New Music Friday – April 4th, 2025

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

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

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