New Music Friday – February 17th, 2023

Welcome to this week’s New Music Friday, showcasing all of the metalcore, hardcore, alternative, and indie releases, along with picks from our staff. Check out our release calendar to keep up to date on what is coming out in 2023!

STAFF PICKS

Heriot – Demure (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Joe recommends: After conquering 2022 with their sublime EP, Profound Morality, Heriot return with “DEMURE“. Unapologetically sludgy and industrial influenced metal at its best that is hopefully part of a bigger package to come from the quarter this year.

GUILT – Swerve (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Nisrin recommends: Enveloping listeners in a crushing wave of expeditious breakbeats, crooked gutturals and crunching baritone grooves, it is a huge debut from Exeter unit, GUILT. With Connor Sweeney on production for their upcoming debut album, In The Body, it will be exciting to see what it to come from this unit.

healthyliving – Galleries
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Dobbin recommends: With latest single “Galleries“, healthyliving draws from the beauty and horror of the banal to create a kaleidoscopic and evocative musical world which commutes across genre borders.

The St Pierre Snake Invasion – Submechano (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Dallis recommends: Abrasive and chaotic, there is still much to indulge in when it comes to The St Pierre Snake Invasion and their distinct nature on new track “Submechano“. With their brash punk attitude that is imbued in very fibre of their sound that is captivating and deeply unique performance.

METAL/CORE RELEASES

Graphic Nature – A Mind Waiting to Die [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Rude Records

Half Me – Soma [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Arising Empire

Void of Vision – Chronicles
Label – UNFD

Code Orange – What Is Really Underneath?
Label – Roadrunner Records

Avatar – Dance Devil Dance
Label – Black Waltz AB

See You Next Tuesday – Distractions
Label – Good Fight Music

Afterdusk – FATALIZE
Label – Independent

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Land of Sleeper
Label – Rocket Recordings

The Abbey – Word of Sin
Label – Season of Mist

Meadows – Tears in Paradise (EP)
Label – Facedown Records

Hate Still Burns – DEMO (EP)
Label – Daze Records

Dead To Rights – Demo 2023 (EP)
Label – Independent

Wiltwither – The House I Lived and Died In (EP)
Label – Independent

ternura – Trinchera (EP)
Label – My Heart Your Mouth

Mexican Coke // Urn – Split (EP)
Label – Independent

Sleep Token – Vore (Single) [ALBUM NEWS]
Label – Spinefarm Records

The Acacia Strain – FRESH BONES (Single) [ALBUM NEWS]
Label – Rise Records

In Fear – Narrow Gate (Single)
Label – Year Of The Rat Records

KRUELTY – Harder Than Before (Single)
Label – Profound Lore Records

Maximo David – Blueshift (Single)
Label – Independent

Chelsea Grin – Fathomless Maw (Single)
Label – ONErpm

The Amity Affliction – I See Dead People (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records

Periphery – Atropos (Single)
Label – 3DOT Recordings

Jesus Piece – Tunnel Vision (Single)
Label – Century Media Records

Creak – Doomed (Single)
Label – Independent

Viscera – Carcinogenesis (Single)
Label – Unique Leader Records

Bury Tomorrow – Heretic (Single)
Label – Music For Nations

Blood Command – Heaven Is a Place on Earth (Belinda Carlisle Cover) (Single)
Label – Hassle Records

Dead by April – Wasteland (feat. The Day We Left Earth) (Single)
Label – Independent

Caskets – By the Sound (Single)
Label – SHARPTONE

Fire from the Gods – Thousand Lifetimes (feat. Corey Glover) (Single)
Label – Better Noise Music

Gideon – Take Off (Single)
Label – Equal Vision Records

Levels – Paracosm (Single)
Label – Independent

headcave – Teach Us to Crawl (Single)
Label – Blood Blast Distribution

Cattle Decapitation – We Eat Our Young (Single)
Label – Metal Blade Records

Nonpoint – Heartless (Single)
Label – 362 Degrees Records

The Raven Age – Parasite (Single)
Label – Music For Nations

Darknet – no_high (Single)
Label – Hollowed Records

Our Promise – Panic Waves (Single)
Label – Independent

Immortal Disfigurement – There Is No Light (Single)
Label – Independent

After Hour Animals – You Do the Same (feat. Ora Pip) (Single)
Label – Independent

The HIRS Collective – XOXOXOXOXOX (feat. Melt Banana) (Single)
Label – Get Better Records

Wake Up Hate – DEAD TO ME (Single)
Label – Jake Adkins Music

Skywalker – House of Gloom (Single)
Label – Easthaven Records

Frostbitt – Cyber Walk (Single)
Label – Independent

Assume Nothing – Dread (Single)
Label – Independent

Ape On The Rocket – Love (Single)
Label – Dark Side Records

Kaozm – You Make Me Sick (Single)
Label – Independent

Haken – Lovebite (Single)
Label – InsideOutMusic

Tether – The Deciders (Single)
Label – Creative Cult Recordings

De’Lour – No One (Single)
Label – Independent

The Ocean – Parabiosis (Single)
Label – Pelagic Records

Her Last Sight – Paralyzed (Single)
Label – Liron Avital Productions

Through Fire – Lose It (Single)
Label – Sumerian Records

Kill City Kills – No Easy Way Out (Single)
Label – Independent

Brighter Than a Thousand Suns – Shame (Single)
Label – Independent

Sleep Signals – One Life (Single)
Label – Independent

Verge of Lunacy – Divine Justice (Single)
Label – Independent

East Capri – Positions (Ariana Grande Cover) (Single)
Label – Independent

POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES

SHREZZERS – SEX & SAX
Label – Gentlepunks

Shell Beach – Solar Flare
Label – Wild Thing Records

Skillet – Dominion: Day of Destiny (Deluxe)
Label – Atlantic Recording Corporation

Solence – Hope is a Cult
Label – Hopeless Records

Pile – All Fiction
Label – Exploding In Sound Records

Villain of the Story – Divided (Instrumentals)
Label – Out of Line Music

Acres – Nothing (feat. Garrett Russell) (Single)
Label – A Wolf At Your Door Records

Neck Deep – Heartbreak of the Century (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records

All Time Low – Modern Love (Single)
Label – Fueled By Ramen

The Used – People Are Vomit (Single)
Label – Big Noise Music Group

Wake Me – BURN IT DOWN (SINGLE)
Label – Independent

Story of the Year – 2005 (Single)
Label – SHARPTONE

Miss Fortune – Matching Energies (Single)
Label – LIFE OR DEATH

Nowhere Left – You Don’t Even Think About Me (feat. Boys of Fall) (Single)
Label – Independent

Elwood Stray – Decay (Single)
Label – Out of Line Music

Young Medicine – Hold On To Anything (Single)
Label – FiXT

Softspoken – Lovetok (Single)
Label – Theoria Records

Ever Since Eve – Ohio Is For Lovers (Hawthorne Heights Cover) (Single)
Label – Independent

Ivy to Fraudulent Game – B.O.Y. (Single)
Label – mini muff records

Cyan Kicks – Into You (Single)
Label – Ranka Kustannus

Floya – WILLOWS (Single)
Label – Arising Empire

The Beautiful Moment – Hellbound (Single)
Label – Greyscale Records

Our Last Night – Anti-Hero (Taylor Swift Cover) (Single)
Label – Independent

Vigils – Oil & Water (Single)
Label – Independent

Hopes Die Last – Heartless (Single)
Label – Independent

EarlyRise – Eye of the Evil (Single)
Label – Independent

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES

Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
Label – Perpetual Novice

Inhaler – Cuts and Bruises
Label – Independent

Lisel – Patterns For Auto-Tuned Voices And Delay
Label – Ba Da Bing!

Pink – Trustfall
Label – Sony Music Entertainment

Skrillex – Quest for Fire
Label – Atlantic Records

Lana Del Rey – A&W (Single)
Label – Polydor Records

Black Honey – OK (Single)
Label – Foxfive Records

modernlove. – Only Ever Only You (Single)
Label – Akira Records

Exploring Birdsong – Bear The Weight (Single)
Label – Long Branch Records

Alison Goldfrapp – Fever (Single)
Label – BMG

Sunsleep – Hello Goodbye (Single)
Label – SBG Records

The Nightmares – Heartless (Single)
Label – Venn Records

Semaphore – No One (Single)
Label – Independent

Honey Revenge – Are You Impressed? (Single)
Label – Thriller Records

Seafret – Remind Me to Forget You (Single)
Label – Nettwerk Music Group Inc

The Aces – Always Get This Way (Single)
Label – Red Bull Record

The Heavy – I Feel The Love (Single)
Label –  Bad Son Recordings

Eloise – Giant Feelings (Single)
Label – AWAL

K-POP RELEASES

PURPLE KISS – Cabin Fever
Label – RBW Entertainment

TRI.BE – W.A.Y
Label – Universal Music

tripleS – ASSEMBLE
Label – MODHAUS

STAYC – Teddy Bear (Single)
Label – High Up Entertainment

Jay Park – Yesterday (Single)
Label – MORE VISION

NCT 127 – iScreaM vol. 21 : 2 Baddies Remixes (Single)
Label – SM Entertainment