Welcome to this week’s New Music Friday, our wrap-up of all the releases ranging from metalcore, hardcore, alternative and indie. Have a look at our release calendar to check out what upcoming releases are due soon. NMF playlist can be found here or at the bottom of the page. (Cover: Hoshikuma Minami – 新羅DARKPOP)
STAFF PICKS
REEBZ – Hallucination (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Collaborating with the likes of Art1fact and Toronto Is Broken this year, REEBZ now returns to solo material with impassioned track, “Hallucination“. REEBZ once again show the range of their vocal abilities with gorgeous singing backed by a layering of synths that make for an emotive listen.
SAFIRE – PARADISE (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify)
Nisrin recommends: Seemingly unafraid to confine themselves to one genre, SAFIRE is back with bouncy drum and bass tune “PARADISE“. Vocal hooks and catchy beats aplenty, this is a track that will have listeners cranking up the volume on their speakers and sticking on repeat.
deep blue & Лилу – ведьмин лес (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Harry recommends: In their first collaboration, deep blue team up with artist Лилу, who adds a layer of haunting melancholy to deep blue’s shattering riffs and anguished vocals to make for a track that is utterly encompassing.
Dead Soma – For Your Time (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Max recommends: Swedish tech-metal collective Dead Soma surprise in their most reserved and melodic outing to date. Their usual brand of violent, percussive chaos takes a back seat in favour of gorgeous, verbed soundscapes and clean vocals, to great effect.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
Creak – Depth Perception [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Prosthetic Records
Orbit Culture – Descent [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Seek & Strike
Tapestry – The Pain You Desire, the Love You Deserve [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Independent
Ringworm – Seeing Through Fire
Label – Nuclear Blast
Horrendous – Ontological Mysterium
Label – Season of Mist
Traveller – Homesick (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Independent
Worm Shepherd – The Sleeping Sun (EP)
Label – Unique Leader Records
END – Gaping Wounds of Earth (Single) [ALBUM NEWS]
Label – Closed Casket Activities
Artemis Rising – Blacklight (Single)
Label – Independent
Andromida & Tethra – These Memories (Single)
Label – Independent
BABYMETAL – METAL!! (feat. Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine) (Single)
Label – Century Media Records
Berried Alive – ZEN (Single)
Label – Independent
Blodet – The Hour (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
Dead Days – Past Life (Single)
Label – Theoria Records
Design the Void – Hazmat (Single)
Label – Independent
Dissonants – Fading (Single)
Label – Independent
Downswing – Bound To Misery (feat. AVOID) (Single)
Label – Blood Blast Distribution
Everghost – Pantheon (SIngle)
Label – Independent
Godhand – Constant State of Worst Case Scenario (Single)
Label – Independent
Graven Image – God Who Decree (Single)
Label – The Coming Strife
PeelingFlesh – 211/187 (feat. Chris Collier) (Single)
Label – Unique Leader Records
Marked as an Enemy – Cultist (Single)
Label – Independent
Militant Me – Carnivore (feat. Denis Stoff of Drag Me Out) (Single)
Label – Semper Metallum
Nights of Malice – Serpentine Visages (Single)
Label – Blood Blast Distribution
Within Temptation – Bleed Out (Single)
Label – Force Music Recordings
Tariot – The Devil Inside Me (Single)
Label – Out Of Line Music
Terrorbyte – Ghost Stories (Single)
Label – Poltergeist Activity
The Day We Left Earth – Dead on Arrival (Single)
Label – Sony Music
Xhale – Until It Floods (Single)
Label – Flow State Records
ACHE – Dark Souls (Single)
Label – Independent
alqemiste – The Swarm (Single)
Label – Independent
Atena – Hard Day (Single)
Label – Indie Recordings
ERRA – Pale Iris (Single)
Label – UNFD
Gutter King – Low Light (Single)
Label – Independent
Nasty – Heartbreak Criminals (Single)
Label – Century Media Records
Bleeding Through – Love Lost in a Hail of Gun Fire (2023 Re-Recording) (Single)
Label – Sharptone Records
Born Of Osiris – Torchbearer (Single)
Label – Sumerian Records
TesseracT – The Grey (Single)
Label – Kscope
Sinner Self – Concept of Creation (Single)
Label – Independent
Coping Method – Hypomania (Single)
Label – FiXT
Mountain Caller – The Archivist (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
Svalbard – How To Swim Down (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast
Thy Art Is Murder – Blood Throne (Single)
Label – Human Warfare
To The Grave – Deadskin Skimask (feat. Jake Kennedy) (Single)
Label – Unique Leader Records
Vildhjarta – + den spanska känslan + (Single)
Label – Century Media Records
Lilith’s Demise – I’m A Whore (Single)
Label – Independent
thoughtcrimes – Natural Imprudence (Single)
Label – Purenoise Records
HARDCORE RELEASES
Burden – Scorched Earth
Label – Rock & Roll Disgrace
PISS ME OFF – 2 MUCH POWER
Label – Delayed Gratification Records
Witness Chamber – True Delusion (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – DAZE Records
Aggrieved & Cold Case – Split 2023 (EP)
Label – Upstate Records
Search Warrant – Secret City Stomp (EP)
Label – Independent
Spell It Out – Draw A Line (EP)
Label – Relaxor Records
Broken Vow – 1.5 (Single)
Label – Triple B Records
Cosmic Joke – Empty Nesting Doll (Single)
Label – Triple B Records
Disappear. – Pestilence (Single)
Label – Chipped Tooth Audio
Filth is Eternal – Pressure Me (Single)
Label – MNRK Records
Immortal Blade – Blood for Blood (Single)
Label – Independent
No Cure – No Cure Straight Edge Die Slow Fuck You (Single)
Label – Blaythe Steur
Harms Way – Devour (Single)
Label – Metal Blade Records
Pain of Truth – You and Me (feat. Madball) (Single)
Label – DAZE Records
Private Hell – Tower of Silence (Single)
Label – Persistent Vision Records
SHUT AWAY – WHAT NOW CRUEL WORLD (Single)
Label – Independent
Suffocate Faster – Do What You Want (Single)
Label – Smartpunk Records
POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES
Fiddlehead – Death Is Nothing to Us [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Run For Cover Records
Movements – RUCKUS! [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Fearless Records
Bearings – The Part About Being Human
Label – Pure Noise Records
Descape – You Had It All But It Fell Apart
Label – Independent
Point North – Prepare for Despair
Label – Hopeless Records
The Sleeping – I Feel Like I’m Becoming A Ghost
Label – Independent
The XCERTS – Learning How to Live and Let Go
Label – UNFD
Magnolia Park – MoonEater (EP)
Label – Epitaph Records
Magnolia Park – SoulEater (EP)
Label – Epitaph Records
A Foreign Affair – Control (Single)
Label – SGB Records
After Hour Animals – Sideways (Single)
Label – Independent
Aviations – Blink (Single)
Label – Independent
Catch Your Breath – Y.S.K.W. (Single)
Label – Thriller Records
Closure in Moscow – Keeper of the Lake (Single)
Label – Independent
Dead Pony – COBRA (Single)
Label – LAB Records
Fight the Fade – Stranger (Single)
Label – FiXT
Galleons – Violent Delights (Single)
Label – Independent
Haken – Canary Yellow (feat. Courtney Swain) [Acoustic Version] (Single)
Label – InsideOutMusic
Her Last Sight – Serenity (Single)
Label – Liron Avital Productions
Misplaced – Real World (Single)
Label – 7 West Music
Night Verses – Karma Wheel (Single)
Label – Equal Vision Records
Seeing Things – Dead Inside (Single)
Label – Independent
Wildways – Химия (Single)
Label – Independent
Wolf & Bear – THERE’S NO DUST IN THE CITY (feat. Andrew Wells of Dance Gavin Dance & Eidola) (Single)
Label – Blue Swan Records
Glass Tides – Over My Head (Single)
Label – Independent
High Regard – Dead To Me (feat. Charlie Rolfe of As Everything Unfolds) (Single)
Label – Independent
Just Friends – JUMP (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records
Of Virtue – Holy (Single)
Label – Century Media Records
Oxymorrons – Look Alive (Netic) (Single)
Label – Mascot Records
Shangrila – Afterlife (Single)
Label – Independent
As Friends Rust – No Gods, Some Masters (Single)
Label – End Hits Records
CLT DRP – See My Body Through You (Single)
Label – Venn Records
Death Cab for Cutie – An Arrow In The Wall (Single)
Label – Atlantic Recording Corporation
Hot Milk – BREATHING UDNERWATER (Single)
Label – Music For Nations
Static Dress – Di-sinTer (Glitter Redux) (Single)
Label – Roadrunner Records
awakebutstillinbed – airport / redlight (Single)
Label – Tiny Engines
Thirty Seconds To Mars – Seasons (Single)
Label – Concord Recordsga
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES
Birdy – Portraits
Label – Warner Music
Craig Owens – VOLUME 1
Label – Velocity Records
Deafcult – Future Of Illusion
Label – Hobbledehoy
Dizzy – Dizzy
Label – Communion Group
Hozier – Unreal Unearth
Label – Universal Music
King Tuff – Smalltown Stardust (deluxe dust)
Label – Sub Pop Records
Naked Lungs – Doomscroll
Label – Independent
Peter Sandberg – Constellations (Deluxe)
Label – Believe UK
Bilk – Bilk Unplugged (EP)
Label – Scruff of the Neck Records
Jeron Braxton – Oxytocin (EP)
Label – Pizzaslime Records
Paige – Breathwork (EP)
Label – SHÈN Recordings
Hoshikuma Minami – 新羅DARKPOP (Single)
Label – QOOLONG
Damona – Girl across the street (Single)
Label – superolrecords
Eyedress – The Dark Prince (feat. Mac DeMarco) (Single)
Label – Sony Music
JAWS – Sweat (Single)
Label – Independent
CHVRCHES – Manhattan (Single)
Label – Liberator Music
Roosevelt – Rising (Single)
Label – Counter Records
S.Carey – Transient (feat. John Raymond) (Single)
Label – Libellule Editions
Sextile – Crash (Single)
Label – Sacred Bones Records
GUNSHIP – Taste like Venom (Single)
Label – Horsie In The Hedge Limited
Mirabi Frame – Kataomoi Riguretto (Single)
Label – Chaotic Noiz
Oliver Beardmore – The Risk (Single)
Label – Independent
The Streets – Too Much Yayo (Single)
Label – Warner Music
Dreamstation – Dreamstation (feat. Blksmiith) (Single)
Label – Independent
Former Hero – flowertek / adieu Pt.1 (Single)
Label – birkham records
hdhd – my smiling face is just a mask of emptiness (Single)
Label – Independent
In Explosions – destroyer of worlds (Single)
Label – Independent