISEDEATH – The Obelisk (Single)
Label – BREAKERS GANG
waterweed – Leave me alone (Single)
Label – AVEX MUSIC CREATIVE INC
Caroline Polachek – Starburned and Unkissed (Single)
Label – A24 Music
Washed Out – The Hardest Part (Single)
Label – Sub Pop Records
Charly Bliss – Nineteen (Single)
Label – Lucky Number Music
ITZY – No Biggie (Single)
Label – Warner Music
nekoAce – Hightail Reality (Single)
Label – eternityunderwater
Hippo Campus – Everything At Once (Single)
Label – Psychic Hotline
Jon Hopkins – RITUAL (evocation) (Single)
Label – Domino Recording
La Luz – I’ll Go With You (Single)
Label – Sub Pop Records
Peter Bibby – Terracotta Brick (Single)
Label – Spinning Top Records
Hangwire – Farewell Song (Single)
Label – Independent
LAUREL – 45 Degrees (Single)
Label – Communion Group