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
ameokama – i am driving a car with a cute girl and pretending that the world isn’t ending (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin recommends: Debut single from new project of Aki McCullough offers up a gorgeous blend of shoegaze and post-hardcore, with moments of delicate guitar strums and black metal styled screams added in, making for a compelling listen.
Drenched – Cycles (Single)
Label – InHeartStudios
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Packed with intricate melodies and powerful vocals, “Cycles” shows exemplary groove work on the riffs in the style of late 90s/00s metal, with their sound coated in a grunge-tinge of the same era.
Grave Risk – Pain in Truth (Single)
Label – Ivory Tomb Records
(Spotify)
Joe recommends: Grave Risk make a welcomed return on “Pain in Truth”, in the time away the Melbourne unit have only made their crossover hardcore sound packed with beefier vocals and riffs that are hard as nails.
Sunday Best – Past Tense (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin: Emo post-hardcore quarter Sunday Best are set to be the next big prospect in the UK scene if “Past Tense” is anything to go by. Each moment filled with earworms from the vocals to the guitar hooks, with an energetic sound, the London group are set for bigger and better things.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
chaos.sequence – THE TIES THAT BIND THE FLESH AND MIND (DLX)
Label – Independent
Dark Tranquillity – Endtime Signals
Label – Century Media Records
Extinction A.D. – To the Detested
Label – Unique Leader Records
Houkago Grind Time – Koncertos of Kawaiiness: Stealing Jon Chang’s Ideas, a Book by Andrew Lee
Label – Outrageous Weeb Power Productions
Left to Suffer – Leap of Death
Label – ONErpm
Memorrhage – Anyo
Label – Negative Wingspan
Reserate – Introspect
Label – Independent
Thotcrime – Connection Anxiety
Label – Prosthetic Records
CHAINTWIST – BLEED OUT (EP)
Label – Independent
Intercessor – The Price Is Physical (EP)
Label – Visceral Life Experiences
Omnia Nihil – No Solace (EP)
Label – All Is Nothing
Shadecarrier – Despising the Shade (EP)
Label – Independent
All That Remains – No Tomorrow (Single)
Label – Independent
As Beings – Broken Statue Effect (Single)
Label – Independent
Archetypes Collide – My Own Device (Single)
Label – Fearless Records
Beyond Awareness – Autopilot (Single)
Label – Warner Music
Burn Down Eden – Epistrophy (Single)
Label – Seek & Strike
Changeless – Neo-Boogie (feat. Ryoichi Suemori) (Single)
Label – Independent
cohen_noise – Bloodrush (Single)
Label – Independent
Dark Signal – Fold (Single)
Label – Ashtone Records
Day X Day – Just Business (Single)
Label – Independent
Dead Icarus – The Unconquerable (Single)
Label – MNRK
Lyra – No Eye has Seen (Single)
Label – Independent
SHEORU – HOOK//LINE//SINK (Single)
Label – Independent
Slower – Hellfire (Single)
Label – Heavy Psych Sounds
Still Hurts – Письмо (feat. ROYALS) (Single)
Label – ZVER Records
Struck a Nerve – Inside the Torture Fortress (Single)
Label – Independent
Take Breath – No Lungs, No Breath (Single)
Label – Rose
Teeth – Blight (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast
The Narrator – Die Down (Single)
Label – Independent
Until I Wake – Hole Hearted (Single)
Label – Fearless Records
Utsu-P – EMBLEM (feat. GUMI) (Single)
Label – KARENT
Vended – Serenity (Single)
Label – Independent
Born Of Osiris – In Desolation (Single)
Label – Sumerian Records
Defences – Silence & The Sound (Single)
Label – Long Branch Records
Headwreck – Buzzsaw (Single)
Label – Independent
Imminence – The Black (Live at Ystads Teater) (Single)
Label – Independent
Temperer – Faced Out (Single)
Label – Hell Label
Traveller – The Seeker (Single)
Label – Independent
Wires – spire (Single)
Label – Mirror Peak
Heriot – Devoured by the Mouth of Hell (Single)
Label – Century Media Records
Halcyon Days – N.I.T.C
Label – Indie Records
HARDCORE RELEASES
Yosemite In Black – The Pursuit Of
Label – Terminus Hate City
Nut – Off Me Nuts
Label – Futura Records
Skinwalker – Man Walks Backwards into the Ocean
Label – Independent
Bloodmoneytx – Bloodmoney (EP)
Label – RS Records
Chained Up – Nothin’ 2 Prove (EP)
Label – Independent
GEL – Persona (EP)
Label – Blue Grape Music
Holy Blade – Holy Blade (EP)
Label – Closed Casket Activities
Backhand – White Meat (Single)
Label – Independent
Dolores – 1312 A.D. (Single)
Label – Independent
E-Town Concrete – Written In The Scars (Single)
Label – Independent
Lost Legion – Gone (Single)
Label – Rock n Roll Disgrace
Maelstrom – Fight Fire With Fire (feat. Raw Conflict) (Single)
Label – Independent
Winnerz Circle & J.O.Y – PLAY2WIN / IMITATION NOT FLATTERY (Single)
Label – life.lair.regret. records
Truth Grip – Sex Education (Single)
Label – Independent
Tripper – Cycles (Single)
Label – Independent
Closed Off! (feat. Crave Death) – BORN LIKE THIS (Single)
Label – Loudmouth Records
Curate – Forever Cursed (Single)
Label – RTF Records
Fentanyl – Or So I Thought / Blind / Detached (Single)
Label – Consulve Records
Violent Offence – Violent Offence (feat. Deprivation Of Liberty) (Single)
Label – Independent
POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES
Falling in Reverse – Popular Monster
Label – Epitaph
Family Dinner – God Looks Out For Fools
Label – Other People Records
My Only Solution – The Saints That Haunt Us
Label – Independent
Yours Truly – TOXIC
Label – UNFD
Heartline – Pink Lemonade (EP)
Label – Independent
Misplaced – EP III (EP)
Label – People of Punk Rock Records
WREX – This Hell Goes a Long Way Down (EP)
Label – Independent
Amarionette – Detox (Single)
Label – Independent
Coe Hill & Nightwell – Save Yourself (Single)
Label – Nighthill Productions
EVERGREEN MARS – Viceversa (Single)
Label – SPRL
Giant Walker – Time to Waste (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
Hamartia – Is This It? (Single)
Label – Independent
In Her Own Words & Young Culture – House Party (Single)
Label – Thriller Records
RedHook – Pyromaniac (Single)
Label – Independent
RIVALS – Comfortably Isolated (Single)
Label – Independent
Royalist – Naive (Single)
Label – Wanderlust
STARSET – TokSik (Single)
Label – Fearless Records
Sweet Pill – There, There (The Wonder Years Cover) (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records
Waterparks – GH2024 (Single)
Label – Independent
Anthony Green – Last Summer In America (Single)
Label – Born Losers Records
Trash Boat – Better Than Yesterday (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records
Citizen Soldier – Burden (Single)
Label – Independent
Coping Method – Where Spirit Meets Bone (Single)
Label – FiXT
Drug Church – Chow (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records
FEVER 333 – NO HOSTAGES (Single)
Label – Century Media Records
incaseyouleave – Cloud Stencilling (Single)
Label – Independent
Slide/Ways – Dead Space (Single)
Label – Happy Haunting Records
zenbukiminoseida. – Lotus Flower Cosmetics (Single)
Label – codomomental inc.
Carver Commodore – TOO LOUD (Single)
Label – Well Kept Secret
Living in Fiction – Good Luck, Babe! (Single)
Label – High Vibe Recordings
Us in Motion – Vile Bodies (Single)
Label – Independent
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES
Charly Bliss – FOREVER
Label – Lucky Number
Foster The People – Paradise State of Mind
Label – Atlantic Records
Hazel English – Real Life
Label – Independent
Horse Jumper of Love – Disaster Trick
Label – Run For Cover Records
hxly xo – Limbic Resonance (EP)
Label – Ink & Wash
i Häxa – Part Three (EP)
Label – Pelagic Records
SAGEISKAMI – NOCTURN II (EP)
Label – Independent
Bella White – Five For Silver (Single)
Label – Rounder
Bilk – F Up (Single)
Label – Scruff of the Neck
FlowerBoyDeMii – MOJITO (Single)
Label – Independent
Geowulf – Nightmare (Single)
Label – Nettwerk Music Group
hentai boys – Night Vibes (Single)
Label – ZenMelt studis
Jazmin Bean – It’s not my fault (it’s yours) (Single)
Label – Universal-Island Records
Quo Vadis – Charmed (Single)
Label – Maxiecore Records
Halsey – Lonely is the Muse (Single)
Label – Columbia Records
Mimi Barks – WORMGIRL (feat. Raven Gray) (Single)
Label – Silent Cult
Pale Waves – Gravity (Single)
Label – Dirty Hit
Zheani – Sex Never Dies (Single)
Label – Independent
Cindy – All Weekend (Single)
Label – Tough Love
Cold Cave – Siren Song (Single)
Label – Heartworm Press
Hello Mary – Down My Life (Single)
Label – Frenchkiss Records
Hoshikuma Minami – Start Select (feat. 星熊南巫) (Single)
Label – Sony Music
Kimbra – Back To You (Single)
Label – Independent
Pearly Drops – Lost In The Dark (Single)
Label – Independent
trauma ray – Bishop (Single)
Label – Dais Records
W.H. Lung – The Painting of the Bay (Single)
Label – Melodic
bleach.bath, Telkin – Life’s a B (Single)
Label – Audio Alchemy
DEADLETTER – More Heat! (Single)
Label – So Recordings
Sangam – Orange Bliss (Single)
Label – No Problema Tapes