Welcome to New Music Friday where we round-up all the week’s releases from metalcore, hardcore, alternative and indie. For a full view of what’s coming up, check out 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
Bitcrush – DEFECTIVE (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Making their debut as a project on “DEFECTIVE“, Bitcrush blend the harsher end of the alternative genre with crunching guitars, that soon move into gorgeous 00s styled soundscapes, making for an absolutely captivating listen that will ensure listeners eagerly await to see what comes from DEFECTIVE this year.
GILT – How Do You Kill An Angel, Barry? (Single)
Label – Smartpunk Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Announcing their full-length I Saw Myself In The Black Screen alongside their latest track “How Do You Kill An Angel, Barry?“, GILT are proving they may have one of 2026’s strongest releases up their sleeve. Switching between the explosive riffs and vocals of their sound and plucked shoegaze chords, before moving into their anthemic choruses, GILT‘s very own “nu emocore” sound is a thrilling blend of genres and sounds.
Graphic Nature – Faceless (Single)
Label – Century Media
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Mais recommends: After the profound success of Who Are You When No One Is Watching? and a year of touring Europe and Australia, Graphic Nature are back, with a new signing to Century Media, to remind everyone why they’re one of the heaviest hitting UK Nu-core bands. “Faceless” brings back the signature D&B / Metal blend giving it high energy grooves, hefty breakdowns and the grittiness of nu-metal.
held under. – Disarray (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Leaning into the heavier spectrum of their sound, held under. drop a stormer of a song in “Dissaray” that is a shotgun blast of nu-core, akin to that of UK mainstays PULSE. With hints that both this and “Integrate” are set to be part of a wider record, we can’t wait to see what held under. have in store further down the line.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
Arbiter – Arbiter
Label – Ear Shot Studios
As Everything Unfolds – DID YOU ASK TO BE SET FREE?
Label – Century Media
Bodysnatcher – Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home
Label – MNRK Music
Immolation – Descent
Label – Nuclear Blast
Inferi – Heaven Wept
Label – The Artisan Era
LEVELS – This Will Make You Feel Again
Label – SHARPTONE
Melvins & Napalm Death – Savage Imperial Death March
Label – Ipecac Recordings
The Mechanist – Synthetic Sun
Label – Blacklight Corporation
bleak. – It’s All Bleak (EP)
Label – Heavy Collective
bottom surgery – to tell the truth. (EP)
Label – Scry0ne
Cissné – Awake children under the moon (EP)
Label – Lauren Records
Only Pain – Beneath Hell (EP)
Label – Independent
DREDGE – Tribulations of Existence (EP)
Label – SLAMNASIUM RECORDINGS
Aleya – Sapphire Skies (Single)
Label – Independent
Any Given Day – Heal Me To Death (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
Archers – Say So (Single)
Label – Fearless Records
Arrowheads – OLEKA (Single)
Label – Independent
Bloodbather – Dog 2 God (Single)
Label – Independent
Castle Rat – SIREN (Single)
Label – Loma Vista Recordings
Closure – Empty Hands (Single)
Label – Independent
Consvmer – Konstrukt (Single)
Label – Out of Line Music
Erase The Day – Whispers From The Dark (Single)
Label – Independent
Fire From The Gods – Unknown (Single)
Label – Pluto Flux
Haste The Day – Adrift (Single)
Label – Solid State Records
Nylist – Bludgeoned to Death (Single)
Label – Independent
OBEYER – Trauma Host (Single)
Label – 3DOT Recordings
The Wise Man’s Fear – Edge of the Map (Single)
Label – Theoria Records
Xorsist – His Shrouded Gaze (Single)
Label – Hammerheart Records
Avalanche Effect – AFTER THE SILENCE (Single)
Label – Independent
Axty – end this (Single)
Label – Napalm Records Handels GmbH
Black Tusk – Crushed by the Weight (Single)
Label – Independent
Eighteen April – dejavu (Single)
Label – Watch Out! Records
The Amity Affliction – Heaven Sent (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records
The Narrator – Agnosia (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast
Afterglow – 404: Self Not Found (Single)
Label – Independent
Behemoth – The Return Of Darkness And Evil (Mystic Festival Anthem 2026) (Single)
Label – Mystic Production
Catalysis – Serpentine (Single)
Label – Independent
Spitting Glass – 1HP (Single)
Label – Independent
At The Gates – The Dissonant Void (Single)
Label – Century Media
Downturn – In the Belly of a Shark (Single)
Label – Independent
Tracheotomy – My Fragmented Existence (Single)
Label – Independent
Urzah – Hunter in the Veil (Single)
Label – APF Records
Warning – Stations (Single)
Label – Relapse Records
anomic333 – This is my story! It’ll go the way I want it… or I’ll end it here! (Single)
Label – Independent
Darko US – Time Crisis (feat. Elijah Witt) (Single)
Label – Independent
HARDCORE RELEASES
A Knife in the Dark – Songs Without Witness (EP)
Label – Bitter Melody Records
Escalate – The Cry Of Nature (EP)
Label – New Age Records
Ratbite – Sell your soul (EP)
Label – Independent
Search Warrant – LP Promo 2026 (EP)
Label – WAR Records
Sicko – Fever Running Wild (EP)
Label – Deadweight Records
Time Bomb – Demo ’26 (EP)
Label – Independent
Void of Life – VOL 1 (EP)
Label – Counterculture Records
Engine – Demo (EP)
Label – Rebirth Records
Dimension Six – Promo 2026 (EP)
Label – Independent
Mindrace – Mindrace (EP)
Label – life.lair.regret
retina – Contraband (EP)
Label – Blackheaven Records
Murder Club – In Dying Arms (Single)
Label – Project Fort
Prejudize – Bloods of Purgatory (Single)
Label – Husted Records & Holding On Records
Soulprison – Into Oblivion (Single)
Label – BDHW Records
Wake of Humanity – Distress Signal (Single)
Label – New Age Records
Raw Peace – Hail the Steel (Single)
Label – Loner Cult Records, Bones Brigade Records
XCOMM – Borrowed Happiness (Single)
Label – Blowed Out Records
Fairvale – The Ruse (Single)
Label – Ratville Records
Human Issue – Vice (Single)
Label – Smartpunk Records
Scrutiny – Friend Collection (Single)
Label – Big Bite Records
Torena – Extinction (Single)
Label – DAZE
POST-HARDCORE RELEASES
Bilmuri – KINDA HARD
Label – Columbia
Broadside – Nowhere, At Last
Label – Thriller Records
Enter Shikari – Lose Your Self
Label – Silva Screen Records
I Am The Avalanche – THE HORROR SHOW
Label – Equal Vision Records
Love Rarely – Pain Travels
Label – Big Scary Monsters
Palette Knife – Keyframe
Label – Take This To Heart Records
Sugar Horse – Not a Sound in Heaven
Label – Fat Dracula Records
Touché Amoré – Stage Four (10 Year Anniversary Edition)
Label – Epitaph
Fainting Dreams – The Silence of Birds That Rarely Sing
Label – Independent
Blush Puppy – HERE YOU DREAM (EP)
Label – Venn Records
Splitview – Believe You’ll Be Alright (EP)
Label – Static Era Records
Tally Spear – Bittersweet (EP)
Label – Nettwerk Music Group
BITTER KISSES – The Long Way Down (EP)
Label – Sourpatch Records
A Burial At Sea – Spring Time Blues (feat. Newhvn) (Single)
Label – Faction Records
Andrés – Homie Hopper (Single)
Label – Many Hats Distribution
Dead Pony – Freak Like Me (Single)
Label – Independent
Dream Drop – i know you will write me off in the end (Single)
Label – GAIN
Evanescence – Who Will You Follow (Single)
Label – Columbia Local
Marmozets – Cut Back (Single)
Label – Nettwerk Music Group
Silo – Forget It (Single)
Label – Easy Life Records
South Arcade – SUPERMAN (Single)
Label – BKM Artists Ltd / Atlantic
Yellowcard – Bedroom Posters (feat. Blippi) (Single)
Label – Better Noise Music
Banks Arcade – SEVERANCE (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
Dream on Dreamer & Hands Like Houses – DEAD (Single)
Label – Civilians
Emily Volt – Misleading Fortune (Single)
Label – MusicHub
divedown – All For What (Single)
Label – Ninth Life Records
sace6 – allured (Single)
Label – Sumerian Records
Haggard Cat – HALCYON (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
Heaven Unknown – Holding Out (Single)
Label – Heaven Unknown
POLKADOT STINGRAY – 逆様 (Single)
Label – Universal Music LLC
Robbie & Mona – Marionette Lines (Single)
Label – Spinny Nights
Vana – In Your Name (Single)
Label – Sumerian Records
A Place To Bury Strangers – Do It All Again (Single)
Label – Dedstrange
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE RELEASES
Cathedral Bells – parallel dreams
Label – Artoffact Records
Trashiii – INDUSTRIAL FUTURΞ
Label – LowPoly Records
Treeboy & Arc – GOOSE
Label – Clue Records
Erythh – Aishiteru!, Vol. 3 (EP)
Label – Independent
Lickshot – Lick EP (EP)
Label – Independent
HEALTH – R-TYPE IV (EP)
Label – Loma Vista Recordings
Beau & Nedaj – NUMBPROMISES (Single)
Label – aa records
Flowerbabe – I Found You (Single)
Label – Mr. D’s Magic Records
Purity Ring – lemonlime (Single)
Label – the fellowship
timesgones – there’s no time and space (feat. aak3) (Single)
Label – Independent
Sxnctuary – Feel Again (Single)
Label – Independent
Ftlframe – ghost (Single)
Label – Independent
American Football – No Feeling (feat. Brendan Yates) (Single)
Label – Polyvinyl Records
Mara Liddle – rivers (Single)
Label – Independent
Kee Avil – crying (Single)
Label – NNA Tapes
idialedyournumber – Lovebird (Single)
Label – Independent