New Music Friday – April 10th, 2026

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