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
A Burial At Sea – More; Less (Single)
Label – Pelagic Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin recommends: “More; Less” is an aptly named addendum to Close to Home, a minimalist doomgaze track that is both gigantic and gentle. It will have you enthralled during both of its movements.
Dygora – As The Heart, So Is Life (Single)
Label – Southside Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin recommends: Dygora toe the line between death and hardcore with a penchant for grooving. “As The Heart, So Is Life” pulls us into the heart of their home, South London’s concrete cityscape, offering gratifying and addictive riffs yet staying downcast and personal.
Trauma Bonds – We Become Nothing (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Truama Bonds kick-off their year with sublime single “We Become Nothing”, demonstrating constant improvement from the unit. It perfects 00s styling and brings a beautiful contrast between cleans and harsh vocals, making for a captivating listen in what will hopefully be a breakout year for them.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
August Burns Red – Thrill Seeker: 20th Anniversary Edition
Label – Independent
Harakiri For The Sky – Scorched Earth
Label – AOP Records
The Great Old Ones – Kadath
Label – Season of Mist
Vacant Home – Can You Show Me Who I Am?
Label – Independent
ONI – GENESIS (EP)
Label – Ironshore Group
UNREQVITED – A Pathway to the Moon
Label – Independent
Sypha – Borderland (EP)
Label – Independent
Sunmancer – Everything Falls Apart (EP)
Label – Independent
Sunrot – Passages (EP)
Label – Prosthetic Records
SHEORU – Vantage (EP)
Label – Independent
Alchemize – Red Lights (Single)
Label – Year Of The Rat Records
AVOID – If It Hurts (Single)
Label – UNFD
Balance Brech – Strangers In Crime (Single)
Label – Out Of Line Music
Bury Tomorrow – Let Go (Single)
Label – Music For Nations
ChuggaBoom – Dying Light (Single)
Label – Dead Serious Recordings
Dead Eyes – Good Die Young (Single)
Label – InVogue Records
Headwreck – Plan Z (Single)
Label – Independent
LANDMVRKS – A Line in the Dust (feat. While She Sleeps) (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
Noise of Death – Shattered Trust (Single)
Label – Independent
No Allegiance – Shivering (Single)
Label – Independent
Onsight – Lilium (Single)
Label – Independent
Restricted US – Ain’t No Bitch (Single)
Label – Independent
Right Here Right Now – Prodigy (feat. Austin Hayes of Heavy//Hitter) (Single)
Label – Independent
silverlake murder – Hostile (Single)
Label – Independent
The Day We Left Earth – Afterlife (Single)
Label – MetalMedia Group
Traitors – No Witness (Single)
Label – Independent
Watch Out Stampede – Gold (Single)
Label – Redfield Records
Maybsomeday – Pretty Face (feat. VRSTY) (Single)
Label – N96RECORDS
Invent Animate & Silent Planet – Return To One (Single)
Label – UNFD
Kamizol-k – Dark Knight (Single)
Label – Undokumented Productions
Killswitch Engage – I Believe (Single)
Label – Metal Blade Records
Monosphere – Lapse (Single)
Label – Independent
Revenira – Coelacnth (Single)
Label – Verdure
Coffin Feeder – Porkchop Express (Single)
Label – Listenable records
Death Tax – Join the Wind (Single)
Label – B.I.G Records
Employed To Serve – Atonement (feat. Will Ramos) (Single)
Label – Spinefarm
Nylist – Spineless (feat. Sammy SlamDance) (Single)
Label – Independent
Alamance – Anathema (Single) / Metalcore
Label – Shadow Dove
Grind Gang – Pershing Placenta (Single)
Label – Independent
HARDCORE RELEASES
The Slime – Crab-Walk to Oblivion
Label – Independent
Dose – Trouble (EP)
Label – Independent
Drop Rate – Cheap Fantasy (EP)
Label – Setterwind Records
JEALOUS MIND – BORN WITHOUT A MIND (EP)
Label – Independent
HATESPEECH – PROMO ’25 (EP)
Label – Sith Pssoe Records
HAG – Gods of Famine (Single)
Label – Treeline Records
Taken Lives – Ingested (Single)
Label – Underdog Recordings
Bloodguilt – Straight Forward (Single)
Label – New Age Records
Jack Knife – Ghetto Stomp (Single)
Label – Nothing Less Records
SPLIT – The King Is Back (Single)
Label – Heavy Collective
Lacerated – Abandoned (Single)
Label – Wormwood Records
False Body – Peace of Mind (Single)
Label – Independent
Florida Man – El Rey (Single)
Label – Independent
In Gloom – Gloomhammer (Single)
Label – Papa Collin’s Rodeo Recordings Inc.
Intensive Care – At Death’s Door (feat. The Body) (Single)
Label – Closed Casket Activities
POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES
ALT BLK ERA – Rave Immortal
Label – Earache Records
blacktoothed – Headway
Label – Arising Empire
Mogwai – The Bad Fire
Label – Rock Action
Slowly Slowly – Forgiving Spree
Label – Nettwerk Music Group
VUKOVI – MY GOD HAS A GUN
Label – Sharptone
Resistor – HEADCASE (EP)
Label – Transfer of Power Records
NEMOPHILA – Apple of my eye (EP)
Label – Balancing Rock
Devour the Day – Killing Time (Alt Version) (Single)
Label – A Window In
Cyan Kicks – Middle of a Breakdown (Single)
Label – Ranka Kustannus
Electric Callboy – Elevator Operator (Single)
Label – Century Media Records
heaven // alone – exonerate (Single)
Label – the real people records
HOSTAGE – Blood in the Snow (Single)
Label – Warner Music
iNTeRNeT FReNDz – Recipe for Therapy (Alt Pop Version) (Single)
Label – Independent
Just Dust – Sew Me Up (Single)
Label – Independent
Mission Jupiter – Human Nature (Single)
Label – Label 51 Recordings
Set for Tomorrow – Impulse (Single)
Label – Theoria Records
Shinedown – Three Six Five / Dance, Kid, Dance (Single)
Label – Atlantic Records
Straight Shot Home – Sunset (Single)
Label – Independent
Wax Jaw – Night Sweats (Single)
Label – Born Losers Records
Knuckle Puck – Nice to Know Ya (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records
Magnolia Park – CULT (Single)
Label – Epitaph
Niis – Low Life (Single)
Label – Get Better Records
Rise Against – Nod (Single)
Label – Loma Vista Recordings
Static Lives – Much Love (Single)
Label – Kycker Music
Viagra Boys – Man Made of Meat (Single)
Label – Shrimptech Enterpirses
Glass Tides – Somebody Kill Me (Single)
Label – Independent
Gold Souls – Holy Water (Single)
Label – MUSE Records
Hevenshe – Wish I Had a Friend (Single)
Label – Independent
Hundredth – Dark Side (Single)
Label – Independent
Kai Cult – VYNANSE (Single)
Label – Independent
OVERSIZE – Vacant (Single)
Label – SHARPTONE
Papa Roach – Even If It Kills Me (Single)
Label – New Noize Records
POLKADOT STRINGRAY – あのね、(Single)
Label – Universal Music
SPLIT DOGS – Lafayette (Single)
Label – Venn Records
DROUGHTER – Death of an Interior Decorator (Single)
Label – Iodine Records
FOXHAUNT – Separate Me (Single)
Label – Independent
Nova Twins – Monsters (Single)
Label – Marshall Records
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES
DITZ – Never Exhale
Label – Independent
Tokyo Tea Room – No Rush
Label – Nice Guys
Soaring – Soaring
Label – Stellar Frequencies
Wardruna – Birna
Label – By Norse Music
Alaskan Tapes – Songs From My Living Room (EP)
Label – We All Speak In Poems
Daughter – Middle Farm Session (EP)
Label – Indie
Glixen – all tied up (Single)
Label – Independent
Lvvrs – The Love You Gave Me (Single)
Label – Independent
Madison Watkins – Spin (Single)
Label – Essential Records
Mathbonus – Big Journey / Big Sparks (Single)
Label – Independent
The Murder Capital – The Fall (Single)
Label – Human Season
Cardboard – Wouldn’t Let You Realise (Single)
Label – Far From Records
In Explosions – lights (Single)
Label – droneship x
Miso Extra – Certified (Single)
Label – Transgressive
phonewifey – sub-hype (Single)
Label – New Dance Craze
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Stitches (Single)
Label – Rocket Recordings
Shura – Recognise (Single)
Label – Play It Again Sam
Sister Ray – Believer (Single)
Label – Royal Mountain Records
Tara Nome Doyle – Lighthouse (Single)
Label – FatCat Records
Jools – Guts (Single)
Label – Hassle Records
Scowl – Not Hell, Not Heaven (Single)
Label – Dead Oceans
teethin – My Generation (Single)
Label – Silent Kid Records
Rainwisp – Cold Air (feat. dead fave) (Single)
Label – Independent
Bvdub – For Everything, an End (III) (Single)
Label – Silent Reign
Courting – After You (Single)
Label – Lower Third
Rawzilk – M$ (made for A Film to Pass the Time) (Single)
Label – Independent