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