New Music Friday – June 24th, 2022

This week’s wrap-up of all the new metalcore, post-hardcore, alternative, and indie releases, as well as picks from our staff.

STAFF PICKS

Spiritbox – Rotoscope (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Rise Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Max recommends: Rotoscope is a three-track crash course in Spiritbox’s freshest, most engaging, and most unique songwriting to date. If this is a sign of things to come for the Canadian troupe, I can’t wait for what’s next.

Narrow Head – T.W.I.N. (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Dobbin recommends: Narrow Head capture a coasting-on-clouds atmosphere on this sludgy single. For fans of Spotlights, Torche, and maybe My Bloody Valentine, this is the sort of track for a Sunday afternoon spent in hazy fields of wild flowers, despite your hayfever saying “no”.

Blight Town – Swerve (Single)
Label – Gungu Yetyi Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Dallis recommends: Blight Town front chops full of flash and class in “Swerve“. Its math-infused roots is nothing short of addicting and groovy, and will definitely keep any wanting listener on their toes and constantly coming back for more!

METAL/CORE RELEASES

Limbs – Coma Year [FULL REVIEW]
Label – UNFD

Suicide Silence – The Cleansing [ULTIMATE EDITION]
Label – Century Media Records

Candy – Heaven is Here
Label – Relapse Records

RXPTRS – Living Without Death’s Permission
Label – Metal Blade Records

Earthists. – Have A Good Cult
Label – DIGITALCULT RECORDS

Saor – Origins
Label – Season of Mist

Entrails – An Eternal Time of Decay
Label – Hammerheart Records

Darkane – Inhuman Spirits
Label – Massacre Records

Icreatedamonster – Blisstonia
Label – Independent

Dying Desolation – MIDNIGHT
Label – Independent

Alestorm – Seventh Rum of a Seventh Rum (Deluxe Edition)
Label – Napalm Records

Profiler – Profiler (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – SharpTone Records

Betraying the Martyrs – Silver Lining (EP)
Label – Out of Line Music

Speed – Gang Called Speed (EP)
Label – Flatspot Records

Lorna Shore – Into the Earth (Single)
Label – Century Media Records

Alpha Wolf – Hotel Underground (Single)
Label – SharpTone Records

Fit For A King – Reaper (Single)
Label – Solid State Records

We Came As Romans – Plagued (Single)
Label – SharpTone Records

Sleeping With Sirens – Crosses (feat. Spencer Chamberlain of Underoath) (Single)
Label – Sumerian Records

Machine Head – UNHALLØWED (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast

CABAL – Exsanguination (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast

Crown The Empire – Johnny’s Revenge (Reimagined) (Single)
Label – Rise Records

Time, the Valuator – Black Water (Single)
Label – Long Branch Records

DEXCORE – THE LIGHT (Single)
Label – Jelly Records

Megadeth – We’ll Be Back (Single)
Label – AG Records

Where Oceans Burn – Manifest (Single)
Label – Independent

Nasty – Resurrection (Single)
Label – Century Media Records

Confessions of a Traitor – Forever Hollow (feat. Brian Wille of Currents) (Single)
Label – Facedown Records

Patient Sixty-Seven – Fault Line (Single)
Label – Independent

Becoming The Archetype – The Lost Colony (Single)
Label – Solid State Records

Orthodox – Head on a Spike (Single)
Label – Century Media Records

AVOID – My World (Single)
Label – Thriller Records

Dead/Awake – iudicium per ignem (Single)
Label – Independent

For The Fallen Dreams – What If (Single)
Label – Arising Empire

She Must Burn – Misery Eternal (Single)
Label – Grey Rock Records

Nothing More – Spirits (Single)
Label – Better Noise Music

As The Structure Fails – Heartless (Single)
Label – Independent

Krisiun – Sworn Enemies (Single)
Label – Century Media Records

Destrage – Everything Sucks And I Think I’m A Big Part Of It (Single)
Label – Metal Blade Records

Hopes Die Last – White Eyes (Single)
Label – Independent

POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES

Alexisonfire – Otherness
Label – Dine Alone Records

Porcupine Tree – CLOSURE / CONTINUATION
Label – Sony Music Entertainment UK

Coheed and Cambria – Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind
Label – Roadrunner Records

Emery – Rub Some Dirt on It
Label – Tooth & Nail Records

The Hellacopters – Through The Eyes Of…
Label – Nuclear Blast

Social Animals – Social Animals
Label – Rise Records

The Comfort – Conformist (Single)
Label – Greyscale Records

The Mars Volta – Blacklight Shine (Single)
Label – Clouds Hill

Rain City Drive – Dying For (Single)
Label – Thriller Records

Anthony Green – Trading Doses (Single)
Label – Born Losers Records

Glass Tides – Irritated (Single)
Label – Independent

Phoxjaw – Sungazer (Single)
Label – Hassle Records

The Flatliners – Souvenir (Single)
Label – Dine Alone Records

Beach Rats – Blown to Bits (Single)
Label – Epitaph

FLOYA – Epiphany (Single)
Label – Arising Empire

The Summer Set – Teenagers (feat. Chrissy Constanza from Against The Current) (Single)
Label – Adventure Cat Records

Imminence – Heaven in Hiding (Acoustic) (Single)
Label – Arising Empire

Carousel Kings – Something in the Water (Single)
Label – Mother West

WVNDER – Hollow Days (Single)
Label – Independent

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE RELEASES

Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever
Label – Lorna Vista Recordings

Regina Spektor – Home, before and after
Label – Sire

Weezer – SZNZ: Summer
Label – Atlantic Records

Spacey Jane – Here Comes Everybody
Label – AWAL Recordings

Caamp – Lavender Days
Label – Mom+Pop

Day Wave – Pastlife
Label – [PIAS]

Young Guv – GUV IV
Label – Run For Cover Records

Graywave – Rebirth (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Church Road Records

Final Light – Final Light (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – SIVIANA, RED CRK AB

Wolf Alice – Blue Lullaby (EP)
Label – Liberator Music

The Wonder Years – Wyatt’s Song (Your Name) (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records

The Home Team – FOMO (Bored of You) (Single)
Label – Revival Recordings

iamjakehill – Sleeping All Alone (Single)
Label – Independent

Royal Teeth – Tropical Depression (Single)
Label – Independent

Heilung – Anoana (Single)
Label – Season of Mist

K-POP RELEASES

LOONA – Summer Special [Flip That]
Label – BlockBerry Creative

NaYeon – IM NAYEON
Label – JYP Entertainment

PIXY – REBORN
Label – ALLART ENTERTAINMENT

Kep1er – DOUBLAST
Label – WAKEONE

bugAboo – POP
Label – Ateam Entertainment

KARD – Re:
Label – DSP Media

Stray Kids – CIRCUS
Label – Sony Music Labels

YoungJae – SUGAR
Label – SUBLIME

Paul Kim – Star
Label – neuron music

OMEGA X – Story written in Music
Label – SPIRE ENTERTAINMENT

aespa – Life’s Too Short (Single)
Label – SM Entertainment

Minnie of (G)I-DLE – Link: Eat, Love, Kill (Single)
Label – OST

Junny – Color Me (feat. ChungHa) (Single)
Label – mauve company

DAWN – Stupid Cool (Single)
Label – Dreamus

THE BOYZ – Sweet (Single)
Label – Klap