New Music Friday – February 3rd, 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

Queen Cult – Lollipop (Single)
Label – Mother City
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Joe recommends: Queen Cult serve up another bop with their groovy riffs and catchy chorus on their latest track “Lollipop“. With the quality shown here and on previously released “It Matters To Me” and “Better Believe It”, their upcoming EP is going to be an absolute blast.

Luxrem – Gateway (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Jonathan recommends: Luxrem return with their latest single, “Gateway”. With their unique blend of modern progressive metalcore and old school metal instrumentation, they provide a track that is melodic, heavy, and chaotic all at once. True to its title, this track has something for everyone and a great introduction to what Luxrem is capable of.

Thrice – The Artist in the Ambulance: Revisited
Label – Independent/Miscellaneous Recordings
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Max recommends: Thrice revisit and breathe new life into one of post-hardcore’s most beloved albums with their brand new redux of The Artist in the Ambulance. With added vocal features from a litany of modern artists and some stylistic changes along the way, there’s no better way to revisit one of the greatest albums ever written with this.

Invent Animate – Immolation of Night (Single) [ALBUM NEWS]
Label – UNFD
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Nick recommends: Invent Animate presents a third offering from their highly anticipated fourth full-length LP, Heavener, in the form of “Immolation of Night”. With an especially cathartic vocal delivery from Marcus Vik, overtop djent-driven riffage, pummelling percussion and planet-splitting breakdowns, the progressive metalcore act has delivered once again, only with a newfound sense of aggression this time around.

METAL/CORE RELEASES

Sanguisugabogg – Homicidal Ecstasy [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Century Media Records

All Out War – Celestial Rot
Label – Translation Loss Records

Xandria – The Wonders Still Awaiting
Label – Napalm Records

The Correspondence – No Place Like Home
Label – Mulligan Records

Caldera – Monolith
Label – Independent

EYES – Congratulations
Label – Indisciplinarian

Year Of The Knife – Dust to Dust (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Pure Noise Records

Osiah – Chronos (EP)
Label – Unique Leader Records

Gutcheck – Nothing / / Noone / / Nowhere (EP)
Label – Independent

Remote Viewing – Modern Addictions (EP)
Label – Human Worth

Discoveries NC – Masochist (EP)
Label – Independent

CRAWL – Damned (EP)
Label – Profound Lore Records

Lintworm – Kill Thy Son // Waves of Blood (Single)
Label – Independent

Employed To Serve – Sun Up To Sun Down – Remix (feat. Alien Weaponry)
Label – Spinefarm UK

Currents – Remember Me (Single)
Label – SHARPTONE

GUT FAUNA – Noseblind (Single)
Label – Independent

GEL – Attainable (Single)
Label – Convulse Records

BROJOB – ATTACK OF THE BLUE BIRDS (Single)
Label – Independent

Rising Insane – Drag Me Under (Single)
Label – Long Branch Records

Falling in Reverse – Watch The World Burn (Single)
Label – Epitaph Records

PREDATORY VOID – *(struggling..) 
Label – Century Media Records

Chaosbay – Message in a Bottle (Single)
Label – Circular Wave

See You Next Tuesday – Day in the Life of a Fool (Single)
Label – Good Fight Music

STELL/\RIS – Avatar (Single)
Label – Independent

Shadowteeth – Requiem of a Sleepless Mind (Single)
Label – Independent

SURGEON – Universe 25 (Single)
Label – Independent

dead7 – womb (Single)
Label – Independent

Unseen Faith – Love Hunger (Single)
Label – Prime Collective

The Ongoing Concept – Prisoner Again (Single)
Label – Solid State Records

Splutter – Dissection (Single)
Label – Independent

Sunrot – Gutter (feat. Bryan Funck & Emily McWilliams) (Single)
Label – Prosthetic Records

Coping Method – Vicegrip (Single)
Label – Independent

View From The Soyuz – Caligula (Single)
Label – Daze Records

Regions – Coward (Single)
Label – Independent

Abaddonia – Mortifer (feat. Devin Duarte) (Single)
Label – Independent

Fox Lake – Higher (Single)
Label – Independent

.gif from god – 2 chunky 4 the straw (Single)
Label – Prosthetic Records

Slipknot – Bone Church (Single)
Label – Roadrunner Records

DEAD VELVET – NOTHING MORE THAN A LULLABY (Single)
Label – Independent

moralslip – spoiled.remix (Single)
Label – Independent

Not Enough Space – Sew My Eyes (Single)
Label – Independent

Sixth Chakra – Permanent Scars (Single)
Label – Independent

Rest Aside – Existence (Single)
Label – Independent

Ocean Harvest – Undeserving (Single)
Label – Independent

Motherwell – The Distance (Single)
Label – Independent

Blood May Rise – Neon Genesis (Single)
Label – Independent

BVRNA – Cimientos (Single)
Label – Independent

The Year – Overthinker (Single)
Label – Independent

World Gone Cold – Opposites Attract (Single)
Label – Rockfest Records

POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES

Thrice – The Artist in the Ambulance (Revisited)
Label – Epitaph

Meliorist – Cascade
Label – Independent

Phoenix Freed – How Could You Trust Us
Label – Independent

Dream State – Untethered (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Independent

zebrahead – II (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – MFZB Records

Stay Free – Be Yourself (Single)
Label – Independent

Ultra Q – VR Sex (Single)
Label – Royal Mountain Records

Belle Haven – I Can’t Find The Words (Single)
Label – Independent

Only the Righteous – Cold World (Single)
Label – Righteous Records

Becko – REB00T MYSELF (feat. Tired Violence) (Single)
Label – FiXT

Stand Atlantic – kill[h]er (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records

nothing,nowhere. – THIRST4VIOLENCE (eat. Freddie Dredd & Shane Told) (Single)
Label – Fueled By Ramen

Real Friends – Six Feet (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records

Bitter Kisses – Pr*y (Single)
Label – Independent

FOXHAUNT – Division Culture (Single)
Label – Independent

Bayside – How to Ruin Everything (Patience) (feat. Spencer Charnas) (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records

Hundred Reasons – So So Soon (Single)
Label – SO Recordings

Yonaka – Panic (Single)
Label – Fuelled By Ramen

Fame on Fire – You Proof (Morgan Wallen Cover) (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records

SHREZZERS – Temperatura (Single)
Label – Gentlepunks Inc.

RedHook – Off With Your Head (Single)
Label – Independent

Dear Agony – Left Behind (Single)
Label – Independent

Properties of Nature & Aluxes – Mind Goblin (feat. Brain Butcher) (Single)
Label – Independent

All Faces Down – Kerosene (Single)
Label – Forevermore Records

AMERYA – За горизонтом (Single)
Label – Independent

Dusk – Karma Will Find You (feat. Moe Steiger) (Single)
Label – Apollo SounndKitchen

Further North Further South – Dear Pain (Single)
Label – Independent

slo/tide – Lay Low (Single)
Label – Feltone

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES

loscil // Lawrence English – Colours of Air [FULL REVIEW]
Label – kranky

Somebody’s Child – Full Sun
Label – Frenchkiss Records

Spitting Image – Full Sun
Label – Slovenly Recordings

M(h)aol – Attachment Styles
Label – TULLE

The Go! Team – Get Up Sequences Part Two
Label – Memphis Industries

RAYE – My 21st Century Blues
Label – Human Re Sources

Hamish Hawk – Angel Numbers
Label – Post Electric

Acid Arab ٣ (Trois)
Label – Crammed Discs

Tiny Microphone – Other Cities
Label – Littlemusic

The Smashing Pumpkins – ATUM: Act I & II
Label – Martha’s Music

babyfang – In The Face Of (EP)
Label –  LucidHaus

Ellie Goulding – Like A Saviour (Single)
Label – Sony Music Entertainment

Death Cab For Cutie – Pepper (Acoustic) (Single)
Label – Atlantic Records

Tennis – Forbidden Doors (Single)
Label – Mutually Detrimental

Antigone – Pull the Plug (Single)
Label – No Pain No Game

Inhaler – If You’re Gonna Break My Heart (Single)
Label – Universal Music

The Jackets – Pie in the Sky/Misery of Man
Label – Wild Noise Records

Bailey Bryan’s – RIP (Single)
Label – Firebird Music

Naut – Damocles (Single)
Label – Seasons of Mist

Oliver Beadmore – Nothing’s Like It Was Before (Single)
Label – Independent

Shana Cleveland – A Ghost (Single)
Label – Hardly Art Records

BIG|BRAVE – the fable of subjugation (Single)
Label – Thrill Jockey

Nedaj – alone? (Single)
Label – Independent