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