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