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
All Men Unto Me – Sequentia (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin recommends: “Sequentia” is an outsider take on doom metal that embraces sparse timbres and unsettling organs. Rylan Gleave’s time in the classical sphere is corrupted towards a performance that’s both powerful and deranged. Featuring three members of Ashenspire, All Men Unto Me are set to continue Scotland’s tradition for irreverent takes on heavy music.
Decoy – Something Else Entirely (feat. Jorge Rosado of Merauder) (Single)
Label – Upstate Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Scathing as ever, Decoy team up with Merauder to add a caustic layer to their metallic beatdown sound. A vocal performance that is a sledgehammer to the ear with its ferocity and rage, “Something Else Entirely” delivers sheer violence.
Direct Measure – Cremation (feat. Sawed Off) (Single)
Label – WAR Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin recommends: “Cremation” takes Direct Measure into melodic territory with some extremely immediate and satisfying riffs. Besides its blissful acoustic introduction, it doesn’t let up on the aggression, with Sawed Off offering up some beastly gutturals.The trashy major key ending is pure metallic hardcore elation.
Sedative – 12 Gauge Apology (Single)
Label – Banana Skin Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Sedative’s “12 Gauge Apology” fully delivers up to its name with a double barreled blast of bludgeoning kicks and snare pops alongside barks that are packed with spite, all ending on a breakdown that is an absolute bulldozer.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
Allegaeon – The Ossuary Lens
Label – Metal Blade Records
Bleed from Within – Zenith
Label – Nuclear Blast
Thornhill – Bodies
Label – UNFD
Tómarúm – Beyond Obsidian Euphoria
Label – Prosthetic Records
Illyria – The Walk of Atonement (EP)
Label – Independent
Record Setter – Evoke Invoke (EP)
Label – Independent
Balmora – Prologue (EP)
Label – DAZE & Ephyra
angels weep – WOUND (feat. Where Memories May Rot) (Single)
Label – Independent
BABYMETAL – from me to u (feat. Poppy) (Single)
Label – Century Media Records Ltd
Beyond Awareness – Lifeline (Single)
Label – Ranka Kustannus
Despite Exile – Terminal Dusk (Single)
Label – Famined Records
Drenched – Cure (Single)
Label – InHeartStudios
Dygora – Death by a Thousand Cuts (Single)
Label – Southside Records
GAI 荄 – AFTER ALL – (feat. Mattéo Gelsomino) (Single)
Label – Independent
Higher Walls – So Much, for So Little, for So Long (Single)
Label – Independent
HOSTAGE – Sirens (Single)
Label – Warner Music
Lost in Separation – Ember (Single)
Label – Independent
Maelføy – Fight Alone (feat. Artemis Rising) (Single)
Label – Independent
NECROTTED – Deus Ex (feat. Aborted & Coffin Feeder) (Single)
Label – Independent
Sheridan – Shiver (Single)
Label – recordJet
Watch Out Stampede – Godcomplex (Single)
Label – Redfield Records
Vide – Decorated in spiderweb (Single)
Label – Independent
Humanity’s Last Breath – Anthracite (Single)
Label – Century Media
IMPVLSE – sacrilege (Single)
Label – Independent
Sugar Spine – Chrome Coloured Ribcage (Single)
Label – Heavy Collective
To The Grave – Sawed Off (Single)
Label – Unique Leader Records
Broken Earth – The Distance (Single)
Label – Independent
Tallah – What we know (Single)
Label – Earache Records
Against The Waves – PERFECT BLUE (Single)
Label – Independent
another step – Fallacy (Single)
Label – Independent
Changeling – Changeling (Single)
Label – Season of Mist
Goetia – Otherworldly Agency (Single)
Label – Voice Of the Chielago
Pale Ache – flesh + portrait (Single)
Label – Aches Audio
SENTRIES – The Cowboy’s Carcass (Single)
Label – Eau Claire Records
Tolls – Human Thirst (Single)
Label – Independent
UnityTX – HEINOUS (Single)
Label – Pure Nosie Records
Your Spirit Dies – Unjust God (Single)
Label – MNRK Music
HARDCORE RELEASES
Aight Bet – Aight Bet
Label – Chicago Hoodrich
Florida Man – Plastique
Label – Independent
Ursula – I Don’t Like Anything
Label – Indecision Records
Bloodguilt – Bloodguilt (EP)
Label – New Age Records
Bruiserweight – Still Standing (EP)
Label – Unbeaten Records
Couldn’t Be Me – Couldn’t Be Me (EP)
Label – Independent
Everybody Dies – Everybody Dies (EP)
Label – Independent
Haywire 617 & No Guard – SHIRTS VS. SKINS (EP)
Label – DAZE
Who I Am – Imminent Devastation (EP)
Label – Useless Pride Records
Angulimala – C.B.V (EP)
Label – Futura Records Asia
DYNAMITE – Settle the Score (EP)
Label – Independent
Not Without Punishment – Blood Runs Cold (EP)
Label – Godzilla Records
Joust – Born Into This World… (EP)
Label – OWTG
Terminator – April Showers Bring May Flowers (EP)
Label – Rebirth Records
Cold Authority – Big City Bullshit (EP)
Label – Independent
Bleach – Specter (Single)
Label – Holding On Records & Disaster Records
Caged View – Time Blind (Single)
Label – GGT Records
Cold Grip – Bloodbound (Single)
Label – Independent
Direct Measure – Cremation (Single)
Label – WAR Records
The Chain – Useless (Single)
Label – Last Ride Records
COOKED – When Will My Veins Return? (Single)
Label – Independent
POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES
Air Drawn Dagger – A Guide for Apparitions
Label – Long Branch Records
James and the Cold Gun – Face in the Mirror
Label – Loosegroove Records
LEAVE. – The Cost of Compromise
Label – Independent
LUNA KILLS – DEATHMATCH
Label – SHARPTONE
Seven – Interdimensional – Act III: Shadows in the Sky
Label – Independent
Commoner – Change of Heart (EP)
Label – NEW MORALITY ZINE
As December Falls – Fall Apart (Single)
Label – Self-Released
Attic Stories – Candy Coated Heart (Single)
Label – SBÄM Records
BAND-MAID – Ready to Rock (Single)
Label – Pony Canyon
Galleons – INVISIBLE (Single)
Label – Independent
Grayscale – Kept Me Alive (feat. Slowly Slowly) (Single)
Label – Infield
Headsick – Fade Into My Skin (Single)
Label – Independent
Heart Attack Man – Joyride The Pale Horse (Single)
Label – Paid Vacation
Hot Milk – Swallow This (Single)
Label – Music For Nations
Mission Jupiter – Crippled Country (Single0
Label – Flatiron Recordings
never easy – cold (Single)
Label – Independent
New Medicine – BAGGAGE (Single)
Label – Independent
panicwaves – Insomnia (Single)
Label – MusicHub
PhaseOne & Banks Arcade – PULSE (Single)
Label – UNFD
Sleep Token – Caramel (Single)
Label – RCA Records
Stand Atlantic – I’M THE MAN (feat. Lauren Sanderson) (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records
Static Dress – face. (Single)
Label – Independent
Sunborn – LOTUS (Single)
Label – Independent
Teenage Joans – Sweet And Slow (Single)
Label – Independent
Volbeat – In the Barn of the Goat Giving Birth to Satan’s Spawn in a Dying World of Doom (Single)
Label – Vertigo Berlin
Belle Haven – it’s not that deep (Single)
Label – Independent
Dragged Under – AlgoRHYTHM (Single)
Label – Mascot Records
See You Next Tuesday – Paraphalia – Acoustic Version (feat. Crippling Alcoholism) (Single)
Label – Good Fight Music
Stateside – Stay Sweet (feat. Joe Taylor of Knuckle Puck) (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records
Rise Against – Prizefighter (Single)
Label – Loma Vista Recordings
Sienna Skies – Brick (Single)
Label – Passion Eight Records
билборды – Ты не сможешь любить меня (Single)
Label – Independent
CVLTE – bloodYhell. (Single)
Label – F.C.L.S
Greywind – Acid Rain (Single)
Label – FLG
Gutter King – Limbo (Single)
Label – Independent
LOCKSTEP – Drag Along (Single)
Label – Independent
Palecurse – Haunted (Single)
Label – Independent
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES
Black Country, New Road – Forever Howlong
Label – Ninja Tune
Glare – Sunset Funeral
Label – Sunday Drive Records
Momma – Welcome to My Blue Sky
Label – Lucky Number Music
Panchiko – Ginkgo
Label – Nettwerk Music Group
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Death Hilarious
Label – Rocket Recordings
Scowl – Are We All Angels
Label – Dirty Oceans
Sister Ray – Believer
Label – Royal Mountain Records
Aly & AJ – Next To Nothing (Single)
Label – Independent
DeathbyRomy – YUNG & RICH (feat. WARGASM & bodyimage) (Single)
Label – Independent
Lights – WHITE PAPER PALMS TREES / SURFACE TENSION (Single)
Label – Independent
Matilda Mann – Just Because (Single)
Label – 7476
Night Tapes – babygirl (like n01 else) (Single)
Label – Nettwerk music Group
Pauline Seaver – No Love (Single)
Label – Dark Side Records
H_ngm_n – Spotlight (Single)
Label – Sugar-Free Records
daine – eighteen (Single)
Label – Create / Pack Records
Goldmund, Keith Kenniff & Scott Moore – Before I Sleep (Single)
Label – Western Vinyl
Reba Meyers – Got Your Hold On Me (Single)
Label – RLM Records