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