Welcome to New Music Friday where we round-up all 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
at first & at first & my point of you – Texas, Hold Me (Single)
Label – Rite Field Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: After making an appearance in our Top EPs of 2025 list, at first, at first have teemed up with emo-unit my point of you in double single “Texas, Hold Me”. Janglely riffs crashed again my point of you’s emo ballad, as the duo trade vocals that conjures up the rawness of emo in 00s. With at first, at first flexing their impressive screamo on “ballista“, guitar scratches and coarse vocals make for a track brimming with emotion.
Glassbone – Testimony Of Death (feat. Fulch) (Single)
Label – Frozen Records/Iron Fortress
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Death metal that is shrouded in hardcore sensibilities makes for a gnarly strain of the genre. Glassbone deliver up a dense and uncompromising sound on their latest single “Testimony Of Death“, and showcase why they will be ones to watch next year for any death metal fan.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
monochrome. – лиминальные пространства (redux)
Label – Independent
MORTAL REMINDER – MORTAL REMINDER II (Album)
Label – Journey Records
Gloombringer – Desecration of the Human Form (EP)
Label – Independent
HVN – The Space Between the Light and Me (EP)
Label – Independent
Left IV Dead – DEAD CELL (EP) (EP)
Label – Independent
Postal – A Moment of Silence (EP)
Label – The Coming Strife
Rakuyo – A Paleblood Sky (Game of the Year Edition) (EP)
Label – Byrgenwerth
Verminthrone – Feast Of The Serpent (EP)
Label – Independent
Acranius – Forced Dread (Single)
Label – Independent
xarise – This Pain Is Mine (Single)
Label – Artistfy Music
Fear Culture – Domestic (Single)
Label – Independent
ovEnola – WATCHTOWER (Single)
Label – Independent
Parting With Origin – Entwined (Single)
Label – Independent
SPLIT THE FUCK OPEN – Liquified on Impact (feat. BOLTCUTTER) (Single)
Label – SACTOWN SLAMDOWN
Wounded Touch – Framce (Botch Cover) (Single)
Label – Independent
Continents – SMILE (Single)
Label – Independent
LARCɆNIA ROɆ – Lean (Single)
Label – Unique Leader Records
Colony Collapse – An Absence (Single)
Label – A Few Friends
Ghost of Elhr – Abigail (Single)
Label – Independent
TUMOUR – Through The Balustrade (Single)
Label – B.I.G Records
Get Me The Knife – Your Demise (Single)
Label – Independent
Mirar – The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (Single)
Label – Independent
HARDCORE RELEASES
GOLD – All That Glitters… (EP)
Label – KL1QUE.66
Enervate – My Own Peace Of Mind (EP)
Label – Life & Death Brigade Records
Brains Outward & Tumorflesh Rejection – Brainsrejection Split (Single)
Label – Independent
CASTXDOWN – FURY (Single)
Label – Independent
MINDHOLD – Mindhold (Single)
Label – Beehive Records
Gylt – Wrought/Rot (Single)
Label – Get Better Records
Lionheart – Salt the Earth (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
BUGGY – w.t.r.s (Single)
Label – Independent
Ancient Ones – No More Fake Core (Single)
Label – Independent
POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES
Deathbloom – Overflow (EP)
Label – Independent
Chasing Victory – Renegade (Single)
Label – Independent
Marmozets – You Want The Truth (Single)
Label – Nettwerk Music Group
modernlove. – suaimhneas (Single)
Label – Akira Records
The Casper Fight Scene – Kill Me (Single)
Label – Independent
Weller – Choke (Single)
Label – CWR
DARLAH – Rain (Single)
Label – Independent
Pinkshift – Snow (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records
Soft Kill – TNT (Single)
Label – Lamer World
POLKADOT STINGRAY – キラーレコード (Single)
Label – Universal Music LLC
Koyo – Plainview (Single)
Label – 51st State Records
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES
OSNOVA – Early Singles (EP)
Label – Independent
airshade – before I fall (Single)
Label – from heart to heart
dead fave – Soul Moving Through Empty Halls (Single)
Label – Independent
Lillvi – Cola Head (Single)
Label – Sitting in the East
kittyangel – umbra (Single)
Label – IMMINENT
Tayne & fakeyourdeath – Down (Fakeyourdeath Remix) (Single)
Label – MNRK Music Group
timesgones – fracture (feat. enable secret) (Single)
Label – Independent
FlowerBoyDeMii & dead fave – Snail Pace (Single)
Label – Saint Sleep
The New Division – Lost Visions (Single)
Label – Division 87 Records
Bedroom – Burnout (Bedroom Version) (Single)
Label – Danger Collective Records
Erythh – 私を狂気に導いてください (Single)
Label – Independent
In Explosions – decode (Single)
Label – Amuseio AB
Lucy In Disguise – Memory 97 – Slowed (Single)
Label – Independent