Welcome to New Music Friday, our wrap-up all the new 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
花冷え。(HANABIE.) – お先に失礼します。
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Harry recommends: With the fun and frenzied “お先に失礼します。” HANABIE. once again indulge their weirdness, pairing crunchy guitars, prominent synths, and vicious screams with the high, kawaii singing that has become emblematic of Japanese metal.
Tracheotomy – Mask of Sanity (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Max recommends: ‘00s deathcore revivalists Tracheotomy continue to impress with “Mask of Sanity”. Their first single following their impressive 2022 debut EP Dissimulation, these newcomers are certainly ones to watch in 2023.
crushed – coil (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dallis recommends: Bursting at the seams with nostalgic summer glow, crushed deliver a charmer with “coil“. Being only their second release, the duo is something all indie-lovers should be keeping their eye on.
HARPY – Swallow (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: HARPY has unveiled her third offering in the form of “Swallow“, another addicting track to sit alongside “Medicine” and “Into The Dark“, which each track adding to a desire to see what HARPY will bless 2023 with.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
The Wise Man’s Fear – Atlas Ruinica [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Independent
Polar – Everywhere, Everything [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Arising Empire
Obituary – Dying of Everything
Label – Relapse Records
Lattermath – Winter’s Painting
Label – Independent
A Villains Neverland – Cloudscape
Label – Independent
Beneath My Feet – In Parts, Together
Label – Noble Demon
Ahab – The Coral Tombs
Label – Napalm Records
Holyname – Holyname
Label – Facedown Records
Beyond The Black – Beyond The Black
Label – Nuclear Blast
Oh! The Horror – The Super Devil Made Me Do It
Label – NC-17 Entertainment
Nitheful – The Kingdom ov God
Label – Independent
ten56. – Downer Part.2 (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Out of Line Music
Godskin Peeler – Erase The Godform (EP)
Label – Streets of Hate
Darkmatter – The Anatomy of Violence (EP)
Label – Independent
Keepsake – There’s Only Art Left Of Us Now (EP)
Label – Independent
Death Engine – Ocean (EP)
Label – Code Records
SCALP – Black Tar (EP)
Label – Closed Casket Activities
Periphery – Wildfire / Zagreus (Single) [ALBUM NEWS]
Label – 3DOT Recordings
Osiah – Elder King (Single)
Label – Unique Leader Records
The Gentle Men – Filthy (Single)
Label – Sounds of Liberty Records
Beyond Extinction – Gravedigger (Single)
Label – Independent
Nylist – Havenless (Single)
Label – Independent
Mugshot – Dancing on a Pin (Single)
Label – Independent
Views From The Soyuz – When My World Collapse (Single)
Label – DAZE Records
Angelic Desolation – Brutus McMucus (Single)
Label – Independent
Wild West – Machina (Single)
Label – Independent
Zulu – Where I’m From (Single)
Label – Flatspot Records
AXTY – Dark Eyes (feat. Scotty Overdose) (Single)
Label – Independent
Bloodbather – As You Die (Single)
Label – Rise Records
King 810 – Brains on the Asphalt (Single)
Label – Independent
Deez Nuts – Rockstar (feat. Shaolin G) (Single)
Label – Century Media Records
Distant – Argent Justice (Single)
Label – Century Media Records
I’m letting unseen forces take the wheel – Do You Like Your Skin?
Label – MEAT BOG
Aphyxion – Pathless (feat. Mirza Radonjica) (Single)
Label – Circular Wave
Trivium – Implore the Darken Sky (Heaven Shall Burn Cover) (Single)
Label – Roadrunner Records
See You Next Tuesday – Why Can’t You Behave (Single)
Label – Good Fight Music
Cut Short – The Old Soul Dies Young (Single)
Label – Independent
Kamelot – One More Flag in the Ground (Single)
Label – Napalm Records
KRUELTY – Burn the System (Single)
Label – Profound Lore
Dealer – Show Me the Body (Single)
Label – Independent
Eonia – No Remembrance (Single)
Label – Independent
Erase the Day – Farewell to Fear (Single)
Label – Independent
Big Laugh – Shadow Figure (Single)
Label – Revelation Records
AWOL – Who You Were (Single)
Label – Last Ride Records
Graphic Nature – Headstone (Single)
Label – Rude Records
Half Me – Ex Negativo (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
HourHouse – South$ide (Single)
Label – Independent
Iravera – Feathers & Bones (Single)
Label – Feathers & Bones
Sail’s End – Nefarious (Single)
Label – Independent
The Northern – Hourglass (Single)
Label – Independent
Despite The Fallen – Parallel (Single)
Label – Independent
Wiltwither – The House I Lived In (Single)
Label – Independent
Sanguisugabogg – Face Ripped Off (Single)
Label – Century Media Records
POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES
Ville Valo – Neon Noir
Label – Spinefarm
なきごと – NAKIGOTO
Label – murffin discs
The Subways – Uncertain Joys
Label – Alcopop!
Circa Waves – Never Going Under
Label – Lower Third
One Step Closer – Songs for the Willow (EP)
Label – Run For Cover Records
Elucidate – S/SX (EP)
Label – Independent
Frightful Places – Frightful Places (EP)
Label – Independent
Plini – Finnvox Sessions (Live) (EP)
Label – Independent
Grapevine Gossip – Raftel (Single)
Label – Independent
Solence – Antidote (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records
WREX – Recovery (Single)
Label – Favour The Brave Records
Going Off – Self-Hatred (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
Hundred Reasons – Replicate (Single)
Label – Silva Screen Records
Acres – When You’re Gone (Single)
Label – Independent
Enter Shikari – (pls) set me on fire (Single)
Label – Silva Screen Records
Green Day – Alison (Elvis Costello Cover) (Single)
Label – Reprise Records
Blue Widow – OBLIVION (Single)
Label – Independent
Dammit Goldie – Medusa (Single)
Label – SicCity Records
Anger Party – Eat You Alive (Single)
Label – Silent Cult
Dropout Kings – Riot Music (Single)
Label – Suburban Noize Records
Earthstate – Weak (Single)
Label – Independent
Forged in Fire – Memories (feat. Joey Tyler) (Single)
Label – Independent
Gloomhaven – The Devil in the Mirror (Single)
Label – Independent
Meliorist – Wishful Thinking (Single)
Label – Independent
Pierce the Veil – Even When I’m Not With (Single)
Label – Fearless Records
You Me At Six – :mydopamine: (Single)
Label – AWAL
The Hellfreaks – Hit Me Where It Hurts (Single)
Label – Independent
Theory of a Deadman – Ambulance (Single)
Label – Roadrunner Records
Pop Evil – Dead Reckoning (feat. Fit For a King) (Single)
Label – MNRK Music
The Wonder Years – Summer Clothes (Extended Cut) (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records
Misplaced – Tom in 03 (feat. WSTR) (Single)
Label – We Are Triumphant
Scarlett O’Hara – Let Go (Single)
Label – Independent
All Time Low – Tell Me I’m Alive (Single)
Label – Fueled By Ramen
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES
freya – graces (the things you promised me)
Label – Independent
Margo Price – Strays
Label – Loma Vista
Rozi Plain – PRIZE
Label – Memphis Industries
Neupink – This Town Is Death
Label – Independent
Gaz Coombes – Turn The Car Around
Label – Independent
Billy Nomates – CACTI
Label – Invada Records
Lincoln – Everything Is Wrong
Label – I Surrender Records
Joesef – Permanent Damage
Label – AWAL
Julia Wolf – Good Thing We Stayed
Label – Poorchoice Music
CVC – Get Real
Label – Independent
Deep AL Brindle – Late Night, Early Morning (EP)
Label – Tooth & Nail Records
Giant Swan – Fantasy Food (EP)
Label – KECK
Paramore – C’est Comme Ça (Single)
Label – Atlantic Records
Xiu Xiu – MayBae (Single)
Label – Polyvinyl Records
M83 – Oceans Niagara (Single)
Label – Virgin Records
happydaze – Cool Blue (Single)
Label – Thriller Records
shame – Six-Pack (Single)
Label – Dead Oceans
Sullivan King – Thrones of Blood (Single)
Label – Monstercat
Liturgy – Angel of Sovereignty
Label –
Parannoul – We Shine at Night (Single)
Label – POCLANOS
M(h)aol – Therapy (Single)
Label – Rough Trade
Fury Weekend – Delirious (feat. The Anix)
Label – Volkor X
Intrelock – Reminisce (feat. The Anix)
Label – FiXT
Complete Mountain Almanac – February (Single)
Label – Bella Union
U.S. Girls – Futures Bet (Single)
Label – 4AD
Spacey Jane – Lots of Nothing (feat. BENEE)
Label – AWAL
Shana Cleveland – Faces in the Firelight (Single)
Label – Hardly Art
Pale Blue Eyes – More (Single)
Label – Independent
K-POP RELEASES
PRIMROSE – Red Moon (EP)
Label – AO Entertainment
Xooos – Naked (Single)
Label – wavy
HANA – BLA:ZE (Single)
Label – artcompany SOUL
TAEYANG – VIBE (Feat. Jimin)
Label – The Black Label
Cover: なきごと – NAKIGOTO