New Music Friday – July 24th 2026
Welcome to New Music Friday where we round-up all the week’s releases from metalcore, hardcore, alternative and indie. For a full view of what’s coming up, check out our release calendar a look to see what other releases are coming up. The NMF playlist can be found here or at the bottom of the page.
STAFF PICKS
Coma Witch – Imprecation Engine (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Shane recommends: New England underground miscreants Coma Witch, less than a year removed from releasing their monstrous debut in The End Of Forgiveness, have fully lessened every semblance of sonic clemency with “Imprecation Engine”. More taps, more panic chords, more bass, more titanium snare, and a hellacious mix of gutteral, black metal, and sadboy vocals to boot; their latest entry is a culmination of the dissonant sadism they etched into the revival space last October, only to be amplified six-hundred and seventeen-fold. Coma Witch, motherfucker.
Pillow Fort – Codename Kids Next Year (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin recommends: UK DIY emo vets Pillow Fort have been hard at work on the UK’s gig circuit, hosting and touring hard since their 2022 and 2023 EPs. After a long time in the studio their first return is single “Codename Kids Next Year”, emphasising speedy turns, dynamics, and noodly riffs to lift and depress the soul in equal measure. Ryan Crick’s vocals have never been better, completing a perfect burning-heart emo track.
spill. – just for show (Single)
Label – Reapers Realm Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Jack recommends: Keeping up their trend of releasing nothing but heavy bangers, spill. returns with “just for show“, effortlessly flirting between melodic hardcore and math-laden metalcore. In just over three minutes, vocalist Hilary Shanks delivers a harrowing narrative, with anguish and despair audible in every word. “I knew I was never enough” punctuates a crushing breakdown, accompanied by some of her heaviest vocals to date. Given the quality of the singles from this project, hopefully we’ll see an EP or LP on the horizon before long.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
REZN – Cycles in the Infinite Dream
Label – Sargent House
Sorry X – EXES
Label – SBG Records
SPLIT THE FUCK OPEN – Necromorphic Hunger
Label – Independent
The HU – HUN
Label – Better Noise Music
Litosth – Dreaming
Label – Personal Records
anubi – Repent/Bloodlet the state (EP)
Label – RED ROOM RECORDS
Castiel – All Returns to Hollow and Silence (EP)
Label – Seek & Strike
Ebdromeer – Choir of Horses (EP)
Label – Independent
Insade – MAXIMUM DEATH (EP)
Label – Agony on Records
Instrument Of God – The Sun Reflects the Colour of Your Eyes (EP)
Label – Betrayed By Life Records
Mountainscape – Traversing Realms (EP)
Label – Road To Masochist
The Larches – Nihilistic Majesties (EP)
Label – Independent
Gloombringer – The Weight of Marching Graves (EP)
Label – Independent
A Kiss Before Burial – Hypocritical Manifestations (feat. Seth Burgess) (Single)
Label – Independent
A Sense of Purpose – I Hope You Find Your Peace (Single)
Label – Theoria Records
Allt – Avalon (Single)
Label – Century Media
Beartooth – Eyes Closed (Single)
Label – Fearless Records
Broken By The Scream – 花鏑[HANAKABURA] (Single)
Label – Metal Blade Records
Chernobyl the Secret – Turn the Page (Single)
Label – Independent
DEADEND – Dyspnoe (Single)
Label – Independent
HAG – Beg For Mercy (Single)
Label – Treeline Recording
Half Me – Fear Is The New Belief (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
In Your Grave – Blood Pedals (Single)
Label – Roux & Ruin Records
Insomnium – Gleam in the Black (Single)
Label – Century Media
Showing Teeth – Bad Exchanges (Single)
Label – Spinefarm Records
SKYBAUS – Blue Lips (Single)
Label – Independent
Two Sides of Me – Sending Signals (Single)
Label – Independent
Chaosbay – How Does It Make You Feel? (Single)
Label – Independent
Hypno5e – Lost Fires (Single)
Label – Pelagic Records
156/Silence – Swept From Under (Call of the Void) (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records
Break Fifty – Forced Ill Mind (Single)
Label – Independent
Crostpaths – NOTHING TO SHOW (Single)
Label – Independent
Imminence – Crestfallen (Single)
Label – Sumerian Records
Witness – Disdain (Single)
Label – Independent
Kalt Vindur – The Void of Time (Single)
Label – The Circle Music
No Life – Foulmouth (Single)
Label – Independent
The Crimson Armada – Laid to Rest (Single)
Label – TCA EMPIRE
Windwaker – closer (Single)
Label – Civilians
Chelsea Wolfe – Cold (Single)
Label – Loma Vista Recordings
homewrecker. – One day i will turn all this pain into something beautiful like an instagram post or story (Single)
Label – Prosthetic Records
Homicyde – Puppet to Disease (Single)
Label – Independent
Imminence – False Light (Single)
Label – Sumerian Records
Living Weapon – Interspecies Quality Assessment (Single)
Label – Closed Casket Activities
Violent Conflict – Molotov (Single)
Label – Independent
Weeping Wound – CAVITY (Single)
Label – Independent
HARDCORE RELEASES
Madball – Not Your Kingdom
Label – Nuclear Blast
Raskol – First Four Tapes
Label – Abandon Everything Records
Bolt Cutter – Fracture My Soul (EP)
Label – Daybed Records
Dizeaze – Dizeaze (EP)
Label – Independent
Echo Chamber – The Liminal Edge / Target On My Back (EP)
Label – Scheme/DBNO
Cherub Chains – Blight on Pure Existence (EP)
Label – Brain Floss Records
Moral Bombing – dreamscapes // lilac heavens (EP)
Label – Gizzmoix Records
Fortuna Malvada – Hate To Feel (EP)
Label – Independent
Pain of Truth – Unforgiven (Single)
Label – DAZE Records
Aburden – Southwest Depressed (Single)
Label – Independent
Hatebreed – Kill Count Increase (Single)
Label – BLKIIBLK
Pure Heel – Having Fun (Single)
Label – Irish Voodoo Records
Saving Ruth – No War, No Grave (feat. Queen City Crew) (Single)
Label – Small House Records
POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES
Mayday Parade – Sugar
Label – Independent
Mimi Barks – Dreamstate of Fear
Label – DEATHKISS RECORDS
STAB – Lost In Maine
Label – Unbeaten Records
Waterparks – JINX
Label – BMG Rights Management
Bayside – Proxima Centauri b (EP)
Label – The Bicycle Music Company
DazGak! – Stimpy (EP)
Label – Floodlit Recordings
ENOLA – Nothing Lasts Forever (EP)
Label – Hell Beach
Failstate – ZERO / COME HOME (EP)
Label – Independent
New Forms – Nothing’s Sacred Anymore (EP)
Label – Iodine Recordings
Secrets – Where The Light Doesn’t Reach (EP)
Label – SBG Records
heaving. – why are you still dreaming? (EP)
Label – Independent
Origami Angel – Play Around the Crit / Compound Eyes (EP)
Label – Counter Intuitive Records
Tiny Voices – my mind’s recession (EP)
Label – Independent
The Enforcers – Prying Eyes/Hate on the Prairie (EP)
Label – Longshot Records/Try and Stop Me
From First To Last – Your Name In Red Ink (Single)
Label – Fearless Records
Her Name Echoes – Tragedy (Single)
Label – Independent
Honey Revenge – Sunday Scaries (Single)
Label – Thriller Records
Meet Me @ The Altar – Pain In My Chest (Single)
Label – Lab Records
Rivals – Don’t Go (feat. Big Three 74) (Single)
Label – Isukile Records
SAVE US – Seraphim (Single)
Label – Tooth & Nail + Solid State Records
Set It Off – LIGHTS OUT (feat. Ryan Oakes) (Single)
Label – Nettwerk Music Group
Siryn – Eyes Wide Open (Single)
Label – Independent
SNAYX – Nice Day 4 It (Single)
Label – Nettwerk Music Group
Spoiler – The Death Of Me (Single)
Label – Independent
TOAST – IN STATIC (Single)
Label – Independent
downcast – falling to pieces (Single)
Label – Independent
Militarie Gun – World’s Always Burning (feat. Mannequin Pussy) (Single)
Label – Loma Vista Recordings
Featherfall – monochrome (Single)
Label – Independent
Pillow Fort – Codename Kids Next Year (Single)
Label – Cushion Castle
Protomartyr – Sounds We Cannot Hear (Single)
Label – Domino Recording Co.
sunbleached – Pain Chamber (Single)
Label – Community Music
Chiodos – TAPDAT (Single)
Label – SHARPTONE
chrome.fm – Like Waves (Single)
Label – T.F.N. Records
Softspoken – Omni (Single)
Label – Theoria Records
Sowing – Suede Skin (Single)
Label – 51st State Records
Crossing i’s Dotting t’s – Mutually Assured Destruction (Single)
Label – Independent
AILSHA – Batshit Crazy (Single)
Label – Independent
Stand Atlantic – LUCID (Single)
Label – Independent
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE RELEASES
Bleached Cross – Wrath
Label – New Morality Zine
LOCKSTEP – I Know What I Saw
Label – Profound Lore
timesgone – UMBRA
Label – Independent
mishikui – Y.S.M (Lp promo) (EP)
Label – Devil Dog
S1RENA – BORDERL1NE (EP)
Label – Columbia Local
Fluent Panic – Charcoal (Single)
Label – Independent
Nova Dream – El Matador (Single)
Label – Right Track Records
Tally Spear – Typical Me (Single)
Label – Nettwerk Music Group
Emma Ruth Rundle – Enough (Single)
Label – Errant Child
PoshGirls – Vanished Happiness (Single)
Label – HOMENICK NADIA ALEXANDRIA BK2
XEED – A Misunderstanding (Single)
Label – ROBERT WILLIAM BLACK MN1
Boy Harsher – Hard Beat (Single)
Label – Atlantic Records
