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