New Music Friday – April 5th, 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

Giant Walker – Make Me (Single)
Label –
Church Road Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Joe recommends: Giant Walker return with grandiose new single “Make Me” that will feature on their to be announced upcoming sophomore record. Plucky riffs that stink themselves into the ear are compliment by Steff Fish‘s marvellous and encompassing vocals.

Forager – Real Me (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Dobbin recommends: On “Real MeForager take modern hardcore’s energy and lace it into a belter. An extremely satisfying chorus and tight runtime, with a tidy, lean bridge and tempo-twisting breakdown makes for a focused single. “Real Me” is another demonstration that a simple track can achieve a lot.

Memento. – Dreams of Cataclysm (Single)
Label –
Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music

Maximo recommends: Following suit with the (very much welcome) slew of acutely noughties-core-influenced groups on the scene right now, Memento. provide an energetic, nostalgic and undeniably electrifying double single that continues to prove that this sound never should have gone anywhere in the first place.

Skora – Black Opal (Single)
Label –
Reprentance Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Joe recommends: Cheltenham unit Skora are back after an eventful 2023 that saw them perform at Bloodstock as part of Metal 2 The Masses, their new single “Black Opal” displays energetic riffs and tight production that will hopefully be the start of more to come from the quintet this year.

METAL/CORE RELEASES

Alpha Wolf – Half Living Things
Label – Sharptone Records

Austere – Beneath the Threshold
Label – upus Lounge / Prophecy Productions

ERRA – CURE
Label – UNFD

FILTH – Southern Hostility
Label – Independent

Horndal – Head Hammer Man
Label – Prosthetic Records

LOCRIAN – End Terrain
Label – Profound Lore 

Korpiklaani – Rankarumpu
Label – Nuclear Blast

Ingested – The Tide of Death and Fractured Dreams
Label – Metal Blade Records

Witch Vomit – Funeral Sanctum
Label – 20 Buck Spin

Young Medicine – Cold Blooded
Label – FixT

Out of Vision – Deceiving Lights
Label – Independent

Dialith – Alter (EP)
Label – Independent

Dismal – Burn Down Eden (EP)
Label – 859 underground

False Hope – Cause and Effect (EP)
Label –
Independent

Patient Sixty-Seven – What if It Never Gets Better (EP)
Label – Independent

Axty – Fall Again (EP)
Label –
Universal Music

Atlases – Violent Cold (Single)
Label – Lifeforce Records

BLACKGOLD – One Chance (Single)
Label – Independent

CLEARxCUT – Putrefaction (Single)
Label – Lifeforce Records

Confessions of a Traitor – Fatal Frame (Single)
Label – Facedown Records

Cypecore – Doomsday Parade (Single)
Label – Easthaven Records

Downpour – Break Me (Single)
Label – Independent

DUNRENDAL – Flawless Cowboy (Single)
Label – Independent

Future Palace – Uncontrolled (Single)
Label – Arising Empire

Gannon – Knightfall (feat. Steve Webb) (Single)
Label – Independent

Human Deception – Dark Roots (feat. She Must Burn) (Single)
Label – Independent

My Own Abyss – Dead End (Single)
Label – Independent

Paul Bartolome – Buried In The Walls (Single)
Label – LEGEND Recordings

Resistor – I AM NOTHING (Single)
Label –
Independent

SAME PAINS – kin of death (Single)
Label – Independent

Suicide Cages – Charm Offensive (Single)
Label – Independent

THAEIA – Better off Dead (Single)
Label – Independent

The John Candy – Without Honor (Single)
Label – Rad Dudes

Glass Tides – Imposter (Single)
Label – Independent

Ice Sealed Eyes – Bloom (Single)
Label – Independent

Siamese – Through My Head (feat. Resolve) (Single)
Label – Long Branch Records

REZN – Chasm (Single)
Label – Sargent House

Better Lovers – The Flowering (Single)
Label – SHARPTONE

Defying Decay – MEANiNGLESS! (Single)
Label – Independent

Entheos – An End to Everything (Single)
Label – Metal Blade Records

Graphic Nature – To The Grave (Single)
Label – Rude Records

Knocked Loose – Don’t Reach For Me (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records

Nylist – Grasp Your Throat (Single)
Label – Independent

Aortes – I’ve Loved You All (Single)
Label – Independent

CANDY – eXistenZ (Single)
Label – Relapse Records

Dvrk – F.A.M (Single)
Label – Season of Mist

Glassing – Circle Down (Single)
Label – Pelagic Records

HARDCORE RELEASES

Major Pain – M.P.S
Label – Indecision Records

The Pill – Hollywood Smile
Label –
Independent

Can’t Keep Up – Maybe There’s Solace (EP)
Label – Independent

Mindcheck – Mindcheck (EP)
Label – AAK Records

Planet On A Chain – Culture of Death (EP)
Label – Revelation Records

Conservative Military Image – No Squares In Our Circle (EP)
Label – Triple B Records 

Fucked Up – Cops (EP)
Label – Independent

Fucked Up – Being Annoying (EP)
Label – Independent

Sunny Side – Ardmore (EP)
Label –
Independent

Brave New World TN – Set To Annihilate (Single)
Label –
Independent

DEAD VELVET – VILE (Single)
Label – Dead Gang Records

Expel – Authority (Single)
Label – Independent

Lost Legion – Can’t Stand Alone (Single)
Label –
Longshot/Try and Stop Me

Loyal To The Grave – Striving Higher (Single)
Label – Triple B Records

Remain In Grief – Unholy (Single)
Label – NORTHERN HARDCORE

Vainoa – Pimennys (Single)
Label – Suicide Records

AWOL – AWOL (Single)
Label – Last Ride Records

Bad Beat – Not Like You / Big Mouth On You
Label – Triple B Records

Defy – Tana Kaili (Single)
Label – Independent

Persecutor – Global Prison Experiment (Single)
Label – To Live A Lie Records / Bad Habit Records

TRUE FIGHT – City Lights (feat. Stressed.) (Single)
Label – Independent

Total Loss – Dereliction (feat. Gabe McQueen) (Single)
Label – Don’t Try Inc.

Contention – In the Land of Nod (Single)
Label – DAZE

Hate – Nothing But A Beatdown (Single)
Label – Independent

POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES

Bayside – There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive
Label – Hopeless Records

Bob Vylan – Humble As The Sun
Label – GHOST THEATRE

Dead Pony – Ignore This
Label – LAB Records

Feeder – Black / Red
Label – Big Teeth Music

Humble Abode – Cemetery Symmetry
Label – Independent

Skywalker – All News Is Bad News
Label –
ANKN Records

Between You & Me – SH!T YEAH (EP)
Label – BYAM Records

Chaidura – Expressions: Cosette (EP)
Label – Independent

ANIIMALIA – Carousel (EP)
Label –
Marshall Records

deegie – Go Be With Becca (Zach) (Single)
Label – Independent

Eidola – Fistful of Hornets (Single)
Label – Rise Records

happydaze – Left Off (Single)
Label – Thriller Records

Jools – 97% (Single)
Label – Hassle Records

noyou – Locked Eyes (Single)
Label – Independent

Oakman – Curse (Single)
Label – Rude Records

Queen Cult – Stop Calling (Single)
Label – Independent

Saving Vice – The Cabal (Single)
Label – Independent

Scary Kids Scaring Kids – Black Out (Single)
Label – Velocity Records

South Arcade – Riptide (Single)
Label – LAB Records

Tigress – Blah Blah Blah (Single)
Label –
Independent

билборды – Тень (Single)
Label – I
ndependent

Boston Manor – Sliding Doors (Single)
Label – Sharptone

Dayseeker – Neon Grave (Acoustic) (Single)
Label – Spinefarm

Four Years Strong – daddy of mine (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records

Hands Like Houses – 24 Hours (Single)
Label – Cooking Vinyl

Mimi Barks – Banshee (Single)
Label – Silent Cult

sunbleached – Hell is Repetition (Single)
Label – Independent

Gold Souls – Call Home (Single)
Label – MUSE Records

Out Of Love – Tiny Brain (Single)
Label – Secret Friends Music Group

Upsetter – Maleny Drive (Single)
Label – Independent

ENMY – The Ledge (Single)
Label –
FiXT

HRTLSS – Daylight (Single)
Label – Independent

QUEEN LAYA – RAPTURE (CULT) (Single)
Label – Independent

Zetra – Starfall (feat. Serena Cherry) (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast

Harpy – Slaughterhouse (Single)
Label – Independent

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES

Adam Wiltzie – Eleven Fuges for Sodium Pentothal
Label – kranky

Grace Cummings – Ramona
Label – Sugar Mountain Records

Lizzy McAlpine – Older
Label – Indigo Blue

Loscil – Chroma
Label – kranky

Novo Amor – Collapse List
Label – AllPoints

Still Corners – Dream Talk
Label – Wrecking Light Records

The Green Kingdom – Etheric Compendium
Label – Independent

Rawzilk – alma equiz (EP)
Label – Independent

Wisp – Pandora (EP)
Label – Interscope Records

Charli XCX – Club classics /B2b (EP)
Label – Atlantic Recording Corporation

Alaskan Tapes – Random Sequence (Single)
Label – Nettwerk Music Group

ANNA – Kalimba Dreams (Single)
Label – Global Underground

Cage The Elephant – Good Time (Single)
Label – RCA Records

Cigarette Smoke – Parasite (Single)
Label – Independent

Dead Astronauts – Void (Single)
Label – Cold Transmission Music

Deep AL Brindle – Serious (Single)
Label – Tooth & Nail Records

In Explosions – olympics (Single)
Label – droneshipx

London Grammar – House (Single)
Label – Sony Music

Luna Shadows – heroine (Single)
Label – Independent

Siv Jakobsen – San Luis (Single)
Label – The Nordic Mellow

Sundrayati – Unwavering (feat. SOHN) (Single)
Label – Decca Records

Thomas Powers – Permanent Holiday (feat. Now, Now) (Single)
Label – Sensible Anomie

aespa – Die Trying (feat. TOKiMONSTA) (Single)
Label –
Netflix Music

Ava Max – My Oh My (Single)
Label – Atlantic Records

Peter Bibby – Fun Guy (Single)
Label – Spinning Top Records

Oliver Beardmore – Cold Star (Single)
Label – Independent

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

La Luz – Poppies (Single)
Label –
Sub Pop Records

hxly xo (feat. bleach.bath & Veela) (Single)
Label – dreamstation