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 Me” Forager 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 – Independent
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