New Music Friday – August 9th, 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 

Akkadian  – Mirror Soul (Single)
Label –
Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Maximo recommends: Providing one of their most dynamic and face-melting offerings to date, Akkadian’s “Mirror Soul” is a biting and melodic metal anthem, that arrives just ahead of their performance at the legendary Bloodstock Open Air.

Hidden Mothers – Defanged (Single)
Label –
Church Road Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Dobbin recommends: From their highly anticipated debut album, Erosion / Avulsion, “Defanged” delivers the intense blast beats, driving riffs, and passionate screams that Hidden Mothers are known for, along with rich atmosphere, haunting melodies, and delicate emotions.

Malice – The Art of Letting Go (Single)
Label –
Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Dobbin recommends: The fourth track from Malice is their most esoteric yet. It’s gritty deathcore that bounces and lurches, cutting straight to its point. Malice continue to show they’re rising far above the ashes of their previous projects.

Pest Control – Time Bomb (Single)
Label –
Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Joe recommend: Hot off a busy summer of festivals and opening for Turnstile, Pest Control drop new track “Time Bomb”, packed with the thrashy riffs and whirling guitars that Pest Control have become known for, and only spikes excitement for their upcoming EP.

METAL/CORE RELEASES

Duhkha – A Place You Can’t Come Back From
Label – Good Fight Music

Fulci – Duck Face Killings
Label – Buck Spin

HELL CAN WAIT – Reaching The Point Where Pain Ends
Label –
Independent

Inertia – Second Shadow
Label – Independent

Never Back Down – Never Back Down
Label – Circular Wave

Ghost Iris – M.U.R.K. (EP)
Label – Independent

VICTIMBLAMED – Death is Our Only Release (EP)
Label – Independent

Advents – Liminal (Single)
Label – Independent

Brains Outward & Slaughter Street – Bloodbath (Single)
Label – Independent

Consume the Assailant – Barbed Wire Strangulation (Single)
Label – Independent

Descape – Feel the Pain (feat. Wind Walkers) (Single)
Label – Independent

Diesect – SECOND DEATH (Single)
Label – Hollowed Records

Exist Immortal – Hollow (Single)
Label – Seek & Strike

Fox River – Эпилог (Single)
Label – CraftCore

Kublai Khan TX – Supreme Ruler (Single)
Label – Rise Records

Make Them Suffer – Oscillator (Single)
Label – SHARPTONE 

Polar – Unkillable (Single)
Label – Arising Empire

Sickret – Rolling With the Punches (Single)
Label – darkTunes Music Group

The Way of Silence – Сказ: Проклятие топи (feat. Anton Kosarev of DEADBIRDS) (Single)
Label – Independent

Unprocessed – Sacrifice Me (Single)
Label – Independent

Vicious Rain – Shadow Dancer (Single)
Label – Arising Empire

Void of Vision – Blood for Blood (Single)
Label – UNFD

ACCVSED – Avoider (Single)
Label – Arising Empire

Nightwish – The Day Of… (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast

Rising Insane – Monster (Single)
Label – Long Branch Records

VOLA – I Don’t Know How We Got Here (Single)
Label – Mascot Records

Burn Absolute – Expire (Single)
Label – Independent

HANABIE. – メタ盛るフォーゼ!(Single)
Label – Sony Music

Nylist – Wired (Single)
Label – Independent

Saltwound – Hollow (Single)
Label – SHARPTONE

The Undertaking! – Touch Dirt (Single)
Label – Futurelore Records

Many Eyes – Harbinger (Single)
Label – Perseverance Media Group

Oceans Ate Alaska – Onsra (Single)
Label – Independent

VCTMS – snuff.tape (feat. VCTMS) (Single)
Label – Independent

PeelingFlesh – Creepin’ Out The Cut (feat. Liturgy) (Single)
Label – Unique Leader Records

The Black Dahlia Murder – Mammoth’s Hand (Single)
Label – Metal Blade Records

Nails – Lacking The Ability To Process Empathy (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast

HARDCORE RELEASES

Fucked Up – Another Day
Label – Fucked Up Records

Cold Authority – Ash and Blood
Label – Independent 

Various Artists – One Scene Unity: A Hardcore Compilation, Vol. 4
Label – From Within Records

Cold Hard Steel – Vicious Cycle (EP)
Label – Independent

Falstaff – Trash (EP)
Label – Independent

Fatal Realm – Demo (EP)
Label – Independent

FINAL GIRLS – Prey on the Weak (EP)
Label – Independent

God Talk KC – THE TENSION MIXTAPE VOL. I
Label – Independent

Gumskab – Cut Your Teeth (EP)
Label – Cheap Life Records

Knives Chau Fan Club – inspiteofthecircumstances (EP)
Label – Independent

Revelation – Cursed To Death (EP)
Label – Faze Out

Regional Justice Center – FREEDOM (Single)
Label – Closed Casket Activities 

Slugger CA – Politician (Single)
Label – LSM/TASM

WRONG STATE – IITAKUNAI (Single)
Label – Independent

You Die First – The Truth (Single)
Label – Collyde Records

Roll Call – We’ll Run You Out (Single)
Label – Independent

Sugar – Night Cruising (Single)
Label – Independent

Torture Culture – Breaker (Single)
Label – Independent

POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES

And So I Watch You from Afar – Megafauna
Label – Pelagic Records

Candy Hearts – You Could Be Anyone
Label – Iodine Recordings

Destroy Boys – Funeral Soundtrack #4
Label – Hopeless Records

Four Year Strong – analysis paralysis
Label – Pure Noise Records

Honey Revenge – Retrovision (Extended Edition)
Label – Thriller Records

Nova Charisma – Metropolitan
Label – Equal Vision Records

Siamese – Elements
Label – Long Branch Records

Twin Atlantic – Meltdown
Label – Staple Diet

sinema – Fear of the Fall
Label – Ephyra

Scream Mountain – Enshrined & Martyred (EP)
Label – Independent

blacktoothed – Get Me Down (Single)
Label – Arising Empire

Chasing Dreams – This Is Love. (Single)
Label – Independent

Colorblind – Needle Eye (Single)
Label – Oxide Records

Fame on Fire – Nothing Left (The Fool) (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records

Have Mercy – Dead Letters (Single)
Label – Sparrow Sleeps

HIGHSOCIETY & Daedric – Dead by Dawn (Single)
Label – FiXT

House of Protection – Pulling Teeth (Single)
Label – Red Bull Records

Lø Spirit – SAD SONGS (Single)
Label – Misfit Records

LOVELOST – WHEN THE PANIC SETS IN (Single)
Label – Year Of The Rat Records

Mitchell Tenpenny – Demon or Ghost (feat. Underoath) (Single)
Label – Riser House Entertainment

Mouth Culture – Dead In Love (Single)
Label – InVogue Records

One Hundred Thousand – Hidden (Single)
Label – Independent

Town of Lake – No Gloss (Single)
Label – Peach Bandana Records

We Came from Wolves – Cauterise (Single)
Label – Independent

Cursive – Imposturing (Single)
Label – Run For Cover Records

Despïa – Mas (Single)
Label – Independent

Silly Goose – Tsunami (Single)
Label – Blue Grape Music

BAND-MAID – SHOW THEM (feat. The Warning) (Single)
Label – PONY CANYON

Deadlands – Villain (Single)
Label – Spinefarm Music Group

Delta Sleep – Figure in the Dark (Single)
Label – Sofa Boy Records

Itoldyouiwouldeatyou – Moscow is Silent (feat. awakebutstillinbed) (Single)
Label – Beth Shalom Records

Real Friends – Our Love Was Like A Sad Song (Single)
Label – Many Hats

Bearings – Make Your Way Back To Me (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records

Zetra – Suffer Eternally (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast

Glass Heart – The Worst Part of Me (Single)
Label – Independent

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES

beadadoobee – This Is How Tomorrow Moves
Label – Dirty Hit

Bleached Cross – Columns of Impenetrable Light
Label –  Protagonist Music

COOL HEAT – Abandon
Label – Spirit Goth Records

Laura Dre – Moving Spaces II: Twilight Soundscapes
Label – Independent

NIKI – Buzz
Label – 88rising

Parannoul – Sky Hundred
Label – POCLANOS

Rawzilk – primal thoughts and all (EP)
Label – Independent

Lucy In Disguise – Passing Mirrors (EP)
Label – Independent

London Grammar – Fakest Bitch (Single)
Label – Ministry of Sound

Slowly Slowly – All Time (Single)
Label – Nettwerk Music Group

la.nskey – ABEL (Single)
Label – Guesswork

Kimbra – Ride Or Die (Single)
Label – Independent

Machine Girl – Unit I Die (Single)
Label – Future Classic

Molchat Doma – Белая Полоса / Belaya Polosa (Single)
Label – Sacred Bones Records

TORQUISEDEATH – Hold Tight (Single)
Label – Dismiss Yourself

bleach.bath – Shimmer (Single)
Label – dreamstation

Ece Era – You Know What Goes Down (Single)
Label – 2MR