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
Evergreener – Broken Visions (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Blending the melodic parts of shoegaze with the harsh side of alt rock grunge, Evergreener create a stunning sound on “Broken Visions“, with gorgeous riffs, 90s-stylings, and vocals trading between harsh and clean.
Harbinger – No Vermin (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin recommends: “No Vermin” is a reward for a long wait for new Harbinger material, and it more than delivers. Immediately their strongest track, their style of tech-deathcore is now utterly unique, especially with the meticulously layered vocals. Don’t miss them as they open for Distant and Enterprise Earth on their current EU/UK run.
Inhuman Nature – Possessed To Die (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Keeping up an inhuman pace, Inhuman Nature drop “Possessed To Die” from their upcoming record Greater Than The Death. The rager is packed with riffs and snarled vocals that will keep anyone head-banging and jamming along for its near four minute run time.
Pravitas – Defragment (Single)
Label – Slam Off Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin recommends: Pravitas swing in with Goldilocks’ take on the golden age of tech metal. Swirling djent throwback riffs under those crystalline clean guitars, furious passages with guttural vocals, and a semi-melodic chorus that neatly aligns with the track’s proggy turns. They’ve even got solos. We are so back.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
All That Remains – AntiFragile
Label – Independent
Burn Down Eden – Dismal Epiphany
Label – Seek & Strike
Great American Ghost – Tragedy of The Commons
Label – SHARPTONE
Grief Ritual – Collapse
Label – Church Road Records
DEADEND – The Butterfly Effect (EP)
Label – Independent
RinRin – Angels (EP)
Label – Independent
Enterprise Earth – Descent Into Madness (EP)
Label – Independent
Athousandangelsandseven – athousandangelsandseven (EP)
Label – Independent
5h.Incision – Slave (Single)
Label – Independent
Abbie Falls – Victim (feat. Breakdown of Sanity) (Single)
Label – Out of Line
Absolved – To Whatever End (feat. HolyName & Sleeping Giant) (Single)
Label – Independent
Arcadence – Prosthesis (Single)
Label – Independent
Calyces – Swirling Towards Light (Single)
Label – Dry Clean Records
Cassetta – Azrael (Single)
Label – Independent
Dead/Awake – Southbound (Single)
Label – Independent
FRACTURE – Bog Rate (Single)
Label – Broken Mirror Records
Hollow Valley – Whispers (Single)
Label – Four Pillar Music Group
Impending Doom – TOWARDS THE LIGHT (Single)
Label – Independent
Killstreak – Terrible Fate (feat. Andy Cizek) (Single)
Label – Independent
Ontborg – Thorns Of Crimson Death (Single)
Label – Black Lion Records
Restheaven – Chained (Single)
Label – Dystopolis Arts
Aviana – STORM ABLAZE (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
Church Tongue – When It Betrays (feat. Colin Young) (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records
God Complex – Depraved Idol (Single)
Label – SHARPTONE
HANABIE. – おいしいサバイバー (Single)
Label – Sony Music Labels
HEAVY HEAVY LOW LOW – I Go Where I’m Kicked (Single)
Label – Independent
Vacuous – Stress Positions (Single)
Label – Relapse Records
DEVILOOF – 因習 (Single)
Label – TOKUMA Japan
ENOX – Orion (Single)
Label – Theoria Records
Forlorn – Funeral Pyre (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
Poison The Well – Trembling Level (Single)
Label – SHARPTONE
Within Destruction – CYBRGIRL (Single)
Label – Sumerian Records
Aborted – The pain, will be Exquisite (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast
Caliban – Backing From Hell (feat. The Browning) (Single)
Label – Century Media
Face Yourself – Sideration (Single)
Label – SUmerian Records
Flesh Prison – No Peace (Single)
Label – Independent
In Your Grave – Ephemeral Respite (Single)
Label – Independent
Deafheaven – Magnolia (Single)
Label – Roadrunner Records
Season of Ghosts – Lifeline (Single)
Label – Independent
HARDCORE RELEASES
Suspect – Send The Bombs
Label – Collective Memory
TCHERT – An Inquisition Of Angels
Label – ANKN Records
Azshara – Demo (Remixed & Remastered 2025) Demo (Remixed & Remastered 2025) (EP)
Label – DAZE
Backhand – Path of Least Resistance (EP)
Label – Independent
Bleach – Harsh Truth / Vengeance Within (Single)
Label – Holding On Records & Disaster Records
Dethroned – Dead To Me (Single)
Label – Independent
Down Not Out – Hand In Hand (Single)
Label – On The Outside Records
Heavy Is The Head – For You Loss (Single)
Label – Upstate Records
Infernal Diatribe – A Yearning Serenade / Ascending to Bliss A Yearning (Single)
Label – Cheap Life Records
Peruvian Necktie – No More Lies (Single)
Label – Necktie Records
Becoming A.D. – Waves Of Eternity (Single)
Label – Independent
Copper Teeth – Willow Creek (Single)
Label – Death Snake
Denial of Life – 1000 prayers (Single)
Label – Independent
Dead Harts – Waste Cadet (Single)
Label – Independent
DFL – FUCK IT (Single)
Label – SBAM
Mongrel – Wreckage in Our Path (Single)
Label – DAZE
SHIIVA – WAITING (Single)
Label – AVHC
JIVEBOMB – SURVIVAL AIN’T TAUGHT (Single)
Label – Flatspot Records
SPY – Dim (Single)
Label – Closed Casket Activities
POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES
Grayscale – The Hart
Label – Infield
L.S Dunes – Violet
Label – Fantasy
TheCityIsOurs – Will You Still Love Me?
Label – Arising Empire
Circa Waves – Death & Love P1. 1 (EP)
Label – Lower Third
Afterlove – Shape Of My Mind feat. Siamese & Bite Down (Single)
Label – Prime Collective
Bummer Hill – Georgia Snow II (Single)
Label – Independent
Causality – Dopamine (Single)
Label – Independent
Coletta – Blossom v2.0 (SIngle)
Label – LIFE OR DEATH
Dead By April – Brain Tissue (Single)
Label – Independent
Eric Sleep – Run! (Single)
Label – Independent
F!TH – Nü Era
Label – Independent
FLOYA – Cloud9 (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
Halflives – Immortals (Single)
Label – Still Standing
High Regard – White Lilies (Single)
Label – Independent
iNTeRNeT FReNDz – Rumors (Single)
Label – FReNDz Music
Nerv – LOST! (Single)
Label – SBG Records
Pale Sailor – Undoing // Undone (Single)
Label – Ship Happens
Paloma – My Oh My (Single)
Label – Independent
Rival – Harbingers (Single)
Label – Independent
The High Ground – Backstabber (Single)
Label – Independent
Thorn Haven – Save My Place (Single)
Label – Yearwalker Studios
Yours Truly – Von Dutch (triple j Like A Version) (Single)
Label – triple j
ANGER PARTY – I Hope You’re Miserable (Single)
Label – Silent Cult
Foxy Shazam – Rhumbatorium (Single)
Label – eeeoooah
Mother Vulture – Slow Down (Single)
Label – Independent
Novelists – All For Nothing (Single)
Label – ACKOR Music
Thornhill – Silver Swarm (Single)
Label – UNFD
Zenbukiminoseida.- Sleeping Dirty (Single)
Label – codomomental inc.
GAUZE IS – wannabe rockstar (feat. Moodring) (Single)
Label – The Flood Corporation
Nevertel – Starting Over (Single)
Label – Epitaph
Tropic Gold – HOLY HORROR (Single)
Label – UNFD
Tunic – The Sharpening of a Blade (Single)
Label – Midwest Debris
Arcadia Ego – Silence (Single)
Label – Sickman Records
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES
ASkySoBlack – Touch Heaven
Label – New Morality Zine
Desire – The Judge
Label – Italians Do It Better
Phaeleh – Fear of Silence
Label – Undertow
Tayne – LOVE
Label – MNRK Music
The Weeknd – Hurry Up Tomorrow
Label – XO/Republic Records
Bvdub – 13
Label – Silent Reign
Good Health – The Grass is Turning Green Again (EP)
Label – Pretty Sound Record
French Police – ESPERA (EP)
Label – Independent
Rawzilk – Un Hombre y su Dilema (EP)
Label – Independent
Tokyo Rose & ALEX – NEW ERA (EP)
Label – Danger City
Airline – Cassini (EP)
Label – Independent
Baby Said – Dead to Me (Single)
Label – Independent
Dead Meadow – The Unhounded Now (Single)
Label – Heavy Psycho Sounds
Ella Vos – Kawaii (Single)
Label – Superglue Records
hxly xo – Do You See Me? (Single)
Label – Ink & Wash
Lucy In Disguise – Indigo Moon (Single)
Label – Independent
Black Country, New Road – Besties (Single)
Label – Ninja Tune
Julien Baker & TORRESS – Sylvia (Single)
Label – Matador Records
Miya Folick – Fist (Single)
Label – Nettwerk Music Group
Momma – I Want You (Fever) (Single)
Label – Lucky Number
Slow Crush – Cherry (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records
Sophia Kennedy – Rodeo (Single)
Label – City Slang Records
SNAYX – Breathe (Single)
Label – Independent
SOM – Chemical (Single)
Label – Pelagic Records
Weatherday – Angel (Single)
Label – Topshelf Records
Dea – SeeTheSame (feat. OSIE) (Single)
Label – Independent
Glare – Guts (Single)
Label – Deathwish Inc.
Nedaj – F20C (Single)
Label – Hochi Runs