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 pag
STAFF PICKS
inthebackground – Monte Christo Romance (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Alex recommends: inthebackground is a fiercely inventive post-rock collective hailing from Riverside, California. Their latest single “Monte Christo Romance” sees the typically instrumental band adding suavely gliding lead vocals courtesy of co-guitarist Jason Crook. Fans of Minus the Bear and Covet will be hooked on this band’s dynamic math rock arrangements and soaring indie rock melodies.
Sunbleached – No Cure For Life (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin recommends: A bright sunbeam in the post-2020 bandscape, we’re highlighting Sunbleached‘s latest “No Cure For Life“. Their blend of Australian gazey-emo features springy guitars and bass romantic vocals, ready to throb your heart to. They couldn’t have picked a better band name for such perky music.
Night Tapes – loner (Single)
Label – Nettwerk Music Group
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Following on from “drifting“, Night Tapes deliver gorgeous and atmospheric track “loner“. Dreamy vocals from Iiris Vesik complimented by warm guitar chords make for a listening experience that sinks itself into the soul.
Flight Mode – Thirtysomething (Single)
Label – sound as language
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin recommends: The opener of the freshly released Tøyen, ‘13 is a tender emo track with blushing dynamics and nostalgic tones. This release completes the cycle of EPs (TX, ‘98 and Torshov, ‘05) that Flight Mode have naturally dubbed The Three Times, becoming a fully coherent LP.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
Bipolar Architecture – Metaphysicize
Label – Pelagic Records
Enterprise Earth – Death: an Anthology
Label – MNRK
Eonia – Passing
Label – Independent
Litosth – Cesariana
Label – Maicon Ristow
Rotting Yellow – Fountains Beneath Hell
Label – Independent
The Stygian Complex – Suffer With Me
Label – Independent
Utopia – Shame
Label – Independent
20 Seconds Falling Man – Resilience
Label – Independent
Ameonna – Goddess Wept (EP)
Label – Independent
Bloodshot – Absence (EP)
Label – Independent
Ghoul – Noxious Concoctions (EP)
Label – Tankcrimes
Levels – PULSE (EP)
Label – Shaprtone
DeadVectors & Tyrant – Execute.exe (EP)
Label – Independent
A Knight Under Maria’s Altar – Abyss of Malevolence (feat. Sugar Spine) (Single)
Label – Independent
ARTKILLS – You & I (Single)
Label – Independent
Beauty Is Betrayal – Nu-Reality (Single)
Label – Independent
Dream on Dreamer – G.O.D (Single)
Label – Independent
Inconvenience – ROPE (Single)
Label – Independent
One Morning Left – Emerald Dragon (feat. Jake Luhrs of August Burns Red) (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
Skywalker – No Control (Single)
Label – ANKIN Records
Slower – South Of Heaven (Single)
Label – Heavy Psych Sounds
SorrowEater – Golden Mouth Of Ruin (Single)
Label – Independent
Sunspear – Bad Vibe (Single)
Label – Independent
The Halo Effect – Become Surrender (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast
Then It Ends – Unseen (Single)
Label – Flourish Records
VENUES – Unspoken Words (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
Wake Up Hate – FEED THE SICKNESS (feat. Ponchase) (Single)
Label – Dark Harmony Records
Windwaker – Fractured State of Mind (Single)
Label – Fearless Records
Deathnap – Bleed The Same (Single)
Label – Independent
Our Mirage – Farewell (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
Outmayr – NPC (Single)
Label – Independent
SETYØURSAILS – Bad Blood (Single)
Label – Napalm Records
A Serpent’s Hand – Stay Away (Single)
Label – A.S.H. Studios
See You Next Tuesday & Frontierer – The Golden Room (Single)
Label – Good Fight Music
Oceans Ate Alaska – Endless Hollow (Single)
Label – Independent
Agriculture – Living Is Easy (Single)
Label – The Flenser
Frail Body – Refrain (Single)
Label – Deathwish Inc.
HARDCORE RELEASES
Gnaw – On Your Mind
Label – Future Sight Records
Intercourse – Egyptian Democracy (EP)
Label – Red Scroll Records
Mindless – Let ‘Em Know (EP)
Label – Then And Now
Night Fever – Dead End (EP)
Label – Svart Records
Overpower – Becoming The Tyrant (EP)
Label – Mercenary Press
PISS ANT – Winter Demo (EP)
Label – In Hollow Records
Vidro – Upp till dans (EP)
Label – Caco de Vidro
ULTRAS – OR ELSE (Single)
Label – Convulse Records
JOKERZ WYLD – EVERYTHING’Z A JOKE (Single)
Label – Independent
Big Deal – Thank You (feat. Strangle You) (Single)
Label – Heroes & Martyrs
Xcelerate – As I Look Around (Single)
Label – Extinction Burst Records
Bayway NJ – Bayway Anthem (Single)
Label – DAZE
Fixed View – Ride (feat. Domain) (Single)
Label – Rest Assured
POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES
Being as an Ocean – Death Can Wait
Label – Out of Line
Brain Cave – Foot Off the Gas
Label – Head2Wall Records
Cower – Celestial Devastation
Label – Human Worth
Flight Mode – The Three Times
Label – Tiny Engines
meth. – SHAME
Label – Prosthetic Records
Reconciler – Art For Our Sake
Label – Smartpunk Records
Sarita Idalia – Life Eternal
Label – Stellar Frequencies
Slope – Freak Dreams
Label – Century Media Records
Banks Arcade – DEATH 2 (EP)
Label – UNFD
Coilguns & Birds in Row – You and I in the Gap (EP)
Label – Humus Records
Drown – Nothing Dies (EP)
Label – Independent
Archers – Say This Sober (feat. Nerv) (Single)
Label – Independent
Blanket – Porcelain (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
Bowling For Soup – Award Show Taylor Swift (Single)
Label – Brando Records
Chaosbay – ARE YOU AFRAID? (Single)
Label – Circular Wave
Crush++ – Like a Fever Dream (Single)
Label – Independent
Deep as Ocean – Dark Place (Single)
Label – Independent
Fifth Dawn – Overused (Single)
Label – Marshmallow Pavement
From Ashes to New – Barely Breathing (feat. Against the Current) (Single)
Label – Better Noise Music
Gallus – Wash Your Wounds (Single)
Label – Marshall Records
Graysea – Into The Sea (Single0
Label – Independent
If Not for Me – Everything You Wanted (Single)
Label – InVogue Records
Last Hounds – Heart (Single)
Label – Venn Records
LOWBORN – loser (Single)
Label – Independent
Miss Fortune – I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghostwriter (Single)
Label – Apathy Records
RedHook – Scream 2 (Single)
Label – Independent
Royal Tusk – Hated (Single)
Label – MNRK
Seek Harbour – Emotion vs. Motion (Single)
Label – Independent
Sweet Pill – Starchild (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records
WREX – Static Waves (Single)
Label – Favour The Brave
10 Years – Rise (Single)
Label – Mascot Records
BITTER KISSES – Dissolve (Single)
Label – Independent
Hands Like Houses – Better Before (feat. Aaron Gillespie) (Single)
Label – Cooking Vinyl Australia
Normandie – Serotonin (Single)
Label – Easy Life Records
sunbleached – No Cure For Life (Single)
Label – Independent
Fame on Fire – Lovin On Me (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records
Gold Souls – bitter end (Single)
Label – MUSE Records
Paramore – Burning Down the House (Single)
Label – A24 Music
Too Close To Touch – Control (Single)
Label – Epitaph
With Sails Ahead – Swear Words (Single)
Label – Independent
A Burial At Sea – masterfred (Single)
Label – Pelagic Records
Softcult – Shortest Fuse (Single)
Label – Easy Life Records
Silver Fang – Aftermath (Single)
Label – Independent
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES
E_DEATH – My Daughter Will Be The Mother of God
Label – Eternal Life
Anika Pyle – Four Corner (EP)
Label – Independent
Holly Macve – Time Is Forever (EP)
Label – Loving Memory
isrx – liminal systems (EP)
Label – Independent
8485 – software gore (EP)
Label – Independent
Bombay Bicycle Club – Willow (feat. Lucy Rose) (Single)
Label – Mmm…Records
Burial – Dreamfear/Boy Sent From Above (Single)
Label – XL Recordings
Emily Mei – Venom (Single)
Label – Warm Water Corp
In Explosions – volatile (Single)
Label – droneshipx
Jasmine Clarke – PrettyGirl (Single)
Label – Independent
Nedaj – grief (Single)
Label – NUMBPROMISES
Daine – SHADES ON (feat. kreayshawn) (Single)
Label – Warner Music
Kita Alexander – All Night (feat. LAUREL) (Single)
Label – Warner Music
cruush – Headspace (Single)
Label – Heist or Hit