New Music Friday: October 21st, 2022

Welcome to 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

HEAVENSGATE – CHEMICAL HEAVEN (Single)
Label – Greyscale Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Joe recommends: HEAVENSGATE’s debut single is an emotive offering in both lyrical content and musicality, contrasting between distorted low tuned guitars and an eery ambience. The track was co-written by Loathe’s Erik Bickerstaffe with mix and mastering coming from the famed Buster Odeholm.

As Everything Unfolds – Felt Like Home (Single)
Label – Long Branch Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Max recommends: Felt Like Home” sees the UK’s As Everything Unfolds hone in on their melodic side, with an electronic-tinged alt-rock anthem that is sure to be an earworm for some time to come.

Foreign Hands – Tearing Down Your Reality (Single)
Label – Sharptone Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Dallis recommends: On their latest single “Tearing Down Your Reality“, Foreign Hands share an experience strewn with chaotic riffs and raw emotion, with the track expertly blending mosh-fueled chords with infectious hooks. It’s unquestionable the Delaware unit are one of the most exciting upcoming acts in the states at the moment.

motifs – lovelost (Single)
Label – spikyfruits
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Jonathan recommends: motifs invoke a strong sense of nostalgia on their second single, “lovelost”. Through dreamy hooks and melancholic guitar melodies, this shoegaze band is one to give your attention to.

METAL/CORE RELEASES

Architects – classic symptoms of a broken spirit [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Epitaph Records

Crooked Royals – Quarter Life Daydream [FULL REVIEW]
Label – 3DOT Recordings

Inclination – Unaltered Perspective [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Pure Noise Records

Cabal – Magno Interus [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Napalm Records

End Archaic – Infected Nature
Label – Independent

Invictus – Unstoppable
Label – MNRKA

A Wake in Providence – Eternity
Label – Unique Leader Records

Vatic – Mercer 217 (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Independent

Black Veil Brides – The Mourning (EP)
Label – Sumerian Records

In This Moment – Blood 1983 (EP)
Label – BMG

Being as an Ocean – Dear G-D…(10 Years Anniversary Bonus Tracks) (EP)
Label – Out of Line

Void of Vision – HELL HELL HELL (Single)
Label – UNFD

Chelsea Grin – Forever Bloom (feat. Trevor Strnad)
Label – Independent

BABYMETAL – Divine Attack (Single)
Label –  Cooking Vinyl

BVD MENTALITY – Forget You (Single)
Label – Independent

FEELSHAME – Oblivion (feat. Harvey Freeman of Graphic Nature) (Single)
Label – Independent

Balance Breach – Untouchable (Single)
Label – Out Of Line Music

Blight Town – Al Gore Rhythm (Single)
Label – Independent

Reserate – Gravity (Single)
Label – Independent

Assume Nothing – Pressure (Single)
Label – Independent

Beneath My Feet – Dig My Grave (Single)
Label – Independent

Bloodlines – Psalm of the Depth (Single)
Label – Facedown Records

For the Fallen Dreams – No Heaven (Single)
Label – Arising Empire

Half Me – Half Me (Single)
Label – Arising Empire

Oceans – I Sing Alone (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast

Sunscourge – Embrace Ov Vacuity (Single)
Label – SeenFeen

Weeping Hour – DRONE (bright light opiates) (Single)
Label – Independent

Morose – Mental Breakdown (Single)
Label – Independent

A Feast For Kings – Poison (Single)
Label – Independent

Human Error – Cut Short (Single)
Label – Independent

POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES

Amarionette – Gemini [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Independent

Brutus – Unison Life [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Hassle Records

Witch Fever – Congregation [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Music For Nations

God Alone – ETC [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Prosthetic Records

Militaries Gun – All Roads Lead To The Gun (Deluxe)
Label – Loma Vista Recordings

Pinkshift – Love Me Forever
Label – Hopeless Records

Nerv – We’re All Patients Here
Label – Independent

Less Than Jake – Silver Linings (Deluxe)
Label – Pure Noise Records

Acceptance – Wild, Free (Deluxe Edition)
Label – Tooth & Nail Records

Oversize – Into The Ceiling (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Church Road Records

Jetski – For The Family (EP)
Label – Independent

All Ears Avow – Feel The Push (EP)
Label – Independent

Bayside – The Red (EP)
Label – Hopeless Records

Circles – Echo (Single)
Label – Wild Thing Records

October Ends – Call Me Before I’m Dead (feat. Kid Bookie)
Label –  UNFD

PVRIS – ANIMAL / ANYWHERE BUT HERE (Single)
Label – Epitaph Record

Hawthorne Heights – Dandelions (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records

Gatherers – suffocator (feat. Dan Lambton)
Label – No Sleep Records

Tom Lumley & the Brave Liaison (Single)
Label – Independent

Knuckle Puck – Groundhog Day (Single)
Label – Rise Records

TheCityIsOurs – Alive (Single)
Label – Arising Empire

Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes – The Drugs feat. Jamie T (Single)
Label – AWAL Recordings

Richy Nix – Without You (Single)
Label – FiXT

Colorblind – Euphoria (Single)
Label – Oxide Records

Fleshwater – The Razor’s Apple (Single)
Label – Closed Casket Activities

FLOYA – Florescent (Single)
Label – Arising Empire

You Me At Six – Mixed Emotions (I Didn’t Know How to Tell You What I was Going Though) (Single)
Label – AWAL Recordings

Foxblood – Kind Regards (Single)
Label – Independent

HIGHSOCIETY – Burn (feat. Craig Mabbitt via his Smart Car) (Single)
Label – FiXT

L.S. Dunes – Bombsquad (Single)
Label – Fantasy Records

Nevertel – MODIFIED (Single)
Label – Independent

Set It Off – Why Do I (feat. Hatsune Miku) (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records

Suasion – House of Cards (Single)
Label – Atomic Fire Records

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – Face Down (Symphonic Edition) (Single)
Label – Capitol Records

The Used – Fuck You (Single)
Label – Reprise Records 

Jimmy Eat World – Place Your Debts (Single)
Label – Exotic Location Recordings

InTechnicolour – Turn It Loose (Single)
Label – Small Pond Records

Tokio Hotel – Happy People (feat. Daði Freyr)
Label – Epic Records

Rogue Half – Inside Out (Single)
Label – Independent

As December Falls – Mayday (Single)
Label – Independent

BIG|BRAVE – carvers, farriers and knaves (Single)
Label – Thrill Jockey Records

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES

Tegan and Sara – Crybaby
Label –  Mom+Pop

Arctic Monkeys – Car
Label – Domino Recording

Carly Rae Jepsen – The Loneliest Time
Label – Interscope Records

The Lord & Petra Haden – Devotional
Label – Southern Lord

Taylor Swift – Midnights
Label – Independent

Kathryn Mohor – Holly
Label – The Flenser

Seven Lions – Beyond The Veil
Label – Ophelia Records

Rabbit Junk – Apocalypse for Beginners
Label – NewRetroWave

Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork
Label – 4AD Ltd

Alice Boman – The Space Between
Label – Play It Again Sam

Frankie Cosmos – Inner World Peace
Label – Sub Pop Records

Burial – Streetlands (EP)
Label – Hyperdub

Teri Gender Bender – Saturn Sex (EP)
Label – Clouds Hill

Maer – Sister (Single)
Label – Independent

Breanna Barbara – Weaning (Single)
Label – Fuzz Club

Kainalu – Ginseng Hourglass (Single)
Label – Independent

Bass Drum of Death – Find It (Single)
Label – Fat Possum Records

WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA – Tinkerbell / Hot Pot Commander (Single)
Label – Warner Music Japan

Phoenix – Winter Solstice (Single)
Label – Glassnote Entertainment

LYKOTONON – The Primal Principle (Single)
Label – Profound Lore Records

Sigrid – Blue (Single)
Label – Universal Music