New Music Friday – January 27th, 2023

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

Flatspot Records – The Extermination Vol. 4
Label – Flatspot Records
(Bandcamp)

Nisrin recommends: Previously featuring the likes of Turnstile and Terror, the latest in The Extermination series displays some of hardcore’s brightest prospects in Jivebomb, End It, Section H8 and more.

Now After Nothing – Sick Fix (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Joe recommends: Containing pounding bass and rhythmic opening beats that nod to the band’s Sonic Youth and Bauhaus influences, Now After Nothing offer up a nuanced darkwave experience with “Sick Fix”.

Semaphore – Smother (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Dallis recommends: Semaphore‘s newest release blurs the lines between early 00’s alt-rock and shoegaze. Smothered in the genre’s glorious distortion, “Smother” still manages to hit that spot of nostalgia with its ambient leads and upbeat chorus.

Viscera – Rats With Wings (Single)
Label – Unique Leader Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Max recommends: Viscera continue to prove they are one of the strongest rising forces in UK deathcore with “Rats With Wings“, a bombastic romp of sheer ferocity and violence, only bolstered by the band’s surprisingly keen melodic edge.

METAL/CORE RELEASES

Grief Symposium – …In the Absence of Light [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Church Road Records

Suasion – The Infinite
Label – Atomic Fire Records

Mask of Prospero – Hiraeth
Label – ViciSolum Productions

Sightless Pit – Lockstep Bloodwar
Label – Thrill Jockey Records

King 810 – follow my tears (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Independent

Still_bloom – euphoria_ (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Independent

Set for Tomorrow – Vile Mind (EP)
Label – Independent

Shallow Truths – Bury Yesterday (EP)
Label – Shallow Records

Eight Cold Hells – One Spring Snowfall (EP)
Label – Independent

Meditator – Demons of Old (EP)
Label – Independent

Firestarter & MADHOUSE – Split EP (EP)
Label – Advanced Perspective & Extinction Burst

August Burns Red – Backfire (Single)
Label – SHARPTONE

HEAVENSGATE – GINSICK (Single)
Label – 1126 Records

Enterprise Earth – The World Without Us (Single)
Label – MNRK Records

Allt – Emanate (Single)
Label – Independent

Atreyu – Drowning (Single)
Label – Spinefarm Records

Savage Hands – Angel Dust (Single)
Label – SHARPTONE

tunic – Dull Ache (Single)
Label – Artoffact Records

Swollen Teeth – Swollen Teeth (Single)
Label – Blowed Out Records

Diamonds to Dust – Northern Fires (Silent Planet Cover) (Single)
Label – Manifest Records

Heruin – BAD (Single)
Label – Independent

Unearth – The Wretched; The Ruinois (Single)
Label – Century Media Records

Bitter Bliss – Ghost (feat. Frankie Palmeri) (Single)
Label – Independent

Blueshift – Faint Light (Single)
Label – Independent

From Fall to Spring – DRAW THE LINE (Single)
Label – Arising Empire

Andromida – Judgment II (Single)
Label – Independent

Main-de-Gloire – W.A.R (Single)
Label – Independent

Monashee – Lightbringer (Single)
Label – Redfield Records

Writing the Future – Sk1nD3ad (Single)
Label – GAIN

Heartlay – Itch by a Leech (Single)
Label – An Exile

Lost Trees – Luminescent (Single)
Label – Independent

Straight Shot Home – Borrowed Time (Single)
Label – Independent

HATED – N9ver Better (Single)
Label – Independent

Shoot On Sight – The End (Single)
Label – Independent

Dying by Science – Murder Cookies (Single)
Label – Independent

Who They Fear – Catatonic (Single)
Label – Independent

Vilified – Dreaming We’re Sleeping (Single)
Label – Independent

Deathstars – This Is (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast

Collapse of Colour – The Serpent’s Isle (Single)
Label – Independent

CHAINTWIST – Feral (Single)
Label – Independent

Three Arm Thief – The Bridge (Single)
Label – Independent

The Weight of Atlas – Got the Life (Korn Cover) (Single)
Label – Defiant Records

Wildways – Хищники (Single)
Label – Independent

ISTOVO – Красный царь (Single)
Label – SPRL

Graveworm – Escorting the Soul (Single)
Label – Soulfood Music

Enforced – Ultra-Violence (Single)
Label – Century Media Records 

Coldstate – Web Of Lies (Single)
Label – Independent

fromyou – docility (feat. PeelingFlesh)
Label – Independent

BLACKGOLD – Boogeyman (Single)
Label – Independent

POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES

Emarosa – Sting [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Out Of Line Music

Fucked Up – One Day [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Merge Records

MOSKITO – BAD LOVE // MIXTAPE [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Independent

White Reaper – Asking for a Ride
Label – Elektra Records

Bass Drum of Death – Say I Won’t
Label – Fat Possum Records

Pure Adult – II
Label – FatCat Records

Fall Out Boy – Heartbreak Feels So Good (Single)
Label – Independent

Capsize – Smiling as I Burn (Single)
Label – Independent

Escape the Fate – H8 MY SELF (Single)
Label – Better Noise Music

GHØSTKID – HOLLYWOOD SUICIDE (Single)
Label – Century Media Records

From Inside – Let Me In (Single)
Label – Independent

Archetypes Collide – What If I Fall (Single)
Label – Fearless Record

Honeybadger – Cold Wind (Single)
Label – Independent

Ancient Teeth – Without This (Single)
Label – Свет и Тени

Halflives – everybody knows it (Single)
Label – Independent

Superlove – GO! (Single)
Label – Rude Records

Lordi – Lucyfer Prime Evil (Single)
Label – Atomic Fire Records

Locket – Sonic Bloom (Single)
Label – Fearless Records

The XCERTS – Gimme (Single)
Label – Raygun Records

Fat Heaven – Quarter Life Crisis (Single)
Label – Engineer Records

Mudhoney – Almost Everything (Single)
Label – Sub Pop Records

WSTR – 3 Days Sober (Single)
Label – We Are Triumphant

Fame on Fire – Creepin’ (Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage Cover) (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records

Emery – Everlong (Foo Fighters Cover) (Single)
Label – Tooth & Nail Records

Berkan Cesur – Cosmic Rays and Flipped Bits (The Algorithm Remix) (Single)
Label – Bubble Wrap Records

I, Of The Storm – Cataclysm (Single)
Label – Independent

Adalia – This Means War (Single)
Label – Independent

The Exies – Spirits High (Single)
Label – Independent

Riyah – Perfect (Single)
Label – Prime Collective

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES

Ava Max – Diamonds & Dancefloors
Label – Atlantic Recording Corporation

Sam Smith – Gloria
Label – Capitol Records

Complete Mountain Almanac – Complete Mountain Almanac
Label – Bella Union

Samia – Honey
Label – Grand Jury

Kimbra – A Reckoning
Label – Independent

Meg Baird – Furling
Label – Drag City Inc

King Tuff – Smalltown Stardust
Label – Sub Pop Records

The Arcs – Electrophonic Chronic
Label – Easy Eye Sound

Ayumi Hamasaki – Remember You
Label – Avex Entertainment

Kaneko Ayano – Towelket Ha Odayakana
Label – 1994

Hoshimachi Seuisei – Specter
Label – cover corp.

Luci Dead Limb – Humors of the Blood and Skin (EP)
Label – Independent

PVRIS – GODDESS (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records

The Intersphere – Bulletproof (Single)
Label – OMN

Island Effect – Cycles of Light (Single)
Label – Independent

SURGEON – Oak Band (Single)
Label – Dynamic Tension Recordings

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Ultimate Hammer (Single)
Label – Rocket Recordings

Louise Distras – Girl In The Mirror (Single)
Label – Ministry Of Love

Unloved – I did it. (Single)
Label – Heavenly Recordings

PACKS – 4th of July (Single)
Label – Fire Talk

Fever Ray – Kandy (Single)
Label – Rabid Records

Varsity – Done With Bits (Single)
Label – Independent

Sandrayati – Vast ft. Ólafur Arnalds (Single)
Label – Independent

Zoon – A Language Disappears (Single)
Label Paper Bag Records

Yves Tumor – Echolalia (Single)
Label – Warp Records

Sad Boys Club – To Heal Without a Scar (Is a Waste of a Good Wound) (Single)
Label – Modern Sky UK

Tim Hecker – Lotus Light (Single)
Label – kranky

K-POP RELEASES

TXT – 5th Mini Album “The Name Chapter: TEMPTATION”
Label – BIGHIT MUSIC

Yesung (Super Junior) – Sensory Flows
Label – SM Entertainment

LE SSERAFIM – FEARLESS (Japanese Debut) (Single)
Label – SOURCE MUSIC

Wendy & MeloMance – Miracle (Single)
Label – SM Entertainment

XG – SHOOTING STAR (Single)
Label – XGALX

Cover: Ava Max – Diamonds & Dancefloors