Welcome to this week’s edition of New Music Friday, where we round-up all of the week’s releases from metalcore, hardcore, alternative and indie. For a full view of what’s coming up, check out 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
9 Dead – God Of Mine (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin recommends: This Friday, all of our picks are out for blood, especially 9 Dead with “God Of Mine“. It’s brutal deathcore with extremely articulate vocals that sow a song of self-determination and retribution. They’ve sharpened their classic 9 Dead production, a tight and clear vision for deathcore that makes all the hammer blows especially crisp.
CHAPEL HILL – Anguish (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: On the second single from their upcoming EP, The Suffering That Comes With It, Chapel Hill are the latest in a string of exciting acts to come out of Australia. Brutal in every aspect, Chapel Hill take their heavy hardcore and amp it up with caustic vocals and vicious guitar work, making for a hellish listen.
False Reality – REALITY SLIPS (Single)
Label – Hassle Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Alongside the announcement of their upcoming debut full-length, FADED INTENTIONS, False Reality have dropped stellar single “REALITY SLIPS“. Slick riff work, blending between juicy metallic moments and hardcore breakdowns, False Reality continue to show why they are the blue chip prospect in the UKHC scene.
Mentality – No Justice (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Back with their second single in “No Justice“, Mentality continue to showcase their exemplary mosh riffs and gnarly breakdowns. Beefy barked vocals command the track, while “No Justice” shifts gears between headbanging riffs and spin kick breakdowns, making for a fierce track.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
Faced Out – At Eternity’s Edge
Label – The Coming Strife
HATED – Death Effects
Label – Lost Future Records
Hundreds of Au – Life In Parallel
Label – Iodine Recordings
Malevich – Under a Gilded Sun
Label – Church Road Records
Signs of the Swarm – To Rid Myself Of Truth
Label – Century Media
We Came As Romans – ALL IS BEAUTIFUL… BECAUSE WE’RE DOOMED
Label – SHARPTONE
Woe, Is Me – Daybreak
Label – SBG Records
ennui – Eternal Wax Wings Eternal Sun
Label – Day Zero Collective
Deadweight 80 – Familiar Shades of Violet (EP)
Label – Independent
Odder – I’ve Seen This Existence (EP)
Label – Willmore Records
Pains – Blistering Wrath (EP)
Label – Twelve Gauge Records
Shadecarrier – Despising The Shade (EP)
Label – Independent
Wocket Launcher – Wocket Launcher Presents.. Wocket Launcher: The Compilation, A Compilation by Wocket Launcher (EP)
Label – Independent
asthelifeleavesyoureyes – You Left A Sinner, Covered In The Blood (EP)
Label – Independent
Sugar Spine – Violent Heaven (EP)
Label – Heavy Collective
5th.Incision – My Weakness (Single)
Label – Independent
9 Dead – God Of Mine (Single)
Label – Independent
Afterdusk – COMASTATE (Single)
Label – Independent
Blindfolded and Led to the Woods – Compulsion (Single)
Label – Prosthetic Records
Capsize – A Reflection Found In Blood (Single)
Label – Independent
DROWNED UNDER CONCRETE – Sublingual Cyanide (Single)
Label – ARSON THEORY
Flatline – Execute (Single)
Label – Independent
GLOOMLIGHT – Here With You (Single)
Label – Independent
Patient Sixty-Seven – Barricade (Single)
Label – Oxide Records
Sevalynn – BLINDSPOT (Single)
Label – Purple Cave Studio
The Archaic Epidemic – THE FINAL GATE (Single)
Label – Independent
The Hero and a Monster – Burial Fire (Single)
Label – Independent
Vexatious – Impulse (Single)
Label – Independent
Vilified – Card XVI (Single)
Label – Independent
Gore. – Wrath (Single)
Label – Spinefarm
Carcosa – Fade (Single)
Label – Arson Theory
Coheed and Cambria (feat. Nick Hexum) – Goodbye, Sunshine (Endless Summer) (Single)
Label – Independent
Frontières (feat. Half Me) – Murderers (Single)
Label – Independent
Mastiff – A Story Behind Every Light (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
Soulkeeper – Go Ask Alice (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records
The Cards I Play – FACE THIS (Single)
Label – Golden Age Records
The Halo Effect – If You Were Here (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast
Extortionist – Cycle Of Sin (Single)
Label – Unique Leader Records
Portrait of the Sisters – Sisters Promo (Single)
Label – Independent
Insominds – The Way Everything Ends (Single)
Label – Independent
HARDCORE RELEASES
BOOTCAMP – Time’s Up
Label – Convulse Records
Dead Mall – SUPERLIMINAL
Label – Independent
Static. – Lost Signal
Label – Trash King Records
Agency – Life Will Kill (EP)
Label – Rucktion Records
DryerFire – DryerFire (EP)
Label – LRHCDIY
Firestarter – Still Holding On… (EP)
Label – Hardlore Records
Fatal Wounds – DEMO 2025 (EP)
Label – Midnight Hour Records
The Burial Code – Beneath (EP)
Label – Independent
430 Steps – Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (Single)
Label – Independent
DUSTHOUSE – Soul Death Deceit (Single)
Label – Independent
Missing Link (feat. Never Ending Game) – Dog Days (Single)
Label – Triple B Records
Tombstone (feat. Maul) – There Must be an Enemy (Single)
Label – Independent
Turn Cold (feat. Brett Butler) – No Kings (Single)
Label – Upstate Records
Acid Casualties – Why Decide? (Single)
Label – Iron Lung Records
End It – Could You Love Me? (Single)
Label – Flatspot Records
Overthrow – Tribute (Single)
Label – Independent
Planet On A Chain – Mangled And Twisted (Single)
Label – Revelation Records
Show Me the Body – One Train (Single)
Label – Loma Vista Recordings
BrickToTheFace – The Path (Single)
Label – Vile Tapes Records
Dry Socket – Last Chance (Single)
Label – To Live A Lie
Torment – Muladhara Compromised (Single)
Label – CATEGORY III
Touch – Light Goes Out (Single)
Label – Corbata Records, Passion Means Struggle
Abstain – No Innocence (Single)
Label – Independent
Deprivation Of Liberty – End of Life Promo (Single)
Label – South Wales Collective
L.O.W – Die Guilty (Single)
Label – Independent
No Apologies (feat. Speed) – Grief (Single)
Label – Last Ride Records
Skin Ticket – Built for War (Single)
Label – ST.MF
POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES
CANTERVICE – Zero Hour (Deluxe Edition)
Label – FiXT
Deftones – private music
Label – Reprise
Hands Like Houses – ATMOSPHERICS (DELUXE)
Label – Civilians
Hot Mulligan – The Sound a Body Makes When It’s Still
Label – Independent
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die – Dreams of Being Dust
Label – Epitaph
Makari – Alternate EP 2 (EP)
Label – Independent
Belle Haven – be enough. (Single)
Label – Independent
Coilguns – Nightshifter (Single)
Label – Humus Records
Dayseeker – Shapeshift (Single)
Label – Spinefarm
EarlyRise – Paper Empire (Single)
Label – Independent
Greyhaven – Cemetery Sun (Single)
Label – Solid State Records
Ivory Daze – IV League (Single)
Label – Quiet Panic
Maggie Lindemann – spine (Single)
Label – swixxzaudio
Notedead – Your shovel, My hatchet (Single)
Label – Independent
Retail Parks – Aim up & Flowers Will Bloom (Single)
Label – Independent
Serj Tankian – Electric Dreams (Single)
Label – Serjical Strike Records
Silverstein – Autopilot (Single)
Label – UNFD
Tallah – undone by fate (Single)
Label – Earache Records
The Devil Wears Prada – Where The Flowers Never Grow (Single)
Label – Solid State Records
The Johnstown Flood – Captive Convocation (Single)
Label – Independent
VICES – Chemicals (Single)
Label – JBR Records
Windwaker – Victory Lap (Single)
Label – Civilians
Deaf Havana – Carousel (Single)
Label – SO Recordings / Silva Screen Records Limited
Drastic Park – Patience Wearing Thin (Single)
Label – Independent
James and the Cold Gun – Above The Lake (Acoustic) (Single)
Label – Prospect Park / James and the Cold Gun
Sisters – Peoples Temple (Single)
Label – Spartan Records
Artio – Hometown (Single)
Label – Kycker Music
Public Opinion (feat. Drug Church) – Laughing Academy (Single)
Label – SideOneDummy Records
Motion City Soundtrack (feat. Mat Kerekes) – Your Days Are Numbered (Single)
Label – Epitaph
Soul Blind – Hide Your Evil (Single)
Label – Closed Casket Activities
Twenty One Pilots – Drum Show (Single)
Label – Fueled By Ramen
gürl – Missed Call. 4AM. (Single)
Label – Independent
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES
ece era – Bedside Tunes (Lights On)
Label – 2MR
Emma Aibara – u:phobia
Label – Independent
Pendulum – Inertia
Label – Mushroom Music/Virgin Music Group
S1RENA – MP3 M1XTAPE
Label – Columbia Local
Wolf Alice – The Clearing
Label – Mushroom Music
despïa – Memory Blur (EP)
Label – Independent
Midbooze – A Moment In Time (EP)
Label – MIDBVVZE
Zetra – Believe (EP)
Label – Nuclear Blast
EVERGREEN MARS – Shapeshifter (Single)
Label – Independent
LOMAJI – Indigo girl (Single)
Label – Independent
timesgone – i never knew it (Single)
Label – Independent
FlowerBoyDeMii – aether (Single)
Label – Independent
Good Health – The Middle (Single)
Label – Independent
Purity Ring – imanocean (Single)
Label – the fellowship
Rezz (feat. Owl Vision) – Downward (Single)
Label – HypnoVizion Records Inc.
Sxnctuary – Disappear Forever (Single)
Label – Independent
The New Division – Argyle (Single)
Label – Division 87 Records
fawn – Paper Thin (Single)
Label – Sunday Drive
j1nabae – HIGHER (Single)
Label – Independent
Masayoshi Iimori (feat. 4s4ki) – noimage (Single)
Label – TREKKIE TRAX
Rocket – Act Like Your Title (Single)
Label – Transgressive Records
Snõõper – Guard Dog (Single)
Label – Third Man Records
teethin – THROWIN SHAPES (Single)
Label – Silent Kid Records
They Are Gutting a Body of Water – the chase (Single)
Label – ATO Records
bed bug guru – Bitter (Single)
Label – Superbloom
claire rousay – just (feat. m sage) (Single)
Label – Thrill Jockey
motifs – Aug 16 (Single)
Label – KittyWu Records