New Music Friday – April 26th, 2024

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

ASkySoBlack – Boy Like a Bruise (Single)
Label – New Morality Zine
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Joe recommends: Philadelphia unit ASkySoBlack are back with latest single “Boy Like A Bruise”, emotive layered vocals and heavy shoegaze are given a weight with grunge influence make for a welcome return. 

Anklebiter & Prevention – Split (EP)
Label –
Sunday Drive Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Joe recommends: Two of hardcore’s most underrated acts Anklebiter & Prevention join forces on a split EP that is brimming with the intensity and passion that make both these acts a must listen.

iRis.EXE – OFF WITH MY HEAD (Single)
Label –
Sunday Drive Records

Maximo recommends: Her first outing in over a year, iRiS.EXE‘s return comes in the form of a raucous, pulsing electronic anthem. Replete with all of the trapping typical of an iRiS.EXE release in its tight production, vocal gymnastics and ballistic synths, “OFF WITH MY HEAD” provides a welcome and incredibly infectious return from one of the most promising new artists on the scene.

UZRAH – OF DECAY (Single)
Label –
APF Records
(Spotify)

Dobbin recommends: Urzah‘s new single is like Mountain Caller meets Neurosis, combining modern post metal with attitude and sick riffs. The mighty track closes in on a mighty vocal section with a tasty, barked album title drop (“The scorching gaze of the lights”) which has locked in my anticipation for their forthcoming record.

METAL/CORE RELEASES

ACxDC – G.O.A.T.
Label – Prosthetic Records

Black Tusk – The Way Forward
Label – Season of Mist

CLEARxCUT – Age of Grief
Label – Lifeforce Records

Diamond Construct – Angel Killer Zero
Label – Pale Chord & Greyscale Records

Full of Hell – Coagulated Bliss
Label – Closed Casket Activities 

Glassing – From the Other Side of the Mirror
Label – Pelagic Records

Gutter King – Chemical Messages (Deluxe)
Label – Independent

Party Cannon – Injuries Are Inevitable
Label – Unique Leader Records

harm.icu – hakujona (EP)
Label – Independent

Lost in Exile – Deathbed Dreamer (EP)
Label – Darkest Day Media

Lucrecia – Meyneth (EP)
Label – Independent

Tidebringer – This Is Where We Go to Die (EP)
Label – Independent

Boneripper – Desolated (Single)
Label – Independent

Confessions of a Traitor – Hail Mary (feat. Convictions) (Single)
Label – Facedown Records

Elyne – Clinical Death (Single)
Label –
Independent

Extortionist – When It All Goes Dark (Single)
Label –
Unique Leader Records

Fallbrawl – You Can’t Kill Me (feat. Paleface Swiss) (Single)
Label –
Independent

FATAL & NONAMER – Live & Not Survive (Single)
Label –
Independent

Fleshmauler – Necromolesters (feat. Heirs of Hatred) (Single)
Label –
Independent

For All I Am – Mazes (Single)
Label –
Independent

Iridium – Social Warriors (Single)
Label –
Independent

Islander – Ritual Of Death (Single)
Label –
Independent

LOVELETTER – Choke (Single)
Label –
Independent

Mass of Amara – Unspoken (Single)
Label –
Independent

NAYSAYERS – To the Grave (Single)
Label –
Independent

ORPHAN – The Grey (Single)
Label –
Feral Records

Periphery – 2 Song Acoustic (Single)
Label –
3Dot Records

156/SIlence – Unreasonable Doubt (Single)
Label –
Sharptone

CHAOSBAY – Circular Wave (Single)
Label –
Independent

Life Awaits – Butterflies (Single)
Label –
Starcluster Music

Bodysnatcher – Severed (Single)
Label –
MNRK

Born Of Osiris – Elevate (Single)
Label –
Sumerian Records

CANDY – Love Like Snow (Single)
Label –
Relapse Records

In Hearts Wake – Hollow Bone (plɹoʍ ǝɥʇ) (Single)
Label –
UNFD

Knocked Loose – Suffocate (feat. Poppy) (Single)
Label –
Pure Noise Records

Starve – Sick (Single)
Label –
Independent

HARDCORE RELEASES

AWOL – Tear ‘Em to Bits
Label – Flatspot Records

Escalate – Consequences
Label – New Age Records

Going Off – Die Fast
Label – Independent

KLONNS – Heaven
Label – Iron Lung Records

SPIT TRUTH – Spring Breakdown (EP)
Label – K.O.T.P. Records

World of Joy – Life Is Pain (EP)
Label – Independent

Break Them – All Bark, No Bite (Single)
Label – Independent

Closed Off! – WORLDZ END (Single)
Label – Loudmouth Records

Crave Death – Sever (Single)
Label – Independent

Fatal Move – Lost Cause (Single)
Label – Useless Pride Records

Missing Link – New York Minute (Single)
Label –
Triple B

PUSH! – Hands of Concrete (Single)
Label – Independent

Sophisticated Adult – H.P.F. (Single)
Label –
Independent

Bad Breeding – Liberty (Single)
Label – One Little Independent Records

GEL – Mirage (Single)
Label – Blue Grape Music

Stand Still – In the Dying Light of a Setting Sun (Single)
Label – DAZE

Bad Beat – R. Hardcore (Single)
Label – Triple B Records

Fly Over States – 40 Stripes Minus One (Single)
Label – Fever Ltd

POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES

a bitter end. – THIS IS EPHEMERAL
Label – Independent

Boys of Fall – Boys of Fall
Label – Independent

Creeper – Sanguivore (Special Edition)
Label – Spinefarm Records

Microwave – Let’s Start Degeneracy
Label – Pure Noise Records

With Sails Ahead – Infinite Void
Label – Independent

Wine & Warpaint – Shattered (EP)
Label – Independent

fakeyourdeath – null/void (EP)
Label – Independent

Black Veil Brides – Bleeders (Single)
Label – Sumerian Records

Fame on Fire – Spiral (Justice) (Single)
Label – Independent

Fight the Fade – Eye of the Hurricane (Single)
Label – FiXT

FOXCULT – Astral Gallery (feat. Michael Skaggs of Outline in Color) (Single)
Label – Adventure Cat Records

Heaven Unknown – Decline (Single)
Label – Independent

Hippie Trim – Dog Days (Single)
Label – Suppervillain

Lost Trees – Kaleidoscope (Single)
Label – Independent

Portside – King is Dead
Label – Independent

Rain City Drive – Medicate Me (feat. Rory Rodriguez of Dayseeker) (Single)
Label – Thriller Records

Seek Harbour – Faith vs. Patience (feat. The Animal In Me) (Single)
Label – Independent

Sleeptalker – LakeSideDreams (Single)
Label – Independent

Soulkiller – BREATHLESS (feat. Danny Leal of Upon a Burning Body) (Single)
Label – Independent

Statefall – Dreamstate (Single)
Label – Independent

Supera Morza – Life Jacket (Single)
Label – Modern Sky UK

The Narrator – Devastator (Single)
Label – Independent

Hands Like Houses – Hollow (Single)
Label – Cooking Vinyl 

Softcult – One Of The Pack (Single)
Label – Easy Life Records

Have A Nice Life – When I Go Dead (Single)
Label – The Flenser

The Dangerous Summer – What’s An Hour Really Worth (Single)
Label – Rude Records

DEATH X DESTINY – DREAMWALKER (Single)
Label – FiXT

Anthony Green – Megadeath (Single)
Label – Born Losers Records

Modern Mimes – Bridge to Clarity (Single)
Label – Independent

Zeal & Ardor – to my ilk (Single)
Label – Redacted GmbH

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES

Dead Astronauts – Ghosts
Label – Cold Tranmission Music

ellis – no place that feels like
Label – Independent

Glaring Orchid – I Hope You’re Okay
Label – Candlepin Records

Justice – Hyperdrama
Label – Because Music

Cathedral Bells – Overdrive (Single)
Label – Spirit Goth Records

Night Tapes – projections (Single)
Label – Nettwerk Music Group

Shit Present – Acting Tough
Label – Specialist Subject

From Indian Lakes – The Wilderness (Single)
Label – little shuteye

Graywave – Dark Spell (Single)
Label – Church Road Records

SAFIRE – DOPAMINE SLUT (Single)
Label – Independent

Cults – Crybaby (Single)
Label – IMPERIAL

DIIV – Frog In Boiling Water (Single)
Label – Fantasy Records

Enter Shikari – Goldfish (Shikari Sound System Remix) (Single)
Label – SIlva Screen Records

hxly xo – just a face (Single)
Label – Ink & Wash

mui zyu – the rules of what an earthling can be (Single)
Label –
Father/Daughter Records