New Music Friday – August 16th, 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 

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 MethodWhere 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

CindyAll Weekend (Single)
Label – Tough Love

Cold Cave – Siren Song (Single)
Label – Heartworm Press

Hello Mary – Down My Life (Single)
Label –
 Frenchkiss Records

Hoshikuma MinamiStart Select (feat. 星熊南巫) (Single)
Label – Sony Music

KimbraBack To You (Single)
Label – Independent

Pearly DropsLost 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