Welcome to September’s penultimate New Music Friday, with our wrap-up all the new metalcore, post-hardcore, alternative, and indie releases, as well as picks from our staff. Check out our release calendar to keep an eye on this year’s upcoming releases!
STAFF PICKS
Pincer+ – Angeldust (Single)
Label – Greyscale Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dallis recommends: Pincer+ storms out the gates with their debut single “Angeldust“, a raging single that encapsulates pain, loss, hatred, heartbreak, and betrayal. With the sheer talent in this line-up, there can only be exciting things to come from this new Aussie unit.
L.S. Dunes – 2022 (Single)
Label – Fantasy Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Harry recommends: Punky and energetic, post-hardcore supergroup L.S. Dunes refashion vocalist Anthony Green’s solo song “2022”, injecting new life into an already mature and emotionally charged song.
Love Is Noise – Euphoria (where were you?) (Single)
Label – 333 Wreckords Crew
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Max recommends: Contrasting their ferocious lead single “Movement,” UK duo Love Is Noise demonstrate their refined melodic sound with a serene rock soundscape on their brand new EP’s title track “Euphoria (Where Were You?).
Scarlet Sun – Scarlet Sun (EP)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Scarlet Sun return with their self-titled EP that sees them deliver some of their best and most forceful work, with tracks “Until I Sleep” and “Lavender Water” being the highlights of the record.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
Novelists FR – Déjà Vu: Première Partie [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Out of Line
Space Of Variations – IMAGO
Label – Napalm Records
Gaerea – Mirage
Label – Season of Mist
Stratovarius – Survive
Label – Edel Music
Mo’ynoq – A Place for Ash
Label – Indepedent
As Paradise Falls – Madness / Medicine (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Eclipse Records
Dayseeker – Dreamstate (Single)
Label – Spinefarm Records
SOMN – Fracture (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
Termina – Take Flight (Single)
Label – Independent
Outline in Color – Stay Away (feat. AVOID) (Single)
Label – InVogue Records
Thousand Below – face to face (Single)
Label – Shade Music Group
Within Destruction – Toxic (Single)
Label – Ultra Heavy Records
Boundaries – Burying Brightness (Single)
Label – 3DOT Recordings
Varials – Circles (Single)
Label – Fearless Records
a bitter end. – IRIDESCENT (feat. Clem Richard of ASHEN) (Single)
Label – Independent
A Wake in Providence – We Are Eternity (Single)
Label – Unique Leader Records
Earth Caller – Alone (Single)
Label – Independent
Heirbloom – We Are Not the Same (Single)
Label – Independent
I Am King – Titanium (Single)
Label – King Studios
LYKOTONON – That Which Stares In Kind (Single)
Label – Profound Lore Records
Exist Immortal – Emerge (Single)
Label – Seek & Strike
Vatic – The Colour In Your Eyes (Single)
Label – Independent
Disturbed – Unstoppable (Single)
Label – Reprise Records
Despite Exile – Custodian (Single)
Label – Kontrolla Music Group
Implore – Archetype (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
Avatar – Valley of Disease (Single)
Label – Black Waltz AB
POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES
KEN mode – NULL [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Artoffact Records
The Wonder Years – The Hum Goes on Forever [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Hopeless Records
The Rasmus – Rise
Label – Playground Music Scandinavia
Kill Strings – LIMBO
Label – MNRK
Jesse Jo Stark – Doomed
Label – Independent
5 Seconds of Summer – 5SOS5
Label – BMG
Our Last Night – Empires Fall (Deluxe)
Label – Independent
Dead Pony – War Boys (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – LAB
Ocean Jet – Entwined (EP)
Label – Союз Мьюзик
Courting – Guitar Music
Label – Play It Again Sam
Polyphia – Ego Death (feat. Steve Vai) (Single)
Label – Rise Records
City of Caterpillar – Paranormaladies (Single)
Label – Relapse Records
Thrice – Open Your Eyes and Dream (Single)
Label – Epitaph Records
Celldweller – Blind Lead the Blind (Single)
Label – FiXT
He Is Legend – The Prowler/Lifeless Lemonade
Label – Spinefarm Records
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns – FUTUREBLIND (Aphantasia) (Single)
Label – Independent
Nerv – I Need Help (Single)
Label – Independent
Samiam – Lights Out Little Hustler (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records
NateWantsToBattle – Scrap Heap (feat. Ghost Fight) (Single)
Label – Give Heart Records
Becko – GET BE++ER (Single)
Label – IN6N
FJØRT – schrot (Single)
Label – Grand Hotel van Cleef
Alive in Barcelona – Asphyxiate (Single)
Label – Smartpunk Records
Daedric – Coldharbour (Single)
Label – FiXT
Modern Day Escape – Bury the Wolf (feat. Travis Miguel of Atreyu) (Single)
Label – Independent
The Smashing Pumpkins – Beguiled (Single)
Label – Martha’s Music
Godsmack – Surrender (Single)
Label – Universal Music
Birds In Row – Noah/Cathedrals (Single)
Label – Red Creek Recordings
Hevenshe – These Days (Single)
Label – PREMA Records
Pinkshift – in a breath (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records
Finger Tight – My Inner Child Is In Amityville (Single)
Label – Independent
Softcult – One Of A Million
Label – Easy Life Records
Waterparks – Self Sabotage (feat. Good Charlotte)
Label – Fueled By Ramen
Poppy – FYB (Single)
Label – Republic Records
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES
Cold Gawd – God Get Me the Fuck Out of Here [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Dais Records
Lande Hekt – House Without A View [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Prize Sunflower
Nils Frahm – Music For Animals [FULL REVIEW]
Label – LEITER Verlag GmbH
Steve Bates – All The Things That Happen [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Constellation
Tyson Motsenbocker – Milk Teeth
Label – Tooth & Nail Records
The Soft Moon – Exister
Label – Sacred Bones Records
Magdalena Bay – Mercurial World Deluxe
Label – Luminelle Recordings
death’s dynamic shroud – Darklife
Label – Independent
The Tallest Man On Earth – Too Late For Edelweiss
Label – Gardener Songs
Editors – EBM
Label – Play It Again Sam
Sam Gellaitry – VF VOL II
Label – Parlophone Records
Beth Orton – Weather Alive
Label – Partisan Records
Maya Hawke – MOSS
Label – Mom+Pop
Tamino – Sahar
Label – Communion Music
Arkells – Blink Twice
Label – Independent
Tim Burgess – Typical Music
Label – Bella Union
Marisa Anderson – Still, Here
Label – Thrill Jockey Records
Eerie Wanda – Internal Radio
Label – Joyful Noise Recordings
G.E.N. – Revelation
Label – Warner Music China
Big Scary – Me And You
Label – Pieater
Talk Show – Touch the Ground
Label – Missing Piece Records
Maya Azucena – I Am Enough (Single)
Label – Azucena Songs
Emily Breeze – Ordinary Life (Single)
Label – Sugar Shack Records
Teri Gender Bender – The Get Up (Single)
Label – Clouds Hill
Mae Krell – Tooth Fairy (Single)
Label – BITCH music
Alice Glass – Lips Apart (Single)
Label – Eating Glass Records
The 1975 – All I Need to Hear (Single)
Label – Dirty Hit
Ruby Haunt – Laughing Heart (Single)
Label – Independent
We Are Scientists – Operator Error (Single)
Label – 100% Records
Wet Leg – Spotify Singles (Single)
Label – Domino Recording
Wild Pink – See You Better Now (Single)
Label – Royal Mountain Records
Björk – Ancestress (Single)
Label – One Little Independent Records
Hope Tala – Leave It On The Dancefloor (Single)
Label – Republic Records
PVA – Bad Dad (Single)
Label – Ninja Tune
The Murder Capital – A Thousand Lives (Single)
Label – Human Season Records
Mega Drive – NARC³ (Single)
Label – FiXT
Neev – Seawall (Single)
Label – Trapped Animal
Indigo Sparke – Hysteria (Single)
Label – Sacred Bones Records
Stormzy – Mel Made Me Do it (Single)
Label – Hasghtag Merky Music
Alvvays – Bleinda Says/Very Online Guy (Single)
Label – Celsius Girls